Sony either just don’t care or have a terribly naive marketing department. Communication has been awful for years.

In regards to ditching physical, they have missed that hardcore fans and collectors may not drive the most revenue, but they maintain a culture that gets others invested in the community. To throw them away is madness.

Not to mention the madness of throwing away the biggest advantage - the games players have collected from past generations locking them into the ecosystem. Now new consoles won’t benefit from that.

The writing has been on the wall a long time though. Since 2018, when a large community of open minded gamers were crapped on in order to pander to non or casual gamers demanding censorship of the games and devs Sony built their name on in many markets.

I only really stayed with Sony due to VR and my history/trophy collection. The former is better on PC unfortunately. The later not enough to keep me.

The only way for Sony to pull this bad PR around is to announce a slew of pro consumer digital changes - return periods and trading of licenses being the big ones.

@Stevemalkpus
Here: https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2026/06/sony-will-permanently-delete-550plus-movies-you-already-paid-for

This only counts new purchases. If you took into account second hand sales I’m sure it would be a completely different picture. But then removing the secondhand market is precisely what all these publishers want.

Crosscode looks good. Although it’s another game with the ever tempting bloody cheat mode again, which I find really tiring to avoid, especially late in games.

Nothing else interests.

What an own goal for PS6. So many people with a huge catalogue of physical games, locked to the PlayStation ecosystem, and now instead of getting a PS6 to play them in a superior form (ideally) they now get no benefit from getting any console. Sony just threw away the fact they had people locked into their ecosystem. Madness!

Gaming is about to get massively more expensive. No second hand game market to buy from or sell to. I don’t suppose Sony will improve their options in this area, not without government intervention anyway.

I tried Uncharted for the first time about 5 years ago. A repetitive cover based shooting gallery that bored me to tears until I had to stop. They are right, it would need a huge amount of modernisation, at which point they might as well just put that effort into a new game.

Some games can just get too big. Will this update include new trophy challenges?

@FreasurePlanten
You can certainly own a digital license. You can also steal a digital license (for example, stealing someone’s PSN account would mean you steal all their digital licenses). I’m not sure what your point is on that one.

But, yes, it is a concern that people are generally duped into thinking they have bought goods rather than buying a license that may be limited in duration, T&C’s or no. At the least, I think these companies should be obligated to disclose how long they hold the rights for, so the customer can decide whether to risk them renewing or not.

@Zeke68
To be honest, the requirement to play the online element to get all the trophy challenges, and so 100% the game, really puts me off. Im hoping they don’t do that in 6. I have no interest in social gaming of any type other than split screen at home. Not hopeful though, it’s clearly a standard cynical practice for them - getting single player gamers to artificially inflate their online engagement numbers.

Not sure how a decision can be reached without knowing the impact of this extra stuff. It might just be cosmetic, or even weapons or cars from the mission, but which are completely outpaced by others available in the base game. Personally I hate the concept of ultimate editions at launch anyway, which means I prefer the easier option of all the stuff in said editions being limited and pointless, so I get your idea, but if people are paying a good chunk extra, then they should get a good chunk of extra content I guess.

Personally, I’ll be waiting until it’s a decent price anyway due to the lack of a resaleable option. I mean, I still haven’t even played GTA5, despite the wife owning it, so it’s not like I can’t resist these games lol.

@Blaze215
That’s not a logically consistent argument, but I can certainly get on board with the sentiment.

If you look at the biggest markets, in Asia, he is right, it’s mainly live service

Shame. Would have preferred 3 games with a more in depth story. 3 trophy lists would also be fun.

If they care about the market they need to remove the 2018 censorship decisions to align themselves with Nintendo again in this regard, and so increase the number of viable games.

What do they mean the physical version doesn’t contain a disc. Is it just a code? And the code only a one time use so no resale? That’s pretty sh*tty

I’m conflicted about this. Sometime some people do just want a low effort (for them) small and cheap game to spend a bit of time. I’ve played a few, mainly on VITA when away from home. What this will do is stop the store getting cluttered with these games…but surely this is just Sony giving up on proper curation.

Looks right up my street

Then I guess I’ll be waiting longer until it’s finished and I can buy it, like I have for BALL X PIT.

That’s the problem with these large companies. They have the money to invest in higher yield areas, like AI. Microsoft are the same.

An extra £400 or so over a 7ish year lifecycle. Sure, I would do that, but ONLY if Sony gave me lots of decent games to play in it. And committed to VR.
In flat gaming I can’t think of much Sony first party has put out that I’ve played this gen. Maybe nothing.

I’m tempted to get it, or another iteration, next gen. Almost certainly will if Sony don’t release another VR headset with support. The only sad thing is that there won’t be trophy support, so I’ll need to steady again with steam Achievements I guess.
No interest in Sonys single player games these days, mostly play Indy games anyway, but would like something with a bit of grunt for the few I would get.

I’m playing Absolum. A solid 8/10 game, but I’ve beaten the final boss now and am about to get into the ordeals, and I just wish two things - trophies were added for finishing these challenges, and that the assist mode wasn’t included. The worst thing about the game is the constant feeling that you’re wasting time by not tuning things to be more favourable. In fact my hardest challenge so far has been to keep everything on default, which I’ve so far managed to do.

Well, it’s not a system issue as I’ve never come across this with any others PS game. Doubt Sony changed their rules just for Microsoft, and doubt it’s a one game only thing.

My guess, MS did it because they want millions of PS players to download a Microsoft account for their own numbers, and Sony perhaps only link to the Microsoft account through PSN?

How embarrassing would it be to have call of duty appear on your profile?

I really can’t connect with why devs do this. All this does is convince me to wait until I can play all content at once. Coming back to a finished game months down the line is not for me. This just smells of an industry wanting to mitigate the perceived damage of the used game market.

@Matroska
Sure, but this is why I specified that, if it’s so easy you don’t get hit, then increasing such things makes little difference…because it was emphasised how easy this looked.

When people claim higher difficulty is available, they usually only mean they give enemies more health / and or let them hit harder. If it’s so is that you don’t get hit then this makes no difference.

Programming different AI abilities and behaviours for different difficulty levels is, unfortunately, quite rare.

If the ai is too easy on easy, it may well be the same experience on hard - just slightly more tedious.

Just give elder scrolls to a different studio that won’t released a bugged mess of a game with no understanding of proper levelling systems.

@naruball
Basically just play as you would without considering trophies, ensuring to switch weapons and alternate surface/underworld as you go. Talk to everyone. Eventually ensure you are running at 12 fear for the added bonus every run, which should be easy once weapons are upgraded. By the time you’ve done all the weapons you’ll already have the kudos needed for that trophy, and most of the quests as long as you have been talking to everyone. Basically it plays itself as long as you don’t stick to one build. You might want a guide for a couple of the quests so you aren’t wasting runs very late game, but no grinding for resources, you don’t even need to play on high fear really, just enough to beat the alternate boses.

@naruball
It’s not much of a grind at all, and gives a nice sense of completion. hades 1 on the other hand I did find a bit of a grind, but might have to go back to it now to get the set.

Just bought Absolum, so will be playing that today. Still playing through RDR2 as well, but the game stumbles in its brilliance with lots of annoyances.

Interested in Moonlighter 2, but only igniting hug and exploit ridden like the original. Ghost turned into a major disappointment

Have FF16 and Kingdom Come, otherwise it would have been a great month for me. Don’t think I’m interested in the others.

Will the games also leave the service in a staggered way? If so then fine, but if you lose nearly a month of RDR2 or some other huge game…not so great.

So they are taking meaningful rewards away from content in case they didn’t make that content fun enough? Why not just make it more fun? I have no problem engaging in a more varied range of challenges for worthwhile rewards.

So, no different from the past practice of outsourcing such incidental details to cheep outfits in Asia, then reviewing them afterwards.

@HotGoomba
His grammar is fine, I think you meant lack of punctuation.

Not a fan of the character design. Not because she supposedly looks “too young”, she just isn’t a patch on Eve. Maybe we’ll have to wait for some new outfits to get the full effect, but something has been lost.

Also not a fan of what I see of the combat but, given how great it felt in the original, I have faith.

I’m sure Eve will turn up though. In fact, wasn’t the original actress seen at the mo cap studio, and commented on the new rig?

@PloverNutter
It’s true there isn’t a huge market yet. It just doesn’t look “cool” enough for those who haven’t tried it. Once the tech gets more ergonomic and AI can translate flat games into VR games with minimum developer effort, then it will rise again. It’s just too much of a superior gaming form for it not to succeed eventually.

@16BitHero
Yet they then may abandon VR as their main revenue stream due to higher audience number for flat gaming

I supposed if you can’t play the superior VR version you might want to give pancake mode a go.

@janinani
PlayStation

Red dead redemption 2 will likely be my answer for a while. Just wish there were no missables as I won’t be playing this twice.

A Netflix show that gets more than 2 series? Pretty much unheard of these days! The reason I’m watching a loaf of shows from the 90s and early 2000s at the moment.

So she intends to take the largest games multiplat, and try to entice people to the platform with lot of smaller breakout offers? That’s how I read it if looking at things logically.

Same old. I’ll play Rayman again, with the wife this time. Lots of remakes, retro, and cookie cutter games. Lots of dull and dark horror and stealth games (and not even in VR!).
Maybe I’m getting jaded, but I’m really not getting excited about what’s being made these days.

I don’t remember this being overlooked. It was quite visible on release.

I tried it, but it was a fuzzy and blurry mess in motion. Couldn’t stand to look at it unfortunately.

@RomanRiz
There’s an argument to say people will buy it later, or even wait to buy it until it’s playable fully single player.

@RomanRiz
If someone already has the game, hasn’t finished it, and can then continue after it’s taken offline in a single player mode. Then that’s the dream. In fact, If implemented properly, I may well buy some of these games after they are taken offline as a single player experience.