Yeah, I think the month GTA6 will finally get released, we should see a substantial growth in hardware units being sold.
It should, no matter when, be a 1m month in units easily.
I gotta say I didn't expect PS5 sales to be down only 14% year-on-year, thought the decline would be higher.
Interesting:
PS5 being down 382k units compared to PS4's April in 2018 is probably the result of the God of War reboot release in April 2018.
It was even the later half of April, the 20th.
Great exclusives can have a pretty strong impact on hardware sales I guess.
Well, at the time, I actually did think the FTC and CMA did a poor job in court. But also the judge.
Having said that - it is what it is.
If 75bn mergers in any industry ain't a threshold to deny them, then I don't know what is.
As far as your thoughts about other 3rd parties getting taken over in the future go:
I think publisher buyouts are off the list now. I think it would be reeeeally difficult for MS to w...
Interesting article, even with some actual names of the people voicing their thoughts.
I think that we've had enough similiar situations at other studios and publishers already, hell even completely different businesses, to know that OF COURSE it's always about hostile environments at work and the search for rather effortless profits than causing excitment with great ideas.
All deflecting statements, wether from managements or other people in char...
Museums should be very interested to get one of those ... Series consoles.
No.
But everyone was annoyed when Xbox Ultras celebrated a former 3rd party multiplat game as a masterpiece and "ONLY possible on Xbox" for months (!).
Finally this has an end now.
4 of them are former 3rd party multiplat games anyway, they've just changed ownership.
And the other is Forza.
Let's ignore cannibalization then, which, according to you, doesn't happen at all.
Let's ignore it.
However, my question remains unanswered.
What else does Xbox need to finally gain some grip?
Zenimax, ABK, Minecraft, GP, tried buying out even Nintendo (and Sega, Warner Bros., From Software, etc.), porting true Xbox IPs to PS, and now they're reaching even for Steam.
What else does O...
(I even forgot Minecraft.)
So.
What else does Xbox need to finally get some grip?
Zenimax, ActivisionBlizzardKing, Gears & Forza on Playstation, cannibalization of retail for GP, Steam, maybe Playstation exclusives via Steam, tried buying out Nintendo, etc.
It's hilarious.
"And unless we—as players—take a stand, the greed won’t stop."
And that's the tough part about it.
Look at those annual figures showing billions and billions of money being spent on the most ridiculous add-ons, DLCs, pre-release accesses, even pre-orders, digital deluxe crap, etc.
I mean - we've stood together at times. I don't say it didn't happen before.
But within all of our communities th...
True words, buddy.
Q: "So how many units did Shadows sell?"
Ubisoft: "Well, look, we ... it's been a busy week."
It's greed.
I wish I could give you a more extensive explaination.
Digital games could also be lended or sold to friends & other people.
It'd be absolutely in the realm of being technically possible.
But they don't do it. Because every digital game has to be bought individually through their one and only (!) digital store. And you can't even lend it to other people unless you give away your account...
My guess:
September 29th, 2026.
I really can't see how they would actually want, like truly want (!) to release their biggest game ever at end of May.
Which is about 14 days before the FIFA World Championship is about to kick off - right in the Summer time for many countries GTA is popular in.
GTA(6) is huge, massively huge.
But one of the few things that are still quite bigger than GTA is the F...
The sad thing about those price hikes is that none of that money is neither intended or used to pay workers better.
I'd pay 700 bucks for a console if I knew that noone in the production line is being exploited anymore.
But those tariffs ...
Trump is a guy who is used to rip people off.
But he and people like him, ironically, hate it getting ripped off themselves.
These tariffs are purely drive...
"Funny" how close Death gets when talking in GTA releases instead of full years to go.
Makes sense.
By 2018, it was probably the time when Xbox and Playstation could tell publishers and studios their final next-gen specs.
"Xbox is making better first party games“
If not as much in online communities & news invested gamers like us are seeking through the shelves for a game:
Tell me the names of the so called "Xbox 1st party games" he/she instantly connects with "Oh yeah, that's Xbox" the same as they would know Astro Bot or Ghost of Tsushima, God of War or The Last of Us stands for Playstation 1st party games.
Please don&#...
It's now on Xbox', 2hrs later though, but yeah. Who knows.
Maybe Windows was updating.
The IRS demands 29bn USD in not paid taxes from Microsoft.
If we're talking bleeding.