XSX vs PS5

[Nintex]

It's probably going to be woke trash that sucks dick. 

Who wants to bet $50 this fucking sucks? 

I will give them credit; they are not shy about allowing gameplay footage.



My fear is it runs like crap on the Xbox. Thankfully I have gamepass so it's not a big deal if I hate it.

[Potato]

Behaving like that in public for any other business would get your arse fired or at least disciplined in a serious way. Video games industry really is just full of morons.

[HardcoreRetro]

*Starts setting his workplace on fire*

Hahaha, that'll show Musk!


I can't believe people air out this shit in public. Could you possibly look any more pathetic?

[Nintex]

[tweet]https://twitter.com/Grummz/status/1861610509654728923?t=dXa0bVimj_FWQLwy7m_rJQ&s=19[/tweet]

[tweet]https://twitter.com/SmashJT/status/1861596542651769267?t=nlLhcfeTK8Nbm7gPhS6q3w&s=19[/tweet]

[Potato]

It's just amateur hour all over this stupid industry. 

Do these organisations not have corporate comms people, social media policies, standards of behaviour? 

These people trash their employers' reputations on social media, at conferences, in interviews.

If I was the corporate comms director for these companies, they'd be disciplined at best and blacklisted at worst.

[chronovore]

I'm all for making Musk angry. 

That said, it's not a good look to respond specifically like this. I'd say something like "hate speech is unwelcome" or "we embrace representation and letting people play the game how they want." There's a faction of game development that has decided being woke needs to be built into the workplace. For being in my mid-fifties, I'm pretty fucking woke, but feel like telling customers that they're wrong-thinking, deplorable, that's not a business related decision. Maybe I'm too old to get it.

The game director there, I probably have similar politics to him, but you'd never hear it from me in anything work-related, or draging my co-workers along for the ride.

[Potato]

Absolutely. It's just mind boggling. Some poor bastard is there trying to establish a positive public narrative for the company and its game and this dimwit is there just blowing it all up with his personal politics. 

It's not even about the politics either, it's about the fact that this clown is taking it upon himself to exclude a whole bunch of potential customers by hijacking the marketing effort for his own personal views.

[Nintex]

Co-founder of Obsidian.

I wonder if this is also related to the "Video games are art" nonsense, because art is often used for activism.

[Nintex]

[tweet]https://twitter.com/Pirat_Nation/status/1861896403649212840?t=sTEfC0lLx_pk-pzxXfC95w&s=19[/tweet]

[Potato]

WTF is that?

[booomer]

WTF is that?

Me after installing on Gamepass and deleting it an hour later.

[Nintex]

$799 

[Nintex]

It lasted at least 12 Concords. 

Cancel sequels to popular games and fire the experienced developers  
Pour all the money in a bunch of shitty GAAS games developed by interns with 10 year development cycles and make it gay  
Watch how they flop one by one (SUICIDE SQUAD 2.99 on steam)  
Scrape together some Remakes and Remasters to try and make it to the next fiscal year

[Potato]

If Ubislop goes down, not much of value will be lost.

[Nintex]

They might get bought.

Sony would be a good fit I think. Replaces their own failed GAAS attempt with The Division and Assassins Creed could use the Sony AAAA+ budget.
The Crew would be a competitor to Forza Horizon (something Sony doesn't have) and Just Dance would be easy to license with Sony Music.

Still it seems like a lot of dead weight to carry around. Might as well wait for the collapse to continue and pick up only Assassins Creed.

[DavidCroquet]

For whatever reason, Nintendo and Ubisoft have been the weirdest bros in videogaming for many years. Could be a dark horse contender for an acquisition.

[Nintex]

Ubisoft has too much dead weight because they are not just a publisher but also a distributor in Europe.
Not to mention French labour laws will prevent anyone from culling the staff.

Sony already has a presence in Europe but they made significant cuts also.

Nintendo has ~8000 employees
Sony ~12000
EA ~13700
Ubisoft ~18000

Who wants to add 18000 poorly motivated activist employees to their headcount of which ~10% are French and "work" from 9 - 5 with a permanent contract and will go on strike the minute you announce cutting back paid vacation days from 60 to 50 days to save some costs. Plus it's a family business which is already a headache when buying a 'small' family business let alone a bloated one like Ubisoft.

Sony would probably be interested because they think they can turn Assassins Creed into a multi-billion dollar entertainment franchise with TV shows, movies and games and they can rival Xbox in size again. But it would instantly turn the screws on anything PlayStation does from here on out like the Activision deal did for Xbox.

[MMaRsu]

There are zero indications Xbox is interested in Ubisoft

[HardcoreRetro]

Looks like xbox finally has a decent game with that Indiana Jones game. Hope the writing isn't as overbearing as it was in Wolfenstein The New Colossus.

The Starbreeze team made some of my favourite shooters with The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay and The Darkness. And I really loved Wolfenstein The New Order they made as MachineGames.

[Nintex]

Indiana Jones looks fantastic

[tweet]https://twitter.com/HomieSanto/status/1865026507850015131?t=TCsy7fUAn9sgXQaTl2og8g&s=19[/tweet]

Almost an immersive sim.

[Potato]

I'm interested, but too little too late for me to be tempted by an Xbox. Will it be on Steam?

[Nintex]

I'm interested, but too little too late for me to be tempted by an Xbox. Will it be on Steam?

Yes

Still that's 3 gamepass bangers in a row
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
- STALKER 2
- Indiana Jones and the GREAT Circle

[Eric Cartman]

I'm interested, but too little too late for me to be tempted by an Xbox. Will it be on Steam?

MSs big new ad campaign is that fucking everything is an xbox, so you can probably pick up a firetv stick, compatible controller and a month of gamepass for, what, $50? in the post xmas sales

[Nintex]

Let's hope this is not a fluke and Xbox Series will have a late gen resurgence like the PS3 and Wii U did. 

Considering the state of the PS5 (Pro) it is not impossible.

[Nintex]

[Potato]

Nintendo, save us, please!

[Nintex]

Meanwhlie at Nintendo

Nintendo Switch 2 Tetris

[Potato]

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/larian-boss-swen-vincke-calls-out-pretty-much-the-entire-videogame-industry-at-the-game-awards/

Larian Studios CEO Swen Vincke took the stage at The Game Awards, not to claim an award this time but to present one—the biggest award of all, in fact, Game of the Year. But he used his time in front of the microphone to first share some thoughts about the current state of the videogame industry, and where it's all gone wrong.

Vincke started off by saying that not only will he be the first person to know who wins game of the year tonight, he also knows who will win the next year, and the next year, and the year after that. He learned this information, he said, from an oracle, who told him that change is coming.

"The oracle told me that the Game of the Year 2025 is going to be made by a studio who found the formula to make it up here on stage," Vincke said. "It's stupidly simple, but somehow it keeps on getting lost. A studio makes a game because they want to make a game they want to play themselves. They created it because it hadn't been created before. They didn't make it to increase market share. They didn't make it to serve the brand. They didn't have to meet arbitrary sales targets, or fear being laid off if they didn't meet those targets.

"Furthermore, the people in charge forbade them from cramming the game with anything whose only purpose was to increase revenue and didn't serve the game design. They didn't treat their developers like numbers on a spreadsheet. They didn't treat their players as users to exploit. And they didn't make decisions they knew were short-sighted in function of a bonus or policy. They knew that if you put the game and the team first, the revenue will follow. They were driven by idealism, and wanted players to have fun, and they realized that if the developers don't have fun, nobody was going to have any fun. They understood the value of respect, that if they treated their developers and players well, the same developers and players would forgive them when things didn't go as planned. But above all they cared about their games, because they love games. It's really that simple."

This isn't the first time Vincke has spoken out against profit-driven industry practices that have led to a decimation of the videogame industry over the past few years. In March, he blasted the corporate "greed" that's devastated game studios, saying. "I've been fighting with publishers my entire life, and I keep on seeing the same mistakes, over and over and over. It's always the quarterly profits. The only thing that matters is the numbers."

The situation has grown pressing enough that even Game Awards host Geoff Keighley, who faced criticism for avoiding the topic in 2023, addressed it directly during an early portion of the show. The first-ever Game Changer award to be handed out at The Game Awards was in fact given to Amir Satvat, for his work in supporting laid-off game developers as they seek new employment in the industry.

As is his way, Vincke ended his story on an upbeat note. "Winning Game of the Year turned out to be a life-changing event for us. It was an amazing thing. To those who will win game of the year 2024, you have no idea what's waiting for you. It's an incredible honor, and you're in for a heck of a ride. And remember, should you be told to wrap it up for tonight, you can always come back next year and chat for three minutes."

He says this as he hands the award to Astro Bot

[Nintex]

It's always the quarterly profits. The only thing that matters is the numbers."

Well yes. A business needs to be profitable, it can be other things too but you need money to operate a business.

[Potato]

Caved in to child pressure and ordered a PS5. I feel dirty.

PS4 controllers are all cracking up (my god Sony's quality is shite) so instead of spending $$$ on new ones for a dead system I got them a PS5.