Juan gives an indepth, technical insight into the next generation of consoles:
"As George Dubya once famously said, “…there’re rumours on the, uh, Internets” that the current generation of consoles is coming to an end. As sad (or as happy) as that may make you feel, it’s happening and there’s nothing you can do about it. In fact, it’s happening so fast, we’ll have a next-generation console in our hands by the end of the year.
In celebration of this fact, we’ve compiled all of the latest rumours (and chimed in with some of our own views along the way) regarding the next generation of games consoles."
Plenty of unforgettable games have completely messed up their players throughout the years, all the way back from the PS1 days to the dark recesses of the modern internet.
With so many games fighting for players' attention and interest losing out over time, time sink games are at risk of eventually losing steam.
It was worrisome to begin with.
It's a niche genre with only a handful of hits that can stand the test of time.
I like the sound of that!! I will for sure never support these gaas games.
Sony must be shocked at gamer's reaction, making them cancel a few of these and hopefully go back to the good heavy hitters they had us used to..
now bring on that PSPro reveal and show us some SP 1st party awesomeness.
It's pretty ridiculous.
Imagine having a breadth of data at your disposal to see the statistically low success rate of these games, only to be laser focused on the exceptional case studies.
Only a few will catch on. You need a perfect storm to be successful in GaaS and a bit of luck on top of that. But a potential cash cow will keep them trying and some will go out of business because of it.
Helldivers 2 manages just fine…
Keep production costs low… don’t just make custscenes until the mechanics and enemies are perfected first.
Make so much content that you can drip extra content for years, and the game already feels complete without them.
Most importantly: make weapons, enemies, levels, and mechanics that will stand the test of 1000 hours. This might require more devs embracing procedurally generated leveled, which I think separates Helldivers 2 from Destiny’s repetitiveness.
Nameer from eXputer: "Some exceptions aside, I don't think the battle pass is a net positive for gaming with how they're implemented in most live service titles."
I like the way Helldivers 2 does battle passes. It allows you to make purchases on each level of the battle pass and gives you the option of choosing which item to unlock first. The more purchases you make using medals the further you progress. There is no timer and you can earn medals towards purchasing stuff via personal orders and Major orders.
I haven't played much live service games that have battle passes but I remember some games that have battle passes where you progress through it linearly using an exp system. What makes it really bad is that the battle pass will have like 50 or more levels with the cooler stuff being closer to the end. They also have an in-game shop that sells exp boosters so you can reach the end of the pass before it refreshes. Everyone ilse will have to grind their way through.
battle pass in fortnite is perfect; buy one and it buys the rest for every other season as it gives you more money than the first cost. so 8.50 and season ends with you getting 13.00, it pays for the next and you have some pocket change to save up for cash shop. All of which is optional
If every thing is true Sony will have a good console next gen.
Thats if sony can afford there next generation consoles at the minute they are taking losses and $2 billion loss is massive even for a big giant like sony lets hope the vita can make some hard earned money for sony.
Is it bad to be more worried about the upcoming state of gaming than of the actual consoles next generation.....
both sony and ms need to ship next gen this year, they are losing marketshare by the second to pc gaming (steam alone has 40 million and growing) iphone/ipad, facebook games, flash, 3ds, vita, psp, android ect...... all cutting into their market and delivering all kinds of new and exciting experiences while big console games just play it safe with part 4 of this, part 5 of that,
.....time to move on, the games look bad on console compared to old pc games, and they look downright terrible compared to games like bf3, metro2033, crysis 1 and 2, arma 2, hard reset, the witcher 2, all generations beyond consoles!