"Consumer choice is certainly a major factor – a recent Newzoo report revealed that over 60% of playtime in 2023 was spent on games six years old or older. Factor in annual releases and other factors, and the vast majority of new games are vying for just 8% of people's playtime. For context, Baldur's Gate 3 got 0.6% of the total playtime in 2023, while Starfield got 0.3% — that's the challenge developers face."
8k gameplay at 60fps... Plants vs Zombies 2024
Will it be in 8k? :-)
I sense another studio will be announcing layoffs in Q1 2025. The real villains here are the anonymous Playstation studio team who oversaw this debacle.
Worst month for awhile for me. No downloads. SpongeBob...seriously?!
Great game and loved the lead...buy it peeps!
Negative!
I bought three games (not AAA) that I thought I would like in the last seven months, but I did not and stopped playing after 1-4 hours. So I will buy a risky title, but not at $69.99. Also, certain companies like Ubisoft and EA are on my shit list, so I only buy them on sale.
The actual gameplay looks jerky as hell. FC 24 level of stutter!
$39.99 from CDkeys. The only problem is I suck at web-slinging...
When AstroBot is the hot ticket from a State of Play... Sony's game leadership needs a hard look in the mirror.
Guardians of the Galaxy-lite looks interesting, but it is a damn shame it is PvP without any PvE or SP element.
Aren't there enough established PvP games available?!
Just bought it on sale...city scale/scope is mind blowing.
Yes, greenlight happens at first playable, beta, and release master. Usually, the XBOX usability and testing group will put a game in front of 30-50 outside testers for analysis.
Alan Wake 2, for me, was a beautiful-looking walking sim.
I bash Phil and this XBOX production team for their many failures with big-budget exclusive titles. My cousin worked for XBOX studios in the mid 2000s, he was a Senior Program Manager on first party title, he and his team were held accountable for its success. They has 2-3 executive team reviews of the game and needed approved at each meeting to continue development.
It seems now (last five years really), the XBOX Studios team has no power or accountability for the game...
So what was the year delay and three beta trials good for then?!
Pretty but vacant... 40% of the babes in Los Angeles.
If the CPU upgrade % is accurate... 100% correct.
My crusade is this: executive teams at WB, Sony, Ubisoft, XBOX, etc...are placing bets with risky AAA releases.
If these bets fail, the executives need to be accountable (i.e. FIRED) not the developers they directed.
I am not seeing this accountability at all over the last five years.