I'm tired of hearing the excuse that the reason Sony doesn't reveal first-party games is because they learned their lesson about revealing games too soon. When exactly was the last time Sony failed and announced a first-party game too soon - the PS3 era? I cannot remember it happening during the PS4 era yet each conference was filled with first-party reveals. E3 2016 showed why gamers wanted a PS4 both now and in the next 3 years. They announced both God of War and Days Gone with ...
Code for Eververse integration, zero customer service, and manipulative practices that were developed in casinos. Destiny's success is less about the quality of its content and more from marketing and a well-developed hamster wheel.
Probably the worst PlayStation conference I've seen. Only first-party reveals were 2 GaaS, mostly just CGI trailers, and Splatoon and Minecraft ripoffs. Why hype up an event when there was so little to show?
Don't forget Horizon: Zero Dawn with your list of new IPs. I didn't count Returnal since it wasn't first party at the time and Sony has almost always funded Housemarque IPs. While Sony has historically funded new second-party IPs, they have also funded new first-party IPs at the same time but now that has currently ended. Spider-Man MM, Ratchet and Clank 9, MLB The Show, Horizon Forbidden West, God of War Ragnarok, Gran Turismo 7, Spider-Man 2 - nothing new here and most of th...
I'm just amused by the gamers who are defending this are the same people who attacked Microsoft's Halo/Gears/Forza strategy.
So far this generation, Sony has yet to put out a new first-party IP (Sony bought Housemarque after Returnal released so that doesn't count). In the past, Sony had done a good job at both providing quirky new IPs as well as allowing their big studios to pursue different genres. Hopefully this continues in the future but with both the ch...
Sony didn't push for anything - Bungie has been pulling this crap long before being acquired by Sony. The problem is that Sony paid $3.6 billion because they wanted Bungie's expertise in GaaS and manipulative practices. All those upcoming Sony online games will be modeled after Destiny and filled with the same sleaze.
For those not up to date with Destiny 2, at the start of last year Bungie removed access to dungeons from season pass purchases and is now an additi...
Seems Square Enix will never forget the Tomb Raider deal disaster.
"the world-renowned humanitarian organisation has drawn up a set of rules (opens in new tab) for us to follow in online FPSes"
God help them if they find out about Rimworld.
@thesoftware730
In my opinion it wasn't very successful as a live service game since there has been a massive content drought after Warlords, with all of 2021 with little news or updates to the game. I did enjoy the game a lot for the years that I played it but I can only do so many manhunts before one gets bored. Ubisoft does seem to be trying to do more for the game now but it will be hard to get players to come back without another Warlords-sized expansion.
Actually Ubisoft didn't abuse MTX at all in The Division 2 which one of the reasons why it failed. Destiny 2 and Elder Scrolls Online are 2 of the biggest MMO-type games on console and both are successful and filled with predatory MTX. Transmog is easy and free in Division 2 and during events players are guaranteed to get everything available just by playing enough. Compare that with Destiny 2 where almost nothing can be earned during events and they just added an event pass for $10 to...
That is a pretty generous score for Lightfall. Nothing meaningful has been added while plenty has been taken away from the game.
Well that is one way to never have to say "from the studio that brought you Forspoken."
N4G definitely needs better moderators. If you can tell by their comments and what stories they fail which company they prefer, the system is broken. Many contributors have left because of the bias and now what few submissions N4G get are usually focused on store sales and console wars. N4G is a news aggregate site that doesn't cover most stories from IGN, Gamespot, Eurogamer. etc.
A functional SEARCH would also be helpful for looking up past submissions. Currently ...
@ApocalypseShadow
"It's click bait to try and compare a recent release on Xbox and PlayStation."
They both released on PC. You're basically saying nobody can talk about another disappointing Square Enix release because it released first on Playstation.
@Elda
AAA has little to do when comparing non-digital aspects of video games. There are many indie games with amazing soundtracks, art direction, and dialo...
"There's probably 100+ games with dialog."
Well there's only been 21 games released between Jan 1st and Jan 25th this year and most of them have been ports. Are you upset that they didn't compare it to Fire Emblem Engage or is it One Piece Odyssey that you feel would be the better comparison?
Why do you think it is unfair to compare Forspoken and Hi-Fi Rush? It is not like they are completely different genres or released far apart ...
Just curious to know what new 2023 game release you would prefer them to compare Forspoken to?
Bungie is only making these changes to Destiny 2 in an attempt to sell Lightfall after having such a bad year in 2022 and losing so many players. They have just removed the solo node for Iron Banner because the player pool is so small that matchmaking was taking forever. Season of Plunder was extremely bad from both a story point and from Bungie trying to make it as grindy as possible to pad player time. Game breaking bugs have plagued D2 this last year, with the game being completely brok...
How exactly is that supposed to work? You think less people will want PSVR2 if it is harder to get? Which part of the world do you live where that happened to the PS5? I personally have yet to see that happened. Sony has repeatedly cut production estimates for the PS5 and people are still lined up to get them.
I have no problem with the design. Hori has a whole line for the Switch that is essentially 2 halves of a pro controller replacing the Joy-Cons and it took them years before they could be kept in stock. I do doubt there is much of a market for Project Q though.