@TriniOutsider
MLB The Show. But arguably that is a special case. The seemingly accepted story behind that is that MLB told Sony they had to start making the game multiplatform to keep the MLB license. I haven't ever read definitive proof that happened, but assuming that (or something like it) is true, that isn't really indicative of a multiplatform trend in the same way that MS's recent launches on PS5 are.
This FTC case provided fascinating insight into gamers' views on economics/politics. It's very common for gamers to blame capitalism for many of the negative trends in the industry, but as soon as the U.S. government started exercising one of the most recognized limitations on capitalism (monopoly regulation), most gamers turned into libertarians and starting spouting Republican talking points (or at least pre-Trump era Republican talking points, lol) on "government staying out o...
As much as it doesn't excite me at all, maybe we need another limited jump generation, like PS3 to PS4. PS3 was $600 when it came out in 2006 (for the primary model), and then PS4 came out at $400 in 2013. The limited tech jump resulted in a disappointing gen in some respects, but the low price point was also what got a lot of people into gaming. Maybe gaming as a whole will be better off if the PS6 is a more conservative leap and they can keep it at $600 or so.
Maybe he uses GOG and backs up his games on an external drive.
That's why the real argument here is a broader one that the criteria for "verified" should be changed to better factor in performance. The steam deck site uses this general explanation for verified games: "The game works great on Steam Deck, right out of the box." Given this description, the criteria to meet "Verified" status should factor in performance. So no, it isn't that people should expect U5 games to run well on Steam Deck. It's that U5 games ...
It's a shame to me that so few indie devs seem interested in catering to this era (split screen era) of nostalgic gaming. Many of them are interested in retro gaming, obviously, but almost all of them seem to drift either to platformers or Metroidvanias (no issue with either, there have just been so many). I'd love to see an indie dev really try to capture that late N64/PS1 through early Xbox/PS2/GameCube era of split screen gaming.
You can pretty easily tailor your internet experience to see what you want to see (and in many cases, this will happen for you based on algorithms). If you seek out gaming news constantly, you are going to see gaming news, including leaks. But at the same time you are probably missing "huge" news stories about F1 Racing, Scottish politics, and electronic music, because you don't pay attention to those things or seek them out (maybe you do pay attention to one of those things, bu...
I think what he means is that all of us on here choose to be on gaming news sites that frequently feature leaks. It would be pretty easy to avoid if you wanted. I have friends who own a PS5/Series X and are still frequently unaware of all but the biggest gaming news.
@UnbreakableAlex
Of course you can. But it's very silly to pretend that everyone pays the same amount of attention to games that people on here do. Of course people who are already specifically interested in both games will still play both, if they really want to. But a lot of people will only play a game if it breaks into the public consciousness, and having a big game in the same or similar genre launching close to your game is one of the worst things that can happen ...
I can't imagine the devs of this one are pleased about the Oblivion news, especially if it actually drops tomorrow. Seems like an unnecessary decision to put Oblivion so close to this game.
Notice I said nothing about the game they chose to make; I talked about marketing. Ubisoft has been making "the game they wanted to make" over and over for years and they haven't gotten this much attention for it in awhile. Try finding anyone who is passionate one way or the other about Watchdogs: Legion. Yet every piece of news about this game's sales or steam numbers either gets twisted into a reason the game isn't going to save Ubisoft or celebrated as a rebuke of the...
We might have to give Ubisoft some credit here. If they marketed this game to trigger "anti-woke" sentiment on purpose just so that they could get all the industry/influencer types to take an active interest in pushing this game in order to counter that crowd, it has worked masterfully. There are industry types who would have rolled their eyes at the idea of caring about another open world Ubisoft game a few years ago, and now they are pushing Shadows like it's a new Fromsoft ga...
It's fascinating that people can appropriately blame the government for price increases due to tariffs, but they refuse to blame governments for any other bad economic policy that leads to price increases. A government can pursue inflationary policies for years and debase the value of their currency, then as soon as businesses raise prices to cope, everyone blames the businesses. It's almost like people can't do anything more than the most basic analysis of causality.
It seems like a lot of devs who start trends end up following them later on. That's what happened to Cliffy B.
I wouldn't be shocked if it shows up on Switch 2.
? They are bringing a beloved game, one of the best RTSs of all time, to a group who might not have a way to experience it otherwise (contrary to what we tell ourselves here, not everyone who plays games owns every console and a high end PC). It's not as if there is a PS4 version already available and they are releasing a full price PS5 version. This is literally the first opportunity a PlayStation only person has had to buy the game.
We really need to get better at def...
If only we could have a console generation where one manufacturer offered online play for free, while the other charged for it. That way gamers could flock to the console with free online play and emphasize online how critical of an advantage that is. After all, if that generation happened and gamers and game journalists flocked to the console with a paid service and relentlessly hyped it up and treated the paid service as an advantage, we could only naturally expect that the other manufactur...
"People will welcome what suits them and doesn't negatively affect them directly"
This is it. As various events the last week or so have emphasized, the thing that really matters to people at the end of the day is the price they will pay for products and services as consumers. No one is going to go out of their way to play games made by/heavily reliant on AI if they are the same price as games that don't rely on AI and are worse quality. But if a company r...
Yes, the administration needs to take the W with Vietnam. The only point of these tariffs should be to get other countries to drop their tariffs. Vietnam has agreed to do that, so the goal has been accomplished. Plus that would show other countries the path forward and maybe we could get close to a situation where there is something like free trade.
The game will likely be capped at 30fps until it comes out for PC/PS6.