@andy
Yes tomb raider and Souls franchise are different, but from an industry aggregated quality stand point Souls games are top tier while tomb raider games have not been.
Sony blew it out of the water in their presser with first party/second party AAA games plus a few AAA independent game such as hell blade by ninja theory (the new middle tier in my opinion). And a slew of smaller indie games.
Plus PC game moves to ps4 such as DayZ.
Gameplay footage of bloodborne a AAA title that blows tombraider out of the water (think dark souls IP going Sony exclusive with Sony owning the IP with original creator at helm.
Yep Bitby Is correct all those ps4 exclusives are Sony published AAA game. Hellblade by ninja theory is AAA independent (per the studio).
SCEA Is an American company in the legal sense as its an US registered corporation. Shawn Layden and the American marketing team runs these programs on the US side, nothing to do with parent company Sony, which doesn't get involved in local decisions.
Sonys the reason gamescom became so big back when Microsoft and Nintendo didn't even support it a few years ago.
I'm sure in keeping with their trend lot of good announcements.
It could very well be close. The Xbox one sold about 300k (if you est 800k 360 out of 1 mil based on previous q sales) last quarter.
That's terrible considering that the x360 sold 10 to 13 mil in a year on avg during its life time. Not sure why people are saying Xbox one is selling decently or better than 360 when it's clearly not.
@axios2
why are you spreading misinformation? Their financials clearly point out a net profit of $250 mil for the entire Sony company.
http://www.gamespot.com/art...
This is a little different isn't it? Ps3 on paper is more powerful but difficult to develop for while the Xbox One is less powerful hardware wise and slightly more difficult to develop for.
If the hardware was more powerful using esram would probably be not as difficult or probably wouldn't need it at all I suspect.
@zod yea crimson dragon sits at 56 on metacritic :( really disappointed with the game after finding out same director who worked on Panzar was on it.
I think we can all blame kinect for keepin this in development hell.
Tlou overtook skyrim for title of most awarded game ever.
http://www.dualshockers.com...
But it's all subjective.
Outside of features on the system the biggest problem xb1 has going for it is it just sold less than half a million last quarter (1 mil xb1+360). At this rate how are they going to ever sell 360 annual numbers of 10 to 13 mil per year?
The dragon doesn't fight alongside you in Lair you are riding it and don't think there was much expectation of the game. Lets face it, it was a rushed launch title.
What's even more of a let down was Crimson Dragon for Xbox One. After working on it for years on the Xbox 360 before porting it to X1. If you want to talk about a let down what a disappointment of a game that was, after looking forward to the spiritual successor to Panzar with the same director I could...
@n4rc
PC is not microsofts platform. Technically PC/windows 7 & below is open Platform anyone can publish games without paying Microsoft a cut like on Xbox. Like all of Sony Online Entertainment games are published through their SOE distribution platform without paying Microsoft a penny.
On the other hand microsofts game distribution platform on the pc is Games For Windows which is now defunct and in last place in comparison to Steam and GoG.
It's simple really, most hardcore Xbox 360 owners jumped over to the ps4 and bought watchdogs. That's how watchdogs sold more on ps4 than x360 as hardcore audience are the ones who would buy that game more so than casuals. I believe Andrew House said around 30% of ps4 owners never had PSN before.
Company or Xbox division in this case is not run by one person alone but a committee of leaders including spencer. Know for certian that Firing mattrick and promoting spencer is a PR move.
Anyone that's worked in a corporate environment know that the ideas are brought by people like Spencer of course ultimately the buck stopped at Mattrick.
All I'm saying is don't be too quick to let Mattrick fall on the Xbox one "sword" alone.
Last time EA mentioned titanfall it had yet to break a million copies sold during march. Its not a poor seller but its definitely not top tier. Killzone shadow fall surpassed 2.1 million in January. So not sure why anyone would compare titanfall to Destiny?
http://www.polygon.com/2014...
Every podcast that talks about titanfall these days mentions how quic...
Xbox one sales have dipped lower than any month during the Xbox 360's lifetime... So don't think it's selling at a faster rate than 360 at all.
There is about 40% difference in raw power from a hardware perspective. Watch Technobuffalo's in depth comparison between APUs.
http://youtu.be/0ruo84asvQo
Not sure if sunset overdrive is big enough to warrant a bundle. Halo would make more sense.
I would temper any expectation on Sunset until reviews are out. Fuse and R&C:AFO didn't really blaze the charts ya know.
What people forget Indie just means independent. Indie games can be AAA with publisher funding.