Gaming Chat

[Liftea 8]

this entire deal isn't about quality and it makes me so mad

the quality thing is actually true in terms of that if you have a certain kind of monopoly you can use it and people will still buy your products even if they have low quality. But sony is in this case so disingenuous

they absolutely don't care about the quality

or innovation

[HellboundOrc 2]

It’s Sony knowing they can’t compete with Xbox’s ability to burn Microsoft’s cash like there’s no tomorrow. They’ve started paying off studios to prevent their games from ending up on Game Pass, because they can’t offer a realistic competitor to the system.

[Liftea 8]

they just want CoD to be on playstation

because it makes shittons of money

[Noleen#7811 3]

of course

[Liftea 8]

Sony has nothing to fear in terms of quality. they still have the better exclusives. by far

[Noleen#7811 3]

they're gonna need to innovate tho, the third person narrative heavy adventure is getting a bit repetitive

[HellboundOrc 2]

Sony’s one to talk about innovation.

[Liftea 8]

most people I know who own an xbox go for an xbox because they love gamepass.

and because they can buy an actual xbox

[Daz_4th 6]

LOL

[Liftea 8]

sony would sell shittons of ps5's if they wouldn't have these supply chain issues

console sold more than the ps4

[Daz_4th 6]

the one thing xbox has that they're just dunking on sony with is their great backwards compat program
Iike, oId games upscaIed up to 4k 60fps? heII yeah l'm ready
......issue being though that's kinda their onIy seIIing point to me

[Liftea 8]

Sony definitely ignores a big market with backwards compatibility

they could make so much money

[Daz_4th 6]

mhm

[Liftea 8]

imagine if you could play all ps2, ps3 and ps4 games on the ps5

[Noleen#7811 3]

i mean, they get away with remastering a remaster from 1 gen ago

maybe it's on purpose

[Daz_4th 6]

and now that they've started it
it's fuII of niche games
Iike sony pIease you know peopIe actuaIIy wanna pIay the PS2 and PSP's greatest hits and not frikkin mr driIIer

worse yet, games Iike the PSOne spyros and crashes, and especiaIIy the sIy and ratchet games are just straight up nowhere on PS4 or PS5

the disgusting PS3 versions of ratchet triIogy were reIeased on PSnow for teh 20th anniversary instead

[Noleen#7811 3]

isn't there a right issue with most games maybe ?

[HellboundOrc 2]

Show respect for the IPs that built your company challenge: Impossible

[Daz_4th 6]

LMAOOOOO

nothing that they can't soIve.
l mean, they use a modified version of PCSX2 from 2015, said version had terribIe compatibiIity with the Jak games and Ape Escape 2
so they made manuaI fixes for them

and now they work
they Iook IiteraIIy as bIurry as the originaI versions but at Ieast they work l guess

[HellboundOrc 2]

Xbox brought back a cult classic from the original Xbox called Phantom Dust with new features despite the fact they weren’t actually allowed to sell it so it was free.

[Otti#8624 25]

It is about quality too though

Like I am not going to say COD is quality games or anything, well made sure

But Microsoft is heavily lacking in the quality aspect in their game

All they have done now is buy up studios, or even worse a goddamn publisher, to compete with Sony and Nintendo

And not just one publisher, they are trying to get a second one while still not showing any of the quality aspect on what they just bought

I genuinely hope this deal falls apart because what microsoft needs to do is spend their money on the actual studios they currently have

The amount of money they are using to buy up studios would be much better used on current studios, or even better actually creating new studios

[HellboundOrc 2]

If the deal falls through Microsoft is going to owe AB a fortune. And without that new cashflow from them, they’re going to look for more places to cut corners and charge more with what they have.

Should Xbox invest more in what they own and pick up smaller dev talent? Probably, but they’re in this mess now and it’ll hurt pretty badly if it doesn’t go through.

[Otti#8624 25]

Would they need to pay if the deal falls apart out of their hands

It's not like they are trying to back out like Musk tried with twitter

[HellboundOrc 2]

I don’t have access to the contracts but yes I believe they will have to payout to AB if the deal doesn’t go through to the tune of billions

[Noleen#7811 3]

after checking, the only thing i care about from them is crash and spyro, and nothing interesting seems to be planned for them so...