I thought it was crazy and cool that MK1 was announced just 4 months before release! The marketing campaign will have to be packed but, as a casual fan, it feels like I have to wait less than usual (even if in reality the same time has passed since MK11 and there have been plenty of rumors in the meantime).
Just for fun, I compared the time between official announcements and game releases of the latest installments of Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter. To be fair, not even the longest periods on this list are too bad when compared to other triple AAA titles that can go for 3-5 years easily.
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Mortal Kombat 1 - announced May 2023, release date September 2023 (4 months).
Mortal Kombat 11 - announced December 2018, released April 2019 (4 months).
Mortal Kombat X - announced June 2014, released April 2015 (10 months).
Street Fighter 6 - announced February 2022, release date June 2023 (16 months).
Street Fighter V - announced December 2014, released February 2016 …
Wow and Nvidia is still selling cards with 8 GB VRAM. Such a shameful thing to do. While they are at it, they should also admit that some of these cards don’t have enough data bus bandwidth and cuda cores (cuz to DLSS3 is the solution to everything). I still remember the Pixel shader era of GPUs which were quite capable of handling the graphical settings of that time. So Idk how they ended up making such bad and expensive products.
An interesting fact showing how small a share of game sales, probably especially indie games, Epic and Gog has.
According to the sales report, which is only available in Polish, during the first week of release the game sold:
Steam Sales: 24,500 copies sold
Total Sales across Steam, Epic Games Store, and GOG: 26,000 copies sold
Game URL: https://store.steampowered.com/app/758690/Occupy_Mars_The_Game
This just shows how dominant Steam is on PC market, especially with indie games.
Hey everyone, I’m giving away one Steam key for Hi-Fi Rush.
To enter, just comment below and I’ll randomly choose a winner in 24 hours (optional for the sake of variety in the comments, what game are you a playing right now and how do you find it?)
Good luck to everyone :)