The PlayStation 4 has debuted to an explosive start in North America and Europe. latest home console had reached 5.3 million units sold as of February 8 and it looks like all of the units allocated for the device's February 22 Japanese launch have already been spoken for.
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The magnificent Prey was once again abandoned as Microsoft disregarded Arkane Austin's achievements and crucified it just for Redfall.
well, not entirely ... the main Arkane studio i.e Arkane Lyon's still there ...
Its only that, the sequel will take more time now ... after Blade & Dishonored 3
But who knows, Dishonored 3 could have been Austins next project, so might be cancelled.
Not even this Prey
Still longing for a sequel to the original Prey with Tommy
The studio didn't even want to call this Prey, it was just Bethesda being dicks to them for some reason.
Don't worry there are some other games in development that might fill that void. Look up Vigilancer.
Same Bethesda basically screwed over the original developer team human head back around 2011 so it was really never going to come despite a honestly amazing trailer. I liked prey 2017 but it always held a stink of disappointment due to what we never got
I really didn't like this game, tried it because of how loved the original Prey was, played the demo of this one and thought it was garbage, it didn't feel nice/fun to play.
Keep dreaming then as Prey and Dishonored 2 did not sell well enough to get sequels.
Hence we got Deathloop and Redfall instead.
Those people will just argue that Arkane Austin and Tango would've been shut down either way.
Zenimax allready put them in a tight spot by demanding them to do a multiplayer title. So it's not unlikely, considering how bad the game performed. They didn't stand a chance. MS had the money to save them and to correct Zenimax' mistakes.
Quite frankly even though the sales are good and of course the ps4 will release some killer jrpgs I don't think it will.
The Japanese market is a strange one atm i am not sure what they want other than handhelds.
What difference does it make which Japanese console is selling good. The japanese industry was affected by western taste changing not what Japanese console is doing good at any given time.
Sony needs to save themselves first and not get too cocky over the first few months of sales. Sony is doing good not because of Sony but because of MSFT and this whole thing can change in a blink of an eye.
There is already story after story of First time Xbox owners buying a XB1 just for on game lately and 360 owners jumping in. Just One game as MSFT is just now getting in their A game.
did i read that right? "save"? I do not recall hearing that Japanese gaming industry have been suffering..
I'm sorry but this article doesn't even make any sense??? Japan has never been a region where consoles have had major market share, it's always been the western territories such as the U.S. & Europe. An secondly the only thing that has changed in the gaming industry that has impacted Japan is the trends.
Japanese Games aren't popular in today's day an age like they were in the 80's, 90's & Early 2000's, the market is now dominated by western developed games. Which is why Japanese games only appear on mobile because if they were to put those type of games they make on consoles, they wouldn't sell and nowadays with the budget of AAA games it's not in the best interest of japanese developers to even do that.
Now if we were talking about how Sony can help with the Japanese console industry then that would be a different story, because sony doesn't make japanese centric games on consoles with the exception of what the SCE Japan makes. In order to save the japanese console industry it would be determined by the software and would also have to take a collective of publishers to do that not just sony alone.
Um, maybe?
Given that things western. high-end production values have pretty much taken over consoles while many JP devs seems to have become secure with handhelds/iOS because of their low to middle costs, I doubt things are going to change.