Jason Haywood from RGN's Reviews team picks up the mic for the first time with Jon Iro as they discuss the different challenges PS5 and Xbox Series X will face rolling out new consoles in modern times as well as the potential for a price increase on games.
A schedule for all of the currently announced game conferences in June 2024, including the Summer Game Fest 2024 date and times.
For the first time in a long time I have a hard time feeling excited for these events. Maybe it's because of all these massive lay offs and closures there hasn't exactly been good news since the start of the year.
Maybe come next week I'll get a little more excited but I dunno I just can't get too excited right now
Cancelling e3 and introducing some ridiculous events..
Times have changed.. to the worse
Back then it was very exciting, great looking trailers, on stage live gameplay where yes things can and have went wrong but that's how we knew it was a real games being played instead of curated footage extra doctored up that didn't even represent the actual game half the time. Games would release 6 months to a year max not 3 years later.
I miss past E3's even the goofiness like Giant enemy crab or Riiiidge Raceeer. Xbox and Kinect glitching Nintendo's craziness. Again it was real, these days there so protective, clean, doctored sets, where nothing can absolutely go wrong. Too strict and professional with heavy PR babble with buzzwords that mean nothing. Being professional is not bad but when it's fake and corporate heavy where you're made to buy into the words rather than the game, that's how you know it's not real.
Now SFG is just sizzle reeling all the games at once. Plus past SGF events haven't been that great either. Maybe that's not Geoffs fault but the pubs and devs are simply never ready to show anything and have to wait. This gen we've been waiting and waiting for these games.
Plus lay offs as I Mentioned. I dunno Geoff needs to do what made E3 great back then, get funding support and do live stage gameplay he has the support and so why not? Pubs and devs need to do their own thing at the event again. No more doctored bull crap with PR diarrhea trying to sell the game show us with a controller in your hand instead of making empty promises.
Rant over.
Lightning
I will never forget the pre-e3 one year where Kojima was teasing MGS Rising.. and Peace Walker.
Such an incredible period where studios enjoyed what they were doing and teasing their work weeks before the event.
Nowadays is half baked games, cross gen titles, useless mid gen upgrades. There is no hype anymore.
Last great show I remember is the PS EXPERIENCE maybe 3 or 4 years ago in December
Is it just me or is there little to no buzz or marketing leading up to this compared to previous SGF?
Because they've been consistently boring for the last couple of years. Hard to get worked up for it now
It'll be June sometimes no doubt, I'm guessing the Saturday 10th the day after Xbox showcase or maybe sometime the following week
The VP of Marketing at Boosteroid revealed that the company is in talks with major publishers to secure exclusive games on the service.
So they're adding Skull and Bones to their service? That doesn't seem exciting at all lol.
The Pokemon Company has dropped the first-ever official Shiny hunting guide for Pokemon Scarlet and Violet, leaving fans in awe.
been saying this since the middle of the current generation, and not to try and stir up a bunch of shit, it's just a fact.
these huge single player games AAA productions that have been $60 for 15 years plus is coming to an end.
nobody wants microtransactions
( I understand that) nobody wants DLC they have to pay for/ cosmetics, and they don't want to pay for season passes as well.
fact is, game production has gotten so ridiculously expensive it's just no longer a sustainable realistic model,
to think you're going to get some of these great story-driven only games, particularly ones with RPG depth for $60, it's just not going to stay that way.
they've got to find a way to fund these things, some of your really big Blockbusters, the advertising and marketing budget alone can be up to 50 to 75% sometimes even greater of the budget for actually developing the game itself...
I think the loot box shit is going to get crushed, people just aren't going in that direction. I've just don't ever find it done well enough that I accept a situation where I'm paying for that, but microtransactions in the form of cosmetics only/ weapon skins apparel things like that you're just not going to see that ever go away.
now I do hope they come up with, at some point a more unified standard of what is acceptable practices sales wise, to include in a game you're already paying for though...
getting a little tired of seeing the egregious free to play charging system, on games that you already have to pay for.
I like how the title singles out PS5 as if the games wont cost the same on both consoles, lol.
I hope not
I would pay $70 if there were absolutely no microtransactions or crazy lootbox rarity percentages.
Next gen is not doing launch buys unless it’s something I’m really waiting for. I’m going to wait for the complete edition on sale. It doesn’t even take a year most of the time.