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There has been no official announcements, its just rumors, leaks and speculations.

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Project Soulspath Travelborne!

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As a PS5 owner, if Xbox stops giving them competition, that would be very bad for all of us.

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If it’s only Starfield than yes, but if they are bringing other games too, then that could be different story. Let’s see what happens.

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Oooh, 1.0 is finally out. Hoping it comes to consoles too. As a big Sanderson fan, want to give it a try.

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It’s good to hear that they finally fixed it. It seems that it has become a common tactic, do aggressive monetisation, to see how much people are willing to put up with, and then reduce it to that level. So many games seem to be doing that.

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The actual question is, since they don’t want to properly debate/discuss anything, why are we wasting our time commenting here? 😀

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If we accept this, then RPG is also not a genre.

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Haha, they probably means the smaller games they release. Like that “Various Daylife”, what to call these games? They aren’t AAA or AA.

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While that might be true, 2023 was an year filled with great games and yet Hogwarts Legacy is first, and Call of Duty is 2nd.

As for notable games of the year that weren’t flop (in no particular order):

• Spider-Man 2
• Baldur’s Gate 3
• Diablo IV
• FF 16
• Armored Core 6
• Street Fighter 6
• Alan Wake 2

Not to mention:

• Resident Evil 4 Remake
• Dead Space Remake

They may not be to your taste, but they all rated very highly. I haven’t included any Nintendo games, cause they don’t share digital data. Their numbers are based only on physical sales.

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No worries. Of all the games mentioned above Starfield was probably my most anticipated. But it let people down.

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Well, Mario has kind of a general appeal, so I won’t call it a niche (and it was in 12th with just physical sale). And Pikmin 4 also sold over 2 Million in just first month or so, IIRC, though not sure if that’s enough for being a top seller in a year like the one we just had.

Also, Tears of the Kingdom was on 5th overall sales, and that’s only with the physical sales. Don’t know the actual number difference between 1st and 5th, but with digital added, it could’ve at least entered top 3, if not gone for 1st.

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I don’t know why everyone is so angry at this comment. The question was about what will it take for subscriptions to increase and become dominant in industry, the guy answered that. The interview was with the guy about Ubisoft’s subscription service, what else people expected?

If anyone talks to the guy in-charge of Gamepass, and they ask them how will gamepass increase, they wont’ say, well, if everyone keeps buying physical, that will be great for us.

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First of all, not here to defend Ubisoft, I completely agree about not trusting them to do what’s good for gamers.

So, my point was, everything said in this interview, is pretty much same thing you will hear from any “head of subscription” of any company. I think MS is currently the most aggressive one, with their Gamepass. Keep in mind this interview is specifically about their subscription service, and the changes they made it isn’t about anything else. Sony is currently (or well last I read about it) most defensive with subscription, often talking about how it’s bad for the industry, but if you ask whoever is incharge of PS+, and ask them, what needs to happen before subscription will really take off, he would probably say the same thing.

As for closing down of online servers, it’s always sad when that happens. That’s a valid reason to blame a company, but pretty much all companies do that. As a patient gamer, I don’t even remember how many times I have come across a game where I would find out you can’t get all trophies because online servers have shut down. So, all companies should be blamed for this.

Heh, this reply went on longer than I expected. 😀

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Crispety Crunchety sounds so much nicer than soft and mushy! Back to machine language it is!

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Oooh, I didn’t know it was by them.

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Why is everyone angry that he is going to add some kind of anti-theft in his product?

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Thanks for the response. While I don’t really agree with all these points, but at least I can understand that. So, thanks!

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I prefer AR over VR. AR can do tons of things, and you are aware of your surroundings too.

Though, for gaming, VR makes more sense, but I don’t see it becoming dominant way of playing games any time soon. Maybe when we reach the point of full-body immersion like Matrix, or Sword Art Online.

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I enjoyed it more solo. With friends enemies become a bullet sponge. On solo, they aren’t that bad.

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That’s good to know. I played it on PS3, and not in a mood to play it again, but great to have it for anyone who hasn’t played it before, or may want to play it again.

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Same here, had a rough week. Thinking about playing something that doesn’t require much thinking, maybe couple of games of F-Zero 99.

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But its a tough game. I am not even crossing 50. My last game I came 64th.

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How long are remaining Pikmin games? Have you finished the main campaign?

Horizon Chase 2 looked pretty nice. Not much into racing, but this one looks fun. May check it out.

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Well, with Game Freak, voting for wallet isn’t going to work, as Pokémon is really big and they have big enough following that is just going to buy anything with Pokémon name on it. So all we can do is pray. 😛

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Have fun!

Where are you playing Assetto Corsa Competizione? And how are you liking it?

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Have you played the first Blue Reflection? How did you like it? Is this better or worse than that?

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Ghost trick is on my wish list. Thanks for the recommendation.

I have heard great things about Sea of Stars, and it has got rave reviews, so don’t worry about it.

Shotgun King looks really fun. Is there any kind of campaign in it or is it just endless runs?

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F-Zero 99 is really fun. I wasn’t expecting it to enjoy that much either. I am really bad at it though.

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Are you going to play the remake?

I just started the first Paper Mario (N64 one, on NSO), and I am enjoying it a lot.

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Have you created any specific build? For subsequent plays of Bethesda games, I go with a specific build, like archer assassin. 😁

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Gotta catch 'em all!

Good luck!

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I still haven’t played it. How are you liking compared it to Zero Dawn?

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Yeah, I was just wondering if you are interested in the remake, as they didn’t mention any changes, so it’s going to be the same game just prettier.

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Same here. Though, I still haven’t tried 13 Sentinels, so can’t say anything about their recent games. Loved their 2D brawler / RPG ones.

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The way they shadow dropped Metroid Prime 1 Remaster, I am expecting them to release all 3 Metroid Prime games before 4. So, no release of Metroid Prime 2 remaster is a bit sad. It either means they aren’t going to release remasters of a whole trilogy, or that Prime 4 is much further away than we hope.

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I think it’s kind of a genre revival. The genre was very under represented for a long time, so probably many devs started working on such games, and then ended up releasing them all close to each other.

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Oh, it’s on my wish list, I just have a huuuuge wishlist and a backlog, so haven’t gotten around to it yet.

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It does!

Not really a game for me, but it does look very silly and fun.

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I was thinking they could announced it and say it would be fully backward compatible, so it won’t effect their games sales, but it would still effect their hardware sales, so I guess you are right.

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Metroid Prime 2 shadow drop would be nice.

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Ahan. And the hall effect sensor on joysticks have same accuracy?

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Ah, cool.

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Oh yeah, Scarlet & Violet DLC is coming out. Or is it already out?

How are you liking it so far?