This deal was supposed to go through but is being dragged out.
What funny is most of Sony's argument about unfair competition is laid to rest as CMA deems competition within consoles as okay.
The argument has shifted into the cloud gaming realm. MS is being penalised for being ahead of the game with cloud gaming. The rest of the competitors wheres were made deals to introduce their Activision games on their cloud services.
If I am to predict it has b...
@RauLeCreuset
First off thanks you for being one of the few mature ones here and is willing to have a discussion.
It is also retention, the metric is hard to explain because of the lack of information. For example, I would say that if a subscriber did sub for a game then downloaded various other games that is a bonus. It is like they game is responsible for more engagement on the service.
There might be a clause that says that if your game get...
I do understand it and it's a common business practice.
Netflix is a company takes too many risks with it properties in terms of not vetting who makes its shows like The Witcher for example... Viewers will decline due to the bad quality of the writing and dwelling into the realm of identity politics. The audience don't like that so they will bail.
Let's not forget the main thing that made Netflix in debt...the fact that almost all studios are...
They won't decline into obscurity like Killzone and Resistance because a community is supporting the game. No matter how much infighting there is, the fans care for the franchise.
343i has a lot of dedicated developers and care about Halo, painting them as the villain is unjust. They have had mistakes with Halo 4 Multiplayer and Halo 5 story but the state of Halo Infinite is good right now with a great community behind it.
343i has no bad intentions with Halo...
They would not buy Starfield but they will be investing in a game within gamepass. Similar to how gamers would come to play Minecraft Legends and end up investing in another game.
It's about keeping people within an echo system, which in this case is gamepass. They spend money on games within that space means Xbox is making money off the sales.
I don't see the issue because I am not looking at things from a traditional point of view.
Gamepasss i...
Yeah...no.
Halo games can create spin-offs but the main Halo game will always be Chief.
343i should be the developer working on mainline Halo but other studios can work on spin offs which is okay with me. But the topic at hand was saying goodbye to master Chief he is more that Halo he is an Icon of gaming....you just do not retired something like that.
Not Halo Reach. We need more side game like ODST though
Halo Reach told a unique story but it was far from what it should have been. What we got was a side story to the overall story of Reach which was a devastating one. It not that it was a bad story not on the contrary its was a well-told story but if they shifted their focus on what was happening on Reach that would have been so much better.
Let me explain Halo Infinite, Halo Infinite is not one story but a str...
"Really? Explain who those people are, then tell us this secret sauce that Halo has the only people like you know about."
There is no secret sauce.
There is the fundamental mechanics that makes Halo what it is. In multiplayer its the time to kill, power/map knowledge and weapon balance. Everything synchronises to make Halo a unique and satisfying shooter.
Only people who play Halo know well what makes Halo what it is.
"^ I disagree, @Bandarhub, everyone has a right to their opinion, not just the ultra nerds that sit there soaking up the comics, the TV series, the fanfic and all that."
Don't come onto a gaming message board and call people ultra nerds...we are all ultra nerds
"Halo suffered in the same way as Resistance and Killzone in that, once they'd nailed it, future iterations always seemed to miss at least one vital aspect of what made the formula wor...
Break it down in detail as to how Atomic Heart has not made money from Gamepass.
What do you not trust them him?
343i has given Master Chief more character than Bungie has.
Ruined it? I don't see anything ruined. I see missteps with story and style directions other than that the Halo experience for the regular player is the same.
Halo Infinite Multiplayer is the most perfect blend of both worlds. Halo Infinite story rectifies the direction Halo 5 took with its created. Now the story revolves around the mystery of Zeta Halo and if you know Zeta Halo you know very well what resides on that Ring.
Those people who are speaking do not...
Gamepass does affect game sales, it invites them to buy more games.
If you got onto the service to play Starfeild you will end up investing a game on Gamepass.
Its about creating a pool of players that will be spending money within gamepass.
Non-Halo fans need to keep their mouths shut and keep their rubbish opinions to themselves.
Master Cheif's character is pivotal to the story of Halo. There is a reason why his name is John and goes by 117.
Master Chief's character has been explored really well by 343i who do not get credit for their work. They don't go overboard with his character by undermining him and making him cry.
Jan: Hi FI rush, monster hunter rise,
Feb: Atomic Heart
March: Wolong, soul hackers 2, ni no kuni 2
April: Ghostwire Tokyo, Minecraft Legends, last case of Benedict fox
May: Redfall, ecoprimal
There is more games coming later this year:
Starfield
Forza 2023
Stalker 2
Hollow knight silksong.
So no, gamepass subscribers are eating pretty good this year.
It can never compete with game pass until there are big day-one game releases.
I have had ps plus for years and all I do is collect games every once in a while I would play at a game that gets my attention.
With Gamepass, once a game is released on it the excitement is there to play it...Like Atomic Heart and Wo Long, I have completed and am currently playing Ghostwire and will play Redfall and The Last Case of Benedict Fox when they release.
T...
"You enjoyed the slow swinging of the character. That's weird lol"
He swings faster by the end of the game. You freeze a character then use the power-up swing for a quick dispatch.
"Joking aside I'm personally interested in the game just waiting for the price to be right 40ish is my zone. Mainly due to fps if it was third person I may have already bought it."
So you have not played the game....Yet you wrote a...
I doubt that out of 5 Million players who played Atomic Heart a majority of them were PlayStation.
I would like to read the many articles too
@Knushwood Butt
Same reason why there are 140 million PlayStation gamers on ps4/ps5, Yet Japanese games do not sell millions on their systems. Not all of those 140 Million bought God of war did they, its the same thing here.
It's pretty common sense that there is with those numbers there is a market share of gamers who like those games. Which is small.
30 million gamers does not mean that 30 million will play the game. But within that 30 Million, 2 Mi...