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[hanselthecaretaker2]

Xbox Console Sales Are Tanking

No wonder Microsoft is exploring bringing its games to PlayStation 5

kotaku.com

What!? Oh My God, No way!

Overall, gotta hand it to Sony. They were as rock bottom as they've ever been with Playstation the first year or two of the PS3, when 360 was riding high and stuff like this video added insult to injury. Even though ~ half of their troubles were their own doing they dug deep and "sweat blood" (according to GabeN) to put out kick ass exclusives and eventually even ended up outselling the 360 at the end of 7th gen. From then on it was Microsoft making the blunders, which seemed a near improbable turn of fate. It's kinda looking to pretty much turn out like a modern tech version of the David and Goliath story for the industry.

Anyways, it's something that always made more sense to me, if Microsoft basically pulls a SEGA. They're known for software anyways.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

I don't think we have many Escape From Tarkov players hereabouts, but apparently they've seriously pissed off their playerbase with a brand-new $250 edition with exclusive single-player mode, safety from NPC "scavs" under certain conditions, greater equipment-carrying capacity, and an item that can be used to bring other players from one's friends list into the raid. And players who bought the previously most-expensive edition, under the promise of access to all future versions and DLC, are being asked to pony up a $100 upgrade fee.

Escape from Tarkov's community blasts new edition

The Escape from Tarkov community hasn't received well the news of a new most expensive edition replacing the old one and barring them from promised DLC.

www.vg247.com

PvP extraction games like this one are far from my cup of tea, but Tarkov has been considered the leader in the genre, and watching the devs tactically shoot themselves in both feet like this is fascinating, much in the same way as a train wreck is fascinating.

 

[gorfias]

Overall, gotta hand it to Sony. They were as rock bottom as they've ever been with Playstation the first year or two of the PS3, when 360 was riding high and stuff like this video added insult to injury. Even though ~ half of their troubles were their own doing they dug deep and "sweat blood" (according to GabeN) to put out kick ass exclusives and eventually even ended up outselling the 360 at the end of 7th gen. From then on it was Microsoft making the blunders, which seemed a near improbable turn of fate. It's kinda looking to pretty much turn out like a modern tech version of the David and Goliath story for the industry.

Anyways, it's something that always made more sense to me, if Microsoft basically pulls a SEGA. They're known for software anyways.

Mirrors what happened with tech in general. Sure, there's a buck to be made in hardware but software and services is where the real money is at. In the 2000s they were guessing as to when we would see the last of the dedicated gaming consoles thinking our kids would look at our use of them the way younguns may look at those in the 1980s pumping quarters into arcade machines. An obsolete model. It took a while, I'd write, on purpose, but increasingly you can have a mobile device that can be hooked up to a TV where you can game on it. 2017's Switch, I think, is the 1st time this was happening intentionally. But now you have the Steam Deck. Lenovo Legion Go. Asus ROG Ally. If you have good internet, you can, like me, run games on LUNA over a TV streaming device. Gaming, how we game, is changing radically. I think there will be a PS6. I doubt there will be a PS7. Microsoft is just reading the tea leaves. EDIT: OMG. That song is 17 years old min.!

 

[hanselthecaretaker2]

Mirrors what happened with tech in general. Sure, there's a buck to be made in hardware but software and services is where the real money is at. In the 2000s they were guessing as to when we would see the last of the dedicated gaming consoles thinking our kids would look at our use of them the way younguns may look at those in the 1980s pumping quarters into arcade machines. An obsolete model. It took a while, I'd write, on purpose, but increasingly you can have a mobile device that can be hooked up to a TV where you can game on it. 2017's Switch, I think, is the 1st time this was happening intentionally. But now you have the Steam Deck. Lenovo Legion Go. Asus ROG Ally. If you have good internet, you can, like me, run games on LUNA over a TV streaming device. Gaming, how we game, is changing radically. I think there will be a PS6. I doubt there will be a PS7. Microsoft is just reading the tea leaves. EDIT: OMG. That song is 17 years old min.!

Unless Sony goes out of business we’ll have some form of a PS7, but a greater chance by then it’ll be a smaller all-digital box of some kind.

 

[FakeSympathy]

Remember how terrifying Alien Isolation was? Some guys really said "We can do better; a VR Alien game!"

 

[BrawlMan]

Remember how terrifying Alien Isolation was? Some guys really said "We can do better; a VR Alien game!"

I can see Max playing this.

 

[CriticalGaming]

Remember how terrifying Alien Isolation was? Some guys really said "We can do better; a VR Alien game!"

I'd rather puke in my shoes and if I play this in VR I will.

 

[FakeSympathy]

I don't think we have many Escape From Tarkov players hereabouts, but apparently they've seriously pissed off their playerbase with a brand-new $250 edition with exclusive single-player mode, safety from NPC "scavs" under certain conditions, greater equipment-carrying capacity, and an item that can be used to bring other players from one's friends list into the raid. And players who bought the previously most-expensive edition, under the promise of access to all future versions and DLC, are being asked to pony up a $100 upgrade fee.

Escape from Tarkov's community blasts new edition

The Escape from Tarkov community hasn't received well the news of a new most expensive edition replacing the old one and barring them from promised DLC.

www.vg247.com

PvP extraction games like this one are far from my cup of tea, but Tarkov has been considered the leader in the genre, and watching the devs tactically shoot themselves in both feet like this is fascinating, much in the same way as a train wreck is fascinating.

And not even a day later, they accuse other games of plagiarism

I mean other publishers can accuse you guys of plagiarising EFT from their games, or stealing business model (maybe under trade secret?), but no one is giving you guff about it.

Seriously, who tf is managing their twitter account?

 

[FakeSympathy]

 

[BrawlMan]

Cool, another 2D Bushido Blade successor. I am all in! Thank you, @FakeSympathy!

 

[FakeSympathy]

Unfortunately, I somehow did not foresee the fact of such a reaction and now I have drawn conclusions for my future decisions.

WTF, how did you NOT foresee this coming? Have you not seen EA or Ubisoft getting guffs? At least you sound genuine, and not half-assed like those guys.

 

[Bedinsis]

They did a survey of the most popular platforms amongst young people in Japan.

The result was that the top 5 options were:
Mobile 94.7%
Nintendo Switch 38.5%
PC 33.2%
Tablet (26.5%)
DS (12.2%)

The discontinued DS is in other words beating out both anything from Sony or Microsoft. I don't know if that reflects a coming shift in Japanese playing habits or reflects the fact that young people are young and have different priorities than older people.

 

[Satinavian]

The discontinued DS is in other words beating out both anything from Sony or Microsoft. I don't know if that reflects a coming shift in Japanese playing habits or reflects the fact that young people are young and have different priorities than older people.

It might also have something to do with small rooms unsuitable for TVs.

And then there is price. People nowadays have a mobile phone and many also have a PC or tablet for other reasons than gaming. And both platforms offer a plethora of cheap or even free games.

 

[BrawlMan]

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[hanselthecaretaker2]

They did a survey of the most popular platforms amongst young people in Japan.

The result was that the top 5 options were:
Mobile 94.7%
Nintendo Switch 38.5%
PC 33.2%
Tablet (26.5%)
DS (12.2%)

The discontinued DS is in other words beating out both anything from Sony or Microsoft. I don't know if that reflects a coming shift in Japanese playing habits or reflects the fact that young people are young and have different priorities than older people.

It indeed signifies a trend, since young people would’ve largely played either SNES or PS1 before mobile gaming was even a thing. Also though, Sony’s priorities have shifted to a more Western focus so I can’t blame Japan for practically abandoning them.

 

[Bedinsis]

It might also have something to do with small rooms unsuitable for TVs.

And then there is price. People nowadays have a mobile phone and many also have a PC or tablet for other reasons than gaming. And both platforms offer a plethora of cheap or even free games.

Honestly, this news item I contextualize with another news item that I read a couple week backs (that I haven't shared here) that revealed that arcades in Japan has drastically reduced in numbers since the pandemic. As far as painting with broad strokes goes, Japan has in my mind been the place where arcades still held on and PC gaming is practically non-existant. These two news items paint the picture that the gaming Japan of yesteryear no longer exists, or it might not exist in the future.

Another detail that I didn't comment on is that all the platforms, save PC, mentioned in the linked news item are portable. Which is the picture I've gotten ever since the Nintendo DS got popular enough in Japan that the a the time latest mainline Dragon Quest got developed for that platform primarily. I therefore speculate that the PCs they play on are primarily laptops.

I also said the DS is beating out anything from Sony or Microsoft; I should've specified that I meant stationary consoles since I doubt they are gaming on Linux. Maybe iOS.

 

[FakeSympathy]

So Xbox is hosting an indie gameshow. And to no one's surprise, these looks so good. I would say they look way more interesting than xbox 1st party games, but there is no contest as xbox have no games. Most of these are coming to PC as well.

Anyways, here are some of my favorite stand-out ones:


Omg, it's voiced by Geralt again!

 

[CriticalGaming]

So Xbox is hosting an indie gameshow.

Xbox is doing a whatnow?

 

[FakeSympathy]

Xbox is doing a whatnow?

Yeah, i realized I had the notification AFTER the showcase was over

 

[CriticalGaming]

Yeah, i realized I had the notification AFTER the showcase was over

Great job marketing team. Can't embarrass yourself if nobody knows it happened.