Nah just go with Steam, nobody wants these other storefronts on PC, everything elsewhere get bad numbers, just do day 1 Steam releases like with Helldivers and Palworld and let the launch hype and masses of people playing and streaming and concurrent user numbers do the rest.
No bloat in elden ring or baldur. These aren't like your typical western open-world games. Id much rather have these than shallow corridor shooters like uncharted.
Speak for yourself, buddy. The only reason I want a Pro is to kick ass with Abby in 8K/120 fps with ray-traced biceps.
I’m really only talking about getting rid of people that coast. Ever since Covid, the workforce of the West has gotten lazier. I see it my industry, my wife’s industry and others. It’s like this sense of entitlement that people think they’re worth more than they are and they think life should be stress free.
Doomed to failure. If they don't go with Steam or get a big check from Epic for the port, they may as well not bother. Sony is nowhere near knowledgable enough to make a PC storefront anyone gives a shit about and shareholders will have no patience to wait 10+ years for Sony to figure it out.
They need to cut budget and optimize budget for some of the SP games. Spider-Man 2 cost at $350mil and more for next one is ridiculous and mismanaged.
Cut sweet baby inc and all the diverse hiring then.
I strong doubt that took more than a few $mil, but sure, all costs need to be looked at.
I mean, I don’t care who they are, identify as, vote for, or whatever. If you can’t do the job as good or better than the person next you, then you shouldn’t be there.People like this, yeah?
In all honesty, they should.
One of the few things that have worked out in my life. I decided to go full PC after PS4 release and not purchase another console and it has worked out wonderfully. I got months of gamepass for $1 multiple times, spend next to nothing on games while playing ultrawide for most, and now PS has decided to bring their games to PC too.
Apparently some colleges have around 300 diversity consultants. Most big universities have thousands of staff members who are not professors. I wouldnt be surprised if a lot of the actual dev costs are going into paying these consultants who actually dont do any work on making the game.
They should test the waters first. Launch a big exclusive on the PC store front day and date and 6 months or a year release the game on steam. Atleast it gives the option for FOMO and makes Sony money. They could still make a bit of money afterwards from the die hard steam users.
Quoted for Truth.
Yeah, the game didn't looked nearly as good enough to have that budget.
Instead of actually supporting PSVR2, using the talent and experience they’d built up making Blood & Truth and The London Heist, they pivot and chase MP GaaS for the big buck$. They end up with nothing, dead.Let’s talk about the current project that you’re working on. To whatever extent that you’re able, I’d love to hear from both of you about what it is you’re doing right now: what it looks like and what it feels like.
T: It might help to share with you a teaser image that we’re gonna put out.
T: Our next project is an online co-op combat game, which as you can see here, is set in a modern fantasy London. The key thing about this is that it’s a PlayStation 5 title—it’s not a VR game like our last title was. And it’s our most ambitious project to date.
There are some important aspects communicated in this image. It’s a modern fantasy London, it’s cooperative action. And what we really love about this project is that it’s giving us an opportunity to showcase a lot of wonder and magic. So we’re really excited.
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Given Sonys track record, PSVR2 was doomed from the start. It wasn’t even about the tech as it seems like good hardware for the price. But going by PSVR 1 and Vita, Sony barely supports their non-console hardware with first party games. So it’s not surprising they hope and pray third party games carry the load. And the fact it costs more than. PS5 to begin with is a big red flag.Multiplayer GaaS dogshit.
Instead of actually supporting PSVR2, using the talent and experience they’d built up making Blood & Truth and The London Heist, they pivot and chase MP GaaS for the big buck$. They end up with nothing, dead.
Add this to the long tally of GaaS failures vs Helldivers 2.
Well we just get everybody elses exclusives so.
I'm sorry, but how exactly do you see it?
exactly. dont forget, if the company doesnt exist... 0 people get paid. bankruptcy is real if you dont start cutting workforce. Also the hiring because of Race/Gender/whatever check box needs to stop yesterday. it needs to play 0 role in the process.
That sounds like past work, sounds like Infamous and the DLC.They spent 6+ years working on GoT. Very unlikely the budget was $60m.
This is the LinkedIn post that drove the rumors . The person left Sucker Punch in 2016, and the claim there is that the $60m was for a 4 year budget. We don’t know for sure what period that covers, but it certainly doesn’t cover the development period.
Now just one more experiment please. Same staff, same production value maximized in 20-40 hours gameplay. After you get back from work, you spend around 4 hours playing each day. So that's 5-10 days of enjoyment per game. Is that not enough, do people need intravenous cocaine fluid right into their brains or wtf?
They didn’t commit to PSP beyond the early years, found out that doesn’t work, started a few more PSP games for late-gen like Motorstorm and Resistance but it was too late. They ported some games to PS2 to squeeze a little more value out, less reason to get a PSP.
With VR I think what Sonys strategy was to just latch onto the trend and just hope it sells itself. It’s not like they got tons of first party VR games in dev. What happened is they saw all the PC sets selling millions of units and the trend was skyrocketing. So it doesn’t even matter what first party games you got (it’s not like Valve or Meta makes tons of first party VR games either) or whether it’s even BC with PSVR1.
The promise of growth from PC, mobile, and other platforms are going to be the only things keeping PS afloat in the near future. Their current model and consumer base obviously isn't sustainable.
I have been told pretty much the same thing at my work, but that doesn't mean it's true. How do you think they measure productivity? They just look at a number of tasks completed in some amount of time. There could be a million other reasons why tasks take longer than before, so I find it particularly shortsighted to just blame it on work from home making employees lazy.
It's coming, honestly at this point it might not even be something they feel great about but financially it simply makes sense. Games are insanely more expensive today versus decades ago, and if players still want these large single player games releasing them on more platforms is logical. Also the people who play exclusively on either Playstation or Xbox and say they'll abandon the platform if games start releasing elsewhere are full of crap and both Sony and Microsoft know it.
The suits who know nothing about gaming only go by checkboxes and numbers to evaluate things. More hours and more content must mean more fun and sales.
Sony should sell all the studios and then buy their games as exclusive in PS.
