@purple101
Generally average consumers don't care about RPGs, in the sense that they might not care about Persona 5, but they absolutely care about Bethesda RPGs.
As of a few years ago, Skyrim had sold over 20 million, and Fallout 4 close to 15. (Source: https://www.gamespot.com/ar...
Both are certainly higher now....
@IRetrouk
They don't absolutely NEED to. They beat MS's highest selling console with their lowest. But letting their main opponent dominate western RPGs (particularly first person ones) is going to matter. It isn't going to put Xbox ahead of PS5, but it will help them do better than they did with XONE for sure.
@RedDevils
It isn't about Skyrim, it is about the next Elder Scrolls game, which to casual fans will be known as "the next Sky...
The thing is, there are millions of people, particularly in the US, who switched from 360 to PS4, and therefore don't see MS as this third tier company. Obviously hardcore PlayStation users aren't going to switch, but this will absolutely sway people in the middle.
What first person Western RPGs will they have this gen, other than the PS5 version of Cyberpunk?
And yes, obviously they will continue to dominate third person games, but the reality is that last gen people had to choose between getting some games they wanted on Xbox or all of the games they wanted on PS5. Now each console will have some games they want, but will be missing some. It will still favor PS5, especially outside of US, but it won't be as stark of a difference...
Unfortunately I think the PS4 success made them complacent like the PS2 success did. They are smart enough now not to actively sabotage themselves like they did in 2006, but it honestly feels as if they believe they are too big for this to hurt them. I mean, their response to MS spending 7+ billion on a top tier publisher was to spend a billion dollars on an anime streaming service, so I think we can see where their priorities are.
That being said, this won't really sta...
I would say this is the strongest position they've been in since the $599 price announcement for PS3. They'll never get a gift quite like that one again.
This might save this game.
Yep. Devs had crossplay working between PS3 and 360 and MS wouldn't let it happen. (Source: https://kotaku.com/i-saw-th... Then when they had the smaller playerbase, they magically became all in favor of crossplay. If the Series X ever gets bigger than PS5 (I get how unlikely this is, but I'm saying as a hypothetical), crossplay will start to fade out under "concern...
I used to think the dumbest thing ever put on the internet was me as a kid posting about how so many Xbox 360 games had short campaigns because they had to cram everything on DVDs, therefore justifying the Blu-Ray drive in the PS3.
Now I think that is only the second dumbest thing ever posted on the internet.
This. Unfortunately everytime you point out how bad the controller was, people think you are telling them that Ocarina of Time wasn't a great game, and they get super defensive.
Haha the N64 kids would get so mad when I pointed out that the controllers were designed for someone with three hands....and it looks like decades later they still do.
"Too many people just wrongly assume you should be able to hold both the D-Pad and analog at the same time."
The fact that it is wrong to assume that you should be able to use the controller in a logical fashion says everything that needs to be said.
Lol I think even the most hardcore physical media people on here will agree that this guy should have gone digital.
Although a good number of people who just buy COD and FIFA probably don't even know that you can get those games without buying the disc, and still think of digital games as smaller titles.
Remember guys, Kojima invented the hallway and owns the concept forever and ever.
I don't know. I spent the entire PSP generation talking about how if Sony made a handheld with a second analog nub, or better yet sticks, it would be crazy successful, and we saw how that went. I will say that I agree that the memory cards were a big issue. People now have forgotten, but when they announced the Vita price (without mentioning the price of necessary memory cards) people were super hyped. I do wonder what it would have been like if it had launched at $249-299, had 8gb-16gb b...
This is so good. DLSS 2.0 is awesome, so if the AMD version is anywhere near as good, I will be thrilled. And with this, there will really be no good excuse for games not hitting a solid 60 fps.
Yep, can't wait to see that.
PS Aim support! Take notes, IO Interactive.
Is this game about Adam Orth?
I think if we define a "win" for MS as doing better than they did last gen, then I absolutely think they will "win." It's the reason we think of 85 million as a great gen for Xbox and a bad gen for Playstation; it's totally relative.
The Xbox hardcore always lose sight of the fact that the US is not representative of the entire world. This is why so many of them are convinced that 360 outsold PS3, because it absolutely did in the US. They also al...