Nick got cold feet and didn’t think the game was going to be successful so they fell for sunk cost fallacy and basically decided “wrap the game up as cheap as possible so we can recoup as much expense as we can”.
A game can be highly successful without attracting the Fortnite gaming group. In fact it probably would hurt the game to try and get a demographic that doesn’t actually appreciate the game style, as we saw with Halo 4 trying to be like COD etc.
Also, Fortnite is beginning to fade. Young consumers are fickle and treat things like fads. I wouldn’t be surprised to see Fortnite go the way of WoW and other smash hits.
I’m not going to lie, I don’t want another delay for things that aren’t actually breaking the game. This isn’t a situation of the game being a Cyberpunk like buggy mess. There is more than enough content to launch, especially for multiplayer. Anything they haven’t figured out in the last six years isn’t likely to be fixed by three extra months. It’s time. Launch the game.
Millennials have now reached the same stage boomers reached where they think everything in their childhood was “the best” implementation. 90s cartoons did have some great voices but I don’t need all my super hero content, 3 decades later, still using the same ones.
Halo 1 and 2 only seem cartoony in hindsight (and sure, with the rag doll physics). At the time the games were released it was considered very realistic.
The bots are serviceable… but doing things pros would do? Lol no. They lose every match 2:1 minimum. Even the ODST bots.
This was a month old build and they had not actually fine tuned the performance yet. I think locked 120 is what they are going for. We’ll see.
You’re right that Halo has never been a superstar in graphics (though Halo 2 upon release was considered impressive). But COD does not look better. If you play them both, Halo is nicer.
I own a PS5 and love Killzone and this is BS. Shadow Fall was gorgeous for its era, but it can’t match these graphics with 4k and 120fps. Try playing the game yourself, it’s really nice and a lot of fun.
You would suspect wrong then. First day had hiccups, but it’s working fine (by preview testing standards) today and the game feels fantastic.
As of today, it is up and running. First day had issues.
They’ve been quite clear it isn’t even a beta. (Semantics to some degree though) It’s a technical preview. They’re fully aware the build in its current state is broken. People have bad expectations.
By overall unit sales it clearly “won”. But it really is a tale of two generations. For the first half, Wii absolutely decimated the competition. In the second the PS3 and 360 sold far more, and more importantly for the gaming industry they sold far more software. Whether Nintendo fans like to admit it or not, a huge chunk of casuals bought the Wii for Wii Sports and almost nothing more.
Not a chance
Pachter has been wrong on Sony time and time and time again.
That’s been a rumor, that they were working on one. But whether the property truly has weight now I’m not sure.
You actually can just pay the normal Xbox Live Gold price. The difference between ultimate and the normal online membership price is $5 a month.
They’re actually pretty similar in my opinion. Infamous Second Son was a lot like Spider-Man but without the comic licensing.
You’re kind of conflating things. 1.) Game Pass Ultimate also includes Xbox Live Gold so if you back that out it’s half the price you quoted. 2.) For many the first three months is only a buck, so that makes the break even much farther out. 3.) It’s really easy to get Game Pass memberships at a discount online.
Any Xbox fan concerned about game pass price can just start stacking now while it’s still low