People are thirsty for Wolverine news? If you want to know what they are doing, the poor fuckers at Insomniac got all their shit leaked. I didn't look as I want a good first impression when Insomniac finally show it.
Insomniac about Marvel's Wolverine: "We'll share news when the time is right, and the right time isn't now."
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Yeah Im happy they showed Wolverine when they did, and I dont need to see anymore till later. It would be a bonus to see some gameplay etc but Im glad they announced it and I can wait till its ready.
I was hoping for 2025 but 2026 is ok if the other studios are pulling there work and releasing stuff in 2025. Id rather have Wolverine quicker then Venom DLC.
They now make more shows for the fans per year than in the E3 times. They also have now the PlayStation Blog and their social media channels.
It just means you are impatient and are ignoring on purpose the marketing job done for all the other games.
Regarding fist party this year they just released 4 new games, a remaster and two PC ports this year and are about to release Destiny 2 The Final Shape. In addition to important 3rd party exclusive and multiplatform games. This is a ton of stuff that required to be marketed, so they focused their marketing there.
Once they released all this, they'll move to the next batch, the ones released the second half of the year and maybe early next one. Pretty likely early next month they'll have a showcase or State of Play where they will give release dates and show gameplay of many of these games plus annoouncing other ones, but will keep some of them to be shown in later State of Plays like the one for TGS, and maybe to give some announcements to the Doritos Pope in the Summer Shit of Shoveware or the Doritos Awards.
They have now way more big and small releases and way more shows every year, so they spread the content across the different shows. On top of this, they prefer to keep announcements like gameplay debuts or release dates announcements closer to release to put less pressure on devs and reduce the complaints about downgrades and delays.
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My favourite of these ones right now is the mental gymnastics the folks at Intel did for their Q1 earnings report.
They're losing tremendous amount of marketshare to AMD in laptops, Data Center & AI but they've and their foundries are in shambles but they've told investors not to worry they see forecast growth opportunities in the coming year with strong products coming(something they've been saying for years at this point).
To be fair it was probably out of their(Insomniac/SIE) control really.
Through leaks and other Marvel projects in recent years, we've seen that Marvel often mandates that the announcement for those projects be announced very early after signing the contract.
It was the case for Wolverine, it is also the case with Blade and others that I can't recall on top of my head.
I guess they're using the same announcement formula as their movies which are always announced like 5 years before they come out.
I prefer it this way. I liked knowing about a game 2/3/4 years before it came out.
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They were considered first party, but all the studios were disparate back then. There was no unified leadership. They all reported up to regional SCE leaders.
I believe it was the same right after Ragnarok shipped...
And there were probably reasons for that. Concord will probably release before Modern Warfare or they'll delay it if it isn't ready.
Until Dawn almost certainly has a VR mode on top of releasing for console and PC. That's a lot of moving parts. They probably aren't ready to commit to a specific date. It could even have a PS5 Pro launch date, which further complicates things.
Then there are games like Lost Soul Aside, which has been in development forever.
And the change in society has shifted how marketing works. They're engaging with fans in a different way that costs less money and has less impact on game development.
I didn't say I didn't want a showcase. I'm just telling you why there might not be one yet.
I loved e3, sad that it is dead. I didn't say this was better. I said this is what Sony wants now.
So presenting facts without emotion is being a clown or troll, but responding to those facts with Mr. Rogers gifs, or name calling, would be... ?
Actually, I'm the one who presented facts.
I said that this was one of the top 2 or 3 years ever by sony. His response? It doesn't matter. lol
Yeah, but we know when the game is due out and its two years from now. What gain is there to show from it. Its not like PS5 sales numbers are in the toilet and Sony has a bunch of 2nd party releases they are trying to monetize this year (FF7R, RotR, Stellar Blade, Helldivers and the internally developed Concord.) Announcing things super early never plays out in the long run.
But its worked fine in the past. We knew about alot of games years before they come out
I'd argue that it hasn't worked out fine. At best it hasn't harmed a game or console, but it certainly hasn't helped either. Every delay at that point is an embaressment and some of them (Prime 4, Crackdown 3, modern Perfect Dark, FFXV, etc. ended up becoming jokes at the expense of their makers because of it.)
You only see it from your point of view.
From the developers point of view it leads to crunch and poor work/life balance. Costs more in marketing and takes resources away from game development. In the worst case can result in market fatigue and apathy.
I mean you can say you don't care about any of that because it doesn't impact you, but they care about it.
And there is no evidence that sales increase by announcing it early.
Yeah I never thought about developer issues and stress tbh, it must be better for them.
I just like how it use to be and still is for alot of studios. I dont think theres that many disadvantages compared to the fan advantages
I dont think it will effect software sales, but knowing more games are coming does give more reason to buy a console
It's got nothing to do with Wolverine but more that you have a bit of a claw fetish.
Message me for more pics, I got loads, filthy ones too.
No studios are under more pressure than Sony studios to deliver bangers. No publisher puts out more AAA bangers than Sony and now they're trying to extend that quality to GaaS.
Anything you can do to improve QoL for developers the better, especially for retention and recruitment of talent needed to deliver on these games.
The crunch probably resulted in poor retention which makes these AAA games more difficult to sustain.
Sony has all of this data. They aren't just being secretive to be secretive. Exit interviews, employee surveys, glassdoor e.t.c.
There's an axe dangling above the heads of teams at places like Square, Ubisoft, Microsoft, the former Embracer, Nordisk, Gearbox, etc. If anything, I'd say the Sony teams can sleep comparatively easy in today's climate compared to them.
That's a different kind of pressure. That's pressure from historically not delivering.
It's got nothing to do with Wolverine but more that you have a bit of a claw fetish.
Message me for more pics, I got loads, filthy ones too.
Venom standalone DLC first then!
I'm hoping they do Carnage justice, unlike the horrible movie.
What a waste that was