It does have the whole Steam catalog behind it though... Something Switch owners will only ever be able to dream of. Playing GTA V or Red Dead Redemption 2 on a portable system is nothing to scoff at, I think.
That's not new though. People who had paid upwards of 250$ for their AES cartridge of Fatal Fury 2 on Neo Geo in 1992 were (rightfully) pissed to see Fatal Fury Special (some kind of Director's Cut of Fatal Fury 2) release in 1993 (not even a year later), LOL
Japanese publishers did that quite a bit, and still do, and not just with arcade games. I remember double-dipping for Metal Gear Solid 3 Subsistence just for its new 3rd person camera in 2006, when I already ow...
I'd be rather curious to know how those 7,5B$ were distributed among all those employees. My bet is the higher-ups at Zenimax & Bethesda caught the bulk of it and devs got a couple thousand $ at most, with a few brass in each studio getting maybe a couple million $. Now that would be interesting.
What, it's Taito's turn now??? I can't wait for Sega's mini-Afterburner II R360 and all the photos of silly 40-year old nutcases who will somehow try to fit their fat beer-guzzling bellies in it, LOL
Seriously though, a few years back I would've been tempted to say that Japanese gamers are lucky, they get all the funny stuff and we in the west get nothing, but the truth is Japanese gamers are sorely misssing from not knowing PCs better and what can be do...
You didn't care about Dead Nation and Resogun? Dang, these games would've made me buy the studio long before they made Returnal or anything else. Excellent games, especially Resogun. Its attract mode alone would've made me buy the studio, lol.
No, that's not the point. Paying 20$ for an expansion might be right (depending on its content ofc), but paying 10$ for the PS5 upgrade of the game is not.
MK1 was impressive for its time, but it had little more than digitized actors and over-the-top ultra-violence to shine compared to the japanese competition. The gameplay was punchy but that's about it: the animations were super-stiff, jumps were all the same, and no combos kept it from standing shoulder to shoulder with a certain Street Fighter II.
The MK series really only grew to become a serious opponent among japanese fighting games with MK9 (or simply Mortal Kombat as it was...
Typically the kind of news with a wording aimed at causing raucousness with the readership, that actually happens to be good news. So the good version of the game, the final one, actually is MK 11 Ultimate. So I can buy it now, then.
If only some japanese developers would take note. I've been dying to play Tekken 7 & Street Fighter V all this gen, but with no end in sight to their constant stream of DLC and season passes, it may not be tomorrow that i'll get the chance to...
"sony needs to pay millions of dollars to developers"
WTF? Pay millions of $ to the developers of God of War, Horizon Zero Dawn, the Last of Us 2 ? You know they're Sony's 1st-party devs, right?
I gotta say, after seeing this game countless times in Top 100, Top 50, Top 30 or Top 10 lists of the best games ever made, I took it upon myself to give it a go and play it thoroughly to the end to see what the big deal was all about, a few years back, aaaand... nope, it didn't particularly resonate with me either. I liked the horse-riding bits, the gerudo valley theme, a couple other things, but was ultimately left unimpressed. Not a bad game, but certainly not what it's all cracked...
Good. Now please proceed with acquiring Bluepoint games, with reopening Evolution studio, Zipper Interactive, Ready at Dawn and that studio that somehow managed to make Wipeout HD run on the PS3 back then, and we'll be all set... well, when it comes to western 1st party devs at least... for now at least. Then the time will come to show Level 5, Kojima Productions and a few others in Japan some love.
That's not nearly the same thing. Bethesda is a publisher that was always 3rd party: the Fallout games, The Elder's Scrolls games, the Dishonored games, the Doom games always came out on Playstation platforms. Heck Doom, Doom II and Final Doom came out on PS1 long before Microsoft even thought about entering this industry!
When Insomniac, Housemarque, and Bluepoint games had always been developing games pretty much only for Playstation consoles prior to their buyout...
Never thought my suggestion would be given any attention :-)
I like it when Sony see things the way I see them! lol
"and these games are likely staying only within that company's ecosystem"
Hum...say what? Hold on a sec, shouldn't you, of all people, be seriously disgruntled by the idea of those games remaining on Xbox? Remember your "they're spoiled little brats who don't like sharing their toys" (or something to that effect) narrative about some Sony fans expressing concern over Sony's decision to port PS4 titles to PC?
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If it's possible using a hacked PS4, why was the option to remove the letterboxing not implemented in the retail version then? The graphics in this game are absolutely insane, some of the most gorgeous ever seen in any video game like, ever, truly a sight to behold, so I accepted the letterboxing as being what I thought was a necessary trade-off, but... it wasn't then?
I want a sequel by the way, don't sleep on that IP like you usually do, Sony!
It looks absolutely outstanding, but if I get it right, the game's content is streamed for the most part, as there's no way you can store the content of our whole beautiful planet Earth on a disc, so there must be extremely high requirements when it comes to your online connection in order to get the game to run at all, even on consoles, I suppose? Any idea what those requirements are?
Interesting article, but it could've been a bit more fleshed out. Nintendo is indeed the N°1 offender, of all HW makers, when it comes to that. I did discover video games thanks to (or perhaps because of :p) them, but as it stands, I'm not giving that company an extra cent. Long live PCs and Nintendo's greed and refusal to design systems with the power that puts them above the risk of having all their games emulated!
That was underwhelming graphically... looked like some run of the mill side-scrolling shooter designed to cater also to the lowest common denominator (smartphones), like that Megaman reskin by Keiji Inafune Mighty No. 9 that got rightfully panned by critics a couple years ago, or barely better... I'll take Mesen's Metroid HD, AM2R, or Super Metroid any day over that.
"Sony’s acquisition strategy is to wait for studios to ‘mature’"
Great strategy, but time could possibly not be a luxury they will have this gen. Sony need to offer Housemarque and Bluepoint studio the chance to become part of Sony WW Studios, for a start, and buy/create more studios.
Yeah, Nintendo games on the Switch like... all 4 or 5 of them... Mario Odyssey, Zelda Breath of the Wild, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Smash Bros and... Splatoon? Compared to the 1000s of games on Steam; apparently all playable on the Deck.
This is good news though, in that this will force Nintendo to go back to the drawing board seriously, even if only for their next-gen console.