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Sony's actual quietness
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blankslatenator
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I'm p sure Americans a secured kill, they are focusing on other parts of the global market. Americans funded them to expand further.
America!
America!
If it ain't horror they can keep it
PeregrinSe7en
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my thoughts exactly. unless he's talking about games nintendo fans wants on switch
Mass Effect
Member
This is probably for the best really. The vast majority of these GaaS titles heavily involve multiplayer of some sort (co-op and/or competitive), which Sony has sort of struggled with. They had a ton of multiplayer games last gen, and while some of them had moderate popularity, none of them really took off.
Plus Sony putting more focus on SP games (or rather letting their studios choose to make them) I think puts them in a nice position to fill a sort of niche. Obviously SP games are still big, but with fewer being made, Sony can take advantage (because of their large repertoire of studios) can say "hey look at all these games we got! Don't like multiplayer/GaaS? We have plenty of SP games!"
And of course there are plenty of 3rd party games to take care of multiplayer/GaaS. Why compete with them when consumers don't care if the games are 1st/3rd party? Better to get the marketing deals for them and push the PS4 as the best place to play all kinds of games no matter what your taste is.
And really, despite Microsoft has bigger multiplayer franchises, even they've been struggling to attract consumers with their GaaS offers. Both Halo and Gears have underperformed. Forza has been doing great, but racing games aren't really huge these days, so its appeal is limited. They do have Sea of Thieves and State of Decay coming, so we'll see how those turn out.
KingdomHeartsFan
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Best thing to come from this thread.
PeregrinSe7en
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well based on your avatar your definitely not a part of the majority who do port beg
Mass Effect
Member
Pretty sure that's what he meant.
Every game announcement in the past half-year or so has been filled with "Switch?" posts.
Dammit, came to say a live TLOU2 MoCap session with a reading on stage, or some kind of mixed-reality theatre is a scene.
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A new classic gif is born.
OT - OP needs to ask the question 'Why do they need to wheel out Layden, House or Shu?'
Herman & the GG team were front of mind for nearly two months in the run up to & post HZD's release.
Sony have just delivered a quite frankly ridiculous first quarter of games, had a record Q1 (or Q4, depending on CY or FY) in hardware sales globally, and have reached 60m sold-in as announced at their results call.
With E3 just over a month away they don't need to send execs out to chew the fat with journos.
MaximumSpider
Banned
Yeah, that's what I meant.
This can only mean Bloodborne 2 is real.
Blackleg-sanji1
Banned
Any ni no kuni 2 thread was ruined because of this
PeregrinSe7en
Member
ah good
clarification welcomed
gaf will be down that day then. the bb2 thirst is real
HeisenbergWW62
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get2sammyb
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Given the sheer amount of press PlayStation games have been getting -- from Gravity Rush 2 through to Persona 5 and everything in between -- I'm not sure how you can say they've been quiet. Horizon: Zero Dawn was honestly one of the noisiest new first-party IP launches I've witnessed in a while.
I assume OP is referring to the lack of interviews involving Andrew House, Shuhei Yoshida, et al. They're never done many interviews really, you'll definitely get a big round of them at E3, but I wouldn't expect any until then.
Phil Spencer is extremely talkative in the Microsoft camp, but I feel like that's almost forced upon them; let's be honest here, if it wasn't for the constant barrage of Scorpio teasing or Spencer's Twitter account, Xbox would have been drowned out of the news cycle almost entirely for the first five months of this year.
Nintendo's obviously being quite vocal because it's just launched a new system. I don't really think Sony's being any quieter than it ever is, it's just the others are trying hard to make a lot more noise. I mean, it's just attached release dates to a bunch of first-party games like WipEout, Uncharted, and Everybody's Golf.
There's really no reason for them to be sending their top execs on press tours right now, I'm sure they have more important stuff to do.
I assume OP is referring to the lack of interviews involving Andrew House, Shuhei Yoshida, et al. They're never done many interviews really, you'll definitely get a big round of them at E3, but I wouldn't expect any until then.
Phil Spencer is extremely talkative in the Microsoft camp, but I feel like that's almost forced upon them; let's be honest here, if it wasn't for the constant barrage of Scorpio teasing or Spencer's Twitter account, Xbox would have been drowned out of the news cycle almost entirely for the first five months of this year.
Nintendo's obviously being quite vocal because it's just launched a new system. I don't really think Sony's being any quieter than it ever is, it's just the others are trying hard to make a lot more noise. I mean, it's just attached release dates to a bunch of first-party games like WipEout, Uncharted, and Everybody's Golf.
There's really no reason for them to be sending their top execs on press tours right now, I'm sure they have more important stuff to do.
I still remember how crazy things got when I dropped a couple of Project Beast screenshots.
Hope GAF is prepared mentally for the funpocalypse.
HeisenbergWW62
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Yes, yes it will
piccio_ssl
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BlackBuzzard
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When isn't it? After PSX same thing happened. Now we get not just PC fans port begging but the Nintendo fans are now also coming into every thread for PS4 games and saying things like so jeez guys what's the chance of a switch port happening. Meanwhile if i do the same thing for the HD persona project i get warned for port begging.
Mr. Nice_Guy
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Actions speak louder than words, and this has been a year where even if they were talking we wouldn't be able to hear them over their actions.
These teases in here have me hyped for the conference now at least.
These teases in here have me hyped for the conference now at least.
Blackleg-sanji1
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I asked did we know if project octopath traveler was switch exclusive and got a warning. Meanwhile every crash thread turns into a is it or is it not exclusive
BlackBuzzard
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Oh boy the crash threads are always such fun, the usual suspects are always first to get the ball rolling.
Arkam
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I go through more pants this way than a grown man should. Yet your words still excite me. E3 (announcements) are going to be glorious this year!
JuanLatino
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you win !
The return of Kaz gifs. OP miscalculated when they made this thread.Ask, and ye shall receive!
GravityInsanity
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The fast walk with the dance is killing me lol.
Blackleg-sanji1
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I expect that gif to be used a lot in June lol
GifGafIsTheBestGaf
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Just prefect. Lol
FallenGrace
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Switch port begging has been in almost every thread, fed up of it to be honest.
As for the topic as many have said, Sony are in a good position right now with great sales, some big releases having hit this year and some exclusive marketing coming. They don't need to say a lot of words about nothing right now. I imagine they are getting their E3 stuff ready as it stands.
SouSouRocket
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Holy shit! Kazification is amazing.Ask, and ye shall receive!
MaximusPayne
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All I know is I better get a release date for God of War 4 and Last of Us 2 at E3.
Blackleg-sanji1
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What part of"This title we're about to show is a bit early but the team wanted to show you what they've been working on" don't you guys understand lol
You might get a release window for GOW4.
No chance on that for TLOU2. That's a 2019 if I ever say one.
MaximusPayne
Member
I'll take that.
Spyder_Monkey
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It's almost like we're a month away from E3 or something...
Mikey Jr.
Member
Damn, Sony got new themes ready to fucking GO!
Lys Skygge
Member
The choreography and camera work on this is amazing.
BigEmil
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I remember when someone asked if a ps4 port of ff9 is happening when it was announced for Steam and got instant ban warning which is strange.
PS4 port begging is far less in this forum than Switch or PC port begging yet the former is much more restricted for some reason
Maybe.
I'm thinking it's a game that was multi platform and is now PS4 exclusive or some old IP getting revived.
Demon's Souls for PS4 maybe?
Lys Skygge
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Unless it's a long dead series being revived, I really hope it isn't "previously multi platform is now exclusive". I was pissed about the Tomb Raider deal.
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lmao. gg