Celebrity ties to projects draw additional interest. It's no different from animation studios like Pixar or Illumination using marquee names to voice their animated movies. I'm sure these studios have a team of "bean counters" that weigh the cost/benefit to using known actors and they have concluded that its worth the additional expense.
Finally! Release date for Metroid Prime 4 please!
Its not unprecedented. Sony has done State of Plays for 3rd party games before. Just this year they had one for Borderlands 4.
Thank you!
They're not. But they're the latest. So naturally its newsworthy to discuss. Im not sure why youre coming in with the whataboutisms when the article is simply reporting about the status of this particular game.
@Bathyj. What exactly would a Steambox contribute that PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo arent already contributing? Steam has no 1st party to speak of. It has no real exclusivity. The only thing it would offer is another 3rd party digital marketplace. Thats hardly enough to package and sell in a console. Whats the value proposition in introducing yet another console into the market?
@Extermin8or3_
If you are a current PlayStation gamer and you have amassed a sizeable digital library of games, you would be foolish to walk away from all that investment, just to switch platforms. Sony knows this too and is banking on the idea that whatever percentage of gamers DO leave the platform is worth the risk in order to generate the extra revenue on other platforms. I just dont quite understand the value they see in fooling with Xbox. The platform is dying and...
My confusion lies in the fact that Xbox gamers dont buy games. At least not in the numbers that would move the needle. It seems like Sony is really scraping the bottom of the barrel to make a buck here. Are they really that desperate? Switch I can at least understand because Sony doesnt view Nintendo as a direct competitor and their gamers actually spend money. But Xbox?? LOL why? Just...why? I dont see the juice being worth the squeeze.
Dude, they sold you freakng tutorial software! You really think they were going to give Mario Party content away for free??? 🤣
Duplicate
Duplicate
This game at 80.00 on Switch 2 is laughable!
Guys, you need to understand something here. The future of "Xbox" will no longer be a traditional walled garden console experience. It will be an open platform, Windows-based PC in a box with an Xbox logo slapped on it. So in the next generation, when future Playstation titles come to "Xbox", what they're really saying is its going to be the PC sku running on these Windows boxes that say Xbox. So in that sense, yes, the whole slate WILL be coming to "Xbox&q...
@S2Killinit
LOL@ your disagrees! As if anything you said isn't 100% the truth.
It just always kills me to hear people complain that studios arent doing anything unique. Yet when a game like Death Stranding does come along that introduces new gameplay ideas, phenomenal graphics, a killer soundtrack, and a fascinating story, people look at it and say "nah Im good! I'll just keep playing Call of Duty and Madden". Its casting pearls before swine it seems.
1.5 million on a platform of 80 million users. Come on people! Get off Call of Duty and Fortnite and support this game! Its fantastic!
Plus the PSP version
Not just with consoles, but their arcade presence. Not sure if either one could ever be resurrected.
Im looking forward to this! The SGF trailer got me hyped!
Clearance, followed by obsolescence.