Not to mention, indie games probably sell the least on Playstation anyway.
Means that Sony is going semi nuclear, Microsoft were assholes during the old days where you either had to release on day with other platforms or release it later with more content, but never as barring the release forever. Doing is giving them a reason to retaliate at the same or worse.
Xbox has been selling more and closing the gap, we could have the first time in years where an Xbox console sells more than Playstation in USA. You give too much credit to illiterate twitter and forum people who are literal whos pumped by the algorithm, and they have been doing that for years, but the real life is that everybody thinks they are brainlets and instead buys Xbox Series because it goes well for their pockets and have been insatifisfied with Sony, same shit back in 2006 when the fanboys became rabid over the PS3 launch fail while the Xbox 360 thrived in and created the whole Sony Defense Force thing.
Considering that they are asking only for demos in their higher tier, it would be easier for them to get that. As for indies, they naturally flock to Playstation (and Switch) anyway. So I think Sony can find a lot of indies for their service if they want to. At least nobody will write an article how Game Pass is bad for indies or make an interview about how GP is bad due to indie curation.
Does Sony even get backlash for anything? Everybody was discussing ABK and sexual harrasment claims. Hell, people still bring stuff about Microsoft from 2019. Yet the topic about SIE issues (similar to Blizzard) was thrown under the rug, stuff regarding Insomniac too, Jim Ryanâs email was also not widely reported much and these issues are much more nefarious than stuff like discussions about Sonyâs support for indies that did not go anywhere, PS4/5 game upgrades were not reported much etc.
Thatâs the thing. Microsoft does not do that anymore. They do not retaliate. They do acquire stuff - for different reasons of course - but they donât fight back at all no matter what Sony does.
Sony does petty stuff here and there, but Microsoft does not anything.
Did anyone watch? I didnât, and I wonât get a chance until this afternoon. Just curious if they revealed anything to get excited about.
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Plenty of indie devs have called them out on things, bad advertising on the store, not being able to put their games on sale, we just had the Oddworld dev complain about not being paid enough because of the delay etc
Just because things get thrown under the rug more for Sony, they are the bigger brand so itâs natural unfortunately, that doesnât mean they are going to risk pissing off devs by banning their games when Sony now have more competition than ever
Backlash from twitter fanboys and randoms isnât the same as pissing off devs that they need for the platform
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Do you play Dead or Alive for the story?
It was bad. Bad pacing, and nothing noteworthy was announced.
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Itâs more for the nostalgia. I remember playing 1 to 4 as a kid/teen and loving them.
A little bit too much talking but also lots of game play. They had 4 games of which Eijuden Chronicles alread released. Then a survival base building Valheim clone with trolls (which they didnât show lol). A souls like hack & slash from a German studio, looked pretty interesting. And a teaser trailer for another game i have no idea about. All multiplatform, all 2023 beside Eijuden Chronicles.
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They called them out but so what? It did not go anywhere in the end and we just got another indie skipping DLC for Xbox because it did not sell well. Almost no indie game skips Playstation.
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Weâve already had reports of Playstation changing things because of the indies calling them out on twitter so, not true and those things are a lot less mild than not letting a dev release games on a platform
Also why would devs skip playstation? itâs a massive brand, they have no reason to skip it currently, that is not the same thing as being told hey, âtake this deal or we are not gonna let you put your next game on hereâ
and thereâs been plenty of indie games that have skipped Playstation, at least at launch, just like thereâs plenty that skip Xbox at launch
Rogue Legacy 2 literally just came out for xbox and not PS
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Oh shit, now that has my attention.
I want this to be in first person so that people get mad 
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Would not be mad at Dying Light in a different setting lol
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Yes
Fun fact, Doa 5 actually has a story mode in a similar vein to Mortal Kombat, it pretty decent, I think the 3DS game had it before which served as a franchise revival. DOA 6 story is a massive backstep though, that game is really rough on content as if they had to rush it out.
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But Techland usually makes first person games?
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I know, but I know people would expect/want this to third person
Hellraid 2?