I think the subscriber discount on first party titles should be bumped up a bit. It would give non-ultimate subs more incentive to buy, but I don’t see a discount bump happening.
Can’t lower tier subscribers just buy the games?
I tired Atomic Heart and quit after 2hrs. I couldn’t stand the voice acting and level design.
It’s odd that so many journalists would want to insert diversity, politics, and social issues when reviewing a game about a human-sized, magical rhesus macaque.
@lucian
The main character is a human-sized rhesus macaque who lives in fantasy world based on Chinese myth. I’m non-white, and I wouldn’t expect a game with such a setting to be diverse in terms of human ethnicities.
Embracer never had the revenue to support its staff. Cutting ~ 40% of staff is absurd.
@just_looken
You are trying to trash Obsidian, yet want the studio to work on New Vegas 2 ?
Studios like Tango, Toys for Bob and Arkane Austin were not a major factor in Microsoft recent acquisitions of ABK and Bethesda. The smaller studios game with the bigger studios (Bethesda Stuidos, ID, Blizzard, Infinity Ward and Treyarch). Tango, was fortunate enough to have an interested buyer. I personally think MS should have kept the Hi-Fi Rush ip, but then again I’m not a business executive or financial analyst.
The Borderlands movie is a poorly made but effective marketing tool for the game series. In the end the failure of the film, won’t hurt Take-Two/Gearbox. However, Lionsgate Films, will be loosing 10s of millions.
It was a business deal, companies sell assets to make money. Don’t believe Microsoft is being benevolent by selling an asset.
I get where you are coming from. However, this deal allows Hi-Fu Rush to continue.
It’s very unfortunate that Microsoft didn’t not see Tango Games and their IPs as valuable. The studio is a very capable lower budget AAA developer.
Remedy as a studio suffers from the low sales curse. I’ve played and liked most Remedy games, I only disliked Control and haven’t gotten around to Alan Wake 2 yet. Alan Wake, Quantum Break, Control and the first 2 Max Payne titles can’t be called blockbusters.
I think a key cause of low sales is not the lack of a physical release. Alan Wake is simply a low selling IP.
GTA V had a budget of 265 million, while RDR 2’s budget was between 370-500 million. Rockstar Games is one of the few studios that can invest so extensively in projects without fearing a lack of return.
@Tacoboto I started on quality mode, but then switched to performance mode.
Jedi Survivor was probably always intended to be a cross-gen game. It doesn’t have any graphical assets or features that can only be done on current hardware. Also some cross gen titles, notably Gears 5 Hivebusters [a game that uses the same graphics engine], Horizon Forbidden West and God of War: Ragnarok look and run better than Jedi Survivor.
I recently played through Jedi Survivor on Series X, it had some issues. The framerate can be inconsistent, there’s awkward animations when platforming and I had the game outright crash. There are some inconsistencies with combat mechanics too.
God of War: Ragnarok in my opinion was good closure to Kratos’ story. He set his son on the right path, accepted his past mistakes and seemed to find new love.
You should just be upfront and state that the majority of Bethesda and Activision titles will be multiplatform, while the majority of Xbox Studios titles will be exclusive. This will clear up confusion.