Today Square Enix disclosed a few interesting details about the publisher's business. On the other hand, Shadow of the Tomb Raider and Just Cause 4 suffered a weak start.
Mass Damage & Consumer Foundation in the Netherlands has filed a class action against Sony for inflating PlayStation Store prices.
My personal opinion:
Manufacturers and publishers have indeed inflated the industry.
From $700 million development costs for games like Call of Duty, to digital (store) prices for games and DLCs, online multiplayer fees on consoles (why can you play Helldivers 2 online for free on PC but not consoles?) or still preventing sell/lend digitally purchased games.
Sometime in the future, this bubble will collapse.
They should know better, but they just can't help themselves and suck even the last penny out of our wallets.
Because Sony knows people will be forced to pay those prices for single player and multiplayer games, not everyone prefers PC gaming. Sony also has a monopoly on PlayStation digital games. In 2019, they stopped allowing retailers and game key sellers to sell PlayStation digital games, making them available only through the official PlayStation Store
They should be suing the individual publishers increasing the prices to $80 instead of suing the store. There are plenty of publishers still selling game for like $50 with much success (like E33). But this proves that the publishers are the ones setting the prices.... so again nothing changes because they aren't even going after the main offender. How is suing Sony going to make Microsoft not charge $80 for the next COD? Sony being the number one store in the market doesn't mean that publisher have to charge us an arm and a leg. Again the industry is laughing at us because consumers never get real representation. Just these fake platitudes that are meaningless.
"How is suing Sony going to make Microsoft not charge $80 for the next COD"
Because Microsoft doesn't have a monopoly, I can purchase Call of Duty at a huge discount from CDKeys or other gaming retailers. The only way to purchase digital PlayStation games is through the PlayStation Store.
Weird, I swore GoW, Stellar Blade, Horizon Zero Dawn, TLoU, etc. were on the steam store....uh.....
@djI3485
I'm talking about PlayStation games that you can only purchase on PlayStation. I can purchase Steam and Epic games from 3rd party retailers and key stores.
"Sony to stop selling full-game download codes at retailers"
https://www.videogamer.com/...
About time. There is zero fair reason why digitally distributed products that you cannot recoup any value when you want to dispose of them, should be priced higher than that of physical copies that entail all of the costs and the benefits of owning.
"Project Sabbath" was a cancelled Batman game by WB Games Montreal where Damien Wayne was set to take on the mantle of the Bat.
Its time Damian ...and his mother too & how his son came to be will be a big part in a background story of a Batman movie, series or game.
I'd have rather seen Terry than Damian especially to see what they could have done with Terry in the Arkhamverse
No, WB doesn't want anything fun since suits want live service garbage for max revenue. LOL!
Shame. If we are getting any Batman games like these, it'll be years away.
I’m not a big superhero fan but I do enjoy the Batman and SpiderMan games. Too bad this one got cancelled. WB has been mostly shite live service.
Undead Citadel, a medieval-era VR action game, arrives next week on PlayStation VR2.
They were definitely going to show FF7R this year at E3, but Sony pulled out. Whelp, it's either gonna be shown at Microsoft or their own E3. Sucks really. FF7 was the shit on PS1, didn't Sony spend $100 million for free for Squaresoft just to advertise the game and sell the PS1. Sigh, Sony should be the ones to show it.
All development groups will be consolidated into one that focuses on Battle Royale ;-)
-theatrhythm kingdom hearts
-next kingdom hearts teaser trailer
-FF7 remake news.
-parasite eve 1 and 2 remastered/remake/whatever, just do it!
-final fantasy 8 remaster (finally).
these are what i want to see on the square enix conference
I'm guessing they will finally show something from The Avengers Project this year.
I would love to see a new Deus Ex game.