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.
It’s terrible this happened, but based only on that video I have to say it’s bloody impressive it’s in that kind of condition (playable with UI, cinematics, skill trees etc) with still over 2 years worth of dev work left. They must plan to spend 6 months to polish and bug fix before launch which explains how they produce such consistently high quality games
That’s good, but also worth pointing out that after maybe 3 months on sale, this game was selling for about a tenner. Reminds me a bit of Days Gone, good sales overall but only after huge discounts so unlikely to make large profit
Love that every photo shows Greg looking just like Noel Fieldings portrait of him (if you know, you know)
The difference between the UK and US description of being laid off is confusing. Not really sure why in the US it is called that instead of redundancy.
If we all agree that game budgets and scope have gotten out of hand, some degree of scaling back of the biggest cost is required. My concern however is that it seems to be very long standing and experienced people getting made redundant, I assume because they are paid more and expect more secure employment and benefits. It w...
Me too, but having to do the same 5 crime types in every district for Fisk, then the demons, then sable and then doing it again in each of the 3 DLCs too was a painful way of getting the platinum and gaining enough resources to unlock all the costumes and skills.
It’s bizarre to me we are talking about 30 hour games as short when we used to spend £60 on games that took 3-4 hours to complete for the SNES. 10-12 hours is short, games that take 40+ hours are fine if you like that but to me they would need to justify it with variety and creativity, not just repetition, fetch quests and stat hoarding.
I’m so glad Spider-Man 2 did away with the district crimes thing because it made the first game longer but not enjoyably so.
I remember getting a demo of Lamborghini from OXM just before it got cancelled because the studio collapsed, it was so good and when I heard they converted that game into Juiced I bought it day one; the demo was better!
A smaller nm processor is going to help the Xbox one with a better battery life? There's nothing quite like an article where you get the impression it has been copied and pasted together from other sources without a read through for context.
WiiU was actually a pretty impressive piece of hardware but
- it was overpriced
- it's name confused people
- had too many bits and pieces and add ons (amibo only worsens this)
- there has never really been any game which has demonstrated why it is designed like that. Without a real reason for why you need a screen in the controller, it became a gimmick.
- over reliance on new versions of old ip, I love Marino kart as much as the next perso...
Blah blah there aren't enough first party games...
And everyone cares so much when the top 5 selling games will be fifa, Madden, Battlefront, COD and Assassins Creed.
Maybe Sony has stumbled upon a better way of spreading its titles. Around Xmas, what you want are a few interesting first party games but not the big hitters, something you can bundle with the console but knowing fully that COD, Battlefront, FIFA, Madden, Assasins Creed etc are what most will be playing. Then you spread your first party stuff over q1&q2 so anyone buying a console has something great to look forward too.
Most buyers aren't hardcore gamers, they will b...
You can buy a 2tb 2.5 HDD for about £60, unless you have a spare 4tb or 8tb 3.5 hdd lying around, I can't work out who this drive is for. But then again, an internal SATA hard drive will always be a better bet than a usb one with its slow transfer speeds and I guess it is good to have the option if you really need the capacity.
I'd definitely be interested if they worked out a way to have 2 2tb 2.5 hard drives in a a RAID config though, or one hard drive and a sm...
Maybe what is really holding back gaming is a narrow minded but very vocal minority who prize graphical fidelity and hardware fetishism over actual gameplay. Great games are being released all the time on consoles and PCs, neither is right or wrong, that the 3DS is the best selling gaming hardware in the world should really start to make some realise that gaming is more than showing off your rig on gaf!
PS, I didn't read the article, I'm not giving you the traffic and...
Looks pretty but tbh I think in pretty bored of track racers. Most driving fun I've had in the last few years have been the point to point time trials in driveclub and the weird challenges in forza like racing a train.
Does look very pretty though.
From just reading the title of the article
Hey, did you spend £400 on just one of the new generation of console. Are you upset for no known reason upset because there were great games to play which could also be played by people who spent £400 on the other new gem console. Well we have the answer, spend another £250.
Forbes - what a bunch of eejits.
I used to play the airplane mission from the end of COD4 over and over, we even used to do pass the controller sessions when I was at uni, pure 3 minutes of gaming heaven.
Awful website, writer who apparently cannot write properly (who proof read the title?) and an idiotic concept.
Flop would be commercially unsuccessful to a degree that it is loss making, none of these games will be that. What this seems to be is an individual pointing out 5 games they don't like the look of or games where the media hype may not be met by the final game (though because there are so many hack bloggers out there, every game can be seen as overhyped so it mea...
Exactly, it's almost the British tabloid approach of build them up so you can knock them down and I feel goes hand in hand with the annoying trend of the angry game journo which has seeped into other media (movie sins I'm looking at you) that the constructive and well researched opinions which distinguished good journalism have been replaced by faux anger, shouting loud and lots of swearing.
Perhaps the cure is to either stop gushing over announcement trailers or enco...
Does make an interesting point about the idea of a PS5 pro and if there really is as much of a market for it as people assume. I do think if there’s one thing to take from the switch’s success is that graphics are important, but good game and especially art design should be the priority.