This time next year, many of us will be down several hundred quid with a shiny new bit of kit perched atop our television stands (or tucked away out of sight). Two of them, if you’re the kind of money bags gamer who insists on snapping up both the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X when they both launch in late 2020.
The armadillo returns.
I personally do remember Infogrames in the years prior to merger. They really did have a portfolio that stuck out and I enjoyed. I wonder what value they see in reviving it now though?
Hopefully this gets Embracer group back on track
Yea! But thats what happens when you have 2,2 billion dollar in debt and the interest rise from 0,5% to 5% in a year
With all the PlayStation games that are now coming to PC, is it time for Sony to release a dedicated PC launcher?
Unless they are trying to kill their recently created PC business, I would advise against opening a dedicated PC store. It's an extremely hard endeavor, and people, in general, are very comfortable with Steam. Even Epic, with their billions of dollars invested, is still struggling to find a foothold, and they have Fortnite.
Money is one thing security is another but again millions have 0 knowledge past 2020.
Epic store for years struggled with a shopping cart/account theft/credit card theft
Rockstar launcher/store to this day over 5 years later still has horrific user interface security flaws lost account's and stolen CC
Then you got that activision need phone number oh we lost it launcher
The crown jewel is the ea launcher/store ea app 3 yrs old still has hundreds of threads were people lost games/accounts/game access or just straight up crashes.
Edit" Oh ubi launcher were you buy a game that may or may not be there again or work and the launcher 5yrs old still has no 4K support if you launch it on a 4k screen there is a high chance it will just crash.
Can tell who ever put this together is not all that clued up on pc gaming.
It's just a known fact. The PC gaming community prefer Steam and Steam alone. They don't like different launchers. I personally don't mind them. But majority just stick with steam. Hence why EA and Ubisoft went back to on releasing on steam and why Microsoft release games on steam as people hated buying from the windows store.
The only other launchers that I imagine are doing ok is GOG due to being drm free and epic games due to the free games every week. Sony shouldn't release any sort of pc launcher n
It literally says in the OP that PC gamers don't like multiple launchers lol. It even mentions Steam being the go to for gamers
Title: "PlayStation Doesn't Need a Dedicated PC Store Launcher"
N4G: "Can tell who ever put this together is not all that clued up on pc gaming"
When you don't even read the headline...
I read it and had a brain fart. As read the title then this "With all the PlayStation games that are now coming to PC, is it time for Sony to release a dedicated PC launcher?"
So I hold my hands up on that mistake. Rest of my comment still stands.
Steam and GOG are highly preferred because of the rich feature set. Ubisoft, Rockstar, EA, Epic etc have all set a precedent over the years for customers to instinctively expect individual publisher launchers to be so extremely half-assed that the majority simply don't want to bother dealing with what is almost an inevitable disappointment by comparison to Steam or GOG. Those publishers and their inaction or general disinterest to improve have effectively ruined any future adoption to be taken seriously.
This is just another ridiculous double standard article.
It's like how Microsoft can spend 20 years of making nothing but gaas and live service style games to sell microtransactions, dlc and subscriptions and get praise for doing it, but if Sony wants to make a single game like that every website under the sun is writing articles saying how Sony is anti-consumer or whatever.
Yep, huge double standard look at the tortured reaction to the ps5pro, websites hyperventilating like Sony is forcing people to buy it.
Wait my xbox from 2004 has avengers gaas on it? wow your so smart
m$ Gaas started with the other companies like sony
Gamepass yes they are deep into that but its still a huge money saver sense you do not own your games then get a service like that.
Now there pc xbox launcher that is trash for years now
No.
Doesn't mean it can't do better in 2020.
There's the Last of Us 2 and Ghost of Tsushima to look forward to. I'll even mention Dreams because it really is a pretty innovative title.
The answer to the articles headline is no.
On a side note, the title doesn't really represent the authors view, wonder why he went with such a bait headline🤷♂️
Multiple articles about Microsoft taking back the crown they never had, their triumphant return or painting the future red. Or after failing this gen, their future looking bright on faith alone. And, "Most disappointing games of 2019" or "10 worst games of 2019" with Death Stranding as the picture for the title. Obviously a Sony title. That sold well and reviewed well overall.
And here we have a click bait title about Sony possibly losing their touch in 2019. While saying in the article that Days Gone was not compelling in any way compared to Sony's other top tier developers and that Sony Bend doesn't have quite the "chops." Says Sony wasn't gutsy by making a Game Pass equivalent when Sony's games actually **SELL**. And mentions X Cloud when Sony has been doing Remote Play way before Microsoft. Like a generation ago.
Yup. It's that time of the media blitz of click bait with Sony's not talking enough, doing enough or innovative enough. That they're being sparse on releases, is in trouble or doomed with the rumored 9.2 teraflops because Microsoft showed a console and no real-time gameplay.
Must be a new generation coming. And instead of getting real news, it's just a bunch of "hoo ha" for site hits using Sony as the target because they have no real information to pass on to gamers.
No...2018 was just so off the charts. They had 2 bangers that sold massively and sold over 20 mill consoles. So going off 2018 it might seem like it but the answer is no