I liked Quantum Break. The FMV arguments are ridiculous, nobody complained when MGS was doing hour cutscenes. But 20 min shows is too much?

As an action/adventure shooter, it was pretty good.

I don't care much for MGS and that's one of the reasons. Why I loved MGR,let me just get to the action. I will give MGS this. At least when they did it still carries a certain continuity because it's in game assets. Backdrops and characters don't suddenly look worse or better. When a game switches to live action and low budget sets and cheap cinimatopgrahy and yes QB has it it breaks that continuity. It slaps you in the face reminding you yes you were playing a game. The exact opposite experience a game like QB wants.

You remember Final Fantasy games on the PS1? Great looking cutscenes but chracters looked like Minecraft on pre-rendred pictures.

Frankly, that's a ton of games. Great looking cutscenes with vastly inferior visuals.

I get what you're saying, but it doesn't hold water.

To say that would be to imply that sony's studios are not making a profit. I think thats a completely baseless assumption to make being that sony has also shown they have no qualms shutting studios down. So  they cut off the slack so to speak, but still have a LOT of studios 

On another note, try looking at it from a platform holder publisher perspective. For sony, its not even about individual studios making money but instead about thesony world wide studios (SWWS)  group making money at the end of every fiscal year. The reason why an approach like that is better is because its ensures a very well fleshed out portfolio and allows sony take all manner of risks with  whatever games they are publishing and seeing to completion. 

That way not every game has to sell 3-5M copies to be a success. Cause the more successful games will pick up the slack. All the other games have to do is just break even. And when looking at horizon that had a budget of around $48M, I think its safe to say that games like Gravity rush/Until dawn/Bloodborne has a significantly lower production budget. And all those games have or would sell more than a1M in their lifetime.

And again, this isn't evn about making a profit, this is about giving "value" to your brand as a whole. thats the big picture that I think MS is missing here. Cause the very same place MS seems focused on making money from (3rd parties) sony has got those too and thanks to their larger install base is making almost twice as much on those games than MS is making.

Sony's way of doing things is why studios like media molecule could have been making dreams for the past 4 years and when that game comes out it may not even sell that well. They may "lose" money on media molecule in this case.... but in the grand scheme of things SWWS would have overall made a profit. Thats a far better business strategy than seemingly only investing in things that are sure to be a gaurnateed hit. 

And why this surprises me is that when the 360 came along, MS proved emphatically that games sell hardware and not brand loyalty or power. All of a sudden that narrative seems to have been lost to them completely this gen. Its mind boggling to me. 

PS1 era was because the PS1/Saturn visuals were too limited to properly express the scene. We have not really needed that since late PS2 era Was not needed last gen and this gen ESP isn't needed. Games are advanced enough that stuff is no longer needed. So the live action of QB just becomes a gimmick and a poor one at that.

But it didn't end with 6th gen, 7th, and we still see it in 8th gen.

I think for that game, the cutscenes were fine. I wouldn't suggest it for all games.

I liked Quantum Break. The FMV arguments are ridiculous, nobody complained when MGS was doing hour cutscenes. But 20 min shows is too much?

As an action/adventure shooter, it was pretty good.