Get those teams out doing their own thing again - the ones that existed before they were sent to the CoD mines at least. You've got a lot of AA-AAA talent there (or did at one point, anyway), and could diversify revenue streams. That was the only upside I could hope for out the buyout, since layoffs and closures was obvious to anyone with half a working brain.
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That's almost as much as Palword, damn impressive
It's been over 2 days since Palworld announced their last sales milestone. I think we can officially declare the game as dead.
Kinda old news since Falcom already mentioned it reached 7.5m last month, but better late than never.
The series has been doing pretty well--in 2020 it reached 5m, 6m in 2021, 7m in 2022, and 7.5m in 2023. It slowed down a bit last year, presumably cause there wasn't a new Trails game in Japan, but still, this is a pretty good pace.
If its a critical darling it will definitely outperform P5R. if P5R (or vanilla) was a day n date Steam release it would have done much higher.
Soul Hackers 2 has a 74 on metacritic so it never really had a chance. It still did 6k concurrent so it wasn't that bad all things considered. Didn't help that it was a sequel to an old game which never got a steam release.
But Metaphor looks amazing. The two trailers released so far the game looks larger and more ambitious than anything Atlus done in the past.
As long as it reviews well it should do like 50-100k concurrent imo. Will be a great killer app for the Deck this year too.
I decided t finally play all Darksiders games this year. I went through 50% of the first game long time ago but never finished it. And then i put aside all other Darksiders games because i didn't finish first one. So it is time to finish them and they also work great on Deck so it is perfect timing 
Great games, so good.I decided t finally play all Darksiders games this year. I went through 50% of the first game long time ago but never finished it. And then i put aside all other Darksiders games because i didn't finish first one. So it is time to finish them and they also work great on Deck so it is perfect timing
Two is best IMO
I agree Metaphor will do well, but no way it outperforms Infinite Wealth. It’ll do 20-40k.
Persona 6 will handily do 50k or more. Persona 3 Reload might, but I’m not confident enough to make any bets on it.
it has a cute pointy-eared red-haired elf, the sky's the limit
True.
People joke about "Persona started with 3", but there's some truth to that. Modern persona games are a totally different beast for better or worse.
Is it far fetched to say that Persona stopped being SMT like with the release of P3?
Without spoiling anything it's so disappointing that each game after 1 was either a prequel or I think at best it took place around the same time 1 does just in different locations. I've never seen a series that's like 4 games deep absolutely refuse to move forward like this, it's wild.I decided t finally play all Darksiders games this year. I went through 50% of the first game long time ago but never finished it. And then i put aside all other Darksiders games because i didn't finish first one. So it is time to finish them and they also work great on Deck so it is perfect timing
Didnt the first game also straight up end on a cliffhanger too lol
There are 3 possibilities:
- Falcom added it. Obviously possible, but then you'd expect the game to have some form of TAA on console.
- CLE added it. Also possible, but that's so much work that it would be really strange to me to do that and then only support XeSS rather than doing DLAA/DLSS/FSR3/XeSS. You are investing tons of general engine work to enable the prerequisites for all of these technologies, but then you're not putting in the extra 5% to give everyone the option that works best / at the highest quality for their HW?
Of course, I'm certainly aware that not all companies agree with my ideas about how to prioritize development work on a port - It's a non-functioning or barely-functioning hackjob. This possibility doesn't even come to mind for most people, and it does seem extremely far-fetched, but as far as I know several CLE releases e.g. have a "MSAA" option that either does nothing or almost nothing.
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Another reason why a lot of game developers/studios are letting people go is they literally can't get third parties to invest money in them for new projects. So they pitch something and they get immediately shot down, get shot down on something else, etc etc.
Interest rates for stuff for money was basically just "Money printer goes BRRR" now its at a ridiculous rate so no one wants to share including the people whose entire job/purpose it is, is to share money for stuff.
The studio I worked at before closed down/shuttered because we doing fine for years then (Seemingly) out of nowhere we got underbid on the work contract from a similar studio. Followed by being unable to land new work. Entire studio ended up closing because of that.
Interest rates for stuff for money was basically just "Money printer goes BRRR" now its at a ridiculous rate so no one wants to share including the people whose entire job/purpose it is, is to share money for stuff.
The studio I worked at before closed down/shuttered because we doing fine for years then (Seemingly) out of nowhere we got underbid on the work contract from a similar studio. Followed by being unable to land new work. Entire studio ended up closing because of that.
It's different if a studio can't get work and naturally shuts down and different when a billion dollar company lays off people they could have working on any number of stuff with no harm to their bottomline even if that bottomline is due to success in other areas. If one of their studios really couldn't bring money in then restructure from the top that made the bad project decisions for them and put them to work on different things, consolidate as support of other teams, as DLC or whatever in successful games as a way to train them into doing what the company needs etc., just anything other than fire a programmer or artist not for doing a bad job but for doing what they were told and working on the things they were told to be working on for a decade as we've seen in roadmap leaks.
Yes.
a really hype one too, one of the stronger endings from that generation
It's funny there was so much discourse about Palworld showing Nintendo how to do it when
Yakuza Infinite Wealth
Literally has a Pokemon x Animal Crossing game that's completely optional and exists as an attachement to another whole ass JRPG.
Like, i just played that for the last 10 hours and almost forgot about the main story entirely and you're just left wondering why doesn't Nintendo do anything half this creative with either IP
Yakuza Infinite Wealth
Literally has a Pokemon x Animal Crossing game that's completely optional and exists as an attachement to another whole ass JRPG.
Like, i just played that for the last 10 hours and almost forgot about the main story entirely and you're just left wondering why doesn't Nintendo do anything half this creative with either IP
We still dont have a new sales record from Palworld since the 8 million announcement.
I think they want to announce combined sales on Steam and XBOX, but Microsoft doesn't want people to know the approximate sales versus Steam (probably much less sales, not including Gamepass numbers)
So, if they wait a week or so to get a combined 15 million announcement, the days since the last update muddles enough that people can't approximate Xbox sales through the announcement.
I don't think they are doing a million sales a day anymore, but I also don't think it slowed down to a crawl that it didn't already reach 9 or 10 million yet. It is still the best-selling game on Steam right now.
I think they want to announce combined sales on Steam and XBOX, but Microsoft doesn't want people to know the approximate sales versus Steam (probably much less sales, not including Gamepass numbers)
So, if they wait a week or so to get a combined 15 million announcement, the days since the last update muddles enough that people can't approximate Xbox sales through the announcement.
I don't think they are doing a million sales a day anymore, but I also don't think it slowed down to a crawl that it didn't already reach 9 or 10 million yet. It is still the best-selling game on Steam right now.
Very!
I would to do that too. I do have an analogue camera but I’m never really have any camera with me other than the phone, which I use to photograph for most part now. (Mostly my new kittens.)
I’m about 25 hours in and The Talos Principle 2 is still good.
I don’t think there’s been a single puzzle (yet) that I’ve thought is bullshit. It’s exquisitely designed.
I don’t think there’s been a single puzzle (yet) that I’ve thought is bullshit. It’s exquisitely designed.
Steam says im at 80 hours and i didin't finish the story, think i was about half way / 2 thirds through - ish.
Also i did restart a new playthrough so its probably more like 60hrs or so, it didn't click with me the first time. Found the combat tough but gave it another go and did the fighting tutorial bit a bunch of times and it became a lot of fun.
Great game, you can get lost in all the things to do in it.
The concert was very *hype"
Some people were even crying.
It was different than what I was expecting, I was expecting for them to just play music but that is not all that happened.
They were showing video and also playing music. The story mainly had to do with 2B and 9S and their relationship and some stuff to do with Nier Replicant as well.
RIP Papa Nier.
If any one else going to the events in Europe or else where you will very likely enjoy the event.
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I had the chance to get VIP tickets but sadly I was not able to. A few days ago you were still able to get VIP tickets for MSRP!!!!!!!! I guess the people had to cancel last minute.
Some people were even crying.
It was different than what I was expecting, I was expecting for them to just play music but that is not all that happened.
They were showing video and also playing music. The story mainly had to do with 2B and 9S and their relationship and some stuff to do with Nier Replicant as well.
RIP Papa Nier.
If any one else going to the events in Europe or else where you will very likely enjoy the event.
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I had the chance to get VIP tickets but sadly I was not able to. A few days ago you were still able to get VIP tickets for MSRP!!!!!!!! I guess the people had to cancel last minute.
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What's the incentive to do something good and well made when you can save money by not investing on development and put out a barely functional mess and still sell millions of copies?
Indeed. The most recent entries proved that they could just sell a turd with the pokemon logo and still sell millions.
I'm so fucking jealous.
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I also wonder if they decided to not post updated sales numbers because of the announcement from the Pokemon company. Maybe they don’t want to keep poking the bear.
Would love to get in the Infinite Wealth hype but I haven't finished LAD, damn!
I have more than that, playing now Yakuza 5 to catch up.
I am about to start Kiwami 2I have more than that, playing now Yakuza 5 to catch up.
I've only played Zero. I'm planning to watch a youtube video that summarizes 1-6 and then going straight into 7 (LAD). Then man without a name and by the time I'm done with all that, this new game will be 75% off.I am about to start Kiwami 2
Kiwami 2 is among my favorites, enjoy!I am about to start Kiwami 2
I'm really concerned about my power consumption. It hasn't gone under 100 bucks for more than 2 years (which is a lot here in Mexico) and seeing that only my GPU pulls 350 watts fills me with dread lmao
100 USD for electricity a month? That's a fuckton, if I compare it here with Sweden.
EDIT: looking at average power consumption and prices, it seems the monthly cost is somewhere between 50 to 100. Kinda surprising, expected it to be lower.
Sweden: household electricity prices 2023 | Statista
The average household electricity price in Sweden for a consumption between 2,500 and 5,000 kilowatt-hours was 21.81 euro cents per kilowatt-hour in the second half of 2023.
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