Exactly. The fact that Sony launched with a digital only model with the same performance as their disk model but a slimmer profile was a good move for the industry. If MS had done the same at the start the Series S wouldn’t still be hampering developers. Instead they make this disk free version seem like their premium product and it’s really showing their hand - goodbye disk and physical copies, just like they always planned.
As a “Space Exploration” game, the experience in No Mans Sky is night and day more mature development wise and seamless than StarField. You’ll enjoy it. StarField has a much better story based campaign experience IMO.
This reminds me of the Unity per-install developer fee debacle. They don’t care if people like it, they’re going to squeeze a bigger cut, because they can. MS is vying for the same thing as they consolidate more giant devs and publishers under their Gamepass roof. Kind of an annoying phase in the game industry, but something tells me this isn’t going away.
*yawn* I’ll “pass”.
It’s a better space game IMO. It’s been massively improved year in and year out for almost a decade. StarField is the better narrative driven game by far, just due to the VO work and plot.
Thank GamePass players dabbling for a few minutes of load screens for an inflated headline. Good play MS!
The word I have to describe what I feel about the StarField experience so far is “sterile”. It’s a good game but it does feel more empty than a fictional experience should IMO. I hoped they would stop pretending this is a space simulation and make it a Bethesda game with grit, charm and that silly Bethesda flair that made last games really fun to goof off in. As it stands it has the flaws of No Man’s Sky feeling devoid of character due to being too big, without the density of a plot experi...
💯 it’s a net loss for MS for a while still. These buyouts have to be paid back somewhere, and we’re going to pay that bill somehow, and I’m sure their plan is to squeeze it out in subscriptions over time.
It’s true. MS can’t keep a studio alive and retain talent if their company depended on it (which it doesn’t). Now the sterile MS branded Bethesda games they churn out will allow companies like Larian to rise up.
If MS hadn’t locked the game to a plastic box, and everyone could play it there would be some honesty in those meta numbers. As it stands now it’s a good (not incredible) game, not even Bethesda’s best IMO at 27 hours in, and people who can’t play it are hating on it. The dumb part is if MS hadn’t box locked it, the game would have likely sold at least twice as many copies by now thanks to how huge the PS5 user base is in comparison to XBox.
I have hundreds of Switch carts. I play docked 90% of the time. It’s a console in my book.
When have they done this. Most studios are going with timed exclusive or choosing to launch on PS first because XBOX is so far in distant 3rd and Switch hardware is so inferior many games can’t launch there.
Really? It’s selling relatively poor vs other exclusive games on almost any platform. Considering this was a 25 years in the making behemoth previously intended to be multi platforms and the best it can muster is a million or so out of the gate, the piddly performance Nintendo Switch exclusive Zelda and Pikmin both eclipsed it in sales.
If it’s backwards compatible I’ll be in heaven. Day 1 for me. I love the Deck for the things I can’t get on Switch, but love the switch for physical copies and it’s (comparatively) tiny profile and excellent 1st party.
I mean, it’s awesome anywhere you have the opportunity to play it. Thankfully it’s going to be available on all platforms and hasn’t been bought and locked behind a plastic box like some companies love to do.
I’ve been really enjoying it on the Deck for playing late in the evening. It works great with FSR2 and the environments still look really good on Low when running at 1080p. Very happy this is even possible considering it just came out and is a massive install.
Volition did some great content over the years. I’ll never forget how awesome it was to play the original Red Faction on PS2 and experience Geo-mod for the first time.
They “need” to up that meta critic. Microsoft is banking them on it.
They’re not really competing because they’re inept. You think buying Japanese studios will suddenly result in success there?
Good