Sony Interactive Entertainment used to be a creative hub not even 10 years ago. Partnerships via external development as well as just pure creativity inside of the Worldwide Studios ran throughout the world of exclusives.
Outriders developer People Can Fly's next game has been canceled after its publishing agreement with Take-Two Interactive fell through.
"the capital group of PCF Group S.A."
If you're getting funding from a group that needs two different ways of Acronyming itself, things will not go the way you want them to.
Outriders was crap. They slapped that game together and threw in a loot system to get players' attention. This game was absolutely jank and the always online nonsense made it stutter like crazy. People Can't Optimize.
I liked Outriders but I could see where the artistic vision was compromised. The way the industry is now, it wouldn't surprise me that upper management would scrap something that didn't pull in money via gaas, mts, or other means.
Microsoft just posted the third quarter of its 2024 fiscal financial results. The software maker made $61.9 billion in revenue and a net income of $21.9 billion during Q3. Revenue is up 17 percent, and net income has increased by 20 percent.
Xbox content + services up 62% while hardware down 31%... seems about right with the way they tout you don't need the hardware to play. People can play on their phones or smart tv or other means. I don't hardly play on my consoles directly since getting devices like the logitech g-cloud and ps portal. Which is to also say I have been playing more digital than physical because of these devices.
Too expensive hardware when others offer the same or more for less? Good work, Green Team.
"Despite some early successes for Xbox games on rival platforms, Xbox hardware is down by a massive 31 percent this quarter."
"Without Activision Blizzard, Microsoft’s overall gaming revenue would have actually declined this quarter."
"Xbox content and services would have only been up a single percent without Activision Blizzard..."
"It looks like next quarter is going to be a similar story for gaming at Microsoft, too."
That is crazy... so A/B/K is carrying the whole Xbox gaming.
Oh and Microsoft will be fine. Windows, Office and Cloud are growing with each pc purchase.
Blizzard writes: "After careful consideration over the last year, we at Blizzard have made the decision not to hold BlizzCon in 2024. This decision was not made lightly as BlizzCon remains a very special event for all of us, and we know many of you look forward to it. While we’re approaching this year differently and as we have explored different event formats in the past, rest assured that we are just as excited as ever to bring BlizzCon back in future years."
How about you not hold Blizzcon anymore period. You fucking POS company. I really hope Blizzard would just die.
wait, what? are you drunk?
Er.. Yes drunk. The writer is drunk..
There about to release DREAMS and possibly (most likely) change the industry.
They had little big planet. - create 2d games
They had mod nation racers - create race tracks
Now dreams wil do the lot. And more, music creator and physics creator included.
Japan Studios is still very creative. Mm is revolutionary. Sony is the only console company pushing VR.
Dreams is the most creative game this generation and it's coming closer to full release.
Astro Bot is enormously creative with its incredible use of VR.
Playroom/Playroom VR were extremely creative games.
Tearaway was enormously creative.
Puppeteer released far less than a decade ago.
Tokyo Jungle, Starhawk, and Gravity Rush were all creative games released less than a decade ago.
Everybody's Gone to the Rapture was a creative game published by Sony.
Journey was published by Sony.
No Man's Sky was pushed by Sony.
LBP3 released this gen.
Death Stranding, Astro Bot, No Man's Sky, Dreams, Gravity Rush 2, Concrete Genie, Entwined, Tearaway, LBP3, Playroom/Playroom VR, Lost Soul Aside, The Tomorrow Children, Killstrain, GT Sport (FIA),
All hail Sony!