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They later sent it out to PS5 with zero marketing again. Microsoft has no idea how to handle a good game even when one gets dropped in their lap.

Wtf? Of course you do. An example of this is Microsoft inheriting the Redfall and Starfield issues from Zenimax, they came up with the wrong solutions on at one of the two situations if not both. But both games were deep into development by the time they bought Zenimax. Sony has now basically...

People suggesting Square Enix as a takeover target need to realize that when you takeover a company, you also take over their problems while adding in your acquisition costs. Their biggest brands are Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest and Kingdom Hearts. Final Fantasy is basically the Sonic of JRPGs...

There's this weird idea out there that Microsoft and Valve are besties when they clearly aren't. Microsoft clearly despises Valve for snatching PC Gaming from under it like that, and I suspect the relationship between the two companies will sour once MS completes its journey to 3rd partydom.

They didn't buy Evo to make fighting game studios, that would only invite scrutiny in terms of antitrust etc for what is a niche genre at this point. They bought it to ensure that all fighting games have to consider the ps5 their lead platform, and all for a relative pittance in terms of costs.

Honestly speaking, these limited edition things are probably the only thing Xbox does better than Playstation. Like I love the dualsense and my ps5 gets faaaaaaaaaar more use than my XSX, but the new colorways etc almost always look better and have more variety on the Xbox side.

No, your investment into digital games is what keeps you in the ecosystem, that's why there will still be Xbox players even after MS goes 3P. And that's why you see Steam players going full-blown angry over devs and publishers taking the deal to go with Epic despite it requiring no hardware...

There's an alternative outcome that results in them getting a lot of good business on PC. If the storefront is successful and attracts 3P publishers, then they will have a monetizable audience that doesn't require them to subsidize a console sale. Fixating on console sales is a very good way to...

%100 happening at this point imo.

This gen in particular kinda proves that the idea of Sony entirely cannibalizing it's audience with pc ports is nonsensical. Is there cannibalization? Yes, but it's been far less than most envisioned, mainly because the prospective PC gamer has to accept a massive upfront cost compared to the...

One of the things Nintendo got out of Yuzu in the settlement was an admission that their product violates the DMCA. This basically makes that settlement a win button in the fight to kill all those cloned repos.

They actually pirated games themselves for usage in debugging and improving their emulator so it's ready for big releases like Super Mario Wonder or TOTK. You would expect the games to release first then the emulator takes weeks or months to get the games working decently on there, but these...

Wasn't there news about the franchise getting a film?

For the sidequests it absolutely is. Doing all the Kingpin hideouts in the 1st game resulted in Fisk making a very lame angry phone call that amounted to less than 1 minute and was ridiculously unsatisfying for the amount of work that got put in. Meanwhile, doing all the Kraven hideouts and...