They have been buying companies. They have just not (currently) bought major companies like MS or Sony. Doesn't mean to say it won't happen. TBH MercurySteam is the only other one I see them buying though.
It is their full legal right to protect their IP in the ways they think. So many fans criticise companies for doing this but how many of you who actually had money makers would not take the same action?
My tin foil hat: every single one of you here would do the same because it prevents your own book from selling.
Note: he also flip flops his predictions often.
I am keeping my eye on this prediction seriously. He is much older.
Single player game sales never actually declined in sales. The suits in charge of the big companies have found out it might be possible to constantly make money of the same game so want to opt to take the approach of extending the game's life instead of just selling the game as it is. The problem is the greed of the suits in the board room.
They have completely forgotten what many Indies actively know, as long as the game turns profit you are fine. AAA companies have...
People misunderstand this. Yeah, ports are outsourced to outside teams but the people in charge still keep tabs on the game and give feedback when things go wrong.
Grove Street did the bulk of the work, But Rockstar and Take Two oversaw the builds and put the games forward for release.
I would argue it is the dock holding them back. Anybody who uses Switch docked should see it as well. It would be a great console if this was 1995 but it was planned for release at the end of 2016. I actually think the Wii U was better as a console than Switch simply because it had the standard online functions and things like Netflix or an internet browser. Plus the online was free.
It is not just the 4K graphics Switch doesn't have. It lacks the online functional...
I honestly do not see a new Switch getting AAA support like this one did. I will explain why.
PS4 and Xbox One (the base models) were never a full generational leap. They were underpowered 2013 consoles and were never as far ahead of the HD era as people made out. PS5 and Xbox Series are full generational leaps so I imagine a new Switch trying to keep up with them would be like PSP trying to keep up with 360 and PS3.
It can't because the default pl...
TLDR: Japan and the west are going in a different direction.
It is not the users, it is the console market. Everybody has been blaming Nintendo's consoles and Japanese devs for not "adapting" to HD console development but the truth is the console market embraced cinematic open world games, shooters and sports/racing simulators.
People would rather play smaller anime and Indie games on handhelds and console owners have not embraced those gen...
Switch is the best selling system. That shows the exact opposite of your false narrative. My own belief is this obsession from AAAs to stream and force online gaming is what will majorly contribute to a western AAA crash.
Not at all. PS5 is going to be the 360 of thise generation while Series X will be the PS3. What I mean is it seems like the better investment RIGHT NOW but as you milk what sells to death and your comeptitor pumps exclusive after exclusive while you paid millions of dollars for timed content the fanboys that bought your system began to realise their 360/PS5 was a bad investment in the long term while the PS3/Series X kept providing the better experiences and made it worth more in the eyes o...
The only way to counter attack Sony's latest practices is to vote with your wallet. If PS5 users do not turn on their systems they will not sell games and Jim Ryan's direction will be called into question by investors. They can sell 100 million PS5s if they want but it is the user engagement the third parties look at. But as long as the systems and software sell he will be free to continue his reign.
There is no way Gravity Rush cost as much as Last of Us 2 or Horizon to produce. You just have to compare the scale of the games. If Last Guardian cost that much, maybe Sony should not have announced and developed it for PS3 if it was not technically capable. You do not need a source. You need to observe the scale and depth of the games. Last of Us 2 has many CGI sequences and Horizon is a huge open world game, so do not tell me the majority of Japan Studio's games cost as much as th...
@TGGJustin
There is a difference between not profiting to your greed and not profiting full stop. Sony Japan's games made plenty of profit.
I played the game. One of the first bosses was this dark muscular guy holding a massive chain gun of some sort. The game was terrible. Despite what Itagaki said about the game being made to be easier the whole design style made it harder.
Hopefully Ivan the Terrible (that is the name of the main character) never makes it in Smash Bros.
@ northpaws and neturalgamer
EXACTLY! If it is next generation why is it backwards? Things often go backwards as consoles become more like PCs but you know it is true. Sony should never have released it this year. Stop being fanboys and admit it. Covid hurt the thing and they should have delayed it instead of putting it out just so they can say they told us it would not be delayed. We are in a global pandemic and everybody expected it. Sony was just being stubborn.
@RpgSama
I have every major AAA release (minus sports games) and still have over 18GB of internal memory. That includes the online multiplayer and F2P games. All the memory used internally is minor. For a next gen system to be going backwards probably means additional storage solutions will be added later meaning the system simply was not ready.
"we are supposed to delete the games we don't play anymore"
Not if you own a Switch. You can have all the memory cards you want to store your games. Why PS5 thinks deleting/redownloading games is progress is beyond me.
I recall Tifa's size was due to a bust on one of the animators making her bigger.
So many people seem to have forgotten, making the game for a single system impacts the quality. Exclusives are not fanboy bragging rights. They are made to accomodate the hardware they are designed around and just because companies can put something on a system does not mean they should. See Mario Galaxy and Skyward Sword on Switch as examples.