Obsidian,Inexile,Ninja Theory, Double Fine were doing pretty poorly financially and had back to back underperforming games too. Maybe small profits at best. Hell that was one of the reasons they sold to MS. For financial security.
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Obsidian,Inexile,Ninja Theory, Double Fine were doing pretty poorly financially and had back to back underperforming games too. Maybe small profits at best. Hell that was one of the reasons they sold to MS. For financial security.
Probably depend on how expensive their games are, not every game needs to be a big success to justify itself for a platform holder. But I doubt IO are all that interested in being under a publisher again unless absolutely necessary and they seem healthy enough at the moment.
IO has been very smart in securing the James Bond license. They know that there might be several companies interested in buying them, and only with this movement, they have already greatly increased their value.
I think they will be Microsoft's next purchase, now that they have jumped on the licensed games bandwagon.
Before they were acquired, Obsidian released The Outer Worlds which didn't underperform, Ninja Theory Hellblade which sold well especially since it had such a small team working on it, Double Fine was preparing to release their long awaited cult classic which smashed through its Kickstarter goals. InXile was probably to get more rpg devs that they sorely lack. I imagine MS is more tolerant of underperforming games than Sony. They've got more cash to burn.
The SNK thing turned out to them just being weird smh. We wait again
Yeah lol
I'm curious about what Navtra said regarding FFVIIR PS5 being announced soon after FFXIV expansion, wonder if that's going to be a SE only thing or if Sony is going to be involved (like a SOP).
Personally I'm not expecting anything big from Sony anytime soon, especially considering we are at the covid peak atm and things are going to be quite rough in the next weeks. I think we are going to be waiting a while until we get something on the scale of the two showcases we had last year.
Can we change the OT title to something more appropriate with the way people are acting like...
|OT17| No joy here, only your acquisitions and misery.
|OT17| No joy here, only your acquisitions and misery.
As would I, posting from mah hospital bed...
That title option "no stock but still plenty of concerns left" was awesome and accurate, shame it lost.
I reckon it'll be at a state of play. Announcing a PS5 version that comes with Ever Crisis DLC ;)
Yeah I also thought there's a possibility for a State of Play this week because of that Capcom data leak about REV pre-orders and trailer. I guess Capcom could still reveal those details today or tomorrow in Twitter but maybe they changed plans since October.
It was a very appropriate title, if anything the current title is an exact opposite. After a couple of pages of the usual new OT pleasantries it was back to the usual tone by page 4.
You are in no rush, just "buy" all them and they'll be a PS+ sub away. 2021 will probably have a big drought or 2 with the inevitable delays for probably everything, so use them to fill the gaps that causes.
I don't think it's gonna happen on Naughty Dog's way for various reasons but that would have been interesting nonetheless.
I could see that being just a trailer tbh.
Although if Sony has a SoP allocated for around that time, I can see it being there (the earliest Remake's next-gen version can come out is the 10th of April, so between February and then, there's time).
XVI will probably be its own thing too. I'm expecting a big info blowout, probably between April-June.
And also the complete opposite of what is happening in the thread.
I know right? Still remember how I felt the first time I did it :P
Dragon Quest can have some really sad substories...
Yeah hit me really hard, cause the subquests before that where all really lighthearted. Came really unexpected.
I know its not PlayStation related but I been dreaming of a Pokemon Snap sequel for years as I played the N64 version so much as a kid. Now it's finally arriving and on my birthday. It is destiny.
Don't give up on your dream games everyone. We will one day get a Legend of Dragoon Remake, Wild will finally launch, and Warhawk will be remastered.
Don't give up on your dream games everyone. We will one day get a Legend of Dragoon Remake, Wild will finally launch, and Warhawk will be remastered.
I hope a smaller team is trying to pull off a side story in TLOU2 engine. Just like they did with Lost Legacy. Would be so cool
Thanks man. The only downside is I didn't recognize over half of the Pokemon shown in the trailer because I stopped after Gen 2. Still if the mechanics are similar to the original I think I will enjoy it.
I do think there's some interesting stuff they could do if they went that route, I'd love something like a collection of small stories from different places in that world, the notes and other environmental story telling are some of my favorite stuff in TLoU 1 and 2 (and Uncharted 4). But probably require a lot more time to really do well and they probably would just do a part 3 or new I.P instead.
I am actually also quite excited for the Game despite never having played Pokemon. I love photography so i wanna give it a shot.
the thought of adding Thor's hammer to Kratos' arsenal. oh my.
I mean, it's not impossible, but Neil said it's not happening.
They really don't have to change the gameplay loop; just introducing new characters, new locations etc.
It's really not that simple, though. Concepting, writing, designing, and building all of that content, even if you have a pre-existing gameplay "engine" to staple it into takes time, resources and money that it sounds like Neil doesn't want to commit Naughty Dog to small projects anymore. Like the best you could hope for would be a smaller team outside of ND taking the "Naughty Dog" framework and building content within it, like the way Obsidian built New Vegas out of the skeleton of Bethesda's FO3.
Naughty Dog's Art Director has left.
imagine if he went to The Initiative lmao
great get for Insomniac, he's like the best in the industry.
the other good news is that anyone who leaves ND they have like 3 people on the same tier to rise up lol
Insomniac are really gonna get a huge place in PS's strategy in the future. I wouldn't be surprised if they come to the same level as Santa Monica and Naughty Dog.Naughty Dog's Art Director has left.
Ya'll better not start asking Insomniac to do gritty dark third person narrative games you hear? 🤧
Fisk's son will kill Peter and become a Spider-Man, Miles will go after him in a journey of vengeance and hate.
that's why i joke lmao
they will make what they want to make no matter what the fans ask of them
no, but see, in the apocalypse, man is the real monster and Clank
Partly true. If they make a type of game and then a big fandom grows from it, said future games will likely feed that fanbase rather then doing Something else.
Choice does exist but some of that choice is influenced by outside factors like market, fanbase, scores, etc...
Of course Insomniac has yet to do said game though.
Though depressed Insomniac would be something else I guess. 😂
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There were rumours about Microsoft acquiring IO a year ago. It could still happen but I see them being independent until at least 007 is out.
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