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Okay is how I voted. I was expecting a new IP or two. An why spiderman 2 was supposedly created with no compromises for the PS 5 it didn't seem to be a substantial improvement on Spiderman PS4.

So once again square enix Rush out a game that destroyed a potential new IP and the studio that created it as well. The management at Square enix really need there heads examine. At least they are giving the team time to show the world everything they have worked on.

Would this be better received if they had waited 6 months I don't know personally I think it may have.

@LiamCroft They are pirates, that all you need to know! All I can say is no sony executives were purrmanetly harmed.

@Green-Bandit An that all presuming Sony doesn't have some surprises up it sleeve over the coming weeks and months.

@BeerIsAwesome I think we really need Sony to tell us there definition of what a live service game is.

@awp69 Which was part of the reason why CMA reject Microsoft takeover attempt of activision.

I voted no to most of them. This is going be a new IP show, with lots of new IP.

@DiddyWahDiddy They could do a live service game base on the films where each player is from a different universe.

@Impossibilium with the whole multimedia event stuff Sony is trying to do I be amazed if there not some tie Into the animated film.

@Brawl4002 Kraven an Miles have to work together to save Peter.

I don't think we are guarantee a extensive look. In fact I suspect we will get a trailer an then a extensive look at the game about a day after Xbox big show

@twitchtvpat I feel like they will save Spiderman 2 for like a hour or two after Xbox big live event.

This show case should focus on new IP and let them breath.

So from NFT and crypto to higher quality releases and increasing revenue from their MMO that a pretty big swing in strategy.

I will buy it when Switch two comes out as I'm planning to pick that console up. It will probably be remastered for the console which will solve most of its technical problems which reviews have hinted at and would probably destroy any other game. I will also pick the first game up as well.

@SgtTruth it is important to the casual crowd. We commenters aren't usually casual.

@KidRyan It will be interesting to see how much of the rumor billion dollars profit the game studio will be able to keep to expand their studio and how much will be taken by warner bro discovery to prop up the rest of their business. An to cover the financial burdens of their merger as well.

@Llamageddon they spent so much time on this school, they have time and resources to build a new school for us to explore. May be a school set in Africa or South America. May be someone trying to use Mayan blood magic.

@MoorePs4 Do they really want on their big studios tide down producing a year to year franchise. If they are working on one, it by one their new acquisitions.

Look all Sony has to do is promise they will lock Neil away in a room and torture him until he agrees to do District 10 and I will go at least twice to see the film.

@thefourfoldroot1 They are doing nothing different than what human artists do and they are taught in much the same way as well.

@Green-Bandit It more likely different AI will be needed for different jobs for the foreseeable future. What Sony should do is not to get into bed with anyone company but create Sony AI Service Group that aid it own studios and indies in implementing AI in games and in games development. The group could also be developing it own AI models and share models created by it own studios between each other.

@MattBoothDev An a lot of publishers and developers managers already aren't happy on their return on investment, Square Enix is pretty famous for never being happy with how much money their games make. So my guess is that they will take the option of cutting staff.

AI is going to be absolutely huge in game development. Already teams are using it to debug code and even write code for them.

Now will it be Unity or Unreal that release the first co pilots for their engines?

@Loamy I expect story telling to jump next game as tv writers start to put things Into shape for the tv show.

@Tharsman they might add Superman and Batman capes

@Reeneman I think Sony just look at the numbers and they are just thrashing Microsoft in every area and that with the minimal spending on advertising strategy over the last 3 years, why should they spend tonne of money? What will get them? Will it make them a extra billion probably not will even make them another hundred again probably not.

@Shepherd_Tallon or rockstar!

@KaijuKaiser . 5 billion dollars for acquisitions set aside in cash. They have 13 billion dollars in cash, they can probably raise more if needed.

Plus buying them outright isn't the only option, there are other possibilities such as a merger. An also Sony can do part cash part share deal.

@carrotcakehater someone like naughty dog could pull it off

@themightyant Which is a game built by the engine creators. It technically implemented but nowhere near to the fidelity that is possible when making a game from the ground up with those technologies in mind. An we won't see a triple A game release design and built with those technologies in mind until 2025/26 at the earliest.

@Futureshark Why HFW DLC is PS5 only, it still being built on a game engine that is design to run on PS4. So why there will some advantages of not having to think about how they will implement things on PS4, the engine itself and assets will limit them some what.

@themightyant Unity Nanite games are years away at best.

It seem kind of obvious.

@Bionic-Spencer Given that they sold most of the assets Sony would want. Buying Square just for FF is really a big gamble for Sony. I think Take-Two is a lot better target. Giving Sony control of GTA which is a massive system seller.

@jrt87 Sony is rumour to had hundreds of it own developers working on The Callisto Protocol. That part of strategy is strangely missing from the article.

It could be another Callisto Protocol where Sony is assigning their own developers to help third party studios out with their games, even if they are multi platform.

https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2022/11/sony-assigned-over-150-employees-to-aid-the-callisto-protocols-production

@uptownsoul An has been from day 1. When PS5 launch the demand was so high not even parcel firms could keep up with demand on day 1. Brought websites across the internet crashing down. I never saw any of that with the Xbox.

@Americansamurai1 I don't think Starfield is going to sale as well as people think. I don't think it going to appeal to the space game players or the fantasy players. We shall see. I don't think it going to come out this year either.

I remember a lot of people was criticising Sony strategy over the last three years, some calling them arrogant, an doing a repeat PS3 era. But the sales speak for themselves.

It surprising that car manufacturers aren't providing 3d models themselves considering they build 3d models of cars as part of the design process.

@PegasusActual93 That doesn't prove it a scam, it proves they are a poorly run company. There also no money changing hands, so if it a scam what are they getting out of it.

@NEStalgia It weird but Embracer is such a big group of different developers now. Perhaps they intending for Crystal dynamics team to be a group of developers that they can deploy to aid other developers in the group.

Embracer strategy isn't all that clear to me to be honest. An it seem like they got a incredibly messy structure. It going to be interesting to see what happens with it in the coming.

They also got no shortage of IPs for Chrystal Dynamic to be assign.

@NEStalgia I know you just use made up numbers but surelyit would have been better for Square enix to have sold that IP for 600million and pay of their debt that sale the studios along with the IP.

@get2sammyb if we base the pricing on the dual shock edge price, if anything it under priced. And VR2 come with a lot of features that other VR equipment charge a lot more.

@Flaming_Kaiser Once energy prices return to normal I will feel rich! I will still technically poor but I will feel rich!

For 210 quid no way. An people think PSVR2 is expensive. This is truly a rip off and I wouldn't be surprise if Sony making 150 quid per controller.

@Michael2008ish ratchet and clank rift apart couldn't be done one PS4 as IS. You could redesign it to run on that console, an remove the ray tracing but as is it couldn't run on PS4.

@KaijuKaiser That explains third party games. Not so much even first party games are still limited.

I think the problem is at the moment is that to truly move on to the next era of graphics will truly require a substantial changes in game studios production pipeline and reworking an rebuilding of their game engines. That takes time and investment. PC might also be holding companies back, PC gang wasn't happy when it was suggested that forspoken might require nvme m.2 hard drive.

@Jtheripper O wouldn't be entirely shock if EA only did this game so that it could devote developer time to updating it internal engine to run on PS5 without taking developers of their money makers like Fifa.

@KaijuKaiser July and August and September seem pretty barren.