The current generation of game consoles could constitute the last "console cycle" as we know it, says Wedbush Morgan Securities analyst Michael Pachter.
In a massive 210-page report entitled "Money for Nothing: How Ancillary Revenues Can Extend the Console Cycle," the widely-read industry pundit and financial guru pontificates on most every facet of the videogame industry in 2009. It's a ponderous read, especially compared to Pachter's brief investor notes, but it represents the analyst's broad view of the business as it stands today.
The Outerhaven writes: While I hold Bethesda's The Evil Within series as some of the best Survival Horror games available, it's clear that Bethesda has no intention of revisiting the series. While Capcom is still working on its Resident Evil series, I look back at the now-dead survival horror series from Bethesda, wondering why the series was left wide open, and yet still not revisited.
An OK horror series left behind. It had some great ideas, but it never knew how to play to its strengths. Instead, it came out like just another RE4 clone.
I would love for a third entry to come out, but it needs to learn to lean in on the psychological aspect and move away from the generic "pew pew" ideology at the center of the gameplay loop. It doesn't need to abandon it; it just needs to put it into better context, is all.
Also, try a first-person perspective instead. Too many 3rd-person games with nothing to offer but an avatar taking precious screen space. At least make it an actual option and not that janky-ass mess the second game pretended to have.
During a livestream on his personal Twitch channel, Rob Wiethoff (who voices John Marston in the Red Dead Redemption series) hinted at "exciting news" to be revealed next week. According to Wiethoff, the news will be announced "before Friday".
PS5/Pro/Switch 2 version of RDR2 seems most likely. I’d love a RDR3 but that seems years away
Agreed, but at the same time RD2 came out in 2018. Could it be a remake of Red Dead 1?
Spoiler:
Marston died in the end of Red Dead and Red Dead 2 is set before that. Im curious now. What news could it be?
I'm pretty sure the next game will be another prequel as the story really has no where to go as far as being a western after red dead redemption. The next game will end with the ferry boat incident.
Their contracts are iron clas if they leak anything legit they are threatened with immense legal action.
My hopes for what this is are minimal its probably a meet and greet with the cast
I dont see why they would be involved in a upgraded version of rdr2 when the dialogue hasn't changed
He seems to have been cleared to do this as he purposely picked up the game, streamed it, and made the announcement.
"Back in the innocent days of 2010, A World of Keflings was a fairly popular successor to A Kingdom for Keflings. I even wrote about it a few times in 2012! But the world of humans moved on, and NinjaBee's city-building/adventure game was last seen on the ill-fated Wii U in 2014. Fast-forward to the dark year of 2025, and not only is A World of Keflings coming to Steam, but there's already a playable demo! Perhaps the cheerful, no pressure gameplay that the Keflings bring is just what we need nowadays," says Co-Optimus.
Article aside, I've always wondered how digital downloads would impact this console life cycle. Games that last gen couldn't be fixed or upgraded via patching are fully capable of doing so now. Also firmware updates keep our respective consoles up to date with the newest software and features.
That said I think Patcher, as usual, is wrong again. Technology progresses so quickly these days that in the next 5 years there will surely be some new gaming/computing tech to be taken advantage of. Thus ensuring that another console will arrive on our doorsteps around that time, if not a bit sooner.
firstly what he's proposing sounds like the days of the 32x, sega cd, the n64's 64DD!! :-) and a few others that won't come to me, all of these we're failers even though they added something to the console that couldn't be done without it.
Things like memory via usb or memory card would be good. With modern day firmware updates we're already sort of getting the idea of gradual console upgrades rather than new models every couple of years. firmware updates are allowing the current generation change how it is represented with greater performance, more services, greater means to socalize. Firmware updates will never fail (unless they brick your console :-/) as the cost in production is pennies compared to a new addon or periferal and the majority of your users will all experiance the benefits boosting the consoles abilities rather than opportunities making it more appealing by the month rather than year or so. I know M$ haven't addopted this yet but they did do a small update recently so obviousle could take up more frequent updates if they chose if the ps3 creates a significant gap because of purely getting features out quicker via regular updates.
this has been posted before and it is relatively known pachter is an idiot
more often than not his "analysis" is wrong
do some research on his past predictions and see what he has come up with
he is guessing more than your local weather man, at least they have science