@ApocalypseShadow To crystallise what I was saying is it is increasingly likely the home gaming industry will shift in some way. I'm sure the PS6 generation will be similar to how this works, but who knows after that. Sony will have to try and make sure its ecosystem remains relevant. But the risk Sony faces is it has finite funds so it cannot afford for PlayStation to have a significant failures. Microsoft has has over a decade of failure with Xbox, but because it has unlimited funds it ...
Make no mistake, this is an absolute failure of the Xbox console platform because of Phil Spencer. And this is a major success of the PlayStation platform. However don’t prematurely arrange a celebration party because in the long run Microsoft will be triumphant as it is a Big Tech company with a three trillion dollar market cap and will have funds to support it, it will survive anything like a cockroach after a nuclear bomb. And the Japanese electronics manufacturer will not be able to weath...
Microsoft is like a ravished vampire that's tasted some of that PS5 blood (profits) with Sea of Thieves and now has gone ravenous for those PlayStation dollars!
Obscure_Observer You get an upvote from me. I’m beginning to respect your exquisite level of trolling. 🫡
Five paragraphs of words to dress up saying ‘we’ve cut staff’.
Somebody has to pay for Concord.
There is.
Starfield was strongly hyped as a triple-A exclusive that could drive Xbox Series console sales. Since Microsoft announced that four of its games would tentatively release on other platforms, there's been speculation about whether Xbox would fully embrace third-party status. Starfield's potential release on other platforms has become a barometer, a key indicator, on whether Xbox will go completely third-party.
Whilst there have been other games announced as coming ...
Starfield was heavily hyped as a triple-A exclusive that could drive Xbox Series console sales. Since Microsoft announced that four of its games would tentatively release on other platforms, there's been speculation about whether Xbox would fully embrace third-party status. Starfield's potential release on other platforms has become a barometer, a key indicator, on whether Xbox will go completely third-party.
Whilst there have been other games announced as coming t...
You can't just make the claim that a studio is the 'gold standard for game development' without providing evidence to support such a claim. Is it judged on the quality of the recent output measured by metacritic scores, or is judged on the output frequency, or is judged by sales?
Recent titles are The Outer Worlds, Grounded, Pentiment and soon to be released Avowed. Are they grounds for calling Obsidian 'the gold standard of game development'?
This is it Let there be no doubt in anyone's mind that XBOX HAS GONE FULLY THIRD-PARTY.
The Xbox Direct presentation felt like a 'coming out' party revealing all these high profile games announced as coming to PlayStation. Only indie game South of Midnight isn't, and MS have already said that's because smaller teams don't have the resources to develop multiplatform. But the Ninja Gaiden games, and the phenomenal audacious reveal of Doom the Dark Ages...
No.
EA needs to rehire the game director of Dragon Age: Inquisition. He did an outstanding job and I hope he can bring those same story beats to Mass Effect.
Horizon Zero Dawn sold brilliantly for Sony, but Shuhei Yoshida revealed what we all suspected , the second game didn’t sell so well. Sony has got it in its head that it could be its very own Star Wars franchise - but it’s misjudged the demand as the majority of people who’ve played the games don’t love them. Thank God it’s cancelled the MMO because I could see this being an Ubisoft Skull & Bones level disaster.
I hope Mass Effect 4 ignores the inferior prequels and instead closely follows the far superior Mass Effect: Andromeda and Dragon Age Inquisition.
Cancelling games that they have predicted won’t work is actually a success. When Ubisoft revealed Skull & Bones and Warner Bros. revealed Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League the public universally said they didn’t want the games and the publishers instead of listening pushed back their release dates to work on them some more.
The failure of this game is ultimately down to the EA executives because they allowed the game’s director to co-op the game and make it about their own personal agenda rather than a product made to entertain the masses who enjoyed the previous Dragon Age games.
I like that Shuhei is talking so much!
‘Forced DEI’ they will say.
Well observed. The reviewer says throughout that it is well produced but finds it boring, she never says it’s bad. 2/5 or 4/10 is a score for a bad game. Her subjective review is of course her choice, but the words and the score need to match.
Nevertheless, I have found it helpful and don’t want to pay for a game that’s mechanics antagonise, so will wait to see what the reaction is after this is released into the wild.