What's even more disturbing is that Sony is legitimately considering selling Spiderman 3 piecemeal and breaking it into two halves for $50 each only to basically sell the full game for $100.
The Sony patent is so strange. A lot of games have some sort of adaptive difficulty. Some more on-the-nose than others, but the bare minimum comeback mechanic I would say is almost a standard in modern game design.
Like what about wb games with their shadow of war characters? Lol I think it's the same how sega had a camera patent I don't think many will follow and I don't see it being heavily restricted for other's to do something similar
Not really. It makes a lot of sense especially when you consider that Sony have just released a disabled controller. Groups like Able Gamers have been pushing for many years about us disabled players as we make up about 20% of all gamers. It would not surprise me at all that they have developed some algorithm or method of adpating difficulty that works rather well and they're patenting it. Just because other methods exist doesn't make it strange, quite the opposite.
@@crunchyfrog555 I hope so, because the flow is literally "-> User plays -> Game performance is analyzed -> Difficulty is adjusted ->" and the name is incredibly generic.
@@fernandobanda5734 Yes, that's how patents are titled or published generally. They're not going to give the actual detail sup front as that'd be ridiculous. Think about it. Plus you cannot patent generic stuff so that should tell you everything. So of COURSE it's more than this.
It confused me at first, too, but if you look at the flow chart, it seems to be referring to cross-game dynamic difficulty. If your comfortable difficulty was found to be easy in one game, it would automatically be set to easy in other games. Still too broad to be acceptable, though.
As someone who works in IT security, I greatly appreciate Sony not paying the ransom. This has been the busiest December I've seen in the last few years and Ransomware payouts are likely related.
Very true. I'm also sure that places like China (and of course the war in Russia too) with the massive problems with their economy collapsing is also having a massive effect. A lot of people in China are not getting paid for work and haven't for months, and government employees are desperately trying to get what wealth they have out of the country (via crypto or other nefarious means). So I'm quite certain that this causes an escalation in criminals pushing extra effort in hacking too.
They should also invest in some security, Sony gets hacked every other day, I live in japan and IT security is held together by hopes, dreams, and a log-in banner reading “please don’t hack me”. I know the target wasn’t here, but there’s a mentality in Japanese companies of not investing in cyber security.
The Alien Resurrection swap method wasn't discovered. It was disclosed by Martin Piper, one of the original game developers. It was implemented as a technology test for disc swapping without resetting the console, in case the game turned out to be a multi-disc game, which it didn't. Still, it's really amazing that nearly 27 years have passed and the cheat code had to be revealed by the one person who got to work on it.
@@HearMeLearn I guess I have to rectify my own comment. The cheat code was indeed discovered long time ago but not it's pretended use. It wasn't until Martin Piper revealed what it's used for that the cheat remained a mystery for everyone.
@Lee-km7qq Wouldn't it be better to have all those mechanics implemented in "Spider-Man 3"? And have a story that gets entangled with the Spider-Verse? Games as a Service is a cancer on creativity.
I'm hopeful there's a chance they'll be caught, if they do get caught it's prison time for quite a while & garnished wages for the rest of their lives.
@@Evilpricetag 1. They're not going to get caught anytime soon. They've been doing shit like this for a while. 2. You're assuming these guys actually have jobs outside of this hacking business?
@@infinitydragonoid2655 if they get caught, imprisoned, & then released, they'll likely be watched closely & need to get an actual job is what the speculation is. All money is traceable, no matter what you've been told, if they did sell a portion of the information, that could be the biggest thing to dig for.
This is a ransomware group, not a bunch of plucky hackers. We're talking about cyber criminals, not cyber vigilantes. I agree with you, but this group isn't doing things with the goal of leaking so that fans can see games early. They're doing it with the hopes of getting rich.
Growing up in the early 2000s I used to love leaks, but now as an adult I just don’t get excited or really see anything positive about them. I’m excited for what Insomniac has coming up, but doxxing Employees is such a terrible thing to do and the sad reality is there’ll probably be another major leak from a gaming company within the next 6-12 months.
True, but not as bad as scammers and people that are group leaders on social media platforms that can easily look up your information just to be spiteful, I feel if you have money falling out of your pockets you get more respect than a human being that actually goes out and does real work. A lot of streamers exploit views as it is. Just a lot of things instead of 1 particular category but you allow it to happen as for many others. So why should anyone make a moral statement when we choose to live in what we see in front of us?
Tbh I kinda regrettably do get a kick out of seeing leaked games/roadmaps of major publishers/developers, but I realize how bad it must be for the developers themselves. I mean, easily the worst part about this leak is that the employees at Insomniac basically got doxxed which is awful and should never happen to any developer or studio. The safety of the devs is above all more important than any dumb video game leak or whatever. But it I could somehow learn the entire planned roadmaps of every major dev/console manufacturer WITHOUT any personal data of employees being compromised, I honestly would want to learn it.
I feel bad for the employees but also, companies in the US do not take cybersecurity seriously. Our own government doesn’t. This is kind of expected given the lack of effort to prevent stuff like this
You'd think that with their tenuous situation with Call of Duty, they'd be looking at Resistance as an fps replacement, but leave it to them to wait 9 years into a 10 year contract to make ANY moves towards that lol
I garee but the sad reality was that their sales were drastically dimishing as that market was incredibly saturated. Still is somewhat. So I can understand them not wanting to invest in it yet. Hopefully it changes in the future as I loved the series too.
@@crunchyfrog555 I feel like a new Resistance game would be more successful than any of the FPS live service games Sony currently has in development, like Concord and Fairgames (the latter of which looks especially mediocre)
@@Tacitus_kilgore_1903 The Resistance games were great, better than the Killzone games. Sunset Overdrive is great. Some of the older Ratchet & Clank games are also great.
It's insane how these gaming companies are getting hacked on the last few years. I legit don't know if their security is really fragile or these hackers are unstoppable. Kinda looks like they leave a lot of breaches on their security, just look how GTA trailer leaked by a friend of a developer's son.
You do realize that it is as simple as an employee falling for a phishing scam/email, right? The GTA 6 leak happened because an employee clicked on a phishing email and a phishing 2FA scam on their phone. It’s almost always literally as simple as this.
Hacking always has little to do with technology but everything to do with psychology. All hacks are rooted in confidence tricks. It doesn't matter how secure or tech focused your system is, as they ALWAYS have a root of someone pretending to be staff or authorized members and pretending their way to gradually gaining access. It's simply how these things work. Look at it this way - you can have a really secure front door on your house to keep burglars out. You could even have three or four stacked. But if you leave the keys to them under the doormat, or tell the potential burglar where the keys are, they might as well be made of paper.
Double standards in the industry are so frustrating. Journalists happily discussed the leaks of Capcom, Xbox and other companies. But when it comes to a Sony studio they're saying that it's bad to discuss these things. It's sad to see gaming journalism in the pockets of a single company.
What? All of those were talked about in negative lights. They all had personal information leak unfortunately. Perhaps it’s where you’re getting your news at is the issue
@@XxZannexX Sure. It's me who's the problem here not the poor journalists who didn't post about integrity and ethics while other companies were hacked or had stuff leaked. Yhey came into their senses after a Sony studio got information leaked.
No that's a bit of a strawman. It's all about the details. Other leaks have been about company details. This contains PERSONAL staff data. That's a different kettle of fish.
Not surprised that the Wolverine game is the typical over the shoulder third person action game with RPG mechanics So basically Nu-God of War or Last of Us. These cinematic action walking simulators from sony are getting stale lol
The game(s) had to have 7 or more reviews for a single platform in order to qualify; stuff like The Day Before or the GameMill dreck (don’t forget Avatar: Quest for Balance and The Walking Dead: Destinies) didn’t get enough professional reviews.
You are never too old to play video games. Only people who don't play them at all can't comprehend that large multi-billion dollar corporations don't have toddlers programing and making new games. It's mostly adults, mostly in the range of being labeled too old" that are creating games. Besides, older people will have plenty of free time when they retire. Are they not supposed to enjoy their free time that they worked so hard for?
I remember back in the day that this alien resurrection ps1 game could be used to unlock movie or FMV sequences of other ps1 titles by just swapping out the disc, good old times
*Spawnwave, love your channel brother! I'm sick of leaks! In the last three years my information has been leaked at least three times! My mortgage company was just hacked (Mr. Cooper aka Nationstar), then Comcast notified me I was hacked and finally T-Mobile was hacked and lost my data, TWICE! These companies need to be punished for failing to secure customer data! Mr. Cooper lost my social, bank info, name, address, DOB and all they have to do is give me two years of credit reporting while I now have to spend my life checking everything?!*
The "adaptive" difficulty needs to just be an option. A lot of people don't have time for gaming and just want to experience the story of a game and not be bothered with dying twenty million times. This is why the Souls games should have difficulty options and not just a one level kills all setting.
It hurts me to see a studio being forced to work with the Spider Man template for many years to come instead of having creative control over unique projects THEY would like to tackle and dip their toes in, new stuff like when they developed Resistance. Insomniac now has to work for making money, not bring new ideas to the table. I'm not saying that their Marvel based titles won't be good, but when it comes to art and building creative experiences, a whole studio of developers does not want to be restricted like that, it wears them out and sucks out their creative energy
I could see that Alien disc shooting up in value now. That's what seems to happen when certain retail games are found to allow exploits on their respective systems.
Yeah I tried to find one on eBay. Only UK available right now. Might even be cheaper to buy a boot disc idk haven’t really looked into that stuff yet but looks fun.
@@comicsmisexplained It's also appicable to the UK disc as I've tried it in the past. It was previously known as an unknown code and I have a big folder of cheat codes I scribbled down at the time I used them and checked them. I checked last night.
Doubtful, at least long term. I can understand people who don't understand trying to grab a few to corner the market, but the reality is this doesn't mean much now as there are tons of methods to boot a PS1 without modchips or anything these days. As Modern Vintage Gamer rightly pointed out in his video, this doesn't mean much now. So once any chancers who don't understand that have realised this it'll quickly settle down.
I need to dive into this. I'd like to revitalize my PS1 (and first ever console I ever owned) to get it to play off a flash drive or whatever because it can no longer spin up discs now that it's almost 30 years old.
@@dapperfan44 You likely have a couple of options. First off, clean your laser lens. Might just be dirt (no matter if it doesn't look dirty) - isoprop and cotton buds are your friends. Next, find out the exact model and if you need to buy a new laser assembly. If you can't find the exact one or it's too much hassle, look into getting an SD card mod board for it instead. They're your easiest bets.
The only bad thing about the Alien Resurrection boot disc is that now the price for that game is going to sky rocket on the second hand market. Happens all the time when things like this are discovered. People buy up all the copies and sell them back at outrageous prices. Even though at this point there are plenty of ways to play you backup copies on the PS1.
It's crazy how nearly every copy alien resurrection that was on ebay sold yesterday. There's easier and cheaper ways to do what it does. This feature is more of a novelty by today's standards. I also tested it with my import games and it bypasses the region lock
Don't worry it won't last as it's just chancers who don't understand. It's not a big deal as it's very late to the party. There are other ways to boot a PS1 without modchips these days so it doesn't actually mean much. As MVG stated in his video, it's just a relic which would have meant a lot at the time. So you will find in the coming weeks it'll settle down again. You can still use EU copies too as I checked my notes last night of my cheat codes from back in the day.
Everyone, including the press needs to ignore these attacks and not discuss or report on these ransoms and it will not become worth it to the individuals to continue doing this.
@@MarcusM334 no they don't. People need to ignore these losers who are sad pathetic little trolls, sitting in Mama's basement trying to extort money from people.
I'm really excited to see what Insomniac does with Wolverine, i hope it's visceral, i hope the combat is satisfying and i hope it tells a great story while giving Insomniac free reign to do what they want with the universe and characters
Good luck getting a copy of Alien Resurrection. MVG started the video talking about how it was a late PS1 game and that the controls were some of the first PlayStation games with more modern-style controls. I hopped over to eBay before finishing the video and thought I'd pick up a copy of the game if it was cheap... other than some graded copies and some sealed games, there were none left. I clicked over to the past sales search and I noticed that all of the inventory had been snatched up. I then finished the video and then realized, the nature of the sudden loss of inventory. This is a fascinating discovery, but good luck finding a copy. These things are likely to be priced over $100 because scalpers and collectors be crazy.
i remember when the devs of Quantum Error were blaming MS for their game been a floop while that same game waasn't on the MS store/GamePass and they said it did flooped cause it didn't have the budget
After a busy start of the week I got to watch 3 news wave video's in one go! Thank you for the awesome content! This is also the only 'news' I actually keep up with xD
One of the most shocking things for me other than how sad this leak is for everyone involved is seeing the development times put into perspective through roadmaps. I knew they planned that far out, but just seeing it is so strange. Nearly 10 more years until the next new IP? That's roughly 12% of the average lifespan. Crazy.
Not true. You cannot get punished for cheating in purely offline single player. It's legal suicide for a company to try. Starbreeze tried to do it with cheating acheivements on Payday and they quickly retracted it. The legal situation is that you CANNOT action someone for changing a game that doesn't affect anyone else. So that's completely untrue. Why cheat codes are a non event now is largely down to how systems operate (plus online gaming). Most gaming systems now have front end UIs and handle memory access in levels so it's a lot more difficult to have cheats. On top of this you have the problem that leaving in offline cheats can more easily be manipulated by coders to work in online, so they aren't going to risk that. Any such dev tools as part of the approval process, are removed before release, strictly so.
No one is safe online, no one. Banks have been hack, the credit bureaus like Exparian have been hacked, the government has been hacked. There is no such thing as 100% security online.
They can spend that type of money when they know they're going to sell 20 million copies. Let's say Sony makes $40 from every copy they sell. After selling 10 million copies, they've already made a profit at $400 million. The next 10 million will be even more profit.
@@G360LIVEdid you look at the leaks? The profit margins are razor thin. Youre not even including marketing and what they have to give marvel. Their current model isn’t sustainable.
You can use any PS1 game to boot a burnt disc... As long as you keep the pin pushed down that keeps the disc spinning. Swap the disc when the PS1 logo pops up.
When I heard about the adaptive difficulty thing I don’t know why I thought about the whole “end game results” screen where you see your stats in a game and how I remember that if you’re a hardcore gamer, the last thing you want is to see how many times you died 😂
Being confused when you were looking forward to the game informer magazine when it's only digital now since they discontinued the physical product some time ago.
I used to have a Japanese import disc for PS1 that let me play Japanese games on my American PS1. That disc would also let me put burned games in and it worked fine. I used to rent games from the rental store and then use it to have the game forever.
It's cool but it's not that unusual. I wrote as a freelancer for the UK PS1 mag at the time. In the approval process for games, devs HAD to let Sony know about any and all cheats they had in game - anything that might give rise to exploits, access to levels of memory that they didn't want, and so on. The problem is that when you had several members of staff and different departments working on the same code, sometimes things get lost of forgotten and even not documented, though they should. This was the case here - as Alien Resurrection was intended to be a 2 disc game originally, this was a test feature for disc swapping left in and forgotten. Sony didn't get notified as they would DEFINITELY have insisted it removed. Many games have cheats not necessarily to this scale but often don't get reported.
What i don't understand with these leaks is how an entire plot would just be on a server for people right there to hack. Why not keep it on an offline NAS/DAS or something like that? The same for the information of all the people who work on Insomniac. This should be much more secure. I just don't understand how they treat this information so lightly... 🤷🏻♂ I really think it's so sad for them! I hope they will take the secure measurements needed for this!
Dynamic Difficulty of this kind isn't new, it something that very few games have done that I could mention a game or two that basically what is described from this patent. Especially changing the environment to fit the difficulty. Still, kind of odd this is patented.
So when Sony makes a 3rd person action game it's bad, but it's fine that Zelda ToTK is a 3rd person action game. It's fine when all of Microsoft's main games (that they didn't buy out from other platforms) are mostly shooters.
pretty sure that Sony as a companies entire road map. They're creatively bankrupt at this point. Their top studio can't even make a multiplayer mode given 5 years of dev time.
@@dapperfan44 didn't say other companies doing similar stuff each year isn't happening 🤨 it's just sad to see a good developer like insomniac being stuck in one pot 🤷♂️
@@dapperfan44 the point is going over your head. Looking at Microsoft and Nintendo, they at least innovate with different ideas. Sony specifically has stuck with this formula for far too long now and this leak confirms they aren't stopping. Get it now?
@@dapperfan44 Dude are you kidding? Sony's all games are 3rd person over the shoulder story driven action games. For Nintendo: - Zelda: Action Adventure. -Mario: 3d/2d patformer -Mario Kart: Arcade Racer -Smash Bros: Fighting game -Metroid: Action adventure -Animal Crossing: Life Sim -Splatoon: 3rd person online shooter -Xenoblade: jrpg -Fire emblem: Strategy rpg They don't do same genre almost twice
Game companies need to stop being granted patents for basic things like "dynamic difficulty". This is how something as simple as a minigame in a loading screen, is not allowed now.
I'm really so sad about the bad news on Ratchet & Clank though. I've seen a lot of comments from people who actually don't like the R&C series which really makes me upset to be honest. R&C: Tool's of Destruction on the PS3 was the game that brought me back in to gaming (together with Uncharted.) I've had kind of a "sabbat" generation when it comes to gaming. (I had a PS2 but used it more as a dvd player than to game on.) Anyway, When i bought my PS3 (2yrs. after release.) It came bundled with R&C: Tool's Of Destruction & Uncharted and i fell in love with gaming again. I've always been a gamer (thanks to my mom, who also thought me a bit of music, playing a little piano.) But anyway, the Ratchet and Clank series (and Uncharted) means a lot to me. So i really hope that in the future, (even after 2029) the series don't get canned or just a little side project. I really hope people give R&C: Rift Apart a chance because it's a wonderful game!
That ps1 exploit seems weird to me. I remember playing my burned madded 97 i think on the ps1, and you just hand to hold some button inside the tray down with something and i'd used any real game as a boot disc and open the door and swap it for the burned game. Its been a long time for me to remember that, but this seems like a weird way to get there.
Yep, this is what I did. It's the wobble glitch. I had a spring mounted to the stem that pressed the lid check button down, even when you opened the tray. I had a mod chip in the back serial port that worked as a Gameshark type cheat device and allowed region free play and what not.
On the topic of whether to report on it or not, remember that there’s personal information involved, in countries with data protection laws these things have to be reported immediately or there are heavy penalties. I’m not sure of the citizenships of everyone affected but the entire point is moot, it has to be reported and it has to be made widely known, so that affected people can take measures. There are probably third parties who have had their information leaked as well, hell if they’ve been compromised so badly end customers may be affected as well in one way or another.
Thank you. The double-standards of other people over the Sony leak are disingenuous. People covered the NVIDIA, Capcom, GTA 6 & Xbox leaks, but all of sudden, there's ethics. [HYPOCRISY].
Mate, double standards exists within this gaming community for years now. People always picking and choosing. You are only just figuring it out now? Just look at Elden Ring. Elden Ring launched a mess and still won GOTY. Elden Ring is a souls type of game, with tight hit-boxes, i-frames and in need of low latency. FromSoft failed to deliver in this department. In spite of this, Elden Ring still (corruptly) got 10’s across the board. The console versions are just not as bad as PC, but Digital foundry proved Elden Ring was severely lacking on the performance side at launch. Why did Elden Ring get a pass at launch when its frame rate was all over the place on top of other issues at launch? Why the lack of uproar?
This list is also disingenuous painting its own narrative. The Nvida leak had no personal data. It’s the personal data that’s the real issue not what Insomniac is working on. There’s some revisionist history going on as other leaks with personal data were also viewed in a negative light.
If they do make adaptive difficulty a thing, hopefully it's optional. Nothing annoys me more than dying in a game and get asked "do you want to change the difficulty?" This adaptive difficulty might just turn me off from playing newer games all together
I think you raise a good point here. Both Luigi’s Mansion and Metroid Prime tend to serve as great showcases for hardware ability. That, plus the MIA next 3D Mario, would indeed make a pretty good launch year lineup for Switch 2, since we can assume any next major Zelda is going to take at least 6 years.
They don't cancel just because of hacks. That's not how it works. If Capcom cancelled shortly afterwards then they were planned for cancellation anyway and were merely left on the books.
@@joeraig But it's not as it makes no commercial sense. Why would you invest money into planning such a thing, expending work and assets into it, even at an early stage then merely cancel it just because it leaked? That's not how business ever works. They likely just either tidied it up (maybe for shareholders benefit) or it's coincidence.
I commend Sony for not giving in to the malicious group trying to get a quick paycheck. It's important not to let groups use nefarious tactics to steal your hard earned money. Too bad us gamers won't take a que from this example and stop letting ourselves get fleeced over and over again.
I think the gaming industry has figured out that a lot of late gen Xers / early gen Yers are pulling away from gaming because getting stuck is more costly than ever, as time is money.
I'd rather control my own difficulty level than have it adapt. Sometimes I just want to be lazy and play on easy, and other times I don't mind dieing a whole bunch on hard. If the difficulty just adapted down every time I die, I wouldn't be learn anything and wouldn't fulfill my original goal of trying to beat something on hard.
Sony admitting they're scared while trying to scramble and copy Xbox is quite hilarious. Insomniac being turned into a Marvel assembly line is just sad.
04:22 -10:17 I didnt really understand what you were saying about the reporting. Are you saying that there are more people with ties to insomniac that are also VG journalists and that's the reason why this is getting more coverage/respect/empathy from all sorts of outlets?
@@jonyleche3549 I’m to lost 8 mil dollars..what part of that don’t you understand..it don’t matter how much you made if you didn’t break even and actually ended up losing money. That is a FLOP
Correct me if im wrong cause i dont think i am, if you boot a cd playable demo original and after the PlayStation logo you change to a copy cd the game Will boot Right? I use to do that all the time, you just have to put a toothpick so it can run the game while the cover is open…
Yes you can to a certain degree, but it's trciky and unreliable. The point is you can ALWAYS time it where that happens, but to be effective you have to do the interrupt call to STOP the disc and wait for input to start the disc again. That's what this disc has, so it's reliable. That's the difference. The disc swap trick has been well documented for decades, but because it's unrealiable it's not the same.
Imo, the difficulty algorithm should be a setting because yeah sometimes you want the game to be too hard because that can be fun for a change to challenge yourself
@@Deliveredmean42 Lol, I've tried both, and I would argue that Skull Island is genuinely a worse game. I get the distinct impression that thisnlist only included titles which someone at Metacritic deemed to be HIGH PROFILE failures.
I really hope the X-Men games releases soon on PC after the PS5 release, they should do so to reach the lofty goal they have in the contract with Marvel.
@@kahp1072 Then the need to reach the number of copies sold only on PS5 as the goal was for the first 12 months. That’s fine for Spider-Man games, but it will be more difficult for the X-Men games.
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"A cheat code is like using a credit card" bruh😂
Darn you mobile games! 😆
When you defined cheat codes as microtransactions without credit cards I busted out laughing. Thank you for the early morning laugh that I needed.
The more disturbing part that came out of the leaks is that Sony already has plans in place to increase the price of their games from 70$ to 80$
What's even more disturbing is that Sony is legitimately considering selling Spiderman 3 piecemeal and breaking it into two halves for $50 each only to basically sell the full game for $100.
@@jimmythegamer2231what? Where are you guys reading this?
in Germany they are already 79,99
Games from Sony aren’t worth their price, especially as they’re not complete and you have to download it to even play it.
Did you complain about Infinity War and Endgame?
Unless each part is shorter, and has less content than Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2, who cares?
The Sony patent is so strange. A lot of games have some sort of adaptive difficulty. Some more on-the-nose than others, but the bare minimum comeback mechanic I would say is almost a standard in modern game design.
Like what about wb games with their shadow of war characters? Lol I think it's the same how sega had a camera patent I don't think many will follow and I don't see it being heavily restricted for other's to do something similar
Not really. It makes a lot of sense especially when you consider that Sony have just released a disabled controller. Groups like Able Gamers have been pushing for many years about us disabled players as we make up about 20% of all gamers. It would not surprise me at all that they have developed some algorithm or method of adpating difficulty that works rather well and they're patenting it.
Just because other methods exist doesn't make it strange, quite the opposite.
@@crunchyfrog555 I hope so, because the flow is literally "-> User plays -> Game performance is analyzed -> Difficulty is adjusted ->" and the name is incredibly generic.
@@fernandobanda5734 Yes, that's how patents are titled or published generally. They're not going to give the actual detail sup front as that'd be ridiculous. Think about it.
Plus you cannot patent generic stuff so that should tell you everything.
So of COURSE it's more than this.
It confused me at first, too, but if you look at the flow chart, it seems to be referring to cross-game dynamic difficulty.
If your comfortable difficulty was found to be easy in one game, it would automatically be set to easy in other games.
Still too broad to be acceptable, though.
As someone who works in IT security, I greatly appreciate Sony not paying the ransom. This has been the busiest December I've seen in the last few years and Ransomware payouts are likely related.
Very true. I'm also sure that places like China (and of course the war in Russia too) with the massive problems with their economy collapsing is also having a massive effect. A lot of people in China are not getting paid for work and haven't for months, and government employees are desperately trying to get what wealth they have out of the country (via crypto or other nefarious means). So I'm quite certain that this causes an escalation in criminals pushing extra effort in hacking too.
They should also invest in some security, Sony gets hacked every other day, I live in japan and IT security is held together by hopes, dreams, and a log-in banner reading “please don’t hack me”. I know the target wasn’t here, but there’s a mentality in Japanese companies of not investing in cyber security.
@@unixtremeuser name checks out :) Fight the good fight!
Wow we are old we now have to explain cheat codes
Are there ever instances where the hacker group takes payment but doesn't leak the info? Seems like that would never happen.
The leaks showing Playstation wants to increase game prices "AGAIN" to $80/100 just shows how out of touch they really are.
The Alien Resurrection swap method wasn't discovered. It was disclosed by Martin Piper, one of the original game developers. It was implemented as a technology test for disc swapping without resetting the console, in case the game turned out to be a multi-disc game, which it didn't. Still, it's really amazing that nearly 27 years have passed and the cheat code had to be revealed by the one person who got to work on it.
wasn't the cheat code already known but no one knew it was used for?
@@HearMeLearnCorrect.
@@HearMeLearn I guess I have to rectify my own comment. The cheat code was indeed discovered long time ago but not it's pretended use. It wasn't until Martin Piper revealed what it's used for that the cheat remained a mystery for everyone.
I’m happy to know that one of the premier Sony studios is NOT going down the live service rabbit hole.
@Lee-km7qq Wouldn't it be better to have all those mechanics implemented in "Spider-Man 3"? And have a story that gets entangled with the Spider-Verse? Games as a Service is a cancer on creativity.
I think whats messed up is leaking employee information. Leaks the games but keep them out of it.
I'm hopeful there's a chance they'll be caught, if they do get caught it's prison time for quite a while & garnished wages for the rest of their lives.
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1. They're not going to get caught anytime soon. They've been doing shit like this for a while.
2. You're assuming these guys actually have jobs outside of this hacking business?
@@infinitydragonoid2655 if they get caught, imprisoned, & then released, they'll likely be watched closely & need to get an actual job is what the speculation is.
All money is traceable, no matter what you've been told, if they did sell a portion of the information, that could be the biggest thing to dig for.
I wonder if Insomniac will punish that one employee for clicking that exe file.
This is a ransomware group, not a bunch of plucky hackers. We're talking about cyber criminals, not cyber vigilantes. I agree with you, but this group isn't doing things with the goal of leaking so that fans can see games early. They're doing it with the hopes of getting rich.
Growing up in the early 2000s I used to love leaks, but now as an adult I just don’t get excited or really see anything positive about them. I’m excited for what Insomniac has coming up, but doxxing Employees is such a terrible thing to do and the sad reality is there’ll probably be another major leak from a gaming company within the next 6-12 months.
True, but not as bad as scammers and people that are group leaders on social media platforms that can easily look up your information just to be spiteful, I feel if you have money falling out of your pockets you get more respect than a human being that actually goes out and does real work. A lot of streamers exploit views as it is. Just a lot of things instead of 1 particular category but you allow it to happen as for many others. So why should anyone make a moral statement when we choose to live in what we see in front of us?
Tbh I kinda regrettably do get a kick out of seeing leaked games/roadmaps of major publishers/developers, but I realize how bad it must be for the developers themselves. I mean, easily the worst part about this leak is that the employees at Insomniac basically got doxxed which is awful and should never happen to any developer or studio. The safety of the devs is above all more important than any dumb video game leak or whatever. But it I could somehow learn the entire planned roadmaps of every major dev/console manufacturer WITHOUT any personal data of employees being compromised, I honestly would want to learn it.
I feel bad for the employees but also, companies in the US do not take cybersecurity seriously. Our own government doesn’t. This is kind of expected given the lack of effort to prevent stuff like this
Can’t believe Kong got snubbed of any accolades this year ☹️
It's really sad to see that Insomniac doesn't revisit the Resistance franchise, be it on their own volition or at the behest of Sony.
You'd think that with their tenuous situation with Call of Duty, they'd be looking at Resistance as an fps replacement, but leave it to them to wait 9 years into a 10 year contract to make ANY moves towards that lol
I garee but the sad reality was that their sales were drastically dimishing as that market was incredibly saturated. Still is somewhat. So I can understand them not wanting to invest in it yet. Hopefully it changes in the future as I loved the series too.
@@crunchyfrog555 I feel like a new Resistance game would be more successful than any of the FPS live service games Sony currently has in development, like Concord and Fairgames (the latter of which looks especially mediocre)
That's because insomniac has made nothing but awful failures... Spiderman is the first and only franchise they've made that was successful
@@Tacitus_kilgore_1903 The Resistance games were great, better than the Killzone games. Sunset Overdrive is great. Some of the older Ratchet & Clank games are also great.
It's insane how these gaming companies are getting hacked on the last few years. I legit don't know if their security is really fragile or these hackers are unstoppable. Kinda looks like they leave a lot of breaches on their security, just look how GTA trailer leaked by a friend of a developer's son.
With how massive these companies are and how sophisticated these hacking groups have gotten, there are always going to be breaches.
You do realize that it is as simple as an employee falling for a phishing scam/email, right? The GTA 6 leak happened because an employee clicked on a phishing email and a phishing 2FA scam on their phone.
It’s almost always literally as simple as this.
Also a lot of hacking done is social engineering.
No matter how strong a computer system is, humans will be the weak link
Hacking always has little to do with technology but everything to do with psychology. All hacks are rooted in confidence tricks. It doesn't matter how secure or tech focused your system is, as they ALWAYS have a root of someone pretending to be staff or authorized members and pretending their way to gradually gaining access. It's simply how these things work.
Look at it this way - you can have a really secure front door on your house to keep burglars out. You could even have three or four stacked. But if you leave the keys to them under the doormat, or tell the potential burglar where the keys are, they might as well be made of paper.
Yes, like what happened Linus recently.@@cbgg1585
Double standards in the industry are so frustrating. Journalists happily discussed the leaks of Capcom, Xbox and other companies. But when it comes to a Sony studio they're saying that it's bad to discuss these things.
It's sad to see gaming journalism in the pockets of a single company.
Because Sony pays them. That's been blatantly obvious for the past 6 years.
What? All of those were talked about in negative lights. They all had personal information leak unfortunately. Perhaps it’s where you’re getting your news at is the issue
@@XxZannexXI was about to say the same thing! Where has this leak been discussed in a hush/hush or positive light?
@@XxZannexX Sure. It's me who's the problem here not the poor journalists who didn't post about integrity and ethics while other companies were hacked or had stuff leaked. Yhey came into their senses after a Sony studio got information leaked.
No that's a bit of a strawman. It's all about the details. Other leaks have been about company details. This contains PERSONAL staff data. That's a different kettle of fish.
Seems to me that Sony is heavily relying on Spider-Man.
You mean pander-man.
Not surprised that the Wolverine game is the typical over the shoulder third person action game with RPG mechanics
So basically Nu-God of War or Last of Us. These cinematic action walking simulators from sony are getting stale lol
The way Sony is raising their prices I actually have to commend them for making sure game piracy stays thriving.
Skull Island: Rise of Kong must've been a fantastic game after all! It didn't break the Top 10 Worst Games list! I'm gonna go pick up a physical copy.
The Day Before was easily the worst.
It's a masterpiece, I highly recommend it. Buy the Game for Christmas for your whole family.
The game(s) had to have 7 or more reviews for a single platform in order to qualify; stuff like The Day Before or the GameMill dreck (don’t forget Avatar: Quest for Balance and The Walking Dead: Destinies) didn’t get enough professional reviews.
I'm shocked Kong wasn't the worst game.
I’m 46. All these games being 5+ years out, I’m going to feel even more “too old to be playing video games” 😢
You are never too old to play video games. Only people who don't play them at all can't comprehend that large multi-billion dollar corporations don't have toddlers programing and making new games. It's mostly adults, mostly in the range of being labeled too old" that are creating games. Besides, older people will have plenty of free time when they retire. Are they not supposed to enjoy their free time that they worked so hard for?
I remember back in the day that this alien resurrection ps1 game could be used to unlock movie or FMV sequences of other ps1 titles by just swapping out the disc, good old times
*Spawnwave, love your channel brother! I'm sick of leaks! In the last three years my information has been leaked at least three times! My mortgage company was just hacked (Mr. Cooper aka Nationstar), then Comcast notified me I was hacked and finally T-Mobile was hacked and lost my data, TWICE! These companies need to be punished for failing to secure customer data! Mr. Cooper lost my social, bank info, name, address, DOB and all they have to do is give me two years of credit reporting while I now have to spend my life checking everything?!*
Sony doesn't care about those people or their info getting out. Believe me, they're more concerned about their proprietary IP (Wolverine)
The "adaptive" difficulty needs to just be an option. A lot of people don't have time for gaming and just want to experience the story of a game and not be bothered with dying twenty million times. This is why the Souls games should have difficulty options and not just a one level kills all setting.
It hurts me to see a studio being forced to work with the Spider Man template for many years to come instead of having creative control over unique projects THEY would like to tackle and dip their toes in, new stuff like when they developed Resistance. Insomniac now has to work for making money, not bring new ideas to the table.
I'm not saying that their Marvel based titles won't be good, but when it comes to art and building creative experiences, a whole studio of developers does not want to be restricted like that, it wears them out and sucks out their creative energy
I could see that Alien disc shooting up in value now. That's what seems to happen when certain retail games are found to allow exploits on their respective systems.
Yeah I tried to find one on eBay. Only UK available right now. Might even be cheaper to buy a boot disc idk haven’t really looked into that stuff yet but looks fun.
@@comicsmisexplained It's also appicable to the UK disc as I've tried it in the past. It was previously known as an unknown code and I have a big folder of cheat codes I scribbled down at the time I used them and checked them. I checked last night.
Doubtful, at least long term. I can understand people who don't understand trying to grab a few to corner the market, but the reality is this doesn't mean much now as there are tons of methods to boot a PS1 without modchips or anything these days. As Modern Vintage Gamer rightly pointed out in his video, this doesn't mean much now.
So once any chancers who don't understand that have realised this it'll quickly settle down.
I need to dive into this. I'd like to revitalize my PS1 (and first ever console I ever owned) to get it to play off a flash drive or whatever because it can no longer spin up discs now that it's almost 30 years old.
@@dapperfan44 You likely have a couple of options. First off, clean your laser lens. Might just be dirt (no matter if it doesn't look dirty) - isoprop and cotton buds are your friends. Next, find out the exact model and if you need to buy a new laser assembly. If you can't find the exact one or it's too much hassle, look into getting an SD card mod board for it instead.
They're your easiest bets.
The only bad thing about the Alien Resurrection boot disc is that now the price for that game is going to sky rocket on the second hand market. Happens all the time when things like this are discovered. People buy up all the copies and sell them back at outrageous prices. Even though at this point there are plenty of ways to play you backup copies on the PS1.
Already starting to sell for 200+
This is why I stick to emulation.
@jcdenton4110 I know, even when I checked the prices yesterday, when the video dropped, they already jumped up to almost 80+
I remember a similar situation happening with Cubic Ninja on the 3DS.
FreePSXBoot exists...
@santiagom.8149 Exactly, there are plenty of options.
It's crazy how nearly every copy alien resurrection that was on ebay sold yesterday. There's easier and cheaper ways to do what it does. This feature is more of a novelty by today's standards. I also tested it with my import games and it bypasses the region lock
I own the game,the price is now $100. Lol😅
not to mention the fact that you could easily emulate ps1 games on like literally any device with a screen at this point
I’m pretty sure the younger generation knows what cheat codes are. That was probably the most sarcastic explanation you have had this year😂
I went to eBay immediately after the “Alien Resurrection” story in Newswave and all available copies (30+) were purchased over the last 24 hours.
Don't worry it won't last as it's just chancers who don't understand. It's not a big deal as it's very late to the party. There are other ways to boot a PS1 without modchips these days so it doesn't actually mean much. As MVG stated in his video, it's just a relic which would have meant a lot at the time.
So you will find in the coming weeks it'll settle down again.
You can still use EU copies too as I checked my notes last night of my cheat codes from back in the day.
Everyone, including the press needs to ignore these attacks and not discuss or report on these ransoms and it will not become worth it to the individuals to continue doing this.
Lmao yea right. Sony should get better security and they won’t be hacked every week
@@MarcusM334 no they don't. People need to ignore these losers who are sad pathetic little trolls, sitting in Mama's basement trying to extort money from people.
John thank you for addressing the issue of why there is bigger concern about reporting this leak compared to Capcom.
That jab at 14:34 😂
I havent seen your videos for a few weeks at least, production value and quality looks like it has taken another step up 👌
Wolverine: Has a Gay Lame Chick as the main character somehow.
Smart thing to do would be to take the 2 million dollars and instead of paying the hackers, put it into your own security for the future
I'm really excited to see what Insomniac does with Wolverine, i hope it's visceral, i hope the combat is satisfying and i hope it tells a great story while giving Insomniac free reign to do what they want with the universe and characters
It's a game for a Sony system with an IP owned by Disney. Don't keep your hopes up.
@@ChaoticHoly I have confidence in Insomniac
I hope it’s rated r
The leak kinda indicates it isn’t but could also be a pre production thing
"Great story" lol. C'mon
@@LucianeTorres-vc9oi they've proved they can have great stories with the Spider-Man games
Good luck getting a copy of Alien Resurrection. MVG started the video talking about how it was a late PS1 game and that the controls were some of the first PlayStation games with more modern-style controls. I hopped over to eBay before finishing the video and thought I'd pick up a copy of the game if it was cheap... other than some graded copies and some sealed games, there were none left. I clicked over to the past sales search and I noticed that all of the inventory had been snatched up. I then finished the video and then realized, the nature of the sudden loss of inventory. This is a fascinating discovery, but good luck finding a copy. These things are likely to be priced over $100 because scalpers and collectors be crazy.
Surprised King Kong wasn't in the top 10 worst
Wasn't adaptive difficulty already implemented in Max Payne back in 2001?
i remember when the devs of Quantum Error were blaming MS for their game been a floop while that same game waasn't on the MS store/GamePass and they said it did flooped cause it didn't have the budget
After a busy start of the week I got to watch 3 news wave video's in one go! Thank you for the awesome content! This is also the only 'news' I actually keep up with xD
I saw the Wolverine video by accident scrolling on TikTok. Didn’t even realize what I was looking at until I read the caption.
Wolverine should've been something like Solitaire or minesweeper. No way Wolverine is a third person game.
Tetris Wolverine game? Sign me up
If the gta 6 leak taught me anything then it is to hold my breath until a game shows off itself
One of the most shocking things for me other than how sad this leak is for everyone involved is seeing the development times put into perspective through roadmaps. I knew they planned that far out, but just seeing it is so strange. Nearly 10 more years until the next new IP? That's roughly 12% of the average lifespan. Crazy.
Where was The Day Before on the worst games of 2023 because I think that game won
The adaptive difficulty is not a new thing... it was used waaaaay back in the day like in Spyro 3.
If the Insomniac leaks stop the bigger media outlets from covering those leaks, I’m all in for it. But we all know it probably won’t.
The only reason they won't cover it is because it is Sony. They have no issue covering all the other leaks.
@@fordgtguythey will cover all other leaks, not surprising
Report it all! Sony could have paid to keep it secret.
@@Rage-td9wvthat would encourage hackers to do it again as they see it as a way to get free cash
What a dumb take that is. It's literally news and extremely newsworthy
It really is interesting how different gaming is now with how cheat codes operate. Those can get you punished even in single player games these days.
Not true. You cannot get punished for cheating in purely offline single player. It's legal suicide for a company to try. Starbreeze tried to do it with cheating acheivements on Payday and they quickly retracted it.
The legal situation is that you CANNOT action someone for changing a game that doesn't affect anyone else. So that's completely untrue.
Why cheat codes are a non event now is largely down to how systems operate (plus online gaming). Most gaming systems now have front end UIs and handle memory access in levels so it's a lot more difficult to have cheats. On top of this you have the problem that leaving in offline cheats can more easily be manipulated by coders to work in online, so they aren't going to risk that.
Any such dev tools as part of the approval process, are removed before release, strictly so.
Jesus Christ, and here I thought Nintendo's cyber security was bad, this is like what? the 3rd Sony cyber security breach?
No one is safe online, no one. Banks have been hack, the credit bureaus like Exparian have been hacked, the government has been hacked. There is no such thing as 100% security online.
It’s insane that the budget for Spider-Man 2 was $315 million!! These budgets are going to be unsustainable for Sony after a while!
They can spend that type of money when they know they're going to sell 20 million copies. Let's say Sony makes $40 from every copy they sell. After selling 10 million copies, they've already made a profit at $400 million. The next 10 million will be even more profit.
Not to mention marvel probably gets anywhere from 15 to 25 percent on each copy sold.
@@G360LIVEdid you look at the leaks? The profit margins are razor thin. Youre not even including marketing and what they have to give marvel. Their current model isn’t sustainable.
Sony made 26 billion dollars from their gaming division in 2022. Doubt it is that much of a crisis.
@@FabledFiend that's revenue, not profits. I'm sure they're still plenty profitable though.
You can use any PS1 game to boot a burnt disc... As long as you keep the pin pushed down that keeps the disc spinning. Swap the disc when the PS1 logo pops up.
When I heard about the adaptive difficulty thing I don’t know why I thought about the whole “end game results” screen where you see your stats in a game and how I remember that if you’re a hardcore gamer, the last thing you want is to see how many times you died 😂
Wolverine looks like yet another Third Person Action Adventure game with RPG mechanics. Shocking
Agreed. I'm done with the this formula from Sony. There's no innovation anymore.
What were you expecting? Turning Wolverine into a shooter?
@@dapperfan44dating sim
Blade will be the same, fanboy lol
Yeah, but they gave Jean Grey a face like a frying pan, so everything works out in the end.
Being confused when you were looking forward to the game informer magazine when it's only digital now since they discontinued the physical product some time ago.
I used to have a Japanese import disc for PS1 that let me play Japanese games on my American PS1. That disc would also let me put burned games in and it worked fine. I used to rent games from the rental store and then use it to have the game forever.
It is absolutely right that Sony did not pay the hackers. If companies pay these hackers they will keep doing it.
I actually still have my childhood copy of alien resurrection! Thats crazy
It's cool but it's not that unusual. I wrote as a freelancer for the UK PS1 mag at the time. In the approval process for games, devs HAD to let Sony know about any and all cheats they had in game - anything that might give rise to exploits, access to levels of memory that they didn't want, and so on. The problem is that when you had several members of staff and different departments working on the same code, sometimes things get lost of forgotten and even not documented, though they should.
This was the case here - as Alien Resurrection was intended to be a 2 disc game originally, this was a test feature for disc swapping left in and forgotten. Sony didn't get notified as they would DEFINITELY have insisted it removed.
Many games have cheats not necessarily to this scale but often don't get reported.
Oh man, what a magical time to be reporting on games! I appreciate the comment because that totally makes sense.
@@kcadventures1454 Thanks - I loved it as it was a time when I'd become disabled and couldn't work regular jobs. I do look back on it fondly.
Even at the tail end, 2023 just keeps on giving
What i don't understand with these leaks is how an entire plot would just be on a server for people right there to hack. Why not keep it on an offline NAS/DAS or something like that? The same for the information of all the people who work on Insomniac. This should be much more secure. I just don't understand how they treat this information so lightly... 🤷🏻♂ I really think it's so sad for them! I hope they will take the secure measurements needed for this!
Crazy to see the boot thing coming to light now. We used this to play thrillkill back in the day.
Dynamic Difficulty of this kind isn't new, it something that very few games have done that I could mention a game or two that basically what is described from this patent. Especially changing the environment to fit the difficulty. Still, kind of odd this is patented.
NBA jam. 😆
I don't know whats worse, the leak or the fact everything until 2032 is a 3rd person over the shoulder action game...
So when Sony makes a 3rd person action game it's bad, but it's fine that Zelda ToTK is a 3rd person action game. It's fine when all of Microsoft's main games (that they didn't buy out from other platforms) are mostly shooters.
pretty sure that Sony as a companies entire road map. They're creatively bankrupt at this point. Their top studio can't even make a multiplayer mode given 5 years of dev time.
@@dapperfan44 didn't say other companies doing similar stuff each year isn't happening 🤨 it's just sad to see a good developer like insomniac being stuck in one pot 🤷♂️
@@dapperfan44 the point is going over your head. Looking at Microsoft and Nintendo, they at least innovate with different ideas. Sony specifically has stuck with this formula for far too long now and this leak confirms they aren't stopping. Get it now?
@@dapperfan44 Dude are you kidding? Sony's all games are 3rd person over the shoulder story driven action games. For Nintendo:
- Zelda: Action Adventure.
-Mario: 3d/2d patformer
-Mario Kart: Arcade Racer
-Smash Bros: Fighting game
-Metroid: Action adventure
-Animal Crossing: Life Sim
-Splatoon: 3rd person online shooter
-Xenoblade: jrpg
-Fire emblem: Strategy rpg
They don't do same genre almost twice
Game companies need to stop being granted patents for basic things like "dynamic difficulty". This is how something as simple as a minigame in a loading screen, is not allowed now.
I'm really so sad about the bad news on Ratchet & Clank though. I've seen a lot of comments from people who actually don't like the R&C series which really makes me upset to be honest. R&C: Tool's of Destruction on the PS3 was the game that brought me back in to gaming (together with Uncharted.) I've had kind of a "sabbat" generation when it comes to gaming. (I had a PS2 but used it more as a dvd player than to game on.) Anyway, When i bought my PS3 (2yrs. after release.) It came bundled with R&C: Tool's Of Destruction & Uncharted and i fell in love with gaming again. I've always been a gamer (thanks to my mom, who also thought me a bit of music, playing a little piano.) But anyway, the Ratchet and Clank series (and Uncharted) means a lot to me. So i really hope that in the future, (even after 2029) the series don't get canned or just a little side project.
I really hope people give R&C: Rift Apart a chance because it's a wonderful game!
That ps1 exploit seems weird to me. I remember playing my burned madded 97 i think on the ps1, and you just hand to hold some button inside the tray down with something and i'd used any real game as a boot disc and open the door and swap it for the burned game. Its been a long time for me to remember that, but this seems like a weird way to get there.
Yah did the same thing as a kid as well
Yep, this is what I did. It's the wobble glitch. I had a spring mounted to the stem that pressed the lid check button down, even when you opened the tray. I had a mod chip in the back serial port that worked as a Gameshark type cheat device and allowed region free play and what not.
On the topic of whether to report on it or not, remember that there’s personal information involved, in countries with data protection laws these things have to be reported immediately or there are heavy penalties. I’m not sure of the citizenships of everyone affected but the entire point is moot, it has to be reported and it has to be made widely known, so that affected people can take measures.
There are probably third parties who have had their information leaked as well, hell if they’ve been compromised so badly end customers may be affected as well in one way or another.
Glad the wolverine info leaked. Saved me a purchase.
Thank you. The double-standards of other people over the Sony leak are disingenuous. People covered the NVIDIA, Capcom, GTA 6 & Xbox leaks, but all of sudden, there's ethics. [HYPOCRISY].
Mate, double standards exists within this gaming community for years now. People always picking and choosing. You are only just figuring it out now? Just look at Elden Ring.
Elden Ring launched a mess and still won GOTY.
Elden Ring is a souls type of game, with tight hit-boxes, i-frames and in need of low latency. FromSoft failed to deliver in this department. In spite of this, Elden Ring still (corruptly) got 10’s across the board. The console versions are just not as bad as PC, but Digital foundry proved Elden Ring was severely lacking on the performance side at launch.
Why did Elden Ring get a pass at launch when its frame rate was all over the place on top of other issues at launch? Why the lack of uproar?
Did the GTA 6 leaks and others contain employee passport and possible identity theft stuff?
This list is also disingenuous painting its own narrative. The Nvida leak had no personal data. It’s the personal data that’s the real issue not what Insomniac is working on. There’s some revisionist history going on as other leaks with personal data were also viewed in a negative light.
@@comicsmisexplainedthese people wanna ignore that tho
If they do make adaptive difficulty a thing, hopefully it's optional. Nothing annoys me more than dying in a game and get asked "do you want to change the difficulty?" This adaptive difficulty might just turn me off from playing newer games all together
Sony exclusives are so streamlined that they even have a patent to change the difficulty so no feelings get hurt
Yeah, but can you burn a copy of Alien Resurrection and use that backup to boot other backup games 😎
I think you raise a good point here. Both Luigi’s Mansion and Metroid Prime tend to serve as great showcases for hardware ability. That, plus the MIA next 3D Mario, would indeed make a pretty good launch year lineup for Switch 2, since we can assume any next major Zelda is going to take at least 6 years.
Who would've thought a game that pioneered the control scheme for modern shooters could be used as a way to play modded discs?
The adaptive difficulty sounds good on paper, until you realize that mobile games already do this in order to incentivize monetization.
With little more than cape shit on the menu, are there even any adults still playing PS5?
looks like Insomnia has been relocated to the comic book game salt mines.
I hope some of these games don't get cancelled like capcom did when they got hacked.
They don't cancel just because of hacks. That's not how it works. If Capcom cancelled shortly afterwards then they were planned for cancellation anyway and were merely left on the books.
@@crunchyfrog555 That can be a possibility. Only ones who know is Capcom.
@@joeraig But it's not as it makes no commercial sense. Why would you invest money into planning such a thing, expending work and assets into it, even at an early stage then merely cancel it just because it leaked? That's not how business ever works.
They likely just either tidied it up (maybe for shareholders benefit) or it's coincidence.
I actually really liked Crime Boss. It was alot of fun for me, especially playing as Michael Rooker lol
Imagine how that feels to the Insomniac devs when Jon says "What I've seen so far... looking good!". Lmao fucking *lethal*
I commend Sony for not giving in to the malicious group trying to get a quick paycheck. It's important not to let groups use nefarious tactics to steal your hard earned money. Too bad us gamers won't take a que from this example and stop letting ourselves get fleeced over and over again.
Thanks Jon. Yeah Luigi's Mansion 4 should be awesome. I also hope the relative success of Pikmin 4 convinces them to take Pikmin 5 seriously.
I think the gaming industry has figured out that a lot of late gen Xers / early gen Yers are pulling away from gaming because getting stuck is more costly than ever, as time is money.
The day next to the last day after didn't make the cut. So sad 😢
I'd rather control my own difficulty level than have it adapt. Sometimes I just want to be lazy and play on easy, and other times I don't mind dieing a whole bunch on hard. If the difficulty just adapted down every time I die, I wouldn't be learn anything and wouldn't fulfill my original goal of trying to beat something on hard.
15:48 And just like that the value for Alien Resurrection PS1 just went up quite a bit. lol
Sony admitting they're scared while trying to scramble and copy Xbox is quite hilarious. Insomniac being turned into a Marvel assembly line is just sad.
I wish I hadn't seen most of the games in the insomnia leak. All it's telling me is that I have to wait 6 to 8 years for some cool stuff.
04:22 -10:17 I didnt really understand what you were saying about the reporting. Are you saying that there are more people with ties to insomniac that are also VG journalists and that's the reason why this is getting more coverage/respect/empathy from all sorts of outlets?
2029 for another ratchet game is insane im glad one is coming but dam thats a WAIT
Maybe because rifted apart bombed and lost 8 mil
Is 73 million really a flop that's allot of money if u ask me
@@jonyleche3549 I’m to lost 8 mil dollars..what part of that don’t you understand..it don’t matter how much you made if you didn’t break even and actually ended up losing money. That is a FLOP
The cheat code explanation 😂😂😂
Correct me if im wrong cause i dont think i am, if you boot a cd playable demo original and after the PlayStation logo you change to a copy cd the game Will boot Right? I use to do that all the time, you just have to put a toothpick so it can run the game while the cover is open…
Think that was just for Dreamcast but I don’t know 🤷♂️
Yes you can to a certain degree, but it's trciky and unreliable. The point is you can ALWAYS time it where that happens, but to be effective you have to do the interrupt call to STOP the disc and wait for input to start the disc again. That's what this disc has, so it's reliable. That's the difference.
The disc swap trick has been well documented for decades, but because it's unrealiable it's not the same.
Imo, the difficulty algorithm should be a setting because yeah sometimes you want the game to be too hard because that can be fun for a change to challenge yourself
But, according to Metacritic "Skull Island: Rise of Kong" have 23 and "Stray Souls" got an 31. 🤔
Forget the friendships forget the relationships there's a double standard
Where's the Day before in that list though?
How is Skull Island: Rose of Kong not sitting at the top of this list? It's a 23 on metacritic. That's WAY lower than Gollum.
Man, even Metacritic is rigged.
@@Deliveredmean42 Lol, I've tried both, and I would argue that Skull Island is genuinely a worse game. I get the distinct impression that thisnlist only included titles which someone at Metacritic deemed to be HIGH PROFILE failures.
How is sony not getting sued for such lack of security?
Is this like the 3rd or 4th time this happened?
I really hope the X-Men games releases soon on PC after the PS5 release, they should do so to reach the lofty goal they have in the contract with Marvel.
The leak said that Insomniac games are planned to release on Pc after 2 years on Playstation.
@@kahp1072 Then the need to reach the number of copies sold only on PS5 as the goal was for the first 12 months. That’s fine for Spider-Man games, but it will be more difficult for the X-Men games.
A real dick move releasing personal details of employees and customers.