I did the exact same thing this past winter.
Part of the issue is that everyone wants "Good old Battlefield," but we can't even agree on what that was. Some people insist 4 was the pinnacle, while others just talk about how broken it was and how 3 was much better. Some people think Bad Company 2 was the best, but the old PC Battlefield fans scoff at the idea that the peak of Battlefield was 24-player maps designed for weak consoles. Some people love 1, but others hate it as much as V. Still others seem to not be aware that...
Really impressive. Particularly because Zelda hasn't always been the sales titan that some other Nintendo properties are. I mean, Wii has a huge install base, but Skyward Sword only sold 3.5ish million (HD version on switch has increased that of course). https://nintendoeverything....
Botw and Totk took Zelda sales to a much higher echelon....
How many have flopped? 2042 is probably the only true flop. BF1 sold very well. BFV sales missed expectations, but it still sold over 7 million copies in its first 6 weeks, which is not what it should have done, but hardly "flop" numbers. So besides 2042 what games are you talking about here? Hardline? 2142?
What is the last multiplayer shooter that was not a live service that maintained a significant player base for longer than 3-6 months?
This is the only game I've ever gotten refunded on Steam. I love the concept but it just felt horrible to play.
And then in a few weeks, everyone will start crying about how the devs aren't supporting the game enough. I mean, BF5 got new maps for like a year and a half, and when they stopped putting new content in, people declared the game dead and said DICE abandoned it. Apart from 4, that was the longest amount of support a BF game got, and yet still people were mad. The sad reality now is that, despite what people say about live service, that's what they actually play, and any game that isn&...
I appreciate Battlebit as a concept, but it's really nowhere near as good as the old Battlefield games. Other than 2042, I'd rather just play any of the BF games that still has a player base (4, 1, or 5) than it. I have some friends playing who never played the Bad Company games and this is their first experience with Rush (they really only played 4 and 1 and just played Conquest, and otherwise have always played COD), which pains me because Rush on Battlebit is a pale imitation of BF...
I think you are right that it isn't about this game, but about the overall principle of not letting devs make lesser versions of games (at least feature wise) for the S.
Given the Skyrim PS3 situation, I don't think I'd assume that because Starfield allegedly runs well on some platforms that it won't have issues on Series S.
I think this is probably it. If they make this exception, they'll have devs assuming they can get away with leaving out features from the Series S versions of games. Not a precedent they want to set, at least not yet.
You have to wonder, how many people are there out there who: 1) Plan to buy this game as soon as it is available on their platform; 2) Only own a Series S; and 3) want to play split screen. Because it seems like the Xbox version of the game is being delayed just for that specific group.
Metroid has never sold super well. Lots of people under under the mistaken impression that, because franchises like Mario Kart, Smash Bros., 3D Mario games, more recent Zelda games, and Animal Crossing sell huge numbers, that all Nintendo franchises sell at that level, and that they always have.
This is pretty good for a Metroid. Dread will probably end up being the best-selling game in the franchise, if it isn't already.
Yeah, a lot of the usual anti-Sony crew on here got really ahead of themselves on this one, when they should have probably waited to watch a video of the game running on an HDD before stating that PS5's SSD didn't matter. The game looks good on PC, of course, but every video of it running on an HDD shows significantly extended loading when you go through rifts, and sometimes the game just straight up freezes in rifts.
I guess instead of saying "this game wouldn...
So much whoosh in this thread
Once you realize that about 70% of people who talk about a game like they know all about it have never actually played it, everything makes a lot more sense. Most people just hear a narrative about a game from a YouTuber or one of their friends who heard it from YouTuber, and then they just endlessly parrot that narrative in the face of all evidence to the contrary. This would never happen, but it would be great on a site like this if everyone had to link their PSN trophies and Xbox/Steam ach...
Nope, we're pretty much all ripping on it. If a publisher launching first on Xbox has so little confidence in their game's ability to sell that they launch on Gamepass, I'm not going to pay full price for it on PS5 months later.
Arguably this could be a little different for a $20 indie-style title, as those games on Xbox basically have to be on Gamepass to be noticed, so I wouldn't hold that against them as much when they eventually come to PlayStation (some...
Yep, I think a lot of publishers/devs think their game is going to release early in a new generation, so they plan to do cross gen, and then the longer the game gets delayed because it won't run well on the old systems, the less justification there is for releasing it on those old systems.
The Gamepass numbers are meaningless for determining who was interested enough in the game to pay retail price. I don't care how many people played a game on Gamepass , because all that tells me is that people who already had a subscription were interested enough to start the game one time. Regardless of how high or low that number is, it tells me nothing about how many people were willing to pay retail price for the game.
Of the places this game launched, Steam is the ...
If they did it right this time and have the same type of focus for that as they do Steam Deck, that would be awesome. The problem when they did it before is that they just sort of threw out the name "Steam Machines" and some hardware standards, and then never did anything else to cultivate it. If Valve actually made an official Steam Machine, I might actually be interested.