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Are Sony and Nintendo the last two major companies we can trust for day 1 releases?
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Aenima
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Yeah they are pretty consistent. (not on PC) Thers a few others as well.
SEGA's Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio always delivers.
Atlus with Persona games, even if they fuck you up with Golden/Royal edition that you cant just upgrade.
Vanillaware, its a gem factory.
Others already mentioned Capcom, FromSoft, even if From always fucks up in performance, the games are always worth day 1 purchases.
Alot Japanese studio just make that extra effort to deliver you a finished product.
SEGA's Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio always delivers.
Atlus with Persona games, even if they fuck you up with Golden/Royal edition that you cant just upgrade.
Vanillaware, its a gem factory.
Others already mentioned Capcom, FromSoft, even if From always fucks up in performance, the games are always worth day 1 purchases.
Alot Japanese studio just make that extra effort to deliver you a finished product.
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Deerock71
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ShadyAcshuns
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TheAssist
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Cant speak for any other Square games, but FF7R and FF16 were pretty fine right a launch. Both got I think a single patch for some small stuff, but I played both without any patches and everything was fine. No DLC that should have been part of the main game, no majo bugs that were occuring to a major part of the install base.
ZVWQP-9B8TM-VH9CT
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Don't blame the owners of the company. Blame their parents and their grandparents.
ChorizoPicozo
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mostly.
Danjin44
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Skifi28
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Technically true. Sure, their games might release with bad performance on day one, but it's not like they fix them later so there is no reason to wait.You forgetting...
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Danjin44
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I take few performance issue over incomplete and downright broken game. I mean I bough Elden Ring day one the few FPS issue didn't prevent me from enjoying the game.
nial
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OP is talking about publishers tho, so Monolift Soft fits into Nintendo. Vanillaware, while independent, often has its games published by Atlus, which has a good track record.You forgetting...
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Iced Arcade
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Everything will be fine vawn
Rhazer Fusion
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Imho, most Japanese/Asian game companies are trustworthy when it comes to delivering a polished and quality product to my experience. For example, they typically have way less glitches, bugs and less issues at launch.
64bitmodels
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Just japanese. No other asian country really comes close in terms of output for one reason or another.
Rhazer Fusion
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That’s true, but for me I suppose games like Asterigos, Lies of P, DNF Duel and I’m assuming Stellar Blade and Wukong give me hope that future releases will eventually be on par with most of the Japanese developers.
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64bitmodels
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Those releases are really good but at the end of the day it's going to be hard for Korea or China to have their own Nintendo.
Magic Carpet
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Double Fine is the only Microsoft developer I would Day One with.
DaleinCalgary
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Brutal Legend. Biggest false advertising of all time.
Magic Carpet
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And strangely it’s Double Fines most requested sequel.
EDMIX
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Truth.
Some random bad releases here and there by all 3, but majority are solid, solid releases.
Krappadizzle
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SCB3
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No, Pokemon SV and Days Gone being messes at launch being 2 prime examples, they were fixed after (well as much as Pokemon could be) but still shit on release
To be slightly fair, the Switch is very underpowered but it really shouldn't excuse Gamefreak, especially when Sword/Shield despite their own flaws, always ran pretty well
Edit: Forgot a big one, Driveclub!
Also for Sony, that Network hack that not only put Crossplay back a decade or so but also completely killed SOCOM
To be slightly fair, the Switch is very underpowered but it really shouldn't excuse Gamefreak, especially when Sword/Shield despite their own flaws, always ran pretty well
Edit: Forgot a big one, Driveclub!
Also for Sony, that Network hack that not only put Crossplay back a decade or so but also completely killed SOCOM
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StereoVsn
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Yep, still need to wait for deep dive tech reviews and impressions even for Sony, Nintendo or whatever other studio you think is safe like Capcom.
Nothing guarantees bug free Day 1 or the game delivering as it’s supposed to.
DenchDeckard
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Wasn't GT7 broken for a few days at launch?
But apart from that, I believe most of Sony and Nintendo games launch in a state that they can be enjoyed on day one.
I remember my god of war 2018 copy having like 7 patches in a week, but I never experienced issues at all, so not sure what was going on there??
But apart from that, I believe most of Sony and Nintendo games launch in a state that they can be enjoyed on day one.
I remember my god of war 2018 copy having like 7 patches in a week, but I never experienced issues at all, so not sure what was going on there??
Slothbeing1209
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Why does everyone say From Software ?
Their games at launch are choppy as fuck. While it's "playable" but it's not stable at all.
Their games at launch are choppy as fuck. While it's "playable" but it's not stable at all.
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They've changed Ken's theme, it's a different game to me, what's next? Pull it from the internet and leave it without a trace, that's too cruel but obviously yes.
and half baked sports titles ..
Aion002
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That was like ordering a type of food that you dislike just because your favorite restaurant made it.
Anyway... I trust Kojima, From Software and Capcom, they always delivered for me. Yes, I liked Exo Primal and RE6.
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three_muffins
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So what you are trying to day is that almost all publishers cannot be trusted to deliver a complete and stable software, but Nintendo fails completely and cannot even be trusted on a hardware level?
Im totally with you. Nintendo is the worst....
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digdug2
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How are you supposed to know that you dislike the food until you try it?That was like ordering a type of food that you dislike just because your favorite restaurant made it.
Anyway... I trust Kojima, From Software and Capcom, they always delivered for me. Yes, I liked Exo Primal and RE6.
Crayon
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That was like ordering a type of food that you dislike just because your favorite restaurant made it.
Anyway... I trust Kojima, From Software and Capcom, they always delivered for me. Yes, I liked Exo Primal and RE6.
I think that's actually pretty reasonable as long as I'm not going to go asking for my money back if I don't like it. "I have no doubt those were quality monkey brains but not good enough to change my mind."
Shut0wen
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All those games literally came out fully functioning with bare minimum bugs, plus all those games dlc were free...
YeulEmeralda
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Someone didn't play TLOU on PC.
ZoukGalaxy
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Nintendo, and only Nintendo.
Their enterprise culture is the key.
Their enterprise culture is the key.
SEGAvangelist
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Sony? Wasn't Days Gone a mess for a bit after launch? How quickly we forget the GT mtx stuff too.
Team Andromeda
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Nintendo
They've always had the best Q&A in the business.
They've always had the best Q&A in the business.
LordBlodgett
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Nah, can't trust anyone. Just don't pre-order anything. Some games shine on release and others need a ton of work or suck. Been burned enough times to realize that I' not gonna buy anything without reading a lot of trusted reviews and watching videos before I get games.
Camreezie
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Thats my thinking too, western devs are more preoccupied with bathroom gender politics and making masculine female character models. Japanese devs tend to focus on gameplay and quality first
akaFullmetal
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Nintendo, PlayStation and Capcom have been very consistent and normally don't have to worry the game won't work.
digdug2
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That was where I ended up as well. I played it for a couple hours, realized that it was not for me, and it's still installed on my Xbox in the event that maybe I want to try it out again. I didn't ask for a refund on it because I had an inkling that it wouldn't be my cup of tea but had to find out for myself.
I got Armored Core V on PS3 back in the day and didn't really like it, but that title is pretty universally panned, so I didn't think it was fair to not give the new one a shot.