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Lol publishers will almost always learn the wrong lessons from failure.

If nothing else, having a set hardware target for steam games to hit should help with the current VRAM crisis.

The Steam Machine concept was pretty half-baked. It was one of those things where, by the time the results actually started to show up, it felt like Valve had already lost interest in the idea. Also, they came out with that idea probably a few years too early.

I agree it could be different now if they follow the steam deck model though. I'm definitely interested. They have to have a real controller though. That one they had before is a tragedy.

" I miss having BF as my main MP game"

Yep. There's just nothing that scratches the same itch as a good battlefield game. Too many games now are just chasing the boring extraction shooter/PVPVE fad.

"now there are new worlds to explore with a level of variety no one has seen before."

A level of variety no one has seen before? The devs have been working on this, and I'm sure there was QA of this update, so clearly those people have seen this level of variety before. Just another lie from Hello Games.

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They also got an enormous sales boost from College Football 25 this year. It was the first NCAA football game in 11 years and the first one in two generations of consoles. While yearly iterations will continue to sell well, they are unlikely to match this year's sales because there won't be the pent up demand anymore. The die hard fans will buy annually just like with Madden, FC, or 2K (not EA but same principle), but the people who are only casually into sports games who grabbed this...

"Dragon Age Origins had a bisexual elf that I never once had a knee-jerk reaction to and I think it’s because it was handled without a real agenda pushed behind it."

Bingo. People only call hate on a game for being "woke" if the inclusion of progressive politics is perceived to harm the authenticity of the story or quality of the game. If a game has a character who happens to be gay, but the game is good and the writing for the character isn't terrib...

I didn't even notice this when I first looked at the list. That doesn't say much good for the sales of Echoes of Wisdom (Zelda), Mario and Luigi: Brothership, or the new Mario Party, especially considering the number of Switches out there. I guess it does show that Switch owners don't just blindly buy games because the box says "Mario" or "Zelda" on it. If it isn't a mainline game, it doesn't have nearly the pull.

Although in fairness...

Yep. We beg and beg for these games and whine about how everything is a live service or a bland open world, but then when we get exactly what we ask for, we say, "meh, looks mid, I'll wait for a sale."

Smh about Silent Hill 2. People beg for games for years and then don't buy them when they release.

It's also funny because people constantly say they want devs to make smaller, different games that don't have such large budgets that they need to sell 10+ million copies in their first year to be considered a success. Then as soon as Sony makes such a game and achieves moderate success, the gane catches flak for not selling like a mainstream, "appeal to everyone" title.

The idea is that it's ironic for people who complain about developers being pressured to change their games (or any artistic endeavor, such as music or movies) to appease governmental/corporate/cultura l sensibilities to then turn around and criticize developers for not releasing their game on a specific platform due to concerns with how their art will be treated on that platform.

The second thing isn't really censorship, but it's the related concern of respecti...

@KirkMX

You are right when you are talking to people on here. But there are still a lot of people who just want to buy a console they can connect to their TV and play COD, Madden, FC (formerly FIFA), and GTA. These types really don't care about whether first party games are launching on PC day and date.

Admittedly this group gets smaller every generation as PC gaming becomes more accessible, but those people do still exist. College Football 25 was th...

What was the last non-live service multiplayer game to sustain a playerbase for any reasonable time?

I hate it, but I think gamers have been so conditioned by the RPG-ification of multiplayer games that, except for smaller niche audiences on PC, they won't accept a game you just play because the gameplay is good. If there isn't a grindy progression system, people will say they don't have a reason to play. If there aren't constant updates with new content, pe...

This is a problem across the board, not just with Bend. Even if Sony immediately pivots all their studios that were on live service games to make the singleplayer games people want, it will take years before we see any new games from those studios.

And don't forget PS3 owners tripping over themselves to ignore Sony's great exclusives to buy annualized games like COD and Assassin's Creed instead.

Imagine how much of a disconnected "suit" you have to be to come into a meeting and say "hey, those Fortnite-type games that people play for years and years are really popular and make a ton of money, and people really like these God of War games we make, wouldn't it be great if we combined the two?"

It's kind of funny that in an environment where everyone is constantly mad at studios for making remasters/remakes, Sony takes the one studio that every actually wants to work on remasters/remakes and forces them to work on a live service game.