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 problem is that those tariffs have been in effect forever, and they are baked into the global economy. I get the "we are just punching back" argument, and it's factually correct, but it's the functional equivalent of getting sucker punched and then waiting five years and punching the other person back. At some point, if enough time has passed, it just feels like a new fight.
I understand what you are saying, but the problem is that Americans are the ones who pay the price. Have other countries been screwing American farmers with tariffs for decades? Yeah, sure. But the vast, vast majority of Americans are not interested in suffering economic pain so that American farmers might (emphasis on the might) be able to sell more corn in India in a few years.
That came out after Medal of Honor, but yeah it was among the first, and it may have been the first to have that as the default (in MOH 1999 it was one of like 6 control scheme options).
Shouldn't the first shooter to use the standard dual analog control scheme be on the list? As far as I can tell that was Medal of Honor on the PS1 in 1999, although I'm open to correction if someone knows of an earlier game that had it (and no I don't count N64 games where you had to hold two controllers, haha). That control scheme, which was apparently far from obvious to devs at first, has become a default for essentially every 3D game that doesn't have a fixed camera (assum...
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Obviously that is the main point, yes. I merely bring up that comparison because, ever since the Switch 2 has been even rumored, people have been preemptively comparing it to the Steam Deck, and after the announcement yesterday, people have been hyping its third-party support.
Obviously the absolute Nintendo hardcore will buy it for Nintendo games, without caring about old third-party stuff. But as we learned with Wii U, that group alone can'...
Well, if Switch 2 has any hope of competing with Steam Deck to be a catalog system (i.e. a system people buy as a portable/handheld way to play a lot of older games they have already played), older games will have to be cheaper. On Steam Deck basically everyone who has done any PC gaming in the last 18 years already has a built in library (and frequent opportunities to get games for cheap), so it will be hard to compete with that if older games launch at $60-90 on Switch 2.
Good idea. I know this type of "prove your fandom" system upsets some people, but it at least cuts back on scalpers.
Kids who want this will have a hard time selling their parents on it, and worse yet for Nintendo, there are many kids who have their Fortnite, Roblox, and Minecraft somewhere else and won't even be asking for it.
Let's hope it's more like the 3DS where sales are behind expectations at first and then they take major steps to get things back on track.
Yes but instead of $60 for digital and $70 for physical (prices that would actually make sense given competitors' pricing), they are doing up to $80/$90.
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.