Post patches and free additional content sport is over 80gb now....
It's simple on xbox theybare either Trying to get games to subscribe to games pass or most of their titles have lower sales than a game like uncharted. So a free upgrade has greater capacity to drive new sales. With uncharted 4 that's no really an option so in order to recoup costs you have to charge. And yes you could argue it sold well so why bot just give it free as you made money anyway on the original. The response to this is simple really. It sold so well because of its quality ...
The other company you refer to is also basing its business model off a subscription service primarily so most people don't even own games on their platform anymore.
It depends in this instance they've also increased LoD noticeably, reworked the colour scheme and contrast, improved most textured it appear although the improvement isn't always too noticeable and ported the whole engine from ps4 to ps5 in order to have a native ps5 application that takes advantage of the SSD for loading it literally loads In instantly unlike the minute+ load times when you first startup on ps4 or switch level etc. Then they have also added haptic support and whilst ...
Erm horizon is like 4 years old and they gave it away for free during the pandemic... twice to anyone with a psn account.
Almost everyone that was going to buy these games already did there is almost no none to be made selling this full price. So to recoup fev costs on a game that was a bestselling title and sold really well you have no choicebut to charge an upgrade. Coukd be worse pretty sure the gtav remaster has no upgrade path just expects you to repurchase it again for 70 quid.
@orchard you paid the subscription fee for online primarily and secondly for the many titles they give away f...
It's rather simple. Metro:exodus sold OK, it having a free upgrade near beginning of this gen a year and a half ago now- made it more attractive to new console owners and perhaps boosted sales meaning it pays for itself. Meanwhile uncharted 4 and lost legacy both sold loads. Almost anyone who was going to buy it already has and then loads more have it via ps plus and played it through and aren't going to buy it just for an upgrade like this. Thus to make up for the cost of the dev tim...
"I had ps plus since before they gave away free games" hmm I've had ps plus literally since it originally launched and it's always given away free games... so that would be very hard.
Yes. As you could on the ps3.
The fact it sold less than uncharted 4 is what makes a free upgrade more viable as it will actually boost sales.
Probably because the last of us 2 launched less than 6 months before ps5 released. To remaster this they had to reopen code that was 4/5 years since it had been closed and put to bed. That's alot more work.
So um for starters the game engine needed porting to ps5 and all the work associated with that, then they had to actually do the upgrades they did and add dual sense and tempest engine 3D audio. Now the most important point here is that this game was released in 2016 and most of the titles you mention were released later than that I believe? Since then Naughty Dog have moved on and made a whole new game and are in advanced stages of work on other titles. This is important because it means its...
That down to the developers choice in how they feel it goes with the game. Have you played this then?
I mean if you buy the combo version of both uncharted 4 and lost legacy until recently that eoukd have cost you about $50... if you already own either if those titles it's $10. So I don't know what you are complaining about tbh. If you got it free on the ps plus collection then you got it free anyway so quit complaining.
I spent a total of like 4 or 5 hours on the beta and couldn't even beat that first boss lol so.... and I've played all the soups games and bloodborne and sekiro.
Also it's worth noting that there seems to a promotion at least there is here in the uk that if you buy the new collection or upgrade to it you can get a free ticket to see the upcoming film. I figure that ticket is probably woth more than £10 that it takes to upgrade tbh.
@sourOG that is exactly what anticonsumer means. Let's spell this out: so Microsoft bought Bethesda and their future games are bow exclusive. These are games that were otherwise going to release on multiple platforms. They actually went so far as to halt advanced development on PlayStation versions of games like starfield. So they have limited choice of consumers. ALL consumers. Yeah you main own an xbox now but what if in the future you didn't want to? Now you have to to continue to ...
Sony are literally a bank and an insurance company in Japan (well sister company of main sony) but the answer is yes they could find the moeny todo so it wouldn't be paid in cash though it would be more if a merger type deal with shares being part of the deal.
Omg all this nonsense about Jim Ryan. Firstly he clearly does care about games. He's worked for playstationnsince before the ps1 launched and helped get that launch organised in Europe and helped acquire third and second party support for the ps1, ps2 and ps3. You don't work in gaming for that long and not care about games. Secondly he hasn't actually lied. The free upgrades I watched the show and with the initial exception of horizon all the titled that were listed as having free...