They had also already launched three Uncharted games on PS3 before that lol.
Although in fairness if a studio like Naughty Dog released three games in a single series in five years like they did with Uncharted, fans would lose their minds with "they're milking the franchise and driving it into the ground" criticisms. I mean, people said they were driving Last of Us into the ground after one sequel that came out seven years after the first game lol.
Yes but a huge chunk of that generation just adopts its opinions wholesale from YouTube influencers, plenty of whom had their formative years on the 360, so it is basically part of their personality to think Killzone sucks. So they would make their crappy videos about how mid the new Killzone/Killzone Remake/Killzone Remaster is, and people would just parrot that take.
I'm glad they stopped making Killzone before people started saying "mid," so I am spared seeing all the braindead "Killzone is actually mid" takes that people inevitably would have offered up in lieu of legitimate analysis.
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The influencer thing is frustrating. I get that people have limited time and money and can't try everything, so to a certain degree you have to look at other people's opinions on things to decide how to spend your time and money. But there is definitely a line between that and just parroting one or two particular influencers' opinions about everything, and a lot of people have unfortunately crossed that line in recent years.
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Do you make new alts every day? Lol. At least try to adopt different tones across your different alts so you sound like different people.
It never pays to engage the alts.
Yep. You better believe in two years when people are making an argument about big AAA games not selling enough, or PS5 exclusives not selling, or Japanese games not selling, or whatever the dumb argument happens to be, this "number" will get cited as evidence. The retraction never has the same reach as the false story.
Once again people employing common sense are proven right.
For whatever reason and despite all evidence to the contrary, their are some companies bent on convincing themselves and others that people want to play premium games on Apple devices.
Lol if they had announced a remastered collection you would have made "remaster station" comments from like five different accounts.
A lot of the Big FF titles came out in earlier generations where selling a few million copies was a big success. Obviously the numbers from back then aren't perfect, but if you believe the estimates that get cited, FF VII is one of only about three PS1 games that cracked 10 million units, and that's one of the biggest games in the series in terms of reputation.
Yeah, these numbers are a little hard to believe. If it sold 3 million in the first week and had even a semi-decent launch on PC, for these numbers to be right you'd have to assume it sold basically zero copies on PS5 after its launch week. Given it was in the NPD Top Ten in its second month, and the top twenty its third month, that's hard to believe, even if I'm sure they anticipated it charting higher for longer. That's to say nothing of sales boosts it probably got from PSN...
They actually have a DLC for this one where you can basically play the first game within the Definitive Edition of II. I haven't tried it yet, but I actually just got it since it was part of Steam's Spring Sale. It'll be a change of pace, if nothing else.
I hope so. A group of my friends and I have been wanting to all play this together, and three of us have it on PC, but the fourth guy only has an old Mac and PS5 so he can't play it yet. I was disappointed they did Age of Mythology first for PS5 instead of this one, but if they are timing the release with this big update, that makes sense.
It's always funny when people attempt to vehemently disagree with me and then make a bunch of arguments and cite facts that support my position.
You pointed out that tariffs are hurting the stock market and large corporations. This, of course, is perfectly consistent with my point that tariffs are inefficient domestically and internationally, and that they hurt the end consumer. It seems like you may not understand the different interests between corporations (particul...
"Tariffs are a lose lose for everyone involved."
I mean, they hurt consumers and make the market less efficient, both domestically and internationally. But they benefit specific domestic industries. Why do you think unions in American industries that struggle to compete with their international counterparts support tariffs? Why do you think the UAW supports tariffs now? Why do you think Bernie Sanders campaigned on using tariffs to protect American workers in 2016...
Everyone rails against unbridled capitalism and globalization, then when any government imposes a tax or regulation that affects their consumer habits in the slightest way, they become free trade, free market absolutists.
I mean, they should. It's a digital good that is the same wherever you are buying it. It's not like food or a consumer good where it costs less in relative terms in poorer countries, but it also costs less to bring to market due to the cheaper cost of labor, etc.
So yeah, I don't blame people for taking advantage of it. To me if they MS is selling a digital good for less absolute value, then they are establishing that is what it is worth to them. I'm simply...
I didn't say it wasn't. But if you are selling a digital good for different absolute costs, people are going to take advantage of that, unless the discrepancies are small enough to make it not worth the hassle.
Gosh 70% of the Switch's sales would be so good lol. I agree they are going to struggle to get some people to understand why they should upgrade, but I think it will be more of a DS to 3DS ratio rather than a Wii to Wii U situation.