you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 26 points 5 months ago (13 children)

I mean it's the first I've heard of it too :o

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 13 child comments
  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (12 children)

    What sites do you follow for gaming news? OpenCritic aggregated 129 different outlets that reviewed it, and it's a front page sort of deal for any of them.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 12 child comments
  • [–] 18 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    I just go to YouTube, Lemmy, BSky, maybe a few others. I don’t go directly to any major gaming news sites, since they’ve had declining track records for decades.

    And of course, Steam. Criticize the monoculture if you like, but when Sony and MS have killed their community features in favor of EpsteinNet, it’s not surprising people will go to platforms designed to discuss games.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 6 child comments
  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    Your media sources aren't really indictive of monoculture. More the opposite and that's the problem for marketers. It's hard as shit to reach people because everyone can form their own niche media community. If people still treated IGN and like award shows as their mainstream trustworthy source, we'd still be in the pre-youtube monoculture

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] -4 points 5 months ago* (4 children)

    At the same time, that's not them setting the game up to fail; that's you purposely excusing yourself from everywhere that people normally hear about games. I'm not sure by what metric you're basing declining track records on, but wherever you hear about games on Bluesky or YouTube is probably still one of these outlets. Right here on this Lemmy community, we cite those same outlets for news, and Saros has been posted here four times on its own, as well as in a Sony State of Play mega thread.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Yeah, they never talk about games on YouTube

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] -3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Several million hits across Saros' trailers there. It definitely comes up on all the biggest gaming podcasts. So I'm not sure what the other poster's blind spot is, but Saros is definitely there.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    I mean I only know about it because I saw a couple ads on Instagram, then I watched the sponsored (by Sony/Saros devs mind you) Iron Pineapple video.

    It looks cool visually and seems like it'd be fun once you get into the flow of the game, but it's PlayStation exclusive and I'm not really a bullet hell person.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I mean, if I didn't have a standing appointment to watch game showcases with some friends, I could definitely see a scenario where I missed this. It's not the kind of thing that would pop up at all in my regular gaming feeds.

    The funny thing is that I was genuinely tired of seeing it at every single State of Play for however long it's been now. It was heavily marketed within a specific media channel, and didn't stir up any controversy or buzz that reached my eyes or ears.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    I’m definitely upset that influencers are more likely to talk about bombs and high profile failures than games they have moderately positive interest in. There’s a weird incentive to celebrate failure that makes game development less appealing.

  • source
  • parent