Sony and Nintendo appreciate his 'hard work', though. They don't want to see him fired!
Yet another reason not to sell yourselves to a major corporation. But what did these people expect when the game flopped so hard? They should have seen it coming.
Expect more studios to close in the not-too-distance future.
They're offering credit instead of a cash refund. Yeesh.
More proof people need to stop pre-ordering games which end up releasing unfinished, need to stop supporting live service trash, and need to stop buying Battle Passes before the content is even made. If there ever was a time to learn these lessons, now would be the time.
There's always room for more, the sub-genres has been quite barren for nearly a decade now. One game isn't enough. Or two if you want to count the Splinter Cell remake, which is probably suffering from development hell because they're trying to take the classic game and 'Ubify it' turning it into a boring grindy slog of worthless filler trash.
Plenty of Activision employees will be looking for a new job next year. Well over 1000 total from multiple cuts throughout the year.
Be Phil Spencer, he's been failing upwards for 10 years now. This is the result of his endless mismanagement.
Nintendo really trying to squeeze every last drop of sales from the Switch. One last holiday season before their big announcement.
Let's hope that every Switch successor is an OLED model going forward. And it would be nice to have more than 64 GB of on-board storage, but we likely won't see that due to them being the biggest cheapskates in the industry.
You're not getting any of that because executives and marketers run the industry completely now. They need top end visuals similar to how all these big budget action movies need top end special effects and CG in order to get the dumb and causal masses interested in their product.
They have to appeal to them to maximize profits, and thusly game developers have no choice but to focus on the most shallow elements of gaming these days.
Not the 32x? Jaguar CD? Or even the Xbox One SAD?
No! Its the PS5 receiving a massive GPU boost thats the most useless hardware update in history!
Written by a person who doesn't know gaming history at all, of course. Yet he types with such cool and collected confidence. The sign of intelligence if I've ever seen it.
I saw the writing on the wall back in 2005. When micro-trash-actions first started I knew it was only going to snowball and get worse year on year.
I also knew gamers were too stupid to understand this and let it happen by constantly supporting scummy publishers, making games worse for everyone, even people against micro-trash-actions like myself.
Now we're stuck so many live service elements in single player games, endless grinding and filler, lower ...
Crisis averted, now we can all move on.
No one mentioned the most important part. There is no territory mode like in Splatoon! That killed my interest in the game. I wanted something more than team deathmatch, but the devs didn't understand what made Splatoon so appealing.
There was potential for a Splatoon type of game on PS and PC, but it was never met.
Oh cool, from douchebag to douchebag. Don't expect anything to change.
No, she's a real Swift fan. Though I doubt she would have posted this article here herself, likely some other staffer did it for her.
I don't believe for one second this is how he intended it to be. It would have been stopped and changed before the outfit was completed if that was the case. Now that its been changed, offer us the chance to have BOTH versions, and it would stop any issues and debates regarding the subject entirely. Let us pick the version WE want, not what YOU want.
Over 14 GBs and doesn't change much at all? What? Taking up that much drive space for a pathetic 'remastering' is shameful.
Par for Bethesda.
I'll just skip playing all those Ubi-junk games in the first place. Time saved!
Making this iOS exclusive (and subscription only!) was so freaking stupid. Perfectly encapsulates SEGA's decision making process.
The problem is that companies only head in one direction, they go forward with ever increasing budgets, and never go back, or scale down. Publishers outside of Nintendo are convinced that ever improving graphics and details are required in order to get players interested in their games.
If SpiderMan 2 had a budget of $315, then SpiderMan 3 is guaranteed to be even bigger, perhaps $400 million, and the money they make back on it will be similar to part 2, which means less pr...
Couldn't the same have been said about Mattrick? He did what his bosses wanted him to do? Yet he was given the boot.
Its more likely that the MS executives don't know who to replace him with, that's the only reason this failure still has his job.