Mucu from GamesOnSmash.com responds to Ted Price's phone call, "Sometimes, all it takes is one phone call to confirm what you have known for years. That’s the phone call I engaged in this past week. And for me, it confirmed that Insomniac Games is the best developer in the industry. Let’s put aside the fact that they have been placed in the top 10 Best Small Companies to work for in America for 3 years in a row. Let’s put aside the fact that they have sold well over 35 million games. Let’s put aside the fact that they have released 12 titles over the past 14 years, all of which have at least garnered an 80% or above critic average. No, let’s not even talk about that. Let’s talk about community outreach and hospitality, which is something where Insomniac excels beyond anyone’s wildest expectations."
Marvel's Spider-Man villain DLC potentially spotted via the debug menu that surfaced from the New Game+ title update released recently.
Ahmed from eXputer writes "Video game leaks have become a major cause of concern for Triple-A studios, as they're becoming increasingly malicious and dangerous."
In a leaked Sony Interactive Entertainment presentation, the company declares that including first-party games on PS Plus has had a “big” effect on “traditional sales.” As an example, the company mentioned that Horizon Forbidden West‘s sales “flat-lined” immediately after being added to PS Plus.
Also really interesting to see through to one of the sites they link to (Resetera) that the 2 cross gen titles in Miles Morales and Ghosts of Tsushima sold over 40% each of their first year in year 2, almost double what even the best performing games like GOW 2018 and Spider-Man did. Kinda seeing the cold hard numbers makes it really clear why they did cross gen games and remastered some of the later PS4 games to PS5 Directors Cuts.
"“In year 1, Horizon Zero Dawn and Horizon Forbidden West were very comparable,” the presentation reads. “HFW was included into PS Plus at the start of Year 2. HFW saw an enormous influx of PS Plus players, but at the cost of flat-lining the game activations from retail sales.”"
So, the data shows there were fewer traditional sales, but it doesn't show us anything about how many people joined PS+? It does say there was an influx of HFW players, but it doesn't state how many of these players owned PS+ to begin with.
To conclude that it negatively sales is correct, but it doesn't mean less money is made. We cannot draw that conclusion until we know how many more people joined PS+ because of HFW.
MS's bet is that although it lowers traditional sales, it makes the services more appealing and millions of new people will subscribe if they see that good games are added to the service. And in the end, the subscription profit (not revenue) will outpace that of the traditional sales.
However even after 6 years they still haven't reached that point lmao
Insomniac has a lot of passion. I have watched a couple of their video blogs. But I don't think they are the best.
I think Naughty Dog is better.
santamonica studios with naughty dog. insomniac at second, gurilla games at third, konami at 4th and EA at 5th. alll of these are great. don't forget kojima san :D
Lol no.
lol, I think that will require making good games...
"Why Insomniac is the Best Developer Ever"
Has anyone here played Resistance2?
that game was complete crap.
What ever their next game is it better be a shooter or else its going to sell like sh*t