I have played Spyro 1-3, Ratchet 1-3, Ratchet Tools of Destruction and Sunset Overdrive, none of those have very good level design and the only on with good core mechanics from my pov is Sunset Overdrive. They make beautiful games that are very polished, but the main qualities of Banjo they haven't convinced me at all they could deliver.
Does this mean the news scheduled for August is delayed or other news?
Yes, I suspect that may play a part in Sony focusing much more on third party deals, to try and differentiate their offering from MS as the "best place to play". With many of their major studios just having released their games in last few years, needing a few years to release their next gen game. Although spiderman morales will do wonders, as ratchet in attracting younger audience, and titles such as GT7 and demon souls probably for early 2021, able to attract people with different tastes.
Yes is not like the XSX will suddenly sell 50% less, and indeed things like the cheap XSS will be very interesting to see how successful it is. But how big is this casual audiance not really knowing what they are getting into? I think by far the majority are fairly well informed, on top of that many of current PS4 owners have been more happy with PS then Xbox owners and if many saw reason to get the XSX at launch for Halo as the best place to play with the highest fidelity now being delayed without a clear date, gives them reason to switch being fed up with MS, as they where in doubt before. Or at least make the PS5 their first taste of a next gen experience over the XSX until MS improves their offering.
The PS4 was sold out in Europe for over a year in many places. I am fairly convinced the PS5 will do the same if the cheaper discless version is 450 or lower.
This!!!! 100% This!!!
Yes, it's better for the game but worse for image of console.
Not talking about myself but about others (I guess).
Hmm interesting. I mean, it does fit everything Phil had been saying, and would be quite hypocritical if they had not. They repeatedly assured us all that Series X and Halo wouldn't be tied together if they needed to be. Phil repeatedly warned that software was harder than hardware. Phil said he would put the "safety and security" of the team first (in relation to the pandemic, but.. I think crunch counts too). In all those ways, it's OBVIOUS that the only right move was to delay.
I mean it's bittersweet for sure, but with both PS5 and XSX having BC this time around launch titles don't seem to be as much of a big deal to me.
Felt like every Xbox shooter there for awhile was positioned as "Microsoft's next Halo". And then the backlash was harder on them than it should have been, because obviously they couldn't live up to that.
No, I would prefer being more careful with marketing. Xbox has a lot of good but also some of bad.
