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Why did I click on this thinking exactly the same thing lol

It's called Better Luck Next Time by Daemon

That's not too surprising. The narrative these days is that people buy Playstation for 1st party exclusives, when the truth is the vast majority of people buy consoles for third party games. The whole Playstation "blockbuster" exclusive thing is a relatively recent advent. The exclusives that sold PS1 and PS2 were 3rd party. PS3 had its struggles despite tremendous momentum from previous generations. Nintendo has a great attach rate because Nintendo games are the main reasons to buy their systems. Someone would buy Sony or Microsoft systems if they wanted anything else. Parents are more likely to buy Nintendo systems for kids as the hardware and software is geared more closely for them.

It's true, my non-gaming friends have been asking me about it. - Daemon

Sure do: www.ign.com/wikis/ign-podcasts/Video_Game_20_Questions

Played it and Elden Ring is still way better.

exactly

Difference is MS bought DoubleFine. Sony does not own oddworld.

Nintendo couldn’t care less about their fans they only care about sales.

I absolutely love Daemon Hotfield. He seems great at his job, smart, funny, articulate, fantastic gaming industry knowledge, great on camera. He is just perfect.

@@nickmajora his music is best. When playing games I often think a Daemon song would be perfect for this part of the game.

@@daksans6764 yes! We should start a fan club 😂.

The lead designer who compaknts about this is a cry baby. He allways blames someone else. Never their fault. The game would not have sold millions if it was just sold. People download it because it is free on ps+. And beeing an Oddworld fan myself i can day the game isn't that good either

The problem with this PSplus deal is they gave the game away to KEEP FOREVER! but on GamePass the only way to KEEP FOREVER (if you like a game)is to BUY the game. #XboxGamePass

@@solid_justice5855 I don't know why people keep jumping to this, frankly, extremely odd conclusion that the developer believes they've missed out on millions of sales. He never stated such a thing. The best explanation I can come up with is that people like yourself and all those leaving the same wrong conclusion on the IGN forums have adopted this narrative as a way to belittle the man, using it as a reason to turn against him, and specifically side with Sony, most likely to justify and support a subscription service that will benefit themselves, with little care or regard for the impact such a service may have on developers and has absolutely had on this one. As I understand it (and correct me if I'm wrong) the game was released on PS Plus shortly after it was available to buy. We all understand that this will have an impact on sales. And Sony knows that better than anyone else. They know full well how quickly releasing a product on subscription impacts a game's sales numbers. And while Oddworld wasn't put on PS Plus immediately it was put on the system very quickly; quickly enough that it did affect sales. This is the point the developer is making. Going public with his experience is more a word of caution than anything. Sony knew full well what they were doing, and if they don't believe they were actively going to impact sales, maybe we'll see them prove this by putting all of their future new games on their subscription service one month after they're available to purchase!!! From what I've read the developer presumed sales in the hundred thousands. The number of downloads clearly suggest the game was of more interest to far more people than predicted. And while no one, but those that insultingly believe the developer equates millions of downloads with millions of sales. If they presumed 100,0000 sales and the game sold fifty percent, or even two hundred percent more that's a huge difference. Huge enough that it would make sense that such a loss of sales is described as 'devastating'! The facts are that Sony clearly took advantage of the developer, knowing they were in desperate need of financing, and Sony purposely made the game available shortly after it was available to purchase, because they knew it would be beneficial to their service to put the game on PS Plus quickly. And they knew it would impact sales, hence the reason they have no intention of doing this with their own games. So yeah, defend Sony, and when a subscription service does bring about the end of a developer or franchise in future, be quick to defend that corporation too.

@@weerobbo Sure. But as I understand it, a big difference between Microsoft's service and Sony's is that Microsoft's is more beneficial, more 'fair' if you like, to developers, and should a game prove popular the developer does see a larger reward and benefit than they would dealing with Sony. Incidentally I'm not defending Microsoft. I despise these subscription services. It seems pretty obvious to me what the ultimate goal is; essentially to remove all purchasing control from gamers and enforce everyone into a monthly fee in order to just play games, ultimately giving the corporation total control over the cost of gaming! I guarantee that this is the ultimate goal; it's what all corporations strive towards. Everyone's praising, no, outright selling the (currently) cheap 'benefits' of these subscription services to everyone else, and ensuring these corporations reach their goal as quickly as possible. It's kind of admirable if you lack respect for people and admire profit margins! I suspect gamers will finally wake up to what they've supported when its too late. And no doubt find anyone, anything else, to blame than themselves for buying into such services. Just as we've recently seen people whine about 'scalpers'; a business born from everyone's determination to kill off high street stores and empower online markets (because "it's so much cheaper to buy from Amazon than go to a shop")! Corporation's new cheap services are always the first stage - used to entice and build the user base - to turn the service into an essential need, to make those without feel like they're missing out, to collapse competition, and ultimately take control of that market, or slice of market before it can engage the final stage of working out exactly how much it can extract from the maximum number of customers it has.

Correct.

How astute

Your reply makes no sense. Botw2 is not on wiiU. The sequel is not made for wiiU.

@@solid_justice5855 its the same engine and assets. You can clearly see that.

@@mr_m4613 it looks higher quality. No way botw 2 would run on a wiiU.

Wtf are you talking about? The Xbox platform is bad for developers. They take gamepass deals because that's the best they can do on xbox. ASK ANY DEVELOPER, the xbox fanbase do not buy games like Sony/Nintendo, so smaller developers in a competitive marketplace have no choice. You have Xbox fans crying about japanese support. Here's an idea...buy their games day one instead of "wating for gamepass" Edit: and KZfaq CCs are worse/not any different, and what are you doing here if you don't like IGN lol

Accurate username.

The problem with this PSplus deal is they gave the game away to KEEP FOREVER! but on GamePass the only way to KEEP FOREVER (if you like a game)is to BUY the game. #XboxGamePass

@@iftycent8 What developers did you ask?

I've played more games this last two years than i have since i owned a 360. Sure bro, Gamepass is horrible!

I think the Jury is still out. I don’t think they’re the future but a couple years after Microsoft starts releasing fable, Bethesda, day one we’ll know more. Right now the numbers have proven for Gamepass member they spend more on the games. Which is good for devs and the gamers that get introduced to new ip

@@reach5589 its bad for the consumer too, you don't own your games, they have complete control over them and can remove them anytime they feel

Online gaming isn't good for gaming, its actually a cancer and basically what killed gaming.

The problem with this PSplus deal is they gave the game away to KEEP FOREVER! but on GamePass the only way to KEEP FOREVER (if you like a game)is to BUY the game. #XboxGamePass