I gotta say, an article whose only “reports” are tweets from some random dude, who is at the same time reporting on basically comments from a youtube video… make me question why this kind of article is even approved in the first place.
Not saying there wont be any controversy or issues later, but this is hardly what I would call investigative journalism (or any kind of journalism for that matter). Which is ironic because its meant to highlight how Ubisoft doesn’t care about...
The TV series that they had to shop around to companies that actually produce that kind of content precisely because they dont??
I’d be curious to know how you would expect Microsoft to convince Pocketpair they are a better fit (or even an option for that matter) for a partnership involving Sony MUSIC Entertainment and ANIPLEX ?
What does that have to do with what he is saying?…
The partnership was with Sony Music and Aniplex (anime company owned by Sony). Why would Pocketpair be even remotely interested in a partnership with Xbox for those kind of things??
They released 8 games during Wave 1 for July… and the 3 coming now are all actually quite interesting.
Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn (Cloud/PC/Xbox Series X) - July 18
Dungeons of Hinterberg (Cloud/PC/Xbox Series X) - July 18
Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess (Cloud/Consoles/PC) - July 19
I’d say releasing 11 games in 1 month for gamepass should be enough…
@Redemption
Please read back the title of the article for me and next time, make sure to pay extra attention to the very last word…
Then come and tell me what I’m supposed to make of your response
Its a preorder only beta (which grants 5 beta codes) that has a concurrent player base of 400 people…
If that doesn’t tell you anything about the lack of interest people have for paying $40 for the game, I’m not sure what else could do it.
Will the free beta get higher numbers? Sure, i’d be surprised if it didnt. But the actual metric for abysmal preorder numbers is still there and getting high player counts during a free beta doesn’t necessarily translat...
Yeah, though I could also see that maybe in specific portions of the game you might play as Link in that shadow world to maybe help Zelda in some way.
Either way, its pretty clear that the focus is definitely on Zelda and they just need to clarify it for the ratings board even if Link was barely used at all
@ocelot
yeah, that one I do agree, I even mentioned that in another comment down below
It technically only affects new users (though I wouldnt be surprised if eventually they force the change on existing users), but still, losing access to GP console does mean that a new user on Console who does want Day 1 releases will have to pay practically double, which seems crazy to me.
@coconuts
I mean, even leaving First Party stuff aside, I’ve never really had any issue with finding plenty of great games on Gamepass, whether they are day one or not (and honestly even third party stuff I rarely buy Day one anyway unless its something I REALLY want)
So 3 and half games worth of $ for access to the catalog for an entire year still seems more than fine to me.
Now if someone is getting GP only for First Party stuff or th...
Its $20, not $22. And up from $17, so not really a massive increase either way ($22 is for Canadian dollars)
The one I see as more significant (at least for new users) is the drop of GP console which was $11 and replaced with GP Standard which is $15 but no Day 1 releases. Effectively making an increase from $11 to 20 for anyone on Console that did want Day 1 releases
I dont know, its just a $3 increase and overall I feel like Standard for $15 is too expensive for losing day 1 access
If it had been cheaper I would see more people downgrading from Ultimate to Standard
Also, in both scenarios they sent cease/desist first and both continued their actions anyway, so they can’t really say they weren’t warned
This isnt really about hardcore fans (at least not for the most part), the reason why Nintendo is able to come up with these pricing schemes is because of the mainstream appeal of certain franchises and how they just keep selling so well throughout the years (most hardcore fans either already have the game or would buy it day one, which is different to all the people that keep buying them months/years later)
I’m not saying I like how they price their ports/remakes, but its ...
Prime Remastered also ran at 60fps and doesnt look that far off from this.
Also, resolution seems to be 720p (down from 900p on Remastered, which makes sense since its a “simpler” game)
So putting aside that I dont see them showing Switch 2 gameplay before the reveal event, I’d say the game looks like it is the Switch 1 version from what I can tell.
It will be interesting to see what upgrades the Switch 2 version has besides the upres (...
@staticall
Yeah, I’m not necessarily talking about the specifics of this game, though even then, I can see a scenario where a company developing a game around a specific mythology might still want some input on how to best approach certain aspects in other markets.
I also wasnt talking necessarily about whether the price is right or not (or anything specific about THIS controversial firm) because I honestly have no reference to how expensive it normally i...
I dont know, a consulting firm offering services to a company from a different plac, that is no doubt also trying to reach the market said consulting firm is located in, seems like a perfectly reasonable scenario to me.
Same if the company would reach out to consulting firms instead.
Obviously thats unrelated to the specifics of the consulting firm in question and whether the other company is interested in that kind of assistance for their product.
I dont think any of the rumors about the handheld have discussed as a closed Xbox Series platform.
Rather, it would be a Windows handheld with Xbox branding, just like the Rog, Legion, etc (they were apparently working on a modified version of Windows for it). So I would still expect people to be able to use Steam or other launchers.
I guess the biggest difference between this and a Rog would be the same thing that differentiated the Steam Deck, which is ...
What good does it do to create an account (with fake information from another country) if the game isnt released in Steam in that country anyway?
Or are you expecting people to also have to create another steam account in another country in order to link it to the PSN account they now have to make, just to be able to play Sony games?
Its a dumb and unnecessary situation, simple as that
@Versus
They are definitely making a lot on that for sure (which the $70 price increase factors into as well), but its not like many of those games werent around for the PS4 too.
They might be counting the gen as a whole and not just PS5 itself (so extra profit from PC sales, whatever that may be)
PS+ price increase and different tiers probably amount to part of that too.
But in general, its still quite a surprising ...
I think thats only if you have everything installed (campaign, warzone, MP), which is still a ridiculous amount and even if you only install some of them they will no doubt be huge, but at least there the options to choose what to install are pretty granular