Sony has its own blog, podcast, and video series to promote PlayStation. Arguably Sony PR is just better than Microsoft PR.
Except a more action focused hack and slash is more appealing to the west. It’s why Microsoft wanted Bethesda. It’s why western gamers use the term “JRPG” as an insult.
Half Life 2 Episode 2 came out in 2007. Just sayin’.
The game is amazing. No other game has you fight robot dinosaurs and animals with so many parts and weak points for special attacks. Few games look this hood. 75% of my house played through the entire story. If you want to mainline the story, you easily can. If you want to spend 90 hours on side quests, you can do that too. If you want to dial down the difficulty because you are new to games, go ahead. It’s a no-brainer for any PlayStation owner.
The Venn diagram of Switch owners and PS4 owners didn’t overlap as much as the gaming media thought it would. Elden Ring does overlap with the open world audience that likes Horizon Forbidden West, but the casual audience does not overlap with the souls audience. I’m in that casual audience and I haven’t bought Elden Ring. I might never buy it.
Indeed, Halo Infinite multiplayer is already a live service failure for Microsoft. I expect Redfall to join the heap of failed multiplayer games.
Live service really means a store for microtransactions, and players are still spending their hard earned money on digital crap. Genshin Impact has made over $3B. Fortnite has made many more billions of dollars. GTAV is still a top ten download on PSN. Sony can afford a lot of misses in exchange for even one hit.
Doubt. Neither the PS4 Pro nor the Xbox One X increased the market share of their respective platforms. Both console refreshes served 4K, and while 4K adoption was forced on us by TV makers, 8k adoption looks about as popular as 3D TVs. I don’t consumers were that happy. The PS4 Pro was notoriously long. As a long term investment, the Xbox One X was a big loser, outclassed in some respects by the cheaper Xbox Series S only a couple of years later. Besides, both console makers know that the bi...
The point of all games is fun. Dying because you had to take a phone call isn’t fun.
Horizon Call of the Mountain is a must play experience, in my humble opinion. The issue is with the VR headsets themselves. So long as you feel like you have a screen strapped to your head, especially with prescriptions glasses getting in the way, and the inherent motion sickness from simulated movement, VR will never be as comfortable an experience as non-VR gaming.
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Doubt.
Game Pass is its own revenue stream. If 25M people pay $180 per year for Game Pass, Microsoft makes $4.5B per year. Unless your game is GTA, that makes up for a lot of last game sales.
Bethesda to chose Xbox because Microsoft bought Bethesda.
“Bringing engineering, cloud, marketing & production teams together”
Microsoft is basically saying they will give Kojima the same kind of deal as Sony. You may recall that in exchange for exclusivity for Death Stranding, Sony offered up the game engine from Guerrila games, staff from Guerilla games, and tons of marketing.
At first I thought, hmmm, maybe a machine to play Halo and Starfield, but you’re right. I don’t want a less than current gen experience and neither does anyone else. Still, I wouldn’t besmirch anyone for jumping in on a fire sale. I still regret passing up a Dreamcast when I saw it at a deep discount at Toys’R’Us.
If true, Developers can’t really afford to disregard the Series S. That’s kind of rough for Series X owners who want developers to take advantage of the power of the Series X.
To upgrade your PS4 version, you need to buy $25 worth of DLC and then pay a $10 upgrade fee. That’s $35 to upgrade a game I bought for $20 (and then played for 2 hours and never picked up again).
Flying from planet in No Man’s Sky is amazing. The tech itself is still groundbreaking. The game is what you make. Fight pirates if you like. Be a pirate. Make a base. Share a base. Chill. Your call. And the game keeps getting better. For free!
I recall the dread of feeling like Dark Souls had infected every genre of gaming. Then I lowered the difficulty and increased the party window.