Clearly the best course of action for all PS5 owners is to do whatever you can to destroy the Xbox brand and force Microsoft to release their games as a third party publisher.
Sony is much less worried about the third place console than it is about the trillion dollar company that can buy up all gaming publishers.
2023 was also a fantastic year for PS5 game wise. Of all the game of the year contenders, the only one not on PS5 was Zelda.
100% agree with this. We don’t need kotaku.com trying to gaslight us. Microsoft was trying to kill your used game disc with the Xbox One. It was such a bad idea that it didn’t last a week beyond Microsoft’s disastrous E3 2013 presentation. Other innovations that also weren’t ahead of their time: TV TV TV, Kinect 2.0, and an always on video camera. I’m sure Microsoft is building towards a Game Pass only distribution model for Microsoft games, but they know enough to not announce it.
“based on the stupidity surrounding Russia and Ukraine”
What stupidity would that be, comrade?
People want a classic multi-player but publishers want a steady stream of micro-transactions and subscription fees. Look at how awful Overwatch 2 turned out to see how far a publisher is willing to diverge from what people want.
7/10 game, more than decent for a giveaway
“I think the final verdict is waiting for Elder Scrolls VI”
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me 3 times and I will withhold judgment until the final verdict.
Just rip through it at the lowest difficulty. Turns a bad game into a mediocre game.
If I was a little kid, I would agree that an iPhone is way more expensive than a Nintendo Switch. But I’m an adult with teen children and all of us have iPhones.
Will it be more powerful than an iPhone?
If not, not a monster.
“Death Stranding” was my personal GOTY for 2019. Keep on keeping’ on.
I agree that a game can be fantastic and not win any awards. And let’s be real about how gaming awards serve the industry. It’s not the lack of awards that you should consider, it’s the actual reviews and user feedback.
This is how you get new game sales. Some of the audience of purchasers would have bought a $20 DLC but the big money is getting the larger audience of non-purchasers to spend $40 on the whole game. No Man’s Sky has been doing this for years.
“in 4 bogus trials”
I can see questioning the veracity of one trial. Innocent people are convicted all the time. But I feel like a rational person would be concerned after 2 trials. I think an irrational person would be concerned after 3 trials. It takes a special kind of denial to keep the cognitive dissonance going after 4 trials. Anyway, I’m sure some believe “The Day Before” will get a fix any day now even though the studio has dissolved and the game was pulled from sto...
“You’re playing it wrong.”
Phil already told you that even if Starfield was an 11 out of 10, it wouldn’t change Xbox’s marketshare. (Starfield was a 7.) I’m sure Micfosoft is a little surprised by how fast they are losing marketshare. I think they overvalue their brand versus PlayStation.
That‘s an insane amount of gaming for an executive. No golf or yachting for Phil. However I feel about his management of Xbox or buying up publishers to monopolize gaming, I can’t deny the man loves games.
If there was never a console war, then why did Microsoft say they lost the console war during the FTC trial?
So 4.5M copies to break even and the rest is profit.