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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.

"Sony, for example, has always sold its systems at a loss or break-even in order to grow its install base and make money through the sales of software, where it takes a 30% cut on each game sold."

We know from financial reports that for PS5 they began earning money from console hardware sales about half a year after launch.

This is what a live service game should be like

The new architecture could be a path to efficiency, that would allow creating more powerful handheld companion device, if rumours to be believed.

However, I think that the movement of hardware development at Sony towards upscaling as a necessary part of graphics pipeline leads to a dead end. I do not agree with Cerny that raster performance cannot be significantly improved any further, as that contradicts evolution curve of deferred tiled shading GPUs we can see (primarily coming from Apple).

There is more than one path towards efficiency, mr Cerny. Yours will sacrifice image clarity.

I deem 2027 highly unlikely due to hardware only existing "in simulation" now. They need to spec out and design the chip, prepare for mass production with TSMC, and start ramping it up way before the release date to give dev kits to studios

Marathon will fail miserably, though I expect Bungie to spend enormous money on marketing, so the catastrophe won't be visible right on launch. In a month time it will become obvious. And later there will be massive layoffs at Bungie.

Oh, I never questioned the acquisition. It was the biggest blunder by Sony Entertainment from the day of the deal announcement, unquestionable.

@Czar_Khastik They are small, running costs are not that high. Past sales gave them several years of worry-free work. Those updates encourage new sales, though of course by now that number is not that large.

This is a live service game done right!

Not considering DF reliable source anymore, and think things are not that bad in reality. I understand they are not lying, but they are overly obsessed about frame drops of all kinds, no matter how small and how rare those can be.

On the other hand DF completely ignores image clarity.

Like it. But the appeal factor will depend on how good Diana's voiced in English. Maybe will have play with Japanese audio...

People complaining about the mini game: have you played Nier: Automata? Helldivers 2? This mini game is the same, get in-combat advantage while under time pressure, using simple controls.

@dskatter That won't fly. Many of the game servers run proprietary code, and the chance of that changing is the same as a chance of enforcing game developers to only use particular game engines.

The only viable alternative is to force companies to run game servers for quite a while.

The cost of gamepass.

Most likely will buy it day one. Was highlight of the show for me. But I never preorder games.

Preordering culture makes publishers shift budgets from development to marketing, and for good reason: thanks to massive preorders neither Bungie with Destiny 2, nor CDPR with Cyberpunk suffered financial dire straits due to the condition of their games at launch. Rushing paid off. Marketing paid off.

Remember that next time you are going to give them money before the product hit the shelves.

There are 195 countries in the world. „Hundreds of countries“ couldn’t have been excluded from PSN.

To add some context: Switch 2 costs less in Japan than abroad, where it has price parity with PlayStation 5

That’s because Pragmata was the headliner 😎

@AndyKazama Torrent users will have to skip because of Denuvo. The rest will play.

@get2sammyb A loud minority complains about that. Seems like a lot, until you compare against the numbers of buyers

Why there's no Daggerfall in the voting? Am I just too old?

That game should go through remake (not remaster).

@AdamNovice Live service design inevitably changes game experience for the worse. There will be grinding, to keep players engaged. It will become harder to play on my own pace unless I'm okay with missing content which will be tied to daily, weekly and monthly events.

So, not necessary trash. Just in general worse.

I think they should set up separate studio(s) to do live service games. Not tasking studios famous for single player experience with producing GaaS products.

I'm afraid that will lead to more graphics artefacts.

Thank you Sony! Finally!

Didn't play it due to the size of my "definitely must play" catalogue. But from reading people's opinions I'm starting to think that it is a very good niche game. If that is what you like, you will enjoy it thoroughly it seems. And what if I don't?

I have an open question about the game mechanics. Like, basic things you do while playing through. Is it good? Is it even present?

So, I'm on the fence about this one

Due to amount and severity of bugs I would give it 6.5. The next problem is uneven performance, but it isn't that prominent or game breaking.

@Marathon5150 Good luck funding your studio's next game development without a publisher

Integrate all fixes from the old unofficial Oblivion patch mod. That would be nice.

I’m on PlayStation pro, so my primary concern is in-game bugs, not performance. The remaster feels rushed

@IOI FYI the Xbox sister site reviewed Indiana Jones and the Great Circle for 6/10, while push square awarded it 8 / 10 when it came to PS. Your accusation of bias are unsubstantiated

That's why I'm not on this subscription.

@Oz_Who_Dat_Dare They ARE smaller. For many games which support both PS4 and PS5 the latter version is reduced in size, despite often having more raw assets.

That is achievable thanks to texture compression. But this is something developers must opt-in to use; it will not happen automatically

That being a multiplayer-only shooter, and the fact that the best people left Bungie long time ago, I don't think that will be worth attention. Even considering that Sony fired worst people from Bungie not so long ago.

Secondary, which costs more than the primary. I'm not against buying it, but only if there will be a system seller game. Until then I see no reason

I see what you did here. "System seller". We know Xbox sales were disastrous, so...

Haven't played TLOU 2 yet, but read a lot of hate (not critique) directed towards Druckmann from gamers. Judging solely by the language those people use I would not want to end up on one side with them.

See, I had my own love / hate moment for gaming. Loved Destiny 1, hated Destiny 2. As the result I turned out to be accidentally right, expecting Bungie deal to become the worst investment Sony made. Despite all my very real feelings I can't support people who produce hate solely based on story arc, without being able to produce a bit of constructive (or just plainly logical) criticism.

So, I agree with those guys. Who gives a s**t about them?

@Ichiban Would you be that sarcastic if you were offered Bloodborn remaster on PS6?

Judging by the screenshots the game was in a prototype stage.

@ButterySmooth30FPS If Bethesda was operating independently, they would have released Starfield on PlayStation 5 day one

No preorders!

@Art_Vandelay Negative sentiment in fanbase means nothing. Yes, games DO get cancelled all the time, and this is how this business is run. A publisher that does not cancel games in development will either have to start doing it soon or go bankrupt.

Also, the number of cancelled games say nothing of mismanagement and a publisher success. For instance, the mobile powerhouse Supercell cancels about 90% of their games. The ones that come out print billions. Blizzard of old (when they were good) was also known for non-stop game cancellations, with some of them pretty late in development

Microsoft has no choice. Some time year ago it became clear to them that their attempt to monopolise gaming is not panning out financially, and gamepass is a money burner. They need to recoup at least some of the losses. I'm sure, some time later they will be deciding on the topic of simultaneous cross platform releases in the future to maximise sales, thus making them just one more publisher.

@h15c0r3r My experience as well. Still using Pulse Elite, trying to place the receiver in the direct line of sight to minimize disconnects. What's weird, three models of Audeze wireless headsets I owned never had this disconnect problem with PlayStation, and they are the guys working for Sony now.

In my opinion Audeze Maxwell remains the top choice in this area.

@wiiware I'm not here to argue with you or to change your opinion. I'm here to provide facts for other readers, who might pick a Japanese historian's opinion over that of internet's nobody

@wiiware If you've actually read what he said, then you would agree that known evidence can only be explained by Yasuke being a samurai. The only non-samurai thing about him is that he wasn't killed by the killers of his master.

Also, saying that nearly all Japanese people said he was not a samurai is a blatant lie.

@wiiware "Japanese Historian Yu Hirayama, who has written several books on the Sengoku period, has weighed in on the controversy surrounding Assassin's Creed Shadows' Yasuke and stated that there is "no doubt" that he was a samurai in real life."

You can google it up, along with other historical evidence. I failed to find any evidence for "only a retainer" theory.

@wiiware The "controversy" wouldn't happen either if nobody spent their time on listening to what self entitled xenophobes think about the game, and Ubisoft was left to create whatever they want.