Money they would've had if they hadn't spent so much of it on licenses for games based on TV shows and movies.

Yeah good point. Their hit game "The jogging deceased" was a huge hit

For those interested in Sony's yearly Playstation Experience events, Sony announced they will not be holding one this year. Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shawn Layden stated the official reason is due to them not having anything interesting left to show off for the year and other projects are too early in development for reveals.

Also seems they are finally learning why its not a good idea to show off games way too early.

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/ps.../1100-6462142/

Things like that and e3 are kind of archaic tbh. Nintendo directs are the blue print for the future. Much more cost effective

The #1 problem was terrible management demanding more TWD games. Couple that with the fact that only 2 or 3 of their games ever made them a profit and the disaster gumbo really comes to a boiling point.

Also being rumored that those same employees either have or are in the process of filing a class-action suit against the company, as in violation of the Warren Act, TTG did not give 30 days advance warning of layoffs which involved more than 50 employees.

But hey, it's not like those employees have families to try and provide for or anything, right? :roll:

Think Destor was playing with the idea of licensed games being a weakness of theirs when their whole gimmick was story based explorations of known brands. He passed no ill will to the employees.

Though if only so many games made profit then I'd say their days were numbered regardless.

Exactly.

The issue was always only TWD game made any money so when a licensed IP failed (GoT for example) it cost a TON of money and with no IPs of their own...well here we are.

They have no money to pay anyone anything.

Twitch hurt them more than i think anyone will ever know.

Which actually relates to my long stated points about the weakness of narrative based games vs open-ended replayable games and multiplayer. If a YouTube vid or longplay stream can subvert 80% of the experience, we're looking at a dying breed of game.

Today's News:
1) In a "Did You Know Gaming" type fact, Nintendo apparently had plans for a Bowsette type character way before the internet took off with the meme. Recently released art book for Super Mario Odyssey revealed unused designs for a new character based on Bowser possessing Peach via Mario's hat from Odyssey.
https://www.destructoid.com/what-are...k-524907.phtml

2) Sega announced they are currently considering the idea of porting Shenmue I & II to the Switch if there is enough fan demand for the ports.
https://www.destructoid.com/sega-mig...t-525138.phtml

3) During a recent interview with US Gamer, Monolith Soft stated they have been very pleased with the sales of Xenoblade Chronicles 2 and teased future games in the series might go in a new direction.
https://www.usgamer.net/articles/xen...s-expectations

Today's News:
1) While a new game in the Splinter Cell series was rumored to be revealed at E3 and didn't in the end, Ubisoft revealed the reason is due to the company not currently interested in investing money nor time in a new game for the foreseeable future.
https://www.gameinformer.com/2018/10...-splinter-cell

2) During a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal, Capcom revealed they are currently considering plans on releasing more cloud-based games for the Switch.
https://www.destructoid.com/capcom-s...s-525359.phtml

3) CD Projekt Red is currently facing another lawsuit from the original writer of The Witcher series. The writer is claiming the company still owes him money due to the terms of the original deal in regards to the amount of games and expansions made for the series.
https://www.destructoid.com/writer-o...d-525374.phtml

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Today's News:
1) Update to recent Telltale Games shutdown news as the company recently laid off all of their remaining staff. Supposedly the excuse of needing a small staff to finish Netflix's Minecraft project as the reason why they didn't shut down or declare bankruptcy ended up being a lie.
https://www.destructoid.com/telltale...s-525765.phtml

2) According to a report from Kotaku, Sony is currently working on an upcoming update for PSN featuring the long requested ability to change your username on the service.
https://kotaku.com/game-developers-s...ang-1829521254

3) Nintendo is currently rumored to be releasing a new version of the Switch next year based on a report from the Wall Street Journal. The new model is rumored to feature upgraded display hardware similar to modern smartphones but not Samsung's new OLED tech.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/nintend...ear-1538629322

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Today's News:
1) Viz Media announced the first season of Netflix's Castlevania series will be released on DVD and Blu-Ray on December 4. Also included in the package is a Castlevania themed shirt.
https://twitter.com/Valdezology/stat...90517126729730

2) For those interested in Castlevania: Requiem, Konami announced the games included in the set will not include their original English voice-overs and instead are based on the voice work from PSP's Dracula X Chronicles.
https://www.destructoid.com/castleva...n-525812.phtml

3) Recent update for Windows 10 included a new setting allowing the ability to disable Windows update prompts from appearing while playing PC games.
https://majornelson.com/2018/10/02/l...ming-features/

Holy shit, Skybound (Robert Kirkman's entertainment company) is going to continue and finish Telltales The Walking Dead.

No details yet on the deal and whether former employees are getting what they are owed, but in terms of the game, it's getting finished.

Today's News:
1) CD Projekt Red announced they have recently partnered with developer Digital Scapes studio to help work on their multiplayer plans for Cyberpunk 2077.
https://www.destructoid.com/cyberpun...o-526277.phtml

2) Microsoft recently announced a new cloud based gaming service called Project xCloud with the goal of being able to play Xbox brand games on any device and public betas to be held next year.
https://www.destructoid.com/microsof...--526237.phtml
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzV_xrisMko

Meanwhile, it still leaves many former employees of TTG trying to find some way to support their families, not to mention these employees will likely be in the same boat unless Skybound feels really magnanimous and miraculously keeps them all on board in full or part-time positions.

Now I realize it's probably only another small fraction of the employees but I can't help but think the folks that worked on TFtB would be a great fit for Gearbox to hire to fill some vacancies in working on Borderlands 3.

Cloud based gaming. Will never. Take off. Too many genres require perfect or very little input delay. Unless they're installing fiber cables for every subscriber, every game will feel like playing online games with yellow bars.

The last time I tried any cloud based service was the one compatible with OUYA (I think it was Playcast?)... it was surprisingly able to handle shit like Arkham Asylum (cutting edge for the time) input wise, BUT the big albatross there was PS1 era loading times on any transition. In a world where that has pretty much gone away thanks to mandatory installs, having to wait around for 15-20 seconds every time you go through a door or trigger a cutscene gets old really quickly. Something larger with a lot of moving parts in an area- or worse, a game where the area itself has a metric ton to load - will be like trying to go back and play Mortal Kombat on Sega CD.

... and also, I meant for fun.

My job went from having a local server to a corporate hosted, cloud-based network, and it has sucked copious amounts of ass ever since. It's super slow even when working "properly", and heaven forbid the site go down or the internet peter out on either end (usually theirs). Oho, and I don't even want to talk about when they do updates...

Today's News:
1) For those interested in Call of Duty Black Ops 4, the physical version of the game is rumored to require a Day 1 patch in order to be playable. The size of that patch is also rumored to be 50GB.
https://www.destructoid.com/black-op...h-526258.phtml
https://www.destructoid.com/black-op...b-526419.phtml

2) Newest game in the Sonic racing series, Team Sonic Racing, is rumored to be getting delayed from its Winter 2018 release to now a TBA 2019 release date.
http://www.nintendolife.com/news/201...yed_until_2019

3) According to a report from Kotaku, Microsoft is currently expected to be purchasing Obsidian Entertainment studio within the near future. Recent games made by Obsidian Entertainment include Fallout New Vegas and South Park: The Stick of Truth.
https://kotaku.com/sources-microsoft...ian-1829614135

In an eyebrow raising move, it was announced yesterday that Borderlands 2 VR is coming to PlayStation VR December 14. I wish I had made that up.

Sony recently confirmed reports of them working on an upcoming update for PSN allowing the ability to change your username on the service.

Similar to Microsoft, the first name change will be free and then $9.99 for each change made afterwards. Not sure if Microsoft gives a discount for Gold members but Sony is offering a 50% discount for PS+ members who want to change their name after the first time.

Although there is a huge kicker and a big reason why Sony waited soo long to actually do this. This is only compatible for PS4 games and only for those released after April due to how usernames were programmed into PSN.

https://blog.eu.playstation.com/2018...-program-soon/

Wouldn't budge a millimeter on cross-play, now they've done the bare minimum by allowing a beta of it...but only for Fortnite and it may not ever be fully implemented across the PS4...and now THIS.

Keep going down this railroad line, Sony. I'm sure you won't lose PS5 sales to MS's 9th get console or anything if you do because nothing anybody does in life has consequences, right?...:roll::nono:

If you think either ofnthose are going to impact sales you're an idiot.

Titles sell consoles not changing you name

Today's News:
1) EA announced they currently have plans to remaster more games from the Command & Conquer series for PC. Also working on plans to celebrate the series 25th anniversary next year.
https://www.destructoid.com/ea-s-pla...c-526719.phtml

2) Based on recent sales data, Assassin's Creed Odyssey managed to generate the highest launch week sales for the series during this console gen (includes Black Flag).
https://www.destructoid.com/assassin...n-526668.phtml

3) For those interested, Epic Games recently released a new version of Fortnite for Android devices that no longer requires an invite in order to be playable.
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/fo.../1100-6462465/

I'm curious as to why you intentionally avoided their refusal until recently to support cross-play with XB1 and Switch players. I'm sure that would've sold them AT LEAST another 1M PS4's. Good to see they're allergic to money, though.

I'm not so sure a million players were waiting for PS4 to allow them play people on another console.

A couple of my friends have shitty PSN ID's because they were both too impatient to come up with a unique handle they actually liked and instead mashed random characters and numbers. Neither of them care about trophies and they both could have changed to a new account with a better name at any point with no real loss but they haven't, I guess because it really doesn't matter whatsoever what your name is.

It's a vocal minority that give a fuck about cross play, and a majority of that minority just like having something to be mad about.

"But I want to play Fortnite on my Switch and my XBONE and my PC too and now I'm going to have to unlock my arbitrary character customisation options all over again! Fuck Sony!"

Most people who play online with friends tend to all gravitate towards the same console in the first place. Outside of the Dark Souls family I don't really play online and I really could not care less if I can summon somebody cross platform.

1 million is way too generous of an estimate but Sony's poor handling of cross-platform play and PSN account stuff absolutely could have led to lingering negative effects going into the next Playstation console. Especially when you had Bethesda threatening to pull future multi-platform support for Sony consoles and Epic publicly blaming Sony for the Fortnite account controversy.

Main reason why PS4 has such a strong dominance over the Xbox One was due to the blunders Microsoft carried over from the Xbox 360 gen and the early blunders with the Xbox One. Combine that with Sony learning from their lessons with the PS3 and improving their rep, it turned what could have been a close XBox One vs PS4 race into a blowout win for Sony.

Like seriously I do not think cross platform play is a serious issue for general gamers. Not even close.

Today's News:
1) Sega recently announced a new "Road to 2020" plan for the company which includes more focus towards same day worldwide game releases, new games for their lesser status or idle IPs, and more collaboration work with Atlus.
https://www.destructoid.com/sega-unv...--527184.phtml

2) According to Activision, Call of Duty Black Ops 4 had the biggest digital sales launch in company history although it came at a huge cost of around a 50% drop in physical sales for the UK region. Also people have already found ways to hack or cheat in Black Ops 4 via the new emote and spray tag system.
https://www.destructoid.com/call-of-...s-527167.phtml
https://www.reddit.com/r/Blackops4/c...s_in_blackout/

3) According to reports, a new malicious bug was recently discovered on PSN which can cause PS4 consoles to be bricked when using PSN's Messenger service.
https://www.destructoid.com/psa-psn-...s-527021.phtml

Today's News:
1) Update to recent PS4 bricking news as Sony released a quick fix for those who encounter the bug from PSN. Pretty much requires to use the Playstation mobile app and restarting the console in Safe Mode to do a full clean.
https://twitter.com/AskPS_UK/status/1051844976844464129

2) According to Activision, CoD Black Ops 4's launch day digital sales managed to be both the highest in series history and in company history. In terms of comparisons, the PC version managed to double the sales of last year's CoD WWII launch.
https://www.destructoid.com/black-op...e-527212.phtml

3) For those interested, Discord recently launched their own digital online marketplace called Discord Store and currently features several exclusive deals.
https://blog.discordapp.com/discord-...e-38bfd044d648

Does a general gamer usually have one system? It might be an issue that only general games care about.

Nope.

According to a report from Engadget, Epic Games is currently suing two known Fortnite Youtube players due to them advertising hacking software for the game in their videos and for using it during matches to help promote sales.

As part of the lawsuit, Youtube was also asked to pull down all the Fortnite videos from the channel involved.

This is also the second time Epic Games has sued players for selling hacking software for the game.

https://www.engadget.com/2018/10/14/...rtnite-cheats/
https://www.destructoid.com/fortnite...g-527423.phtml

Good. Throw the fucking book at them.

Like, I mean literally tie them up and "stone" them with books.

Heavy books.