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I believe those are physical sales? Then it is not directly comparable to Nintendo.

@Marquez It will not stop at prototype phase. The moment gen AI slop will be swallowed up by the audience with no complaints the floodgates will open.

@ElectricWizard Marketing department may be tiny, but the marketing costs can be huge, taking up substantial piece of a game development cost pie.

"our annual revenue has declined nearly half a billion during that time."

Finally, the true cost of Game Pass starts to take shape

@shoeses people who make proprietary game engines are not unnecessary jobs. I guess Ubisoft now will have to stick to 3rd party engines like Unreal and Unity, and deal with limitations and inefficiencies that cone with that transition

That could be a Microsoft exclusive, you know.

@Americansamurai1 I think it is not the fact of AI assistance that puts people off. Or that, at the very least, is not the main factor. Low technical quality of the result (so-called slop) and the inevitable difference between generated assets and their real in-game representation is what makes people mad.

I have a bold prediction for Xbox next. It will have copilot.

I heard of the leaks, but I ignored them. All I knew from the fact of leaks on GoW that it was a game about Kratos' wife.

That didn't spoil the awe I had from the reveal trailer.

This is super awesome! Very excited!
Also, I never looked into leak. Have pretty low opinion of this kind of leakers.

"No, you must use AI to answer my email that AI wrote!"

I hope Kojima will come to his senses.

Is it even legal in your country? I understand the UK law situation, but then there should be some sort of data protection laws that may contradict possibility of age verification via your ID.

@themightyant Apple has a good system in place where they do recover account, but after making you wait for many days. Don't remember exactly was it week or even more, but I went through all this to get access to my old account

@Jediwills I heard this story of a great studio being held back by someone else too many times now to keep believing it.

First it was Microsoft. Bungie went off to Activision and created Destiny. Who we'll blame for the game's shortcomings? Well, Activision / Blizzard of course! Then they went independent. And people blamed them for the sad state of Destiny 2. But now it is Sony's turn.

I blame Sony only for purchasing Bungie. those money could have been spent on other studios making better games than D2.

What a pleasant surprise! Expect the most detailed Middle Earth world representation to date

I specifically read reviews on this site because I mostly agree with the scores given here. Not so with Metaritic. For whatever reason their score aggregation is mostly not what my experience tells me.

Weekly users is a way more useful indicator than Steam's concurrent players. This is a golden mine for the analysts.

What generative AI cannot do is drawing something which is not already present in its database. It's just a rehashing of elements kicked off by a prompt in the approximate direction, and driven by the random numbers generator. Zero chances of any creativity. But I guess it is good enough for many folks here believing in bright beautiful AI future.

YES, it is absolutely their worst acquisition that does not make any sense. Disappointed the voting doesn't have option "Buying Bungie". There's no way it would have ended better for the players compared to Bungie staying independent.

@Boxmonkey I think many bought into Bungie's fame, as the company name does have mass appeal, tried the game which was a new experience for them, and many predictably didn't like it. How healthy retention is can be seen in the second month of the game being live.

@Boxmonkey It's a niche game in a niche genre. That doesn't make it bad.

@thechetearly Other people don't like it because they don't like any extraction shooters. And those who do already have something to play.

@DennisReynolds And those games are not online-centric live services!

Shout out to CI Games, the publisher of this game, for reaching out to former Bluepoint Games staff with opportunity to get a job with them.

Don't you guys have TVs? Chances are, your TV does both those things: upscaling and frame generation. TVs been doing that for years. And now we are told that the same technology, only at a better quality, is the defining feature of next gen hardware.

I am beyond disappointed.

@Ajbr8687 Perhaps the meaning of what I said was lost in translation: live service game does not mean it has to be centred around multiplayer. It doesn't mean it has to have micro transactions out loot boxes. Destiny was a single player live service game with multiplayer activities slapped on. Marathon is the opposite.

Not actively rooting for it to fail; simply predicting that it will "perform below expectations"

@bowzoid It will last a month and then I expect player numbers to drop dramatically.

@wildcat_kickz Bungie never did a multiplayer first game. This is the kind of live service they had up until this point: multiplayer is secondary, not primary activity in the game.

@Ajbr8687 Destiny first and foremost was never a multiplayer game at the core. Core activities were designed around players personal progression with cooperative multiplayer on top, working in the most casual and non demanding way. Compare that to say Helldivers.

Compare that to Marathon, which is multiplayer competition at the core, with additional activities secondary to that. It is the opposite of Destiny, or Halo.

Also, a live service game is just a game with continuously updated game world. No Mans Sky is a life service game. It doesn't dictate the design to be centred around multiplayer activity.

@wildcat_kickz The problem is not there's not enough good solo games to come by. The studios which can pull off a truly great game are few, and that is the problem. When the studio like Bungie is forced to do whatever is the current live service fad, of course people are upset. Of course, they want this trend to fail so the studio can go back to doing what they do best.

Many commenters don't get they don't have to buy the game now. Buy after a review you trust. It's not like Bungie will run out of copies to sell.

Unless MS is okay with burning even more money on gaming, they can bring exclusives back. But something will have to collapse in the longer term, either Game Pass, or exclusives, or both.

Burning money is not a sustainable business, even for Microsoft.

Should have been clear from the start. But I don't think they should change it now.

@LiamCroft Is it coop only? Or can I play alone?

Daaaaaamn. I absolutely must play as a pumped up rooster before I die

I wonder if there will be an option to upgrade

@Toot1st I think you didn't get my point. If they add sprinting, they'd rather redo the levels as well, due to pacing change. But they most likely will not.

Remake can add anything, but it has to address how the changes affect everything else, or they end up with a worse game than the original.

I will be careful with this remake. I loved the original game, and want to replay it again.

However I read some critical take on the remake that by adding new mechanics (sprint) breaks down the pacing around which the levels and environment were designed.

I don't think this is near the level of Demon Souls remake, so I'll be patiently waiting for your review

Hell is Us is my personal GOTY.

There’s no controversy. All artists in gamedev use generative AI for placeholders, unless they are specifically prohibited from doing so. Why would anyone spend time creating something bound to be temporary when they can just move to the next step

No matter how you spin it, not a good sign. Art director is a cozy role to enjoy for many years if the future of the studio is bright. An art person simply has no position higher than that in game development.

Everybody uses AI to generate placeholders, unless explicitly prohibited. What's the noise about? End product will be cleaned up of that and will use real art. Why would someone care about internal production specifics?

I hope you are smart enough to not preorder. Are you, guys?

To all people who do have stick drift: had this after 3 months on start with the original daulsense that came with PS5 I bought on day one. Figured can't be due to mechanical wear and managed to fix it by using WD40 contact cleaner spray. It is non-conductive so is safe to use with electronics. Had to open the casing though to spray into the base of the drifting stick.

No problems ever since.

Having two controllers of any generation will give you infinite battery life. I don't get how do you guys play with just one? Regardless of the charge a play session can be super long and it sucks when you have to suddenly stop playing and start charging. Why worry about that at all?

Elden Ring has too many technical issues to be on the list.

I don't think Bungie will survive until then

Best art direction is Hell is Us, which is not nominated. Sad.

Remember the market mood before Bungie acquisition? "Oh, Sony is falling behind, Microsoft is on the roll buying publishers and big studios! Sony is going to lose the market unless they do something similar fast!"

Very few had common sense and were doubting Microsoft's strategy.