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[nial]

At last, Lost Soul Aside has officially gone gold!

 

[Connificent]

 

[Danny22]

Technically the first Sony published new single player game releasing simultaneously on steam and playstation.

I expect this to sell far more on pc.

And it's not even region blocked anymore, thanks to shiftup.

 

[adamsapple]

Technically the first Sony published new single player game releasing simultaneously on steam and playstation.

Until Dawn remake.

 

[Punished Miku]

Technically the first Sony published new single player game releasing simultaneously on steam and playstation.

Prestige decreased*

 

[Danny22]

Until Dawn remake.

I said 'new'. So no Until dawn remake or Horizon remasters.

 

[R3TRO]

It looks bland but I feel like I should buy it anyway.

 

[Danny22]

Prestige decreased*

Thankfully. China's steam popularity has played the most major role in breaking Sony's exclusivity.

 

[Draugoth]

It's a single person doing this?

 

[nial]

It's a single person doing this?

Ultizero was at over 40 employees in 2022.

 

[Fbh]

If it's actually good I feel like it would benefit from a demo.
Stellar Blade was the same, I was interested but it was the demo that sold me on it.

It's a single person doing this?

It started as a single dev project but has since evolved into a small dev team working on it. They still describe the game as AA though,

 

[yurinka]

Nice. Now let's hope it's good.

But well, I'm pretty sure a lot of morons will say it sucks because won't consider it was started as a single man project and later got help from a dozen or two guys more, and will compare it to AAA games DMCV games as if they were games made with similar budget/resources.

Technically the first Sony published new single player game releasing simultaneously on steam and playstation.

I'd say Lego Horizon was released day one in PC and Switch too.

I expect this to sell far more on pc.

Very likely yes. This genre normally doesn't have huge sales, and it's going to be very China focused in terms of sales and marketing. And in China PC is way bigger than PS in a bigger proportion than it is in the rest of the world.

And it's not even region blocked anymore, thanks to shiftup.

Sony's games aren't region locked. They -including Stellar Blade- aren't sold in some countries, an amount of them that varies per game. As an example none of them is sold in the countries banned by USA. And the ones featuring LGBT or gore aren't sold in countries that don't allow it unless they have a censored version of these countries. In addition to this, the games that had PSN support weren't available in countries not covered by PSN.

It's something Sony always did, it has nothing to do with Shift Up.

 

[adamsapple]

Prestige decreased*

I can see the exclusivity subsidy vanishing before my eyes.

 

[Killer8]

It looks really impressively bland.

 

[Zacfoldor]

I started out hyped for this one but slowly over time began to think of it as a stinker. I think it will be a stinker, but I hope it's good!

 

[Danny22]

Sony's games aren't region locked. They -including Stellar Blade- aren't sold in some countries, an amount of them that varies per game. As an example none of them is sold in the countries banned by USA. And the ones featuring LGBT or gore aren't sold in countries that don't allow it unless they have a censored version of these countries. In addition to this, the games that had PSN support weren't available in countries not covered by PSN.

It's something Sony always did, it has nothing to do with Shift Up.

Sorry, I can't let this go without being replied to given how much I hated Sony region blocks. They were blocking their games from being sold in 170 countries after Helldivers 2 PSN drama. They removed the PSN requirement from Last of us 2 onwards (and the ports that came after that) and didn't have it in Helldivers 2 as well but those games were still being region blocked. And i believe it caused a lot of lost sales as well as much lower CCU's of their subsequent games.

Stellar blade was similarly being blocked in 170 countries (may I brag I was one of the first ones to tell shiftup on twitter about this, which they seemed unaware of) before they removed the region block and the game did record level CCU. Which I believe played a factor in getting almost all previous sony ports removing their region block as well. This includes Lost soul aside which was similarly being blocked in 170 countries, now its the expected 7-8.

 

[The_hunter]

I have a feeling this is going to be a great action game.

 

[DarkstarRising13]

It looks bland but I feel like I should buy it anyway.

It used a nearly identical art style to Final Fantasy XV and no one complained about the art style used or Final Fantasy XV.

Heck, they even got Stellar Blade's art director to look over the style of the game.

 

[fersnake]

damm, finally i remember this game showing for ps4 back in the day.

 

[The Cockatrice]

Chinese DMC. Might keep an eye out on it.

 

[ReBurn]

 

[El Muerto]

All these games from China just look the same.