Can't wait to read all the nonsensical "they're holding it back for PS5, because that makes sense" opinions.
I never would have before, but now I kind of want to make it a thing.
Yeah I mean I'm sure if the execs there heard me complaining, they'd be like, " come on, we just bought Insomniac basically to target people like you," and they'd be right.
I think people are really overreading my comment as legitimate corporate advice rather than just seeing at as a "wouldn't it have been cool if they bought a console-focused studio."
Yeah I've had that exact autocorrect typo when using my phone, so I knew that's what you meant. But then I again, I would live if the bought Level 5 or TriAce. So your statement was factually correct.
Oh yeah, for sure. And it very well could be a wise investment-I know very little about the mobile game market in China. It's possible this will result in far more profit with far less effort than a PlayStation-related investment would. I'm saying it's frustrating from a perspective of someone who wants to see more high quality console games; I don't own Sony stock, so as an investor it's possible I'd have a different view.
I get that this is a Sony acquisition and not a PlayStation specific acquisition, but it is still super frustrating to think about all the great ways that money could have been used instead of buying a tiny share of a mobile games studio.
"what more people considered the better controller"
That must be why Xbox's best selling console tied with the lowest selling PlayStation, despite being a year earlier to market and having the entire gaming media acting as their marketing arm for the first two years the consoles competed.
People on PC use Xbox controllers because MS was more open with native steam compatibility way sooner. I used to use software to trick games into thinking ...
There is a lot of ignoring widely available and well-publicized information, then getting angry about not being aware of that information, that goes on among a certain segment of game purchasers.
It's funny because they have been talking about this for years, basically since the announcement. I've never played a final fantasy game and don't follow the series, but I was well aware of this just from generally being aware of PlayStation related news.
Haha love everyone taking this so seriously. It's obvious the two companies have been refining their controllers based on the other company's design for the past three generations. The Xbox 360 controller is basically a midpoint between a Dualshock 2 and the OG Xbox controller, and then the Dualshock 4 was basically a midpoint between the Dualshock 3 and the 360 controller. Now this looks like a midpoint between the Xbox One controller and the Dualshock 4.
Anyone wh...
Yeah. Good thing there are so many devs making superior open world first person western RPGs. There are so many great games in that genre that I forget Bethesda exists.
I don't see a battery compartment, but maybe I haven't looked hard enough.
As the article notes, this direction wouldn't really provide any interesting conflicts. Best case scenario would be to go in the direction of things like Paradise Lost and incorporate archangels, etc. On the other hand, Diablo already exists. Then there are the four horsemen of the apocalypse, but there's already a series of games based around them.
Even setting aside the political reasons they wouldn't want to go this direction, it just doesn't seem like i...
We're going to look back at this as the point when the "we need discs" crowd stopped being a quaint, harmless remnant of a bygone era, and actually turned into a legitimate problem holding up the entire medium.
If Last of Us 2 was a PC exclusive game, this delay would not have happened. It just would have been released on Steam on time.
@Mr_Writer85
Your analogies make no sense. Since you invoked cars, a much better analogy would be if Ford and Chevy were each launching a car next year, and a subset of potential purchasers proclaimed they would only buy a car from the company that offered a 4-wheel drive mode, and since Ford wasn't including one, they'd buy the Chevy. This claim would be inherently suspect if the two manufacturers had released competing models several years before, and those same p...
As NeoGamer232 pointed out, I was obviously invoking a comparison to movies being released to consumers post-theater. And, as also pointed out, studios are actively taking advantage of this time by advancing digital releases, without worrying about people whining about how they need a disc so they can "own the movie."
Concerts are being pushed back too, but the point is that albums that are complete are still being released because music is no longer shackled to o...
If only there were some way to release a game without having to worry about the trouble of manufacturing and shipping discs. Maybe once music and movies figure out a solution to that problem, games can follow suit.
There's so much conflicting info about these consoles right now. I really just want Sony to come out and show what the system looks like, probe that it doesn't overheat, and show some games running.
When I say "everyone", I obviously don't literally mean 100% of all console purchasers; I mean that that was the reaction among the sort of people who now treat BC as king.
And I'm not saying anyone actively decided against PS3 because it had BC, because that doesn't make sense. I'm saying that it clearly was not the deciding factor people are now saying it is. People were happy to give up comprehensive BC of all their old games to save money and t...
Why dredge up painful memories like that? Haha