Exactly. This isn't some groundbreaking game visually and gameplay wise. It's entirely derivative. That's fine; not every game can be revolutionary, but if you are going to be derivative your game needs to play and run well.
Maybe there will be a game later this gen where I really buy the idea that it's so complex and graphically intensive that 30 fps is all that's possible. It just isn't this game that looks like a mid-tier PS4 game.
They can't have a 60 fps mode because the game has co-op is one of the lamest excuses I've ever heard. It would be one thing if it was "it takes every ounce of power from the PS5/Series X to even get to a locked 30 fps because we built such an intricate world with complex AI and tons of things happening on screen." I mean, I'd still be annoyed about that, but at least it would feel somewhat valid. But no, the excuse is, "we can't do 60 fps because the game ha...
Everytime UK/Europe numbers come out, you can see how little hardcore games are selling on PS4. Things like FIFA and Lego Star Wars still do solid numbers there, but things like Resident Evil 8 and Horizon did way better on PS5.
You can also look at PSN charts and see that new games hardcore games that aren't blockbuster titles quickly fall behind old CODS, Minecraft, and Naruto games on the PS4 chart, while they stay much higher on PS5.
Probably not, because a movie like this can be made for a much smaller amount of money. So it could make far less in gross revenue than something like Morbius and still be a success (or less of a failure) just because they won't need to make as much to break even.
@Fist4achin
Where have you been on all the Sony Direct Queues? What were you doing in August/September when the Horizon Bundle was repeatedly in stock for hours at a time at Walmart?
People loved BC2 but it also came out in 2010. People are correct that EA is much worse now than they were then, but fail to recognize that the community is as much worse. BC2 got maybe a year of additional content (in fact, I think the Vietnam maps were less than a year from release). Yet it was still considered a great game with legs that was worth playing for years. Now if you put a game out with that DLC schedule, people would accuse you of "abandoning the game." BFV got maps la...
The thing that's too bad is that being able to play BC2, BF1942, and BF3 maps was one of the only redeeming parts of 2042, but those servers quickly became overrun with cheaters.
If they launched a true remaster of 3 or 4, people would be whining within weeks about how all the maps are old and how we need new maps and seasons and Rick and Morty skins and how DICE just "launched the game and abandoned it."
I mean, people kind of did when they ignored BFV (the last class-based BF) to play a bunch of games with "operators" and "specialists." When DICE saw their fan base skipping a class-based BF and playing Rainbow Six Siege instead, they assumed that's what people wanted.
Where's my $10 upgrade from the PSP version?
What you are failing to appreciate with your comparisons to music and movie streaming is that the best streaming services still allow you to download. If Stadia had allowed a choice between streaming and downloads, it could have had a chance.
You CAN play PS5 games from an internal SSD you add to the slot. You CANNOT play PS5 games from a USB HDD, but you can play PS4 games from a USB HDD.
They will raise the price, but it will be more incremental than that. Like it will change from 14.99 for a month to 19.99. They saw what happened when they tried to raise the price for Gold all at once, so this time it will be little increases here and there.
Remember next time you complain about live service games, endless sequels, or remakes, that you rejected new singleplayer IPs as "meh."
This is a bad practice, but if people would just stop caring about cosmetics, this issue would go away.
It's not a mystery. Xbox fans decided to hate it because they got it a year late. PlayStation fans decided to hate it because they are mad at Bethesda for selling to Xbox.
Lol they'll have a shooter but it won't be an interesting one like Resistance with a great single player and a solid, non-GaaS multiplayer. Expect something more along the lines of Rainbow Six Siege clearly designed to sell MTX.
Bloodborne makes a lot of sense, but a few of these don't. I loved the Resistance games (well, 1, 3, and Retribution anyway), but the games sold pitifully by Sony's standards today. People also have far worse taste in shooters than they did even 10-15 years ago, so I don't see why we should think they'll want to play Resistance now when they didn't then. Killzone is a similar story.
Puppeteer probably sold like 300k copies when it came out.
@Eonjay
You are missing the point. When people complain about games like GOW, Horizon, etc being cross-gen, the response we inevitably get is either "what about God of War needs more power?" or once the game has already come out, "see, look at how well HFW ran on PS4, it didn't need PS5." The inherent flaw in this logic is that it uses either past PS4 games or the PS4 version of cross gen games (in other words, games that have been limited in their d...
Yeah it's always concerning when the embargo is the day before, or launch day itself.