I think it's a missed attempt at sarcasm/an over the top attempt to troll the Obscure Xbox types. But it isn't really landing because no one is stupid actually believe anything remotely close to that.
Hopefully they don't fall into the cross gen trap like so many companies did in the first three years of the PS5/Series X. I actually think third parties might be less likely to do a lot of cross gen stuff, because Switch 2 is already likely to be the lowest SKU of their games.
A big piece of this is the cost of labor. Warhorse is located in the Czech Republic. I'd be shocked if their labor costs are even half of the labor costs of similarly sized studios based in California. I'd love to see more devs from Central and Eastern Europe spring up! Perhaps in the wake of this game's success, we'll see some offshoots of Warhorse as different members seek to do their own things, hopefully leading to more good studios in those regions.
@Popsicle
Oh for sure, better late than never. And better to somewhat own up to your mistakes, rather than just blaming your release window, or advertising partners, or gamers lol.
Too bad he didn't have this opinion when he chased trends with Lawbreakers. Or when he chased trends with Radical Heights.
And unfortunately now most people's only exposure to BF 1942 was BF 1943, which screwed up the class system from 1942 and didn't include most of the best maps from 1942.
@RaidenBlack
I love how act like you are correcting me, then just admit I'm completely right about how devs are forced into making live service multiplayer games now because people would whine if they didn't. Appreciate you admitting you are one of those people though, I honestly expected you to try to claim you didn't want "live service," you just wanted "support." You at least admit what you want, which makes you more honest than most. But ...
Sounds great. Unfortunately, that would be a niche game. Except for smaller audiences on PC, gamers now won't play games because they are fun. If they aren't "earning" something (guns, character skins, hats, gun skins, emotes, dances, perks, boosts, streaks, etc.), they'll say the have no reason to play anymore.
The RPG-ification of shooters in the late 2000s/early 2010s, coupled with kids growing up with grindy mobile games, rewired gamers' brains...
This comment is a perfect example of why devs are afraid to release a traditional style multiplayer game that isn't a live service. People say they hate live service games or "games as a service," but as soon as a game is treated more like a 2000s style traditional multiplayer game, gamers riot. BFV got a pretty long tail of new map releases etc. (about a year and a half). That's longer than most of the BF games people say they love got supported (really only BF4 got map pac...
@VenomUK
Uhh I'm literally only talking about how sales of the PS4 versions of cross platform games sold compared to the PS5 versions (and to an extent, PC). Xbox isn't really relevant to that conversation in any way.
It's astonishing to me that people are still floating the narrative that PS4 versions of games would have sold significant numbers of copies in 2024. The PS5 versions of games were outselling PS4 versions even in 2021, and by 2023 the PS4 versions were bombing. In European launch month sales for Street Fighter 6, PS4 represented about 9% of sales. It was worse for Diablo IV, only representing about 4%.
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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...
Anyone else spend time on the r/PlayStation subreddit during the outage? It's an entirely different culture over there. Almost every person was ranting about how they couldn't play a live service game, and then when PSN was starting to come back they all started posting pics from Fortnite and Marvel Rivals. Obviously those games are super popular, but being on here you can kind of trick yourself into believing no one really openly talks about liking those games.
It...