We caught up with the creative director of Overstrike – and nine year Ratchet & Clank veteran - Brian Allgeier today, and he gave us an insight into going multiplatform and how Overstrike's development is being handled. In short – never fear 360 owners: Insomniac may have a long history of making eye-popping games for PS3, but the studio has a new engine to ensure both the PS3 and 360 versions of Overstrike sing.
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
But... But... I want the PS3 and 360 to cry a little. Show them who is boss Insomniac let them know that you can go MP and still push out triple A titles.
People were worried about that? It's Insomniac, they never let anyone down really.
Awesome, now 360 only owners can enjoy the awesome games Insomniac pushes out. :D
I wont loose any sleep over it.
Well, to be honest. Insomniac needs money, which is understandable in the struggling economy US has and EU is not far off. As a third party developer, they need to make more money because places like EB Games are taking all the profit. As for porting any PS3 games created by Insomniac, I highly doubt it.