Lol I highly doubt it's option two at this point. It's far more likely option one. This game probably started as an Xbox console exclusive and then the PS5 port got added when MS started giving up on exclusives.
@Piroh
I think the idea is that Steam and PC gaming are bigger than ever, and a much larger percentage of gamers are willing to engage with it compared to ten or especially twenty years ago. However, there's theoretically still a chunk of the "PC curious" who are interested in PC gaming but don't feel confident in selecting a PC with specs that will last and that will also be easy to set up and move in front of a TV, etc. With a $1k Xbox PC that has solid ...
A small install base of a new console that's excited and wants new games will always punch above its weight in terms of share of copies sold compared to a large install base of an old console. This happened again and again with PS4/PS5. Companies kept releasing games for PS4 from 2020-2023 because of the huge install base, but the PS5 versions of those games routinely outsold the PS4 versions, often by a wide margin.
Imagine not understanding the difference between peak concurrent users of a game on a platform and total owners of that game on that platform.
I'll never understand the desire to cheat in a competition that confers neither money nor status. I mean I don't approve of cheating in professional sports, but at least I understand it - an unfair advantage there can theoretically be worth millions of dollars. In an FPS it just removes everything that makes gaming fun.
"Hell, some people only buy Madden, NBA2K, or CoD each year and nothing else. Do we tell those people they are crazy for buying a system for one or two games and nothing else?"
Yes. People on sites like this criticize this type of gamer all the time.
A good rule in life is that when someone uses the words "mid" or "meh" to describe things, ignore that person's opinions on literally everything.
Or that a lot of money gets wasted along the way.
You mean games that have overwhelmingly positive Steam reviews?
PS3 launched at $599 in 2006. By late 2009, the PS3 Slim was $299. Even if the US had implemented tariffs in 2010 that caused a 50% price increase, PS3 would have been $450, still far less than launch price.
So while we understand inflation+tariffs, why aren't these at least partially being offset by a decrease in the cost of components (which happened every other gen and resulted in price cuts)? Are we supposed to believe that, absent inflation and tariffs, it wouldn&#...
Yep I think Switch 2 could work for some people as a portable way to play older titles, especially with handheld PCs increasing in price as much as they are and getting comically bulky. However, it won't really compete in that specific space unless those ports of old third party titles are priced very aggressively, which they won't be.
? These aren't rereleases or something, they are patches to make older games run better. Very weird to be against that.
Imagine PC gamers complaining about Nvidia releasing drivers for a new GPU to help older games run better.
This is a great reminder of how game sales have become more concentrated in a smaller number of games/series over time. In the PS1/PS2 era a game was a success if it sold a million or a few million copies. The GTA games (3/Vice City/San Andreas) were pretty big outliers in selling as much as they did during the PS2 era. So in the minds of a lot of gamers something like FF VII feels like it was as big of a PS1 game as God of War 2018 was for PS4, but in reality far fewer people bought it (thou...
You aren't supposed to point to inconvenient facts that go against a narrative. Be better.
Maybe for a co-op mode like Legends. If it's going to be any sort of PVP mode/modes, it's just a waste of time at this point to make tack-on multiplayer modes. I miss the days when there were various different multiplayer options and games could sustain their own playerbases without constant updates, but gamers don't play that way now. A tack-on PVP mode will just be declared DOA for lack of content now. They'd be better off to just focus on SP.
I mean this is how PS/Xbox have been since PS4 and Xbox One launched. The disc is just an installation method; the entire game is installed to the HDD (and now SSD). That's why the "buying physical to save hard drive space" argument hasn't been relevant the last two gens, though you still see some people make it.
They will only show up if the game is bland (i.e. Outlaws) and/or the writing is bad (i.e. Forspoken). If the game is great and the characters don't all talk like American college sophomores, people will be fine. For most people "woke" is just a proxy for what they perceive as inauthentic.
No "0047" jokes?
Lol L4D2 came out in 2009, and you are saying it should have been a 2020s type live service game. It's just a great game, it doesn't need battle passes and skins.
This attitude is why devs are afraid to make any multiplayer game that isn't a live service.
@Christopher
"It's been promoted as multiplatform since it was announced."
You know as well as anyone games are almost always in development before they are announced.
"Microsoft has stuck to the plan of keeping sequels on the platforms for which previous games were released."
Lol the "plan" to do that. Given their approach of the last few years, that's clearly the plan now. But c...