If anyone wants to make a nintendo fan game, they should really keep completely quiet about it and not announce it until its released. Sure nintendo can have you take it down, but once its out there it can be redistributed by other people.
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It is called the competitions between the platforms.
I donāt like this attitude of ābut we have Game Passā. It reminds me too much of āthe good game for Game Passā if the game is so so. It is actually becoming the actual label these days. āThe Game Pass gameā, that people use to label the game as mediocre because they wouldnāt purchase or play it otherwise.
For example nobody says that Forza Horizon is the good game for game pass. But something average? āGood game for Game passā
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GP existence should give Xbox more shots to fire, not lessā¦XD
Also I never liked this kumbaya attitude, you should play nice to your customers, not others, and they know it, otherwise Starfield, etcā¦would be on PS, so itās not an alien concept, itās only not consistently applied.
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Nobody is suggesting what you are saying is console warring though.
Not sure how we got here from people doom and gloom about Kojima potentially working with Sony in addition to Microsoft.
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I donāt get how Kojima working with Sony at Death Stranding 2 affects any project that he might do with Xbox hype wise. Sony may keep making Death Stranding gamesā¦I donāt give a fuck because PS5 is a platform that I wonāt support this generation (the days when I got a console for 5-6 games are over) plus I donāt care about Death Stranding as a game, all I care about as someone whose Xbox will be his main platform this generation is to play a great game on my Xbox from Kojima (assuming Jeff is spot on on this which I bet he is).
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Quite easily. Letās preface it with the fact that - no matter what you think - Kojima is a big name and even he makes some weird stuff, his games are the event by itself. He built that reputation. With Death Stranding he slightly soiled it but in general he is still a well known guy.
From the point of view internet community Kojima has always been associated with Playstation. All his projects were on Playstation, Sony helped him with his studio when he left Konami. The very idea that he might be making Xbox exclusive (the game that will skip Playstation) was mind blowing for fanboys (and letās be honest there, there are many more folks engaging in internet discussions who prefer Playstation). Akin not only betrayal and also as if something bad was happening in Sonyās kingdom if they did not fund the Kojimaās project (there were incredible takes like Sony could also provide cloud infrastructure for Kojimaās game because they had PSN).
The straw they were grasping was that as it was the cloud game it wouldnāt be the big game, would be specific awkward but certainly not the big 3rd person action game. It also led to ācloud native concernsā. There were some takes like, being the cloud game MS would release it on Playstaiton. Fascinating stuff.
There was also a dream of horror game from Kojima with Silent Hill IPs (thus all that frenzy with Abandoned). It was all about exclusive Kojimaās game on Playstation.
Essentially that rumor about Xbox exclusive game from Kojima was forcing people to look towards Xbox or PC platform one way or another (not for all of them but for some folks it was literally a system seller so they considered Series S, X, XCloud or whatever). It was basically pulling in people who wanted to play Kojimaās game.
But with the new rumor people relaxed, because now they believe that they donāt need to bother with Xbox anymore as they will also have Kojimaās game. And some even consider that his Xbox activity is something small, but the biggest game will be on Playstation. It additionally fueled by that interview with Hermen Hulst, where he mentioned FromSoftware and KojiPro. It could easily be a stretch akin Abandoned, but - despite it being absolutely incredible cult- it still generated a lot of content and a lot of media discussions including trending, simply due to possibility of it being Silent Hill game with Kojima. That amount of discussion MS & Xbox generated only when they bought Bethesda 
(those topics on Era - xbox OT, playstation OT and dedicated ones - I still keep in bookmarks)
Keep in mind that this is only important for the internet discussions. It is nice not to engage in Internet discussions, but for example I love them and would be happy if Xbox had stuff like Abandoned mess, that despite being absolutely cringey, generated a lot of discussions and trends on Twitter for example. People outside just follow the trends - but stuff like Kojimaās rumors generate thse trends that attract the common folks.
So the argument is that bitter & delusional fanboys with tales from their asses that believe in vaporware and have fantasies about Silent Hill will affect Kojimaās project with Xbox. Do you honestly believe that if Kojimaās game on Xbox is looking great all this BS will matter? also I donāt know if you already noticed but those fanboys have a lot of free time on their hands to spread BS on twitter because they are still waiting for price drops (the 80 euros price point stings), Xbox gamers on the other hand have less time for this crap because we actually play games instead of talking about them.
Personally Iād take playing games and having a constant stream of quality software on my platform of choice over trends and internet drama. Who has time and energy for this shit? I know I donāt.
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Kojima is over rated and you all sound like youāve been reading too much resetera.
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Personally I believe if Kojima makes another game for Playstation too, it just wonāt move the needle in a way the sole exclusive game would do for Xbox. (And you can be sure that if it happens Sony will for sure announce it with some specific timing). Thatās my point of view.
Even if they were bitter, it generated the trends, news and so on. Even if was a vaporware, it was the fascinating ride.
I would say that a lot of Xbox gamers are just older - most of Xbox owners are people from the very first Xbox, because Xbox One era simply removed those who joined or would have joined Xbox slightly later. Basically removing those who did not have any attachment towards the platform. It is also explains why Xbox generates more profit than Playstation in comparison to its market share (like despite being 2.5 outsold, it generates only 1.7 less in revenue). With Series X MS is trying to bring back people who left / bring younger folks who naturally go towards the trendy things (like Playstation).
Personally I want more megatons from Microsoft. So far all the conferences lacked them (aside acquisitions).
One thing people forget is Xbox I think is going to close the gap between Sony this gen with the amount of studios and IP Xbox now has. These exclusive deals are only going to cost Sony more and more because the more Xbox console sales, the more potential game sales they are losing. We all know Square are in it for the money (Outriders day 1 GP) so if they see more and mor potential buyers on Xbox they are most likely going to ask Sony for more money to cover it.
Letās be real Sony doesnāt have the same budget as Xbox so if Square asks for more money, then Xbox offers Square money for GP day 1 plus allow sales of the game, even on other platforms thatās going to be a massive plus for Square.
For example letās just say Sony is paying 50m to keep FF7R exclusive, if MS comes in and offers 50m and gets to put it on GP but allows the game on all platforms, what deal sounds more appealing.
Times ticking on these easy exclusive deals for Sony because Xbox isnāt playing around this time around. Kinda easy to get a exclusive deal when you have 120m consoles sold compared to about 50m and how many people would buy FF7R on Xbox? Becomes a no brainier for Square.
As to your last paragraph, it seems that mindshare>playing fun games for some folks.
Yet, Sony got Forsaken and FF16 time exclusivity. Do you really think that MS would not pay for that? Though it would be more expensive for them and MS probably did the math.
They will continue making exclusive games with studios. Like FromSoftware.
Brains and Square live in different places.
Mind share generates market share and market share solidifies and increases mind share, that leads to getting more games on the platform and higher probability of getting exclusive game and losing other games. Enough is never enough. Complacency is a main issue with the market leaders and Sony experienced that in PS3. Since then they did not repeat the same issue with PS5 (despite successful PS4 generation). Xbox is not the market or mind leader. So they should fight hard.
Well read what I said a bit better I said Xbox will close the gap, itās not even a year into this generation so they havenāt closed the gap yet. Another thing is these deals were probably signed a while back like a 2 game deal or something like that.
I never said they wouldnāt? I said it wonāt be as easy because Xbox will close the gap.
Just to be clear Iām not talking about all this stuff happening today, 6 months or even 2 years time, Iām talking over this next generation. Of course Sony will money hat exclusive games Iām not saying that will never happen again, all Iām saying is itās going to be harder for them to do it in FUTURE because Xbox wonāt be a wounded animal that is almost dead this generation like it was last gen.
This is not Squareās decision. If Armor Project (Yuji Horiiās studio) and Sugiyama (music composer) object to this, Square canāt do it. Those 2 entities also have ownership over the DQ brand. Throughout history, DQ has ALWAYS launched on whatever the most popular console currently was in Japan. See DQX, an MMO, launching on the god damn Wii instead of the PS3. Even with DQXI they made a 3DS version because they were not confident that PS4 alone could carry it (in Japan). And they were right because 3DS version outsold PS4 version there. There will be no Sony deal on DQXII because the devs will want it to be on Switch, even if it will be 360p 25fps.
And Iām of the opinion that the āSony locking down Japanese gamesā rhetoric is vastly overplayed. What do they lock down besides Final Fantasy? I know they did Ghostwire, but MS kinda put a stop to that considering all future Tango games will not be on PS. I think there is a lot of mistaking JP devs skipping Xbox as them skipping Xbox because Sony paid them to, rather than because the dev felt Xbox wasnāt worth it. I donāt even think Guilty Gear Strive was a paid exclusive, Sony never featured it in any State of Play, including the SoP from the same month the game released. And no, I do not count Kojima or FromSoft exclusives as locked down games. Sony is working with them to fund new original IPs. The games wouldnāt exist otherwise. Something Xbox should be doing with JP devs.
Playing aliens fireteam elite. Think itās the only game Iāve bought this year actually. I think the reviews are overly harsh on the game.
The campaign is pretty short, but I feel thereās modest replay ability. I havenāt played the horde mode yet. Graphics, gameplay and music are all stellar. IMO this is game should have an 80 meta, especially considering the 40$ price tag.
pretty much gonna be the Fable experience
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I know none of you are going to believe me, but I swear that @ChuckeRearmed is not my alt.
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Technically wouldnāt the term be variant?
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What news are we expecting this week?
Im expecting september game pass while praying for fps boost.