Oh it's one of these articles. Yawn.

The bigger question is what do you define as creativity?

We have very little information about next gen consoles and the games. It's hard to talk about the evolution or revolution of game mechanics on it at this stage. But I'm sure hardware advancements will allow developers to come up with some interesting game-changing ideas on next gen as well. I was impressed with the building mechanics of Fortnite on current gen consoles(or PC). Things like that needs larger memory space.

the reason why people tend to care about resolution and framerate is that it's quantitative metric so it's easier to compare, and also, that people want play the games they love at the best possible visual fidelity. It was too difficult to render at 1080p 60fps with anti-aliasing until current gen due to the hardware limitations. No matter how many thousand grasses and flowers the game has, it's somewhat pointless if you can't render in a good image quality. But as PS5 and Xbox series X have very powerful hardware, it will be a lot easier and people will care more about gameplay (creativity) than past gen.

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau

Wuchang is great. Nine Sols didn’t have a physical copy so I never played it but I’ve heard good things so I will check it out. I stopped playing sports games many years ago when before the card dlc’s or whatever they’re called.

Last comment… ):

Great month for others, but not me. Hate soccer and soulslikes. Maybe Nine Sols is good.

🫡 it was fun while it lasted, N4G.

FC26!