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Sparky Lurker said:
Both companies have dozens of underutilized IPs, but they just want one thing, and it is disgusting:
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Two Dollars said:
Gee, Sony sure does seem to be familiar with the idea of a company only being popular because it was grandfathered into an unquestioningly loyal fanbase who will always buy the latest product regardless of its actual quality compared to its competition.
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What is it about Call of Duty in particular that gets gamers opening up their wallets so readily, anyway? Is it nostalgia for the MW2/BO/MW3 days? Sunk cost fallacy?
 
Two Dollars said:
Gee, Sony sure does seem to be familiar with the idea of a company only being popular because it was grandfathered into an unquestioningly loyal fanbase who will always buy the latest product regardless of its actual quality compared to its competition.
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Oh no! They will have to develop actual games and not just playable movies! THINK OF THE LITTLE DRUCKMANNS!
 
Two Dollars said:
Gee, Sony sure does seem to be familiar with the idea of a company only being popular because it was grandfathered into an unquestioningly loyal fanbase who will always buy the latest product regardless of its actual quality compared to its competition.
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Wasn't Call of Duty bigger on the 360 during the 7th gen? A lot of early PS4 owners had never even touched a PS3. They got the PS4 because it didn't have multiple shitstorms tied to it. The Xbox One was known as the overly expensive spying console at the time. For everyone else, it was just Microsoft's PS3. You'd think Sony would somewhat remember what happened in the early days of the 8th gen.
 
Agent Abe Caprine said:
Wasn't Call of Duty bigger on the 360 during the 7th gen? A lot of early PS4 owners had never even touched a PS3. They got the PS4 because it didn't have multiple shitstorms tied to it. The Xbox One was known as the overly expensive spying console at the time. For everyone else, it was just Microsoft's PS3. You'd think Sony would somewhat remember what happened in the early days of the 8th gen.
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Give me a rainbow if you want, but I really don’t understand why people threw such a fit over the early Xbox One. The ideas of mandatory Kinect and always online with no used games were extremely retarded, sure, but they were also scrapped before the system’s actual launch. The entire argument against it was “okay we thought microsoft would go full retard and they didn’t but imagine if they did!”.
Homestly, it feels like people valued brand loyalty in 2013/2014 more than ever. I remember how terrible the South Park and Big Bang Theory console war episodes were because they autistically whined about every minute detail of each console but didn’t mention the actual games even once. Then again, if exclusives mattered, those episodes would’ve ended after five minutes because they would’ve just bought Wii U’s. The closest they got to talking about actual exclusive video game-related things was Kyle saying he preferred the Xbox’s controller or something, and PS4’s coming with a reservation for a preorder for a multiplat.
 
Two Dollars said:
Give me a rainbow if you want, but I really don’t understand why people threw such a fit over the early Xbox One. The ideas of mandatory Kinect and always online with no used games were extremely retarded, sure, but they were also scrapped before the system’s actual launch. The entire argument against it was “okay we thought microsoft would go full retard and they didn’t but imagine if they did!”.
Homestly, it feels like people valued brand loyalty in 2013/2014 more than ever. I remember how terrible the South Park and Big Bang Theory console war episodes were because they autistically whined about every minute detail of each console but didn’t mention the actual games even once. Then again, if exclusives mattered, those episodes would’ve ended after five minutes because they would’ve just bought Wii U’s. The closest they got to talking about actual exclusive video game-related things was Kyle saying he preferred the Xbox’s controller or something, and PS4’s coming with a reservation for a preorder for a multiplat.
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Launch Bone still cost more than PS4 while having worse performance AND MS was in the middle of closing 50 percent of their studios and turning half of the others into Kinect developers. And Halo 4 had just bombed AND they were still pushing Kinect in the ads over everything else AND Sony had the CoD timed exclusivity AND the second half of the 360's life sucked AND Sony was on a bit of a roll with game releases at the time.
 
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whatever I feel like said:
Launch 360 still cost more than PS4 while having worse performance AND MS was in the middle of closing 50 percent of their studios and turning the others into Kinect developers. And Halo 4 had just bombed AND they were still pushing Kinect in the ads over everything else AND Sony had the CoD timed exclusivity AND the second half of the 360's life sucked AND Sony was on a bit of a roll with game releases at the time.
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Well, yeah, that definitely puts things into perspective. I didn’t get an Xbox One until 2015, so I guess all that had already settled down.
 
Vyse Inglebard said:
What is it about Call of Duty in particular that gets gamers opening up their wallets so readily, anyway? Is it nostalgia for the MW2/BO/MW3 days? Sunk cost fallacy?
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For me, it’s semi-guaranteed fun, casual, multiplayer experience and a one time play through the campaign (CoD 4 was the only campaign I liked to play through though Black Ops 2 had promise).

It’s fun shooter when done right by Infinity Ward. Though I generally remember MW2, BO1, and MW3 as shit campaigns and garbage multiplayer experiences.
 
whatever I feel like said:
Launch 360 still cost more than PS4 while having worse performance AND MS was in the middle of closing 50 percent of their studios and turning the others into Kinect developers. And Halo 4 had just bombed AND they were still pushing Kinect in the ads over everything else AND Sony had the CoD timed exclusivity AND the second half of the 360's life sucked AND Sony was on a bit of a roll with game releases at the time.
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Halo 4 is not exactly what I'd call a good game but in no reality did it bomb.
 
Sony started with the CoD DLC timed exclusivity in 2015 with BO3, they are basically doing this for 7 years at this point, old habits die hard I guess:

After five years of Xbox exclusivity, Call of Duty switches to PlayStation​

Advanced Warfare Reckoning DLC signals end of an era.
It is the end of an era: on 3rd September, five years of Xbox timed exclusivity for Call of Duty comes to an end.

In 2010 Microsoft and Activision signed a multi-year agreement to bring Call of Duty game add-ons and map packs first to Xbox Live.

The deal meant all add-ons and map packs for Call of Duty: Black Ops and future Call of Duty games would release first on Xbox, but in fact it was an extension of an agreement that began with the release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 map pack Resurgence in June 2010.

"With 25 million members, Xbox Live is the industry's premier online gaming service that establishes the best in cooperative and multiplayer online play for blockbuster franchises like Call of Duty," said Marc Whitten, Microsoft's corporate vice president of Xbox Live, at the time.

"With the release of game add ons and map packs coming first to Xbox 360, Xbox Live is the place to play Call of Duty for years to come."

Microsoft's timed exclusivity for Call of Duty DLC on Xbox 360 was one of the defining features of the last generation of consoles, and secured Microsoft's console as "the Call of Duty player" for many shooter fans for the release of Black Ops, Modern Warfare 3 and Black Ops 2.

While the DLC deal extended through the launch of the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One and Call of Duty: Ghosts in 2013, then Advanced Warfare in 2014, Sony's huge sales success fuelled the company's successful nab of exclusivity for the most popular shooter series on console from the release of Black Ops 3 onwards.

It emerged at E3 that Activision had signed a deal with Sony for 30 days of PlayStation platform timed exclusivity for Black Ops 3 DLC. The deal is such that the multiplayer beta for the game launches on PlayStation 4 before any other platform. On stage, Sony Computer Entertainment boss Andrew House proclaimed PlayStation "the new home of Call of Duty".

And with Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare's Reckoning DLC pack - the fourth and final DLC pack for the game - coming to PlayStation and PC on 3rd September, Xbox's timed-exclusivity comes to an end.

"The partnership with Sony was the right decision at this time," Activision Publishing boss Eric Hirshberg told Gamespot at E3.

"They've been a great partner on Destiny, and they have a ton of momentum with the PS4 and really got behind this thing. They wanted to see that deal on their platform. We're going to make it work."

At E3 Eurogamer asked Microsoft exec Kudo Tsunoda for his company's view on the shift:

"It doesn't change anything," Tsunoda said. "Call of Duty is still coming out on Xbox One this year."
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HeyYou said:
Halo 4 is not exactly what I'd call a good game but in no reality did it bomb.
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It did with fans, post-launch reaction (which is what I was talking bout since it was a late era 360 game affecting XBO sales) was uniformly negative and caused a big part of 5's prerelease press being "we'll do better this time (spoilers: they did even worse and got 6 cancelled/reworked into Infinite)
 
ZMOT said:
a lot of companies are. however the problem is like every other nostalgia property: if it's too obscure or too old might as well try to market a new IP since there's no bonus. pretty sure not a lot of people heard of sneed blazer, and a new actraiser would probably be an abomination anyway (and I rather not have all the coomer faggots suddenly go THE OG 2D DARK SOULS!!11" and behaving like they always knew and played the series).
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There was a new Actraiser. Actraiser Renaissance, a mobile & Steam remake of the first game. It's kinda weird and not great, and has that cheap mobile game look to it.

DNA_JACKED said:
*laughs in 8TB PCIe 4.0 SSD.
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Man I hope that thing lasts you a fat minute, it would hurt like a bitch to lose a storage device that costs four figures
 

PS5 players have stopped playing their consoles because they are going outside instead, PlayStation says​

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PlayStation 5 consoles are not being used as much because people are going outside, Sony has said.
During the pandemic, the PS5 was arguably the most coveted gadget in the world. Huge demand and issues with supply meant there was a booming market for the console, leading resale prices to shoot up and sending people on vast quests to try and find them. But as restrictions relax, people are playing those consoles less, PlayStation said in its latest results.

The company saw total gameplay time fall 15 per cent this summer, it said in the results for the latest quarter. It improved slightly in June, with time up 3 per cent compared with the previous month, but that was still down 10 per cent on June 2021. That is a “much lower level of engagement than we anticipated”, the company noted in the results.

It said that the game market as a whole had stopped growing as quickly because “opportunities have increased for users to go outside” as covid-19 infections fall.
It said that it would be looking to increase engagement in the second half of the year, which is expected to see a range of new games and by putting more consoles on sale.
It said that it still expected to sell 18 million consoles in the year, a number that will be restricted by the amount of PS5s that are actually available.
However, that problem should also be eased as suppliers recover from covid lockdowns and improve the supply of components.

PlayStation hopes to have more consoles on sale by the end of the year, for the popular holiday season, it said.
Sony also noted that it had bought a number of developers, which are expected to start releasing new games and so could encourage more people to spend more time on consoles.
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The (absolute) state of play
 
BananaSplit said:


The (absolute) state of play
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>tfw people would literally rather touch grass than play your shitty console

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Pissmaster said:
I like how the article juxtaposes the news right next to a blurb about Steam Deck availability improving, as if to say "yeah, PlayStation's over, just buy a Steam Deck already"
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Hell, buy a Nintendo Switch. That's a better value than a PS5 at this point.
 
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