Game Rant: "The PlayStation 5's DualSense controller opens up a world of possibilities, and certain games take advantage of its features."
Sony Interactive Entertainment and Team Asobi's Astro's Playroom has been updated with new content and PlayStation trophies.
I'll probably jump back into this closer to the Astro Bot release to get hype for it.
let me get this straight, a free update, for a free game that came pre-installed on every ps5, hmm
also, Astro Bot technically one of the best selling games of all time, its sold 59.3 million - hehehe
"The L.A.-based (the US) award winning indie games studio Ember are today very happy and excited to announce that their popular story-driven action-adventure game “Kena: Bridge of Spirits“, is coming to Xbox consoles (Xbox Series X/S and Xbox One) on August 15th, 2024." - Jonas Ek, TGG.
Not unless it's given away on GP, otherwise, this great game will barely be noticed.
@LoveSpuds that's unfortunate because Kena is a terrific game. Xbox gamers should come off their wallets and buy this because it's deserving to be purchased.
Hopefully gamers support this game instead of thinking every game should be on GP
Imo, they are very talented and creative. So I wish them the best of luck with their future game projects.
Yeah, superb game and despite it getting a decent reception, I still think a little under appreciated overall.
Heck of a decent challenge too, some of the later bosses were pretty brutal.
Might as well just put it on gamepass since it won't sell that well on Xbox. Putting it on gamepass will get more gamers to play a good game. It barely sold well on Playstation and PC 🤔
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@ Ironmike Ok, now I expect you to provide proof that YOU bought it then, bigmouth. Sonic is not being negative he is stating facts. No one is going to buy this on Xbox.....including you dumbass.
Is it going to gamepass? If not and you have Xbox will you buy it?I have it on PS5 physical copy beat it but haven't platinumd it yet. It's kinda sad too 😞. But ye, great game, hope you guys purchase it.
There's been plenty of news about Xbox games moving over to PlayStation recently, but how about one coming the other way? Well, 2021's Kena: Bridge of Spirits has just been ESRB rated for an upcoming Xbox Series X|S release
Console exclusives are exclusive to certain consoles … really not hard to comprehend unless you’re a salty gamer fighting an imaginary console war.
I just got this game on the PS+ Catalogue to redeem some points on the rewards program, it’s not mindblowing, but it’s a very pretty action adventure game. Not thrilled about it but i pick it up randomly sometimes when i take a break from my usual fare.
It may be "exclusive" to a certain console but it's still multiplatform because it's on more than one platform.
Kena is owned,developed & published by Ember Labs studios & it was a "limited" PS console exclusive. PS having it as a console exclusive for 3 years is enough time to pass it on to another console platform.
It's just hack journalism saying 3rd party exclusives going to other competing platforms is the same as 1st party. Shall we say that Nintendo games are going to other consoles since No More Heroes 3, Octopath and Monster Hunter Rise got ported to other consoles? Dumb.
It's also called fake News journalism or bad journalism, misinformation...so many names for it.
Okay might be showing my age, but back in the days, way back it was called yellow journalism.
So defensive lol..
If we're so concerned about third party now, can we apply the same logic to games like FF7 Rebirth, Stellar Blade & Helldivers which I regularly see people on here spouting as First Party or "Sony Games"
@DOM
If you want to say sea of thieves going to PS5 is the same as Kena going Xbox then go crazy.
It's as dumb as saying Horizon going to xbox is the same as Cuphead going to PS5.
Microsoft began buying timed exclusives and timed DLC starting with GTA IV back on Xbox 360. This didn't used to be a practice until then. I don't ever recall this being a thing
Pretty sure the PS2 gen had 3rd party exclusives. Panzer dragoon orta, Jet set , dino crisis 3, steel batallion for xbox. Nintendo had Capcom exclusivity for a bit on RE4, Viewtiful Joe and REmake. Onimusha, Gta, Final Fantasy for Sony.
Probably way more than that.
PS1 gen as well...but most exclusives then were developers chosing cartridge(N64) over CD. You could bring up the Saturn but i believe it just didn't get ports because it had a horrible launch in the states.
Not even remotely true or maybe you're too young . This practice has been going on since Sega, nintendo and PS1 days.
Not true. Timed exclusivity existed before Xbox even entered the console business. Sony did it, Nintendo did it, and Sega likely did as well.
I recall this was a practice as early as the NES however Nintendo wrote in their licensing agreement if you want to make games for NES they must be exclusive to the console. Given the closest competitor at the time was the master system they were the only real act in time and the Atari had bombed hard that gen. Nintendo would also threaten to stop supplying games to retailers if they sold unlicensed third party games which and retailers would then be faced with the choice of hey do we sell this tengen garbage or so we want Mario easy choice there was a lot of legal battles in those days.
Also noteable in the more modern era was the Capcom 5 Nintendo got 5 exclusive titles from Capcom.
In the PS1 and N64 era exclusive games were mainly because the system architectures were vastly different it was a huge undertaking to port a game I done recall either company paying for exclusivity and the biggest name games often found their way onto both platforms with bespoke editions like quake 2.
Microsoft definitely threw their wallet around that generation while Sony publicly stated they believed they no longer had to do this and their first party was strong enough to carry them which they went back on pretty quickly after Microsoft walked away with timed exclusive GTA and cod content that really hurt them.
Kena was a really good game, anything that helps it get more exposure is welcomed.
what's that one Sony did before Kena that was like Ninetndo's pikimin, I forget, I missed that and it looked fun, might try to grab on sale, it would be my second ONLY ever digital purchase, (as I don't think it was ever physical as its a small game)
okay smartie pants, "one sony paid for exclusivity, like they did with Kena"
found it anyway, was called "Bugsnax"
https://www.youtube.com/wat...
I don't think Pinkman and Kena are really the same thing. At the end of the day though, Ember Labs has a really talented animation team, but as game designers they're lacking. It was a really pretty game but, man was it frustrating! Areas you thought you could go but we're blocked off, poor level design, probably what Hellblade II is gonna end up being
IMO the best way to play is to choose the easy mode first up to at least the first and second bosses then choose to restart on a harder dificulty with the hardest difficulty being very challenging.
Actually playing on easy mode allows you to find all the items including the "rot" (use your mask to look for footprints) without being that frustrated. By doing this you can always look at your easy saved game map to find to find all items if you eventually play on a harder difficulty.
This is definitely a game changer especially if more third party developers start using it
Spider-man remastered & Miles Morales also use it in a nice way. You can kinda feel the wind during swings or while falling. There’s a slight tension on R2 trigger when firing webs. Haptics are also used during combat.
DualSense is amazing, I constantly find myself searching for games that do/will use it.
Cannot wait for Kena Bridge of Spirits.
Considering all the different weapons and weapon variations you can get, I think Borderlands 3's use of the the feature is really good.
I'd often hold onto weapons because of how good or unique they'd feel with the controller, even if their stats weren't actually that great. haha