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On the seventeenth day, the question we have for you is "What developer this generation do you think has delivered the most or best for gamers?"
Again, I remind people, this is about a developer, not a broad publishing company like EA or Ubisoft. But specific development companies under them.
And, my answer on this one is pretty simple, Psyonix. They've delivered a single game, but have continued to support the heck out of that game so heavily this generation and have become the most played Indie game of this generation. New game modes, constant DLC, and a key supporter of trying to make cross-play a thing for their players even though they're one of the few that doesn't have issues with player counts. Psyonix has, IMHO, supported a game the way we want, provided regular updates, and supported what was best for the gamers rather than their own pocket books.
Sony is said to be pulling back on releasing PlayStation games on PC, and this starts with Ghost of Yotei and Saros.
If true then the PC elitists will no longer be saying..."I'll wait to play it on PC where it'll play best" I'm guessing the money Sony spends porting & profiting from PC isn't worth it. Making PS first party solely exclusive again to their consoles will make their consoles more relevant to buy especially if their output of first party titles are good.
A certain spamtastic account will not be pleased if this is true.
This is another basic logic scenario. We've seen both extremes playing out right now. Would you rather be in Xbox's or Nintendo's position right now? Sony already had a working formula, stick to it.
Sony released games on PC to try to make a few extra bucks... Valve (and possibly MS, if the new Xbox ever sees the light of day) attempted to use this to allow you to play PlayStation games on other consoles, so instead of making Sony a few extra bucks, it's now costing them good money... so this only makes sense.
All those players who claim they were happy to wait an eternity for every game, will now suddenly be saying all those games are/will be crap and they were never interested.
Of course they will...lol. It looks like they'll never get to play PS exclusive games or they'll give in & buy a PS.
PC gamers got by for decades without PS games. They will be just fine
Sonys copy paste first party games aren’t worth buying a console for for most PC gamers
Also “an eternity” lol, DS2 came in about half a year… Sony are all in on PC porting and the dates are getting earlier and earlier
Sure, keep coping obscure, suddenly Jason Schrier is super unreliable too I guess? lmao.
I’ll believe it when Sony announce it - or a year from now if Yotei isn’t on Steam.
Schrier is wrong on a lot of things. Sony literally just held a showcase where they announced more PC ports lol.
But either way, who cares? PC was fine for decades without the 1-2 annual Sony games. Nothing changes really.
PC was the biggest platform before Sony, it will still be after Sony.
True. Haha.
Oh! And look, the obscure dude with his zillionth sock account commented below as expected LMAO!
And you over value Sony exclusives
Most PS5 players don’t even care about them, never mind PC players - not even 5% of PS5 owners bought Yotei.
Zero chance this is true. Sony likes free money.
They are third party and that won’t change now.
XB is solely a 3rd party company, they hardly have any solely XB console exclusives anymore especially from most of their generational first party ips. 90% of PS first party titles are on PS gaming consoles only.
Elda. Sony are the exact same, they hardly have any PS5 exclusives
Any they do, are timed.
More like people were realizing what wasn't worth it was buying a PS5 to play games that eventually came to another platform. The constant excuses the entire gen to try to lessen the butt hurt y'all were feeling. Let's be for real here ladies and gents y'all were bothered by the fact most of these games were making their way to PC and judging by the replies y'all STILL butthurt. Trying to make it sound like waiting 6 months to a year was the worst thing when most people don't care cause why should they? Who's in a rush to play mostly SP games when they know they can play it on the platform they prefer? How exactly does it hurt y'all personally? Besides getting your pride hurt cause SONY making you look childish for being so loyal to a brand?
If they're pulling support it's because they know that long term they can't convince people to buy a PS if they can get their games on PC. It's that simple. You really think having an extra platform to gain more profit from somehow hurts them financially? Nah, it's cause they can't convince people to throw another 600-700 bucks at new hardware when their current console gen has barely been taken full advantage of. All the conveniences of a console are on PC now, and you aren't locked into a cycle where the hardware you buy becomes obsolete every 6 years. And the new hardware you buy receives games that are built off software made for the gen before.
Of course people rather buy these games on PC if they already own a PC, makes no sense at all to invest in a console if this continues. And it will infact continue if dev cycles keep taking most of the gen to complete development.
@Inverno
"All the conveniences of a console are on PC now,"
Including piracy? hmmm...
"Of course people rather buy these games on PC"
Yeah, digital only lol. Pople buy physicals on consoles which you rarely have on PC.
You PC guys are really something lol.
Duplicate:
N4g.com/news/2685624/sonys-sh ift-in-strategy-will-lead-to-fe wer-playstation-first-party-gam es-on-pc-it-is-claimed
I have a ps5 and play those games on it. But why are you thanking god? What relief does this give you for people getting an old game a year or so later?
Well, we have the data in front of us, don't we. Not to mention how extensive Sony's data's got to be.
They've tried.
Huge revenue wasn't generated (don't get me wrong - they did make billions, but you get it), Steam got a cut, Xbox got a cut, PS5 is trailing ~2 million units behind PS4.
The paycheck for, but also potential harm to the remaining years of PS5 and the release of PS6, just wasn't it.
It's absolutely logical if true.
And people shouldn't forget Sony'd simply return to the strategy they've been following for 4/5 of Playstation's history.
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A huge world awaits in Crimson Desert, with plenty to do and explore starting March 19.
This gives me the feeling of Forspoken with an empty world except enemies and puzzles. Gameplay could be much better, though, which would be nice. Definitely not looking like a world you live in, just explore to grow in power.
So there it is... it uses PSSR 2 for those wondering. In addition, it also uses the Pro's High CPU mode.
Also,
Geometry Shader (GS) Oversubscription is a technique used in modern high-performance rendering (e.g., Crimson Desert on PS5) to generate, amplify, or cull a high volume of geometry on the GPU, often combined with NGG Culling to manage massive detail levels. It works by deliberately over-allocating, or "oversubscribing," the GS's output vertex capacity (up to 256+ vertices per primitive) to create, modify, or cull vast amounts of triangle data, transforming single primitives into complex, detailed, or optimized geometry directly on the GPU, thus avoiding costly CPU-to-GPU memory transfers.
Yup... I still don't know what that means lol.
I think Capcom have come forward so much this year. The fan base has screamed for a revisit of Resident Evil 2 but nobody expected the effort they've gone to. Monster Hunter finally hit home consoles and did brilliantly. Before 2018 Resi 7 has been the definition of horror on VR. They've had a couple of misfires sure (I've read reports of Marvel having a big hand in the outcome of MvC: Infinite) but I've still been impressed with them lately
I should point out that I don't think they're the "best" but everyone is going to go down the route of Naughty Dog, Rockstar, Insomniac and Sony Santa Monica. So I'm just saying this now to have a different choice
And I have got very rose tinted resident evil goggles on at the moment
My 2 games of the gen are Persona 5 and God of War. While I absolutely adore persona 5, SSM really did something special with GoW.
Capcom have done a fine job so far compared to others.
Definitely Capcom. They really impressed me with Resident Evil 7, Monster Hunter World and am sure they will impress me more by RE2 Remake and DMC5. Hopefully, they keep this awesome streak for next gen.
Capcom really has been hitting all the right spots lately