Ghost of Tsushima: Legends Will Not Have Any Microtransactions

Very honourable. Lord Shimura would approve.

Ooh arr I’m mad and I don’t know why! Give me microtransactions because I hate multiplayer and I need something to complain about while sounding a bit like Kenneth Williams!

SONY Pro consumer as always Sounds AMAZING

Wow. Excellent news! This makes me much more interested in the mode now.

Hmm, that’s what they all say. We’ll see.

I would have been fine as long as it wasn't anything egregious. Still, this is good news.

What an amazing year on playstation 😎

Free optional multiplayer add on with no microtransactions, I'm curious how someone would even begin to spin this in to a negative 😅

Anyway I hope this translates into more sales, Sucker Punch deserves it and I hope all of Sony's first party games continue to break records.

Never thought for a second it would, PlayStation is basically the only console company or even major publisher in general that cares about full content high quality titles without microtransactions, I don't really care about cosmetics as.i know PlayStation has occasionally used.

slow claps really epic send off for PS4

I'm not shocked at all to be honest, Sony while guilty of MTX do tend to let Devs make what they want so if Sucker Punch don't want MTX then it won't have MTX. I expect some paid stuff will come though but it will most likely take the form of actual DLC bit like how the Predator game does it what doesn't have MTX but does sell new Predators or Dutch as DLC what take the form of new classes.

I actually don't mind mtx in free multiplayer games as long as it's only cosmetics and not gameplay related/not loot box, impressive for SP to make this mtx free 😃

@Subsided Um Nintendo?

@WallyWest used to be the case, they've been playing dirty for quite a while now, especially when you factor in physical dlc like amiibos

@Subsided So are going to ignore all the heavy MTX in Uncharted 4 then or all the Digital Deluxe Versions that Sony mandates for every game or the MTX in GT Sport? Nintendo aren't playing dirty at all, the last game to heavily use the Amiibos was BotW the first game on the Switch. Sure though lets just ignore all the 1st party games they have been putting out for Switch what are just as consumer friendly if not more then Sony 1st party games. Something tells me you haven't been following Nintendo's this gen at all and don't own a Switch.

@WallyWest Sony games have used consmetics but even then its used on the least used modes of those games, Nintendo has been adding all sorts of extra monetization not to mention the fact they intentionally Gimp their system so it's hard to port to and they have no competition for their first party games which is why all their games are also $60 still even launch games, incredibly anticonsumer, I'd say it's easily the most anticonsumer action of any console maker, used for the switch, and the Wii U, and the Wii, all intended to rip off the consumer.

@Subsided So its ok for Sony games to have MTX then? Name one Nintendo game to have MTX? You can't because none do, even Splatoon 2 the heavy MP game from Nintendo doesn't have MTX. Tell me what is this "extra monetization" is because other then standard DLC what Sony games have there isn't anything extra, you do don't see Nintendo offering Digital Deluxe versions though what content gated off for those versions. How is Switch gimped? Its had endless ports and many Devs and Publishers are happy with the system. You want to know a real scummy move? Spider-Man exclusive to PS versions of Avengers but i'm sure you're ok with that because Sony.

I see what the issue here is though and that is your clearly a Sony fanboy, the fact you're defending Sony's use of MTX in full price games is prove of that. You clearly aren't following the Nintendo side of gaming or own a Switch so quite frankly you have no real say any of it because you straight don't know what you're talking about.

@WallyWest Animal Crossing...that was easy. PlayStation has in a small minority of cases, I don't think there's a single example of a SP game getting it, even from an update

And ya I own a switch, playing the OG Bioshock right now

This is so pro gamer. Congrats for the atitude. As JJ2 said, amazing year for PlayStation. On the other hand I think every year was and is amazing with PS and next year will be much more because of PS5. Can't wait the console and all the next-gen games and services.

@Subsided What has Animal Crossing done?

Doing sh** right.

@WallyWest which first party Sony exclusives have micro transactions?

@Arnna Uncharted 4 and The Last of Us Remastered off the top of my head.

Shame on such anti-consumer practice! I did hope to buy a a pro-consumer $25 skin like in Gears 5!
Sony you are the worst! At least you could cut off the year subscription of PS+ as a pro-consumer company gets rid of all the ways a user might have to pay less with a yearly subscription plan!

@WallyWest ***** the switch you dork. Get a life.

@Carl-G LMFAO!!! NOTHING Sony does is pro-consumer 😂🤣😂🤣

The Ps4 not being backwards compatible is pro-consumer? Oh and don't give me that BS about it not being possible. I understand the technology and am not a sheep, I KNOW it's possible.

@Mhayes111387 Good for you for "understanding" the technology (which you most likely don't understand at all)... random guy in the internet. I'm sure you are a sheep though, you just don't know it yet.

@WallyWest

Pro Consumer... what a term getting thrown around these days.

Maybe, just maybe, we live in a world where both Sony and Nintendo are fairly consumer friendly, at least as far as MTX is concerned.

But both companies have a lot of dirt under their fingernails. I don't forget that Sony supported the $10 fee to play the online portion of used games during the PS3 era. This was a tactic used to discourage used game sales and even sometimes gated off single player content. I thought it was scummy but the initiative was dumped after a short time thankfully.

Now Nintendo, whoo boy, where do you start with them. I could trot out all the usual arguments but what irks me most about that company is how notoriously litigious they are. They sue people over copyright issues like its going out of style. Now it's their right to protect their IPs with whatever legal means at their disposal, but they take it to the next level with more legally dubious takedown strikes and lawsuits than you can shake a stick at. They are trying to protect the brand of their IPs so much they've hurt their brand as a company. They are not the "good guys" of the industry.

Let me put it this way, if you want work with job security, go work as a lawyer for Nintendo.

@Mhayes111387

PS3 emulation would have pretty significantly increased the price of the console. What's the difference between, say, $400 and $500 you ask? Don Mattrick learned the answer to this question when he lost his job as Xbox's president.

@Tommy_T Yeah its thanks to having a life i could buy myself a Switch.

@Arnna Uncharted 4, The Last of Us Remastered and GT Sport, i think even Killzone had them but i'm not 100% on that as i never played it.

@LiamCroft I don’t even remember them. They couldn’t have been too invasive.
I’d rather games have no MT but if they are gonna be there, some companies do better than others.