An announcement for a potential upcoming rumor cycle.
Really an incredible bag fumble by Sony here. A sequel to a beloved multiplayer mode of a beloved franchise. This should've been a lay up that printed money for them. Only potential silver lining is that ND isn't stuck in GaaS development purgatory for the next 10 years supporting it.
Sony can't afford to release duds.
@tajawew
And an investment is different than an expense. That 70 billion didn't disappear, it transferred to an asset they acquired. Same as buying a house. If you have 500k and spend 300k on a house worth 300k, your net worth isn't 200k, it's still 500k. Now, they overpaid for ABK a bit, but beyond that handful or billion, actual profit will be realized quickly.
Sony still doing the whole non replaceable controllers thing?
They're still selling ~1 million units a year. Studio pulled 50 million last year and their team is still less than 50 people. Right now they're probably sitting on a couple hundred million that they can pour into passion projects for decades without having to worry about turning a profit.
They didn't forget that hyperbole gets clicks.
Not much else to say after you lay off people. "Numbers didn't check out, shareholders were pissed, we cut out what brought the least money".
Starfield doomers punching air.
Probably because it's the best looking game available right now. People who weren't interested in playing downloaded with GP to check the visuals for 10 minutes before deleting.
Not sure which ass you pulled those numbers from. Sony as an entire company had a profit of about 6.5 billion last year, with Playstation responsible for ~2 of that. Microsoft as a company profited about 88 billion. Nintendo did a little over 5.
All a matter of time at this point
People are buying a loaf of bread and complaining it's not a sandwich. HB2 is exactly all it was ever advertised as.
- sent from my Xperia
N4g has become the fox news of gaming. 85 opencritic and aside from ign, the only articles getting approved are 6/10 reviews. Most of what trends here seems to be so disconnected from reality/normal discourse on other platforms.
Anything not a mainline console is sent to die by Sony
If the pro drops this holiday, GTA 6 won't be out for another year and a half
Looking at GP attach rate for current gen Xbox (70%), the actual subset is gamers that want to purchase games.
I'm guessing the optimizations they've made for vehicles have opened up enough resources to push frames. Vehicles maybe weren't on the roadmap at launch so they weren't anticipating any big changes to performance. All speculation of course.
The kind of hard hitting insights you only get from a Harvard grad.