On the latest episode of their Skewedcast; Gareth, Justin, and Michael at Skewed and Reviewed look examine the news that Sony will be attending PAX South and why they chose that venue over their own event and E3. They also look at the new images released which may tease the latest Alien Game.
The segments starts at the
5:10 Sony Pax South
14:00 Alien Images
Discover the impact of Microsoft's decision to include Call Of Duty in Game Pass. Explore the pros and cons and speculate about future changes.
Most folks that have a Gamepass subscription will not spend the $70, they will use Gamepass instead to play COD. MS will most likely make their money from some solely PC players & some solely PS5 owners. Even some PC players may opt to use Gamepass instead of spending $70. I would think MS would want to make every dime they could from retail sales. As long as they put new releases of COD day one on Gamepass, MS will lose out on some sales of COD.
Most that don't have Gamepass will just buy the game and he done with it. People that do will just result in a retail sale being lost. Some will buy the subscription for the month then be done. This is lose lose. Casuals aren't going to pay almost 300 dollars a year for COD.
The reality is that Microsoft already knows the answer as stated by them in their documents. PlayStation gamers have built up an ecosystem of games and they aren't migrating over and dropping what they have to buy an Xbox to play one game in a service you have to pay monthly for. Cheaper to just buy the game. And, I'd bet many casual COD players don't know or care about the acquisition.
Which is why Jim Ryan pushed to make sure that that one game continues to be sold as usual on Sony's platform to keep the status quo. Every other IP owned by Activision are worthless. And Activision has shown they don't care about other IP like Tony Hawk by cancelling them.
Sales WILL be lost on Xbox. That's for certain. Microsoft can only hope that Xbox gamers continue to buy up those micro transactions to make up for those lost sales. Only positive for Microsoft is that they get to dip into PlayStation game sales that we all know from history and NPD, that Sony's console sells more games. But increase subs from Sony fans for game pass? Not happening in any way that matters.
Sony, on the other hand, can have their cake and eat it too. They get COD and they can continue dropping more content for their fastest selling GaaS game which is Hell Divers 2. As the game passes 12 million sales and doesn't beat you over the head with micro transactions, Sony has a win win situation and can support the game getting more content to keep players engaged.
As a side note, COD is probably going to turn into some version of Sea of Fortnite Duty. Games as a service sitting in game pass being milked dry with micro transactions and constant updates making you feel you're playing an unfinished game that keeps going and going with no soul.
I'm not sure why everyone is acting like COD is a surprise. That was always the plan. They said in court during the FTC case they were doing this. They have said repeatedly and recently all first party games are going to Gamepass.
On 16 May, the long-awaited release of the PC version of Ghost of Tsushima took place. And the game proved to be a great success on the first day.
Is this going to be the new thing thing? Articles about Steam reviews? Which of course was in response to the false article about the review bombings in the first place.
I always get confused by this, but is 72k good sales numbers for a game? I keep seeing games fail at selling 2.5 million and that they need to be on multiple platforms but is an additional 72k adding much?
Another leaker has claimed that a PSP/PS Vita style PlayStation handheld is in the works, and it'll supposedly support PS4 games.
If you had every PS1, PS2, PS3, PSP and PSV game then sure but I mean if it's just the PS4 why not just get a Steam Deck?
I still play my vita. The oled screen was too good for it's time. I obviously had to home brew it but playing my old snes/ps1 games on it is so good.
How many people will buy this at launch? As a Vita owner, I'd definitely hold back after how Sony's support for that turned out.
Also, PSP played near PS2 quality games, PS Vita played near PS3 quality games, shouldn't the next Playstation handheld be aiming for near PS5 quality?
At the 09:20, Mike expressed the same concern that i have when he said that Sony maybe doesn´t have anything new to announce/show for the PS4 and that´s may be the reason why they´re skipping both PSX and E3 2019, and that those new announcements would be made for the PS5.
When i said this might be the reason Sony skipped both PSX and E3 2019, people got all emotional and offended when in fact, it´s just the logical decision for Sony to make since they wouldn´t invest large sums of money on PSX and E3 2019, just to get people hyped with impossible expectations when Sony supposedly don´t have any new game (first party) comming to PS4.
Even with Sony skipping those two large events, there´s people that still are under the impression that Sony will blow people´s minds with new games for the PS4 via some digital event like Nintendo´s Direct events. It´s possible, but i´m not holding my breath.
We should find out soon enough.
August 2018: “We will use the next three years to prepare the next step, to crouch down so that we can jump higher in the future." - Kenichiro Yoshida, Sony president and CEO.
September 2018: "Sony will not be holding a PlayStation Experience event in 2018" - Worldwide Studios Chairman Shawn Layden.
November 2018: "We will not activate or hold a press conference around E3." - PlayStation senior vice president of communications Jennifer Clark.
This is known as "in line with business strategy", "saying something and acting on it" or "none-rocket science".
Can't wait to see what Sony is up to.