I wish people would quit judging games before they ever see them or by who is making them.
Give Ubisoft the chance to surprise us.
If it is a great game people will buy it, if it isn't then Ubisoft didn't do a good job and will pay the price because gamers won't buy it.
But, judging whether or not they are capable before we know anything about the game is just plain wrong.
If Naughty Dog was announced as ...
Horror games often get highly mixed reviews.
@utopiancat
Sony is publishing the game. Regardless tough. They have set a cost model gamers are free to decide not to pay it. I certainly won't as it promotes bad behavior by publishers.
@waverider
It was a MS earnings call not a PR call.
@Charlieboy333
XB Services are available thru cloud streaming on Android, PC, and XB consoles. XB does not sell a PC and its Android phone is not marketed as an XB phone. How many of those XB service subscriptions are gamers without a console. Now that is an important question. Judging that XB has sold 50 million XBO consoles, and XB has 100 million active users it implies that 50 million people playing XB don't even have a console.
@P_Bomb
Wii sol...
@utopiancat
Ya it is called investment. Where they get the money they have to justify to shareholders not gamers.
Their profit seems fine to shareholders.
@utopiancat
At different times, profits will be less or more based on what the company is doing. Spending $7.5 bln to buy Zenimax is not going to make their profits good in whatever year/years they are charged to. No smart investor relies solely on profits to determine investing in a company.
Personally, as a gamer I care only about games. And last year Microsoft put out a pretty good lineup of games. Their XB Series launch was light on new content so that was ...
So, what numbers are relevant that they are missing?
How is 100 mln active users damage control? Most consoles they ever sold at launch also damage control? First time the made $2 bln in a quarter from third parties is damage control? Grew gamepass from 15 to 18 mln in a quarter is damage control?
Wow... Just wow.
If it needs to be explained to you then that says everything.
As usual people talking about games for the year when half them won't ship. 2021 is the year of delays.
Number of consoles sold is not a metric for health of any console. Although they did talk about that a bit. Games sold, number of users subscribing to services, and active gamers are all health metrics.
I will agree that XB lacked console launch exclusives, but through the year they had a lot of good content. Not GOTY material yet, but getting closer.
They have 23 studios. They had a good year of content until launch in 2020.
And a...
I would prefer if I didn't have to buy multiple consoles to play all the games I want to play.
Exclusives are the root of that stupidity.
It isn't a surprise but that makes the game previous gen as far as I am concerned then. It is hard to say a game is nextgen when you can run it on existing consoles.
The graphics, sound, and controls may be nextgen, but gameplay will be previous gen.
I just want a really good story and game!
If TLOU2 is medicore then pretty much every other game just sux.
I can understand that @Kratos0289 doesn't like the game genre maybe, but labelling TLOU2 is mediocre is just plain wrong.
To me, the praise TLOU2 has received is well deserved.
LOL. Ya, that article would've been better titled, "2021 Highlight Games for XB".
I've played all the Yakuzas on various PS, but I am really excited to play the remastered version on XB again. Love my Yakuza!
I may be wrong, but my understanding is that the tech behind this new hitman has been applied to the last two hitman games. not, these games are included with hitman 3. the tech has significantly reduced the size of the games.
hitman 1 and 2 often go on sale digitally for 80% off. just watch and you can get them cheap if you buy digital. if you buy physical, it is easy to find the games cheap. I have bought both at 80% off, but have not played either yet.
I don't think so.
Console sales are important but they are not the full picture of health at all.
Someone explain to me why XB has sold 50 mln XBO and 5 mln XB Series consoles but has 100 mln active users? That seems indicate there is a good portion of XB gamers that don't even have a console.