Sony has recently released a new system update, 23.01-07.01.00.00, for the PlayStation 5 console. The update, which is just 1.142 GB in size, is primarily aimed at improving system stability and performance.
It is so awesome to see Jason back in a game. Warner Bros. Games today released a new MultiVersus cinematic launch trailer revealing Jason Voorhees from the Friday the 13th horror movie franchise and Agent Smith from The Matrix film series as playable characters coming to the free-to-play platform fighter videogame.
The wait for Hollow Knight: Silksong has been particularly arduous, but Team Cherry can keep it under wraps for a bit longer still.
On Amazon stores across the globe, Assassin's Creed Shadows is rapidly climbing the best-sellers chart. It is currently the best-selling PS5 game on Amazon Japan, Amazon UK, and Amazon Germany. on Amazon France, it sits at #2, and on Amazon US, at #6.
Interesting
Actual japanese gamers doesn´t seem to bother with all the controversy surrounding a black samurai as protagonist or history accuracy.
Shadows pre orders are pretty strong on US PS Store too.
I still feel their grievance. Their history is filled with Ninja/Shinobi characters, and yet when a game is made about it, the main character had to be of a different race altogether. The Japanese would wonder why the main protagonist couldnt be Japanese, like did we not have sufficient history of our own? Its cultural appropriation for sure, and I would Have been ok with it if we were offered at least one Japanese male shinobi to play as well, not a foreigner and a Kunoichi.
It definitely rubs me the wrong way, but I still want to play it.
I'm sure the Japanese gamers are upset about not being able to play as Japanese people in a Samurai era game. It is not like they have
Total War Shogun
Rise of the Ronin
Way of the Samurai
Yakuza Ishin/Kenzan
Sengoku Basara
Samurai Shodown
Ghost of Tsushima
For Honor
Shadow Tactics
Onimusha
Kessen
Nobunaga's Ambition
Apart from all those games I'm sure they feel very deprived
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Im not saying they demand that every game set in their country be played by Japanese. But you can understand why they would be at least slightly disappointed that a game that portrays itself in the context of actual historical events would choose a foreigner to showcase Japanese heritage. A Samurai of all things at that.
If you’re talking point is that they have plenty to represent them already, I would agree, but its not like cultural appropriation is limited to this either.
Clearly they are fine. If they don't have a grievance, don't try to force one on them. That's beyond disingenuous. This was always about your own grievance and not theirs. What's up with people on the internet deciding how other people should feel?
Only stupid people are caring about what others are supposed to believe and follow and what not.. a game is a game, this kind of controversy is stupid..
It’s a much bigger problem for me that an always online game is on top of the charts..
***I still feel their grievance. Their history is filled with Ninja/Shinobi characters, and yet when a game is made about it, the main character had to be of a different race altogether.***
There isn't one main character, there are two. The only people upset are people who apparently can't see Naoe and only Yasuke.
Edit: What's funny is she's literally shown on this submission as the story image. But, no, only Yasuke.
More like you own grievance. The Japanese made Nioh, where you played as a white guy
Right? I couldn't figure out why there were so many downvotes for such a great comment and then saw the username.
I upvoted but c'mon people... "broken clocks and all that..."
Only yt people and their yt washed D riders care.one of the biggest selling points of noiah was it had a yt protagonist.they didn't care then but now they care and you wonder why.
It's the same people who swear they're the opposite of "woke" that are being just that, lol. We have truly come full circle.
Japanese gamers are excited for the game. Turns out most of the hate is from people that aren't Japanese. Yasuke is in both Nioh games as well as Samurai Warriors 5. No one was outraged. There's also an Anime about him as well. He's popular there which is why he keeps popping up in entertainment media.
The best part of this fake outrage is he leaked last year as being one of two playable characters but because of his name most people probably assumed he was Japanese and not the historical figure Yasuke that hailed from Africa. 🤣
Racists over on DSOgaming knew and repeated the fact that he was black and the game is woke long before its announcement.
Funny considering the comments on all their Japan social media pages and the dislike ratios across all their Japan accounts on YouTube.
Please don't take what you see on social media to be indicative of the real world. Negativity is magnified quite substantially in places where the loudest people want to block out the voices of everyone else (and people who aren't mad aren't loud), even if they are in the minority.
Most of those are not even Japanese people. Take a second to look at their YouTube videos and you will find a depressing number of foreigns pretending to be Japanese. Just use the Google Translate below the text and watch the copium
Well I mean it’s in Japanese so unless they’ve all and I mean all done some Google translate trickery then it’s a little hard to believe
The comments that are posted that aren’t from Japanese people are in English. Hard to believe someone would go through all that trouble when there’s already English speaking comments on there, most would just join in.
How is it hard to believe when you can literally use Google Translate and it even tell you, I am from Taiwan, Mexico, America and more in Japanese
Clearly as a caucasian I'm not doing a good enough job of convincing them they should be outraged...
Merriam-Websterstable
stable
noun
sta·ble ˈstā-bəl
: Playstation 5
Much stability, such performance!
Never a bad thing, in my book.
But… how STABLE is it?!!
Probably implemented a bad cod code detector.