Bingo. People keep thinking that it hurts businesses because it leads to less sales, but they only look at individual sales and completely forget that it’s all about revenue, not # of units sold. Selling games is only ONE avenue to get revenue. If you get a deal with Microsoft that gives you a nice sum of money to put…

I’m not really sure what the intent of this article is. Third-party developers and publishers aren’t forced to put their games on GP. If they do so, it’s only because they believe it will increase the game’s total revenue. Even if GP does reduce sales (which several indie developers have publicly disputed), it doesn’t…

Also, the study was inherently flawed. It just showed that a game’s sales decrease over time which is true regardless of GP inclusion.

Despite Xbox head Phil Spencer’s claims that the subscription service leads to an increase of sales, a filing obtained by a British regulator revealed that the Game Pass actually depressed game sales for 12 months

“ In fact, the only way the subscription model works is if i stop buying new games. So it seems we’re at an impasse.”

Right? I don’t really get the “catch” of this question, even the ones people had hefty complaints about i.e. “FF13 is just hallways” are still RPGs.

The director seemed to feel that these concerns were natural, but overstated.

Honestly, when you put it that way, I can’t blame them if you consider that FF15 went through development hell across two consoles (PS3 > PS4), not to mention that Forspoken is the last we’ll see of the Luminous engine.

Final Fantasy XIV Online: Endwalker?

They’re all RPGs

We’re 2.5 years into the new console generation and with most gens lasting around 6 years on average, I’d say that all the justification they really need at this point is “we don’t want to develop for the previous generation anymore”.

I would argue the worst part of Skyward Sword was the obnoxious padding.

Lol. And here I was checking to see if motion controls were listed as the best part of Skyward Sword. It’s the only thing about the game that I loved*. Everything else was...not great unfortunately.

Best thing about Wind Waker = just about every damn thing. Yeah, the shard search was a chore, but everything else is…

“And I know a lot about obvious disappointing behavior for almost 30 years!”

LOVE the dock but HATE the joycons.

Yeah,  I've been playing since day 1 and the problems with Dehya just highlighted some of the other problems I have with the game, so I stopped. I’ll probably come back closer to Fontaine’s release because I’ve been looking forward to Lynette, but I just don’t have the drive to farm materials or artifacts anymore, and…

If you have a monopoly in a relevant market (e.g. console software in Japan) and you use your monopoly power to make deals that suppress competition and hurt consumer choice (e.g. exclusivity deals), that qualifies as “anti-competitive things.” FF7 Remake doesn’t exist on Xbox because Sony paid Square to not release…

If only there were some sort of history between Japan and Korea that might explain why the people of Korea wouldn’t necessarily favour Japanese consoles over others to the extent that the people of Japan do...

She’s a Senator from Washington state strongly taking the side of a company that employes over 50,000 people in Washington. Isn’t that how elected representation is supposed to work?

For the record, I think that she’s being an embarrassment by being an attack-dog for her corporate backers, and a particularly unsubtle one, but I do think this bit is worth addressing: