Of cause. Pachinko machine is borderline gambling in Japan. Konami also makes big horse-racing card arcade machines, which are also kind of gambling in Japan.
Is CyberPunk 2077 a "good quality" game? Are MLB the Show 2021 & 2022 not "good quality" games (which are developed by Sony Monica)? The quality of a game & how gamer pay a game are 2 different issues.
Strangely (or lucky) for me, I haven't experience those issue from Hong Kong. Maybe it is a regional issue?
Lucky for me? I haven't experience that issue so far. I can play all of my games, including GamePass games.
Why, Sony believers, why is it "insanely pro-consumer" when your Sony church doesn't want you to convert your PS Plus subscription on cheap now, when MS invite existing Xbox Live Gold member to convert to GamePass for $1 ? MS even convert my 1 years Xbox Live for $1 TOTAL (not $1 per month)!!!!
@SurgicalMenace
Sony should add another, even higher tier, call PS Donation. In this tier, you donate $30 per month to Sony, & you won't expect any "dis-loyal" earthly reward like free games or 2 hrs demo. This tier is for you to show your true loyalty to Sony, just like your donation to your church.
Very Sony. Very "insanely pro-consumer"!!!!!!!!
Ys' I & II was originally a single game. Deal to delay & the limitation Japanese PC98 computer system (a Japanese only PC environment that was very similar to IBM PC at the time). It was until the PCEngine console, with CD-ROM, that combine the 2 games back into a single game. Ys' I & II also the 1st game with voiced pre-rendered sequence. This start the Japanese love on voiced pre-rendered sequence until now,
I've tried to reply the Witcher 2 last year (I finished 2 & loved it back at my Xbox 360 days). The game play design felt restrictive & old-school. It may not standup to modern game design standard, unless a complete re-make.
@Lightning77 You're talking about Nintendo, right? There is also no big exclusive for Switch (apart from the complete edition of Mario Kart). So you also mean Nintendo should not be the top spot?
@darkrider So you also meant Nintendo shouldn't sold this well, also? Nintendo also didn't have any big 1st party exclusive in March. So you meant Nintendo also "paying millions more to lower the supply of ps5."?......
Yes, GamePass is generating profit for MS for the last fiscal year.
I guess it just means those 3rd party PS1, 2, 3, 4 games already in the PS+ services get the blessing from their publishers/ developers.
This is exactly what I fear..... I fear this will have the "Anthem" effect on Playground game. Anthem single-handedly destroy BoiWare, when BoiWare tried to make a game they have no experice, with a game engine that did not support those kind of game..... Here, Playground is making a game that they have no experience (action RPG), with a game engine that is not suitable for such game (how can you retrofit a racing game engine into a RPG game engine? Basically you cannot.)
No...... I've already bought this 2 times (one for XBox 360, one for Xbox One). I don't want to pay the 3rd time..
So.... what's the point of "playing" GT7?
No..... this seems to be a very "Sony specific" problem. We don't see other always-online games need to be taken off-line when doing system upgrade (let lone taking multiple days to do so). We don't see EA taking FIFA, NFL, etc. games offline for version upgrade. We don't see MS taking Flight Sim offline for version upgrade.
This highlights the unique problem of Sony. Other publishers (EA, Activicaiton, MS, etc.) seldomly take their game offline for maintenance, let alone taking so long. On the other hand, those Sony's 1st party games & PSN/ PS Now seems to require so many maintenances & those also take multiple days.
It is not the Live Service Games business model itself. The problem is that: SE forced developers that have no experience in making GaaS games to make GaaS games. When you look at the revenue from Destiny 2, Apex Legend, (even Outriders), there IS a big demand of GaaS games outside of US market.
"Imagine Fifa license with PES mechanics." No i can't imagine that ever happen. Even FIFA doesn't think the licence fee is profitable for them, Konami would not be able to pay that licence up front.