Sony hate thread

[Markorian]

Insomniac is basically gambling that the Wolverine license will pay itself back with another $100 million in sales that otherwise wouldn't happen with a less popular lead character. Instead of making their own I.P. or licensing a cheaper franchise with a lesser known protagonist. And using that money to market the game themselves and actually own the rights to the character in the long run.

There's probably no way that this 'game' makes a profit. As it looks like a journalist difficult level walking simulator and more a theme park ride than actual playable game. So it's just another $400 million loss leader console exclusive.

They're gambling that the money they lose on this will be made up for by enough turbo normalfaggots will say "I could buy an xbox and play cod, fortnite, and some annual sports franchises, or I could buy a ps5 and play all that same trash and also get spiderman/wolverine/etc" and they get a 30% cut on enough microtransactions in those. Wolverine is not a product, it's an advertisement for the ps5 ecosystem.

 

[00R-Gundam]

If the wolverine game flops, you guys think this would be a wake up call to the industry or will they once again cry "misogyny, racism, discrimination etc" learn nothing and continue to fumble?

 

[Markorian]

If the wolverine game flops, you guys think this would be a wake up call to the industry or will they once again cry "misogyny, racism, discrimination etc" learn nothing and continue to fumble?

Nah, they'll just do the meme:

"Erm, if Wolverine is a flop with 6 million sales, then [game that had a tenth of the budget] is three times the flop because it only sold 2 million!"

 

[Prophetic Spirit]

If the wolverine game flops, you guys think this would be a wake up call to the industry or will they once again cry "misogyny, racism, discrimination etc" learn nothing and continue to fumble?

Nah, fumbling down is the best option.
We are waiting for GTA VI. I think that game gonna be the breaking point of this stagganned industry.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

Please God let the budget on this game break a billion, I want to see just how much money Playstation can burn before the rest of Sony goes "what the fuck we can't paper over that bombing"

 

[StacticShock]

Nah, fumbling down is the best option.
We are waiting for GTA VI. I think that game gonna be the breaking point of this stagganned industry.

funny because if GTA 6 succeeds then devs will try to sell games at a 80/100 dollarydoos markup, if it fails, everyone will shit on rockstar as a fallen from grace situation.
this is why their focus is always the consolecattle first in order to try and dampen the costs, allegedly they hit preorder numbers so yeah, we'll have a bunch of retarded devs trying to sell politically preachy shit games for 80$

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

Insomniac is basically gambling that the Wolverine license will pay itself back with another $100 million in sales that otherwise wouldn't happen with a less popular lead character.

And that could have worked, too bad they hired the only kind of people who can take The Wolverine™ and make him uncool

We are waiting for GTA VI. I think that game gonna be the breaking point of this stagganned industry.

the campaign will probably be a mess and people might make fun of it but there's no way GTA VI fails , the online guarantees is going to print money.

 

[Two Dollars]

So what would happen if Sony decided that third-party microtransactions were no longer enough to keep up with PlayStation’s increasingly-frequent losses? Sega had enough noteworthy franchises to live as a third-party, Xbox brute-forced enough buyouts to always be relevant and is pivoting to consolized PCs, and Nintendo would seppuku before they ever considered going third-party (and even if they did, their games would still thrive anywhere). What would PlayStation even do in comparison? Drop dead the moment they can’t astroturf their own modern IPs and refuse to bring back old ones? They live by mooching off everyone else.

 

[Ygolonac]

This whole disc thing has got me thinking about how much pirated crap I have sitting on old hardrives on soon to be obsolete PCs.
Going to buy some blu rays and start burning my games onto a disc with the launcher / with the crack. Might even make some do it yourself boxes for each of them.

It's a hobby I would likely enjoy more than actually playing most games. Physical will always exist for anyone willing to put the effort in. It doesn't need to be corporate.

 

[Jace on ice]

Nah, fumbling down is the best option.
We are waiting for GTA VI. I think that game gonna be the breaking point of this stagganned industry.

GTA 6 is absolutely making its money back. Apparently like 87% of pre orders are for the ridiculous $130 ultra premium femcel crimer edition or some shit.

Normie gamers are absolute cattle.

 

[El Chacal De La Trompeta]

gta will make its money back even before launch date

 

[whatever I feel like]

This whole disc thing has got me thinking about how much pirated crap I have sitting on old hardrives on soon to be obsolete PCs.
Going to buy some blu rays and start burning my games onto a disc with the launcher / with the crack. Might even make some do it yourself boxes for each of them.

It's a hobby I would likely enjoy more than actually playing most games. Physical will always exist for anyone willing to put the effort in. It doesn't need to be corporate.

Server-side requirements could kill it, easily, even for single player games.

 

[Ygolonac]

Server-side requirements could kill it, easily, even for single player games.

Well sure, who knows what the future holds for piracy. This would all be stuff from Gog or cracked. I dropped consoles in 2015 right after Bloodborne so I have a decade of games to back up.

 

[Spud]

It's impressive to see how far they went to make such a boring game, you could make a 7/10 hack and slash just copying Revengeance's gameplay and slapping the Wolverine IP on it for a fraction of the cost and time. Millions into the hundreds spent on this, how many meetings held, Jira tasks made and completed, HR checks, Ethic checks and whatever corporate bull on top. All to design this. 10/10 I'm buying a PS5 immediately.

 

[Oliver Onions]

the more i look at this shit the more i wonder if that crapcom document to make female characters more manly to not offend trannies being applicable to all of the AAA studios since they nepotistically hire their own faggos and consulting firms.

Was that a recent document? Because Capcom's one of the only old guard devs I can think of who still put attractive women in their games, albeit some of them look more autistic than I'd prefer.

If the wolverine game flops, you guys think this would be a wake up call to the industry or will they once again cry "misogyny, racism, discrimination etc" learn nothing and continue to fumble?

I don't think there's any failure that could shock them into changing course. Total collapse and start over is the only solution.

 

[Markorian]

So what would happen if Sony decided that third-party microtransactions were no longer enough to keep up with PlayStation’s increasingly-frequent losses? Sega had enough noteworthy franchises to live as a third-party, Xbox brute-forced enough buyouts to always be relevant and is pivoting to consolized PCs, and Nintendo would seppuku before they ever considered going third-party (and even if they did, their games would still thrive anywhere). What would PlayStation even do in comparison? Drop dead the moment they can’t astroturf their own modern IPs and refuse to bring back old ones? They live by mooching off everyone else.

You're seeing it right now. Jacking up prices, outright saying they aren't selling the ps6 at a loss, and blatantly stating with no ambiguity that they're no longer caring about increasing the number of playstation owners, but rather extracting the most money from each owner that they can.

 

[StacticShock]

Was that a recent document? Because Capcom's one of the only old guard devs I can think of who still put attractive women in their games, albeit some of them look more autistic than I'd prefer.

REEra has it, they mention toning down the sexy in order to not psychologically stress trannies.

 

[regalterry]

If the wolverine game flops, you guys think this would be a wake up call to the industry or will they once again cry "misogyny, racism, discrimination etc" learn nothing and continue to fumble?

Does the liberal gamedev strike you as a learning animal?

These are the cretins that unironically say that true communism has never been tried before, so they'll keep doubling down so long as Fink and the rest of the globalist kikes are willing to light billions of dollars on a pyre in the hope the propaganda sticks this time around.

GTA 6 is absolutely making its money back. Apparently like 87% of pre orders are for the ridiculous $130 ultra premium femcel crimer edition or some shit.

There's rumors going around that they're bullshitting the preorder numbers.

Could very likely be cope from people that rightfully wish GTA 6 to fail, but there's really no telling at this point.

What I can say is that GTA 6 has a lot going against it. A lot depends on how cringe and woke they've made it, on the number of PS5 users willing to fork over the money, whether the online portion of the game can capture the same number of people as the previous iteration (considering RDR2's online died a miserable death), and whether all of that will be enough to offset the obscene 2 billion dollar budget in line with Rockstar's projections.

If that bong cuckold had leaked the files when he had the chance, instead of being a dumbfuck trying to blackmail Rockstar, we'd have the source code for GTA 5 and 6 in our hands and GTA Online would be utterly fucked, they'd have no way to actually stop the cheaters in any meaningful way.

 

[Jace on ice]

The lead writer for Wolverine is the same lead writer for Spiderman 2 a game that definitely was not praised for its story or characters.

 

[drDOE]

So what would happen if Sony decided that third-party microtransactions were no longer enough to keep up with PlayStation’s increasingly-frequent losses? Sega had enough noteworthy franchises to live as a third-party, Xbox brute-forced enough buyouts to always be relevant and is pivoting to consolized PCs, and Nintendo would seppuku before they ever considered going third-party (and even if they did, their games would still thrive anywhere). What would PlayStation even do in comparison? Drop dead the moment they can’t astroturf their own modern IPs and refuse to bring back old ones? They live by mooching off everyone else.

Somebaldi said this but Sony only got lucky due to the fuckups of everyone else.

PS1:was the result of Sony having a fallout with Nintendo, thus leading to the PS1 becoming a thing and making Nintendo wish they gave Sony a fair cut instead of wanting a 90% cut. Add them announcing the price tag by basically sabotaging segas conference
PS2:initially was just a video game console with the early jap models unable to play movie discs. Sony realized that they could sell fuckloads more PS2s by turning the PS2 into a DVD player. Was also able to pull ahead because the other consoles took too long to release (GameCube and Xbox) or got fucked in the ass by sony (dreamcast)
PS3: initially a disaster for sony, especially with CELL for devs and the horrific pricing,dogshit 3rd party ports that ran better on a console that used a basic bitch GPU from the mid 2000s alongside a chip that made anti aliasing possible on the X360 and...YLOD. Only for the reballing shitshow to happen that led to the X360 in particular getting fucked via RROD. Resulting in a second chance for sony to shine with a newer, cheaper model and functional 3rd party ports; while still somewhat inferior to ports on the X360, had the benefit of not making the PS3 shit itself and came on a single disc thanks to blue ray as opposed to the 360 and the multiple discs. Oh and free online.
PS4: should i even explain why it succeeded?
PS5: ok this ones an exception.

Anyhow, with PC prices being the way they are, is a jailbroken PS5 worth it? I don't play online much so a PS5 with loads of free games doesn't sound bad tbh.