I hadn't heard of Concord before it came out, either, which is unusual if it had really been in development for the past 8 years. Though if it was made by the Destiny guys, I'm sure I wouldn't have paid attention.
Hasn't since the 360 days, really. Even back then 9 out of 10 people had a PS2/PS3 here, i can count on one hand how often i played on the 360. Never gained much traction in my country it seems. I still fight any nigga on how the 360 pad has the best stick placement, left analog over d-pad, feels so much more natural to me going up-down than down-up with my thumb when using the d-pad in games. Shame that the d-pad was so shit.
Xbox won the 360 generation though, it took until after the gen was finished and Microsoft has stopped counting sales for the PS3 to ‘surpass’ it by a small margin
Going back to full PC Master Race shortly before the PS5 launched still remains the best choice in my entire gaming "career". That 3060ti will last me basically forever, most likely much longer than this console generation, which was the original timeframe i wanted it to last for.
That thing looks like a cleaned-up Phil/ADF. Down's syndrome eyes and all.
HAHAHA HOLY SHIT!
I think gaming is in for a bad time, the modern strategy is proving unsustainable. Days Gone is an early example being being $81 mil in budget, and selling 8 million copies.
Spider-man is an example of how insane it's all getting, with a budget in the hundreds of millions ($270 million according to IGN). It would need to be an insane best seller to even make a decent amount of money. The assumption seems to be that the more money pumped in, the more money comes out, not acknowledging that there are only so many players, paying $70 or less, there's a point of diminishing returns. It feels like the mentality of executives that don't even understand videogames, and how people buy them.
Concord is the ultimate fear, 8 years in the making and allegedly hundreds of millions spent, all to make back relatively nothing. Millions pissed away making a game no one will remember.
Given the current year, there's no way they would greenlight Days Gone unless they changed the main character.
Nigger-Man 2 put Sony almost HALF A BILLION DOLLARS in the hole because they had to sell 7,000,000 units just to start turning a profit. For a game, by their own admission, people may not even be able to tell is any better visually than Spider-Man 1.
You mean the guys in dresses who work at Bungie?
I think GTA V does bear a bit of responsibility for this mindset, the game had a budget of $265 million (5 mil less than spider man) making back $8 billion. The game was a phenomenon, huge scope, huge budget, massive time investment, and it paid off. Even all these years later it's still just as popular, it's a "forever game". Every publisher wants a forever game, like GTAV, or Skyrim, or Minecraft. The problem is the strategy of forever game is just massive budget game with no understanding of replayability. That's why we see Last of Us 1, Last of Us 1 Remastered, Last of Us 1 Remaster 2, because Sony's idea is to make a big budget single player game, and then keep forcing it into peoples libraries.
Those budgets are absolutely retarded, especially if you consider that in many cases half of it is just spent on marketing. Not every game can and will be a GTA V-style success, Sony seems to not understand this very simple fact.
It absolutely did.
"Hey guys, let's make a game that costs the GDP of an african country, what can go wrong?"
