What a waste of resources.
And if most games are cross gen, people are going to say "well why do I need to buy a Switch 2?" Sure, if it runs Tears of the Kingdom at 60fps, that will convince the hardcore Nintendo fans, but casuals won't care about that.
Will those casuals see a reason to upgrade from the Switch? I mean I'm sure there will be new first party games that push the hardcore Nintendo fans to buy it, but will the casuals who bought a Switch to buy Animal Crossing upgrade to Switch 2?
If history is any indication, this will struggle to match the switch. 3DS in my view was a much better handheld than the DS, but it fell well short of the DS's sales. The SNES fell short of the NES. And then of course there was the disaster of the Wii U after the Wii.
I don't think Switch 2 will be a Wii U like situation, but I could see it being similar to the 3DS where a lot of people who owned the prior iteration don't feel compelled to upgrade.
"some people died in some plane crashes"
Lol nothing like a game with platforming sections where you'll die from fall damage if you don't make the jumps 100% perfectly.
I don't mean that I thought the gameplay was similar (I would have stated this but I assumed it was obvious no one would think the gameplay of Uncharted and Alan Wake are the same, so I didn't think I needed to state the obvious).
I mean in terms of the overall quality of the games across the board (world building, production, story, etc.), I felt like Alan Wake was a step behind the PS3 Uncharted games (I played AW after having played Uncharted 1-3 but before play...
I like that they said this. When I first played Alan Wake, my thought was "this is like a half-step down from Uncharted."
Lol everyone said the hero shooter market was saturated and we didn't need another one, then they all went and started playing Marvel Rivals.
If this is true, the thing I'm most excited about is a bunch of people who never played Morrowind saying that they should have remade Morrowind instead.
Makes sense.
Lol people mocked WB when, after Suicide Squad failed, they said they needed to focus more on live services. Unfortunately, gamers are proving WB right; people do want a live service super hero game, WB just failed to go far enough. They should have ditched the Arkham Universe completely and gotten a Chinese publisher to make a F2P, micro transaction-based hero shooter using DC characters, and apparently people would have flocked to it.
I'm wondering if at some point Disney/Marvel will have the same conversation with Sony the MLB did. In other words, "we like the games you make with our license, and we'd like you to continue making them, but you can only keep making Spiderman/Wolverine/etc. games if you start making them for other systems."
That's really the only way I can see it happening. With games Sony makes where no outside force can influence them, I don't see why they'd...
Well the next time a live service game is announced and people are all commenting about how "didn't we send enough of a message with Concord about how we don't need anymore games like this" I'll be here to remind them that people immediately flocked to this game.
It doesn't solve the problem of gamers encouraging devs to make more micro transaction-laden live service games, despite swearing we were saturated with those and didn't need anymore.
This is embarrassing. Remember that time gamers were tired of hero shooters? Remember how we already have Overwatch and we didn't need a new game trying to be Overwatch?
Even if you want to make the case that GPUs on consoles don't need to be much better (although I still wouldn't agree even with that), the CPUs in the current consoles are woefully underpowered.
You aren't factoring in the regional breakdowns. Yes, PS3 ended up passing 360 (87 millionish to 85 millionish seems to be the final tally). But PS3 destroyed 360 in Japan (Like 10 million to 1 million) and also comfortably outsold 360 in Europe and the rest of the world. Mathematically, the only way the totals work is that 360 substantially outsold PS3 in the US.
Well, gamers were part of the problem here. A lot of the games you cited (and that others cite as the golden age of Ubisoft) didn't really sell that well, aside from the Tom Clancy games, and not even those were sure fire hits. Then in the late PS3/360 to early PS4/Xone era they started basically making all of their singleplayer games feel the same (i.e. the "Ubisoft formula") and gamers massively rewarded them for it for years. Then they turned Rainbow Six from an interesting t...
After the success of the PS4 gen it's crazy how they have fumbled their first-party output this generation. This gen is over four years old already and instead of Sony's studios hitting their stride on PS5, they are cancelling games that never should have been greenlit.