MidWalian

29 minutes ago, Chadruharazzeb said:

 

Rat King! Dogs! Golf! Fun times ahead. 

19 minutes ago, makkuwata said:

I wonder how they’ll go about casting. There’ll need to be a lot of counselling involved to cope with certain ‘fans’.

I haven't played the second game and have avoided story spoilers and now wondering if a dog gets killed by a golf club.

HBO has confirmed there will be a second season.

More dirt than DIRT?

"The cars feel alive" - eek!

Car game looks nice.

8 minutes ago, footle said:

That’s literally the post before yours. Does it not count if it’s not in an embedded Twitter post?

I didn't notice so I've deleted it. Not in good health at the moment so a bit clumsy in general.

For people pretending everything has to be seen through "console war" goggles my machines for this generation are a Series S and a Nintendo Switch.

I just think these massive corporations smell a bit. 

2 minutes ago, footle said:

that being different from “permanently blocked”. This isn’t hard to see the difference of, and something only the market leader could really add to their contracts.

I agree. I was just pointing out that somebody can be mistaken why they thought The Medium remained an exclusive.

I wouldn't be surprised if Sony tried to block some third-party titles, but seeing Bloodborne as an example seems odd. Elsewhere in the document they mention Sackboy: A Big Adventure which I doubt many would expect to come to Xbox.

44 minutes ago, Gabe said:

Eh? The Medium was released on PS5.

Yes, but about 6 months later and after many had reported it as an exclusive game.

Hurrah! Games! Hurrah!

1 hour ago, rafaqat said:

Not sure if this will dig into such things but would be interesting to see if this sort of thing is true which kind of dents some of Sony's arguments.

 

https://www.trustedreviews.com/news/sony-is-requiring-some-developers-to-exclude-xbox-microsoft-says-4292226

 

 

 

The Bloodborne example is odd because didn't Sony fund development and publish the title? I know Sony paid for FFVII Remake to be a  timed exclusive but I wouldn't be surprised if some of these companies (Hello Square Enix) may be holding out for the big game pass bung like DQXI.

Some on the internet misunderstand "Production and a discovery schedule". It's not about getting the release date for Spider-Man 2, just the legal discovery process and creating  documents etc.

Disclaimer: Not sure how reliable the data is.

ResetERA are talking about leaked NPD numbers. The sourced tweet has now been deleted but here are the numbers:

PS5 US NPD HW:
Jun-22: 277K
Jul-22: 301K
Aug-22: 341K
Sep-22: 494K
Oct-22: 456K
Nov-22: 1328K
LTD as of Nov-22: 10592K

XBX US NPD HW:
Jun-22: 260K
Jul-22: 247K
Aug-22: 251K
Sep-22: 288K
Oct-22: 261K
Nov-22: 730K
LTD as of Nov-22: 8736K

3 days to go! 

Please don't be shit.

We've reached the point where 343 needs to announce that they will continue making Halo games.

23 hours ago, Stanley said:

Their flagship title deserves better than this, makes you wonder just what’s going on at all the other studios too with all these absent games. 

To me it does seem like a combination of being badly organised and made worse by announcing some tiles too soon. Were Fable and Perfect Dark that far ahead in development before CGI trailers? I lose track. 

The Coalition and Arkane are using UE5 which will hopefully reduce some of the issues 343 faced.

4 days to go for more game footage! Meanwhile,  giving Monster Hunter a shot on my series s.

I'm a bit concerned about Redfall, love Arkane though.

343 hit hard by job losses, some others from Coalition and Bethesda but no idea of the scale there. 

AltSpaceVR, MRTK stuff sounds like it has been scrapped. HoloLens also having losses because they are having issues with contracts and the US military.

Endgame. No new content after the end of March.

343 has been a mess for quite some time and using limited contracted workers didn't help. Not a problem exclusive to Microsoft but they are a good example of it. 

1 hour ago, PaB said:

 

 

Microsoft lays off 10,000 workers. Booooooo

That's a bit shit.

Happy one year anniversary to the announcement.

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2022/01/18/welcoming-activision-blizzard-to-microsoft-gaming/

Still no Sekiro on game pass.

NPD data out. The results for hardware:

*sigh*

Wasn't long ago the Era thread was going on about only the FTC may have issues with the deal. It's bizarre.

I agree that what is happening should be part of the process though and concessions have already been offered and more may need to come.