You got a source for this crap about PC games on steam not getting patches or the same quality of patches that the ones on the microsoft store will be getting? I find that rather doubtful, I'd be more inclined to believe either exclusivity or timed-exclusivity to the MS Store and MS platforms in general instead.
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I'm pretty sure it's not that MS is paying Square to not patch the Steam version and moreso that they had to get someone to port over Nier to the Xbox store and got QLOC to do it, which is a company that's pretty prolific in their technical skills when it comes to porting. Doubt they could do anything about the Steam version since that's all on Square being lazy shitheads when it comes to anything without Final or Quest in it's name.
They're still paying companies to fix their games for their PC store only even if it's not Square themselves. But Microsoft has been arranging deals with Square Enix and it's looking like Steam is going to be left out in the cold for a lot of stuff in the future. There's also Epic that's getting exclusive distribution rights for SE games IIRC.
The features for Evil Within is actually a weird thing because they're not actually new (at least as far as the first person mode goes), they were apparently in the Bethesda launcher version this entire time, which tells you how many people actually ever used the Bethesda launcher.
The whole narrative that Japan has left consoles behind because they're so obsessed with mobile is just a narrative pushed by salty Sonyfags (like you) who don't want to admit that the japanese are just tired of Playstation in particular.
The Switch is region-free.
No you're 100% dead wrong on that, japan is primarily mobile games. They really don't do consoles ever anymore and that's primarily due to cultural differences in Japanese society, they're not at home in the traditional fashion that Americans are. Mobile games are simply more convenient for that lifestyle because Japan basically treats the outside as a communal living room that's kinda the cultural norm over there which was why they took off there. The Wii-U was drastically outsold by the portable nintendo handhelds. Which was why Nintendo attempted to combine the two with the switch so they didn't need to divert resources to two systems where the handheld was the primary for one market and the secondary for everything else.
This, while troubling, does not support your claim that all future ports will be like this. This seems to be something that Platinum Games themselves requested for the latest port for the MS Store. Is there an official announcement from Microsoft that this will be the new policy somewhere that I missed?
That's at least half true. The thing about Japanese households is typically there's only one TV set so families are going to fight over the same TV. 3DS, Wii U, Switch, PSP and Vita held up well over there because it allowed them to play without a set and the remote play function of the PSP and Vita allowed them to play their PS3s/4s remotely (not sure how this works with PSP but apparently it's still a thing). It's also the reason why XBOX was never popular there. But I'm not disagreeing about them being fed up with Playstation since the PS5 isn't carrying anything they would care for at the moment.
lmao sony kind of did the same thing to nintendo back when they were developing the play-station aka snes-cd
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Yeah Japan doesn't really seem to care about the Soulsborne games. But you're going to have to look way way way back for a launch year for any system that wasn't like this. I mean the Switch's big launch game was a wii-u title that was in development for 5+ years, that's kinda the only way you get any type of somewhat solid game out for launch is stuff that's a holdover from a prior generation.
Yeah this whole narrative is wrong and has a lot of holes in it.
Sony, and most, if not all, Japanese companies, like Capcom, Square Enix, etc, all have a predictable formula of being complete shitbags when they're high on success and winning, and then working really hard to redeem themselves when they're failing and have dishonored their family. What people need to do is keep Japanese in a constant state of shame, even when they're doing well, so that they continue to do well.
That's something I have unfortunately noticed is when Sony has a streak of success they get real fucking arrogant and need to be brought down a peg, they sure were arrogant in the lead up to the PS3, if you remember things like the Liksang controversy, "599 US dollars", "Riiiiiiiiiiidge Raaaaaaaaaaacer!", "get a second job", "All want for Christmas is mah PEE ESS PEE" and so on, making it to where everyone and their grandmother fucking hated Sony and wanted the PS3 to fail.
I had a Car Discman that was a normal portable but played mp3 data discs too, pretty sturdy about skipping, but it was designed (or at least advertised) to work well about skipping, never any issues about cd-rs. Came as a kit with a cig lighter power supply and a cassette adapter. I don't think it ever stopped working, I just left it at my parents' place when I moved out.
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It won't affect us as Westerners but my heart goes to the Japbros who have to deal with this bullshit.
it won't really affect me either way since I haven't played anything beyond the PSP but still that's some bullshit