Msft to completely stop Xbox Series production for the quarter & Sony to halve production after lower-than-expected sales during xmas. Take with 🧂🧂
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I do have to say I am happy they cancelled it. ND is too good of a studio to be stuck on a single online game. That and it serving as a warning for their Live Service push.
"Sony too" because Xbox is selling like shit, heh
I don't believe this at all. I don't think PS5 underperformed over the holidays either.
I don't think there is anything inherently wrong with online games, ND made some of my favorites ever in Factions 1.0 and Uncharted 2 multiplayer. Especially since the factions 2 announcement predated their GAAS push, it should've never been roped into it.
Hermen and Jim should've decided as businessman that the Playstation studios slate for 2023 and beyond was barren enough to warrant them to just release what ND had already done, even it was a simple TLOU battle royale and not an ambitious live service that they wanted. Announce that ND won't be adding any post release content and call it a day.
Now we are left with an empty 2023 that was saved only by Spiderman and an even worse 2024.
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They do t fucking listen... Just double down on a strategy that is eroding them.
They haven't managed Online games before. Supported Uncharted 3 Multiplayer for 2 years straight while working on TLOU PS3 and gave support even when while juggling the OG Factions as well.
They could have outsourced post launch support a s simply keep a skeleton crew in house for patches.
Factions 2 would have been a huge success. I dunno how anyone can play No Return and not see this.
But they would have managed TLOU Online, and cancelled it because they would have to only focus on that one game.
TLOU Online was a full on Live Service MMO, not just an online game mode.
It would have, but they were not developing Factions 2.
They already had a lobby based Faction 2 in development from 2020. I don't doubt there wasn't lobby matches in the final build up to cancellation. Either I'm still peeved about the whole thing, so just ranting lol
I can't understand the cancellation of Factions, why not just release what they had and scale it down? Try a early-access style release like they should've done many years ago.
Developing pretty much any multiplayer game in secret makes zero sense.
Until somebody spills the beans we don’t even know what kind of multiplayer Factions was, how ambitious it was, and why it was cancelled.
But if PlayStation killed the project, and Naughty Dog allowed that (because they have said before that they are allowed a lot of choice on what they work), maybe it was for a good reason.
Maybe finishing it, releasing it and post support would come with a heap of consequences and it was cheaper for everybody to just cancel it.
I’m of the opinion that this was more than likely the right move.
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Consoles sell way more in the Christmas quarter than in the Jan-March one. So if this reduction is true maybe just means that and their estimates for the FY continue as before.