Sony's newly appointed CEO Kenichiro Yoshida talked about PlayStation Plus and PSN sales, and mentioned that PS4 production costs have been driven down.
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We explore the Sega classics that are ripe for revival! From Panzer Dragoon Saga to Virtua Fighter, discover why these legendary games deserve a comeback on next-gen consoles. Dive into a nostalgic journey and see which Sega titles are set to captivate a new generation of gamers in 2024.
Turned based Phantasy Star and Shinning Force remain at the top of my list of Sega IPs that need to return. At the very least I'd take a Shining Force collection that has 1,2,3, CD and the Game Gear entries.
I was hesitant to put these two on. I've personally played more PSO than the RPG version. And shame on me, I don't remember much about Shining Force to talk about it properly.
That said, so many Sega licences deserve their place in this list.
A new Phantasy Star in the numbered series would be amazing. Shining Force too. But I’d settle on some collections as that’s probably the best we will get
I don't trust Sega to do a proper comeback. The games will be just remastered and/or monetized to death.
Former Blizzard president Mike Ybarra recently suggested an interesting concept that has sparked a debate among gamers - the idea of being able to tip developers after completing a game.
If I had a 100% way to be sure that this money would go to a fund or a reserve dedicated only to the guys who develop the games, be them designers, artists, programmers and so on, I could think about it.
But we all know that this 'tip' would only end up in a publisher's CEO pocket to buy a new yacht, so, no, I ain't tipping anyone anytime soon on this industry
Exactly these companies were raising money for good causes and gamers were donation and come to find out they are keeping a good chunk of be pie
Yeah tip your developer, 5% proceeds go to developer, 95% to the publisher or whoever. Isn't tipping for staff not making minimum wage? How about they just pay their developers properly and like you know, give them fair bonuses? Too much to ask from Blizzard these days, Kotick saw to that and is now laughing all the way to the bank.
It's the t**ts at the top looking at ways to cut devs wages and get the players to tip them like waiting staff, and I'll guarantee a percentage is skimmed and kept by Activision Blizzard. This is 100% for shareholder and CEO playouts.
I have to agree with this. On the surface tipping devs sounds like a great idea, but in the end it leads to pay cuts and subsidization of pay. Tips then become an expectation or the devs “can’t make a living.” Lastly, especially in the US, tip culture has gotten out of control, and it serves as an excuse not to properly pay employees. Sounds good but doesn’t end well.
@ Popsicle
I think your right on the nose with how much tipping has become rampant. Instead of it being a relationship directly between the customer and the developer or employee, it now has a middle man ingrained in the system. DoorDash is one example. It ends up becoming a metric where the company can measure 'just how much more money you are willing to part with' before raising the price on the main product.
Uh so they’re trying triple dip or more we buy the game that they’re already withholding/cutting content for dlc we was told that season pass would help the developers thrive we felt for it.
Now on top of all that plus their sales bonus they want tips enough is enough whatever happens to you create/built a good game get a bonus for sales milestones you care about your game and community we reward you with more sales not for doing 3/4 of a game then save the other 1/4 for dlc and passes after
Very well said. If it was possible to send the money to either the developer or some organization for the betterment of gaming, sure. But we all know that will not be the case.
No, it would go to those on the top. They will still fire developers, have a bunch of microtransactions, raise prices of games and so on.
So they eventually don't pay their workers and depend on our tips to pay them like the case with waiters!
That kind of practice is only normal in the states, as far as I know anyway, what a backwards system
Ireland is literally the first stop across the pond and we don't have a tipping culture. The only establishments here that would expect a tip are the tourist haunts that Americans visit. Other than that, you might tip in a restaurant as a sign of gratitude for great service and waiting staff would be paid a full wage anyway.
Is this a joke? How about the big wigs giving up some of their pay for their hard working developers.
It's the subscription, overpriced digital only purchase downloadable add-on content, in-game currency, loot boxes etc that has had me buying less and less. I cannot see myself buying the next generation console if it continues in a similar path.
Don't do the recurring revenue or I ain't buying any console
"Earlier in the call, during his prepared remarks, Yoshida-san reiterated that PlayStation Plus had 31.5 million paid subscribers as of December 31st, and mentioned that between October and December 2017 sales on the PlayStation Network increased by a whopping 41% year-on-year and exceeded 300 billion yen ($2.73 billion) for the first time in the business’ history."
Daaayum- the future is digital ;)
Those are insane numbers, no wonder everyone wants to to go Digital wow
The next generation of playstation will be interesting. However, if the current formula of Ps+, Dlc's, MT's, Expansions, and so forth continue to grow while the core of games start to increasingly in turn lower in value, I don't see myself being as active of a gamer. Sony's IP's are for the most part, respectful of the gamer, but the same can't be said for other studios/publishers (I don't need to point fingers).
We're lucky now in the sense we still get some fantastic titles that offer us more than our money's worth, but this is burdened by the fact there are already many IP's made by their respective studios who are all testing to see how much they can push the gamer and what they can slowly make us grow accustomed to.
For example, we accepted DLC almost right away because we hoped it would be done right, and in turn Season Passes. We dislike MT's but all it takes for those is a couple of high income individuals and voila, profit. As for PS+, I literally find myself only paying for the damn thing in order to gain access to online. Something I'll never get over or be fond of. It's a stupid barrier. Sure we get discounts/free games that we can enjoy if we continue our subscription - but when you think about it, that's just to further insure we keep paying. As a Canadian, they docked it up to a yearly fee of $69.99. It's nonsense.
I could go on but I'll end it on the note that if digital is ever going to be something I replace physical with, a notion I don't like for numerous reasons but do appreciate for certain benefits, then digital titles should be lower in price. There is literally not one single reason why we pay the same amount for digital as we do for physical, not one, and yet we do.
I love gaming. I respect Sony for doing more good than bad, but competition is key and if the majority ends up slowly growing accustomed to less than gamer friendly practices, a full fledged game will be a rarer sight.