"The only anomaly was Bungie"
Of course, if it goes again your nurturing narrative it is an anomaly.
"The only company that will have games I see become exclusive to PlayStation permanently is Square"
Again, picking and choosing what narratives allows you to maintain that nurturing narrative.
Was what happened to bend studios nurturing?
Both companies are taking that route whether you like it or not.
Sony will stop making hardware, the software is the seller, not the hardware. Hardware is always sold at a loss for a while and the manufacturing cost are too high is sustain more than 2 generations now.
"since right now there is no reason for anyone to own an Xbox"
Could say the same for Sony as their game arrive on PC a year later. Don't be surprised when simultaneous launches start h...
Most of the studios that Sony acquired came after ms started acquiring
Bluepoint Games
Fabrik Games
Firesprite
Firewalk
Haven Studios
Housemarque
Nixxes Software
Savage Game Studios
Valkyrie Entertainment
Insomniac Games
10 out of the 23 studios were recently acquired
This is not about nurturing studios, it's about a content war that going to take place...
Don't switch up the topic to make it FF, Square is way more than FF.
It does not take a genius to understand that they are talking about:
Valkyrie Elysium, Neo: The World Ends With You, Star Ocean: The Divine Force, Diofield Chronicles and Octopath Traveller.
If Sony fans support Japanese games why did these games sell so low?
There was a conversation not a couple of days ago talking about lost odyssey and people were saying if it was on ps3 ...
"I did not say they didn't care. I said MS does not have confidence in this title."
It's the same meaning...
" Im not seeing any tweets or excitement about this game from the Xbox higherups."
What a joke...
They have been releasing breakdowns of every character. every week
Gave the press a preview of the game which was received very positively.
They had 2 showcases of the game already.
The whole IGN debacle is so over-exaggerated.
IGN was bad at playing the game but the criticism somehow shifted the game itself.
IGN's way of playing the game is not reflective of how the game is supposed to be played.
Also, Redfall has the same aesthetic as Dishonoured, it was not going for realism and they never made a big deal about how the game is supposed to look.
What's funny is you guys are eagerly waiting for this game to get a b...
Misunderstood my point entirely,
"The merits of this game are not being put forward and the technicalites are"
This is my point
Stop making up rubbish....what an indication that Microsoft showed that they do not care about the title.
Judging a game based on expectation.
Gaming journalism has always amounted to a joke.
If the game is 40k 30 fps on Xbox series X does that mean it is also set to fail on PC too which will run it at a higher fps?
The merits of this game are not being put forward and the technicality which is not an issue at all will be at the forefront of the score it will receive at the end.
I find it hilarious that people are saying that it is doom and gloom for Halo.
Their main parties Boonie ross, Kiki Wolfkill and Frank o Conor have left...I you have been keeping up with Halo for a long time now you would know that these three are irresponsible of a lot of bad decision at the Studio.
Its actually a nail removed from Halo's Coffin.
If you know who this person is you would agree that he should have left the studio after Halo 5
Mike Ybarra left Microsoft to join Blizzard
Rob Ferguson left the Coalition to head the diablo series.
I strongly suspect that those were strategic moves and they were they to ease the way for Microsoft to buy Activision blizzard.
Joe Statem was the creative director at Xbox and is now joining Netflix. I can see a possible acquisition of Netflix in the horizon or at least a partnership.
Lost Odyssey sold a lot for a jrpg to its calibre. Vg Charts is only used when bigging up Sony games I guess.
"Lost Odyssey, compared to ANY jrpg released on PS3 sold extremly bad, and therefore it was a big failure."
No, it would not have. The bitterness of Sony fans of this game is crazy. Can't stand seeing Xbox have a Jrpg which they funded and Published Xbox.
But if it was on Sony platform it would have sold so much just like how white K...
Lost Odyssey sold 900k
Blue Dragon sold 400k
They were successful as Jrpgs go. People thought it was a failed because it id not receive Halo 3 numbers.
Mistwalker wanted to stop making big budget game and focus on mobile. Ms did not kill them and stop making up rubbish.
@Extermin8or3_
Oh did you say just about breaking even let's say that you are correct? I did not mention the part where Xbox makes $15 Billion every year so that would give them a good amount to work with right....
Paying for games to be on gamepass probably cost them 1-2 Billion every year including first and third party developers. Give them enough money to sustain it even more. With year-on-year growth, Xbox will be making even more.
"They don’t hate Sony as a whole
They hated Ken Kutaragi who was CEO at the time"
You are saying that the person in charge of the PlayStation and was the reason for all the decision-making involving Playstation is the person that they hated....hmm
Ken was PlayStation similar to how Don Mattrick was Xbox...the is no other way to look at it.
"JRPG would have been perfect."
Sony does not make Jrpgs, apart from s...
Making-up scenarios?
Lost Odyssey sold well for the calibre of game that it was. It is now at 900k sales and probably with digital it surpassed a million sales.
Lost Odyessy was a great game but if you know your history you would know that journalists had a massive hand in the destruction of JRPG on modern consoles. Go watch the review of Lost Odyessy by IGN and Xplay(G4), you would want to punch them in the face.
They went with Nintendo for on...
Who said they did not bother when it was not even in the creator's plans to do so?
Mistwalker chose to go into the mobile market because in their big brain they thought that it was the next big thing...they thought wrong.
The team size is not what it used to be, Mistwalker is a skeleton crew. Sakaguchi himself said that he does not want to work on big-budget games anymore.
Haha...missed the point?
Don't come here talking about logical when you can't stop finding excuses for why Sony bought those studios.
It is as simple as a day, they are buying as many studios as they want to make games on their service similar to how Microsoft is trying to get content for their service.
Bungie is working on a new GAAS IP for Sony...they bought them simply for their expertise at GAAS...not for the talent pool. Because all of the ta...