S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2 was recently announced at Xbox Games Showcase. The game will be optimized for Xbox Series X and support Ray-Tracing on it.
Issue # 406 of Edge Magazine has been released, and it features reviews for games including Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl, and more.
'In related news, it was recently reported that the launch concurrent player count stats for MachineGames’ latest title, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, were below its previous games. According to Steam charts, the action-adventure game reached an all-time concurrent player count of 8,148 players on the platform.'.
By previous games you mean the Wolfenstein games right? Those games have been on PS5,PS4,Xbox One,Xbox Series,Switch and PC, while Indy is only on Xbox Series and PC currently so that not surprising.
It peaked at 12,138, article is based on old numbers.
Beat out The New Order by just about 200 and is their biggest Steam launch.
Stalcraft: X has released a wonderful message dedicated to the team at GSC Game World, who recently launched S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2.
New documents reveal Microsoft plans to increase the developers' revenue share for Xbox games, too. We learned the exclusivity length for STALKER 2 as well.
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That's the best version, you have nothing to lose and everything to gain by playing it on a good PC.
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Whelp, good for you then. Thank god you told us that really useful piece of information, I will definitely sleep better tonight.
WHO CARES
Just enjoy the game whatever you game on.
@PickledPepper
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The series x outperforms the ps5, it is marginal but it still outperforms LOL.
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It is marginal advantage, and PS5 is almost 2 TF weaker and with less bandwidth. Yes, it's a win for PS5 because it is 99,5% the same as XSX version. But people claimed that XSX is almighty full RDNA 2 12TF and it is destined to win every face off. As long XSX won't have a resolution, framerate and graphical advantage at the same time over PS5 in analysis, it's a win for PS5.
Anyway, sorry for posting it in another thread.
But the series x still outperforms the ps5 so I cant see how you call this a win.
If this game was made for current gen only it might have outperformed even more.
I'm not slating the ps5 as I own 1 myself, its delusional fan boys spitting out their dummies over who's piece of plastic is better.
Choose what suits you and stop worrying about what other people have chosen.
Stalker 2 exclusivity period is not nearly as a big of a deal as increasing developer share of revenue hosted on the store from 70% to 88%. That is massive for the devs.
I don't know why anyone would disagree with giving developers a greater share sales on any app store.
Developers make games, give them more money so they can make better games.
It happens all the time. Gamers are a tribal people. Microsoft being any kind of pro-consumer is a personal slightly on the Sony fans, and the other way around. People need their purchase validated. Any perceived threat to that feeling of validation cannot be tolerated. This is the attitude that emboldens the shitty behavior from corps like Sony and MS. The die hard fans spend more than enough to make up for any loss of business from the reasonable folk out there.
He's probably getting downvotes because it's false, but yeah. Let's make this about how fanboys hurt everyone's feelings.
Because most of the time actual developers don't see a dime of that money. They already got paid developing the game and they get pennies as bonuses. It's the publishers' suits that amass all that money and give their executives a big fat cheque.
@CantThinkOfAUserName
True, publishers do get a lot of money. And in the movie industry studio owners get a ton of money and the music industry record labels get a ton of money.
But, these entities have to get a certain level of product for it to sell as expected, so, in the game industry they pay development studios. If they don't give enough of a share to development studios they won't get a good enough product to sell, and development studios can't take it all because they don't have the ability to market like the publishers do. The world balances this automatically. But if publishers get more money it doesn't only go to them. Usually the agreement is a percentage, so if the game is getting more money the development studios get it too.
@CantThinkOfAUsername ... you know you can selfpublish on xbox right
- especially if you want to go on gamepass you will also get the "free" advertising you get there.
"Stalker 2 exclusivity period is not nearly as a big of a deal as increasing developer share of revenue hosted on the store from 70% to 88%. That is massive for the devs."
I can see tons of new games FIRST on Xbox and Windows 10 PC going forward. It will help developers greatly and above all that, some studios might even consider to keep their games prices at $60!
This is an amazing move by Phil Spencer! *-*
Keep the good work guys! :)
Update: “We have no plans to change the revenue share for console games at this time,” says a Microsoft spokesperson in a statement to The Verge about these documents.
@TheTony316
“We have no plans to change the revenue share for console games at this time,”
Keyword: *At this time.*
Based on those documents, they´re clearly looking into it. They´re just not ready to announce it yet. :)
They sent out another statement:
"We will not be updating the revenue split for console publishers,” says a Microsoft spokesperson. Microsoft still refuses to answer whether the document is inaccurate, or simply that plans changed."
Absolutely if it helps the developers and indies
but you know what happens a lot of times these big greedy publishers will release their games and get a bigger share of the profit and still include microtransactions. So it's a win for the small guy and more greed for the big publishers
No one cares especially Sony fanboys sense they can’t use it as ammo you won’t hear much about it
Just 3 months, then? Not even a year.
"No Plans for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 on PS5"
https://n4g.com/news/241487...
That is EXACTLY what it is. That did the same thing with Dirt 5, talking about they chose Microsoft's system because to put their game on because its its hardware allowed them to build the game their team had in mind with no limitations. Then they said the game was going to run at 120fps just to announce literally 2 months later that they were also bringing the game to the PS5 and that it will also run at 120fps followed by the hardware in the Series X won't provide any advantages to the hardware in the PS5.
So no, because Microsoft was hyping the game, they likely don't want to talk about Sony's system yet.
I read that article the other day and burst out laughing when I saw the headline of this article.
Update: “We have no plans to change the revenue share for console games at this time,” says a Microsoft spokesperson in a statement to The Verge about these documents.
https://www.theverge.com/20...
Just like the Gaming bolt article on the front page of N4G the day before yesterday, titled:
"No Plans for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 on PS5, Game Pass One of the Reasons Behind Xbox Console Exclusivity"
Can MS even understand the concept of honesty?
@sully "Can MS even understand the concept of honesty?"
What does a leak from a random person have to do with MS being dishonest. You guys try way too hard to hate on MS on this site.
"Is someone making up stuff for Microsoft again?"
Or Playstation. Same "leaker". Work both ways.
@SullysCigar Not just MS. That’s how corporations roll. Name me an honest gaming corporation (or any major corporation for that matter)... I’ll hold.
"Guessing it'll release on the PS5."
Certainly. When comes to next gen games, there´s only two brands in the console exclusivity field.
These devs need to stop talking and start showing. Don't let Microsoft promote their games
Stalker is one of the several games that didn't have gameplay. Those games are a way off but MS managed to show me games they have down the line something they failed to do with the X1 when it comes to exclusives.
This game was delayed....
So is it going to be an optional thing ? Maybe they’ll have 30fps mode ray tracing 60fps without is my guess .
As long as implementation is not detailed, it is smoke and mirror.
They can just use ray tracing for scope reflection during cinematic and get the ray tracking label i suppose.
That means nothing, usage of a specific rendering technique is not a seal of graphic quality.
I am afraid S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2 will be overused by Xbox teams for BS PR and that is going to ruin game launch.