***So? Doesn´t make Helldivers II´s achievement in sales as a multi platform game any less impressive!***
No one said it isn't impressive, but you literally said that it loses in sales when you ignore facts about it, specifically the cost to buy and that Spider-Man 2 still sold extremely well. You then sell the idea that this is reason why it should go same date on PC and PS5. If games like Spider-Man 2 went same day release on PS5 and PC, Sony would start sel...
This is the problem with proprietary memory.
*** 300+ Million on Spider-Man 2 just to see it lose in sales for an AA live service game released day and date on both PC and PS5. ***
Spider-Man 2, on only one platform, was the 4th best selling game of 2023. WTF are you on about? Do we ignore that Helldivers 2 is also $30 cheaper than Spider-Man 2?
**** Sony is a business after all. They need to make money. ***
Oh, NOW we care about the profitability of a business. Not when talking ...
***Because the market stopped growing... And the exclusives cost too much to sell to only a segment of the market... ***
I mean, sure, if your market is really small, that's a problem. Doesn't seem to be a problem for the other two. Kind of like how Spider-Man 2 (#4 in 2023) sold more than Starfield (#11 in 2023) even though one released on PC and Xbox.
How is the appearance of the MC a political thing? Why are we making peoples' views on how people are presented in games about politics and not just personal opinion?
I mean, both sides of this spectrum are quite ridiculous. You're trying to highlight just one to make a point that could be made about both sides.
***PlayStation exclusives multi-platform would help its operating income improve***
Just to note, they don't say multi-platform, but continuing to port games to PC. This is bad journalism. He's literally saying "if we continue to do what we are currently doing."
***Selling points for corporations, but bottlebecks for gamers and developers.... Stop shilling for corporations. ***
No exclusives means hardware only matters, means focus on largest markets only, means everyone becomes publishers rather than waste money on hardware to compete against largest market, means less competition, means less innovation and advancement in hardware, means bad for consumers as a whole as competition shrinks drastically.
***But eve...
What analysis is happening here if it's just like Wall Street where every analyst just keeps repeating what the 'big dog' company says verbatim? No one is really thinking for themselves anymore, just parroting what big company say.
***I mean, it sounds like you're just hating on the game***
No, that's all the people who refused to accept that this game was beloved and never even bought it. I, on the other hand, bought, played it, thought it was 'okay' and moved on.
Now, what hate did you see in my post other than listing the fact that it's not as beloved as the few who liked it? This and Days Gone get way more love in online discussions than they do in sales and...
Neither does Microsoft either, based on your own argument here. Microsoft denied the sequel, not Insomniac/Sony. There's also no sign that Microsoft is allowing a port. They control the next two games in the IP and any DLC or the like for the first. But, nothing.
What's sad is people trying to use this game to blame businesses for doing business things that they are both doing as some way to make them look worse. Microsoft wants to use Insomniac to make a good IP th...
*** But yea, In actuality its Insomniac not having spare dev time to get involved in the port work, atm. ***
Definitely this. They're working on two major IPs as it is and Sony forced them to layoff some people at the end of last year as well. So, likely not capable of sparing the time because resources are being fully utilized.
I mean, it's also not a highly rated game, not even in Insomniac's top ten or even top ten on Xbox that year. With this logic, any game can be beloved and so throwing around the word beloved means absolutely nothing. Doesn't have to sell or have great critical reception, just a handful of people need to love it.
I think only in so far as they support every piece of software heading their way? They have that team who specializes in helping people port games, not just SoT, and then the one team that takes PS5 games and ports them to PC (that's their full time job essentially). But that team, the former mentioned one, doesn't do all the work, just help out with how to best do things. So, that team wouldn't port a whole game like Sunset Overdrive.
Hey, when Sony offers to overpay you for your services and signs a contract that says they won't force you to do anything you don't want, who would say no? Such an overpriced purchase from Sony. Poor business, IMHO. But, honestly, I'm not a business person. But, still, I don't understand it.
I think that would require Insomniac going back to work on it to port it over, probably why that's not happening.
So beloved that it sold so well that there's a sequel and Insomniac never had the opportunity to go back to Sony to develop games exclusively for Sony.
It feels like the common trend to wallstreetify companies rather than have them being run by people who are actually interested in the output of the industry.
They play long-time existing live service games like CoD, Fortnite, Apex Legends, Destiny 2, and the like. Mass majority of new live service games are considered failures and aren't moving gamers away from older games.
Obscure, c'mon now. You can't just say something without the reason behind it. Why is Microsoft looking beyond consoles? Because they're losing in that arena. Sure, they'll keep pumping out hardware to compete with Sony and to promote their subscription service on console versus leaving Sony to decide the market entirely, but they do this while trying to push everyone to their strength in the market and get rid of the other market. Microsoft absolutely wants Sony to abandon wh...