@Lightning77
But it damages their position as a top multiplayer gaming platform. CoD alone is a major hit for that. Multiplayer is also a very widespread net. A lot of multiplayer focused gamers want very specific online games, and those that don't care for CoD specifically will have friends that will sway them away from PlayStation because their friend still wants whatever can play CoD. Growing up for me at least, every online focused gamer wanter Halo, and the few tha...
Jesus people take his words as if he is saying that PlayStation will die. People suddenly act like CoD has ever been replicated or truly competed with. The biggest multiplayer shooter name along with Fortnite. XBox was literally at its highest point just from Halo being the biggest shooter at the time. Of course if they just take a top tier shooter and eventually take it away or can't promise to always be available to other platforms so long as it makes financial and business sense like D...
@darthv72
What is FUD about people stating the obvious counter argument to your statement above? You state they wouldn't jeapardize 3rd party relationships.. Yet, they just did this with Bethesda after they stated their aim was not to take games away from other platforms. They directly removed games from potentially coming to Sony platforms that obviously without any doubt would be on their platforms if not for any intervention.
Are you going to resp...
@darthv72
Why do you repeatedly ignore concrete counter arguments and still spam the same attempts to sway people's opinions? This is trolling.
Are they independent and of a small stature that most would consider an Indie to be? Yup
Reminds me of how Skyrim had paid mods added and the creativity went way downhill and the restrictions went in place.
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Your initial claim is that Sony was intimidating developers to not work with XBox. You specifically state Shinji Mikami as an example. Now you're not talking about that and are listing other criticisms. All I can tell by your comments is nothing factual, but a very common issue with media today. Taking a culmination of many facts and info and muddling them together so you end up sounding like you got a point, but upon looking it up we can't find proof because i...
I just told you. I have looked up various ways to word this information with Japanese developers in general and Shinji Mikami. I can't find anything. Others are also asking you. It is your burden because it seems you're lying, working on word of mouth, or misinformed some other way. If it's so easy to find then link us one thing. I've tried, and I'm quite familiar with researching. I specifically told you I can't find the info you have said so that you know to prove it...
Where has Sony factually prevented Japan devs from developing for XBox?
I look up Shinji Mikami and being unable to develop for XBox, repercussions, etcetera and find absolutely nothing about what you are trying to infer. When 360 came out, XBox had a bunch of Japanese exclusives PS3 never got and even two exclusives made by Final Fantasy devs and still got no traction. Where do we ever see Sony making an effort to stop XBox in Japan? All we see are consumers simply not ca...
So in regard to services and content overall it's profitable but he won't say GamePass itself is profitable by itself, when we recently had MS say it wasn't profitable last year as well. With the lack of big AAA games lately I can see it not being super costly at the moment, but as soon as they lose millions of direct sales from finally catching up on first party releases on a consistent basis it will become more and more costly.
Revenue is not profit.
They already said before that GamePass is not profitable. Basic napkin math can show you how much GamePass misses out on direct sales, and especially when there are actually consistent first party AAA titles they lose out on billions of profit because subscribers would only pay dollars to play the one game rather than full retail. They even said themselves recently that it cannabilizes game sales. What sounds better to you as a dev? 1 million sales at...
Can we stop twisting things that obviously would have happened if not for them buying them or even a third party contract? How can someone go years in denial over common sense and deductive reasoning? What help does this do for you? You haven't convinced anyone. People reply less to point the same things out to people trying to push this logic because it's a waste of time. Not because we're convinced and see logic in the argument.
@olMyerslo
" I cannot address each of your points, as much as I disagree with some of them."
You talk big while not talking at all or elaborating since your very first of many comments. I'm curious which fact-checked points you could disagree with. It sounds like you just can't own up to being wrong about something so you'd rather try to get out of having to list an imaginary argument.
"It’s not a “tactic” it’s s...
@olMyerslo
Where did I infer that? A slew of newer accounts have come in recently and preach gaming history wrong. It's a valid point or do you claim not to see it? I don't think your time on this account directly reflects how long you follow gaming news. But, you clearly never saw how much hate Ryan got in recent years.. Let me list some direct points on the topic of hate Jim Ryan got and see if you ignore it again and can't accept being wrong like the fanboys ...
@olMyerslo
Right. Having both consoles is a good point that proves being impartial. You've got a newer account like many other newer users popping up recently pushing similar claims. I'm all for taking in what people are saying especially when it's a crowd and seeing if I might be wrong, but the Jim Ryan hate-train was huge when he took over and for a long time after. I like the deflection and attempt to insult someone without substance.
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@olMyerslo
Bruh. In Jim Ryan's first couple months everyone was raging at him for typical business decisions that were always going to happen. They called him Lyin' Ryan. This has gone on since launch and has only recently fizzled out a bit because he is actually very straightforward and transparent about things and his intentions. He just wants to make PlayStation grow. That is his mission. The only thing I can think of that changed was him saying they were going t...
@Obscure_Observer
Square chooses PlayStation because it sells so little on XBox it's not worth developing for it, and hampering their game design and output for the Series S is not worth it for them. Square turned a leaf on their decision to use Unreal and prioritize game development quality and efficiency versus using an in-house engine to save a good buck. Next gen was coming up and might have even allowed their engine to work well enough and they still made that deci...
If the "ready made answer" for that is the logical reasoning that no one would develop for the smallest and least profitable platform, with more resources required to develop for multiple SKU's of different performance, and more complicated dev tools. Funny that providing common sense and logical reasoning triggers someones defense. And, that people think mentioning these arguments exist orior to someone saying them somehow makes those arguments less sound.
Indeed. While I'm a little annoyed to go so long without hearing all of their first party projects we've been waiting on. I'm still happy to see the transparency of their SoP's.
@King_Noctis
Not to fuel any conspiracies of shadiness, but if it went through with no trouble it would be even more suspicious