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   anemone@ebiverse.social's status on Tuesday, 15-Apr-2025 08:29:19 JST anemone

   Marathon is gonna be DoA

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     Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@tsundere.love)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Apr-2025 08:29:36 JST Johnny Peligro

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     @anemone marathon to bankruptcy
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     cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Apr-2025 08:36:44 JST cool_boy_mew

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     @oshy @anemone According to more leaks, which were slides with sales data, we pretty much got proof that Sony's AAA focus was a super disaster. Ratchet and Clank barely made money, like a couples millions in the clear compared to the massive budget, with Spider-Man being better IIRC but still not fuck you money compared to the costs and licensing, which explains the attempt to pivot to live service games, but, oof
     
     Ultimately, the tripling down on AAA is pretty much the culprit, it was stupid all around
     
     As for Microsoft, man, who the hell knows what they're even doing
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     oshy (oshy@ak.kawen.space)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Apr-2025 08:36:45 JST oshy

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     @coolboymew @anemone Probably has something to do with why PS5 has had so few exclusive releases, of course Xbox has done no better so now we are 5 years into a console generation that hasn't taken off yet
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     cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Apr-2025 08:36:46 JST cool_boy_mew

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     @oshy @anemone According to rumours and leaks they have basically quietly cancelled a LOT of live service stuff in the making, which ironically were normal games and normal multiplayer so Sony has had jackshit to show for a while because of this
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     oshy (oshy@ak.kawen.space)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Apr-2025 08:36:47 JST oshy

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     @anemone Playstation has been trying so hard to break into the live service multiplayer segment and every time they try it ends in disaster
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     cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Apr-2025 21:54:01 JST cool_boy_mew

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     @oshy @anemone Microsoft strikes me as the department in deep trouble with the central higher ups. They attempted a last hurray with game pass and buying so many devs, but it was little too late a lot of it, again, exactly when AAA became high slop. I'm pretty sure that... Man, what is even the title? The space Beth game? Anyways, that clearly blew in their faces, they were expecting bigger than Skyrim and it did not deliver that
     
     I think it's clear that the central higher ups are pissed because Microsoft has made magnificently stupid moves recently. Realistically, a refocus like this would take minimal 10 years to recover in full form, but now you have them porting freaking everything, rumors are that they're porting everything to the Switch 2 too, then then selling that one japanese studio that was making really well liked games after games and jesus christ man. And now with their awful "everything is an xbox" thing, the department is clearly done
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     anemone@ebiverse.social's status on Tuesday, 15-Apr-2025 21:54:25 JST anemone

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     @coolboymew@shitposter.world @oshy@ak.kawen.space Yeah it's ridiculous how these companies keep spending obscene amounts of money on graphics (and/or shitty tooling) that nobody asks for or even wants

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     oshy (oshy@ak.kawen.space)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Apr-2025 21:54:30 JST oshy

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     @anemone @coolboymew I just played my favorite game of the year and it was 480p and made on a game engine from 2001
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     pettanko (pettanko@varishangout.net)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Apr-2025 21:55:11 JST pettanko

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     @anemone @oshy @coolboymew you’d think the company that owns Minecraft would understand that graphical fidelity isn’t everything.
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     Ronnie21093 (ronnie21093@varishangout.net)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Apr-2025 21:55:14 JST Ronnie21093

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     @pettanko @anemone @coolboymew @oshy I doubt they even fully understand why Minecraft is so successful :guraKekw:
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