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That's already taking it into account...

It depends on the person.. but I think consoles are creeping up into that "too expensive might as well get a PC at this point" area. I mean obviously the same price PC will lose to a console in most cases... but everyone has their limit on what they consider acceptable prices to pay for any given thing. People will naturally accept that a PC will cost more than a console because it can do a lot more things. Just like PC tho, there are console gamers which will pay whatever to have the best possible hardware.. so if it's $700, then so be it. The main thing is whether the upgrade

Yeah, but to be fair.. nobody is buying Xbox Series X lol.

Why can't these bastards just work with women and treat them respectfully?

Yeah, it's unfortunate for Sony, but correct me if I'm wrong but Sony hasn't really been controlling the company until just now.. right? So basically these issues Bungie are facing now were of their own doing and Sony basically has to clean up the mess and salvage what they can. I wonder if Marathon will get cancelled and Sony will try to push them more into their other studios?

I'm sure it will be gory enough lol

The VR response is very disappointing. They had to know people were hoping for a new VR entry, or mode.. but the original Astro Bot VR game probably didn't do great enough for them to bother. As for a potential PC release... I'm actually quite surprised it sounds like they're either already working on it in some capacity or they definitely have the intentions to in the future. I thought the game wouldn't get a PC release because of the game being built so closely around the DualSense.. but maybe there's ways to work around it. With Sony's new Playstation PC accessory app, it fee

Of course it shits on Windows in both battery life and performance

Can't fucking wait for this. The budget definitely looks improved as well.

This is partly SquareEnix's fault too. You keep making exclusive deals for long enough nobody is going to bother buying your games on other platforms. They need to build their audience again on Xbox and build some trust.. and that's going to mean suffering through some releases which barely sell anything.

The Switch isn't... *Checks notes* just a handheld. And since it's not just a handheld... it would make no sense to make some exclusive "handheld Castlevania" today, whatever that means.

They're still making a killing off game sales today.. even moreso than previously with all new forms of monetization. And in the past they weren't subsidizing the cost of the console in year 4... the price was dropped because the BOM was reduced and production pipelines became more efficient. Instead of keeping prices of the hardware high to make more profit off each console sale.. they grew the player base knowing they'd make more profit off game sales. They need to hit those price tiers to sell to those people.

The publishers still do pay a percentage fee for every piece of software sold on the hardware. Nothing is different. It's the exact same thing as them making an exclusivity deal where they'd pay a publisher money for the privilege. They've always done that. These are special deals being made... not a requirement. Most games aren't on and will never appear on any of these services.

They pay to make deals like they always have. It's not anything new. They could pay a publisher to make a game exclusive to their platform, or put it on a service, and still make a specific cut from every copy sold or transaction made. They have a variety of ways of "paying" publishers for deals.. Paying them a chunk of money up front.. paying them a small amount per download.. "paying them" through advertising their game.. and so on. These are just deals meant to cover the costs of making a game exclusive or being on a service. At the end of the day, Sony and MS are going to make money

Damn, that's bad. I don't think Ubisoft has too many chances left. Hopefully it sells decently. I'm sure Assassin's Creed Shadows will do well.. but if it doesn't.. Ubisoft is in serious trouble I think.

lol damn.

Nah, those publishers of free games pay Sony and MS a certain amount off every transaction that happens within them, just like the others.

Yes I did. And congrats at coming to the realization of what they should do instead of raising the price 4 years later.. bubu "teh worldz changed guiz... don't call things ridiculous, jus accept it" Are YOU happy?

Moron... like I said, having an explanation for it doesn't make it less ridiculous You're not teaching anyone anything here... Sony can afford to lose money on the consoles.. they have before.. And Sony's greed easily explains the reason why prices have remained the same or increased everywhere else.. lmfao.

What did Del Taco say?

Except I already addressed the yen issue twice in this thread before you stupidly came in here and asked if I had heard about the yen... Yea, I said it would explain prices remaining the same and not dropping... but not increasing $100 4 years later... because that's.............ridiculous.

Nah not yet.. but I haven't played it yet today. Probably in an hour or so I'm going to try for a bit lol.

Speaking of Black Meth WuKrak, you beat that boss?

What?