The most likely scenario:
-It's happening, but later.
-MS wants to try to limit the fallout for easier damage control, so they're going to slow-boil their fandom on this.
-By the time Starfield is announced, the hope is that the other games being available on other platforms for a time already...
SOCOM may not even be able to come back. I believe they need explicit permission from U.S. Special Operations Command to use the name, and if they're not interested in letting them use it, then they'd have to effectively completely rebrand the games. Has anyone even looked into that?
It's similar to the end of a war, in that sense. The last remaining, most fanatical fighters will begin to fight even harder, with even more frenzy. The others will simply accept the inevitable and surrender, but those guys tend to try to fight it out to the bitter end.
In fairness, this is arguably the only one in the series that could use a remake. I love it, was my first PS3 game, but the mechanics and gameplay compared to pretty much every sequel is a bit rough.
So long as that doesn't interfere with the new IP's production, I don't see why not.
(But holy...
You'd think that were the case, but a great deal of them are 25+. They just have their entire gaming identity wrapped in Nintendo.
Not saying that's inherently a bad thing, but some of them are just very unaware of games outside of the Nintendo sphere. Even some of the big Ninty YouTubers out...
They can be, yeah.
That being said, while there are a lot more Nintendo fansites, how many of them are actually on Metacritic?
(I do believe a lot in the media give them passes though, due to nostalgia and the mistaken belief they "saved gaming", but that's a whole other discussion)
If they feel MS needs to "trick" regulators so they can go buy more publishers, and they support the idea, it's time for them to accept that THEY'RE anti-consumer and openly support the creation of a monopoly. Like, that really says a lot more about them than anyone or anything else.
Kind of weird to me to see all the hate Insomniac's been getting lately and all these claims that everyone thinks their games are trash when 4 of their games are in the top 10 plats.
DD2 has IP recognition, has a very dedicated fanbase who've been asking for a sequel for a hot minute and kept it alive in the public consciousness, so a lot of casuals and non-fans will pick it up too, it's on multiple systems.
RotR is a new IP that has a style of gameplay that typically...
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