The good thing about a game like this with a more reasonable budget is that it isn't a situation where the game has to sell 5 million in its first two months and 10 million in its first year to be a success. So just because Astro Bot doesn't sell Spiderman 2 numbers doesn't mean it's a failure. But still, it has to have respectable sales numbers if we want more games like this.
Yep. $599 was the sweet spot for this.
That Steam pushed people away from PC gaming rather than brought them to it is one of the wildest takes I think I've ever seen on this site.
Launch PS3 could play every generation of PlayStation (except PSP) game natively. I'd love for that era of Sony to return. If the PS5 Pro did that, I'd absolutely buy it.
That's to say nothing of all the useful features PS3 included that the relevant competition either didn't have or charged extra for (free online multiplayer, standard laptop HDD rather than proprietary, built in Wi-Fi, HDMI, Blu Ray).
I understand the temptation to revert...
I'm definitely worried about this now.
Lol it's cute that you think it's going to have full BC with any consoles before the Switch. Everything else will be part of the Nintendo Online Subscription, if it is available at all.
Seriously. I'm never going to buy modern games in there but I absolutely would go in if they had a decent N64 selection.
"Xbox sales are starting to take off in Japan" is like the console version of "Gaming is about to take off on Mac." Every few years people will try to push some anecdotal incident where one Xbox game sells well in Japan or the console has a relatively good week, but it never pans out. Remember when Gears of War sold in the top ten in Japan and it was a new era?
And hopefully Steam/GOG options on PC.
Resistance 1 and 3 were fantastic. I still think 3 is one of the best FPS campaigns I've ever played. Too bad barely anyone played it because everyone was too obsessed with COD.
What's wild to think about is how disproportionately the effects of this are going to be felt. The higher ups who had a stake in the studio before Sony bought it probably all made substantial chunks of money off that sale, which turned out to be for an a worthless game and IP. So while they'll lose their positions at Sony when the studio gets shut down, they already have their money. The actual lower down devs who worked on the game (and by many accounts built some decent systems) are...
Yep this is why the whole "I'm buying physical for preservation purposes" doesn't have the same weight with games as it does with movies/music/books. Any of those types of media, you buy physical to preserve the real, authentic version (avoiding things like George Lucas edits or removal of licensed music with movies/shows, or for music avoiding artists rerecording new versions of older songs and just removing the real recordings from the Internet). Up through PS2/Xbox/GameCu...
You are really making my point in different terms. I'm saying that the idea some are spouting that the failure of Concord was some grand rejection of hero shooters/Games as a Service/multiplayer only games by the gaming community at large was always BS. It's really that people just didn't want to play that game. Deadlock succeeding so close to it just reinforces that point.
It's crazy that the 2016 Battleborn/Overwatch situation has basically played out again in 2024 with Concord/Deadlock. Either way, the optimistic view that gamers were making some grand statement about being tired of multiplayer games in stale genres and rejecting GaaS as a concept has been totally undercut.
So much for the "gamers don't want another hero shooter" narrative.
Yeah it should have had PVE missions like Deadlock.
I think I'd associate Ohtani's manager more with Fall Guys.
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But see, that's not what people have been saying. The chorus recently has been "we don't need another hero shooter, the market is too crowded, do something different" not "we only want certain new hero shooters from certain companies." But the latter is the more accurate representation. People always say "we don't need another one of these" when a multiplayer game fails but then they forget they said it when they flock t...
Seems to be working for Valve.
But wouldn't you rather slap together a $700 PC that will struggle to run modern games at 1080p 60fps and won't support the new version of DLSS? I can send you a list of parts with good deals from chinesefakes.net and russianscam.io.