This is so funny to me. Conflating trophy stats with actual sales is like something some random teenage fanboy would do. But this is the director of the game.
It’s super hard to make a multiplayer game that has legs, especially in today’s age.
Gears and Doom both have great gameplay mechanics but it can’t translate into a multiplayer that has longevity.
Yup, those flash in the pans make Gears seem like Fortnite in terms of longevity and play engagement.
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PS3, they really tried to aim for MP with Resistance, Killzone, Socom, Twisted Metal, and more. PS4, they gave up but see nothing to fear since Xbox is out of the running. Now they’re back, they have to invest it to other studios to work on it. They have Naughty Dog for Factions, so only time will tell if the result will be good or not.
Yep, those “halo killers” were never going anywhere. Ironically, as soon as Guerilla studios pivoted from a “Halo Killer” to Horizon Zero Dawn, they finally outsold a Halo game.
Yep, sadly they had the wrong console n infrastructure back then that didn’t help the MP push, xbox live vs psn back then hoo boy ( although still a sizable gap in services now really).
No party chat, no / very few dedicated servers, shit controller, regular PSN outage issues and the infamous hack among many other things. Like it was free cos nobody was paying for it in that state.
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I forgot it was free before. Time has truly changed. I do find it funny that despite online being weak in compare, Nintendo do have a lot of fun multiplayer as well. Mario Kart 8 sold crap load for example. Xbox even got a new (at the time) IP Sea of Thieves that helped to fill in the multiplayer space. Only Sony needs that one game that can carry them in multiplayer.
Sports games are saving their asses in that department. Fifa/NBA2K/Madden all continuing to not be crossplay is basically PS’s own version of a MP exclusive.
That’s like 30-40 million people who are locked into one platform solely because there’s no crossplay on those games.
They need to swing for the fence and expect to fail for anything to really stick, not just make copycats of other MP games. Halo existing today is because it’s Haloand the impact it had 20 years ago, if it came out today with whats on offer it would sadly be dead cos of competition and lack of progress structure / new idea’s.
Sea of thieves is good because it did that fence swing and stuck the landing even if today so many moan about content or lack of “progress”
Wait. Those games aren’t crossplay? I thought they were.
Nope, Sony is most likely blocking it since it’s the best way to stifle XBOX’s growth outside of North America.
Xbox will never manage to overtake PS in Europe as long as FIFA doesn’t have crossplay.
got into a discussion with someone else regarding marketing on this topic, MS will never dethone SONY in europe save for another Ps3 disaster and even then maybe not (PS5 is huge, ugly, expensive and underpowered in comparison but is still selling better). MS is better to try and attract those users to play their games as well as PS instead even if it’s on their phones or PC
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Yep, I think it’s intentional, EA didn’t even added Dolby Atmos to Xbox FIFA version and it’s coincidentally marketed by PS. XD
MLB is cross-play and from Sony but it’s a US only game honestly, it makes perfect sense even in this scenario, they profit directly from all of it
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edit re crossplay :Wow, I didn’t know this, thought the gates had opened with warzone n COD but guess u learn new thing’s everyday.
EA hasnt used Dolby Atmos in anything since Battlefield 1 I believe and only done native DV in Andromeda. Has nothing to do with Sony blocking it.
They should add it back for Dead Space. That would sound incredible and scary as hell.
Can someone help me out here? Horizon Forbidden West comes out on both PS4 and PS5. Is the PS4 version upgradable? Is it cheaper ($60 vs. $70)? Does the upgrade cost anything? I can’t seem to figure it out.
I think people underestimate the Series S over the next couple of years. SONY got the name and games but if all those buys of MS start to come good this and year and next, then the notion that MS doesn’t have any exclusives other than Forza, Halo & Gears is one and I have no doubt MS will cut the price of the Series S over the year and so it becomes a super cheap entry console
It’s sad we’re not having an E3 because this and the next E3 would have been ones where MS showed have owned them with all their new studios showing off the new stuff.
I have both systems and even now there are better exclusive reasons to buy a SONY system to show the new-gen to MS. I find though that when people actually get to own a Series X they find it’s a much better system. I find SONY front end just terrible too, everything is more hard work than how it is on the XBox…
Smart Delivery is just so much better and I love how all the saves and your buys are tagged to gamer tag on the Xbox, but with SONY you have activate and deactivate the console, even switching the PS5 is more of a hassle than with the Xbox and I also love how you can update your pad and headset wireless with Xbox, but on the PSV you still need the USB cable
Pretty sure the upgrade is free because everyone for pissed off and complained at them.
" Players who purchase Horizon Forbidden West on PlayStation 4 will be able to upgrade to the PlayStation 5 version for free."
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