App Trigger: "Physical releases just haven't been the same sans instruction manuals, but Nicalis' tangible nostalgia makes their editions worth a trip to the store."
In a bold move to revamp its operations and reputation, Embracer Group has announced plans to divide into three distinct entities.
Embracer Group plans to release 70 game projects before March 31, 2025, with three "important unannounced titles" included in the release.
They may not have a plan to exit gaming. But give it time they will eventually sell off everything and fade away into nothing.
By the looks of it, PlayStation 5 exclusivity does not hurt the sales of Stellar Blade in Japan as the game has passed 90,000 sold physical copies.
Stellar Blade really deserves way more praise than it got, devs have been adding more and more content, for free, since release and the game already was great to begin with!
Stellar blade is performing very impressively there, DD2 didn't do well because word of mouth destroyed it's reputation and not about the Microtransactions or performance, bad word of mouth about how the game lacks so many things that were in the first one
Exclusives matter. No matter what bumbling phil and bond try to say, exclusives is why you buy a console.
They dropped the ball with dogma. SB is a solid game, it just had to weather the social storm.
This will show a bit of my age, but physical reigns supreme IMO. Used to buy cassettes, CDs, records and you not only got the music, but also cover art work, extra pictures, and sometimes messages to the fans on the inserts. Now with everything digital, those personal touches for the most part gone. Yeah digital doesn't bog you down if you have limited space, but there was something special to removing the plastic and looking through the inserts and holding the media.
I will continue to game, but I don't care for all digital.
I love my physical copy of Wonder Boy! Nicalis did a great job. I really miss physical copies like this... even if more games today had the printed instruction manuals I'd be happy. There's just something special about opening a new game and seeing everything together!