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Dark Clouds Ahead? A Level-5 Retrospective Part 1

Level-5, the developer behind a ton of games since the turn of the millennium, has seemingly been in a weird spot in the past few years. Having reached its 20th anniversary in 2018, with characters appearing in other games, and still releasing new games in popular series like Ni no Kuni and Professor Layton.

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From Sale to Switch 2 - Shift Up Rewarded the Dev Team After Stellar Blade 3 Million Sales Milestone

Shift Up once again proves that they appreciate their team, as they have just rewarded their developers with new Nintendo Switch 2s to celebrate the Stellar Blade sales reaching 3 million.

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Sony PS5 Era Profits Soar Past $13 Billion, Outpacing All Prior PlayStation Generations

Sony’s PS5 era has generated over $13 billion in profits, surpassing the combined earnings of PS1–PS4, with $136 billion in sales.

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lukasmain6h ago(Edited 6h ago)

Their recent Playstation revenue is also more than Xbox and Switch combined, obviously in large part due to 3rd party sales.

Christopher6h ago

I mean, if Sony is keeping third parties happy, kind of feels like a winning method.

IRetrouk2h ago

Kinda always been that way if you look at previous gens, exclusives are important but they aint the main revenue generator.

Reaper22_1h ago(Edited 1h ago)

.While that is impressive. Microsoft made 13 billion in one quarter. Making up facts doesn't make them true.

Mmmkay1h ago

microsoft is not xbox. a bot should know that by now. you have been told this bs 1000 times on this site alone.

MIDGETonSTILTS172h ago

And this is why the game output for ps5 has been a tad slower…

1) they needed to be… games take longer to develop, and they’d burn out their teams trying to maintain the same pace as ps3.

2) they can afford to… games cost more than ever to push boundaries, so Sony had to figure out a way to match Xbox’s clever profit strategies in order to afford to continue to innovate and take risks.

Reaper22_52m ago(Edited 51m ago)

@ s2killinit

Thats xbox which includes other services. The playstion division also includes other services as well. Its mostly playtion but not all playstation. What's up with all the double standards around here.

Chevalier11m ago

Yeah double standards like some idiots who got to talk about unrelated profits as a talking point. Wish those damn parrots could stay on topic with game related profits.

Next thing these idiots will talk about is something unrelated like Nintendo made more off the Mario movie than all of Xbox studios TV/movie endeavors combined you know?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/...

GreenDesperation5m ago(Edited 3m ago)

Ouch! hahaha no wonder reaper wanna hide behind profits made by windows XD

Npugz729m ago

Only because of games prices otherwise it’s the worst generation in PlayStation history especially for games

Reaper22_8m ago

Thats true. The article did mention game and prices were a reason. Its also shows their greed is no different than Microsoft. Laying off all those people but yet bragging about profits and still tried to stop ABK deal. What the hell!

Vithar5m ago

where are the "Sony is in trouble" sayers? LOL

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Marathon Development Update

Marathon was slated to launch on Sept. 23, 2025 across Xbox, PC, and PlayStation, but Bungie will share the new release date in the fall.

Jin_Sakai1d 14h ago

Probably best just cancel it. The game has flop written all over it.

-Foxtrot1d 17h ago

Yeah, you can delay it as much as you want but you ain’t gonna wash that stink off.

Killer2020UK1d 16h ago

It will lessen though and possibly make all the difference if it launches in a state that rectified a lot of the issues people had with it. A LOT of ifs of course.

RaidenBlack1d 14h ago

If you really gotta play ... play the better extraction shooter this year : ARC Raiders

ZeekQuattro1d 17h ago

Delaying the inevitable. Bungie hoping the negative publicity will blow over. 🙄

darthv721d 17h ago

They can't cancel it until a themed controller has been released first... like concord.

ZeekQuattro1d 13h ago

I anxiously wait for that and a Marathon Secret Level episode.

GamingManiac1d 9h ago

$10 says it'll have the stolen artwork on it lolol

dveio1d 17h ago

If they were absolutely certain about the quality of Marathon, then they had not delayed it just now.

So they've basically just confirmed what everyone, well, a lot of people saw: Marathon is not ready yet, still no soul to be seen.

Tacoboto1d 16h ago

"Doubling down on the Marathon Universe"

They're doubling down on soul, thank goodness this feedback illuminated that for them...

RaidenBlack1d 14h ago

and N4G was littered with comments like : Marathon looks really good, maybe you're a hater and the likes blah blah ... especially under articles which compared it with Arc Raiders ....

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