Returnal Dev Commits to 'Premium' PS5 Experiences as Sony Continues Live Service Push

Good. The last thing we need is more live service junk.

@MidnightDragonDX spot on

Saros is the game I am most excited for coming from Sony. I loved Returnal!

Maybe one day Sony will remember to make single player games again. 🤤

with cheaper games made by smaller teams like Expedition 33 proving successful you think they would learn AA games are the way to go

At least some people still have sense. I don’t believe we will ever have more than a handful of successful live service games across the whole industry. They take too much time and are too repetitive for a lot of people.

With a few decent devs still making single player experiences and the huge backlog of games I’ve missed during the past 15 years I can ride out the current state of the market.

@EVIL-C You mean like they did with Astro Bot, Ghost of Yotei, Saros, Intergalactic, God of War Ragnarok, Horizon Forbidden West, or Spiderman 2? Oh right, i forgot these are gas multiplayer games.

Personally I'd like a new alienation game. I thought that game was much better than the original helldivers. Imagine alienation playable in the same 3rd person perspective as helldivers 2. The game would be awesome.

That’s so beautifully said and something I’ve always felt. “An experience for a certain time of your life.”

I love Housemarque, can’t wait for Saros. However, it does sound a little bit like they’re trying to present themselves as taking the high road here.

Here’s the thing though. Housemarque already tried making a live service game. They gave up on their traditional arcade games(saying they make no money) and put all their resources into Stormdivers, which even made it to public test stages. The game was complete garbage though and they got saved by Sony giving them a publishing deal for Returnal which was a secondary product that was in pre-production with a small team at the same time, and everybody went to work on Returnal instead.

I wonder how much money they must destroy before going back to only single-player. I think we are almost there but not quite. Whole generation seems lost, lets put our hopes for PS6.

Pretty sure the writing is on the wall for Sony with this one, so far most / all live service games have been a flop and have not made any money but there has been one or two that made loads of money that have caused them to chase this dragon. Can’t tell what it is mind but that’s the only reason I can seem them gamble millions of pounds on mostly flops. Eventually once they sack the exec that had this idea in the first place and go back to solid games like they have otherwise been doing, they will make the most money and people will be happyish. The games industry is still in a bit of a bubble phase and there is still things to burst, but hopefully what’s left is actually decent quality games.

It’s my hope that with the switch 2 it’s a bit of a resurgence of that ideal, release six or more bangers a year, ie games I actually want to play and then I will pay a premium for those experiences and not gatcha or fight passes or in game crap that simply has no value at all

It is a miracle to see one right thinking company.

After Returnal, which is arguably one of the best games of this gen, Housemarque have my support and I am looking forward to Saros a lot!!

Housemarque might be Sony's secret weapon. If Saros has the quality of Returnal's combat, but works out some of the kinks with the RNG and presentation, then it might be in masterpiece territory

Love single player games. The experience is for the sole purpose of myself. I am way off from anything to do with playing multiplayer games with a bunch of noisy kids babbling down my mic or anything to do with team based strategy etc.

Gimme an experience to play and put away, call it amazing and sometime come back to it again. That's my kinda game

I know I'll never get it, I want Housemarque to give me one thing; Resogun 2.