I think the 360's earlier launch and cheaper price were more of a factor in why 360 was ahead of PS3 and more common for a while than their libraries. And the price issue was fully alleviated by time the slim launched, and at that point there were enough of games.
That's pretty arrogant but I guess they're not wrong. Though after the Wii U it's kinda crazy to me that any console manufacturer would even consider naming their systems after letters again.
That was more along the lines of the PS3 being a blu-ray player; the 360 and the Wii was more prevalent in people's gaming libraries, but PS3 did catch up, but by then, the 360 and the Wii have shared the gaming playground for some time. Sony fans hyped up games like MGS4 and Killzone because the Xbox library was outpacing them, and the Wii was crushing them both thanks to soccer moms and the casual crowd.
It was supposed to be so you could plug in your cable box through HDMI and use the Xbone as a DVR, in addition to the channel guide stuff. They went really hard on the TV integration when announced and then just quietly stopped working on any of it after launch.
And to make things weirder, you have the Wii that outsold them both by a wide margin, but it's contribution to gaming as a whole can be summed up with "Wii Sports, new version of Smash, Wii Sports again"
Yup. In an era where cordcutting was rapidly becoming a thing, and the Xbox on its own was already getting streaming apps. Man, that was stupid.
If consoles are supposed to be loss leaders and the games make up for the losses, maybe don't make games with $200,000,000 budgets. Apparently Horizon: Forbidden West cost $212 million. Nobody cares about that series. What the fuck is wrong with them?
No idea.
Yeah, though I always figured it was all those exclusive licensing deals that net them the cash. L:ike, Sony paid a fortune for Final Fantasy XVI's exclusivity to help sell PS5s, right? Why is that the only paid big-name third party exclusive we've heard about for a while?
I would figure a move to PC & mobile would come with respective launchers, but that's a horrible idea. PC already has way too many as is, and mobile storefronts are only on Android, and, well, mobile gamers are a whole different ball of wax where the way to big profits is by making a basic game with a thousand soccer players or waifus or pokemon to collect.
I can't imagine there is at all. For one, I'm sure people with hefty PS4 & 5 libraries won't be happy about having to rebuy everything again on PC, sans games that don't get ported. People with physical collections are up a creek no matter what. There's not much of a reason to stay loyal to PlayStation if the only thing you can bring over is your controller.
Echoes of late 90s Sega, I swear. Remember how Shenmue buck broke the company because it was the most expensive game ever developed at the time? At least Shenmue was interesting and unique.
But this is funny and good?
In what world does someone become something for mentioning it, you keep going back at this constantly. Being able to reflect on things that exist in the world and make comparisons to them is basic human discourse, are you retarded?
Funny you should say that. Being a gamer taught me more about how to avoid consumerist slop more than anything. I've seen brands I've previously trusted to the bone decay and become mediocre. Bioware, Blizzard, Bungie, Bethesda, those were brands I used to love unconditionally, but now, not anymore. They're on their way out; they're just towers of mediocre slop at this point. Even the once-beloved Obsidian began to decay into mediocrity.
Moving the goalposts from nintendo to anecdotal personal story that is completely irrelevant.
They're not even top 10. Best one was Attack of the Saiyans.
I thought that was a popular opinon, at least for people who I run into online.
I lost interest in the new GoW games when they announced it was gonna have Norse Mythology.
Nevertheless, gaming is a positive experience since it teaches people to be discerning customers. There is such a deluge of games that one must be picky to find the right games to enjoy based on one's tastes. Some people enjoy RPGs with walls of text like Morrowind, others enjoy action sci-fi games like Halo and Jedi Knight.Moving the goalposts from nintendo to anecdotal personal story that is completely irrelevant.
I wasnt making the point that gamers aren't discerning customers, he was.
It should have been Egyptian, since the Greeks and Romans had contact with Egypt, but the West did not discover Vikings until the Carolignian Age.
I like both of those types although I tend to lean toward the latter. That said, it can be hard to find good games that suit your tastes these days if you're into that kind of experience. Most of these are AAA or at least "AA" titles, and that's what I tend to enjoy, but like 90% of them are shit now.
Exactly, that would've made sense. But since that was the time everyone was LARPing as a Viking, they decided to use Norse.
