Hardware and software sales numbers for the UK in 2023 have been released, with Sony's PS5 accounting for half the total market.
Former Deviation Games developers have formed a new studio at Sony Interactive Entertainment in order to work on a brand new PlayStation IP.
Well that's an awesome and very surprising turnaround. Cheers to the new studio and what they'll build!
That's..... confusing, so shut down but just reformed and same employer 🤔 sounds like pretty much what happened to Japan Studio basically just being rebranded as Asobi
It is odd one I don't know how business deals work or the law of that kind of stuff. But is it possible Sony reached out and said hey we want you apart of Sony but don't want to purchase you for what ever reason. How about use disband and we will open a studio and hire you guys type of thing. Is that even possible?
I guess the deviation team fell apart and didn't deliver good progress on what they pitched (they overhyped themselves when the team was announced)so Sony shut them down. They regrouped with a new team and a new pitch so Sony is giving them another shot.
And this time they are keeping it quiet to keep pressure down on the team. So people aren't asking everyday what deviation(or whatever the new team is called) is doing.
Edit: Also Sony never owned them. They just ended their partnership with them. Deviation decided to close on their own.
Good point. You know, i was thinking of Days Gone too. They pitch an idea to Sony for Days Gone 2 but Sony didnt like it do they scrapped the whole thing. Maybe if a good pitch came by...they'd reconsider it.
Good for them that they were able to work it out. Hopefully they're developing something interesting.
These days Xenoblade is one of Nintendo’s bigger franchises – at least when it comes to RPGs – but that wasn’t always the case. The first entry came out in English more than a year after its Japanese launch, and that was for European fans only.
Would've been yet another whack move on Nintendo. I'm glad they did. It's one of the few games I got the switch for.
I guess Nintendo forgets how boosting sales numbers work. Why lock a game to a certain region or certain regions? You want sales number then flood the market and release the game in every region.
I just don't understand why companies enjoy locking software behind such specific things. Imagine if Minecraft was only available for Xbox 360 and only North America and never again on anything else..
Armored Core 6 is the modern, action-packed mecha game that deviates from the Soulsbornes formula orchestrated by Hidetaka Miyazaki.
PS5: 1.2m (up 55%)
Switch: 720k (down 17%)
Xbox Series: 650k (down 16.7%)
Phil and his leadership flunkies...could care less. MSFT could care less. #untouchable
Despite the slump in Switch sales, Nintendo’s aging console still managed to beat the Xbox Series X/S numbers. The latter sold 650,000 units in 2023, with a drop of 16.7% compared to the previous year. For context, the Xbox Series X came out in November 2020, so this represents its third year on the market.
The third year of a console’s life should see it at its peak, but even with the complications of the pandemic it is very worrying for Microsoft to see such a significant fall.
This mirrors what happened in the US over Christmas, which is likely to have been a primary catalyst for Microsoft’s decision to make certain Xbox games multiformat.
Color me surprised.
Congratulations Sony unfortunate for everyone else.