They don't "have" to at all.
Sony's been making bank off their games at $60, and without being stuffed to the brim with MTs and lootboxes. The industry can thrive just fine like this.
The problem is most don't want to thrive, they want endless, unlimited cash flow.
Paid DLC and MTs are not the results of inflation or even necessity. Paid DLC isn't even inherently a negative thing, unlike MTs.
Sega and Atari had to leave the console space.
While consoles will likely be a viable market for a good while, that doesn't make individual companies immune. That said... this article is highkey trash that's entirely based on comments taken way out of context.
"The studio that made Syphon Filter games"
That's Bend. They're still open.
That's a whole lotta quotes taken out of context.
Eddie, I seem to recall SEVERAL arguments you've been in which people insisted the Switch was a handheld, not a console, and you argued the opposite, that it was a console that you could detach and take on the go.
Now you're insisting you've always said the opposite.
Willy the Wombat was an early concept for Crash and had no stated platform. Sony Co-Published the game with Universal which means yes, they had contracted the studio to work with them for the purposes of publication.
QD is, once again, a similar situation. Sony did not force them to not say anything about their IPs being their own, Cage outright said before QD owns the IPs and Sony handled the publishing, hence why they enjoyed working with the company. NetEase then bought ...
Pretty much anime tiddy games involving characters of questionable age (or designed to appear as such) or items or activities in games that are intentionally made to be of "dubious consent" on the part of the characters in question. (IE a grope mode in SK in which the high school aged characters ask you to stop and you're rewarded for ignoring them, items that snip bikini straps on characters in DoA Xtreme which can have them visibly "distressed", etc.)
@Undertaker
Quantic Dream was exclusive because Sony was publishing their games. They only went multiplat after NetEase bought a controlling stake in the company and opted to publish said games on other platforms, which they're allowed to do as those are QD IPs. Had nothing to do with "making sure the competition didn't have it".
Sony also never owned Naughty Dog when they made Crash, and Naughty Dog actually WANTED to be bought by Sony to escape ...
Their focus has BEEN on their existing talent.
Why do folks act as if Sony needs to start doing what they've already been doing?
Over half of these are speculation. It'd be sweet if they were, but as of now, it's speculation.
@Yourmom
Eh, yes and no. While the game does still retain Octavius in a sort of mentor capacity, it does also still have him much more in character.
Part of that though has to do with Ock's role originally being The Lizard in an earlier draft and the backstory portion only being given slight revisions. Hence the happy, friendly science guy with the wife and advice on how to woo a woman and so on.
Game Octavius is still friendlier b...
lol yes the hell you did
Communism is an inherently broken ideology that has to co-opt elements of the "evil" Capitalist system in order to survive, time and time again, and no one sees the irony.
Sam Raimi's trilogy was crap. None of the characters were in-character, Peter acted more like Christopher Reeve's Clark Kent than Peter Parker (with a good dose of George McFly tossed in), the villains were WAY off, MJ had next to no character half the time and was simply used to advance the dramatic subplots, It was full of the WORST kind of cheese that, contrary to popular belief, was NOT in classic Spider-Man comics but rather a generic stereotype of old comics in general and Silve...
I'm sorry you have to look elsewhere for your underage anime tiddy.
Vietnam is also Communist and sadly seems to be where Nintendo is moving.
Kinda funny how no one who was all-in on these tariffs suddenly doesn't care though. Almost as if they were just following their idol's blind rage...
You try too hard.
Bear in mind, $600 was significantly steeper then than it is now, especially with the Recession at the time.