@sippio: Wouldn't surprise me. All this live service trash was Jim Ryan's baby, and I imagine Sony wants to save at least SOME face while they back away from the massive money sink it's proven to be. Adding some woke crap appeases the more insufferable members of the development team while shifting the discussion away from just how horrible the game is.
@ceelogreen94: I think Nintendo will do fine in the post-crash era. They've done it before, and they've never put anything above making fun games. I can see Japanese publishers returning to the forefront as, bar Sony themselves, Japan's been pretty good about focusing on making entertaining product above all else. Could we dare dream of Sega making a console again? Maybe too much to ask, but it'd be nice.
Not sure PC can become the sole gaming domain as long as so much of it focuses on the very best rigs at the expense of everyone else.
@mogan: See, "same price" is part of the problem. Among Us was what, $10? And that sold gangbusters. While you probably won't sell 20 million copies of a more modestly-made game at $40, you also won't HAVE to in order to make a profit.
@fingle: The journos would whine for a few moments, the game would sell similarly to the original release, and life would move on. The only "modern audience" that would cry about it are the ones who bought Concord...
@dlCHIEF58: A few spokespeople were arrogant fools. Most of the staff were just doing the job they were told to and don't deserve the layoff they're going to get.
@mogan: The biggest money for the fewest number of publishers. It's mobile gaming all over again - one or two big fish in a tiny pond.
As for the cost, that is something the publishers brought entirely upon themselves with their ever-bloated budgets to chase prettier and prettier graphics, game quality be damned. There's a reason Nintendo makes bank while everyone struggles to break even - they live in their means.
@sippio: I don't blame Sony for the PS3 backward compatibility thing. The $500 price tag was just a noose around the neck of the PS3.
Honestly, at this time, I'm not sure how much of a difference putting PS2 and PS3 compatibility would make. PCSX2 is a very mature emulator, and the stuff I've seen out of PCSX3 is looking more and more impressive all the time.
@ceelogreen94: Stop. Console war bleating doesn't help anyone. Besides, for all Sony's "winning," Nintendo actually turns a much healthier profit by keeping their costs in check.
@wutadam: As does Overwatch 2, Marvel Heroes, Baldur's Gate 3, and many other successful games with diverse characters. The notion of diversity being why this game failed (as opposed to it somehow looking like it was AI generated after eight years of development) is just a talking point for the Quartering/Synthetic Man brand of grifters.
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