From Eurogamer: "When Dave Jones, one of the chief creators of Lemmings, Grand Theft Auto and the first Crackdown game, took to the stage during Microsoft's 2015 Gamescom media briefing to present pre-alpha in-game footage of Crackdown 3, gamers were promised a competitive multiplayer open-world experience with "100 per cent destructible environments". By connecting to the Microsoft cloud, Crackdown 3 would benefit from 20 times the computational power of the Xbox One, we were told. As virtual buildings blew apart in the most realistic, expansive way we'd ever seen in a video game before, Crackdown fans dared to dream about the kind of game they would eventually play."
Tencent is set to buy Sumo Group in a deal worth $1.27bn (£919m), the companies have announced.
Tencent is really buying up everything. I'm surprised everyone is selling to them like this.
No way they are worth that much. They are a support studio. I guess tencent decided to throw them an insane price that Sumo would be crazy to turn down.
Its like the godfather. "Im going to make you an offer you cant refuse"
I've heard some time ago, that they created a special unit that has a mission to search for acquirable devs all around the globe.
I doubt anyone that matters to the actual production of the games is getting a raise. The only thing that has changed is that now they can't buy any Winnie the Poo products for their kids.
Well they’re allowed. America and China are leading the world in toxic capitalism.
As publicly traded companies it's either they sell and potentially get more, or tencent initiates a hostile takeover and buys at least 51% of the shares. These companies might not even be amicable to the buy out but opt to take it because hostile takeovers are terrible.
Yep. A company that built itself by ripping off IP of small, innovative developers and out-marketing them. Tencent is everything wrong not just with gaming but corporate ethics in general, and the assymetric regulatory playing field we for some reason permit from the Chinese government. Egregiously corrupt companies like Tencent should be banned from the US market.
The US market would take Tencent to dinner and have it naked on the bed by midnight if it could. America and China are as bad as each other
They can take Sumo those devs really aren't that great. Sack boys big adventure scored good however but Crackdown 3 wasn't great. They're 50/50 Sony will find a suitable replacement for Sack boy. MS desperately needs a suitable replacement for crackdown, if it's not already too late in terms of fanfare at this point.
Sumo to me isn't that big of a deal there are better devs out there.
This is the same Sumo who made Outrun 2, 2006 Coast to Coast, Sonic Racing Transformed as well as Forza Horizon 2 on the 360. I think they are better than you give them credit for.
You might want to walk this statement back. Why else do you think this game goes for over $200 now?
https://www.ebay.com/p/5144...
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yeah, thats what I thought. $1.3 billion is very high, Insomniac sounds like a bargain deal for Sony!
at the two above me,
it's easy to sell for less when you know you're in good hands business and culture wise. I mean sure you could scratch out some extra money elsewhere but are all the people you know going to be taken care of when you get bought out? Sony takes care of them. Basically you can tell who's a scheming money scumbag by what ceo's/execs choose to be bought by. In the end money talks but there's extras to consider sometimes.
Me too! After looking them up, it seems like they were the parent of other game studios: Lab42, Red Kite, Sumo India, The Chinese Room and PixelAnt Games and also have some cryptocurrency technology.
They may also still hold the IP for back when they were Gremlin Interactive.. back in the Amiga days they were really a dev of some repute.
They're not, it's likely them just throwing money around to make sure they have no opposition. Sumo is a valuable developer as they've assisted in alot of great games. They did LBP3, Sackboy, Sonic Transformed, I believe Assisted in both ModNation Racers and LBPK, Team Sonic racing, just to name the few off the top of my head that I own.
I honestly thought ms or Sony would have nabbed them, seeing as they have worked for both on their respective ips, colour me surprised.
It's a lot of money for a group with no ips, what would they have worked on to keep so many studios and staff employed. For now at least they continue working on ips for the likes of Sony and Microsoft.
Sony and ms have more than enough ips to keep em busy, the price would have been an issue though, that I agree with, just surprised is all🤷♂️
Tencent doesn't exactly pride themselves on original IP anyway. They just steal someone else's. They only need developer drones.
They have enough to make them busy but there is no point in buying the studio that high, they could just make the developers some offers and thats it... heck every single developer could just quit the studio and with what is tensen left? no point in buying a studio with no IP you dont own the developers
I already agreed that the price was high, still don't take away that they could have been used, and be useful to either ms or sony
Microsoft recently released their Xbox Cloud Gaming PC Beta which allows users the opportunity to stream Xbox games to their Windows 10 PCs or laptops. This follows on from being able to use the cloud gaming on mobile devices which works very well but is limited to the size of your screen. Having the option to play Xbox games with a larger display has its obvious benefits.
CG writes: Nvidia’s claims that the RTX 3090 can render games in 8K at 60 FPS, ring true for us in this video. We put the game Crackdown 3 through its paces with some interesting results.
If you've ever super-sampled anything you would know why it can make things look better.
Let's talk about powahhhh of da clawwdd for a second 🤣did they give up with this thing?
Oh right, I didn't get the joke sorry, it just clicked. Hmm, is Crackdown 3 really that bad/universally hated especially as it's on gamepass?
My attempt at humour could have been clearer, in hindsight..!
Yeah, sadly Crackdown 3 had been hyped so hard and so long by Microsoft, that when it launched as a mediocre game, it got panned. It was mainly the broken promises about the power of the cloud I think that did it. This was the 'cloud power' poster child for years and it all amounted to nothing, which is a real shame, because if they'd realised their initial vision it could have been special.
I do remember the original vision where entire buildings could be demolished but wasn't that feature relegated to the multiplayer mode? For me, Crackdown 3 comes across quite generic. I suppose if it had the full destruction in the story mode that would have been bad-ass. If Red Faction Guerrilla can do it why not CD?
Crackdown 3 was made for crackdown fans. Hated by non crackdown fans. Enjoyed by crackdown fans.
I played it on PC for a little while via gamepass. It's not nearly as terrible as people would try to make it out to be, but it's the definition of a "meh" game.
There's fun to be had if you're bored.
It's good it's possible but who would pick this over 4K60 on ultra? It would look far better
100%. This is obviously just showing what can be done with the current highest end hardware, rather than what should be. And if you're splashing out for an RTX 3090 over a 3080 for gaming (small performance delta if not using that huge buffer for productivity), then I guess you'll also consider splashing out for an 8k screen. And, I mean, you'll want to be able to do *something* with it lol.
Let's be honest here, even with extra high settings at 8k 120fps... it'll still look like crap. Sorry.
"After Microsoft decided to delay Crackdown 3 yet again - the final time the company is willing to do so, I've heard - the many developers working on it were faced with at least another six months of work after having previously thought they'd be done with the project in June 2018. For many of the developers working on Crackdown 3, this latest delay means potentially more crunch for what some expect will be a disappointment of a release no matter how much money and resources Microsoft throws at it."
damn. sounds like the project would be either cancelled if they don't meet deadlines, or that the devs would crunch really badly for a game which seems like it won't even release at a good state.
“They have faced multiple challenges along the way, which, people close to the project speaking with Eurogamer anonymously have indicated, has a lot to do with that pesky cloud-powered multiplayer”
It’s no wonder you don’t see any other Microsoft titles extensively making use of the cloud as Crackdown 3.
I think "The cloud" was always a possibility, but I'm sure Microsoft would rather rent those servers than give them out for free. I'm sure the game will find its audience but won't have a cultural impact.
Said months ago multiplayer would not be as promised, knew it was never gonna be a 100% destructive environment, even said the rumor was that it had changed to tower defence after that ex dev had spilled the beans, now they saying that was never the aim? That it was only to demonstrate the tech?? They clearly advertised it as a feature, they basically shouted about it, i think we can safely say the cloud talk was pure bs, just like most said it was.
They really are in a tough spot, for starters they wanted to get away from cod / ac/ red dead but they got stuck with anthem /division 2 / kingdom hearts /etc..
They could technically release it as digital only to save some money, and they could also release the sp portion first, but then you got those who were waiting for the fully desctructible mp environment, man i'd hate to be in their shoes