A new marketplace for PC games? Worth the hype?
Sony has launched a BAFTA Game Awards 2024 section on the PlayStation Store that lists the different games nominated this year.
Hanzla from eXputer inquires: "If Xbox can care about preserving its games and legacy, what exactly is wrong with Nintendo, trying to kill game preservation single-handedly?"
Ahh yes the good old game preservation of saving all your games to a removable hhd on the Xbox 360, taking it round your mates house, setting up multiple tvs to
Be met with “save data corrupted, please re download”
Or how about removing 360 games
From the store
, download them now or else, and, better hope to god that save data doesn’t corrupt, or it’s lost for ever
Nice one ☝️
This is just a scammy PR move to distract from the fact they are going digital only and trying to push streaming and subscriptions only.
No gaming company has pushed harder to remove ownership than Microsoft.
Without discs there is no preservation, preservation can't be done by the rights holders it can only be done by the consumers, anything else is a lie.
Nobody wants this. Sales or the lack of it in the case of XBOX is very telling. I wonder how the adorably all digital series X will fare. Adorably dismal perhaps?
Only time will tell, but for from someone like me suspecting that Xbox is trying to gracefully exit the console market, that "forward compatibility" team is trying to get Xbox games playing on Windows PCs. I mean, it's nice that they're not planning on exiting with a "enjoy your games while the hardware still works" message, so that's nice. They still have a brand to protect via Microsoft so probably feel obligated to have a better exit strategy.
The Epic Games Store has another freebie ready for your library and it is a free runner.
Tencent owns 40% of Epic Games. I want Steam to have competition but I don't want to support something as shady as Tencent.
The issue with the Epic Store is that they don't offer anything that is worthwhile for the consumer. Yes, there are taking only 12% per sale from the devs, but for doing exactly what?
They do not have integrated forums, they do not have a marketplace, they do not offer mod integration, they do not offer a backend for multiplayer, achievements and leaderboards, they do not offer voice chat. Hell, they will not even allow reviews in the store.
For the consumer there is nothing good about it and even for the devs, those 12% may look better than the 30% charged from Steam. But remember that the only thing Epic is offering is for the privilege of being in their store and they don't even have a global presence since not even their regional pricing policy is working for most markets.