With PSP Go being lined up as the must have item this Christmas, in addition to being the 1st console to offer games totally through digital distribution price will be key. Tesco is already set to cut the price under £200. Read the article for full details plus a link to the deal
'If the big companies dictate what games can be created, I don't think that will advance the industry.' -Shihei Yoshida
🙄 same guy who said 80$ is a steal lol and according to him M$ shouldnt put good on a services🤣 wtf
Talks about "innovation" while all his previous company is focused on is GaaS and Remasters. Smh.
This guy is a walking contradiction.
This makes no sense at all.
What does his PREVIOUS company have to do with him and his statement??
Did he have a say on what they are doing? Could of sworn that was Jim Ryan’s fault?
Subscription services are absolutely awful. They have essentially destroyed the movie industry and unfortunately gaming may be next.
In the long term you will end up needing 10 different subscriptions and the prices will keep going up while the quality keeps going down.
Subscription services have f***ed the movie industry and it's work force, caused massive studio buyups by companies like Disney consolidating huge parts of the industry under one roof and have creatively sterilised the IP's they've gobbled up. The same thing is happening to gaming, MS being the main greedy piggy.
I get what he's saying, but I don’t think we need subscription services to see a lot of the problems he's pointing out. All we really have to do is look at the gaming industry over the last two console generations. Even without subscriptions, the big AAA publishers have already been moving in a direction where almost every game feels like it's built from the same template. It’s all about streamlined, safe design choices that are meant to appeal to the widest possible audience. At this point, you could probably ask an AI to make a AAA game from a certain publisher and it would spit out something pretty close to what they’re actually making.
Now, about the whole “walled garden” thing... that’s not some future problem, it’s already here. Consoles have always worked like that. Their entire business model is based on controlling what gets released on their platforms. Sure, maybe they’re not as locked down as the extreme examples people bring up, but the end result is similar. If you’re not making the kind of game the platform holder wants, you’re probably not getting through the door. We’ve seen it with Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft, even Valve does this in its own way with Steam. So yeah, the issue isn’t new or exclusive to subscription services.
Would a subscription-only future make that problem worse? Sure, it definitely could. But I don’t think we’re heading in that direction anytime soon. Unless physical hardware truly becomes a thing of the past and everyone switches to streaming games, I just don’t see subscriptions becoming the dominant model. They’ll stick around as an option, but I doubt they’ll take over completely.
Now, what will take over completely is digital media, and that’s a whole different issue that’s going to hit us a lot sooner. PC and mobile are already basically 100% digital, and that makes up around 70% of the gaming market. The remaining 30% is consoles, and even there we’re seeing the shift. Sony’s removing the disc drive from boxed consoles, Nintendo is releasing just one super expensive 64GB cartridge for their new system, which means almost all third-party publishers will end up going digital and Microsoft is mostly digital already. You either get a digital-only or a physical box with disc that only acts as a activation key. So yeah, that future’s already knocking on the door and the damage will be enormous.
Right, because then you can’t sell individual games at $80, which is an incredible value for the consumer!
I find this statement quite telling. Apparently a certain fan base wasn't buying games at $60 or $70 dollars either. That's why the Gamepass model exists with day and date. What was the excuse then?
We as gamers want it all but don't want to pay for anything. Well, I take that back. A good chunk of them. You don't have to buy a game at $80. Wait for to go down in price. Most gamers have a massive backlog. Play those games until the one you wants drops and n price. Simple
The Nintendo Switch’s impact on gaming is as obvious as it is undeniable. Currently the third best-selling console of all-time, it has an impressive library of hundreds first and third-party games. But perhaps its biggest contribution to gaming was its ability to amplify indie games. There are no hard numbers, but the Switch is perhaps the best place for indie developers to list their games. The only contender for better marketplace for indies is Steam, with a huge and varied audience that are willing to try new and unique games of all types. Many indie developers have repeatedly said they sell more games on Switch than anywhere else, with others not even bothering to release their game on PlayStation or Xbox consoles.
I don't care for the games that are going to run kinda crappy (Cyberpunk) that could easily look far better visually and in smoothness on my PC, Switch 2 needs to bring the first party games with plenty of content.. The third party games that run well on lightweight hardware are fine.
The key cards are gonna bite Nintendo in the ass and I won't buy a single one, what's worse is that to get a proper physical release of a game it would mean buying a Switch 1 version instead, and then what? Limited to max resolution of 1080p on unpatched games (there'll probably be loads) and lower textures. You'd think at least all the 2D games would get an auto resolution boost on the Switch 2 if playing a Switch 1 game..
not all PS4 games get boosts when running it on a PS5. It's still only select titles.
"look far better visually and in smoothness on my PC"
Ok, cool, so, you're totally fine with a digital library!
"The key cards are gonna bite Nintendo in the ass and I won't buy a single one"
LOL, well look at that goalpost, soaring in the sky to its new destination
I'm hoping it gets cracked faster than Switch 1 and the game ROMs will be up to torrent, even though I'm in the Nintendo preorder queue.😂
You are a thief, like you want to go to the park but you don't want to pay so you climb over the wall like mice. Imagine you opened a store and someone came in and took your stuff without paying, would you be happy ? You would be happy if you were a thief.
There's a good chance that the Switch 2 will have the biggest console launch ever, based on the reports we're seeing. Like in japan alone, 1.2M pre orders are massive if you compare to the title holder's launch sales which is the PS2 with 600k units( Nintendo Switch 1 is 330k ).
Switch 1 may have been a massive success but it hasn't been all great for the consumers at all. S2 js definitely already filling the shoes of switch when it comes to charging the hell out of you - the welcome demo, $80 Mario kart, etc.
Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher developer CD Projekt revealed its earnings and announced that Cyberpunk 2 is now in pre-production.
CDPR please! Make a free Switch 2 upgrade of Witcher 3 or even with a small fee of $2.49 (like Fantasy Life did).
That's cheap! considering I can get a Xbox 360 for £130
and a DS for £70
It's gonna flop so hard WW with a price like that. Hell Sony are going to drop the PS3's price soon to $300 and that means the PSP Go! will only be $50 cheaper.
That could very well be a pricing error. Tesco is very well known for their price mishaps. And they usually don't honor them whey people catch them in their price error, even when people reserve and pre order
as most Tescos dont sell PSP games so its no loss to them if they push this handheld
Tesco won't be the only one offering PSP Go at under the £249 RRP. You can bet other retailers follow suit. The margins must be high on the item.
I think most 24hr tescos sell pretty much anything and everything*. Well atleast the one a few miles from me does, including psp games. I bought FF VII crisis core from there a few months back on a discounted price. If they do honour the 200 price point then I'll be off to tescos at launch for a psp go and 20ft inflatable bouncy castle* (see above).
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The bouncy castles to keep my young'un busy so I get some time with my new psp :P