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The Next Disney & Marvel Games Showcase Should Learn an Important Lesson From PlayStation, Nintendo

The Disney and Marvel Games Showcase presented a good variety of titles, but its structure could learn from State of Plays and Nintendo Directs.

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Sgt_Slaughter620d ago (Edited 620d ago )

"The Disney and Marvel Games Showcase presented a good variety of titles"

If you enjoy badly made mobile games sure.

The reception to this "Showcase" has been the most universally hated conference I've ever seen. Doesn't help that it was advertised as an hour and a half show but ended before the 25 minute mark (and all the games people wanted to see were shown in 2-second clips in the sizzle reel at the end).

Even Nintendo's infamously failed 2008 E3 conference or Sony's 2006 E3 blunder wasn't this blasted.

EvertonFC619d ago (Edited 619d ago )

Definitely weird only being 25 mins, I was like wtf

Sgt_Slaughter619d ago

I audibly said "That's IT?" because I expected an hour or so.

Definitely should have had more on Spider-Man 2, Wolverine, Kingdom Hearts IV, etc., to fill the time better

gold_drake619d ago

the showcase was pretty boring. so i dont see a lesson they need to learn from disney ha

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Ubisoft say AC Shadows protagonists will be "romantically attracted to different types of people"

Ubisoft recently shared more details about Assassin's Creed Shadows protagonists, confirming that both of them will romantically attract and be attracted to different types of people.

Hugodastrevas15h ago

That should please everyone I'm sure...

RpgSama43m ago(Edited 40m ago)

Feudal Japan DEI LGBTQ+ Samurai, sounds very accurate for the time period. Surely a decision made only with historical accuracy in mind.

Crows9038m ago

Or even modern day accuracy.....

Lexreborn229m ago

You have no idea what you are talking about, bet you didn’t know nobunaga was bi-sexual. Or ran maru his is often depicted as androgynous was a “beautiful boy”.

So yeah, feudal Japan had tons of lgbtq and kawaii enough… A BLACK SAMURAI! All without the need of offending a Caucasian because the world is diverse.

CrimsonWing691h ago

Geezus, just make a good game… holy sh*t this is becoming insufferable.

Crows9036m ago

Oh yeah!!!! What about being inclusive???

I'm sorry
..please replace the word inclusive with stupid.

darthv7243m ago

Is that genuinely a selling point for people?

RpgSama40m ago(Edited 34m ago)

They sure as hell want to see if it is, time and time and time again.

VincentVanBro8m ago

You have to understand they’re incapable of writing a good story so this is the best they could come up with

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Unannounced Valve 6v6 Shooter MOBA Footage Leaked

ESTNN writes: "A leak for Valve's 6v6 3rd-person shooter MOBA has supposedly been released ahead of time. And if the reports are true, fans of the genre have much to be excited for."

XiNatsuDragnel1d 9h ago

Deadlock looks like bioshock and Moba had babies

JunonZanon37m ago

Valve really cannot count to 3.

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Limited Run Games: There's Still Demand For Physical Media, But Not In "Traditional Way"

Limited Run Games believes that more companies will start selling a limited number of physical media in a decade.

CrimsonWing694h ago(Edited 4h ago)

Like a vocal minority demand?

On PS5 alone the digital sales made up 77% of all game sales in 2024.

https://www.truetrophies.co...

Also, I despise f*ckin limited run games because they will extort people that want a physical version by marking up the prices almost 100% so they make more. So a game digitally that’s $30 you can expect it to be $60 on LRG and don’t even get me started on the collectors edition prices… it’s borderline highway robbery.

Jingsing4h ago(Edited 4h ago)

Yeah and other quarters it is 63% and sometimes lower than that, the split goes up and down so it isn't quite the digital domination you are trying to paint. I suspect given all that has been going on the past couple of years with digital and subscriptions people might start having a change of heart and tip the balance back.

CrimsonWing694h ago

No, it is quite the domination that I’m painting it out to be. Otherwise we wouldn’t be hearing how stores out struggling or seeing the removal of physical media flat out.

Please show me the quarter where physical sales beat out digital please. I would like to stand corrected.

darthv723h ago

I've never liked their practice of taking someone elses work and putting their own spin on it. Glorified bootleggers is what they are. Peddling their reproductions at more than full value of the original.

CrimsonWing693h ago

Kinda of crazy about their burned disc scam for 3DO games.

shinoff21832h ago

You do know the developers sign up for it and get paid. Believe it's a 70 percent developer and 30 percent limited run games. How are they bootlegging. They also go through Sony so it's all legit

TiredGamer1h ago

At the end of the day, they are providing a service that others don't. You can moan about it all you want, but the reality is that without them, very few niche games would get a physical release. It's niche and they don't get the benefit of large volume manufacturing and sales.

They are a business; they have many costs. They employ staff, probably pay out benefits, have to invest in capital and property, have to work out licensing and contract agreements, have to come up with design ideas and work with manufacturers, they have to market, and they have to take on risk of inventory. They do it while still providing a service that others are willing to pay for. Sounds like a success story to me.

shinoff21832h ago

Those numbers are fabricated as fk though.

Say there's 1000s games and only 200 are available physically. Of course digital will be higher.

CrimsonWing691h ago(Edited 1h ago)

what are you even going on about?

What is being fabricated as “fk” with and I quote, “ Sony's fiscal report for the year ending March 2024, less PlayStation owners are buying boxed PS5 games that ever before. PS5 and PS4 physical sales in 2024 now only account for 30% of all PlayStation games sold as players continue to invest more in their digital game collections. Plus, with the release of the new PS5 Slim with its optional disk drive, we might see even more players buying the best PS5 games digitally.”

Help me with the mental gymnastics on how the numbers are fabricated in a fiscal financial report…

And regardless of the number of games even your point still shows how digital is selling more than physical. Like, what is even happening here?

A physical media distributor is even saying the landscape is changing in this very article. I don’t even know how this is up for debate. What will be apparent is “fk’s” like LRG will charge you way above the MSRP for physical games.

MetroidFREAK214h ago

I'll continue to buy physical games until my last day as a gamer

Skuletor3h ago

I still have a physical copy of The Crew, lol.

MetroidFREAK212h ago

I have Exoprimal and Helldivers 2 physically so I feel you on that