Sure, just screw over those of us that live in places with sub-optimal internet access. Acting like the whole world has fantastic internet access to sustain such a change. What does this mean for my physical movie and tv collection? Will I have to keep my PS5 hooked up to the tv after getting a PS6 to watch them?
The game barely existed when they announced it in Dec 2023, if it releases as expected in late 2027 that's just 4 years of development time. What kind of sorcery is Microsoft expecting from Arkane?
There's no space in this calendar year for it to launch either, Forza, Halo, Gears and COD have taken up all the major space for MS games in 2026. 2027 with Fable -> Clockwork -> Spyro -> Blade -> COD makes a ton of sense. State of Decay 3 and Hellblade 3 still need to fit somewhere into that schedule (until the moment they officially get rid of the studios), but they're all lesser names so you can pack the space a bit more than the 4 major MS franchises command.
I assume when they say "customer demand" they fully mean what they expected/calculated it would be from raising prices, otherwise it's crazy to say after having the worst May ever for console sales.
We are staring down the barrel of the longest cross-gen period ever because the solution to a $1000+ PS6 is to just keep releasing everything on PS5 as well. The masses keep playing on PS5 and the elite few that have thousands of dollars on hand to spend on a gaming console can get a PS6 for the graphic settings and complain they don't have any true exclusive games forever. Millions of PS6 will be sold, it will likely be sold out for months after release, and in the end it will all be a drop in the bucket compared to the previous gens.
Seeing the change on my iPad and Galaxy phone. Kinda funny that not a single one of their own games gets this privilege, but the one game that's going sell by the truckload even if they never drop another trailer gets all this. I do get it, marketing loves spending on surefire bets that will easily recoup whatever money they put into it. But imagine if Saros or Marathon got a similar push on the app & console? Maybe it convinces a bunch more people to take notice & hopefully buy it.
Even small indie fighting games release with rollback netcode nowadays, there's no excuse for KT to do this. Also they can't possibly be making enough money from the MOUNTAIN of over-priced DLC outfits to justify porting it like this.
Please let this lead into a new BB game. 🙏 Also, please bring back the eng dubs for future entries or a re-release of this, they were great and it was a hard blow having to play #4 in jap after playing 1-3 in eng. It just didn't feel right.
Guessing no physical game map included either? Take-Two are just doing it because they know they can get away with it for GTA6, they could smear 💩 in the box and it would still sell like crazy. Blatant anti-consumer behavior.
Damn, this is crazy expensive. Those versions without a controller are a nice gesture towards those that already bought the stand-alone controller and don't mind only having one. AMD just released the FSR4 update for RDNA3 cards so it's at least getting a nice upscaling upgrade over PS5.
I hope Bosch is at least back for Adachi, he was such a great fit for the character. Persona dubs have historically been great, with great care going into them, so yeah the og cast will be missed a lot specially when no one is getting recast in Japanese. That said, I think it's nice giving work to a younger generation of VAs like the OG's did 20 years ago, when Yuri, Bailey, Bosch, Mignogna, Ruff, etc weren't huge VA names and instead just the quality people you hired.
A smaller arcade game from them in between the bigger releases would be dope. I'm not a big roguelike/roguelite fan so I never bothered with Returnal, still considering getting Saros since it's meant to be more approachable, but I had so much fun with their earlier games.
For a moment I thought this was a remaster announcement and got very excited.
Really love Madness Return, though the levels tend to outstay their welcome and the gameplay isn't anything special, the game comes together to make something that's unique. Alice 1 is also a special experience. It's clunky and looks its age, but the story and world are still so wonderfully unique. It's worth pushing through what doesn't work to experience the whole of McGee's vision, plus it comes free with Alice 2 so nothing lost giving it a chance.
It was the big announcement of the showcase, makes sense to highlight it for a couple of days while the internet is still buzzing. Soon enough they'll move ahead to focus Wolverine and we won't hear about Laufey for another year, as it disappears into the ether to join Intergalactic.
Going the extra effort to design a whole 3rd-person mode, locked behind a Skull and that few people will use, is impressive dedication. Camera positioning reminds me of the SW Battlefront games.
An ICO remake from Bluepoint would have made so much sense, having all of Ueda's games playable on PS4/5. Maybe a TLG 60fps update to go along with it too.
@GravyThief It is a really thought out naming scheme, relating to each game in the collection, to explain the numbers. For KH2.8 Final Chapter: the main game in 2.8 is Dream Drop Distance from the 3DS (hence the 3D name) which is KH 2.6 because it follows the 2.5 Remix, then the KH3 prologue has the "Birth by Sleep" name so it is 0.2 (because BBS is 0.1), and the KHX cutscenes included are 0 because no Sora. So 2.6+0.2+0= 2.8
They didn't change up Tartarus at all and I expect the same to apply here. There's bigger variety with each dungeon carrying a unique theme, so the graphical upgrade should be more impactful than it was in P3R.
A logo and revealing the main color will be green is more than nothing, I'm left absolutely whelmed. So the games go: purple, red, blue/pink, yellow, red again and green.
Smart move! Look generous and kind, get some good PR. I think this wouldn't have happened if they did as other games do (eg Helldivers 2 & Astro Bot) and had the "Deluxe Edition Upgrade" as separate DLC people can buy if they own the base game, but you live and learn.
It looks glorious! Lost my ***** seeing Sapphire Weapon in glorious 4K. I've always been loyal to fielding Tiffa as a monk, but that black mage outfit is too beautiful. I'll have to equip more offensive magic on her when I do use her.
They improved visual resolution recently and it's so much nicer now. Game does need an easier way to farm super credits, it's a pain doing it alone on lower levels, specially if you don't get a radar side-objective.
It always felt odd to me that the Spider-Man games got NG+ after release given Insomniac's previous track record. Even Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart features the mode on the disc too and that released between Spider-Man games.
Sounds great! I hope there's a couple of more open levels like Ratchet & Clank games have, would be cool to half some side missions where you're asked to track a target over a more open environment.
I wouldn't mind if they move on from Kratos, Valhalla seemed to close out his story really well.
Only thing I could see is him returning to Greece to fix what he broke. I felt like Valhalla was asking if making amends and being better™️ really counts if you're doing it far away from the people you hurt, & your amends do nothing for them. Which I think is a really strong point. He's always been good and helpful to the people of the 9 Realms, only killing in self-defense. Obviously that story was never going there & I don't see how you move from Valhalla's ending to traveling to Greece without another massive time skip, which would then beg the question why Greece couldn't get better on their own after so long.
It's an uglier version of Legends, with a camera tilt gimmick and some on-rails levels bolted-on between worlds. The extra world and musical stages sound great, though! It's still a very pretty game, but it cannot match the style Origins and Legends went for with UbiArt. I'm sure it's going to be a great game, because Legends is a great game. Seems to me like all that effort should have gone to making a sequel to Legends instead. It wouldn't be the end of the world to remix stages & carry over stuff from Origins and Legends to fill up the level count in a Rayman 6.
Also, why can't they just upload the original asset they got? This is the 2nd Ubisoft leak, after the Assassin's Creed MP game, where the leaker AI upscales the assets clearly changing parts of the image (poor Betilla).
It's a whole different look, and a worse one at that. Almost as if someone grabbed Rayman Legends key-art and told a chatbot to make it 3d. The characters already had 3D models in Legends, while the world was still mostly 2D like in Origins, which makes the complete change in art direction even more senseless.
EDIT: the art being upscaled by AI would explain what happened to the poor fairy in the background. Though I don't remember them being in Legends, probably a sign that it includes the Origins levels.
@AverageGamer it's been a long time since they last tried variety. When MW4 releases 8 of the last 10 games while have been either MW or BO, with the 2 WW2 games rounding it out. It's time to try again, who knows maybe the people that grew up during the more creative phase will be more receptive to it than the older core were back then.
I'll try to make some time for it and dip in for a while, see how it's changed since the beta.
I wish they could have a permanent demo for it. Maybe make one of those PS+ Extra 1-hour game trials, but available for everyone to play? A way for people to dip their toe in whenever.
I hope they at least called him into the studio to try doing a different voice before going for the more expensive recast option. I'm glad the studio is listening to feedback to get things right!
This just made no sense for a studio like Quantic Dream. They're a NetEase subsidiary so it made even less sense to push them in this direction, they have enough successful live service games to subsidize and keep the single player studios running while they make less successful single player games (that still make plenty of money).
I really liked this feature in GOW Ragnarok, but that failed to hide the compass as well. I had it as a swipe down on the touch pad which was perfect for it. Great for a quick picture or to capture a clean short video.
This could be really good, the team is a good fit for the world, but the focus will be very important. Especially what story they want to tell and which part of Middle-Earth will they focus on, we getting a Rohan game, a Gondor game, we going someplace new? Hoping for the best and they create a banger!
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Re: PlayStation Consoles to Stop Getting Disc-Based Physical Releases in 2028
Sure, just screw over those of us that live in places with sub-optimal internet access. Acting like the whole world has fantastic internet access to sustain such a change.
What does this mean for my physical movie and tv collection? Will I have to keep my PS5 hooked up to the tv after getting a PS6 to watch them?
Re: Xbox Wants to Cancel Marvel's Blade, Close Arkane Studios
The game barely existed when they announced it in Dec 2023, if it releases as expected in late 2027 that's just 4 years of development time. What kind of sorcery is Microsoft expecting from Arkane?
There's no space in this calendar year for it to launch either, Forza, Halo, Gears and COD have taken up all the major space for MS games in 2026. 2027 with Fable -> Clockwork -> Spyro -> Blade -> COD makes a ton of sense. State of Decay 3 and Hellblade 3 still need to fit somewhere into that schedule (until the moment they officially get rid of the studios), but they're all lesser names so you can pack the space a bit more than the 4 major MS franchises command.
Re: Sony Can't Stop Hinting at the Portable Nature of PS6
This PSP3 will likely still be very expensive given the market, expect it to cost close to $1000.
Re: No Drop-Off in PS5 Demand Despite Price Increases, Says Sony
I assume when they say "customer demand" they fully mean what they expected/calculated it would be from raising prices, otherwise it's crazy to say after having the worst May ever for console sales.
Re: Hyped Avatar Fighting Game Adds These 5 Characters After PS5 Launch
Amon could be a great addition given all the tools in his arsenal.
Re: These 4 New Challengers Are Coming to Some of PS5's Best Fighting Games
TRINITY! 10 years later and finally the 6 Heroes are all playable in their proper form.
Re: Opinion: The PS6 Cannot Come Out in This Era of $1,000+ Consoles
We are staring down the barrel of the longest cross-gen period ever because the solution to a $1000+ PS6 is to just keep releasing everything on PS5 as well.
The masses keep playing on PS5 and the elite few that have thousands of dollars on hand to spend on a gaming console can get a PS6 for the graphic settings and complain they don't have any true exclusive games forever.
Millions of PS6 will be sold, it will likely be sold out for months after release, and in the end it will all be a drop in the bucket compared to the previous gens.
Re: Don't Worry, Bub, Marvel's Wolverine PS5 Physical Version Has a Disc in the Box
Happy to get a clarification. Really looking forward to this game, love me some Wolverine and Insomniac's work.
Re: Sony's Japan-Exclusive PS5 Is Losing Money, Cheaper Than a Switch 2
They're likely banking on GTA6 selling these console in droves, which isn't a bad bet.
Re: PS5 Adds Custom GTA 6 Start-Up Screen, Sony Rebrands PS App as Pre-Orders Go Live
Seeing the change on my iPad and Galaxy phone.
Kinda funny that not a single one of their own games gets this privilege, but the one game that's going sell by the truckload even if they never drop another trailer gets all this. I do get it, marketing loves spending on surefire bets that will easily recoup whatever money they put into it. But imagine if Saros or Marathon got a similar push on the app & console? Maybe it convinces a bunch more people to take notice & hopefully buy it.
Re: Mini Review: Dead or Alive 6: Last Round (PS5) - Dead on Arrival
Even small indie fighting games release with rollback netcode nowadays, there's no excuse for KT to do this. Also they can't possibly be making enough money from the MOUNTAIN of over-priced DLC outfits to justify porting it like this.
Re: A Decade After Release, Brilliant Anime Fighter BlazBlue: Central Fiction Is Getting a New Character
Please let this lead into a new BB game. 🙏
Also, please bring back the eng dubs for future entries or a re-release of this, they were great and it was a hard blow having to play #4 in jap after playing 1-3 in eng. It just didn't feel right.
Re: Redout Dev Now Fully Independent, Teases 'Major Title' Based on 'Revered' IP
Please let it be a new WipEout 🙏
Re: GTA 6 Is a 'Single Player Experience', No Word on GTA Online at Launch
I would guess they will do a release similar to RDR2, SP in November and MP in May-June. Get the kids hooked as soon as the school year ends.
Re: You Can Upgrade to GTA 6's Ultimate Edition Whenever You Like
So many people are going to spend the $100, but I'll happily stick to the base version and make do with what we get.
Re: GTA 6 'Plays Best on PS5', All Console Features Revealed
@MARl0 It is a subscription that gives you a bunch of benefits and advantages for GTA Online, plus access to a bunch of older Rockstar games.
Re: GTA 6 Physical Edition Doesn't Come with Discs, It's a Code in the Box
Guessing no physical game map included either?
Take-Two are just doing it because they know they can get away with it for GTA6, they could smear 💩 in the box and it would still sell like crazy. Blatant anti-consumer behavior.
Re: Valve's New Steam Machine Costs Almost Twice as Much as a PS5
Damn, this is crazy expensive. Those versions without a controller are a nice gesture towards those that already bought the stand-alone controller and don't mind only having one.
AMD just released the FSR4 update for RDNA3 cards so it's at least getting a nice upscaling upgrade over PS5.
Re: Going Platinum: This PS5 Game Gave Me Something Better Than a Platinum Trophy
I absolutely adored playing this on Switch. It's a real blast, perfect for playing cozied up on the bed.
Re: Persona 4 Fans Torn Over Remake's Totally New English Voice Cast
I hope Bosch is at least back for Adachi, he was such a great fit for the character. Persona dubs have historically been great, with great care going into them, so yeah the og cast will be missed a lot specially when no one is getting recast in Japanese.
That said, I think it's nice giving work to a younger generation of VAs like the OG's did 20 years ago, when Yuri, Bailey, Bosch, Mignogna, Ruff, etc weren't huge VA names and instead just the quality people you hired.
Re: Housemarque Hints Its Next PS5 Game Could Be Smaller Than Saros
A smaller arcade game from them in between the bigger releases would be dope. I'm not a big roguelike/roguelite fan so I never bothered with Returnal, still considering getting Saros since it's meant to be more approachable, but I had so much fun with their earlier games.
Re: Feature: This Somber Platformer, Now 15-Years-Old, Deserves a Revisit on PS5
For a moment I thought this was a remaster announcement and got very excited.
Really love Madness Return, though the levels tend to outstay their welcome and the gameplay isn't anything special, the game comes together to make something that's unique. Alice 1 is also a special experience. It's clunky and looks its age, but the story and world are still so wonderfully unique. It's worth pushing through what doesn't work to experience the whole of McGee's vision, plus it comes free with Alice 2 so nothing lost giving it a chance.
Re: PS5 Fans Think Sony Is Pushing God of War Laufey Harder Than Wolverine
It was the big announcement of the showcase, makes sense to highlight it for a couple of days while the internet is still buzzing. Soon enough they'll move ahead to focus Wolverine and we won't hear about Laufey for another year, as it disappears into the ether to join Intergalactic.
Re: Halo's PS5 Debut Can Be Played Entirely in Third-Person if You Want
Going the extra effort to design a whole 3rd-person mode, locked behind a Skull and that few people will use, is impressive dedication. Camera positioning reminds me of the SW Battlefront games.
Re: 'It's So Sad They're No Longer Around': Fumito Ueda Would Have Liked to Remake ICO with Shuttered Sony Studio Bluepoint
An ICO remake from Bluepoint would have made so much sense, having all of Ueda's games playable on PS4/5. Maybe a TLG 60fps update to go along with it too.
Re: Stunning PS Vita Action RPG Muramasa Is Being Reborn on PS5 Next Year
It's an amazing game! Very happy it's now out of Wii/Vita jail, everyone deserves a chance to play it.
Re: While You Wait for Kingdom Hearts 4, Play the Entire Saga with New Collection on PS5
@GravyThief It is a really thought out naming scheme, relating to each game in the collection, to explain the numbers. For KH2.8 Final Chapter: the main game in 2.8 is Dream Drop Distance from the 3DS (hence the 3D name) which is KH 2.6 because it follows the 2.5 Remix, then the KH3 prologue has the "Birth by Sleep" name so it is 0.2 (because BBS is 0.1), and the KHX cutscenes included are 0 because no Sora. So 2.6+0.2+0= 2.8
Re: Persona 4 Revival Story and Gameplay Blowout Airs Next Week
They didn't change up Tartarus at all and I expect the same to apply here. There's bigger variety with each dungeon carrying a unique theme, so the graphical upgrade should be more impactful than it was in P3R.
Re: Persona 6 Finally Announced for PS5 with a Surprisingly Dark Reveal
A logo and revealing the main color will be green is more than nothing, I'm left absolutely whelmed. So the games go: purple, red, blue/pink, yellow, red again and green.
Re: Bungie Fixes Marathon Mess by Giving Away Full Game to Fans Who Purchased Due to Misleading PS5 Store Description
Smart move! Look generous and kind, get some good PR.
I think this wouldn't have happened if they did as other games do (eg Helldivers 2 & Astro Bot) and had the "Deluxe Edition Upgrade" as separate DLC people can buy if they own the base game, but you live and learn.
Re: Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 Named Revelation, Job System Gameplay Blows Minds
It looks glorious! Lost my ***** seeing Sapphire Weapon in glorious 4K.
I've always been loyal to fielding Tiffa as a monk, but that black mage outfit is too beautiful. I'll have to equip more offensive magic on her when I do use her.
Re: Gen Atlas Is ICO, The Last Guardian Creator's Next Game
Looks great! Can't wait to finally play a new Ueda game.
Re: 'We Are So Back': Helldivers 2 Dev Lays Out Plans to Improve Game
They improved visual resolution recently and it's so much nicer now. Game does need an easier way to farm super credits, it's a pain doing it alone on lower levels, specially if you don't get a radar side-objective.
Re: Unlike Other Sony Exclusives, Wolverine PS5 Will Launch with New Game Plus Day One
It always felt odd to me that the Spider-Man games got NG+ after release given Insomniac's previous track record. Even Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart features the mode on the disc too and that released between Spider-Man games.
Re: Wolverine PS5 Is a Linear Single Player Action Game, Not Open World
@tameshiyaku a big motorcycle is his usual form of transportation, when he's not lunging or getting thrown by Colossus.
Re: Wolverine PS5 Is a Linear Single Player Action Game, Not Open World
Sounds great! I hope there's a couple of more open levels like Ratchet & Clank games have, would be cool to half some side missions where you're asked to track a target over a more open environment.
Re: 'We Have Many More Stories to Tell with Kratos': Sony Confirms New Games with God of War's Protagonist
I wouldn't mind if they move on from Kratos, Valhalla seemed to close out his story really well.
Only thing I could see is him returning to Greece to fix what he broke. I felt like Valhalla was asking if making amends and being better™️ really counts if you're doing it far away from the people you hurt, & your amends do nothing for them. Which I think is a really strong point. He's always been good and helpful to the people of the 9 Realms, only killing in self-defense. Obviously that story was never going there & I don't see how you move from Valhalla's ending to traveling to Greece without another massive time skip, which would then beg the question why Greece couldn't get better on their own after so long.
Re: Rayman Returns in a Stunning Modern Retelling of Legends on PS5
It's an uglier version of Legends, with a camera tilt gimmick and some on-rails levels bolted-on between worlds. The extra world and musical stages sound great, though! It's still a very pretty game, but it cannot match the style Origins and Legends went for with UbiArt. I'm sure it's going to be a great game, because Legends is a great game.
Seems to me like all that effort should have gone to making a sequel to Legends instead. It wouldn't be the end of the world to remix stages & carry over stuff from Origins and Legends to fill up the level count in a Rayman 6.
Re: Sony's Gorgeous Fighter Marvel Tokon Reveals Villainous New Characters as Launch Approaches
Green Goblin! So very happy to finally have him in a fighting game.
Re: Rayman Leaks Just Won't Stop, Xbox Outs 4K Edition of Origins
Origins is such a fantastic game, glad more people will get a chance to play it on modern consoles.
Re: Rumour: Rayman PS5 Remake to Feature Astro Bot, Will Be Revealed at State of Play
Also, why can't they just upload the original asset they got? This is the 2nd Ubisoft leak, after the Assassin's Creed MP game, where the leaker AI upscales the assets clearly changing parts of the image (poor Betilla).
Re: Rumour: Rayman PS5 Remake to Feature Astro Bot, Will Be Revealed at State of Play
It's a whole different look, and a worse one at that. Almost as if someone grabbed Rayman Legends key-art and told a chatbot to make it 3d. The characters already had 3D models in Legends, while the world was still mostly 2D like in Origins, which makes the complete change in art direction even more senseless.
EDIT: the art being upscaled by AI would explain what happened to the poor fairy in the background. Though I don't remember them being in Legends, probably a sign that it includes the Origins levels.
Re: Leaks Suggest This Year's Call of Duty Is Modern Warfare 4
@AverageGamer it's been a long time since they last tried variety. When MW4 releases 8 of the last 10 games while have been either MW or BO, with the 2 WW2 games rounding it out. It's time to try again, who knows maybe the people that grew up during the more creative phase will be more receptive to it than the older core were back then.
Re: Leaks Suggest This Year's Call of Duty Is Modern Warfare 4
3 Modern Warfare games in 5 years is way too much, they really need some variety in the line-up.
Re: Bungie's Maligned Shooter Marathon Goes Free-to-Play for a Full Week on PS5
I'll try to make some time for it and dip in for a while, see how it's changed since the beta.
I wish they could have a permanent demo for it. Maybe make one of those PS+ Extra 1-hour game trials, but available for everyone to play? A way for people to dip their toe in whenever.
Re: PS Vita JRPG Where You Power Up by Kissing Girls Finally Heads West Via PS5 Remaster
@SoulsBourne128 rpgsite has more pictures and they show MC kissing one of the guys, looks more intense. MC's an equal opportunity kisser.
Re: PS5 Sci-Fi RPG The Expanse: Osiris Reborn Recasts Its Main Character Following Brutal Fan Feedback
I hope they at least called him into the studio to try doing a different voice before going for the more expensive recast option. I'm glad the studio is listening to feedback to get things right!
Re: We Have to Talk About Live Service, After Heavy Rain Dev's Online Gambit Is Scrapped
This just made no sense for a studio like Quantic Dream. They're a NetEase subsidiary so it made even less sense to push them in this direction, they have enough successful live service games to subsidize and keep the single player studios running while they make less successful single player games (that still make plenty of money).
Re: Assassin's Creed: Black Flag Resynced's Instant HUD Toggle Should Be in Every Game
I really liked this feature in GOW Ragnarok, but that failed to hide the compass as well. I had it as a swipe down on the touch pad which was perfect for it. Great for a quick picture or to capture a clean short video.
Re: Lord of the Rings RPG from Kingdom Come: Deliverance Dev Confirmed
This could be really good, the team is a good fit for the world, but the focus will be very important. Especially what story they want to tell and which part of Middle-Earth will they focus on, we getting a Rohan game, a Gondor game, we going someplace new?
Hoping for the best and they create a banger!