I in the past have thought Resistance should come back, just decades later.
What I mean by that is I’m just going off of memory, but I want to say the last game ended in the fifties, so say the next game took place in 2025, you would have a generation of people that didn’t grow up under the Chimera invasion and all they know about the war is from text books or what their grandparents said.
So you would have people saying they’ll be back, but never did and so when they finally do return people weren’t prepared what their family members tried to warn them about.
Plus with a jump in time this allows for mankind to reverse engineer the Chimera tech and it is very possible Earth is full of being a Cyberpunk type of landscape.
There definitely is great potential with the game and don’t forget the multiplayer was fun too.
My personal feeling - you can disagree - with the series is that Insomniac did not know what to do with it. All 3 games were very different. Personally, the first one was great as a launch title, I enjoyed the 2nd but the third was more an exercise of “see how much zombies we can throw at you because we finally master the CELL”. At least this is how I felt, this is the only one I did not finish. I was not worried they let the series die.
I see Resistance and Killzone as proof of their time, when FPS was a big fight between Sony and MS. At some point Sony agreed they were not very good at it and focused on the Uncharted “genre”.
This is also funny to see they try to integrate the Gaas genre by funding many FPS (Concord, …). It seems a very big gamble from their side.
I lifted this from other era, so the next time a Sony fanboy goes off on awesome PS5 hardware sales it can be pointed out a division of Xbox (not even the entire Xbox) makes more profit in 6 months then all of Sony gaming does in 9 months. They always like to pick and choose whatever metrics make Sony look better but their is no more important metric then actual profits.
For many years, people have equated hardware sales to success, because the more hardware you sold the more games you sold too. But the advent of digital and MTX have changed the rules and this is not as clear. Also games investment has skyrocketed in some genres.
This is true that profits are what they want. No company CEO get paid on how much hardware they sell if there is no profit.
It just boils down to “our number is bigger then your number” crap that Sony fanboys have been peddling for decades. Like they need to become sports fans or something cause this type of number cheer leading in this industry/hobby is just plain stupid.
For one even a 3rd place competitor in the game industry can sustain itself and be profitable enough for a company to stay in the industry. It’s not a Zero sum where a player gets kicked out of gaming every gen if they don’t “win” it.
It would be like telling Pepsi to pack it up and close down cause they never sell more units then Coke.
Then if you look at actual important metrics like Profits Sony’s margins are so thin they are behind some 3rd party publishers in profit and as stated even a division of Xbox rakes in more money then all of Sony gaming.
I agree in the current time, but I think that the general gamer crowd has yet to recover from Sega “Dreamcast death”, where low sales equated to its failure. Right now, all 3 manufacturers can go well along in their own market.
That was true for Sega as that is ALL they did, but MS is one of the richest companies in the planet and has a widely diverse amount of industries they rake it in on.
Sony on the other hand USED to be a tech giant but now seem to be pairing down year after to year to be very reliant on gaming for the entire company to Stay afloat the way it is. Sony is not the tech industry leader they used to be that is for sure.
Over time Sony might be vulnerable to the type of situation Sega was in where their revenues and profits were tied to very specific and non diverse business models.
I won’t disagree, because the first is the best, but I still think there is potential with that world.
Just go back to making the game like the first and not like after the Chimera became more accustomed to our universe, so they need to be sickly again, which means they need to geoengineer Earth, so it is cold, making snow and not having personal A/C units on their back, which was in the later games.
In the first game and best one they were inspired by Locust from Gears of War and there was the feel of reading an old newspaper with the color scheme. So, if they can bring that back, I’m all for it. If not, then you are right and there is no reason to bring it back.
Nintendo is the only company that can get away with selling hardware at a profit. If sony or MS tried to sell something that weak player would stream to PC
PS4 didn’t have any competition and Switch came in late to the generation. Not to mention game cost wasn’t out there like now, so they had everything to themselves. Today, competition exist and despite doing well in sales, they don’t know how to maintain profitable from the look of it.
I was just thinking about Marathon and how it could have been hyped as Bungie’s first single player effort in over a decade. That would have gotten a lot of people excited.
The live service model would have actually worked well with SOCOM, Twisted Metal, or WarHawk. If any of those were announced, even as live service titles, I’d have been incredibly excited.
That said with 12 projects planned it’s possible that any one of those was planned, I’m just speaking to the idea of the announcements made so far.
Personally I always look at these things as coincidence, my issue is that if it was Xbox that had these kind of long time departures among other things, it’s always doom
