The Nintendo Switch was the best-selling console with 407,230 units sold for the week ending May 22, according to VGChartz estimates. The Switch has now sold an estimated 86.10 million units lifetime.
The PlayStation 5 sold an estimated 193,279 units to bring its lifetime sales to 8.64 million units. The Xbox Series X|S sold 106,143 units to bring their lifetime sales to 5.12 million units.
Sony is apparently experimenting with an AI tool that will play the game for you when you are grinding away. A PlayStation patent for “auto-play” mode would simulate your gameplay style in certain environments and apply them to skip that section completely. This technology would likely be built directly into the cloud-based PlayStation Network and be a new feature that subscribers would have access to.
Hah! Either will never happen or publishers will charge you to use this AI. This concept would only exacerbate the problem we already have with GaaS.
doesnt that concept already exist tho?
buy dlc to get a ahead in games? money, weapon and exp dlc come to mind but yeh. one more thing for them.to potentially charge for.
Usually, for GaaS/Seasonal games, you'll have to perform actions to earn specific in-game currency to buy things for events. Then they sell the currency with real cash or a third-currency to then buy the in-game currency items (it's honestly truly bloated to hide that they're cheating you out of money). With this, they'll just give you items if you do something 50 times or the like and then charge you to have the game play it for you. It's better, right? No currency shenanigans, just play the game and we reward you! But, the truth is they'll inflate the amount of times you have to play through content just to get the same thing.
Why?
Why not just remove the Grindy part?
I hope it's not an excuse to make them worse, but optional if you pay
This IGN blogger mode will allow 'reviewers' to play games like rest of us.
I will never forget watching GamingBolts spoiler video for Horizon FW and realizing they never played it. Made me wonder if they play games at all.
Reminds me of those 24 hours races in gran Turismo 4 having your PlayStation play for you.
But realistically if you have to use any of these for Grundy games there's a bigger underlying problem of the game not respecting your time in the first place.
Grind for game length is a real problem in my view
Review - If you are a fan of intrigue in your stories then The Mildew Children on Xbox will be well up your street.
Disney Dreamlight Valley devs have officially teased the second part of the paid expansion titled The Spark of Imagination.
That's quite an uptick for the X|S. That is 10k+ more than the previous week. PS5 dropped slightly by 30k but still doing a bang up job moving units. Switch dropped by 15k+ but still holds the top spot.
86.10M units puts the Switch above the 360. If Switch keeps up this pace it will outsell the PS3 in 3-4 weeks. Then it's all eyes on the Wii.
Great job Nintendo. Now if PS5 and Series Xbox were regularly available at MSRP, the numbers would be much higher for both. Amazon gets both PS5 and Series X, but not for less than $1000. I am lucky I got a Series X, in January. I don't even count Series S. Most people would want the X. At least the digital PS5 has the same specs as the disk version. Microsoft shouldn't have made the S. IMHO.
I got my PS5 Physical Edition arriving tomorrow and I know a plug 🔌 to get the Xbox Series X eventually down the road.