@Sonic-and-Crash
Unpopular opinion lol. The "I'm too cool for Skyrim" opinion has been played out for years.
Does anyone really think Metroid Dread won't win?
Man, no matter how many times streaming services bomb, people keep trying to convince themselves (and others) that streaming isn't terrible.
@CBaoth
We are making the same point. I'm saying that everyone is pointing at the number 4 spot and saying "SEE! Gamepass doesn't kill sales, Forza still charted at 4!" When really that spot doesn't mean anything in terms of absolute sales.
Lol people put too much emphasis on chart position. If a game is new, it will still sell a decent amount in its first week, even if it sells far worse than it "should have" or than its predecessor. Think of movies. Even if a big budget movie "bombs" and makes half of what it needs to, it will still almost always be the number one movie its opening week.
I don't disagree with some of your assessments, but how is Portal barebones? From my time with the editor so far it seems to have tons of options.
Let's be real. The actual reason is "GTA V got too popular so we got mad at it." Gamers love it when the game they like sells 5-25 million copies, and they use that as evidence of how good the game is, but once a game sells more, it becomes a bad thing, because then it's too casual. It's the same reason we get articles every so often explaining why Morrowind was really so much better than Skyrim. The actual reason is that you played Morrowind and you're mad now that ...
Is it though? I'm actually legitimately wondering if this will be cut out in the version of the game released in certain regions.
Oh you know when this game comes out and it inevitably has catastrophic bugs, the comments are always going to be "you should have focused on making the game run rather than the pronouns." It will be like when Bioware announced they were focusing on diversity and then Mass Effect: Andromeda was a trainwreck.
Yep. Most people who want to play Halo are entrenched in Xbox already anyway. If Starfield is more of a Skyrim type situation and less of a Fallout 76 situation, that's going to be the wakeup call. Because the Bethesda sale and consequences are old news to us, but I'm telling you that plenty of casuals would be surprised if you told them that "the next Skyrim" won't be on PlayStation.
Yeah, they are operating in a different world. If we compare in a few years and Sony has sold 80 million PS5s but MS has 50+ million Gamepass subscribers, who is "winning" in that context?
Lol obviously I meant that the other way around. Demand outstrips supply.
I mean, both are going to sell out because supply vastly outstrips demand for both consoles. Whoever produces more units will sell more.
Hopefully they have also gotten smart enough to finally get the licenses for more than a few years so the songs won't get removed via update.
Lol Tales of Arise (not Sega, but a recent major Japanese title) sold 86% on PlayStation platforms. https://www.pushsquare.com/...
That's not even factoring in how important Switch is to Japanese publishers. Yet somehow people think it would be great for MS to buy Japanese Companies. There's a reason no one talks about Blue Drago...
Hopefully it isn't long. One of the worst parts of modern games is how plodding and annoying the prologue/tutorial sections are. At some point I know what a shooter/racing game/action game is, and I just want to play it, but the stupid tutorial sections end up wasting nearly an entire session.
And it only affects legitimate purchasers. The games get cracked anyway, and then the cracked version runs better than the legitimate version.
I bet there's a not insignificant number of people who are against piracy in principle who buy PC games legitimately and then also download cracked versions just so they can have a functional version of the game they paid for.
Although if they added a BR, it would filter all the types of people who would play a BR mode out of the other modes, so that's arguably a benefit.
"Most people will opt to purchase the battle pass." Really? Why?