The recent patent by Activision for a system that manipulates matchmaking to drive microtransactions is worrying on many levels.
This is Spencer's mindset after the Activision Blizzard acquisition closed
What a horrifically toxic person, im sure in his mind Microsoft already acquired both Sony and Nintendo and they are all that's left in gaming.
Can't wait for 2027!
so... people who express positivity are toxic in your view? That's basically what you are saying right now. I know its easier to hate but it takes real strength to remain positive in the face of negativity.
As for him living rent free in your head... that will be $9.99 now.
This comment proves my earlier comment. There is nothing wrong with you. I have surmised that you are a developer and you are not dumb but in order to claim to be 'down with the Xbox' YOU have to become toxic yourself. He did not say anything you are implying. That's a toxic lie. Spencer is not expressing positivity. THAT is a toxic lie. People are not supposed to be positive in the face of consolidation that will lead to a worse situation for all of us. Ignoring that is TOXIC.
^^man i wish i were a developer. I'm just an average joe who tries to be upbeat and optimistic even when the chips are down.
He sees the writing on the wall, and knows that Xbox GamePass will eventually appear on both Sony and Nintendo's systems.
It has to get on ps and Nintendo or xbox is dead by 2027, that's why. Xbox NEEDS gamepass on everything or they are out of business in 2027.
I don't see why people are disagreeing, Phil said it himself that if GP subs don't dramatically increase by then, Xbox is toast. Logically, the only way to pull that off is for them to go third party, as they aren't just going to magically start selling a ton more consoles. Even a new exclusive Bethesda IP hasn't even started to turn things around for them. They have not far from 100 billion dollars to recoup from all these purchases, and their shareholders will be out for blood soon.
Can't wait to have all those Sony exclusives on my Xbox and on GamePass when MS acquires them 🔥🔥🔥
Lol Xbox is going to be only a publisher by 2027 they won't be buying playstation, they need playstation more than anything to survive 🤣 you are trolling or dumb take your pick. Xbox is done, welcome to the future where xbox is a publisher releasing games on everything and playstation and Nintendo carry on as usual.
Xbox exits the gaming industry as Phil said if they don't get over 100M subs on GamePass by then it's not worth staying.
This number ofc being impossible as GP only has 25M subs now.
Vengeance the courts showed Xbox is more profitable than PS. So that make no sense
@phily
No it didn't 🤣 Mandela effect in action in your world huh, Sony breaking records month on month year on year , xbox "we are a publisher by 2027 because no one is buying gamepass" yeah sounds like it's going well over at xbox. You are a clown 🤡
would we be happy if he had come out and said screw nintendo and playstation? so what the heck do we want? MS have the money to buy and publishers are willing to sell. We have cult like fanboys on this site who will defend their box and brand even if their brand is doing wrong by gamers. Until we mature as a community greed with continue to rule supreme
i am so glad i am now a PC gamer. This nonsense has to stop. I have multiple store fronts offering competetive pricing and the ability to use cheat codes in my single player games to enjoy without all the MT
He wishes he had a community of gamers. I guess buying the market and banning gamers from games seems like a community for him, now everyone is as miserable as an Xbox owner
Maybe he's foreshadowing a future where they're no longer making exclusive games... where the Xbox hardware is like... not as important?
No longer making games? They never made games in the first place, thats how ms made the Xbox the least played platform. All they're doing now is buying up an industry and dictating who is and isn't allowed to play, gamers have got nothing from MSs deals except for less options for where to play and two publishers no longer competing.
MS has never seen Xbox hardware as important. Never.
It why they didn't buy vital parts for OG Xbox.
Why the 360 was rushed causing RRoD.
Why 1st edition XB1 was built around Kinect, and technically crippled as a result.
Its why they're talking more about streaming than Series X while not really talking about how Series S sells better. Is hindering the more powerful system.
Even when MS honestly tried making games, PC specs where more important than their own console. Alan Wake - that quantum game/TV I'm not bothering to recall - and that cop game - I'm also brain farting on - all where first shown on bleeding edge PC rigs, and subsequently failed to live up to first reveals for being built down to the consoles they should have been built for.
Phil/MS might be claiming a win because he bought an industry position Xbox has failed to earn, but if MS lives to type, then all that's going to lead to is disappointment and denial.
@God, i couldn't disagree more. It wasn't until XB1 that MS started leaning into PC and cloud.
Up until then, getting you on Xbox hardware so you buy games via their platform was the ONLY business model that existed. Of course they saw their hardware as important. The OG Xbox had built-in ethernet and was quite a bit more powerful than it's rival PS2. The RROD wasn't on purpose in the 360. The Kinect was a hardware play to gain superiority in the way Nintendo did with their controllers. Now that they have pulled in PC and have expectations around Cloud, maybe they're pivoting their investments to a sector they think they can "win" in, but that's a relatively new concept.
I believe they said it’s more about Gamepass on everything under the sun and that sub model, a possible future without consoles. Now they own most of the industry, crazy!
I dunno if what hes saying is that crazy. Sony gamers have no confirmed first party games coming in 2024. They should feel right at home in the Xbox community
Just a pure bullshitter.
I won't be buying any games under their umbrella. Won't be streaming their games. I will not create any Microsoft game accounts. Won't be purchasing any subscriptions from them.
Being on another platform does not make any of us part of the Xbox community. Such a ridiculous individual.
I for one would like to welcome Xbox players to the Playstation Community. They have access to MLB The Show after all
They only have access to the game because they kept bugging the MLB about Sony's game being on their system.
They didn't spend any of those BILLIONS.... MAKING their own got damn game. They shadily went behind Sony where Sony had no choice but to go multiplatform with it or lose the rights to make their own baseball game. Any other developer, including the 2 TRILLION dollar worth Microsoft, could have made their own game. Just pay the MLB the money for the license. It wasn't exclusive. Microsoft chose not to because they are shitty.
I don't care about that community or Microsoft. That community has allowed and supports, a shady company like Microsoft that chooses to not make games. Only take away from others like they did with these publisher purchases.
If you look up the definition of “gaslighting” in the urban dictionary, you see a picture of Phil Spencer.
Why does he do this sh*t?
Don’t do this fake “we’re a happy family” bullsh*t. Have some fight in you like you did with the Activision Blizzard acquisition. Start treating the competition as competition and start getting on their level with exclusives and actual decent releases.
I guess we’re moving the goalpost to 2024 for being the year, amirite?
From the perspective of Microsoft, most of their customers are NOT Xbox gamers. No other platform holder is in this predicament. Therefore they buy all of the most popular publishers and then claim that the games they bought make anyone who play them a part of the Xbox community.
From the extremely low Xbox console sales compared to both Switch & PS5, plus the mediocrity of the MS first party output compared to both Sony and Nintendo, I think it's far more fair to say that Xbox players are more likely to now be members of the PS5 & Switch communities.
How ironic when Xbox has zero must buy games on their console this gen. I barely consider Xbox part of this generation’s gaming landscape yet. Sure, I’ll buy an Xbox when there’s a reason to, but that hasn’t happened yet.
If you really did you wouldn’t buy multiplat publishers and stop the games that were being made for other platforms. But we all know Phil is full of crap and thinks gamers are stupid . I want nothing to do with Xbox
It would be nice if the entire Interview was posted instead of a snippet for clickbait and flaming purposes.
Personally after reading " The WHOLE" interview MS is starting to heavily imply that they will go the full 3rd party road.
https://www.famitsu.com/new...
(Google translate isn't perfect but you get a good sense of the interview)
Now there's a whole section where the interviewer asks about the relation with Steam since MS released their game on a service that competes with the Xbox and Windows stores in that sense it gives more sense to Phil's initial statement about community.
Thank you for finding the full interview. I didn't know it was part of a bigger interview. I will try and do better n the future.
No blame on you pal the blame is on the author of the article who used part of the interview to create some clickbait.
Judging by the flames in the comment section, well he succeeded.
Hey, Phil's gotta get them numbers up somehow.
Does this mean he's treating some of the Xbox community as second class citizens when he cancels multiplatform projects for PlayStation?
Weird company, Microsoft. Windows awful to use since XP, games on PC and Xbox, I’d can PC games to boost Xbox sales. Microsoft owned Minecraft on other consoles. Sony pulled Spider-Man off Xbox. The more you look into it, the more you see how dumb Microsoft are.
https://www.gameinformer.co...
You realize Xbox got offered exclusively any Marvel game and turned them down is the reason Spiderman is on Playstation exclusively right?!
I guess everyone can live happily ever after now that they are all part of Xbox community and if you don't play any of the games xbox own they will be buying those games you do play next 😆
Maybe they will buy AMD next that way not only are Playstation fans part of the xbox community they will also be playing on xbox hardware 👀
My office computer has Edge as their default browser. Guess my job is now part of the Xbox Community
They 100% would if they could. Sony and Nintendo would be crazy to allow it though. It'd be like Apple letting the Google Play Store on their phone
I wonder if PlayStation also considers Nintendo and Xbox players part of the PlayStation community too, as PlayStation has 1st party titles on those platforms.
Sounds bizarre mirror imaged, but whatever works for Xbox
Phil is on some very good drugs. A few years from now, he's going to think he's Skynet.
Nah dude, your stank is yours alone. Don't try that cross-platform snuggle bear BS.
Get wrecked.
Xbox's Phil Spencer considers PS5 and Nintendo Switch players the only community. Fixed
No. PlayStation doesn't want to be. Pull your bottom lip over your head and swallow. Your underbite ought to make that easy. Only a blind man couldn't see what he's trying to do. PlayStation simply needs to sabotage the acquisition and make it appear to not be that big of a deal. Cheapen Call of Duty, not bundle it with your hardware. Cliff Blezinski was just talking about a Gears of War reboot. PlayStation, offer the guy a job and let him build a Gears of War franchise for PlayStation. He's got no job right now, Sony Santa Monica could put him to work and let him create. Bring back SOCOM and you have it play like Call of Duty. Xbox squandered $70 billion! Take them away from them. Treat Call of Duty like it's useless and let Xbox kill it like they did Halo and Gears of War, that's their track record. Let them piss off their fanbase with the GaaS business model, you know that's what they want and what they'll do because they have to recoup that money.
Microsoft and Xbox are the devil, they really don't know anything about the gaming industry and if PlayStation has a chance to finish them off, this is it. You let the world know they wasted a huge amount of money, they're doing whatever they can do get it back because they can't afford to eat a loss like that, and then you throw out exclusive after exclusive to bury them. Know, this is Phil's version of if you can't beat them join them without giving up his brand. I ain't that stupid
I was but Nintendo and Sony offered me a better deal. Games that actually draw my attention and made me want to buy those systems. I am thinking of just selling my Series X I just don't use it not even as a blu ray player. Halo 5 was boring, the new entries into the Gears franchise are also boring, I am not a Bethesda fan, and I am not an Activision fan. I'll either sell my Series X or just trade it in I just don't use it.
Im adamant MS is moving to service and third party publisher and Phils starting to cushion it with statements like these.
2027 is the new 2012 Mayan apocalypse date for XBOX consoles.
If I were Xbots, I'd tread carefully on the trash talking. It's obvious MS wants to go 3rd party.
I've turned my back on Xbox after the 2013 DRM debacle, I am most certainly not part of the Xbox community anymore, and you have no one to blame but yourselves for that.
To sweeten the GamePass pot. In business there are short term and long term goals. You can’t do everything at once. The vision of GamePass is to eventually be on every platform possible, otherwise the business model does not make sense.
Microsoft didn't buy Activision and ZeniMax to keep their games off of PlayStation and Nintendo, they're definitely going to try to sell Game Pass and DLC to everyone they can.
Whether you game on their box, PC, Mobile or another device (TV, Console, Table, etc), they want the potential whole world of gamers and don't care about the Xbox Console getting exclusives.
Halo, Forza, Gears, etc will be accessible to everyone through the Gamepass App, billions of potential subs is their target!
Whatever helps you sleep at night Phil. This is some next level narcissistic obsession. I think he said something similar when they bought Minecraft.
When PR person runs out of ideas and has nothing to say, but still need to make press statement to earn the money…
The deal is done. Activision Blizzard is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Microsoft after two years of regulatory investigations.
Well no new games are coming out of these acquisitions, this is about control over the industry and IP hording for a subscription service. Seeing what a disaster subscription services have been for Hollywood I can't wait for MS to bring the joys of that to gaming.
This entire endeavour is to line the pockets of a handful of extremely wealthy people, they'll dump it as soon as they've sucked it dry or wrecked it.
If this doesn't help to up subscription services for Microsoft by the allotted time frame then nothing. Otherwise a shift to sub-services being the primary way we game and the consequences that come with that.
Microsoft now has 35 Game Studios, while Sony has 14 Game Studios. This is huge.....
and yet...nothing that compares to, even - ratchet and clank in terms of fun, anyway
More isn’t always better, especially when Microsoft has such a poor track record of handling its own exclusives like Halo and Gears of War. And now Microsoft is in a position where its games are competing with its other games. Developers will be let go. Franchised will die.
And all they can produce is average content for their all you can eat buffet of games instead of allowing these studios to craft evergreen titles
I mean the only thing that has happened so far with these acquisitions is a noticeable downgrade in quality and value in the games produced under MSs management. The only undeniable banger released, Hi-Fi Rush, they really didn't give a sh!t about, just shadow dropped it with quite literally zero marketing. Even to this day the only things I've heard about it have been from word of mouth. So probably just more of that 🤷♂️
"they really didn't give a sh!t about, just shadow dropped it with quite literally zero marketing."
Yeaaaah that's not at all what happened but hey let's just make up things because it's N4G and that's what we do around here.
So sure let's run with that.
https://www.ign.com/article...
Literally the trending term regarding it's release by pretty much anyone that covered it. So who made up what now? 😂
I mean he's not wrong lighting, they did drop it with zero marketing lol
I remember shadow drop was the word of the month and how there should be more shadow drops
Or you could enlighten people with your superior knowledge...but sure let's just run with not actually making a point.
You literally just killed your own argument. It went viral, internally so they shadow dropped it.
Not MS didn't care about the game and didn't want to market it.
Congrats at killing your own argument.
@crows I make way more points than anyone here. Isarai literally just took down his own argument so read his link.
No i didn't LMAO don't know how you came to that conclusion. If it went viral internally, why not drop, at the very least, a trailer and some banners for the game? That game dropped with nothing. Not like MS don't have the money. Even after launch I really don't recall seeing any official marketing for it. Again, if they cared about the game, even minimal marketing would show that.
Also, THAT is not my point, but a sidenote to my point. My point is so far MS has shown nothing but poor management excluding the one game. Every other game has launched with a ton of cut corners, disappointments, and/or caveat to get some fun out of it be it microtransactions, waiting for a roadmap of updates to fix it, or ignoring blaring issues.
It went viral internally? What does that even mean? LOL you still haven't countered anything that was said, because you can't reute facts. I make more points than anyone! Lmao
@Kwiet just read the freakin article isarai linked it for godsakes.
"That's how it actually built up within Bethesda...Some people had played it and they spoke about it to their other [colleagues]. They're like, 'Did you see that game that they're making there?' There's this weird sort of viral positivity to this just playing this game, and Game Pass just felt like an excellent opportunity to let something...lose that skepticism immediately by just playing it and people just talking about it."
It was a positive reception internally and was Skepticism if it was an actual good game or not. A surprise drop that paid off. So I ask again where did MS say didn't the game was crap and didn't care about marketing it like isarai?
Again he owned himself.
I'm talking to 12 years olds I swear... I have to be. Y'all are actual children.
Bro stop, you're just making yourself look stupid 🤣😂
" where did MS say didn't the game was crap and didn't care about marketing it like isarai"
First off learn how to construct a sentence, damn near had an aneurysm trying to read that.
Second, I literally called the game "an undeniable banger", quite the opposite of "crap"
Third, MS didn't "say" anything, and that's the problem. Ironically you proved what I'm saying. Despite it "going viral internally" MS for whatever reason still didn't have any confidence in it. Instead they looked at something obviously good with "skepticism", and so didn't market it as not to dump more money into it. They actually cannot see something great sitting right in front of them.
"viral internally, why not drop, at the very least, a trailer and some banners for the game?"
Why does it matter? It had over 2 million players and Tango even opened up new posistions and expanded the studio. Complaining for no reason.
"Again, if they cared about the game, even minimal marketing would show that."
Nintendo dropped Metroid Prime remaster from GameCube with out advertisement I guess they "didn't care"about that game also right? Btw that game also turned about to be a success. So where does it say MS didn't give a shit about Hifi like you claimed?
Sometimes just releasing a game is better than over hyped ad campaigns. Yes they even advertised the game afterwards through ads on social media Xbox store etc. You're not winning this argument so might as well stop while you're ahead.
As for the rest your comment your taking about Redfall. What Microtransactions? Forza or Redfall doesn't have Microtransaction? Question why do you make up things?
"Why does it matter?" ... So when you've been proven wrong, you just say it doesn't matter? 🤣If it doesn't matter why are you so hellbent on proving otherwise? I couldn't have asked for a funnier argument. And if you want the answer to that go back and read my comments, learn to read and do your own research. Figure it out.
Been seeing this for years since Crackdown 3 was one of my earliest realisations that the quality wasn't there and gamepass with simply a dumping ground.
Sure they may have one big game per year that receives a little extra love but happily shive something like halo infinite out there to be picked apart for a few weeks by the masses
"First off learn how to construct a sentence, damn near had an aneurysm trying to read that.
Second, I literally called the game "an undeniable banger", quite the opposite of "crap"
I was multitasking. This how it all went down.
You said "Hi-Fi Rush, they really didn't give a sh!t"
You linked an article that went completely went against your little theory in fact they said it was a positive reception internally. I asked where didn't say MS didn't give a crap about the game?
"Third, MS didn't "say" anything, and that's the problem."
Ok cool so clearly did give a damn about the game. Btw the shadow drop was 100% on Tango.
"MS for whatever reason still didn't have any confidence in it."
Not enough confidence they showed it off at the xbox direct and dropped it that same day? Again it was Tangos call to do so not MS. You don't have any facts just the typical "MS is bad 100% of the time because so that must be it!" Argument. Yeah it's not gonna fly and you'll have to try harder than that.
"Why does it matter?" ... So when you've been proven wrong,"
Proven wrong about what!? You didn't prove Jack. You were concern trolling about hi fi not having marketing and said MS didn't care about the game. In which I not only showed you where you were wrong in your own post, that you linked, you decided to make up claims that MS didn't care about the game. In which again they made a whole direct about Hifi and dropped out that same damn day hence "shadow drop" and it was Tango who made that call.
One last time and keep up. I said why does it matter in the grand scheme of things when the game was a success regardless of marketing? Context is everything.
It's a K. O. I told you were losing this one.
Smart of you to avoid the microtransactions comment. You knew you were wrong.
This is end of gaming industry rn we need a crash imo to restart gaming and the industry with Nintendo coming in and saving it again.
Basically they bought live service games with indefinite seasons and no need for new ideas.
Milk it till it's dead.
Warcraft, Diablo, Overwatch, Fallout 76, ES Online, Cod... and King garbage. All live service trash.
You know... you could make a lot of cool stuff with all of this...but nope.
Warcraft is still retail trash that needs a sub, diablo 4 is endgame garbage, Overwatch is F2p $40 skins trash.
Bobby actually managed to sell garbage to MS and that is impressive.
Bobby I love you!
it wont afgect it immediately but you can definitely see change happen by next year.
for the worse i might add.
Honestly give me something like Gargoyles where it has the remastered version and the original…I’d be content
Either that or big collections
I’d kill for a retro Disney collection with all the old school Sega / PS1 games on it
Xbox and Gamepass for me it's like going for a buffet. You have everything to taste, from sushi to BBQ Steaks, but in the end every one of the different meals are just "meh"(you can find a gold nugget between the mediocrity but like that, it's a bit hard). Xbox can have 1.000 studios around it but all of them doesn't have the talent or the creativity to innovate... It's just that, a mediocre buffet that you pay monthly because... Yeah.
Now they have ActiBlizz IPs, so what? Diablo 4 it's a mess with an squeleton crew trying to keep it alive, Overwatch 2 it's becoming 1 again because they found out before was great, WoW it's dying because the wow token(and much more issues) and Hearthstone it's just a card game that was cool years ago. Now on the other hand, with Activision they have the golden goose named Call of Duty.. but if they do the Halo Infinite idea on it, Playstation have the chance to create a good thing with Bungie on their side or hell even Valve with updates can make Counter Strike 2 shines more than that cesspool of cheaters and reiterations every year.
Microsoft can have ton of golden goose, but if they don't know what to do with them.. they are going to fail if not now, in a couple of years.
If you want to see the future of gaming, look at the Netflix. Lots and lots of junk content that Netflix abandoned. I would say this is the future of Game Pass, but Microsoft Studios is already publishing junk on Game Pass. Now we’ll get more junk.
Short term, not much. Long term we'll either end up in a bidding war for publishers until one company buys out the other or triple A gaming will somehow get worse with the emphasis on games as a subscription service titles to prob up platforms like Game Pass and PS+ Premium until we get the gaming equivalent of the streaming wars and my favourite hobby begins to die a slow and pitiful death
This means that subscription is the future. Hard copies will be gone. And Microsoft will have all the developers.
This is what I see.
What do u think?
I stopped playing COD years ago—don’t care about M$ buying the “old and proven” devs whose best games are regurgitated with a new coat of paint every few years. I’m way more interested in Wolverine over anything those studios have coming. Smh and going back to playing BG3 and waiting on Spidey 2 in couple days.
I would guess ABK’s love for 30$ skins and other MTs , pay to win , battle passes etc will creep into almost everything MS releases. Halo and Forza being GaaS was happening before the deal so it is most likely going to be the case for the majority of their games.
How can gamepass be sustainable without subscribers going up by 20-30 million? By making billions from MTs ,Gacha , pay to win and milking their customers as much as they can is the only way how.
The article brings up lots of great questions Like if MS brings COD to Gamepass why would you try the next indy gem when COD is established as the most valuable game?
Or how much creativity the industry will really have with MS controlling the majority of studios?
Personally, I believe that MS will need to find a balance between retails, available on Gamepass and Gamepass Day1
Also, it's important to remember that ABK was a shadow of their former self when discussing creating and publishing games. In 2020 - 2023 ABK worked on 6 IPs consisting of COD, Diablo, Overwatch, Saikero Shadow Die Twice, Crash, and Tony Hawk.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...
Just compare vs 10 years ago
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How will this affect the rest of the industry?
Negatively
Time to get some retro pickup's in before everyone else realises the modern gaming crash is coming.
Unsustainable business models will cause a sharp dip in quality and will flow on industry wide while every single studio will continue to push for a gaas model because the executive team sees dollars in the stars.
Microsoft is way to happy to release a 6/10 game onto it's all you can eat buffet pushing the team to make a game highly regarded means nothing to them because everyone will have moved on a month later so just make it ok enough to get some interest.
After activitision best believe they have others in their sights.
Ask sony fans... write your will. Life is over
Ask xbox fans... Gaming lives forever
They aren't out of the console game just yet. Question is, will they increase console exclusives in an attempt to drive sales or will they need any money from potential sales outside of pc and xbox. They def don't need any money
The way I see this working out is the same scenario that happened with Bethesda for example in that some games will be exclusive and some games will be multiplatform.
M$ kinda made it known they care more about Game Pass then they do selling consoles in multiple interviews.
M$ also made it known they want to support multiple platforms with their service as possible as well.
Hell M$ owns the Minecraft series for god sakes and that series is on every system plus moblile phones.
My only concern with this deal is that M$ will have less incentive to compete with Sony or Nintendo in the future.
Only time will tell.
WoW is a great gaming franchise. I'd say they made a great purchase with a world of business in mind. (If all is alright with God)
Nintendo briefed Call of Duty maker Activision on its upcoming hardware in December 2022.
"Closer alignment" to PS4 and Xbox One.
Thought I had read somewhere that it might be close to Xbox Series X and PS5 in terms of visuals. That it had been shown running that Matrix Unreal 5 demo. If it's closer to Xbox One and PS4 then that's extremely disappointing already.
its going to be closer to a PS4, 1.84 teraflops, but has a few new tricks up its sleeve, 12 gigs of ram / dlss 3 / raytracing / SSD
It's going to have a bit of a rough time with next gen third party games. The current gen machines are already having trouble with UE5 upscaling from 720p and still having fairly big FPS dips here and there.
I'd rather devs work with the hardware limitations to make sure games run at least a fairly solid 60fps, like by downgrading textures etc.. Instead of pushing the consoles beyond what they're capable of like they do now with a locked 30fps or 60 with big dips. DF also stated similar in their newest video.
I think first party games have a chance of looking nice and running well on the new Switch as long as they don't overdo it.
OK, for the people downvoting, can you at least explain why you are quite happy for the Switch 2 to have similar visuals to a console released 4 years before the original Switch, which is itself a 6 year old console?
it's a handheld, imagine how much it would cost to have a portable PS5/XSX in your hands. You see the prices on things like the Ayaneo? Not to mention the abysmal battery life on something like the Steam Deck?
a portable PS4 would look amazing to be honest.
It's a handheld at its core there is no magic toggle or hidden GPU in the dock and it will have a 5 hour battery according to Nintendo's prioritys
I would expect it to maybe surpass the PS4 a little in terms of performance, but DLSS will give a nice visual bump to their titles.
Having DLSS and Nvidia’s stellar Ray Tracing performance will be huge. I expect Switch 2 to run most 3rd games available on PS5 and Series X. Nintendo’s first party games are really going to shine. I can only imaging what they will pull off.
I am thinking somewhere between PS4 & PS4 Pro level base perf just from the SoC and then DLSS 3+ giving the boost its known for on top of it + the 12GB memory & SSD aiding in.
As far as actual hardware it will be nowhere near PS5 and Series X. DLSS will play a huge role in getting resolution and frame rates in line with PS5 and Series X though. Nvidia is also much better with Ray Tracing so I expect Switch 2 to great in that regard.
It's going to be using NVIDIA tech to get the most out of the system so dlss 3 etc it should be fairly competent but I'm thinking the truth will be somewhere in the middle of last gen and current gen.
Still we all know what Nintendo can do on old hardware Luigi's mansion 3 had an art style that made it look like a ps4 level game on what was essentially 7.2 gen hardware seriously that game could stack up to some current gen efforts
I never understood why Sony didn't do this since a ps4 handheld seems like a perfect wim for them
The AAA game is well and truly dead. While there are a few hold outs that are still producing quality software that is not milking customers at every turn, it is now the exception and not the rule. SAD.
I trust activision more than I do the people who broke the story, “fake rape” rolling stone. A trash magazine.
Getting my ass kicked isn’t going to make me buy loot boxes. Seeing some fancy gun skin isn’t going to make me buy loot boxes. It’s not some complex mind manipulation algorithm, it’s a basic marketing ploy. It’s not even implemented, it’s just a patent. If you want to demonize publishers for shutting down studios that have never made a bad game in their existence? I’m with you. If you want to fabricate your own reality to mesh with your anti-corporation/anti-capitali st political beliefs then I think you’re a fruitcake.
It's always been their core design...they STARTED season pass on console. Lol a little late to the party...