This week the discussion turns to how well 2017 is shaping up for Sony and PS4. Not only with some fantastic existing releases coming in so early in the year but with platform exclusives coming down the line that have the guys very excited. WIth Resident Evil 7 in PSVR, Nioh garnering well deserved praise, Horizon Zero Dawn nearly upon us and many other exclusive titles (some being new IP’s) awaiting us down the road it is, once more, a great time to be a gamer.
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A look into the sad trajectory of indie games from high successful releases to complete irrelevancy in just a few weeks or months.
That's the thing with gaming there's always new experiences to have why spend months or years playing a single game when there's a new experience right around the corner.
Indie or AAA if your building your game expecting long term player counts you'll probably be disappointed as gamers often enjoy something for a few weeks and move on only to return if it's truely a classic.
Out of all the generations I've experienced there's games from 30 plus years ago I still dust off and play like super Mario bros, earthbound, vice city and san Andreas being games I treasure and revisit every few years but I'm not going back to play a game designed to keep me engaged for months on end because it's also designed to milk my wallet in most cases.
Build a great game that people love make it playable offline and ask does it matter if the concurrent player count is under 100 a year post launch more often that not it doesn't
The price of entry is too high to take chances like I used to. Was looking at V Rising and that ranges from $50-$130 CAD. That’s a lot for an indie imo. By the time it goes on sale, the player count might be dwindling. But that’s the trade-off, I guess.
"Nordic Game has revealed the winners of this year’s Nordic Game Awards, which took place on Thursday, May 23, during NG24 Spring and streamed live from Slagthuset in Malmö, Sweden." - Nordic Game.
Ms is sony's direct console competitor so no there's no escape.they will always be in sony's shadows as far as video gaming is concerned
Its the Ps2 allover again literally with so many amazing diverse exclusive games on the Ps4, and so much more incoming. The xbone is a long way down,with ninty to overtake them soon. At this point the xbone console is for the ms die hards. Can't wait to play Spiderman and God of war 4
With the continuous cancellation of studios & the great games sony are releasing, i doubt microsoft can catch up to sony
Days Gone nor God of war hasnt been confirmed for 2017 like that image suggests.
Its not like Microsoft is being put into a corner.
State of Decay,Crackdown, Forza 7 and Sea of Thieves are coming this year.
People acting like Ps4 just dropped 5 AAA exclusive and its October.
Its February.
Its still a whole ball game out there.
Microsoft has never been able to escape the shadow of Nintendo's and Sony's first party offerings