Gothic 1 and 2 will receive all these updates for pc in the future, but seems likely that they will only start doing that next year since they still are working on updates for G1 on NS (coming out before christmas) and G2 likely will also get another update on NS.

Isn`t NCSOFT the company rumored to be working with Guerilla on the Horizon MMO? Them also helping to expand ps games/franchises to mobile also makes sense since Sony originally planned to have 10% of their games on mobile devices by march 2023 which didn`t happen in the end.

Other things that have been changed or added in the Killer Instinct Anniversary Edition besides the balance changes:

• Game was moved to the new development kit on xbox
• Optimised for Xbox Series X/S
• Ui elements have been upscaled or been redone for higher resolution
• New gold/purple colour theme for Killer Instinct as a nod to KI Gold on N64
• New purple background in the character select screen
• New potraits in the character select screen
• Holiday accessories are also unlocked for people that missed them
• Permanent VIP Double XP Booster coming to steam for the first time
• Gargos Golden God and Agent Shroud Colors coming to steam for the first time
• Free to play now offers all 29 instead of only 21 characters
• Free to play character now rotates weekly insteady if bi weekly
• Free to play will be available for the first time on steam
• Price reduced to $29.99 instead of $39.99

So they should just focus on games that “sell”? That doesn`t say anything about the quality of a game. As someone who played exclusively on PS1/2/3/4 I´m very happy that MS is focuses on a varied and diverse lineup and not heavely focused on specific type of mass appeal games which is something that Sony started to do in the ps4 era. Yes they are very successfull with it, but many of the different and unique type of games they made in the past are completely gone. If I imagine that cinema would only do what “sells” then movies would be very uninteresting most of the time. I wished Sony would fund more bigger budget games like Death Stranding or Returnal even it these games don`t “sell” consoles. It seems more and more that people on ps and xbox only want similiar type of games instead of different kind of experiences and that ms should make the exactly same kind of games like sony while I think it is great that they aren`t doing that and instead do their own thing.

Smash Bros Ultimate is also only one game and I wouldn`t compare it to fighting games like Street Fighter 6 for example that don`t have the kind of mass appeal that smash bros has.

If we look at the games sony and microsoft have released on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S since the launch of current gen consoles in november 2020 they released around the same amount of games and their games have been simliar received by critics:

Playstation 5 games (16):

• God of War Ragnarok (PS5 MC: 94)
• Demon`s Souls (PS5 MC: 92)
• Marvel`s Spider-Man 2 (PS5 MC: 90)
• Horizon Forbidden West (PS5 MC: 88)
• Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (PS5 MC: 88)
• The Last of Us Part I (PS5 MC: 88)
• Gran Turismo 7 (PS5 MC: 87)
• Returnal (PS5 MC: 86)
• Marvel`s Spider-Man: Miles Morales (PS5 MC: 85)
• MLB The Show 23 (PS5 MC: 82)
• Sackboy: A Big Adventure (PS5 MC: 79)
• Horizon Call of the Mountain (PS5 MC: 79)
• MLB The Show 21 (PS5 MC: 78)
• MLB The Show 22 (PS5 MC: 77)
• Destruction AllStars (PS5 MC: 62)
• Firewall Ultra (PS5 MC: 61)

94 + 92 + 90 + 88 + 88 + 88 + 87 + 86 + 85 + 82 + 79 + 79 + 78 + 77 + 62 + 61 = 1316 : 16 = 82,25 = 82 average rating

Xbox Series X/S games (15):

• Forza Horizon 5 (XSXS MC: 92)
• Microsoft Flight Simulator (XSX MC: 90)
• Halo Infinite (XSXS MC: 87)
• Hi-Fi Rush (XSXS MC: 87)
• Psychonauts 2 (XSXS MC: 87)
• Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition (XSXS MC: 86)
• Pentiment (XSXS MC: 86)
• Forza Motorsport (XSXS MC: 85)
• Starfield (XSXS MC: 83)
• Age of Empires IV (XSXS MC: 83)
• Grounded (XSXS MC: 82)
• Gears Tactics (XSXS MC: 82)
• As Dusk Falls (XSXS MC: 77)
• Minecraft Legends (XSXS MC: 71)
• Redfall (XSXS MC: 56)

92 + 90 + 87 + 87 + 87 + 86 + 86 + 85 + 83 + 83 + 82 + 82 + 77 + 71 + 56 = 1234 : 15 = 82,27 = 82 average rating

Saying that one companies games aren`t as good or the studios aren`t as talented is just not true only because one company is maybe more focused on big budget mass appeal games then the other one.

Also both companies have relased medicore games and flops in recent years with Microsoft releasing Redfall and Sony releasing Firewall Ultra in 2023. Both companies have studios that had problems, both companies had layoffs, both companies closed down studios with Microsoft closing down mulitple studios in 2016 and Sony closing down studios in 2016, 2017, 2020, 2021 and 2023. Both companies have established studios in the last 10 years like Microsoft with The Initiative in 2018 which had problems and Worlds Edge in 2019 which is doing well and Sony with PixelOpus in 2014 and Manchester Studio in 2015 which both were closed down, both companies have aquired and NOT established the majority of their active first party studios, both companies aquired a lot of studios in the last few years and both companies have aquired publishers like Microsoft with Bethesda and Activison Blizzard which are MUCH bigger then the ones Sony aquired, but Sony still also aquired publishers with Psygonis in the past and Bungie.

People are also often brand loyal and often don`t change platforms and the majority of people also only seems to be interested in specific type of mass appeal games which is the reason why games like Returnal, Hi-Fi Rush or Microsoft Flight Simulator never will be as succesfull or talked about as other games. That doesn`t mean that these games aren`t easily as good as Forza Horizon 5, God of War or The Last of Us.

Also what does a goty nomination at tga mean when specific type of games and genres always will be choosen over other ones? Why are fighting games, simulation games, strategy games etc. almost never or never nominated? That doesn`t say anything about the quality of a game. There are so many games that were never nominated, because they were either not by a big publisher, didn`t have a high budget or just not mainstream enough.