they havent made a sly cooper game in 20 years. i doubt theyre interested in making kids games anymore when they could make another infamous game. this isnt insomniac making a new ratchet and clank every couple of years. but they wanted to do feudal japan setting, so tsushima and yotei exist. probably might make a 3rd game set in the 1860s to cap things off as a trilogy (its the end of the samurai period at that point, so i can see it working)
That's how all big electronics started The niche is rare, rare is valuable and people want to be one of the rare ones. That's the rule of scarcity that economics is built on.
That would help explain why Gabe was summoned to congress along with the Discord and other social media faggots. Valve does nothing to foster or foment or even support criminal grooming gangs or terrorists, so it was very odd to see congress rope him into that bullshit too.
i gotta give a rainbow to that, steam being slow on a few things happens like that entire refunding debacle but they always adapt to be consoomer friendly following EU laws, unless they can keep it separate, of course, they still 'merican at the end of the day.
probably because valve is a game developer and they wanted to do what every boomercattle does which is lump everyone together? especially with the SteamOS thing, also steam discussions, like it or not but that is a "social media" according to semantics faggotry.
Chances are Yotei did worse than Assassin's Creed Shadows. And I assume people weren't sold on Kojima's drug-induced adventures of Norman "The Canon Cuck" Reedus.
They tanked.
Shadows at least had giganigga to attract the fatherless Snoys to play it. There's basically zero positive engagement online for Yotei as the only positive posts I've seen are all "look at how this new game on current gen hardware looks more polished graphically than a 5 year old game that released on previous gen hardware."
To make it worse, the next exclusive is going to be Insomniac's Cucking of Wolverine and a man face Jean Grey. The budget for that game according to the Insomniac leak was ~$330 million, so that's going to hurt even harder for Sony.
I know the standard response is "oh well the money doesn't really matter" but is anybody keeping track of the "high scores" of all these companies pissing away collectively tens of billions of dollars on flop after flop trying to get their "messages" out?
The thing is that this shit is all very recent with Concord and Spider-Man 2 hitting the ~$300-400 million budget ranges. Their "big budget" games prior to this were in the ~$200-220 million budget range like TLoU2 (2020), Horizon Forbidden West (2022), and God of War Ragnarok (2022). It wasn't that long before that that the budgets were in the $100 million range in the PS4 era.
I've been hearing as low as 1.2 million for Dyke San's game which is a fucking disaster for a first party Sony cinematic title.
At this point the superhero genre is so overstuffed with parodies, and subversions, and deconstructions that a traditional hero who is brave, and moral, and does traditional hero shit would be a breath of fresh air.
I'm more in middle ground.
