CEO Ted Price says he "can't imagine" studio will make any more single-player-only games; believes technology advancements have allowed for greater social play.
Marvel's Spider-Man villain DLC potentially spotted via the debug menu that surfaced from the New Game+ title update released recently.
Ahmed from eXputer writes "Video game leaks have become a major cause of concern for Triple-A studios, as they're becoming increasingly malicious and dangerous."
In a leaked Sony Interactive Entertainment presentation, the company declares that including first-party games on PS Plus has had a “big” effect on “traditional sales.” As an example, the company mentioned that Horizon Forbidden West‘s sales “flat-lined” immediately after being added to PS Plus.
Also really interesting to see through to one of the sites they link to (Resetera) that the 2 cross gen titles in Miles Morales and Ghosts of Tsushima sold over 40% each of their first year in year 2, almost double what even the best performing games like GOW 2018 and Spider-Man did. Kinda seeing the cold hard numbers makes it really clear why they did cross gen games and remastered some of the later PS4 games to PS5 Directors Cuts.
"“In year 1, Horizon Zero Dawn and Horizon Forbidden West were very comparable,” the presentation reads. “HFW was included into PS Plus at the start of Year 2. HFW saw an enormous influx of PS Plus players, but at the cost of flat-lining the game activations from retail sales.”"
So, the data shows there were fewer traditional sales, but it doesn't show us anything about how many people joined PS+? It does say there was an influx of HFW players, but it doesn't state how many of these players owned PS+ to begin with.
To conclude that it negatively sales is correct, but it doesn't mean less money is made. We cannot draw that conclusion until we know how many more people joined PS+ because of HFW.
MS's bet is that although it lowers traditional sales, it makes the services more appealing and millions of new people will subscribe if they see that good games are added to the service. And in the end, the subscription profit (not revenue) will outpace that of the traditional sales.
However even after 6 years they still haven't reached that point lmao
that sucks
Insomniac is finished and thats what happens when companies grow beyond their capabilities and they release games like they are on track. ACIT was great game, RE2 sucked and RE3 was a mess (although SP was enjoyable it was technically poor, and MP sucked). All 4 One is B grade studio kind of game, and from what they have shown with FUSE, they take generic to a whole another level. Hopefully they wake up from this "social" bs crap, and star make games like they did last gen. Great artstyle, lots of character and solid gampeplay because as it stands, they fell of pretty hard.
Just compare Ratchet character with FUSE's. Night and day. If somebody told me FUSE was Silicon Knights game I would believe them. Looks like even more generic Binary Domain only with "cool weapons".
Insomniac is another victim of the social/mp trend
Insomniac are dead to me...
In a few years they'll hit rock bottom, multiplayer will take over their once great single player, they'll become nothing like the devs that made the amazing Spyro games, Rachet and Clank and even hell the Resistance games but least then single player came first
Fun while it lasted....just like Capcom, Square Enix and other developers/publishers to walk this path
EDIT: huh thats odd, it says I'm using my second bubble when I've only commented once on this article......hmmm....whatever
Nooooo.
Well I guess that means no more classic R&C games. Nor a Spyro game, sounds like they'd probably refuse if they were given the chance to develop a new one.