Kind of an odd situation. Microsoft owns Bethesda, but their two upcoming titles are PS5 console exclusives for a limited time.
I doubt we'll see anything of that magnitude from Sony. $7.5 billion dollars is more than all of Sony's first party titles cost to produce this generation. Sony also tends to acquire a studios after they've had a 'second party' business relationship with them for a while.
That might be the biggest acquisition in gaming history. Let's hope MS isn't getting too greedy and actually have a plan for how to manage the huge influx of talented studios.
@Fluttershy77: It's set to release in 2021 which for the most part is PS5s first year on the market. That's why I said 'roughly the first year', just in case it comes out late 2021. My point is that the early lineup is stacked.
@Jukins: Point me to the segment in the presentation where they announce preorders. Also humans need a heads-up, bots don't. They've probably been scanning all the common retail sites before the event even began.
Being disappointed by the fact that the game will be cross-gen is not the same as thinking the game will be bad. Even pure PS4 games won't all of a sudden turn bad once the PS5 comes out.
I for one think the game will be amazing, but that doesn't mean that Guerrilla won't be held back by having to work around the PS4 hardware at least to some extent. Guerrilla's technical proficiency just makes that fact more unfortunate in my opinion, because this is the ki...
Not only that, but the first year looks insane. Demon's Souls, Miles Morales, Ratchet & Clank, Horizon and God of War all in roughly the first year of the console life is insane and can honestly compete with some of the best years of PS4.
@ziggurcat: Maybe read the whole sentence?
"They could've just announced that pre-orders would go live a day after the event, at the same time as announcing the event itself."
Yes retailers screwed a lot of people over with the premature launch of preorders. I already addressed that. That does not explain why Sony wouldn't announce that preorders would go live much earlier or why they didn't even feel the need to mention anything abo...
That's some wonky reasoning. The fact that Walmart started the preorders early wasn't Sony's fault, but that doesn't change the fact that Sony's messaging could've been a lot clearer. They could've just announced that pre-orders would go live a day after the event, at the same time as announcing the event itself. Can you tell me one good reason why that wouldn't have been a much better way to communicate?
They didn't even feel the need to...
It's because the chips and the final NVME drive use slightly different units. Storage is usually marketed using the decimal unit: GB (Gigabyte)
1 GB = 1000 MB
1 MB = 1000 KB
1 KB = 1000 B (bytes)
The Hardware manufacturers and the operating systems on the other hand use the binary unit: GiB (Gibibyte).
1 GiB = 1024 MiB
1 MiB = 1024 KiB
1 KiB = 1024 B (bytes)
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@darth72: GT7 will probably be cross-gen and I personally don't care if it is, but I really hope that God of War is next-gen only. Sony pledging PS4 support for 3-4 more years could mean a lot of things. They've said similar things with PS3 and PS4 and that mostly resulted in continued firmware updates and some new games being released (mostly 3rd party and indie titles).
I also don't even understand your concept of 'forced migration'. Either the value p...
If they were to make two different versions of a game, potentially even by two seperate teams, it would raise production cost to a point where it would defeat the purpose of making a cross-gen game to begin with, since the primary motivation is to increase the profit by selling it to a higher install base.
We'll see how the PS5 and PS4 versions compare once they are out, but even if they rework some elements of the game from the ground up and offer exclusive gameplay fe...
@ClayRules: Same here, but I think the likelyhood for GoW being cross-gen is very low for the resons I stated above. Another reason is that Sony need at least one huge system seller. Ratchet & Clank & Demon's Souls are great exclusives to have, but I doubt they are as effective at making people buy a PS5 as God of War Ragnarök would be.
Horizon Forbidden West surely would've been a huge system seller if it was PS5 exclusive. It's a bummer that they ...
Spider-Man: Miles Morales is a bit of a special case, since it had to have a quick production cycle to be ready for launch. It makes sense that they wouldn't have had time to rebuild the game from the ground up. Horizon probably started as a PS4 game, but it's disappointing that they haven't scrapped the PS4 version once they moved development over to PS5.
With that said I don't think God of War will be cross gen. At the time they started development up for...
This sucks. For Sackboy it doesn't really matter and in Spider-Man's case I can at least see the rationale since it likely was quickly built on the base of the PS4 game anyway. I doubt Insomniac had enough time to truly take advantage of the PS5 hardware and fundamentally change the game-design basics.
In Horizons case it's really disappointing to hear though.That game won't be as good as it could've been if it was developed from the ground up without ha...
In my mind Horizon was a late 2021 title so who knows. Sony seems to have enough big titles early in the gen that they might have trouble spacing them out. Spider-Man, Ratchet, Horizon and God of War all in the same year seems crazy for a launch year. Who knows when Demon's Souls and Gran Turismo are aimed to release. FFXVI is probably further out though.
Great show. My highlights were FFXVI announcement, Spider-Man and Demon's Souls gameplay, GoW in 2021. Sony came prepared for the first year of the PS5.
That's surprising. I would've bet that it was gonna be 2022. Looks like development on PS5 is going pretty quickly.
I'm greedy, I need Demon's Souls gameplay.
EDIT: HERE WE GOOOO
We'll see how it pans out. Since Microsoft owns them now I don't see how they wouldn't have the last say in how things are being done. I think all that means is that the Bethesda's management structure will stay the same for the time being, which is the right move considering the amount of studios that are involved in the acquisition.
I think exclusivity will be decided on a case by case basis. If PS5 sells exceptionally well, Microsoft might decide to put b...