Ian Fisher writes: Usually the arrival of a next-gen console results in gamers being excited about what the future holds since seeing how games will evolve and be pushed is something that we ultimately wait six to seven years to see. But with how the video game industry is, and the world economy for that matter, do gamers and in turn the industry need to re-evaluate what truly constitutes a next-gen game?
"The Game Music Foundation are today very proud and pleased to announce an additional concert, circling back to the roots of Game Muisic Festival in Poland. On April 28th, 2024, the National Forum of Music in Wroclaw will once again become a place to celebrate the art of video game music, featuring scores from The Last of Us and The Last of Us Part II." - The Game Music Foundation.
Najam from eXputer writes "It's time fore a new installment in the series, not another pointless remaster."
They are working on something new. Not to be rude but it is impossibility stupid to think ND next major announcement is going to be a remaster or their next Last of Us entry is going to be another remaster.
The team is sad for losing out on such a great project but celebrates its growth because of spending time on it.
All they had to do was make a basic online mode like their previous games. Instead they wanted more money and choose to go live service which makes games worse in my opinion.
What a waste of time and money, what a shame.
Not sure why they didn’t just make Factions 2. There was no need to make it a live service.
TLoU Factions was a great addition such a shame they couldn’t be bothered to remaster that for PS5 considering the crazy high price tag of the remaster of a remaster…
This is something to be celebrated. This studio is smart and they get it, even factions 2 wouldn't've have been worth the time. I am surprised they didn't just remaster the first one though, but actually how popular was Factions?
The Last of Us is 10 times better than anything Nintendo or Microsoft will come up with on their next gen consoles. The PS3 is basically a next generation console because developers are only now realizing it's full potential.It's power has only begun to be fully harnessed. What does that tell you about how powerful the PS4 will be? I drool just thinking about it because I know 10 years from now they will only be scratching the surface of what the PS4 will be able to do.
Long Live Play
@killzoner there is a reason you only have 1 bubble ant is you talk bubbles, you must be a spotty kid living in your mums basement to come up with that, by the way im looking farward to last of us but im also looking farward to rayman legends and zelda when it comes. but on a serious note apart from the characters what sets it apart from uncharted even the lead character looks a bit like drake.
Well these comments were derailed quickly.
With the rise of indie games and all consoles having a built in online store to buy them, we'll be seeing more games like Journey. There will always be room for big companies to release their AAA games but I think console gamers are already open to less than steller graphics if the game itself is good.
Here's what people don't understand. The economy. Just about every bank in the world is broke 50-1000x over. Why? Well 1.4 quadrillion (that's 1400 trillion) in fraudulent derivatives ARE the economy.
You see when we repealed Glass-Steagall we allowed the deposits (aka Banks) to be combined with the hedge funds and insurance arms of Wall Street. Thus we got derivatives.
During the time the derivatives were going from a few hundred billion to over a thousand trillion, the profit was used to fund low interest rate loans into shoddily made homes, outsourced and now imported products from China and other sweatshop labor capitals, and pay for imperial wars of conquest. Part of this money went into funding all the dotcoms and video game devs out there.
Well that time is gone.
So certain rules we ignored for a decade or so are coming back. Devs can only make games that sell, or else they are going to go out of business. The easy loans won't be there, especially when many are already neck deep in the cheap loans.
We're also in a time where the progression of tech is slowing without major alterations. More cores. More graphics cards. More wattage. That sort of thing.
We still are heading for a showdown to how small we can make chips. What will they do when they get when a transistor is the size of a single atom? Pretty hard to make it smaller than that. Well basically we're at 22nm so there really isn't much further to go. There's all sorts of problems with electrical leakage at current and past node processes. It only gets worse from here. (remember people electricity needs to flow through these ever narrowing pathways...hence the problems with leakage)
So yes, the entire games industry is in for a major change.
Game devs can't borrow to the hilt anymore
Consumers can't spend more than they earn anymore
Tech makers like Intel, Nvidia, etc are getting hard pressed to produce better products.
Oh there will still be borrowing, consuming, and inventing, it's just not going to be like how it used to be.
Remember though, everything could collapse at anytime as the derivatives problem hasn't been fixed anywhere in the world. Obama's a wall street whore. So are the republicans. Whoops.
Then realize this is worldwide. Britain, who we in America do anything they tell us. Invade here. Repeal Glass-Steagall there. So on and so forth won't do it. Neither will anyone else.
Which means...nothing is fixed, everything is getting worse under the surface. When bailouts happen at the top, like in 2008-2009, they went to stop the derivatives from collapsing, so derivatives have priority above everyone else and everything, and when they finally either get us in debt to the point of hyperinflation and everything collapses, your banking deposits are the collateral for the derivatives.
SO....if X country doesn't bailout derivatives, everybody's deposits in X countries banks are GONE.
The solution is simple, but no Wall Street whore will allow it. So everyone in Washington, London, Brussels, Berlin, and China and the developing world don't know what the hell to do.
Glass-Steagall
..and realize that everything about gaming is changing. One way or another. Lack of funds for devs or for consumers. Or the technological barriers we are getting to that are forcing more expensive workarounds (more cores, more graphics cards, etc).