Microsoft and Sony have really shifted away from the generational gap and have instead opted for incremental upgrades to their consoles. After Sony and Microsoft confirmed to have 3 actual console upgrades in the same generation, it’s really skeptical how well the next-generation consoles after the PlayStation 4 Pro and Project Scorpio come up. After the question was brought up, Phil rejected the claim.
The premium Sony Inzone earbuds are designed for PC and PS5, and they're finally getting a discount after launching in late 2023.
These seems like one of the best options for use with a PS5, high quality sound and design. However, you will likely need a dongle for use with many of your bluetooth devices such as an iPhone as it requires a LE signal.
The only purpose I could see me buying them is that they would be more comfortable to wear with PSVR2 compared to their Pulse/Pulse Elite over the head/over the ear cup headphones.
The use of “stellar” in the title made my dyslexic brain think there was a stellar blade exclusive limited edition or something.
Teeehee.
The first three Tomb Raider games are coming to an Evercade Cartridge!
Their newer giga cart tech should make for even bigger games coming to the platform. I'm hoping for a Resident Evil collection with the first 3 games.
Huzaifah from eXputer: "With Larian Studios washing their hands of the IP, what is the ultimate fate of the legendary Baldur's Gate series?"
If anybody's gonna mention BioWare, then look at Archetype Entertainment, they're the new BioWare
or else
Obsidian is still a good choice but not independent anymore.
No, WoTC is pivoting to mobile. They can use Larian's work to justify DnD Go and everyone will accept it.
Correct answer. Most people don't realise that the companies that are still making good games using common sense and a customer focus are generally not American. They are from Poland, Belgium, Japan, or other countries that have not yet become completely corrupted by 'extreme capitalism'.
Before you down vote me into oblivion I am not anti-american. I just don't like greed and corruption which unfortunately seems to correlate with power.
I would guess the next Baldurs gate will probably be filled with GaaS.
Honestly, we're talking completely new engine and none of Larian's built-in stuff with regard to environments and the like that they had from their past divinity game. No one is going to have that just ready to go. So, they need to shop for a dev studio that has a past game that shows what they want.
Obsidian doesn't have that, maybe the closest being Dungeon Siege 3 or Pillars of Eternity, but those are very basic, not as open, very little environment related and altering capabilities. So, we're talking a step way back on what Larian delivered. Zero scene experience to line up with what was done in BG3. Okay conversation tree designs, but still needs more complexity.
inXile has Wasteland 3 as a base model engine, and I think that's better than Pillars of Eternity from Obsidian. But, still needs to be more open world, more environmental effects, and a much heavier rules set adaptation. But, not a bad overall engine as a base, but still a ton of work. Zero scene experience to line up with what was done in BG3. Needs a ton of work on that entirely.
Tactical Adventure did the Solasta game. Really good and more accurate as far as 5e rules than BG3. But, again, if the expectation is similar to what made BG3 a big hit, engine isn't designed for moving the camera, is a bit outdated in graphics, doesn't have in-game scene elements, and needs much better writers/voice actors.
Owlcat of pathfinder games is another choice, even though they've recently moved on to WH40k licensed games. Again, though, the engine is the biggest issue here to match up, but it's a much better option overall than Tactical Adventure. Another question is writers/story telling, as much of their overall story telling bits are very limited with a lot of random worldbuilding elements that are just +\- of some attributes.
TBH, no matter who takes over, it's just not going to be like BG3 much like how BG3 isn't at all like BG1/2. And BG3 was so successful because of how much Larian was able to put in with their engine and how focused they were on players having ridiculous control over the story being told. I just don't see the next BG being the same and depending on what it is, it might be good but I'm not as big of a reach as BG3. It's way more likely players are going to go into BG4 (or its spiritual successor if it moves away from Baldur's Gate and into Neverwinter or something like Plansescape) expecting much of what is in BG3 with more options, new and older characters, and the same level of control over what they're doing. If it doesn't have that, regardless of who makes it, it won't be as successful, IMHO.
Yes, I completely concur.
As good and talented as inXile and Obsidian are in their own specific way of making their particular games, none of them have Larian's attention to detail, dynamic worlds, and reactivity, so even if they end up making a new Baldur's Gate, it's going to be a significant step-down in terms of gameplay if not narrative.
'However, considering both companies aren’t sticking to the console traditions, does this mean that this is the end for console generations?'
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Sony actually said to still favour traditional console cycles in an few interviews.
besides,
'it’s really skeptical how well the next-generation consoles after the PlayStation 4 Pro and Project Scorpio come up'
What the heck does that mean? ...'its not clear' I suppose?
Who on Earth was expecting a different answer from this man?
Despite their intentions, I think the market will be the judge of whether this is true or not. Their decisions were always leaning towards the games as a service model. Not only do they have less first-party studios to support their console than ever, they're cancelling projects all over the place and their main IPs don't even have the strength that they used to, and they're not even making any visible effort to create new ones. It's all about maximising profits on existing IP via things such as transactions where they don't belong.
Despite having the more powerful console in a few months it's going to be harder for them to garner full exclusive third-party support after how those deals have turned out for those involved, the exposition of how they treat certain studios like inconvenient dirt on their shoes, and considering the Scorpio will not do anything to distract PlayStation's market dominance in the long-term.
People will of course being up the old "why is it so important they need to be #1? they're selling better than 360". Well first of all, multibillion Microsoft corporate doesn't see it that way considering the kinds of rejected mechanisms they wasted millions if not billions of R&D resources on to be that #1 sold 'broad-entertainment' box this generation, and the second part can't be true anymore or we'd have solid numbers.
3 console upgrades? Are you really calling releasing a slimline version of a console, a practice that's been around since the 3rd gen, an upgrade just to establish an agenda?
So we should be expecting Xbone/two or xbox 1,2 sometime. But with the Xbone and future Xconsoles no longer having real exclusives, I guess it would be a console for the ms diehards
a full article and all i see is spencer responding "No" to a question ...