As for the future, Paris Games Week and the PlayStation Experience event in San Francisco provided an interesting glimpse of what's to come. On the plus side, Rez Infinite may provide the newly christened PlayStation VR with its first must-buy, and it's hard to begrudge a sequel to Ni no Kuni. On the negative, aside from wonderful curios like Wild, there's little that seems genuinely new.
Because fuck Detriot: Become Human and GTS, one which is a new IP. and fuck robinson the journey, matterfall and boundles. and who cares for the first gameplay demo of gravity rush 2 anyways? and that dreams.. sigh.. nothing new there. ohh driveclub bikes? doesnt count.
What's Shawn Layden dreaming of this Christmas? He knows that there are real prospects in the future: Horizon: Zero Dawn looks great, although it desperately needs a more memorable name, while No Man's Sky almost cannot fail by this point - it cannot fail to sell, at any rate. Nier promises more goodwill, along with Shenmue and The Last Guardian - and then there's Hideo Kojima, whose announcement of PlayStation exclusivity received exactly the kind of warm reception that failed to materialise for Microsoft's deal with Rise of the Tomb Raider. A sentimental reaction, considering Kojima's history with PlayStation, but perhaps not a fair one.
they literally couldnt find anything negative to say about Horizon so they just took a cheap shot at its name? lol.
And my god... thats just an ill informed thing to say. its not at all the same situation. Sony is helping Kojima Bring his game to live. MS was just denying the game releasing on other platforms.
Some more great hypocrisy. this is from the XB1 article. "it's available at keen prices in attractive bundles and it has a rapidly expanding library of handsome, well-optimised games". yet they use that as a negative point in the PS4 article. "but as Christmas came around, the third parties were left bearing the brunt. Star Wars and Call of Duty are Sony's big hopes for the end of 2015 - although presumably the real hope is that this insane momentum driving sales simply keeps going." Those CoD and SW bundles at 350$ (and at times 299$ for the SW bundle) apperantly dont qualify as "being available at keen prices in attractive bundles"
then they go and say PS+ games = bad. XBLG games = Good!
You had the free Games With Gold, which caught and then arguably surpassed PlayStation Plus as a subscription sweetener with a vastly improved line-up where intriguing indies like Massive Chalice rubbed shoulders with well-timed chances to catch up with recent Metal Gear Solid and Tomb Raider games.
PlayStation Plus might be a potential problem. Sure, free games have provided an enormous incentive for audiences to give Sony a monthly payment, but they've also neatly disincentivised spending money elsewhere on the store. Why take a punt on a game when you'll only kick yourself if you get it for free a month later? How much longer is the indie goodwill going to survive in this climate?
Massive Chalice is the best line up ever. Rocket League? fuck that game. its fantastic how much shit they managed to spin.
then they go on and say this.
"You had tempting downloads like the beautiful indie platformer Ori and the Blind Forest, or the clever film tie-in Forza Horizon 2 Presents Fast & Furious"
Driveclub bikes doesnt count apperantly, neither does Bloodborne the old hunters. they use Forza's DLC to justify XB1's barren first half of the year. but dont use old hunters or driveclub bikes for PS4. lol.
i mean damn, im sure i could actually find more fanboyism in those two articles, but this is more than enough. i didnt even read the two articles fully.
