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Not if it doesn't affect the greater creative vision. You guys want to look at real creative censorship? Go look at the history of films like Come and See. Where a government straight up banned production on it for several years because they didn't like the message (anti-war) it had. The...

This is dumb, and gives both IGN and Kotaku more power & attention than they deserve. Sony doesn't care about appeasing outlets that would just move the goalposts to something else to dog the game. Shift Up definitely doesn't care about these types of Western media, especially one who's on the...

That's not the reason. Plus it's not like it would be easy for them to buy another big publisher anytime soon if ever again. Regulators have their financial results on public record to see how the gaming division is doing with these M&As (for example, how it was primarily ABK that provided...

No. For Sony Corp, gaming is THE biggest revenue generator, and there's a noticeable gap between it and the 2nd-largest sector. For Microsoft, gaming is one of the smaller revenue generators and a much smaller contributor to their actual net profits. That might start to change some going...

TBF the Paramount rumors are floating around ATM too so "Sony"s biggest M&A yet could not even be really gaming-related. Personally I'd rather a big gaming M&A from them if were forced to choose between that or something like Paramount, but then again I usually try avoiding M&A speculation in...

Glad someone else brought this up (with receipts). I think a lot of PS fans might've misjudged Jim Ryan, and went after him too harshly. He was the one who walked back Herman Hulst's PC talks, for example. Now both Jim and Connie (another PS vet) are out. For all we know there could've been...

Eh, Final Fantasy I don't think is "waning" because that's something natural or anything. SE have been inconsistent with creative direction for the IP since XIII and over time, more disgruntled hardcore fans have eased back with new entries. XV was originally supposed to be released on PS3/360...

That's due to the way they have their finance system set up. It's conservative by design. Guess which of the only companies in console gaming can claim to have zero debt? Nintendo, a Japanese company. Kutaragi never actually said this. And the way he spoke the quote where this phrase...

Bro 🤣. Xbox as a console is dying, and C&S was only up because of ABK. Without them they would have been statistically flat or even negative.

800K global for 3 whole months. 😬🤣 They will genuinely struggle to hit even 4 million for the entire calendar year at this rate, let alone 5 million. Could be worst launch-aligned for a YoY drop than OG Xbox's 3rd CY > 4th CY (~ 35%). BTW OG Xbox sold 4.1 million in its 4th CY (2005), but at...

Yeah PS5 sales are definitely stagnating in Japan, and it's possible they could drop by another 5K. But I really can't see it treading below 15K weekly over there. That said, at least Ronin is holding well. It'd be doing even better if there were a PS4 version tho, or if PS5 were performing...

They were probably in tons of gaming mags back in the day. EGM, GameFan, GamePro, even Next Generation. Them scrubbing those pictures is the equivalent of trying to erase a part of history.

Nintendo (and PC) do compete with PlayStation; do you guys think most people in a multi-platform ecosystem partition their budget and time specifically for every device in said ecosystem? No. They have a certain amount of money and time and it goes to whatever device happens to appeal to them...

JFC stop listening to MetaCritic and Western reviewers in general already. The game has a demo: play it. You don't need washed-up wannabe-game writers and industry nobodies dictating your taste in games; most of you are adults, right? If literally anything about a game interests you, and...

You'd think he would've remembered that part before trying to ironically downplay SIE's profits. He compared Paramount (the entire corporate entity's) profits to SIE's, a subsidiary within Sony Corp. Not a like-for-like. Yes, Sony Corp like most companies (not Nintendo, btw. Also prob not...

That's actually pretty massive. Dude's been an ATLUS mainstay for decades. He's the heart of Persona's visual identity. Best of luck to their new endeavors.

Nintendo's IP, their brand, their choice & their right. I saw Jawmuncher try arguing on ResetERA that it wouldn't be an issue since Samus isn't a big IP like Mario or Zelda, but people like them completely miss the point: it's the brand IP's value in association with adjacent IP. Nintendo...

Pre-cope strategy if I've ever seen it. To think that the same thing which eventually helped contribute (among other factors) a complete collapse of Xbox console sales, won't happen to PlayStation because...reasons? Is rather funny IMHO. By your logic, there is no reason for Sony to ignore...

Once again, stop conflating what it is you or your indie dev team do, with what the AAA game development industry does, when it comes to game development pipelines. Your methodology != the entire industry's. Naughty Dog have outright stated they retooled their pipeline to facilitate PC...

Proof? Wolverine seemed by all accounts to be a 2025 release. However it's actually a 2026 release and coincidentally development of the PC version started early on since there's now a playable (ever-improving) build for it on Windows PC platforms from the Insomniac hack. Nixxes doesn't...