@ApocalypseShadow
Umm, that's exactly my point lol. Insomniac made great, original IP games and people didn't buy them because they were too busy lapping up yearly CODs and Assassin's Creeds, so naturally Sony/Insomniac had to pivot to something else.
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Thanks for turning Insomniac into a Marvel studio.
Same thing with Baldur's Gate 3 at launch. People were so busy binge playing the digital version of the game, they forgot they were supposed to be mad about the lack of a physical version.
The PC requirements are actually relatively low.
Has Kotaku broken any stories since Jason Schreier left? I was never a fan, but while he was there it was still a valuable site because he actually developed sources and broke news stories relevant to gaming and tech.
No.
Yeah I can't believe they didn't work out a GP deal for this. This is exactly the sort of thing Xbox gamers expect to get as part of their subscription.
This is great news. But my understanding is that their customer support told people the game would include Denuvo. Even if customer support misspoke or that entire story was fabricated, if they really hadn't planned to use Denuvo I don't know why they waited so long to correct the record. It feels more like they saw a hit to their pre-order numbers when th Denuvo stories came out and now they want good press to get those people back.
It's fascinating that people think there are all these latent potential Killzone fans out there on PC who would be willing to check out the fourth game in the series. When Sony brought the fourth Uncharted game to PC, it topped out at about 11k Steam concurrents, and Uncharted is a much bigger name than Killzone.
This is exactly it. Not everything is an earth-shattering hit or a Concord-level flop. There is plenty of ground in between. Veilguard is certainly doing better than some of its strongest detractors would have hoped, but it obviously isn't a hit either, especially considering EA probably has unrealistic expectations.
"It's a matter of resources would you prefer a slightly shiner version of a game that already looked good and was patched for 60 or would you prefer a Killzone trilogy"
The problem with that is that it would require far more resources to make an updated Killzone trilogy than it did to do a minor update to Horizon. I'd love the Killzone trilogy remade/remastered but people didn't buy the games in huge numbers when they were actually new and the IP doesn...
No. The article and quotes from Nesmith specifically acknowledge that expansions work for hugely successful games that remain relevant for years. Witcher 3 is a perfect example of the type of game that he acknowledges that expansions work well for. You almost couldn't pick a worse example to disprove his point, except maybe Skyrim itself.
His whole point is that expansions are only justified for games that are smash hits. Witcher 3 is indisputably a smash hit, by any metric. So your example actually supports his argument.
It's nice to see someone acknowledge the problem with multiplayer. If it's a live service, it gets attacked for being a live service. If it's not a live service, the playerbase falls off a cliff because the devs didn't "support" the game and instead "sent it out to die." If you tried the old school multiplayer thing of selling map packs, it would fail harder than it used to, because now everyone is a accustomed to not buying maps. BF1 is the last big multip...
@ZoboomafooFan
What was the last multiplayer game that sustained a playerbase without being a live service? Because anytime a multiplayer game has launched in the last ten years or so, the most common complaint is that they aren't updating the game enough and adding enough new content. I long for the days when gamers kept playing a multiplayer game because the game was fun, but they are gone. Now people say there is no reason to play if they aren't "earning&quo...
Because people advancing the "vote with your wallet" narrative don't like to be reminded that they haven't voted consistently. People love to say Alan Wake 2 didn't sell huge numbers because Remedy didn't release a physical version of the game until way after launch, and that it should be a lesson to devs/pubs that gamers won't accept digital only releases. If you point out that gamers bought Baldur's Gate 3 in huge numbers when it was digital only (it has a ...
People are so selective with the lessons they want Sony to learn. They are supposed to abandon live service games because Concord flopped. But Helldivers 2 is live service and it is still the Number 2 best selling game of the year in the US (the new COD will pass it now of course). And were it not for the first college football game in two console generations launching this summer, it still would have been number one until COD passed it. So they are supposed to pay attention to us voting with...
Nope, still there.
That has been unfortunate the last two generations. Presumably it is similar thinking to why Nintendo rarely cuts the prices of its major first party games or puts them on sale. If people are always expecting a big sale or price cut in a few months, they are always going to be less willing to pull the trigger. And then when you do a major price cut, you inevitably alienate everyone who bought the console right before. Presumably Sony/MS looked at data from the PS3/360 era and determined that ...