Even with Game Pass, most of the best games will still cost $70 outside of the sub service. Atomic Heart is a rare case of a game appearing in Game Pass that I actually planned on buying.
And, this might seem stupid to most, but I’m still gonna buy it on ps5 instead because I’d rather play it with a better controller and video capture; vs justify my game pass subscription through it by playing it there for $10 a month until t goes on sale for ps5 or gets removed from GP.
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I would only disagree with indie games, which can generate better word of mouth via a short initial availability on a popular sub service.
Who claimed otherwise?
The only way a sub service would NOT lowers sales is if access to games was shorter than it would take to “finish” the game, similar to a trial.
How many people played Guardians of the Galaxy on Game Pass for 3 months, and still bought it after?
That end boss fight was NOT perfect.
I’m looking forward to Amazon making a God of War game just covering the Norse phase, and completely ignoring the Greek phase; all because they have no idea what they are doing with the IP.
The Norse phase falls flat IMO if you don’t appreciate who Kratos WAS versus who he IS becoming.
I would prefer a Killzone game from the Earth perspective, just because I think the slow realization that the protagonists are actually antagonists is great… idk if it would have the same impact vice versa.
GP is great for indie exposure, and a great backup plan for AAA games that get overlooked by the market unfairly, suck as Guardians of the Galaxy.
With this said, I don’t need $15/month GP for AAA’s, or for indies really either.
My limiting factor for gaming is time, not money. I’ve had GP for years (mostly because they doubled the price of Live anyways….), and there wasn’t a single AAA game that I used GP for instead of playing on my ps5 for $70 with a ...
It still blows me away that Xbox couldn’t secure online multiplayer for this…. Like, why even bother then?
GTAV was also free for ps5 owners, that matters.
I downloaded it and uninstalled 5 minutes later, because the upgrade didn’t impress me immediately. And I haven’t played since.
Says the dev that achieved the single highest amount of profit from any form of media, ever?
Yah, we know GTA6 will still sell in record numbers. Nobody doubted that.
It might…
Yah, because they made games…. Do you hope to compete with that by merely buying established franchises?
That’s not how this works. That’s not how ANY of this works…
You have more studios than Sony: go make a franchise with them and finally start competing…
Yah, that was a dumb idea….
I avoid movie trailers like the plague. I didn’t watch a single trailer for Inception, and I’m grateful to this day for that decision.
If I see any details, my brain remembers the images (such as the colors and setting), and then I anticipate stuff happening as I watch it in theaters.
For example, as much as I could have guessed that Kratos would take Thor’s hammer, I had no guarantee (traditionally, nobody can take Thor’s hammer but those worthy…). Now...
No it’s not, I’m playing the ending now….
M$ has been pitching this deal to Sony like a used car salesman.
They mucked up when they started negotiations with only 3 years of CoD multi platform support, and one of those years CoD was taking its first annual break as a franchise in over a decade; and, the first CoD to be Xbox exclusive would be IW’s new entry.
What a shit deal. That insulted somebody’s intelligence at Sony, and M$ hasn’t owned up to that yet.
Instead they furthe...
I know Max Payne 3 wasn’t your game, but it was great, too.
Please consider it along with any other remaster plans.
It only works if you get enough subs to pay off the content being offered.
And, as subs increase, M$ has to hope that devs don’t ask for more money in order to compensate for the related increase in cannibalization of standard game sales that GP releases inevitably cause.
Until their stable kicks into gear, M$ has to lose money to buy content all the time. And even then, they’ll need alotta subs to support their huge stable at $15/month per sub.
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Your first offer to Sony was 3 years of mutual releases for CoD, but one of those years would be the first year CoD took a year off since OG MW…. And, anybody paying attention knows that IW, the best CoD dev, would be scheduled to release a game the same year Xbox’s exclusivity started.
Yah, great deal to start discussions….
Stop pissing in Sony’s face and insisting that it’s raining.
Go waste another half billion on Halo development, ...
Shut up, this is why I hate N4G…..
The title should’ve been “Ragnorak originally had a different outcome”, not something so specific and spoilery….
Logging out before Atomic Heart is spoiled for me too…
So long asshat N4G mods, you’re good for nothing.