Doesn’t Jez believe it changed, no longer with Xbox?
I haven’t heard that, but I also don’t pay a lot of attention to Jez.
In the podcast, you don’t know with him sometimes whether he’s presenting information or just the pessimistic speculation
Haven’t listened to most recent episodes, was it in context of comparing publisher/platform owned studios vs independent, or just like that specifically towards Ted’s studio?
It was in the context of comparing the resources Insomniac as a dev has access to vs. Remedy’s. Insomniac games (especially now) have to focus on polishing and quality over all, but Remedy’s have to come up and implement crazy creative ideas because of more modest budget and as a way of standing out. Sam talked about provoking the player and his comment wasn’t a dig to the interviewer’s company, but interesting to hear it directly from him regardless.
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How hopeless is it that Xbox will get Zenless Zone Zero? Just played a bit of the test (beta) today and it seems like it could be quite good. Played great on my ROG Ally too.
I bought Tales of Vesperia: Definitive Edition (my last game of the year probably). Have you played it? Is it any good?
I thought it was a very good JRPG with fun combat too, even if it can be a bit simplistic.
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Even besides Mihoyo titles I don’t think any of these console gachas have come to/been announced for Xbox so it seems slim to none.
Very enjoyable; my entry to Tales of series.
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What’s with the Sony going bankrupt thing going on around the twitterverse. Is it fanboy driven crap or is there merit to it? I don’t believe it or want it to happen anyway.
Sounds like fanboy crap, maybe related to the class action lawsuit?
I saw it from Jez’s twitter, apparently it’s from a Japanese “insider”. Ehhh I know things has been kind of turbulent within SIE but this seems like a reach/nothing burger.
It’s bs
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It would take major failure in their Life Insurance, Life Care, Financial, Bank, and Assurance business segments. Think something in the scale of how the financial collapse of 2008 happened.
Sorry, I meant SIE lol, but yeah all sounds bs
At first I didn’t think just SIE could file, but they’re structured so its possible.
ChatGPT says:
Sony Interactive Entertainment is a subsidiary of Sony Corporation, which is a publicly traded company. If Sony Interactive Entertainment were to file for bankruptcy, it would be a separate legal entity from Sony Corporation and would not affect the parent company’s financial standing. However, I could not find any information that suggests Sony Interactive Entertainment is planning to file for bankruptcy
And links back to reddit post from a year ago:
https://www.reddit.com/r/sony/comments/zk06ln/sony_is_going_to_file_for_chapter_11_bankruptcy/
It is based on some analysis firm speculating on some insider info.
The insider info might be correct but there speculation is totally wrong.
This isn’t the first time SIE selling a loss making console and Sony knows this business very well.
And in last quarter SIE’s service and game revenue did very well.