The PlayStation 4 version of Call of Duty: WWII sold 168,234 units during its first week of release in Japan, the latest Media Create sales figures reveal.
Wccftech interviewed Nathan Yu from Inworld AI to discuss the dynamic NPC tech's applications to games as well as potential issues like costs.
Saad from eXputer: "After Arkane Austin & Tango were shutdown, Xbox President Sarah Bond spoke with Bloomberg in what I believe to be utter corporate fakery."
im not really surprised by that, shes always been more a "let me talk about something else than what u want to know" kinda gal
"Shareholders" I call them cancer, they are already rich to begin with but need more and more. It's like a disease, with no cure.
I own shares in game companies. I'm not anything near a major share holder. I just want them to make good games and be successful because of that. I think it's the senior management that's the problem. They are the ones that should be making it clear to the shareholders what creates growth and ensures a future of their business. Not this weasle words garbage that she did on the interview. It was horrific. I don't know a shareholder that would be happy with any of them for this.
Same and I'm not rich by any stretch like most people's I'm just trying to keep my head above water these days most company's shareholders are made up of everyday people it's amazing how companies think we want something but the reality is we don't.
Disney are probably the worse at the moment it's shareholders voted on ending a lot of the crap and outing the current execs the execs turned around and said no we disagree with the shareholder vote
Yea, it was and it’s insulting that they think we’re dumb enough to fall for this. Look, the truth was you took a gamble on these studios and while they released some games to critical praise and great reception they just aren’t bringing in a ROI. Be transparent, you’re not a politician.
Just tell everyone you spend money on projects big and small and when money isn’t being made you go over the potential of revenue a studio can bring in vs those that can’t and make the hard decision to chop them.
She says this whole thing about “success” doesn’t fit one meaning for each studio. Well yea, a small budget production isn’t going to expect to sell the same as a large budget production.
One thing I wish they did though was let Tango be an independent studio.
disheartening to see no regard for the human cost of business anymore
the bad decisions and judgements of these CEOs severely impact the frontliners
these fake responses are just salt on wounds
imagine havin the audacity to say "we need more games like hifi rush" right after closing the studio that made it lol
followin up with this show of "deflecting every question" was in poor taste
Firaxis veteran Jake Solomon hasn't seen mass layoffs like this in his whole 25-year career.
Alot’s changed in 25 years. We have games with $300 mill budgets, people not interested in games other than Fortnite and Minecraft, the older generation of gamers giving up the hobby or dying off, a period of super bad inflation where the industry decided to hike up prices on games, Gamepass harming game sales, GaaS games being pushed left and right with obnoxious monetization and worse looking/playing (Suicide Squad vs Arkham Knight).
The industry is just shite right now. Games ain’t selling, games cost massive amounts, businesses can’t bleed money and this is what happens. Part of it is on them and part of it is on consumers not buying.
Amazing sales for COD on Japan.
Damn Splatoon 2 is still in the top 5. It consistently sells 20,000+ every week there. Many games debut over there and can't get those numbers. Switch is simply dominating Japan. Another big week for Odyssey as well. Its any wonder why Japanese devs are scrambling to get their games on the Switch.
Splatoon 2 in a week or two depending on sales about to sell more than ps4 highest selling game dragon quest 11 and I'm talking about retail only, mediacreate do not add digital sales, but for retail sales alone splatoon 2 about to beat ps4 best selling game.........and still no first party ps4 game sell over 300,000 in Japan, i thought gran Turismo would break 300,000 but with it selling 9,000 this week i doubt it stay on the chart for long so if anything it may stop at 250,000 lifetime
Nintendo is really taking over Japan, right now the ps4 is suppose to take every advantage it can while it have a hardware lead but none of the ps4 games have long legs, they chart for 3 weeks the most in the top 30 and disappear while switch still charting and this same reason they taking Japan and why all these developers come out this week talking about making more games for switch.........if switch dragon quest 11 out sell ps4 version then its over for ps4, but if it don't then ps4 still have a chance to take any advantage they have while switch is only at 2.1 million hardware