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[Ar¢tos]

I've quit gaming months ago (I'm selling my ps5 atm), but this news saddens me a lot, I loved Bluepoint and their remakes.

I finally bought a beautiful fully restored Yamaha C5 piano from 1985 and that (and books) will be my entertainment from now on. No worries with GPU or RAM prices or bugs or performance issues.
I'm completely distancing myself from social media and forums and trying to focus on the physical world.
I came here just to say goodbye to you all, i had a great time in this forum and will cherish the memories of browsing GAF.
I wish all of you all the best.
Best regards to all!

 

[thismeinteil]

This is got to be the dumbest fucking thing to ever do. You have a studio that is incredible at making remasters and remakes. They should have been put on nothing but that. Bloodborne should have been there next project for the launch of the PS6. That would have had those systems flying off shelves.

 

[AutumnLeaves]

They did have it coming though.

Please don't listen to this garbage. Good lord.

 

[adamsapple]

 

[StreetsofBeige]

This is what those accountants don't get it. Games like Demon's Souls, even selling "only" 2 millions are prestige games. The kind of games Playstation made its repution along the years. PS2 had Ico, Shadow of the Colossus, PS3 had Infamous, TLOU. PS4 had Resogun, Infamous SS or Bloodborne.

Many bought PS5s thinking there would be more of Demon's Souls throughout the years.

People are not buying PS5s to play Roblox.

Game companies dont understand that. Every game has to be a hit game, however GAAS gets nine lives looking for that Fortnite killer.

Car companies do the halo effect all the time. The best sellers are going to be their low end models. But what do they do? They spend more time and money on ads on their luxury models because it gets people interested. Even if it's not the right kind of car for them or too expensive, they might still check out the site and see what else they got for cheaper.

Sometimes in business you need those filler products or halo effect products. They might not be the best sellers. They might make crap profits or even lose a bit of money. But you need it in the portfolio.

Problem is with tech and gaming, the assumption is always high growth, high profits and high margins. Lots of other industries dont gun for that as much. everyone wants that, but if the market has settled down to certain parameters, then a 4% growth rate might be all you got now. The market is only so big.

In gaming, the biggest growth over the decades is mobile. Yet the console makers dont even bother making smartphone games. And if they do, it's barely any effort. So for their quest for gaming growth, they arent even doing it in the right sub-sector. The only one who has is Nintendo with a hybrid system. But the games themselves arent even mobile-ish games.

 

[Bernardougf]

The reason I bought a launch PS5 was for Demon's Souls remake...

Me too

 

[Jesb]

Any particular reason why demon souls didn't sell so much more? I'm not really into souls likes but with this closure I been watching industry streamers that I follow discuss this and they been showing footage of demon souls and it's making me wonder about this game as it looks absolutely amazing. How is it this didn't do 5x or more than what it did. It looks like it deserved 10M+.

 

[64gigabyteram]

I've quit gaming months ago (I'm selling my ps5 atm), but this news saddens me a lot, I loved Bluepoint and their remakes.

I finally bought a beautiful fully restored Yamaha C5 piano from 1985 and that (and books) will be my entertainment from now on. No worries with GPU or RAM prices or bugs or performance issues.
I'm completely distancing myself from social media and forums and trying to focus on the physical world.
I came here just to say goodbye to you all, i had a great time in this forum and will cherish the memories of browsing GAF.
I wish all of you all the best.
Best regards to all!

many people here would be much happier if they followed in this guy's footsteps. May your life be peaceful and fulfilling.

 

[kevboard]

many people here would be much happier if they followed in this guy's footsteps. May your life be peaceful and fulfilling.

nah,
he'll come back...

they all do...

there's no escape...

 

[Aenima]

Any particular reason why demon souls didn't sell so much more? I'm not really into souls likes but with this closure I been watching industry streamers that I follow discuss this and they been showing footage of demon souls and it's making me wonder about this game as it looks absolutely amazing. How is it this didn't do 5x or more than what it did. It looks like it deserved 10M+.

It was an exclusive launch game to a console that got sold out in 10 minutes and became very hard to find for 2 years. By the time PS5 where easy available, there was a bunch other games stealing ppl atention. Game was also added to the PS+ Extra tier (thats where i played it), and even with discounts the game was still kinda expensive for a remake. They should have made a PC port when they decided to do the Returnal PC port as well, the original Demon's Souls never released on PC so it would probably sell well on PC.

 

[Aenima]

I've quit gaming months ago (I'm selling my ps5 atm), but this news saddens me a lot, I loved Bluepoint and their remakes.

I finally bought a beautiful fully restored Yamaha C5 piano from 1985 and that (and books) will be my entertainment from now on. No worries with GPU or RAM prices or bugs or performance issues.
I'm completely distancing myself from social media and forums and trying to focus on the physical world.
I came here just to say goodbye to you all, i had a great time in this forum and will cherish the memories of browsing GAF.
I wish all of you all the best.
Best regards to all!

You will be back once your fingers start cramping up from that fucking piano. YOU WILL BE BAAAACKKK!!!!

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All the best for you as well.

 

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