@dogg-paws the console industry is built around people upgrading every 6-10 years, so devs don't have to worry about more than 2 consoles per brand. If devs had to deal with 8 different versions of the ps6, games would suffer.
What we need is to downscale the games to make development sustainable again. But we need to stop this weird obsession with graphics which unfortunately no one seems interested. Now time to release the PS5 Pro with no games.
August already and not even a mention of the Pro. Unless they shadow drop the thing, which Sony has never, ever done, it won't be coming in 2024. 2025 is 5 years into the PS5's lifespan. Even Nintendo is feeling the pressure of revealing the SW2 after 7 years. Sorry, but I don't see any point in spending millions on a "mid gen" upgrade only to release the PS6 2 years later ( 2027 being the leaked date for PS6 ).
To be fair. they only published LA Noire & Max Payne 3. And the time gap for Rockstar's games was actually nearing 5 1/2 years. And Red Dead Redemption has a different studio branch working on that game. As why they don't do that still, IDK!
@@Vyse195 I was a sophomore in high school when GTAV came out I remember trying to talk my mom into letting me stay home from the day it released and it didn't work.
The one thing that upsets me about WB, they sit on old IPs such as Gauntlet not doing anything with them.. I'd love to see a Remaster of old games or even new games in the same series with same formula.
They gave the license of Gaunlet to thw Helldivers developers but after that they haven't bothered to relaunch any Midway Games to modern consoles and if they have they've done it in the most inconvenient way like, in an Arcade1UP that's far from being on par with the original arcade experience.
The Order: 1886 was such an enigma of a title. On one hand, it had gorgeous looking visuals that ran smooth (thanks to it running in letterbox format, I'd wager), interesting Victorian world with fascinating lore and atmosphere and that Gears of War cover system (which isn't a bad thing). But on the other hand, the story could have much stronger, it was remarkably short, Quick-Time events that included the boss fights and *THAT* stealth section had no reason be so infuriating. Despite that, I would have liked to have seen a sequel. C'est la vie.
Instead of closing studios and firing developers, the working force that produce games & revenue/money, companies should fire CEOs, they usually doesn't know what they are doing or supposed to do, DO NOT generate money/revenue (on the contrary, they cost millions upon millions of 💰 to harm companies & games with their BS decisions). 🤷🏻♂️
It really *does* just boil down to CEOs who have no idea what company they're running or what industry they're talking part in. They just wanna impress investors in any way they can while leaving consumers behind.
Thank you! The buck stops at the CEO so if the CEO is making horrible decisions then the CEO needs to be fired.. Then bring someone in who knows what the hell they are doing in terms of gaming..
It's over. 80% of the console market ain't give a shit about physical and PC has been 100% digital for years. Emulation is the remaining hope for game ownership and preservation.
@DoomyRei Google physical vs digital game revenue 2023. Spoilers, it was 95% digital vs. 5% physical. You can't manipulate figures that much, and you can't outright lie to investors. I'm not saying I want it to happen. I'm saying it's happening whether we like it or not, and sooner rather than later.
Obviously because they couldn't afford to continue on their own and Sony had no interest in buying them so they had to go with whoever was willing to purchase the studio
I mostly agree with the comment of the day. Just look at Nintendo. The Switch is their longest home console generation of all time. And it's just NOW starting to show sales declines after 7 years on under powered hardware. But now that it's feeling long in the tooth, they're drip feeding us the tease for the next generation, which will be a noticeable and tangible improvement over the prior console. They aren't releasing the next console just for the sake of putting new hardware to market, they understand they need to stay somewhat close to the other platforms, which is why the next console has been so heavily rumored to be somewhere between PS4 and PS4 pro power levels. And if the PS4 is still going strong, does that not bode well for Nintendo if it's easier to port cross-platform tittles? Hardware generations should not end until there's a tangible improvement to be made by doing so. The law of diminishing returns means those generations should be lasting longer than ever before. And for Nintendo, that's exactly what's happening.
I miss when i got 4(6 if u count psp) ratchet and clank games on one console instead of 1. Id take less detailed visually games for more of them (if the story is done right and its fun) cause its weird, i find myself replaying older games more even though they technically were easier to make. Even ones i had no nostalgia ties to
@@MasterZebulin Yes, Capcom retroactively patched most of their IPs with hardware breaking DRM, on par with DENUVO of past fame, which is the last thing you want on a fixed hardware device like the Steam Deck.
The ratio of physical to digital games is becoming quite extreme. Is there any data on whether physical game buyers tend to be the "whales" for mainstream console gaming, buying and collecting games as well as purchasing deluxe editions?
Its funny because even though your poll shows that CoD is the least looked forward to title out of those 5 options, its going to outsell every other game on that list combined 3x over.
At this point, I honestly don’t see the point in generations. The hardware is no longer the bottleneck, it’s the tools and development. PS5 and Series X are as powerful as they will need to be for quite some time. Switch feels dated, but Switch 2 should put Nintendo into similar territory. At this point, we can put a pin in consoles indefinitely, until the tools and development pipeline can catch up.
@deathproof8732 thanks for proving my point. A middle earth/hogwarts style GOT game would've cost millions but would've made billions. But they waste resources chasing trends.
@BrawlinEntertaintment2K yes. Not published by WB. Not really the AAA experience as it deserves. GOT game should be talked about like the Witcher games.
As for physical games to digital i think the biggest factor is the lack of stock. The ps5 shelves for physical games at many targets and walmarts are virtually empty 24/7 and will only have like 20 copies on release day of a game and then the shelves are empty again. Its Been like like this for about a year now.
Jesus Christ NO it did not sell well.....Your not selling well when it takes SEVERAL YEARS to get 8 million sold, NO your not selling well when within 2 weeks the price is dropped to under $40.....The game sold piss poor. NO it was not an amazing game, it was pretty good at best IF you managed to push through the first awful few hours. You had to literally get to the part where you drove Boozer to town It didn't get a sequel because it sold piss poor FACT.....AND the sequel sounded like god awful garbage trash with them pushing the constantly online open world MP Helldivers 2 12 million in days, TLOU II 10 million in days, Ghots of Tsushima 10 million in weeks. Days Gone didn't even get people to try it until almost a decade after launch when it was free on PS+ let alone taking a decade to sell 8 million which is FACTUALLY not good
I like hearing about Sony struggling in their financials. Maybe they'll stop wasting their time making live service games and actually make games people want to play
I agree that we’re in for a GTA 6-induced increase in console sales in the next few years. Millions of people are holding out on buying a PS5 because 80% of the games they care about are still dropping on PS4. Heck, I know people who are already buying PS5s specifically to play GTA 6, so when that game finally drops I think it will cause a bit of a surge.
Ready at Dawn was such a great studio. Their closure makes me so upset. That's dozens of people without a job (and with no warning because this closure was able to circumvent the California WARN Act). Also, Facebook, just an FYI, "staying within budgetary restrictions" is the same as saving money despite what you're trying to tell us otherwise.
Unfortunate about Ready At Dawn, I felt like The Order 1886 had a good world and with some extra emphasis on the gameplay, it could be a great popcorn movie as a video game
Been watching you through the years since the very early days glad to see you have finally gotten the exposure you deserve. It's been good to watch you and your channel evolve. Hope you're well lad!
Those dev circle are the completely stupid as it is now. A game should not take more than 2 to 3 years to make. The industry will continue to crumble until this changes.
I bought a new PS4 Pro for 250$ at a Black Friday sale a few years ago. The PS5 will always be way more expensive than that and therefore sell less units in its lifetime than the PS4.
I did wonder what happened to Ready at Dawn after they stopped making Sony games. The VR part of Meta recently showed it is still losing lots of money, so it isn't surprising that the studio is gone.
All this GTA6 conversation about it boosting PS5 sales like crazy is reminding me of when people were saying that the moment FFXVI comes out, the PS5 will destroy the Switch in Japan, we all know how that went lol
It’s GTA 6…. It’s literally the most hyped game in the history of gaming…. It could literally sell a new console if it was released exclusively for a new one…. There is no other game that could measure up to it lol
@@jameswalterthethird Yes but it's not exclusive, what if Xbox ends up getting the marketing rights and do crazy bundles with Series S and X? Hell, what if it ends up coming to Switch 2 the same day it comes out on PS5 and Xbox? There was a lot of hype for both FF PS5 games and they did nothing, GTA6 will def help but I don't think it will help as much as people are expecting it to help.
To be fair, saying Final Fantasy XVI would make the PS5 overtake the Switch in Japan was just delusional, Final Fantasy XVI was developed for Western audiences in mind, I mean, the game's dialog was written and recorded in English first and then it was translated and dubbed into Japanese and other languages like French, German, Latin American, Italian, etc. While I've no doubt Square-Enix wanted the game to be a success in their home country, the Switch has completely dominated that market I can imagine a PS exclusive game changing anything, at this point I don't even think Monster Hunter Wilds will manage to sell the same numbers as World in Japan. Grand Theft Auto VI is another story, at least internationally, it's a more casual oriented franchise, it's is aimed for the audience who bought the PS5 (and Xbox Series) just to play games like Call of Duty, Madden and FIFA, I think it'll increase the selling of PS5, unless something happens, like they game getting delayed, Rockstar announcing a PC version or perhaps even getting released on the Switch 2
Unfortunately, John doesn't know very much about VR. Regarding the PSVR2 update, this isn't news. We've known about this for about as long as we've known about the PSVR2 getting PC support. I think it was the same week as the announcement or the following week that a lot of VR UA-camrs covered this. Regarding the other announcement about meta closing the studio, Lone Echo 2 wasn't at all in any way, shape, or form badly received. It's absolutely beloved. And by both critics and fans alike. The issue is, it's only available on PC VR through Meta's own launcher. So, it was a complete commercial failure. The reason meta is disbanding the studio seems to be because it's full of incredibly talented people but that only have experience developing for PC VR. Metta wants to focus on standalone VR, and quite rightly so given consumer spending habits, and so is better off shuttering the studio and offering many of the devs their opportunities elsewhere in other meta studios. John also indicated that VR studios are, broadly speaking, all struggling. Struggling. Is also simply not true. There are a number of smaller studios, such as Resolution Games, Fast Travel Games, Vertigo Games, that appear to completely thriving.
There was a 360 exploit back in the day. Rewriting custom firmware to the disc drive. BenQ readers being the easiest to mod. Offline play was the only caveat.
I wouldn’t be against the idea of extending console generations to around 10 years. Especially since the jump between the 8th and 9th generation of consoles wasn’t that large of a change. Outside of the newer consoles using SSDs instead of HDDs. And even then, you could just use an SSD with an Xbox One or PS4 and benefit from better loading times.
2.1 million switches in Q1 compares pretty okay to 2.4 million PS5s. It was really the comparative anylsis from last year that made it seem like such a heavy decline.
I'm gutted to see Ready At Dawn close, i love God of War Chains of Olympus and God of War Ghost of Sparta so much they were my favourite God of War games so to see a developer i have a nostalgia for disappear, it saddens me (i miss God of War's classic gameplay style so much)
That October poll was super close. Five options and each was close to 20%. Obviously there’s a noticeable gap between the top and bottom option. But in general the month will be competitive for games
I agree with the comment of the day. On PlayStation 3 besides been a difficult console to develop we had 3 amazing uncharted games plus the Last Of Us. Double the amount of games on PlayStation 4. And we still don’t event have a game from Naughty Dog on PS5
This is a very great video! 👏 And very true I always like to surround myself around people that strive and have motivations and definitely being around others either smarter than me or on the same level and in between some one I can learn from. It's very important to have multiple people to have in your corner
I never played The Order 1886. And I’m all about VR. BUT some of the decisions those game companies are making are just downright TERRIBLE for some tech niches that are so foreign to us gamers. It’s like Mario and Sonic all over again.
I bought The Order: 1886 at launch way back and never played it. Even then the backlog was unmanageable. I finally got around to playing it last year on my PS5 and I have to say, it was awesome! Combat was decent enough, the story and atmosphere were great, the visuals still look fantastic. The game ends on a total cliffhanger. I never really assumed, given it's poor reception, that a sequel would ever see the light of day. Rather sad to see that it could have been a thing after all but now will never be.
Sega have done pretty much a new Yakuza game or spin of every year. There is a new trails/ ys every year. I think the big companies cannot control their scope which is why we have 10 years since the last dragon age, 14 since Skyrim, 9 since a proper fallout. Do I need my next fallout to be bigger than fallout 4 no I don't.
Id like to see rockstar make those 10 year blockbuster games, then have a set of teams making simpler/dumb games that can come out in two years. Nothing new for 11 years really makes you forget about a franchise.
I still buy 90% of my games physically for PS. The only times I buy things digitally is like just now where I bought MGS5 for $10 for the definitive edition. I bought the Master Collection for MGS 1-3 for $30 physically.
Rocksteady is no more. The people that made those great games have jumped ship. Now we have nothing but terrible gameplay, terrible story and dialogue, and even worse character designs. As sad as it is, it's time to cut them off. A non live service version of Suicide Squad is still a terrible game, and if they did get a reprieve from GaaS, that's all you would get. Best case scenario. You get Arkham Knight with terrible characters, terrible writing and awful character designs... Just play the old games.
Unless whoever gets the WB gaming division next is able to fight off the parasites who change narratives first before focusing on the game being fun, they might just as well give the gaming division a "honorable discharge" while they still can.
I am curious if Sony, Nintendo, and XBOX see themselves as hardware or software companies first. It seems to me that the money is in software. If it is then extending the life of a “console generation” would make much more sense than rushing to make a new console.
Xbox is done with hardware I think they will let 3rd party do it, Playstation will stick to hardware as that is what they started as, electronics maker. Nintendo will keep doing Nintendo things.
Everyone knows that literally Microsoft is a software company....They make Windows, office and other PC related software....They didn't make hardware until they decided to make the Xbox. Its also pretty well known that Sony is a hardware company they did make the walkman, discman, dvd players, they're on the board of blu-ray. The only "software" they make is for their "Playstation hardware"
13:30 I didn't understand this part. How did we jump to the conclusion this isn't great for physical sales? Games from 2013 are still on the PS store selling units at a 70% discount but, most of these games aren't still being printed. There isn't even a common time period to compare.
to be fair, thats because insomniac underwent heavy crunch and rushed their games during that period, which they have heavily reduced now, but even then it still takes too long to make some of these games in comparison. I'd say 2 years is about the healthy development time for a game (That's for a mostly bug free game at launch with no day 1 patch)
even if WB sells some of their gaming division, that won't include any IPs at all, so if they decided to sell Neatherreal Studios, it wouldn't include any IPs like Mortal Kombat, wb will keep all IPs no matter what and just license out their IPs to other developers to make the games, meaning Mortal Kombat would be rebooted again and injustice 3 won't happen at all
That wouldn't fly with any buyer. Whoever makes an offer to WB will want all the game IPs as well. The studios are pretty much worthless without the IP. NetherRealm is worthless without Mortal Kombat. Why would a buyer pay for NetherRealm when they could easily put together their own studio? It's Mortal Kombat that they would want.
Especially if one is a PC only player and cannot wait to play the PC port or someone who is still playing games on last gen systems, GTA VI is definitely the console seller that'll help not just Sony but MS too in selling more consoles. XBS S would offer the most budget friendly way to play GTA VI while the PS5 & XBS X consoles would offer the higher end, console spec wise, way to play.
Love this for WB, consequences of your actions. Live service isn't treating them so well, eh? Hope stories like this make execs second guess the live service push so much. It also confuses me how seemingly nobody goes the FromSoftware route of selling a single-player game with optional multiplayer aspects. Elden Ring pvp is doing really well and the pve DLC revitalized it so much, people were calling for it to be GotY. Single player game with multi-player aspects seamlessly woven in and story dlc that also pushes multiplayer activities seems like a winning recipe.
@@JT.PlaysGames upgrading by spending another $500+ in the next 6 years when the newest console is going for that price? Its definitely more practical for the average gamer to get a console imo. I got a pc and console but im just looking at it from an average gamer.
If you paid $1500 for a gaming PC they ripped you off. For about $900 you can get one good one. Won't be top of the line but I can play any game this generation.
I thought the whole idea with the Xbox One X and PS4 Pro was to make things more "cell phone like" with upgrades every few years and killing off the idea of "generations"
The cellphone-like upgrade model for consoles has been a subject for years. No real reason to do the generation model anymore, unless the current hardware can't support some gimmick the company wants to do. Going from platform to platform at this point is just a hardware boost, such as GPU. Back in the 90s it was us going from cartridge to disc formats, which of course needed new hardware. Back then, going from say the SNES to the N64 was a bigger leap than the PS4 to the PS5. Console gens these days feel like a cash grab. New system that can use all the old stuff (some cases may need an update to the game), but the old can't use the new games. Internally, all they did was change the disc format reading and bumped hardware specs. Maybe changed the UI a bit.
They'd be fools to not release GTA VI on the PS5, they'd easily sell an upgraded edition once the PS6 dropped while moving a ridiculous number of new PS5 consoles.
I bought the Capcom bundle without realizing that my old Humble Bundle account was still tied to the Brazil region, but my Steam account is now Canadian. When I tried to activate, Steam said that the game was unavailable in my region. 😢 Moved my Steam account back to Brazil with VPN and a Brazilian credit card. Activated the games. Now I can't download some of them on my steam deck because they're not available in Canada 🤦♂️. It's 2024, it's PC, it's online. Why Capcom? Why region lock your games this way?
I do have a gaming laptop with an rtx 2060, but I doubt it has enough juice...it might be better to get the adapter and run on a more powerful pc. Perhaps I will wait for some reviews and videos.
Path tracing on pc shows that there is not much further for graphics to go and that's great. We need developers to start focusing on creating engaging worlds, world filled with physics and interactivity not seen generations. Too much of our open worlds are filled with repetitive quest. Too much of the conversations are on repeat. It's jarring when you play a game that looks great but conversations feel scripted, it needs to feel more organic.
We're developing consoles quicker than the time it takes to develop a game for these consoles
Holy shit that blew my mind.
Insomniac released 3 games in the first 2 years.
Sad.....but true!
It’s okay, more chances to re-release Skyrim
PC always Has 💫
Even sugesting consoles go the way of cellphones with new ones every 2 years is stupid as hell
We're getting new PCs at a rapid rate as well. You don't have to buy the latest rendition all the time.
@dogg-paws the console industry is built around people upgrading every 6-10 years, so devs don't have to worry about more than 2 consoles per brand. If devs had to deal with 8 different versions of the ps6, games would suffer.
What we need is to downscale the games to make development sustainable again. But we need to stop this weird obsession with graphics which unfortunately no one seems interested. Now time to release the PS5 Pro with no games.
@@dogg-pawsI don't even know where to begin with your statement. No, just no.😅
August already and not even a mention of the Pro. Unless they shadow drop the thing, which Sony has never, ever done, it won't be coming in 2024.
2025 is 5 years into the PS5's lifespan. Even Nintendo is feeling the pressure of revealing the SW2 after 7 years.
Sorry, but I don't see any point in spending millions on a "mid gen" upgrade only to release the PS6 2 years later ( 2027 being the leaked date for PS6 ).
Remember when Rockstar released GTAIV, RDR, LA Noire, Max Payne 3 and GTAV all within 5 years?
Its because Rockstar is no longer making the money they once was. That's why the production has slowed down.
Tell us about the time that I finished high school so of course I remember my senior year.
You know what they didn’t have at that point in time?
GTA Online.
GaaS is the killer of motivation and innovation.
To be fair. they only published LA Noire & Max Payne 3. And the time gap for Rockstar's games was actually nearing 5 1/2 years. And Red Dead Redemption has a different studio branch working on that game. As why they don't do that still, IDK!
@@Vyse195 I was a sophomore in high school when GTAV came out I remember trying to talk my mom into letting me stay home from the day it released and it didn't work.
The one thing that upsets me about WB, they sit on old IPs such as Gauntlet not doing anything with them.. I'd love to see a Remaster of old games or even new games in the same series with same formula.
They gave the license of Gaunlet to thw Helldivers developers but after that they haven't bothered to relaunch any Midway Games to modern consoles and if they have they've done it in the most inconvenient way like, in an Arcade1UP that's far from being on par with the original arcade experience.
Did they also sell them Rampage? Its been too long since the last entry!
@othersounds-o3p wb still owns rampage, did you forget that live action rampage movie happened?
Ironic that KTJL killed the entire W.B gaming division.
Sweet baby inc strikes again!
@@Omer_Sastim_is_turtle_botKTJL had way more issues than just Sweet Baby Inc.
The Order: 1886 was such an enigma of a title. On one hand, it had gorgeous looking visuals that ran smooth (thanks to it running in letterbox format, I'd wager), interesting Victorian world with fascinating lore and atmosphere and that Gears of War cover system (which isn't a bad thing). But on the other hand, the story could have much stronger, it was remarkably short, Quick-Time events that included the boss fights and *THAT* stealth section had no reason be so infuriating. Despite that, I would have liked to have seen a sequel. C'est la vie.
Sony still owns the IP but doubt they will revisit it
I liked the knife fights with Werewolves.
To each their own but I found it incredibly boring... I was so glad it was short because I just wanted it to end and was glad to return it to gamefly.
I would've also liked a sequel where they would address the shortcomings
Instead of closing studios and firing developers, the working force that produce games & revenue/money, companies should fire CEOs, they usually doesn't know what they are doing or supposed to do, DO NOT generate money/revenue (on the contrary, they cost millions upon millions of 💰 to harm companies & games with their BS decisions).
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It really *does* just boil down to CEOs who have no idea what company they're running or what industry they're talking part in. They just wanna impress investors in any way they can while leaving consumers behind.
Thank you! The buck stops at the CEO so if the CEO is making horrible decisions then the CEO needs to be fired.. Then bring someone in who knows what the hell they are doing in terms of gaming..
Or at least dock his pay. They complain left and right about money even though they give like 98% of it to the guy at the top.
Physical games are king never give up physical media
It's over. 80% of the console market ain't give a shit about physical and PC has been 100% digital for years.
Emulation is the remaining hope for game ownership and preservation.
@@mappybc6097lmao you aren’t too bright I see
@mappybc6097 thw report is screwed towards investors as dlc is counted towards digital
Im still hanging in there for the physical copy fight but it’s getting annoying switching Switch cartridges all the time..
@DoomyRei Google physical vs digital game revenue 2023.
Spoilers, it was 95% digital vs. 5% physical. You can't manipulate figures that much, and you can't outright lie to investors. I'm not saying I want it to happen. I'm saying it's happening whether we like it or not, and sooner rather than later.
Ready at Dawn was Sony's workhorse for the PSP. They made so many great games. Why they sold their soul to Zuckerborg is beyond me.
Never trust zuck
Obviously because they couldn't afford to continue on their own and Sony had no interest in buying them so they had to go with whoever was willing to purchase the studio
We have playstation portal. No sweat
@@hexywesky Honestly, I'd wish Zuckerberg would cease to exist.
Zuckerberg stole the idea for Facebook to get rich.
People are surprised he would shut down an entire studio just to save a few bucks?
WB is a horrible company. The worst long term investment i ever made.
Ys X: Nordics is my most anticipated October title.
Me too !
I discovered the franchise recently. But much prefer the older SNES style titles.
I mostly agree with the comment of the day. Just look at Nintendo. The Switch is their longest home console generation of all time. And it's just NOW starting to show sales declines after 7 years on under powered hardware. But now that it's feeling long in the tooth, they're drip feeding us the tease for the next generation, which will be a noticeable and tangible improvement over the prior console. They aren't releasing the next console just for the sake of putting new hardware to market, they understand they need to stay somewhat close to the other platforms, which is why the next console has been so heavily rumored to be somewhere between PS4 and PS4 pro power levels. And if the PS4 is still going strong, does that not bode well for Nintendo if it's easier to port cross-platform tittles? Hardware generations should not end until there's a tangible improvement to be made by doing so. The law of diminishing returns means those generations should be lasting longer than ever before. And for Nintendo, that's exactly what's happening.
I agree with you.
Nintendo is trying to clear out their backlog of coming software before launching their new hardware.
Someone should just buy the nemesis system of wb and make it available for all devs
The Order 1886 gives me nostalgia as it was one of the first games I played on the PS4 ten years ago, like Thief and Batman Arkham Knight (‘15)
Silent Hill, Astrobot, Y's Nordic, and Wukong are my most anticipated.
I miss when i got 4(6 if u count psp) ratchet and clank games on one console instead of 1. Id take less detailed visually games for more of them (if the story is done right and its fun) cause its weird, i find myself replaying older games more even though they technically were easier to make. Even ones i had no nostalgia ties to
So sell gaming because Discovery executives handled Warner Bros so badly
Always thought the order 1886 was underrated. It's not perfect but i still enjoyed it thoroughly.
WARNING: CAPCOM games will break your Steam Deck due to forcing a DRM that causes I/O problems and corrupt your SSD, use caution.
Are you serious!?
@@MasterZebulin Yes, Capcom retroactively patched most of their IPs with hardware breaking DRM, on par with DENUVO of past fame, which is the last thing you want on a fixed hardware device like the Steam Deck.
@@Wobble2007 I've heard about _that,_ but since when did the games start breaking Steam Decks?
@@MasterZebulin Since invasive DRM, no different when firmware was being bricked by Dunuvo et cetera.
@@Wobble2007 No, what DATE?
The ratio of physical to digital games is becoming quite extreme. Is there any data on whether physical game buyers tend to be the "whales" for mainstream console gaming, buying and collecting games as well as purchasing deluxe editions?
Its funny because even though your poll shows that CoD is the least looked forward to title out of those 5 options, its going to outsell every other game on that list combined 3x over.
Hardcore gamers watch videos like this. Filthy casuals buy Call of Doody.
@@tomsimmons7673 "filthy casuals" calm down
His polls never represent the general gaming public.
Cod is easy to just jump in, play a round or 2, get mad enough to not want to play, and be done for the day.
and then everyone will be mad at it in a few months like every year but will buy it again next year. cant fix stupid
just closing a 21 year old studio for their stupid VR shit is insane
At this point, I honestly don’t see the point in generations. The hardware is no longer the bottleneck, it’s the tools and development. PS5 and Series X are as powerful as they will need to be for quite some time. Switch feels dated, but Switch 2 should put Nintendo into similar territory.
At this point, we can put a pin in consoles indefinitely, until the tools and development pipeline can catch up.
WB is so dumb, they should already had a Game of Thrones game, long time ago.
They have 2 on mobile
@deathproof8732 thanks for proving my point. A middle earth/hogwarts style GOT game would've cost millions but would've made billions. But they waste resources chasing trends.
There is actually a Game of Thrones game on the PS3 and Xbox 360.
@BrawlinEntertaintment2K yes. Not published by WB. Not really the AAA experience as it deserves. GOT game should be talked about like the Witcher games.
As for physical games to digital i think the biggest factor is the lack of stock. The ps5 shelves for physical games at many targets and walmarts are virtually empty 24/7 and will only have like 20 copies on release day of a game and then the shelves are empty again. Its Been like like this for about a year now.
Days Gone not getting a sequel had more to do with the studio than the game itself. It sold very well even though critics didn’t care for it.
I bought Days Gone when it was released on GOG. Haven't played it yet, though.
Jesus Christ NO it did not sell well.....Your not selling well when it takes SEVERAL YEARS to get 8 million sold, NO your not selling well when within 2 weeks the price is dropped to under $40.....The game sold piss poor. NO it was not an amazing game, it was pretty good at best IF you managed to push through the first awful few hours. You had to literally get to the part where you drove Boozer to town
It didn't get a sequel because it sold piss poor FACT.....AND the sequel sounded like god awful garbage trash with them pushing the constantly online open world MP
Helldivers 2 12 million in days, TLOU II 10 million in days, Ghots of Tsushima 10 million in weeks. Days Gone didn't even get people to try it until almost a decade after launch when it was free on PS+ let alone taking a decade to sell 8 million which is FACTUALLY not good
I like hearing about Sony struggling in their financials. Maybe they'll stop wasting their time making live service games and actually make games people want to play
Late breaking news : Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster physical edition is getting wide retail release. Launches October 8th for PS4 and Switch.
About damn time! What platforms?
Woo! I wouldn't mind purchasing.😊
I agree that we’re in for a GTA 6-induced increase in console sales in the next few years. Millions of people are holding out on buying a PS5 because 80% of the games they care about are still dropping on PS4. Heck, I know people who are already buying PS5s specifically to play GTA 6, so when that game finally drops I think it will cause a bit of a surge.
Ready at Dawn was such a great studio. Their closure makes me so upset. That's dozens of people without a job (and with no warning because this closure was able to circumvent the California WARN Act). Also, Facebook, just an FYI, "staying within budgetary restrictions" is the same as saving money despite what you're trying to tell us otherwise.
Unfortunate about Ready At Dawn, I felt like The Order 1886 had a good world and with some extra emphasis on the gameplay, it could be a great popcorn movie as a video game
Believe it or not, I was holding a small amount of hope towards getting a sequel to The Order 1886.
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Those dev circle are the completely stupid as it is now. A game should not take more than 2 to 3 years to make. The industry will continue to crumble until this changes.
I bought a new PS4 Pro for 250$ at a Black Friday sale a few years ago. The PS5 will always be way more expensive than that and therefore sell less units in its lifetime than the PS4.
You do know that PS5 sales are only like 1.2million behind PS4 right?
I did wonder what happened to Ready at Dawn after they stopped making Sony games. The VR part of Meta recently showed it is still losing lots of money, so it isn't surprising that the studio is gone.
We really don't need more powerful hardware. We need less graphic intense games that can bring down the development time for games.
More specifically... Not EVERY game needs to be an open world that needs to be 50+ hours long.
All this GTA6 conversation about it boosting PS5 sales like crazy is reminding me of when people were saying that the moment FFXVI comes out, the PS5 will destroy the Switch in Japan, we all know how that went lol
😂😂😂😂 People who bet against the Switch sure loss a lot of money.. 😂
Cant listen to the Playstation fan boys, they see everything in rose tinted shades
It’s GTA 6…. It’s literally the most hyped game in the history of gaming…. It could literally sell a new console if it was released exclusively for a new one…. There is no other game that could measure up to it lol
@@jameswalterthethird Yes but it's not exclusive, what if Xbox ends up getting the marketing rights and do crazy bundles with Series S and X? Hell, what if it ends up coming to Switch 2 the same day it comes out on PS5 and Xbox? There was a lot of hype for both FF PS5 games and they did nothing, GTA6 will def help but I don't think it will help as much as people are expecting it to help.
To be fair, saying Final Fantasy XVI would make the PS5 overtake the Switch in Japan was just delusional, Final Fantasy XVI was developed for Western audiences in mind, I mean, the game's dialog was written and recorded in English first and then it was translated and dubbed into Japanese and other languages like French, German, Latin American, Italian, etc. While I've no doubt Square-Enix wanted the game to be a success in their home country, the Switch has completely dominated that market I can imagine a PS exclusive game changing anything, at this point I don't even think Monster Hunter Wilds will manage to sell the same numbers as World in Japan.
Grand Theft Auto VI is another story, at least internationally, it's a more casual oriented franchise, it's is aimed for the audience who bought the PS5 (and Xbox Series) just to play games like Call of Duty, Madden and FIFA, I think it'll increase the selling of PS5, unless something happens, like they game getting delayed, Rockstar announcing a PC version or perhaps even getting released on the Switch 2
Unfortunately, John doesn't know very much about VR. Regarding the PSVR2 update, this isn't news. We've known about this for about as long as we've known about the PSVR2 getting PC support. I think it was the same week as the announcement or the following week that a lot of VR UA-camrs covered this.
Regarding the other announcement about meta closing the studio, Lone Echo 2 wasn't at all in any way, shape, or form badly received. It's absolutely beloved. And by both critics and fans alike. The issue is, it's only available on PC VR through Meta's own launcher. So, it was a complete commercial failure.
The reason meta is disbanding the studio seems to be because it's full of incredibly talented people but that only have experience developing for PC VR. Metta wants to focus on standalone VR, and quite rightly so given consumer spending habits, and so is better off shuttering the studio and offering many of the devs their opportunities elsewhere in other meta studios.
John also indicated that VR studios are, broadly speaking, all struggling. Struggling. Is also simply not true. There are a number of smaller studios, such as Resolution Games, Fast Travel Games, Vertigo Games, that appear to completely thriving.
RIP Ready At Dawn. Maybe we will still get a PC port of The Order 1886 however.
There was a 360 exploit back in the day. Rewriting custom firmware to the disc drive. BenQ readers being the easiest to mod. Offline play was the only caveat.
I wouldn’t be against the idea of extending console generations to around 10 years. Especially since the jump between the 8th and 9th generation of consoles wasn’t that large of a change. Outside of the newer consoles using SSDs instead of HDDs. And even then, you could just use an SSD with an Xbox One or PS4 and benefit from better loading times.
2.1 million switches in Q1 compares pretty okay to 2.4 million PS5s. It was really the comparative anylsis from last year that made it seem like such a heavy decline.
Balatro, the first rogue-like that hooked me
Not enough people are talking about Balatro... but more than enough people are playing Balatro
@@widyasantoso4910 What’s your favorite deck?
I'm gutted to see Ready At Dawn close, i love God of War Chains of Olympus and God of War Ghost of Sparta so much they were my favourite God of War games so to see a developer i have a nostalgia for disappear, it saddens me (i miss God of War's classic gameplay style so much)
Ready At Dawn, closed by dusk.
Poetic, but harsh.
That October poll was super close. Five options and each was close to 20%. Obviously there’s a noticeable gap between the top and bottom option. But in general the month will be competitive for games
Games studios are just commodities now. Publishers buy them, then just throw them away when they're done with them.
Maybe developers should start scaling back on the scope of their games so development times and costs aren't so stupidly long and expensive
These unknown indie games sure be selling a lot
I agree with the comment of the day. On PlayStation 3 besides been a difficult console to develop we had 3 amazing uncharted games plus the Last Of Us. Double the amount of games on PlayStation 4. And we still don’t event have a game from Naughty Dog on PS5
Zaslov needs to be fired. He's been destroying WB Discovery since he took over, and now we have the numbers to back it up
So that's the name of the a$$hole who's doing this!!
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Thanks for the Balatro recommendation! Really fun game!
VR reminds me of 3D TVs... too much hassle/cost for the benefits associated with it.
Tbh I wouldn't mind if WB offloaded all the Midway IPs onto Atari.
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I never played The Order 1886. And I’m all about VR. BUT some of the decisions those game companies are making are just downright TERRIBLE for some tech niches that are so foreign to us gamers. It’s like Mario and Sonic all over again.
@superchristianmiiworld Pls elaborate
i went back playing Halo 1
I bought The Order: 1886 at launch way back and never played it. Even then the backlog was unmanageable. I finally got around to playing it last year on my PS5 and I have to say, it was awesome! Combat was decent enough, the story and atmosphere were great, the visuals still look fantastic. The game ends on a total cliffhanger. I never really assumed, given it's poor reception, that a sequel would ever see the light of day. Rather sad to see that it could have been a thing after all but now will never be.
I would like to see what the digital/physical split is when you take out sports and racing games.
Were there even any Order 1886 fans? That's the real news to me.
Wow, I didn't expect me still having a 2080ti would be beneficial.
Sega have done pretty much a new Yakuza game or spin of every year. There is a new trails/ ys every year. I think the big companies cannot control their scope which is why we have 10 years since the last dragon age, 14 since Skyrim, 9 since a proper fallout. Do I need my next fallout to be bigger than fallout 4 no I don't.
14 YEARS??? Damn im old😭
Fallout 5 is going to miss this console generation and the next generation too. Insane!
RGG's director, Masayoshi Yokoyama, apparently said RGG Studios made Like a Dragon: Gaiden in only 6 months... Absolute madness
Id like to see rockstar make those 10 year blockbuster games, then have a set of teams making simpler/dumb games that can come out in two years. Nothing new for 11 years really makes you forget about a franchise.
If we can get WB to sell the rights to the Nemesis system, that would be a huge boon for gaming in general.
TT Games (Lego) would probably do really well under the Nintendo umbrella.
I still buy 90% of my games physically for PS. The only times I buy things digitally is like just now where I bought MGS5 for $10 for the definitive edition. I bought the Master Collection for MGS 1-3 for $30 physically.
Rocksteady is no more. The people that made those great games have jumped ship.
Now we have nothing but terrible gameplay, terrible story and dialogue, and even worse character designs. As sad as it is, it's time to cut them off.
A non live service version of Suicide Squad is still a terrible game, and if they did get a reprieve from GaaS, that's all you would get.
Best case scenario. You get Arkham Knight with terrible characters, terrible writing and awful character designs... Just play the old games.
For everyone that loves playing the God of War PSP games on emulation... remember that was Ready at Dawn.
DB Sparking Zero and DQIII HD2D one month later has me super excited. It'll make up for the dry last few months and next couple months for me.
I preordered the physical version of Balatro for Switch and I’m not usually a big card game player and also to support the developers.
Ready at Dawn closing is seriously heart breaking to me. 😞
Unless whoever gets the WB gaming division next is able to fight off the parasites who change narratives first before focusing on the game being fun, they might just as well give the gaming division a "honorable discharge" while they still can.
Game development doesn't need to take as long as it does.
Grimdoomer is always doing great work. I love his OPL mod. I have a blades xbox lying around too so this cool.
I am curious if Sony, Nintendo, and XBOX see themselves as hardware or software companies first. It seems to me that the money is in software. If it is then extending the life of a “console generation” would make much more sense than rushing to make a new console.
Its is..
Sony just showed this with $6B revenue with $600M net profit..
Microsoft $21B net profit.
Xbox is done with hardware I think they will let 3rd party do it, Playstation will stick to hardware as that is what they started as, electronics maker. Nintendo will keep doing Nintendo things.
Everyone knows that literally Microsoft is a software company....They make Windows, office and other PC related software....They didn't make hardware until they decided to make the Xbox.
Its also pretty well known that Sony is a hardware company they did make the walkman, discman, dvd players, they're on the board of blu-ray. The only "software" they make is for their "Playstation hardware"
Bought balato today. So refreshing and different. Really enjoying it
Somehow we need to convince publishers that its ok to go back to what decisions and production pipelines that were in place in the 360/PS3 era.
I remember when this kind of bundle qas 5-7 dollars. And they had one with 3 games for 1 dollar.
13:30 I didn't understand this part. How did we jump to the conclusion this isn't great for physical sales? Games from 2013 are still on the PS store selling units at a 70% discount but, most of these games aren't still being printed. There isn't even a common time period to compare.
That Development time is Long I remember Insomniac Released 6 Ratchet and Clanks on PS2 and 7 on PS3 Now they release them once a Console Generation
to be fair, thats because insomniac underwent heavy crunch and rushed their games during that period, which they have heavily reduced now, but even then it still takes too long to make some of these games in comparison. I'd say 2 years is about the healthy development time for a game (That's for a mostly bug free game at launch with no day 1 patch)
even if WB sells some of their gaming division, that won't include any IPs at all, so if they decided to sell Neatherreal Studios, it wouldn't include any IPs like Mortal Kombat, wb will keep all IPs no matter what and just license out their IPs to other developers to make the games, meaning Mortal Kombat would be rebooted again and injustice 3 won't happen at all
That wouldn't fly with any buyer. Whoever makes an offer to WB will want all the game IPs as well. The studios are pretty much worthless without the IP. NetherRealm is worthless without Mortal Kombat. Why would a buyer pay for NetherRealm when they could easily put together their own studio? It's Mortal Kombat that they would want.
Especially if one is a PC only player and cannot wait to play the PC port or someone who is still playing games on last gen systems, GTA VI is definitely the console seller that'll help not just Sony but MS too in selling more consoles.
XBS S would offer the most budget friendly way to play GTA VI while the PS5 & XBS X consoles would offer the higher end, console spec wise, way to play.
Balatro! I know I've mentioned it here on the comments. It's great, Still working toward hitting the NaNeInf.
I'm hyped for Cat Quest 3!
Definitely picking up the capcom bundle I just got a steam deck for $200 and was waiting for something like this!
Love this for WB, consequences of your actions. Live service isn't treating them so well, eh?
Hope stories like this make execs second guess the live service push so much. It also confuses me how seemingly nobody goes the FromSoftware route of selling a single-player game with optional multiplayer aspects. Elden Ring pvp is doing really well and the pve DLC revitalized it so much, people were calling for it to be GotY.
Single player game with multi-player aspects seamlessly woven in and story dlc that also pushes multiplayer activities seems like a winning recipe.
Because most CEOS and shareholders don't play the games to know that. That's how you fail at a business in this sector after a while running.
$1500 for a pc or $500 for a console for the next 6 years?
The difference is productivity and upgradability.
@@JT.PlaysGames upgrading by spending another $500+ in the next 6 years when the newest console is going for that price? Its definitely more practical for the average gamer to get a console imo. I got a pc and console but im just looking at it from an average gamer.
If you paid $1500 for a gaming PC they ripped you off. For about $900 you can get one good one. Won't be top of the line but I can play any game this generation.
And handhelds for those of us who don't have much time to game these days.
@@Vyse195 my gpu is $1000 in itself
I thought the whole idea with the Xbox One X and PS4 Pro was to make things more "cell phone like" with upgrades every few years and killing off the idea of "generations"
PSVR2 also works on amd founders edition cards with usb-c.
need a midgen refresh to boost console sales.
The cellphone-like upgrade model for consoles has been a subject for years. No real reason to do the generation model anymore, unless the current hardware can't support some gimmick the company wants to do. Going from platform to platform at this point is just a hardware boost, such as GPU. Back in the 90s it was us going from cartridge to disc formats, which of course needed new hardware. Back then, going from say the SNES to the N64 was a bigger leap than the PS4 to the PS5. Console gens these days feel like a cash grab. New system that can use all the old stuff (some cases may need an update to the game), but the old can't use the new games. Internally, all they did was change the disc format reading and bumped hardware specs. Maybe changed the UI a bit.
It will be interesting to hear what happens with that xbox 360 exploit. I have a new in box late model falcon on blades.
They'd be fools to not release GTA VI on the PS5, they'd easily sell an upgraded edition once the PS6 dropped while moving a ridiculous number of new PS5 consoles.
Well, I'm definitely not 1 of those people that looks for Sony as my default System.
I think they need to figure out why it takes seven years to make a game and then improve the game making process. 🎉
I bought the Capcom bundle without realizing that my old Humble Bundle account was still tied to the Brazil region, but my Steam account is now Canadian. When I tried to activate, Steam said that the game was unavailable in my region. 😢 Moved my Steam account back to Brazil with VPN and a Brazilian credit card. Activated the games. Now I can't download some of them on my steam deck because they're not available in Canada 🤦♂️. It's 2024, it's PC, it's online. Why Capcom? Why region lock your games this way?
Whoever's running Capcom of America is trying to sabotage the company.
I do have a gaming laptop with an rtx 2060, but I doubt it has enough juice...it might be better to get the adapter and run on a more powerful pc. Perhaps I will wait for some reviews and videos.
Path tracing on pc shows that there is not much further for graphics to go and that's great. We need developers to start focusing on creating engaging worlds, world filled with physics and interactivity not seen generations. Too much of our open worlds are filled with repetitive quest. Too much of the conversations are on repeat. It's jarring when you play a game that looks great but conversations feel scripted, it needs to feel more organic.