Sony is in on VR, so it’s natural to expect them to acquire studios to bolster that part of their ecosystem and more so give actual reason to buy their PSVR2. They don’t want it to become their next Vita with little first party support.
This acquisition is least prompted by Microsoft who aren’t even interested in VR at the moment and have been particularly vocal about that fact. This acquisition won’t hurt anyone and is strictly for Playstation VR, which is a project wholly independent of conventional gaming studio acquisitions. And the studio is filled with former Playstation Liverpool members, so it’s not even some wild acquisition of some studio completely foreign to Playstation, it is perfectly in line with how most of their first party studios (outside Nixxes which is more of a tech acquisition) are ones with long history with Sony already.
Gears 5 was better than Sony 2019 big games, Days Gone and Death Stranding, it has even a better critics score, but for misterious reasons DS won several GOTYs only because of Kojima and Sony involved. Optics are more important than facts in this industry undortunately, this is why MS should make another earthquake move to distrupt even more PS aura.
Do we expect anything at all with the latest “tease” by Colt Eastwood? I mean I am subbed to his channel but I can’t remember when I saw a video of him for the last time, often find the video titles way too clickbaity.
As someone who loves both Gears and Death Stranding, lets not go there
While Gears 5 does indeed have a higher meta score on average, when it comes to GOTY votes, it doesn’t take into account the people that absolutely loved DS
i.e. a game that gets five 10/10s and five 6/10s, will be more likely to win GOTY vs something that gets ten 8/10s because those that love it will vote for DS while Gears will just be seen as middle of the road material despite having more or less the same meta score
The question I was making is why people love DS? Perception, the gameplay loop itself was such a slog, come on, it’s even more boring than the mandatory walks with talks (XD) of Sony 1st party games, lol.
Or maybe people just liked the game ? If you’re looking at it solely at a number, then I can see why you’re saying that but if you read the actual reviews, you can see that DS had a wide ranging of scores.
It was a love it or hate it type of game.
Gears 5 didn’t invoke that type of response or feeling. The sentiment around Gears 5 was that it was just another solid Gears game. Not the best comparison IMO lol.
There’s no vendetta or conspiracy towards Xbox. Psychonaughts 2 is already getting tons of GOTY praise. This is just the beginning as well.
Because people disagree with you, im one of them, one of the most unique AAA games ever made
I hate the forced walk and talk exposition/secret loading screens in games but DS was actually balanced around the journey/equipment you bring and reaching a hard to get to destination gave me feelings in a game I havnt felt in a game in a long time, maybe ever but hey that’s just me, im not here to convince you to like it lol
anyway, this is going off topic, my point was there was no conspiracy for DS, that’s all
It’s no vendetta or conspiracy, it’s deliberate disinterest. Maybe it’s even worse.
My point was the scores are directly tied to the names attached to the game than its actual quality, it’s for these reasons you see scores ranging from 4 to 10.
So Colt had DreamcastGuy on his show and tried to play nice with someone whose very toxic on Twitter (recently harassed Alex after his PS5 REvision Video) and then yesterday just dropped that “Microsoft is about to stun the industry again. Stand by”.
it’s like
It’s his brand and he can do what he wants with it, but I’m so done. Also remember Techland video he put out?
