Nintendo is big company and publisher. Yet, none of Nintendos 2021 offerings are up for GDC nominations. However, I do remember Metroid getting nominations from several major websites.
I thought Metroid Dread would receive nominations or honorable mentions, but it didn't. I'm somewhat shocked by this. Metroid Dread was very well received by gamers and the media.
Capcom nearly went under around 2010-2013. I think Square Enix will be fine due to their exclusivity deals with Sony. Ubisoft relies too heavily on assassins creed, once a title in that series does poorly, they will be in trouble.
Killzone 1 didn’t have a very long development cycle, it didn’t cost Sony a lot to produce. Days Gone, however, had a 6 year development, making it much more expensive.
Generally games that aren’t financially successful don’t get sequels. Days Gone didn’t perform well enough for Sony to green light and fund a follow up title. Despite, a former director stating Days Gone sold more than Ghost of Tsushima. His methods of estimating sales where flawed, and the sales number he gave were likely inflated.
I highly doubt Days Gone sold more than Ghost of Tsushima. Hence Sony never publicly announced sales figures for Days Gone, unlike their othe...
Sales numbers where inferred from trophies and user accounts (this ignores game sharing and sharing of discs). The technique used also ignores players who played Days Gone when it was given away to PS5 owners and offered via PlayStation Plus. Conversely, Ghost of Tsushima’s sales numbers where announced by an official PlayStation twitter account. Days Gone doesn’t have official numbers, even if the former game director is considered a reliable source. He is no longer working at Sony.
Days Gone potentially having similar sales figures to Ghost of Tsushima doesn’t indicate it was as financially successful as the latter. Full priced sales are an important metric. Even if Days Gone sold just as much units of as Sucker Punch’s Ghost of Tsushima. Sucker Punch’s title likely generated more revenue due to it generally better reception, reception that would promote greater full priced sales.
Dice has been known to abandon their titles. BF 2042 was a very quickly made title, if it doesn’t retain enough players or meet sales expectations the studio will just move on.
I still don’t understand the significance of this NFT crap. Digital content is easily replicated. I don’t understand why people are buying NFT.
The team that made bioshock infinite should have never been stripped down to began with. Apparently AAA was too demanding at the time, yet Bioshock Infinite didn’t take 8 years to make! Studios get shutdown for not generating revenue.
Undead Lab probably plans to develop another game alongside State of Decay 3.
Edit: the new studio might just meant to support Undead Labs and other Xbox studios.
The crazy thing is a lot of people are buying these items.
There will be more content after holidays. However, battlepasses, progression and unlocks need serious work. Halo Infinite launched over-monetized, much like Gears 5.
Probably not, it’s a cross gen title.
FromSoft’s modern games have always been more artistically impressive than technically impressive. Every Fromsoft title I have played has had a mixture of the following visual flaws: performance issues, frame pacing issues, low poly character model and dated textures.
I’ve watched several sections of the Elden Ring tech test. Frankly, Elden Ring, looks artistically very nice. However, it looks pretty similar to Dark Souls 3 and too a lesser extent Sekiro. Being a cross-gen...
I several people who had COVID-19. Some had to take extra time off work to recover, ever after they were deemed non-infectious. Otherwise had low energy and noticeably decreased stamina after a COVID-19 infection.
It is rumoured that either an MGM licensing issue or Nintendo prevented Goldeneye 007 XBLA release. The game is/was fully finished and essentially served as template for Perfect Dark XBLA.
I have watched some of the boss fights and from what I observed magic is very powerful. Hope Elden Ring’s combat doesn’t overly favour magic. Personally, I prefer melee combat. I’ve completed all the souls without using magic and casting (excluding weapon buffs).
I didn’t find battlefield 1 to be grounded at all.
Horizon Zero Dawn was heavily influenced by Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind a film & manga. Thus, the Horizon series as a whole will have environmental themes.