Have you seen the steam stats? Very few people played this game.

Lemmy needs to move away from downvotes altogether, or make it totally pointless. Just because Reddit uses it doesn’t make it a good idea.

It is how giant publishing houses self-destruct in the gaming space. They fail to realize how difficult it is to build up talented devteams. Everything becomes about maximizing profits in the end. Between the shitty monetization tactics and the terrible working environment they’ve created, they end up destroying their ability to make good games. I fully expect more mediocrity from Xbox/Activision-Blizzard, if not declining quality.

No. This is just a return to the days of the IE-only web. It will be problematic but it won’t be the end of the web.

This. People are basically in denial over how poorly Mozilla is handling Firefox. They are genuinely going to drive their product to zero marketshare pretty soon.

Without delving into the question over how good the game is, this sounds like a company that simply has the wrong processes in place. A case of “working hard” instead of “working smart.” As a result, they waste a lot of time and resources on things that ultimately don’t matter. I’m sure the person in question worked really really hard on the game, but it’s mostly pointless and ineffectively effort.

I don’t know about you, but it doesn’t really make sense as a product to me. If all it is is some extra raytracing features + slight resolution bump, then it’s not really worth it. Especially if it is a significant price increase over the regular PS5. And if you need significant development work to achieve those results, then I can see many devs just giving it a pass and not bothering to add any features.

It just needs to be a Steam Deck w/nVidia hardware instead.

Just so we’re clear, BG3 has only one language that is voiced: English. Every other language is in subtitles.

When was the last time you shopped for an SSD? Cheapest 1TB NVMe are around $35.

Starfield heavily leans on procedural generation. It would be many times bigger if it didn’t. BG3 has something like 170 hours of recorded dialogue. Cutting down means getting of features.

So no, there is no room for optimization here. These games are just going to be that big, period. People just need to accept that they will have to get giant SSDs in the future.

Game is apparently a flop. Only 750 peak concurrent players on steam.

They compromised their higher end system with their lower end system. It’s time to admit they made a mistake here, and they are only now starting to fix it.

We’ve already established that the $300 box is not viable for much longer. And since it sold around 1/3 the numbers of the PS5, it didn’t even work as advertised.

Then why even bother with a console? Just define the minimally specced PC box needed for Game Pass and call it a day.

Game Pass includes PC gamers. It’s probably not that profitable either.

Microsoft should really ask themselves why they couldn’t have procured more components, despite being one of the most profitable companies on Earth.

It has faster memory than the Series S. More importantly, it has more RAM. A few improvements here and there doesn’t make the Series S a real next-gen console.

PS5 outsold both versions combined by around 2x. I don’t think it was nearly that big of a deal.

It’s less powerful than an Xbox One X. I think the problem is that they didn’t really think through what a console generational leap would actually consist of.