It's like they deliberately chose the most repulsive colour combinations possible. It's so bad that it can't have been a mistake. They took colour theory and then methodically did the exact opposite of it. Then they combined this with some of the ugliest character designs imaginable. I think the artists thought "ugly = unique and unique sells!" I can vomit a strawberry daiquiri onto a piece of paper and create a "unique" piece, but that doesn't make it appealing and customers are certainly not going to buy it. The most frustrating part of this for me was the overwhelming feedback before launch that they should have scrapped the designs and started again. Either they began focus testing FAR too late, or more likely, they ignored it. Either one was fatal. Then Marvel Rivals came along with attractive character designs (but arguably generic gameplay) and dominated in the market. Proving this had nothing to do with saturation. They just made a bad game and refuse to admit it.

Thanks for the summary! You should do these for all investor meeting thingies.

Sony just wanted another tax break.

Hah. I feel extremely attacked. I was going to say I wouldn't do that if you paid me, but... no, yeah, I'll do it if you pay me. Certainly not for free, though. It's mind-numbing in the worst possible way.

Well, theoretically speaking, you can start posting them and set up Patreon account? I am sure there's some kind of niche for this in game journalism, but no idea if it's big enough that it will actually be worth the time. (Or we can just get cm0002 to post some article like this and send you the link every time there's a new investor's call. 🫣 )

Everything huh? I'll believe that when I see it. I've been waiting on Bloodborne and the Demon's Souls remaster for so long. I also don't completely agree console targeted games are a good thing. Sure, controller standardisation has been great for games played on a controller, but if you have any other type of peripheral, that thing is still using DirectInput, with all the associated issues. Plus I'm sure Mass Effect 2 wasn't the only game that was less than it could have been for being console first. And yeah, a lot of older PC games were targeted at hypothetical future computers. In many cases that worked out; you could play it on medium now, and play it on high on your newer PC in future years (which maybe it's just because I was younger and had less money, or maybe it's because the games industry has expanded since then, or a bit of bother, but I feel like that was more a thing in the past than often happens now). There were also cases where it didn't work out, of course. Notably Crysis, which was coded assuming CPUs would continue their meteoric rise in single core clock speed, which basically stopped being a thing the day it came out. Meaning PCs today still can't run it that well. What was I saying? Eh nevermind.

I guess "every new game" is more accurate. I don't know if they are in much of a hurry to go back to the old catalogue. Also, pretty sure by now that there's a bunch of contract blockers in the FromSoft deal preventing the ports. That's not to say they won't eventually sort them out, but that's clearly not a Sony-only thing. For the same reason I wonder if they can get Astro Bot out of the PS5, given all the third party IP thrown all around that game. We'll see, I guess. I think it's telling that you're still thinking back to ME2 when this comes up. It's such a stale debate, but people who got into PC gaming in the aughts seem to be a bit stuck in a talking point that never made sense in the first place. It's even weirder these days, given how much everybody is struggling with accessing high end GPUs and feeding absolutely insane high refresh/high res monitors with the stuff that's available and with maximum settings going all the way to real time path-tracing. Not only are consoles not holding back the high end of PC, the high end of PC is apparently not holding back the high end of PC, and it kinda sucks. Every game is Crysis now and nobody will praise me when I go "I told you so". It kinda sucks.

I thought the Concorde stopped flying because of the operating costs and environmental impact. It didn't have comparable competition as such. Oh wait this is a games community. What's Concord? Maybe it would've done better if I'd heard of it BEFORE it shut down. Or if they didn't take 8 years to make what sounds like yet another Overwatch copycat?

Well I also stopped playing most AAA games a while ago, which is where you see console lead platform the most, so yeah I don't have a newer example sorry. They may or may not exist, I wouldn't know.

Who could have guessed that ahead of time? The industry is famous for seeing a successful new strategy and then driving it into the ground with a list of copycats. The strategy has made so much money before; why would it ever have failed this time? /s (Let's all laugh at an industry that never learns anything tee hee hee)

First time I heard about was after it failed...

They've used 4 times the budget of APB and didn't make a game that players would enjoy. APB was the prime example of investors who dont know about making a game throw money until a fun game pops out, and even then it was a fun game.

> boring-ass investor presentations (...) It’s all filler nonsense. I mean, you could probably just copy-paste that and call it a day for all presentations

What about APB reloaded? (Yes, somehow..it is still alive.)

Nothing like its customization features seem to be in any modern game to date. However it's got like less than 300 daily users, it's also heavily pay-to-win.

Even if you had heard of it, an overwatch copycat is hardly a premise to grip the attention of the masses.

Honestly, I would play it sometimes if they upped the anti cheat. A few years ago I tried it for nostalgia but my experience was ruined because of blatant cheaters.

I'm so glad I wasn't the only one. I'm still salty about Concorde (as any French person should be, really).

The ideal outcome (that'll never happen) is a PS6 that *is* a PC. But shareholders would never go for tearing down a walled garden ecosystem.