@TheLordOfStuff Stop what?
No one said they are.
Obviously they won't stop making GoW etc. They will just pivot some resources towards GaaS and mobile. Likely starting with TLOU MP.
@Crows90 "But heck even MS has made statements that the deal would go through around mid year 2023"
The only scenario where that happens is if the FTC suddenly decides to drop their case - and that won't happen.
The first court case is scheduled for August, and there's the possibility of a federal court hearing after that. Plus we don't know what action the EU and UK will take or what the timeline for that is.
So m...
I mean I can kinda see their point.
If you or I were charged with a crime, and you first had to go to a court where the police chief or sheriff is the judge, before you can go to 'real' court - we would also see it as a pointless waste of time.
One thing is for sure, this has a lot of legs on it yet. August at the earliest, but realistically probably 2024. And we'll have 1000 more news articles on it before then :P
Yep, MS are just trying to move things on quicker and skip on a step where they believe the outcome is pre-determined.
Given how slow courts are here, if you assume MS does have to go to federal court, this acquisition would be 2024 at the earliest.
So the 3 interesting things you can likely draw from this are:
1. MS likely thinks they can win in court
2. FTC likely thinks they cannot win in court
3. MS isn't actua...
@Crows90 You say they're focusing on it... but they only have 1 VR game coming out in the first 6 months.
So, we're getting no first party games for the first half of the year because they're launching one VR game in February? That seems like a poor decision, especially when ~97% of PS5 owners won't play it.
I did some reading into this, because (as per my other comments) I didn't understand how you can be denied your 5th amendment rights while simultaneously having a court case scheduled.
So there's a few things I found:
1. The court case scheduled for August is in FTC administrative court, not in a 'normal' US federal court
2. This technically does violate their 5th amendment right, since the judge will be an FTC employee,...
" Let all 3rd party games on home consoles, multiplats like they have been in the last 20 or 30 years..."
This is 100% false though... it's very easy to find 3rd party console games aren't multiplat. FF7 remake for example.
"You can have all the mobile games. 100% of the market"
That's your view as a console game - PlayStation disagrees - they're doubling down on mobile.
145 GOTY awards is kinda nuts - but well deserved, head and shoulders above every other 2022 title.
No. Do CV, 1, 0, Outbreak 1, Outbreak 2, etc first.
@mkis Yes it is - and your tracker is broken or lacking retailers.
You can get a non-bundle/console only right now on PS Direct: https://direct.playstation....
Well, they have said by 2025, 50% of their game releases will NOT be PS releases - so PC + mobile.
So that is a substantial change from today - today 70% are console, back in 2019 that number was 93%.
Obviously that will mean some resources are shifted, I doubt PS is about to go double their headcount during a recession.
Because investors and revenue.
GoW SP makes a billion in year 1 and then sales will only go down from there.
Make a GoW live service game and you can keep selling people stuff every year. Whether that’s subscriptions or some kind of in-game items, battle passes etc.
TLOU MP will be the first new live service game I guess.
Look at a game like COD. It sells a lot of units yes, and that’s a substantial amount of money - ...
Supply has been solved here in the US for a long time now. What country are you referring to?
You always claim you’re in business development, yet you don’t know that corporations have earnings calls and strategy presentations that are posted on their IR websites? Must’ve been a lie.
Anyway, just look up their most recent one. They even detail how many live service games they will launch by 2025 - and that they’ve spun up a mobile division.
Haha, my brain isn’t quite there yet!
But if they could do all of the above in the last few days of 2022 I’d be very impressed :p
The case isn’t scheduled to be heard in court until August… and that’s only administrative court - it could still goto federal court after that - so are they just not going to announce games in 2023?
That seems like it’ll give MS an even bigger win than acquiring Activision.
Most people like subscriptions, no? That’s why PS+ has tens of millions of subs.
As for them shipping VR games - thats great for the 3-4% of PS gamers who will buy the device / care. What can the rest of us play in the next 6 months?
@Iretro Forza games have always been leaders in visuals. Even an open world one like FH5 blows closed track racer GT7 out the water. Clearly Forza will be a visual masterpiece - and it’ll have in game RT, something apparently not even possible on PS5 for racers 🤷
“Devs do not like to scale down, they build to the lowest common denomiator and then add from there”
That’s just not true. Every game I worked on last gen, the PS4 was our primary day to ...
@darkrider I can right now buy a PS5 without any queue, and without any pre-order on PSDirect and it'll arrive within 2 days. Similarly I can walk into a local Walmart, Gamestop or BestBuy and get a PS5.
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One might say... it's in stock.
I don't get why you're spreading misinformation and pretending it isn't in stock in the US. You're just misleading people - anyone who wants a PS5 in America should know they can get one easily.