There’s no collapse of creativity. There’s just a collapse of the industry that now is in the hands of shareholders whose only goal is profit.

As soon as your company gets controlled by those, your creativity becomes a need to make another soulless “blockbuster”.

Look at the indie world instead. There is creativity, it’s just incompatible with the AAA business model.

Greed. Simple as that. They only care for money. And they used to get a pass because they made good games. Not anymore.

Enjoy your exclusive deals! I see they are working very well.

If you turn off your deck being online and then turn it on again somewhere with no internet access, sometimes it will not get past the “looking for updates” screen before loading steam. I’ve had that happen more than enough times. Only way to exit from that loop is connecting to internet, but that’s not always possible.

If Hideo Kojima is not developing the game, why should it be called “A Hideo Kojima game”?

The vr googles are a new product, so it could (and in fact did) flop. If you want to compare a new PS in terms of how could it be with the prices, you need to use the iPhones, that are already established in the market.

Same case: they offer a product that has a different ecosystem that only them produce and they can be considered without competitors (in the Mac /apple ecosystem) same as Sony would be if they had no competitors in the consoles market.

I mean… Look at Apple. It’s not really that crazy to think that the next playstation will cost a thousand.

Will it? If they have no real competition, they could set the price they want. Because Nintendo is not an alternative and Microsoft seems to be aiming at other stuff that is not consoles anymore. And many people still think that a console is easier and less troublesome when you only want to play games (even though it’s not anymore the case).

There’s something unsettling about all this. They are selling ps5 pro at an insane price tag. What’s going to happen when PS6 is released? Are they going to sell it under the price of the pro? Probably not. So it means PS6 will probably have a starting price of, at least ps5, pro price tag. Are we going to see the next gen at prices over 1000€?

Even if he isn’t part of the gaming industry, we can’t pretend he’s the only one thinking like this (hence my comment “people like this asshat”). This kind of assholery is the reason the AAA industry is like this.

It’s people like this asshat the reason why I rarely play an AAA game anymore and the few I play are always the pirated version.

It’s a pity that the game looks like it’s going to be another competitive PvP shooter.

I would have bought it if it had a campaign as the old Army Men games but… Well, saved money.

Thanks Nintendo! You’re giving me even more reasons to not buy any of your crap. It’s been years since I bought something from you and I’m happy you keep doing your best to help me with my decision.