I didn't know this game got released. I haven't seen any reviews or gameplay videos unless I missed something. Can you post a link so I can check it out.
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I didn't know this game got released. I haven't seen any reviews or gameplay videos unless I missed something. Can you post a link so I can check it out.
Lol, MS….nah, Activision/Blizzard is nothing, irrelevant, it’s shit……nothing to see here….
I think alot of xbox paid for astroturf shills and ambassadors are making sonys statement as a sign of weakness or spells doom for them, but what they said is objectively true. COD is huge and it would take alot of money and time to replicate that. The doom sayers make no sense to me because Microsoft has already stated its staying multiplatform. I think alot of the hostility coming from xbox astroturfers is because they have alot of pent up anger at in 3rd place for over a decade.
It's not even about being true or not. It's a strategy and it can make the regulators forbid MS to make these games exclusive to Xbox. That's the whole point of what Sony is doing. At the same time, MS is downplaying the games's value hoping the regulators allow them to whatever they want to the IPs.
I don't expect shills to understand how business works, though, but it's crystal clear why both are doing what they're doing.
That literally says losing Activision games won't put Playstation out of business, and nothing else.
It's funny if you leave out the last half of the sentence though lol
All of this is just BS, Sony making it more dramatic than it is, and MS making it like it's an indie studio.
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You shouldn't make it a yearly game, just like what Bungie's doing with their game. Make a solid game and work on expansions.
But then how will they milk their fanbase for 15m copies every year?
No need to, expansions will do. Also spend that time on making cosmetics and shit. It's like what BF4 used to be, and how Rainbow Six is doing now. Just support the game and keep at it. Bungie been doing good as well, not on COD caliber but good for them. You don't really need to seek COD lunacy as it shown that people just got tired of it and it's declining already.
It's over 3k not 4k and it's across working on like 3-4 products at once. I'd say Ubisoft probably has more people on Ass Creed but Ubisoft is also sort of woefully inefficient with more employees than much bigger ($ wise) pubs.
I have trouble calling Sony "right" here because Sony hasn't tried to compete in the online shooter space in almost a decade. They failed to really get any of their FPS to take off but they were a different company then.. I actually think Sony has a chance to make a GAAS game that does insanely well.
I think Sony threw in the towel too early on some of their games.
MAG was pretty decent and had potential to be a successful franchise. Even now it can be revived. Sony had other plans and decided to put all its eggs in the COD basket.
The Getaway is another franchise which has potential. Can't rely Take 2 being independent forever.
Playstation Home is another. Imagine it with VR.
Those games were made during the ps3 generation, before MTX, F2P, Cloud Streaming, Mobile gaming dominance, and before they even had a proper online infrastructure. Sony had no real reason to continue and chase Halo when there wasn’t as big of a return on it. Their first party studios also weren’t as strong and noteworthy as they are now. They were basically just throwing everything at the wall back then, which some people loved cause you got a bunch of different genres but a lot of overlap and underperforming titles.
Sony today with the way its studios are run and supported and the way its marketed could put out a few dominate FPS/Multiplayer. The sooner they do it the better while they still have market dominance.
But its all part of the same machine. The never ending CoD machine that makes sure it maintains its mindshare year after year. Like imagine if Ubisoft was actually putting out a new Assassins creed every year? That would be insane, its already crazy how much they put them out but annual AAA game is almost unheard of outside of sports genre.
Well I think it probably was a good strategy at the time.
Let these crazy franchises like COD/GTA have the spotlight in their sub-genres and focus on getting marketing / content deals instead of directly competing against them. It certainly worked out fantastically in the short term.
Well they've released one most years since the series launched.
Just not quite every year.
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