only 300k
Only fuck guys.
That’s pretty average for a new game.
I know you lot have a weird hate boner for Sony. But Jesus H Christ
A £70 roguelike is a big fucking ask.
The only one I’ve played, completed and enjoyed was Hades. It doesn’t waste your time even on a failed run. A run is like 40 minutes of real time. That’s about where this shit needs to be to attract non-masochists. Even then, £70.
new game
roguelike
If only we could see the reason why… jesus is everyone in modern gaming business turning into morons?
That would imply they weren’t morons already
Sony eventually has to see that the console model is not functioning like it used to. There are many reasons for it, some up for debate, but the writing is on the wall.
Question is: will they adapt and stop with their console exclusive nonsense in time, or will every studio they own slowly get shut down?
I hope for the former, but I expect the latter.
Nintendo will be next up as consoles fall away. Their fans are rabid, but you can’t expect reselling 30-year-old games on cheap-ass hardware to last forever as a business model, especially when no one has as much disposable income anymore.
Noone wants to make exclusive games these days since it cuts ~66% of the profit.
Nintendo will be fine so long as they maintain control over their intellectual property and stay focused on the handheld market. Nintendo Switch (1 and 2) has sold nearly 200 million units. Steam deck, their closest competition, is closer to 10 million. Obviously the Switch has been around for nearly a decade. But handheld consoles are here to stay. Plus Nintendo is vicious when it comes to maintaining control of their properties… Which are beloved. Pokemon, Mario, Zelda… As long as it keeps those locked down and stays ahead of the handheld competition, they will be fine.
There is no more cheap-ass hardware, so they don’t even have that going for them.
It’s not cheap-ass for the consumer, but it is cheap-ass for Nintendo to produce.
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Probably doesn’t help that this is the first I’ve heard of it.
I would be all over this if it were available on a platform I actually owned. But I’m not about to pay $1k to play it (or whatever it costs after Sony’s latest round of price hikes on aging hardware).
I will definitely play this at some point. Returnal is up there in my like, top 5 games of the past few years. I will happily wait for sale.
Be warned, it is a much shallower game than Returnal was. It is a better 3D bullet hell. More bullets in denser patterns and more bullet types. Everything else about the game is worse and not by a little.
Returnal was fantastic. That is unfortunate to hear.
Does ps5 have good sales?
You have to be a very patient gamer but yes, they do.
Sometimes. Though in my experience, the best sales prices were mostly with the PS+ additional discounts. Like without PS+ you could get 10% off but with the subscription you’d get another 5-10% off. Nothing like Steam’s sales.
The vast majority of sales don’t even have PS+ bonuses (which used to be the main draw on PS3). And the sales are regularly sub-$10 for older games. It doesn’t compare to Steam. But you can still get a lot of good deals.
Hold on… Okay, so what you’re saying is… Locking games behind one platform, especially a dying one, leads to significantly fewer copies sold? I’m speechless. How is that even possible? If only we could figure out a way to foresee such events…
PS5 a dying platform? Have you seen Sony’s financial year statement from last month?
do you have a link to the breakdown by division ?
I can see general statements but nothing with breakdowns.
Magnets, how do they work!?
All I know is put a magnet in some water and it works no more
Fuck. How do they work
I would buy this on PC in a heartbeat. Too bad Sony doesn’t like profits
This is what blows my mind too. I think of if Helldivers 2 was exclusive, pretty much all of my friends own it and (as far as I know) none of them own a PS5. Locking it out of platforms is just saying that they down like money imo.
That’s alright. Can just emulate it in a few years
if only it was available on a different platform
It’s ok, Sony doesn’t like PC money anyway so 300k copies must be perfectly fine for them.
Looks like an interesting game. Where is the link to the Steam page, so I can buy and give my money to Sony, so Sony becomes more rich?
Just get Returnal instead, it’s the better game
That’s the fun part…
Release it on PC and watch it sell more, almost as if releasing it on more platforms allows more people to access it.
Geez after the debacle with their new DRM shit for digital purchases and rolling back their pledge to release to PC, I wonder fucking why people aren’t climbing over themselves to throw money at 'em.
Not to mention general economics issues plaguing the world right now. Can’t imagine many people have the disposable income to throw at video games to begin with.
Just so you’re aware the DRM issue was just that they now have an expiry during the return window because they had people buying a game, downloading it, taking their console off the network, refunding on the website, finishing the game in their own time and then reconnecting to the internet when they no longer want it which then locks you out of the game. The licence is perpetual once it’s past the return window. I don’t quite know what a better option in solving this other than the fact they should’ve just been up front with the changes to begin with.
Just so you know, I absolutely give zero shits about their reasons for doing it.
Ruining the experience for everyone else because of a negligible minority of people found a clever way to cheat the system (good for them). Sony can get fucked.
But in reality it barely affects anyone who uses their PS5s normally though. It would only affect you if for whatever reason your internet is down for more than 14 days or you buy a game 13 days before they shut down services (at which I imagine they’d remove both this and the ability to refund during that period).
Like I said before it’s shitty they did this without explanation but also saying that this is negatively affecting everyone else just to stop a minority is just straight up false. Heck it had been in place for a while and nobody noticed a thing. It was a modder specifically trying to find exploits that blew the whistle on it and even then it was just that he saw a timer counting down in the same way PS+ games do.
It’s honestly pathetic how hard you’re arguing to justify this bullshit.
Let it go and stop being a Sony’s cuck. Nothing you say will justify DRM.
Is it a measure that is done in the consumer’s interests? Hell no. Does this negatively affect consumers? Yes. IDC how small a percentage it affects. I care that it affects fellow consumers and their ability to use a product they paid for.
That’s all there is to it. Any excuse from the company to justify it gets them a big fat finger from me. The company’s interests are not my interests and they, in fact, go directly against my interests. So fuck em.
You’re doing a lot of speaking for me there, and putting words in my mouth I’ve not said. Never once did I say I’m pro DRM. Would I prefer if they didn’t do this at all? Obviously. You’re arguing with me for something I’m not fighting. I was not defending Sony, only disputing your claim that it’s made things noticeably worse for the general majority and my first comment was just explaining what the issue you barely described in your first comment even was.
Because of how locked down consoles are in their normal use anyway, this issue will barely, if at all affect anyone, who is using their console as intended. It’s obviously a completely different story for those that will eventually tinker and use it way beyond it’s eventual sunsetting. The console itself is technically already riddled with DRM anyway, even if they didn’t add this new countermeasure.
Once again, not advocating for DRM. I would rather the concept not exist at all. But this most recent drama has not changed a thing when it comes to your standard use of the console. There was already DRM involved beforehand.
In the end, I agree with you on your points on DRM itself.
