Gamer Sheep: "It should be a great day for gamers when a top-tier development studio talks about a new IP. Even if that new game is for more than one console. God forbid ever game not be an exclusive.
Well, here is a sampling of what happened on twitter when Insomniac talked about a new title they’re working on for both the Xbox 360 and the PS3."
Marvel's Spider-Man villain DLC potentially spotted via the debug menu that surfaced from the New Game+ title update released recently.
Ahmed from eXputer writes "Video game leaks have become a major cause of concern for Triple-A studios, as they're becoming increasingly malicious and dangerous."
In a leaked Sony Interactive Entertainment presentation, the company declares that including first-party games on PS Plus has had a “big” effect on “traditional sales.” As an example, the company mentioned that Horizon Forbidden West‘s sales “flat-lined” immediately after being added to PS Plus.
Also really interesting to see through to one of the sites they link to (Resetera) that the 2 cross gen titles in Miles Morales and Ghosts of Tsushima sold over 40% each of their first year in year 2, almost double what even the best performing games like GOW 2018 and Spider-Man did. Kinda seeing the cold hard numbers makes it really clear why they did cross gen games and remastered some of the later PS4 games to PS5 Directors Cuts.
"“In year 1, Horizon Zero Dawn and Horizon Forbidden West were very comparable,” the presentation reads. “HFW was included into PS Plus at the start of Year 2. HFW saw an enormous influx of PS Plus players, but at the cost of flat-lining the game activations from retail sales.”"
So, the data shows there were fewer traditional sales, but it doesn't show us anything about how many people joined PS+? It does say there was an influx of HFW players, but it doesn't state how many of these players owned PS+ to begin with.
To conclude that it negatively sales is correct, but it doesn't mean less money is made. We cannot draw that conclusion until we know how many more people joined PS+ because of HFW.
MS's bet is that although it lowers traditional sales, it makes the services more appealing and millions of new people will subscribe if they see that good games are added to the service. And in the end, the subscription profit (not revenue) will outpace that of the traditional sales.
However even after 6 years they still haven't reached that point lmao
I don't understand why anybody would be angry or upset that Insomniac is doing a multiplat game. Why wouldn't they?
obvious flamebait is obvious
Never cared for Insomniac to be honest(I own a 360 and a PS3). I thought their games were mediocre and there was always a better alternative. IE: Killzone>Restiance, Crash Bandicoot>Spyro the Dragon
So yeah, let them do w/e the hell they want.
@Below: Ha, you're probably right. But that's not the point.
Insomniac deserves the extra $ they will make from 360. The more $ they make, the more awesome games we'll see from them in the future. This is a GOOD thing, people.
Hey, some people get overly sensitive about certain things. Rather it's a few fanboys that are mad at Insomniac for silly reasons, or people that feel the need to write an article about a few fanboys making fools of themselves.