Sony's MLB franchise going multiplat.
Past several pages are the fallout of that and potential impacts on the rest of WWS heading into PS5 era.
Also, Horizon PC announcement rumoured to be happening at TGAs.
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Past several pages are the fallout of that and potential impacts on the rest of WWS heading into PS5 era.
Also, Horizon PC announcement rumoured to be happening at TGAs.
MLB The Show went fully multiplatform. Rumor of Horizon PC announcement. I don't believe the latter, but the dam will break if it happens.
They will be even less creative. See EA and Ubisoft and Activision. If all you care about is profit less risks are taken.
They are in their own market right now with the Switch hybrid. But even Nintendo will be forced to adapt. You can witness it right now with Mario Kart, Pokémon, Dr. Mario, Super Mario, Fire Emblem and soon Zelda on mobile phones. The future is multiplatform and software.
None of the Nintendo mobile games are actually real installments in their respective franchises - they're insidious gacha cash grabs.
Nobody else is making good baseball games for MLB, I don't think MLB will deliberately kill the only game they make money from like that. What will MLB do if Sony didn't comply and just put Sony San Diego to make new IP instead
Are you high? Because this post seems like you're a little bit nuts.
Those abominations are not meant to replace or substitute for Switch games and they obviously don't.
Horizon is much more popular and the engine is already on PC.
Because...
It's not happening. They had to make something up since DS is using the Decima engine and that it's coming out on PC next summer.
Maybe.
Yup.
Not sure why Sony is doing this before the next-gen starts, but here we are.
At no point will anyone look at these moves and go "yea, imma buy a PS5 now".
Let me get this straight. Some guy on twitter said HZD is coming to PC and we believe him because he said DS is coming to PC, despite that being announced back in 2016. I'm not sure we should be giving random twitter users that type of credence. Obviously this could be true but at least we should get dude verified via our own due diligence.
If not, anon pastebin drops will soon become gaming gospel. Call me a sceptic but where in an era/gen where 97% of gamers with a YT or other social media accounts have at one point or another claimed to have "insider" info that never pans out.
It's a start. Baby steps. See Sony and Death Stranding, Detroit Become Human and MLB The Show.
For all we know it might be a simple port. Another one is Days Gone. Since it was developed with UE4 Bend could create a PC build with the click of a button.
Horizon on PC might be total bullshit tbf. Getting KH Remind releasing in January right doesn't mean much since the game had a winter release window anyway.
I guess it's because both HZD and DS use the Decima engine and the latter will receive a PC port,
Yeah, the KH date means nothing since it would have to be either January or February (and it's actually both since the Xbox versions is releasing in February).
The source fueling the current round of rumours were from 4chan, and were specific to TGAs.
Detroit was ported to PC and is a differnet engine.
If it was an engine related port, than Days Gone would make more sense.
Bloodborne is pretty damn popular too and is made on the same engine as the Souls games which is also on PC. Plus BB gets bonus points for not actually being made by WWS, but rather by a third party studio.
I dunno, I just don't get why HZD would be the obvious choice for a PC port.
No clue, but we'll find out in a couple days.
Hopefully Ryan will put out a statement detailing the future of PS if that port does happen.
And as you pointed out in another post the game was never delayed in the first place like it says in the 4chan post, afaik Nomura/SE never said it would come out in 2019.
Just 2 more days anyway.
Not sure man this is the first I'm hearing about it.
We shall see. I dont know how good of a strategy that is but whatever. The market will decided when and if that happens. All I know is there will be less reason to own a ps console and they can kiss their ps+ and whatever else good bye. You can bet people will just buy on pc when their games hit the "$10 PS franchise humble bundle including GOW, Part2, and GT7". Lol. You drop shit on pc, you have to have different expectations. That goes both ways for the consumer and publisher.
Whatever the case I got myself an xb1x,ps4 and nice rig. Sony will just decide where I do my purchases depending on their strategy.
So if Horizon is indeed announced for PC, do y'all think this is how Sony will treat its other heavy hitters? As in, release them years after the fact, or do you think they'll do day and date on PC? Also, if the Horizon rumor is true, and the reasoning is Decima, I feel like Until Dawn would make just as much sense.
Why are people acting hysterical? If Horizon happens to come to PC, who cares? The game is approaching 3 years old and at this point its sales have likely plateaued on PS4. What's the harm in bringing the game to a platform that isn't a direct competitor to consoles and will further boost the sales of the property? If this was day-and-date, I'd see reason for concern, but I don't think titles like HZD2 will arrive on PC until well after it's run its course on PS5 so PS5 sales won't experience a downturn.
Regarding MLB, I don't see it as a system seller and it's likely more lucrative to put that property on as many non-competitor platforms as possible. I see the same thing happening with free-to-play games and multiplayer games produced by Sony in the future. Those big single player experiences are safe, but multiplayer games will see life on PC likely when they release.
If Horizon releases on PC anything is possible regarding more releases.
I don't believe they'll do day one releases anytime soon though.
4chan has more bullshit than real info. Can't believe that is the source people are using. They could be right, but it obviously not a reliable source at all.
The entire thing reads like wisful thinking. The loss of a license (which happens all the time in this industry) and a random twitter user/4chan forum post shouldn't lead to this level of insanity.
It's dumb, I know.
Also, I wish they would bring Days Gone to PC just to see how many people would suddenly change their mind about the game.
This. PC ports 3-4 years after they've run their course on the console is perfectly acceptable for Sony in cases like this. Plus, its free marketing for Horizon II, which you can only find on PS5.
They didn't lose the license. They point of going multiplatform was to not loose the license.
Anyway, this seems like a win win situation for everyone. More people get to play MLB, Sony is going to make much more money on sales and MLB still gets to have high quality games made for them.
They lost the license in it previous form and had to renegotiate. I'm not talking about who gets to play the ip, more so the reactions I'm seeing on era and social media.
Hopefully SOP restores some semblance of calm and confidence.
Where are people coming up with this notion that they lost the license or were going to lose it? What exactly was MLB going to do with it?
It's weird that Sony didn't consider pc their competitor. They're already aware that people are moving to pc in later half of last gen which is why they make PS4 Pro.
It could be some incentive like a bigger % cut of the pie and/or cheaper licensing all around. Some Sony IP going to PC or other platforms isn't really a far-fetched idea now with Jim on helm, maybe that's his tactics, games like MLB and Dreams could really use that. Maybe they will release Horizon on PC (until dawn too given it's a decima engine too) because they're not really pushing PS4 hardware that much and just going for more software sales.
And like NediarPT88 said it really was never delayed since it never had a date, plus KH3 had a "winter" release frame too and released in January.
Could be EGS paying to port the game and overall Epic + Sony partnership.
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