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Devolver Digital commented this week about the more hospitable home today for indies being the Nintendo Switch, in comparison to XBox or PlayStation. It made me think about the likely fact that I have not played many Devolver Digital games on the Switch. So I went and checked out
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These are Microsoft’s words. Not mine. I didn’t make them up. I didn’t put the words in their mouth. Yes, delays happen. But not speaking to them, side-stepping them as if they are an inconsequential “Oh, by the way…” that’s not owning up to a problem, failing to make delivery,
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Let Herman Hulst speak more and become the face of the PlayStation brand. Jim's done a fine job with the business-side, but start pushing the face and voice of the studios more to carry through the remainder of this generation.
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I want to thank anyone who has followed me from the XBox community over the last few weeks. I appreciate you being willing to stomach my candor. I always want to be open: I've fully departed the XBox ecosystem. Any of you should feel welcome to unfollow as I'm not really sure
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Because you are a corporate mouth-piece who trades attention for access like currency, so much so that you've reached over to TV shows and movies and count them as corporate IP in the console war. These are then the things that you do.
This person should not be regarded as a
In a world where you can literally have both, why shoot something down for the sake of praising another? Or why does it always have to be a < or > thing?
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I keep saying stop counting your chickens before they hatch. I keep saying stop believing in bullshit rumours from sketchy news “sources”, untrustworthy so-called “journalists” who are biased in favor of Xbox, and so-called “insiders”. I hope everyone -
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7 exclusives in the top 20 on the NPD chart, all of them for the consoles in positions 1 and 2 in their install-base, but yet, exclusives don't matter, are anti-consumer, and don't sell consoles.
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It's funny the people who spent the last week saying "Don't jump to conclusions about the Xbox rumuors!" are now saying "Jump to conclusions about what Totoki said! Day & date on PC!"
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Trying to reconcile that people have zero problem with one of these castings of Cleopatra, but for the other have historians coming out of the woodwork to disprove the casting of the other. Weird.
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Today, Helldivers 2 has the exact same Metascore as Starfield. Each has an 83 on their home console. Starfield, in fact, has a higher score on PC. But you know what I don't hear? I don't hear a unified chorus coming from the PlayStation community, led by a few near the pointy end
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I can’t and won’t deal with people who use the term “lazy devs”. Especially if you’ve never written a line of code in your life. Devs aren’t the ones who set the budget, schedule, and get final say on the priorities. Devs have bosses. Learn the industry and assign blame correctly
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The net impact of the MSFT-ATVI merger is ~$7bn in annual revenue. This bluster about "losing CoD" for Sony is a 14% impact to Activision (which will be run as a P&L center within MSFT and therefore have its own AOP goals to achieve). The net impact to Sony (how much of the CoD
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Having listened more to the Spencer interview myself rather than getting it through a journalist/YouTuber filter. I hear more about what the Xbox strategy is & what they think they need to build, rather than trying to chase a solely console-centric consumer-base in an evolved
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Destiny 2 was on the scene for 5 years and became one of the highest revenue-making MMOs in that time, changing ownership hands 3 times, and increasing its staff from launch to peak to ~3 times its original size. Helldiver's 2 has been on the market for 9 days, is plagued by a
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On exclusivity and price in Gaming: no one had to be "convinced" that exclusives were "good for them". Dedicated HW paired with dedicated SW, will yield a better product 9 out of 10 times. People want good things for the money they spend. If one approach to a product yields a
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A lot of people are trying to keep it classy. Lemme be blunt and say what a lot of people are thinking...this person is a certified piece of shit. And anyone...anyone...who comports with him for the sake of maintaining console brand solidarity are people who compromise their
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Xbox got 3 awards tonight. PlayStation got no awards (for actual games). Spider-Man 2 received zero awards. I hope we can stop with the idiotic, putrid, dumb-ass, bullshit. You can take your "Xbox Tax" belly-aching & take a long walk off a short pier.
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PlayStation dudes hate it when I play their games at higher res and with more frames.
Ghost of Tsushima Director's Cut coming to PC on May 16th (Nixxes)
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Where's the small demographic of Gamer Twitter that got out of their seats for BOTH Starfield AND Spider-Man 2, and doesn't care about what platform they're on?
Maybe that's my tribe. Still searching.
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Take note that the same people saying "PlayStation dudes play movies and don't care about game mechanics" are now saying 30fps doesn't matter b/c the game mechanics aren't important.
Pick. A. Lane.
Flip-floppers.
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There are only 132 million monthly active users on Steam. That's not more gamers than there are in the console market.
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Those of us who actually lived through the video game market crash of 1983 will have a different perspective than those of you for whom it is only a Wikipedia entry.
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Somebody left the door wide enough open for 60 frames per second to be weaponized as the new marketed feature in a games release.
Baldur’s Gate 3 launches September 6 on PS5 with 60fps.
Details on character creation, classes, a new Origin character, and more:
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Saying MSFT and Activision have “flexed” in response to the CMA is too complimentary. They’ve thrown a full-on hissy fit and thrown a temper tantrum I’d expect from a toddler. The CMA & UK are now saying “Tell me you’re proving my point without saying you’re proving my point”
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It’s never sat well with me, the labeling of the MSFT-ATVI M&A as a vertical acquisition. That label references the merger of two or more companies that provide different supply chain functions for a common good or service. But this is more complicated. MSFT is itself a
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If you're a console gamer, and you love gaming, why would you ever say something like "Consoles are over"...and act elated & happy about it? The console war has made you guys sociopaths, & you'd rather see a thing you love burn if your brand can't win.
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Layoffs are an industry problem. That does not obviate Xbox of the accountability of a layoff that occurred
* after expending $70bn to acquire ATVI
* conducting a 1900 person layoff 104 days prior
* 32 days before doing its big summer showcase
* the CEO of the corporate parent
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If HiFi Rush didn’t “sell well”, that’s an indictment on HiFi Rush, not the entirety of Xbox & its business model. A rhythm-based combat game. A sub-genre that historically doesn’t sell well, and was never likely to clear the 15% margin desired. Whether or not Game Pass is a
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My outlook was positive that MSFT would be able to get this over the line despite the adversity. But no one has done more damage to their corporate efforts to negotiate a way forward in the last 48 hours than Brad Smith, Bobby Kotick, and Lulu Cheng-Meservey. MSFT leadership
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In the sub-tweet battle between the "Everything's fine, what're you complaining about??!' Xbox fan vs the "It sucks here, we deserve better" Xbox fan, who is right and who is wrong?
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How about neither? How about each customer is allowed to express their own opinion?
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Look guys, GAMING just isn't sustainable.
AAA games aren't sustainable
Exclusives aren't sustainable
AA isn't sustainable
Indies aren't sustainable
GAAS isn't sustainable
PC gaming isn't sustainable
Consoles aren't sustainable
Gacha games aren't sustainable
Mobile isn't
70% of developers say they're concerned about the sustainability of the live service model, according to a new survey.
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Regardless of how you feel about the merger, anyone advocating for either Microsoft's or Sony's ouster from the industry, to be driven out of business by the other, doesn't understand economics, doesn't know industry history, advocates for console warring over their fellow
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The last great shooter came out in 2016 and everything else in the genre has been less than peak
Feel free to prove me wrong.
And let's be civil
@SloMoBackSlap
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Eastern Challenges and why putting peanut buttering western content around the globe is not a winning strategy:
@BRAP_Podcast
mentioned to me that there is some realization occurring now about the global challenge that American gaming companies face in China, Japan, and Asia in
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The XBox influencers have new marching orders, and are bandying about the talking points that they've received straight from the GLT. So let's have a real discussion around metrics and the economic laws that we were all taught in high school.
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TLOU on PC. 109 days. 11 patches. Steam community acceptance has gone from Mixed to Very Positive.
Redfall on PC. 75 days. 3 patches. Has gone from Mostly Negative to Mixed.
As of today, on console, there is no Redfall 60fps patch or word on when one will show up.
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Me. Watching the hearing and seeing almost everything I've been saying for the past 524 days. Corroborated. More squares filled on the bingo card to go along with the CMA block. SMH.
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You can go ahead and send in your “virtue signaling” responses.
One of the reasons I remain aligned to the XBox brand is b/c it includes in its ethos inclusiveness & diversity; it addresses the needs for accessibility.
It does not stand for bigotry, racism, xenophobia, &
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Let's keep it a buck...if Final Fantasy XVI were not a PlayStation exclusive, the vibe about any criticism would be hella different.
Or maybe it's just the fiercely loyal FF fans, like the Bethesda people were before Fallout76.
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When Xbox fans flock to a post of a non-gaming article about MSFT bad behavior, that even MSFT admits was their own bad behavior, you guys really show the poor psychological state you’re in. Literally has zero to do with gaming. Yet you jump in front to defend the multi-trillion
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Please stop being judgmental of how your peers in the gaming community decide to spend their money that they earned with their own hard work.
For people who think that is word salad, it says "STFU".
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Let me point out a dumb gaming narrative going around: how do you conduct a "hostile takeover" of a company you already own?
Hostile Takeover actually has a legal definition and is a form of acquisition. You cannot conduct a "hostile takeover" of a company of which you
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I talked earlier about things that I thought and heard and gleaned from the Phil Spencer interview. I wanted to separate that from the things that I did not hear. And the things I do not understand. A week after the CMA blocks the ATVI M&A, MSFT has a hot-shot lawyer rigged into
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Unpopular opinion: I don't give a crap about puzzles in video games. I work all day figuring out puzzles in real life. I'm just into games for the action and the mechanics. You can miss me with that. I'll be using a guide.
😭😅🤣
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choice. Its matter as a console-war fanboy poker-chip on Twitter is really not the issue. It is the industrial and commercial impact on how the industry evolves as a result, and the net impact to all gaming consumers, and emerging & adjacent markets.
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btn MSFT & Sony will be relatively small. The real impact of this shift in the marketplace will be the impact on everyone else. It will drive new strategic alliances. It will incentivize consolidation. It will reduce the number of suppliers on the market and thereby consumer
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@ecjaxson
@Septic_Sauce
I spent, what E, 18 months on
@BRAP_Podcast
and Twitter asking for better? Pointing out the trending data showing the 12-month plan wasn't going to be fulfilled, pushing back on the COVID excuse, each time to be corroborated by Phil months later? Dogpiled, told to sit down?
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Why we out here choosing our preferred gaming platform based on which company has the better Operating Income anyway?????
These people do not actually play games. Much less love the entertainment medium and the art form.
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The more important part of Hulst's post is
1. But growth itself is not an ambition
2. PlayStation Studios will continue to be a creator-led organization driven by evolving our beloved franchises and bringing new gameplay experiences of the highest quality to our fans.
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@LordAddictILP
when we both guested on the DPS podcast, you asked me why I would "assume" that you were aligned with the Xbox brand and its associated defense force. This behavior is why. It is a clear and present example. In addition to the behavior you showed when in the chat
love
@M00CHTV
to death but i have to agree its hard to watch sometimes when i feel like they be crazy good or bad PlayStation news but somewhere they talked about the same 4 topics of Xbox the entire show
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When a sports team wins a championship, people say "WE" won. "WE" didn't do anything. The coach and the players did.
By the same token, b/c XBox is in 3rd place, "WE" don't need to do anything. Your job isn't to be free marketing and PR for XBox. "WE" don't need to hold the line
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Ah. I see that it is time for the daily ceremonial moving of the goal posts in the gaming narratives. Now, all the sudden, sales matter. But they didn't matter for the months since October 2022 when no Xbox game charted in the NPD top 20 other than Minecraft & Minecraft Legends.
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That 14% isn't going to be replaced 1:1 by people jumping ship. And if you're championing MSFT going that route b/c it can afford the loss, then you're championing a multi-trillion $ company using loss-leader strategies to gain market share and competitive advantage. But the dust
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People out here fighting over the truth about the future of Xbox and PlayStation....as if their opinions really matter as to how that turns out?
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This has been debunked. Don't heed podcasts that spread misinformation/disinformation.
(FYI) According to
@Middleagegamegy
Indiana Jones has not only been developed by Machine Games, but has been co-developed by 343 Industries, id Software, and Tango Softworks
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I'm gonna contend that most of the people who complain about "forced" or "contrived" inclusivity are perfectly ok if non-inclusivity is natural, or organic, or also even forced, as long as it's not spoken out loud (b/c in most of those cases, if you don't pull the thread, you
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The key component missing in critical thought from the "I don't understand why Xbox fans are mad..." crowd, is the empathy to think about the consumer scenario where they can only afford to buy one console. And that for $500 they could have gotten PS5 Exclusives + some AAA Xbox
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The XBox Business Update Podcast was on February 15th. That was 53 days ago. Basically two months. Engagement merchants are out today, taking the words from the Sarah Bond Friday internal email and touting the remarks as if they are new news.
They are verbatim the exact same
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Timed exclusivity has been a thing since gen 8. Trying to equate Annapurna giving PlayStation timed exclusivity, which PlayStation paid for, and then afterward distributing its cat game to Xbox...saying that is a correlating inverse to Xbox taking two games made by the crown
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into the market to go green. But at the end of the day, the overall financial impact of CoD ($3bn per year, maybe 1/3 of that on PlayStation) is 1. a much bigger impact to ATVI and MSFT than it is to PlayStation and 2. isn't that much of an impact to the $200bn industry overall
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Got a cast iron wok for Christmas. Made stir fried beef, rice, peppers, onions, garlic, peas, and tomatoes.
It was a hit. Not much left.
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Gamer Twitter is weird AF. There are consumer products I like. Ones I love. But if someone expresses that they don't like them, or are selling them, or wants something different from the product than I do, I don't get why that is a reason to flip out. Other than empty lives,
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The XBox community continues to be led astray by false prophets and Pharisees, fake gamers and frauds, who incentive them to pay attention to what other gamers are doing on other platforms or what gamers on those other platforms say about XBox gamers. Who sometimes just out and
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Probably find the tone-deaf intern that has the weekend duty on the social media account and maybe let them know their future is not in the games industry.
You marketed the Series X as the world's most powerful console, 12 Teraflops that Power Your Dreams, telling us as
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Looking at the Xbox and PlayStation engagement numbers. All this console warring...and you guys literally play like 70 - 80% of the same games.
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260mn gamers are ok w/exclusives. 27mn are not.
2.3bn iPhone buyers are ok w/an exclusive OS. In 2022, 26mn computer buyers were ok with the walled garden of MacOS. Wednesday generates 252mn views, Stranger Things 52bn minutes of watch-time, & NetFlix has 260mn subs. There are
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generated revenue PlayStation pockets, remembering that Sony gives a preferential revenue-share deal to ATVI and takes a discounted margin from its 70-30 norm) is maybe a whopping 0.8% impact on PlayStation's annual revenue.
And so here one would presume that MAU and it's knock
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If we're cheerleading that AAA games aren't sustainable, are we saying that we no longer want AAA games?
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-on effect to total user-install base is more relevant than the actual financials. So if Sony gets a "worse" CoD deal, what is the impact of that and how does it unfold? It likely gets "worse" over the next ten years, with incremental take-aways of doubleXP in PlayStation parties
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that ran with the narrative that this was a done deal reflects heavily on what they influenced their followers, listeners, subscribers, etc 2believe; reflects heavily on their journalistic responsibility, even for those of us who are not paid professionals. I hope we all reflect
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It amazes me that when these things happen, we cheerlead them finally telling us the plane isn’t taking off on time, and give excuses for the silence when nothing is said.
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The translation at the end. 💀
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and being transparent with your customer base. You don’t just announce a delay…or say nothing as dates and windows slip by…and not take accountability. Sure, I’ll shoulder-shrug the first time. But two or three slippages or just silent indifference…that’s not acceptable.
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reach. Again, play games, not business models & mergers & acquisitions.
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At this point, IGN posts linking their content on here and esp their podcasts, need community notes.
The gaming community deserves better journalism and we should demand it.
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server shortage in its 2nd weekend, is a PvE co-op shooter, not an MMO, and doesn't have PvP. Or the depth of story or lore that Destiny 2 had. While Destiny 2 has fallen off, the notion that it's a slam dunk that PlayStation should have bought Arrowhead instead of Bungie is a
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@M00CHTV
Wait. Are you saying that Sony sold almost as many PSVR’s as MSFT sold consoles? Trying to make sure I’m understanding the data correctly.
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If Xbox makes a decision, it's b/c it's the best thing for Xbox. Whatever PlayStation does, it does in the best interests of PlayStation. Nintendo goes the way that works best for Nintendo. Now, there can be a discussion about competence, success-rate, corporate culture, etc...
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If your contention is that, based on Square Enix' not reporting official sales numbers of Rebirth, and the financial statement write-down, that Rebirth must have sold south of the 3.5mn units of Remake....
.......then selling that game on Xbox, whose next gen addressable market
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Final Fantasy man said the game development would've been harder if they'd gone multiplat. An Xbox fan said that the dev was forced to say that by Square Enix corporate and that were not allowed to tell the truth.
And you get offended when we call those extreme fans
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What if...it was a sting operation...to find out who the leakers were...and the influencers they were feeding the information to...so they could all be relegated out the door and/or take their access away?
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any special maps, modes, or cosmetics, early doubleXP weekend starts, & beta access differentials. MSFT could eat the 14% of revenue loss with nary a sweat if it chose. 5 years out at the start of the next console generation that may sway some fence-riders and new gamers coming
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It’s funny what some gaming tribes call a “lie”.
“Sony lied their asses off”
“Sony’s concerns were disingenuous”
“Lyin’ Jim Ryan”
It would seem then that I was lied to when I was told I would be playing every game shown in the June 2022 showcase (minus the Kojima gig) within
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You've got Ryan McCaffrey, Destin, and Khalif, 3 staunch Xbox supporters, saying there is no XBox Tax and agreeing that it's ok for Starfield to have not gotten a nom for GoTY. Send the troops home. The Cold War is over. Tell Colt and the Pichinini account to tear down that wall
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On the canceled thing and my speculation: The basic concept of keeping 5 people together should be handled with server-side lift like any other game would. But I think the challenge would come in implementing it within the current engine, if the notches were never originally
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The Denouement Hypothesis - Starfield was snubbed. But not for the reasons you think. It got snubbed because the time for Bethesda's approach to game design has hit its apogeee and is past. Maybe it apexed with Skyrim. Regardless, it had its time. This will be most prevalent at
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Layden's comments need to be read together as one stream of consciousness but w/3 topics:
1. What makes sense fiscally for live-service games
2. What makes sense fiscally for single-player games (look up the meaning of 'exigency'; people apparently don't know)
3. The limits
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I don't know that Sony & Nintendo making exclusives should equate to "make(ing) it hard to be Xbox". Those exclusive deals are direct payments, royalty incentives, or revenue share concessions that the publisher/dev sees as up-side given the potential for a larger number of units
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People watching the court case today like people who watch Rocky movies and think that is what a real heavyweight boxing match is like. Like a theatre full of MST3000 fans watching A Few Good Men. There's not going to be a "You can't handle the truth!" moment. We can
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Why do you have a gaming PC and still participate in console warring on social media? Why would you spend $1500 to petty bicker back and forth with people who chose not to? That makes absolutely zero sense to me. Paying $500 for the other console just to shit on it is one kinda
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Gaming got its start as an all-cash business. Wells Fargo gave Atari the only backing it had. $50k of credit. Manufacturing line workers were hired from pools of people on unemployment. Unionization of the gaming industry had its start 50 years ago, as those workers tried,
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Some people came by our podcast from Gaming Twitter of late and I think the usual bad actors are up to their grift. Deviation Games is not owned by Sony. This might be an honest mistake, with people mistaking this news story being about Firewalk Studios. But it is just as likely
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“Did you have/keep that same energy for…” is one of the absolute dumbest ass fanboy console warrior responses ever created. Unless you read every blog post I write, watch every podcast I’m on, and ready every post I make on social media, miss me with that ignorance.
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@godfree
@vicious696
@Colteastwood
but let me guess? People are on your guys' case every day b/c they're "jealous of your success?". No. People are are just tired of seeing Xbox consumers, & to a certain extent, just gamers in general, being outright misled. Be better.
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Why some Xbox fans allow the dialog of PlayStation fans to control how they feel about their own platform I’ve never understood. You should be able to like what you like and ignore the childish insults of others. You should from there be able to have an unemotional, rational
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XBox needs to get as many of its titles onto other platforms as quickly as it can. There is no recouping investment on AAA titles when the maximum addressable market is 27mn people, and they all have an incentive to access the game via subscription. Given past performance, I
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Helldivers 2 has "performed well ahead of expectations" and topped more than 8m sales -
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You can make mistakes. I make them in the gaming conversation when I'm live on screen all the time. But it's on you if you take a holier-than-thou attitude about things, assert that you're never wrong, refuse to ever walk anything back, & leave no room disagreement or discussion.
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I've been explaining the MLB thing since it went multiplat. Literally for three years. And here in 2024 we still have certain influencers who don't get it, but yet shout and scream loudly that a thing is happening or the current state of the industry is "X" without knowing
Making an idiotic take. One of the worst I've seen. B/c anyone who has spent 5 minutes covering the games industry knows that MLB/MLBAM manages the MLB the Show property and is the one that made the
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