This Wolverine PS5 Trailer Is Going to Sell a Lot of Copies This Holiday

It does look really good. I’ll be looking forward to unwrapping my physical copy of it this Christmas.

Also are the comments talking about the game, or are they on about discs?

Really can't wait to play this! I feel like they have got the vibes down.

@ShadowRJ And you bring that up in this article

Gonna spend some cash on shopto and buy it digitally! 🫡

@Oram77 What can I say, I’m passionate about my hobby

@dapinionated SACRIFICE HIM TO THE FIRES OF THE GAMING GODS!!!!

Nah I’m kidding, buy it however you want. I hope you enjoy it.

@ShadowRJ Are you? Could never have guessed that, I like games too by the way, is my passion not up to standards?

Wake me up when Insomniac get out of the Marvel gulag, thanks.

N.i.c.e. now where's olivia newton John so wolverines could get physical. Physical let's get physical. Word up son

@Oram77 of course not. It’s just that your passions lie in a slightly different place in gaming. I get that you’re bored of the topic, and I’m sorry about that. Just note that I’m not trying to take away digital. You play your games how you want to play them.

@MrPeanutbutterz - Won't be before 2030 or 2032.

There's still Spider-Man 3, Venom (if that one is really still alive) and the X-Men game according to the leaks.

If physical really does die, the word "copies" will either take on a new meaning or die out..

@ShadowRJ you've been very level headed about this whole thing. I know change is hard, reminds me of my first time buying digital, it was Persona 5. Right after, I said never again am I buying something I can't sell. Here I am today and don't remember the last time I bought physical, funny enough I bought a PS5 disc version thinking I'll buy more discs but still haven't bought a single one. You'll get there one day and look back and laugh at all this. 😉

The trailer is on YouTube and they don't sell copies of trailers!😣

@Oram77 Just let people be angry, man. You didn't have to engage with it if you're tired of it.

They engage because they're trying to accomplish something. Why do you engage?

@ShadowRJ It was more the fact this article is about the game and you brought in that subject when there are other articles dedicated to that. By all means crack on, just know I'll be eye rolling when comments dilute into the same three arguments...

@dapinionated you can't buy a game digitally only rent it.

@RoomWithaMoose

How many people will see the advertisement? Every time I go to the cinema it’s mostly empty

I didn't watch the trailer because I don't want to see more. I love X-men and Wolverine it's my favorite. I pre-ordered my physical copy about a week ago.

Game looks cool and I like Wolverine, but Spidey is still my favorite. But hey, not much longer before the game is out.

@Oram77 Uhhhh, sure.

I guess asking for self-reflection can be construed as bait. The question was intended to elicit a response, sooo I guess it was baiting a response.

Sure.

Looks like a God Of War clone. Pass.

@Oram77 then by all means, roll your eyes. Your opinion is just as valid as mine (unless you’re secretly a serial murderer). Just note that I’m unlikely to stop speaking about this topic where I can, because it’s important to me.

I do try and get involved in discussions about the games itself. I went on about Kingdom Hearts during that post. Just in this case, I didn’t have anything else to say.

Physical copies though right everyone?

Wolverine putting on his anti-Sabertooth claws to fight him for the first time in his 130 year career.

@Boxmonkey uh the box office is on pace to have its best year since COVID, and The Odyssey is going to be massive. Maybe go to better movies or to the theater at times in which other people do?

I'll wait to purchase a used copy from a local retail store...maybe

@ShadowRJ I can appreciate the humour you bring to the topic.

Where is the line to sacrifice the ones buying digital? I want to get a good spot!

@Boxmonkey and how many times is that in the past year? The last few times I’ve been to the movies they’ve had great turnouts.

@ShadowRJ When did I say your opinion wasn't valid? I'm just saying when there are articles about physical/digital discourse surely those are the places to have that no? Feel like I've said this a thousand times but I buy 90% of games on disc (could you tell or nah?), oh and lawyer told me not to talk about in the public...

@TheArt I'm glad that you are pleased, although the difference is that you made the switch to digital willingly, but we are being forced. I believe Sony should have gone the route of increasing the price of physical games before downright kill it.

@BecauseBecause i keep thinking surely they’re gonna go back on that. I read Playstation store is available in 73 countries, there are over 100 countries where PS store isn’t available.

The only way this could be any better is if that was Leonardo instead of Wolverine

Super Excited to play this in September. GOTY contender(even though we know what will probably win GOTY lol).

This is one of the cases this year when the Digital Deluxe Version is the better option for me(I know they have the $10 upgrade for Physical) but all the extra goodies you get with it make it worth it.

@Leonardo_Turtles Mikey will have his time to shine soon enough.

Since Rise of the Robots, I don't care about CGI or "in game" trailers.

No game play, no poos given.

@ElPenitente Personally I’d check the PC Master Race crowd, the anti woke crowd, or my personal favourite, the multiplayer kids who love to use the n word over and over again.

Is there a Physical copy of the game?

Psylocke needs her own game, but I can settle for Wolverine. The game looks good.

This feels like another Sony title I can wait till a first sale for. I’m a big Wolverine fan but this game honestly doesn't look that inspired. I honestly don’t see anything from Sony in the near future that looks like day 1 anymore.

@PercyChuggs that doesn’t account for inflation. In 2018 a ticket price was on average $9. Now it’s $11. So they are trending upwards with raw dollars, but doing so selling far fewer tickets. So that is why you can still see emptier theaters. If you actually break it down, the movie theater industry is doing better than the last few years, but it’s hardly a true return to form, at least for now.

Be smart if they put it before Spider-Man as well, if I was Sony id put SM2 in front of it as well.

Gonna have fun with this

Being honest got excited for gameplay, just a boring trailer thing.

@ShadowRJ I think I’m going to start my own line, preferable to dealing with those troglodytes.

Well I’ve got Splatoon Raiders to tide me over until September.
Also maybe Halo not sure if I really want to pay to visit it again or even bothered to play on game pass.

I can't get excited for this game. I don't know why. This is my favorite super hero. It looks cool. There's just something very "first party Sony" about it, and I haven't enjoyed one of those in a while. Ghost of Tsushima, I think. I hope everyone enjoys it though.

Lady Deathstrike confirmed then 😁😁😁

This game looks like the ideal 15- 20-hour story I can have a lot of fun with during a busy Sept - Dec for video games—the ideal length.

Will be grabbing the discounted PSN codes from Loaded for this and other games coming up this Autumn/Winter.

@Snick27 What makes it a God of War clone to you? The gore/combat? I mean, this is Wolverine after all.

90% digital sales probably

@For-Kier

Nobody said theaters have returned to form. @PercyChuggs didn't say that. What's with the straw man? Regardless of inflation or higher ticket prices, this year is on pace to be the highest number of tickets sold by VOLUME since COVID.

This was a good CG trailer. Love that they still do these for the tentpoles. They're always great

Edit: ooh I'm watching The Odyssey tonight I hope it shows up on screen. Astro Bot's ad came before Deadpool and Wolverine in IMAX where I lived. It was awesome

@Futureshark will start out 50-50 at launch but as time goes on I expect it to be like most games and move more digitally.

Heck Wolverine only has the standard edition on disc, so many may pay for the digital deluxe (like me).

@Leonardo_Turtles And to have Michelangelo be a little sidekick, with a special ability to throw pizza slices at people!

The hype is real, but that last gameplay trailer moved me to “wait for a sale”. Game looks great, but possibly also a bit boring, or… safe? I am also just so Marvel-ed out… I cancelled my preorder and snagged Mortal Shell II instead

@nolifebr are you same nolifebr from resetera

@DarianStarfrog grow up

@IntrepidWombat I never get comments like this. Does Sony have a style to their exclusives yes but so does f**king Nintendo or MS yet you always have comments like yours that just don’t make no sense to me

At the end of the trailer they misspoke and called it PlayStation instead of PayStation. No gameplay but it will be fun to tear baddies up with wolverine. Could lose some sales if gamers are serious about the hold out on PS. Sucks for insomniac cause they didn’t do anything wrong.

@dark_knightmare2 I think he's justifiably expressing that Sony does have a certain sterility to their first party releases, not that they're bad games, on the contrary Spider-Man 2 and GoY are two of the finest third person action games of the generation. With that being said, Sony has focused so much on third person action games in the past few years that it really is starting to have a "look", similar to how Netflix original dramas have similar lighting/color balance.

His comment is perfectly suited for this thread, it's just an opinion.

@HonestHick Can 1000% guarantee that the boycotters will buy this, a good number will be digital sales also.

@dark_knightmare2 What's wrong with finding Sony's style stale? How does Microsoft and Nintendo each having a distinct style figure into this?

.. so close to release and they make a CGI..?!

@PanFriedSoup their games are starting to have a look indeed. They look the same.

“It plays like Arkham.” and “What happened to the puddles?”

Just to get those out of the way.

Edit: “It plays like Uncharted.”
Hedging…

@Leinad7
For a theater preview? Definitely. Especially IMAX.

Logan holding a picture of him and Jean reminds me of his famous meme 😁

@BecauseBecause Making copies... (sorry, old reference)

@somnambulance Ha, if only we could!

I'm sure this will be a well-made and polished game, but I do find myself pining for the mad creativity that birthed stuff like R&C, Sunset Overdrive.

@dark_knightmare2 is he the same @nolifebr I see on Reddit as well?

@dark_knightmare2 @cainhurst94 - Yes (on both)

@DarianStarfrog sorry, I am not terminally online, what is this supposed to mean? What made up thing have you created to be mad about this game?

To all those whining about "no gameplay", they just had like a TEN MINUTE gameplay demonstration at their last State of Play. That's what the game will look like and play like. Are you worried it's going to ship as a kart racing or hockey game now?

@PanFriedSoup for sure they will. Cause most people just like to stir the pot online. Get their clicks, likes, comments etc and then they go right back to doing what they always do. I have all 3 consoles, if i really wanted to boycott one i could. But all these players saying they will just go to PC or Xbox, or Switch or even some just saying they are quitting the hobby all together. I ain’t buying it. You are spot on buddy.

@Dampsponge I'll play it through once or potentially go for the platinum then be done with it. Long before Sony 'take it off their servers'. You lot are too easy.

Super excited for this. Have not been able to scratch the itch of an excellent game that’s completely blown me away this year and I think this is it. Still need to try 007 and Pragmata though

September is going to be a busy month for me with Wolverine coming out along with Onimusha and The Blood of Dawn Walker I preordered all three of them physical copies

@IntrepidWombat I’m just saying the only time I see this opinion it’s always about Sony never MS or Nintendo which is crazy when out of the three Sony has been the most consistent with delivering 90 plus metacritic scored games that either win or get nominated for goty hell they do it pretty much every year. Also because the games are third person doesn’t mean the games are similar because GOY,GOW,Tlou,Horizon,Spider-Man and Saros don’t play or look anything alike

@nolifebr cool I thought so

Day 1 digital purchase

@CRASH64 Same, as it means with game sharing me and my wife can play it around the same time, and the Portal can be used to stream from the cloud copy when in bed/tv being used travel etc.

Looks like a game with a wit that even the most clueless 12-years old will understand. The opposite of subtlety.

But the Insomniac formula seems to sell, and I‘m not the target audience. That’s fine.

Was a big fan of the X-men during the Jim Lee days. To this day no one beats him at drawing. Joe Madureia comes in second.

Looks very one trick pony. I hope I'm wrong. Didn't buy Spiderman 2 because of same game vibe, psplus verified it a few years later.

Might pick it up second hand on eBay just to stick it to the man while I can.

I’m interested because it’s Insomniac and they’re consistently great, but I’ll wait for reviews/feedback before going for it - especially at full price.

I want to know more about the variety in the game. Whilst Spider-Man involved a lot of fighting with goons you also had the big world to explore. Here, if it’s more linear, and one corridor after another of fighting, that feels like a ‘wait for the first sale’ game for me. (With the added bonus of not going day one for a Sony 1st party title, which would hopefully send a message if enough people did - I say that as a digital person who’d like to see more comms from Sony.)

@shonenjump86 that would be sick! Maybe a gameplay style similar to Stellar Blade (parries, etc)? Lots of gameplay opportunities with her!

Weird that the trailer doesn't mention that this game is PS5 exclusive.

@Dampsponge I like my cds, blurays, and games on disk. Everybody quickly jumped to spotify, netflix, prime without a blink. And in case of streamed content You indeed do not own anything. But it is not true that you can only rent digital copies of games, unless digital copies require You to contact a server every now and then, or game content is streamed e.g. MS FS24. But as far as I know You can download Your digital copies to an usb attached drive and put that drive on Your shelf. It will be forever Your digital copy of that game. You cannot transfer digital games to different accounts i.e. You cannot really lend or sell these digital games without handing over Your account in some way. And of course You can only run the digital copy if You still have a console that is compatible with that copy, but the same is true for physical disks to a lesser extent (e.g. ps3 disks only work on ps3s without hacking). Eventually it is sufficient to install a new console firmware to render a digital copy useless. Anyway hardly any game that is released on physical media will run properly without downloading patches. In that sense, what advantage provide "physical" versions of a games other than the possibility to transfer ownership to somebody else? I would say physical media died long ago. They died at the point in time when it became easy to patch a game after release to something that actually would work (basically since the ps4 era) or presumably even earlier when the games stopped running from the physical medium, but the medium was only used to copy the content to a hard drive.

@MrPeanutbutterz Unfortunately buddy after they had that internal leak, i think they may be locked in there past 2030!

@MrPeanutbutterz yea all of these 20th century superhero stuff has been so boring to me. It’s a shame the studio cannot do more of their own IP.

@HonestHick what gets me about the whole thing is while I can understand the discontent. As far as big decisions go it's a huge one albeit I think always would have been inevitable.

Those who are choosing to boycott and go elsewhere who are picking PC. If your principle is I want to stay physical. PC went for the most part all digital ages ago.

Can understand those wanting to go over to Xbox or maybe Switch. But reality is they'll all follow the same path eventually. And it's likely PS5 "cases" will still be sold with download codes in. Most of the time with the other platforms the full game isn't on the disc and/or cartridge anyway.

All a much of a muchness. Gaming is going in that direction everywhere.

@HonestHick

Cause most people just like to stir the pot online. Get their clicks, likes, comments etc and then they go right back to doing what they always do.

I think there are some content creators/editors/youtubers who deliver drama for the engagement and clicks. But some of them also have reasonable takes on the matter. For the PS4 launch Sony sold the promise of PlayStation being the perfect place for games on physical discs and until now they did hold that promise fairly well, especially with releases containing the full game data while other publishers/platform holders would basically sell a license code on disc.

Now those players who believed in that "promise" and built a large physical collection (and I bet there are a lot of them on PushSquare), see their collection not being compatible with PlayStation's future plans. So of course they are angry and disappointed. But the thing is, Sony never promised to "support physical media forever".

In this case people will have to think hard if they want to miss out on one of this year's biggest PlayStation games or want to stay true to what they believe in a boycott the game even if that won't change anything in the long run.

Nothing makes me less excited for a video game, than CGI trailers.
Show a montage of proper gameplay instead.
I really hope Insomniac moves on from making Marvel games. The superhero genre overall, needs a LONG break...

@TDHorizon Yep, that's right! There's apparently a new R&C game due sometime in the 2030s. So we had to wait a decade or so for a new 12 to 15 hour title. Joy...

@Vaako007 Yeah it's all so oversaturated nowadays. Probably a better personal example is Star Wars - I loved the original three films as a kid, they were truly magical. Now I instantly switch off from anything to do with the franchise because I'm so sick of it. Franchise fatigue is too real.

@Dragonaged Mike Mignola best of all time!for me.

@Katiecooh2313 there’s a lot of time to flesh out what they’re trying to do. They could make the PS Store more widely available. They can also allow PS games to be downloaded elsewhere other than on the console.

@Frmknst I dunno why. But I read your comment in my head using the most pretentious voice possible.

Yup. Already have my PHYSICAL EDITION pre-ordered!

@Brawl4002 oh yeah, that would be great.

It certainly looks a very exciting film.

Oh it’s a game? Who would know.

@ShadowRJ I get why people are angry about it, I like the option of physical games too. However in this case, there is 0 anyone can do about this.

If the PS6 was scheduled to come out in 2027, then the machine has already be finalised in terms of components and it is 100% going to be an all digital machine, especially if they are planning a hybrid machine with a handheld which is all but confirmed ( you can't put your disk in a handheld ).

This news has been given to the public now to take away the backlash for launch reveals etc. So, if there is zero chance of this being changed, mentioning this in every article on this site for the next 12 months is just going to be tedious ( like the Nintendo sister site which has game key card discussions in every article ).

There are relevant places to discuss this like dedicated reddit forums etc, but mentioning it on every news story is literally just shouting into the wind. Everyone can do whatever they want of course.

I am just letting you know that all you can achieve with this is making yourself miserable. Its the equivalent of standing out side your exes house after they have moved on and complaining about them cheating on you. It may be wrong, but they have moved on and you need to get on with you life!

Just my two cents of course

@The_Jobbo first of all, I don’t see why they can’t allow boutique publishers to make discs for games that can be run via optional drive.

Second of all, there’s no reason why the PS5 shouldn’t continue to receive discs.

Third of all. This is absolutely a relevant place to discuss it. Anything PlayStation related is an appropriate place to post the most damaging thing Sony can possibly do to game collecting.

I know that people are tired of hearing people moan about this, but for people like me, the internet is the only place we can moan at. What’s the alternative? Let all this emotion bubble up in our heads?

@PanFriedSoup Can guarantee not all of them. The only way I play this is getting preowned copy so they do not see my money. Otherwise I pass. I am already tired with Insomniac formula after 3 similar Spiderman games.