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IGN "Complaints are mounting about the Nintendo and PlayStation storefronts promoting samey-looking cash-grabs. But what’s really going on?"

ArtHands

Thinks buying more servers can fix a bad patch
Steam has 10x the shovelware games than PS5 or Switch.
Which has been addressed in the article. They are hidden in a corner and not prominently displayed on the main page like on PS Store.

Unless you intentionally seek them out and buy them, in which case Valve will then recommend more of them to you.
 
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Anyone remember the old Xbox Live Indie Games section on 360? That was some USDA certified Esolp.

It was a sub-Newgrounds wasteland of indie trash. Revisiting some of those will make a modern Unity asset swap look like a masterpiece.
 

vkbest

Member
Which has been addressed in the article. They are hidden in a corner and not prominently displayed on the main page like on PS Store.

Unless you intentionally seek them out and buy them, in which case Valve will then recommend more of them to you.
The main reason those games are in main page is basically because the low number of AAA and AA games launched in January. Sony order their list by sales by default
 
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ArtHands

Thinks buying more servers can fix a bad patch
The main reason those games are in main page is basically because the low number of AAA and AA games launched in January. Sony order their list by sales by default

Are you saying those stuffs like SchoolBoy Simulator or Doctor Simulator will not be seen few weeks later?
 

SHA

Member
30 seconds to platinum? That's basically modern adds/mobile. If mobile is allowed to make shit at that level and start making profits from it, they have no choice to do the same thing.
 
I can't tell you how disappointing it is for me as a PS4 user to see the digital store go to crap. It's slow, crashes, and promotes games that I would not be into and going through the recent releases is a slog when I am looking for new games. I got a Switch this year and was just shocked at how band the e shop is. They killed it on the Wii with the Wii shop channel and for them to have this slow, and awful shovel ware problem in digital form sucks. I dealt with shovel ware at brick and mortar stores because it was there but I also knew to ignore those games. Now its on the digital front and it just sucks. Anytime I have to use these store fronts becomes a nightmare. I use them less and less as time passes. I just think that they would want to try and make it better. This is why I always valued curated game stores that could sift through shit. Most of this stems I think from PC gaming having so much shovel ware digitally. I use to think that sucks, and was glad I played video games on consoles and that I never would never see that kind of crap on console stores. Now its a problem on the consoles. Why do these companies think its cool to have a broken store that is a pain to go through and the user experience is less then ideal?
 
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