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Sad to see entire studios think they can win the lottery (GaaS being the lottery of the Video Game industry)! For every FF14, GTAO, WoW, Fortnite etc. - millions fail from reputed studios (not talking about indies and greenlight ones)! We could have gotten so many more games in the time these guys spent on their GaaS projects, and they most likely would have been successful too!

People will get it still and it'll be a hit! Nintendo doesn't go after power and graphics like Sony/MS but their gameplay, innovativeness and fun-factor is on a whole another level! They have some of the highest no of 85-90+ meta score games, ips with highest sales, crazy brand loyalty and the fact that the Switch 1 is still selling as well as it is now (2nd only to ps5 now I think) is crazy considering Switch released in 2017

Why would anyone buy discs on Xbox? The entire machine's main USP was Gamepass which digitally gave off all major MS games! Exclude that and this gen MS had pretty much nothing for the Xbox from what I remember! They had nothing at the start of the gen and even if you say buy discs for 3rd party games, people got into PS by then to get all the exclusives there!

I would say there is still a market for physical! It's not that they're dying organically in the US/EU etc! But they will if there is a monopoly from any player! Sony got away with an add-on disc drive for Pro only because there was no competition! If MS hadn't screwed up so badly, Sony would have had to give the disc drive included on Pro! On PC the only reason physical ended was because the deals from Steam were just too good! Such deals have not come on either PS or Xbox till now! One thing I have to appreciate about Sony though - they know to create games and nurture studios! ND, Santa Monica, Guerilla, SP, Asobi, Insomniac - all these major players today were absolute no name bit players when Sony started! Look at them now! In contrast MS only knew to throw money it seems! This gen they've brought so many legendary studios, but we've not seen their full potential nor were they able to make exclusives! Even in X360 gen they were mainly throwing around money to buy full or timed exclusives (like the GTA4 DLC exclusivity purchase)

No disc drive and phasing out of discs is ultimately much worse than what MS attempted in 2013 on PS4/X1 launch! MS at least at that time gave option of licensing and selling/transferring disc's- but the entire used game market is cut off if discs ever die off, which is pretty close! With Nintendo doing it's own thing and MS out of the market entirely- expect to be screwed over by whatever Sony says, including no selling of games ever, if it ever happens

It's not limitations in this case because the original Kingdom Come Deliverance was a PS4 game released after the latest GTA (GTA5)! From what I understand the developers wanted to go for realism, but this kind of realism isn't good (AT the end of the day, we are still playing a game and still have time limitations and would like to save our progress)! The Save system was tied to drink that had to be crafted via alchemy which required ingredients and a bench or you had to buy with gold! Or save on bed! But the problem is - the game had no mini-map or interactive map that showed everything! It had a static map and a compass that only showed where your objectives were and nothing else! Plot and is pretty good! It's especially really nice is you like history and want to experience what it was like to live in medieval times! Gameplay is a bit clunky though! You're in 1st person always, you have to ensure you eat properly and sleep, you cannot attack multiple enemies at once or you'llnot make it etc.

For some reason this doesn't seem interesting at all! Also from the way the ad artwork is - I get the feeling that the "Mystery Studio" is Square Enix and the new title is a new Life is Strange! That's the game I remember having this exact kind of artwork! If that's the case, this seems to be even more boring!

For that to happen, I'm thinking MS will have to either send help to Game Science (and there is a chance it can be much more than a year if they send only now) or allow an exception for this game from releasing on the Series S (which I don't think even MS can do at this point as customers will raise huge complaints of cheating and it'll directly go against MS's marketing)

This was the devs very first game from what I know, and it's mind blowing for what it was! For all of DF's comments, they have to keep this in mind! BG3 was not Larian's first game! They've been developing CRPGs since 2002 with Divine Divinity! It's not just that - China as a whole doesn't have much AAA game development experience for the developer to rely on other studios or even sub-contract (Other devs only made Genshin Impact type of games)! I'm inclined to believe the Devs here, and MS should have been offering their full support to the devs! I think they just bet on Larian since Divinity was a hit before while Game Science and Black Myth was unproven before release! Also, here we have to believe the game director more than 3rd party outlet like IGN or even MS too here because the director of Game Science making such a statement, if he had support from MS, is him completely cutting himself off from MS for all future releases too which no studio will do!

They even added 1st person into the story (why Ethan is in 1st person/you play the game in 1st person)! It's really fun! Village is more varied than RE7, ans Castle is not the most horror filled location! Enjoy man!

So Tango is no longer with Bethesda/MS? I feel MS didn't get much value out of this studio then! Ghostwire Tokyo was their last major game before they were acquired which was timed exclusive to Sony, Hifi RUsh was made by a smaller team within the studio and came to PS pretty fast and now they're leaving MS altogether!

You will know his story soon enough! Don't worry - it's not forgotten! There's a reason why people say play RE7 first and then play RE8! Both games (and only these 2 games, no other RE games) are essentially the story of Ethan and his family! Get the DLCs if you like the game too! They add to the story!

Yup, it has the epic Boss fights that will leave your jaws on the floor - the way GOW 3 used to have all those years ago! The game pushes the PS5, and is a masterpiece! In a way - we can call it a sequel to GOW3 (Not story or IP wise, but gameplay and technicality wise)! Story is awesome too! No game has done that this gen frankly! FF7R got the GOTY nomination, but for me at least - this was better as it pushed the series ahead and innovated!

Yup it's connected! Better to play RE7 then RE8! You'll still be able to play RE8 directly, but the impact is much more if you play 7 first

Thought this might happen! Studios they were purchasing were expensive - and they still couldn't attract more gamers and had contracts drawn in public knowledge that major franchises would be non-exclusive! Satya is also into Cloud and GPU, so exclusives would be counter to that I think! More like MS couldn't develop their studios properly I think! CoD was their best bet - but they lost exclusivity in a ftc deal that became public knowledge! Indy was a non-starter I think because Disney would have applied pressure to market non-exclusivity - not Sony (after all development contract would have been made before the acquisition and Disney is a giant too)! Rest all games of MS were either too small or flopped! Elder Scrolls is their only remaining big IP to come out since the acquisition that has any major hype at all I think! Ultimately if MS is going down the Gamepass route and betting everything on GPU and becoming the next Netflix of Games, then they have to reduce or abandon exclusives, bet on Cloud and put everything on all devices! That's what OTTs and all Subscription Models do! What's the use of having a subscription model and limiting it to 1-2 devices (Xbox and PC)