"Rumors have been running rampant over the last couple of months that Crash Bandicoot will be returning to the PS4."
The former SIE president, Shawn Layden, argues that Nintendo can charge $80 for Switch 2 titles because of its exclusives.
Yeah....no
Such a bad take from him.
Okay so if hypothetically Sony decides to do this then I don't want to see him defending them as some of their games come to PC.
@-Foxtrot 'Such a bad take from him.' Look, I get there is a lot of anger about the NS2 pricing but he's speaking facts. If a publisher has a game that is THAT desirable to the masses then it can charge a high price because there will be an audience who will buy it. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe on Switch continues to be one of its bestsellers eight years after release. I make an educated guess that it is the one game with the highest attach rate. So Mario Kart World will be the equivalent of the essential standard game, the killer app for every kid to get.
@VenomUK
MK8 Deluxe was marketed at the right time and place; with the Switch. The casual audience is extremely fickle and will likely not give the next MK game such sales. MK8 on the Wii U is almost the same exact game, but it sold much less.
@nommers, Mario Kart 8 sold 8 million. Thats more than half of the Wii U userbase.
i mean they can, if people are gonna buy them is a whole other thing.
its a big no for me tho.
not for a system that is a gen behind and will be 2 gens behind very soon
Yes, that's the core of the issue.
Nintendo is free to set whatever price they choose. These are non-essential products, so there's no clear moral dimension to the pricing itself, it's simply a business decision.
However, there's the other side of the transaction to consider. Consumers ultimately hold the power. They express their approval or disapproval not through words, but through their wallets. My hope is that, this time, people will take a moment to reflect on what’s being asked of them and respond accordingly by walking away from the console and its games.
But, in the end, it all comes down to consumer choice.
You have the right to charge any number but it doesn’t make it right and it doesn’t mean all of your customers are going to accept it
Good time to find other hobbies. Between GPU and AI and all these hypes, they are overflating themselves. Video Games have only so much cut in a person's life. People should do what they were doing twenty years ago, live life. That's when they will revise the pricing. I do remember when PC and computers were going down. Then they injected these ideas on clouds and connectionto bring new life, and hooked ppl onto online. It's time to put the digital age in line with it's true value. As an add-on, supplement to life not a replacement for the experience.
Nah...gaming on the PC and PS5 is still quite affordable. Unlike Nintendo, there are always sales on the PS Store and Steam that you can take advantage of. PS+ monthly games have been bangers too month after month thus no need for outright payment and these are recent games too unlike N64 and GC games by Nintendo on their service.
Personally, since the PS5 launched I have only paid day 1 price for 3 games, R&C and Spider-Man 2 and Astrobot. Other games will have their price dropped not too long after launch and that's how I have been getting my games. I have been waiting for Stellar Blade to be at the pricepoint I'm comfortable with for awhile now, hopefully there'll be a massive discount soon or fingers crossed, it might become a monthly game some time this year? Looking at you Robocop haha. You can this waiting game with Sony because you know it will happen sooner or later buy good luck with Nintendo. Seeing as how BoTW is still sold at full price since 2017, it's just not right and I'm happy I was never a Nintendo's fan.
Be smart with your purchases.
Doesn't mean I'll buy it at such a high price, Shawn.
If games are $80 as standard, then I'd just never buy any game new again unless it got heavily discounted.
We caught up with renowned actor Ashly Burch on the BAFTA Game Awards red carpet.
Neil Newbon represented the Pixel Pack at the BAFTA Games Awards, offering up some critical home truths about AI in gaming.
Gamers: "Companies are making crap games and putting no time into quality stories and gameplay."
Also Gamers (some of them the same people): "AI is the future, get with it."
If it’s good, I would.
If a f*cking chimp made Baldur’s Gate 3 with the help of AI, why in the f*ck would I refuse to play it because of who or what made it!? I’ve played absolute dog sh*t made by human devs and pissed on all over by corporate greed, which in all honesty, could’ve probably benefited from AI.
Here’s something to contemplate: What program do devs use to place foliage in environments and what system does it use to generate the variations? Or what about Procedurally generated content? I’ll give you a hint, it’s AI.
***If a f*cking chimp made Baldur’s Gate 3 with the help of AI, why in the f*ck would I refuse to play it because of who or what made it!?***
If thing that isn't happening and won't happen, then why not? What an argument.
***Or what about Procedurally generated content? I’ll give you a hint, it’s AI. ***
No, it's literally not AI. It's utilizing algorithms to generate foliage based on successful creations of foliage cooked into it. AI is a pattern learning method that can start with learning from algorithms but created pattern learned models for generation. It needs procedural content to learn patterns.If procedural is AI, then why is AI learning from procedural? It's not.
The fact you don't understand the difference tells me you don't understand AI or programming.
*cough cough*
AI for level design can automatically place objects like trees and plants, making it way easier for developers to create complex and visually appealing environments and Gee willikers here’s some actual tools being used that I clearly don’t understand:
Promethean AI, which works with procedural pipelines.
PCGRL (Procedural Content Generation via Reinforcement Learning)
- Guess what this does, lol.
Houdini can be paired with AI scripts or Python plugins, letting developers bring machine learning into the mix to help guide and tweak procedural generation based on patterns the AI has learned.
There are AI tools like DreamzAR, iScape, and Fotor’s AI Landscape Generator that are already being used to design landscapes—complete with plants, trees, and layout suggestions. TREEEEEES with AI!!!
And my point with the chimp was, if a game is good, like on the level of Baldur’s Gate 3, and made by a chimp or with AI, why would I refuse to play it because of who or what made it? Can’t tell if you were picking up what I was laying down, there, buddy.
Your turn.
SMH.
*** PCGRL (Procedural Content Generation via Reinforcement Learning) ***
WITH REINFORCEMENT LEARNING! It literally says it's procedural with AI on top of it. It is not just procedural generation.
Edit: Also, do you know how many things are calling themselves AI now that absolutely aren't AI? AI is the new marketing term for most people.
***And my point with the chimp was, if a game is good, like on the level of Baldur’s Gate 3***
Yeah, again, it's not happening. Stop bringing up science fiction movie ideas. This is reality.
“***And my point with the chimp was, if a game is good, like on the level of Baldur’s Gate 3***
Yeah, again, it's not happening. Stop bringing up science fiction movie ideas. This is reality.“
I can’t tell if you’re trolling me with this one or you really don’t get what I’m saying…
And this one’s on me, while procedural generated content isn’t AI, the tools being implemented into modern game design to handle procedurally generated content once assets are made are AI solutions like Promethean AI.
So uh, yea. There ya go.
I appreciate the social stance (jobs) as ive already seen it happening in my own professional field. But putting that aside, if you didnt know, or it was actually good, why would you care?
People will welcome what suits them and doesn't negatively affect them directly, whether thats AI cleaning my dishes typing up my meeting notes or making a game. Convenience, in the end trumps all.
"People will welcome what suits them and doesn't negatively affect them directly"
This is it. As various events the last week or so have emphasized, the thing that really matters to people at the end of the day is the price they will pay for products and services as consumers. No one is going to go out of their way to play games made by/heavily reliant on AI if they are the same price as games that don't rely on AI and are worse quality. But if a company relying on AI makes a game people like, and especially if a company can make decent games and keep prices lower, gamers will buy their stuff.
Sure, there might be a small group of idealist gamers who refuse to play games where certain things are made by AI (I think voices will be a place certain people draw the line), just like some people will pay more for certain products because they are "fair trade" goods, but most won't care.
***if you didnt know, or it was actually good, why would you care? ***
So far, the use of AI has been pretty blatantly obvious. From AI language tools that sound like really bad voice modulators to images in games or splash screens with typical AI generated issues. This argument of "was actually good" hasn't happened yet, especially not in video games. Generally, AI tools are for concept building in most game dev cycles, not entirely building games. The reason for that is because AI isn't as good as humans nor can it take direction.
Agreed, with a massive caveat of 'yet'.
Hell, it probably does a great for analyzing web traffic, user activity and attention patterns but it probably can't do a great job of moderating a website, yet. But eventually, t'll be cheaper, constantly working, want less holiday, won't get sick... Will users care if its indistinguishable between Chris paying his mortgage or Chris the AI?
We should all get a trade :D
For now. Wait until some company comes up with the perfectly moronic AI made mechanic and makes bank with it, and then BOOM! Fuck the video game industry. Although, thanks to the nazi scum, we're already there, but still. Just like with DLC, incomplete games, season passes, patches, battle passes, loot boxes, horse armor, and digital only games, it's only a matter of time.
Good luck.
not sure about anybody else, but personally, im not supporting a game made by AI. i like my games made by humans and i am willing to pay them for it
Oh Hell Yeah!!
Welcome back Crash!!!
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Omg the hype is real Sonys press conference at E3. I cannot wait!
MWUHAHAHAHA! - Cortex
"Neo Cortex is the only doctor that he has voiced in the past in a video game."
Way to do research, take a look at his IMDB page, he voiced Dr. Doom a couple of years ago. A tip, don't rely on just a wiki page.
hell yes