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Candy Crush alone brings in over $650M in revenue per quarter... The deal basically allows them to do what they want after the current agreements are up, but it's just smart to continue to release those games on all platforms they normally release on. What they CAN do is limit CoD and all the other games, to exclusively appear on GamePass, and never on any competing services. That's basically what it will amount to. Sony will do the same with Bungie stuff for sure, eventually.

For some games it's worth it. At least to have a RT option. Drop the resolution hard if they have to... a mid gen refresh could alleviate that resolution drop for the future.

Atodaso, I fuckin atodaso. Glad to see others realizing it. Once you get used to seeing more and more games do lighting correctly... you'll see just how wrong it's been for so long.

Yeah pretty much. I can imagine some good changes coming though. It's rumored they might stop releasing CoD yearly, and instead adopt a Bi-yearly schedule for the main series and lean more on Warzone. Which IMO is the right idea, as long as it means longer development cycles and more interesting CoD games for the future...as well as taking some of the "support studios" and getting them to work on other games/franchises which they are better suited to. It just makes sense to get Toy's for Bob working on a new Banjo game for example.. and yea, just release it everywhere. Maybe a

The Nintendo part is interesting.. depending on which games they're talking about. Probably Diablo and stuff like that that can actually run decently on the hardware. I wonder if they might have worked out a cloud solution which isn't "GamePass" but might be specially sectioned off for Nintendo? Basically just MS first party games and nothing else. Every cloud version of 3rd party Nintendo games goes through a specific company which I can't remember the name of, so it would be surprising if that was the case. CoD on PS.. yep, just makes sense. No reason to pull it o

I feel dumb at this point still hoping to see Silksong at a Direct... lol Gotta be at one eventually though..right?

Would make for a cool redemption arc if they actually did it and it turned out to be an awesome game. It was pretty much the cancelation of Scalebound that cemented Xbox's failure last gen. They should almost try to correct that mistake as a sign of change. But lol whatevs

Sun Blade gonna be dope

I admit that the formula is getting old. I LOVE the game... but they need to change it up drastically. I think it would be awesome if they gave Horizon a rest and instead made a "Forza Snocross" series with awesome physics based gameplay. I remember getting that feeling playing FH3 "Blizzard Mountain" DLC for the first time... I was like DAMN, these guys could do an amazing snowmobile racing game. I LOVED Sno-Cross Championship Racing on the PS1. It felt sooo good (at the time) to drive the sleds. They had a nice physicality and sense of weight to them.

Tencent might gobble them up themselves anyway.

Nothing wrong with that. You have a PS5 right? You plan on getting GT7? I suppose you could get it for PS4 as well.. but it's looking pretty good. I think it will score mid 80s on Meta. It seems quite fully featured.

Yeah it's unfortunate. I almost wish Nintendo would save them from that terrible fate.. because like I said above, I think they could do some cool shit with Nintendo's IP. But I think Nintendo are fine with their relationship just the way it is. They probably see no incentive to acquire Platinum Games. They already have the best products from PG exclusive to their platform anyway lol.

Yea those are terribly compressed, but you can definitely see how nicely it's lit, and how the scenes have proper depth to them with no light leaking and glowing edges. I said it ages back, but once you get used to games having proper lighting, when you go back and look at past games, you'll see just how wrong the lighting has been all this time.

lol

The thought crossed my mind, but like I said there's too much other stuff I'd rather play right now. I'm mainly focusing on finishing up God of War.. which has been sublime. I'm plat'ing it on Give me God of War difficulty, so if I tried to stop playing this and play something else for a bit, there's no way I'd be able to jump back in and defeat some of the Valkyries. I mean I could, but it would just be more difficult. We'll see what happens after. Anyway a few shots of GoW on PC. @T

GoW is awesome. Definitely worth a purchase if you're on the fence. I'm interested in DL2 as well, but fuck it.. I'll wait until it's cheap to buy it. Too much stuff I want to play/finish anyway.

Yep they did. And yea, what awesome characters. This should be a smiley lol

Exactly! It would help so much. It wouldn't even take much effort to remaster. And they could make so much money from it haha.

Haha yea, it's awesome... but as you said, definitely not for everyone. They've made a lot of improvements to the game on all platforms. I played it on PC a long time ago, then I went back to see what changed after the The Final Cut update and it was like a brand new game.

The Final Cut – Ver. 1.04 (Jamais Vu Update) New secret achievements – time to hunt! Multiple fixes for crashes Gigantic load time optimisations when switching scenes Tons of minor bug fixes all across the game Has Kim always been this hot? Holy crap.. it's impressive how much they improved it. But I gotta say, that was WAYYYYY too long to begin with. I couldn't imagine playing the game like that with those load times. Thankfully it's fixed now for those who are playing it on Switch. Which you should do

I think it's so stupid that we haven't got a GTA1 and GTA2 remaster re-release. There's no way to buy those games anymore on current gen systems, and you can't get them on Steam anymore. If it's a music issue, they could just create a new OST for the game easy enough. I'm sure tons of people would buy a GTA1 and GTA2 bundle.

Yea, that's very clearly their strategy regarding that. Definitely better than dragging their SP studios down into that rabbit hole! Speaking of that, there was also news today (and I'm going to possibly derail my own thread) that Platinum Games were looking to move towards GaaS games, instead of the "single play, well designed" games they're known for... That's kinda depressing. And that actually came right after Hideki Kamiya posted this on Twitter: PG apparently received flowers and other stuff from various people from the industry fo

Linus had an issue with it, basically saying that he was fine with the placement of the buttons but reaching the shoulder buttons and everything was a bit uncomfortable. He compared his hands to his Asian wife in the video and I noticed she has bigger hands than he does... so I'm not too sure if that's just his problem.. or if it's going to be mine as well lol He also complained about the haptics and touchpad. Sounds a bit underwhelming. I think it could maybe be a battery issue, using too much power for what it was worth, so they toned it down perhaps. He said they'