AlexSora89

@Quintumply
How does an orange slay a rake anyway?

... and another little llama, fuzzy llama, funny llama, llama, llama, duck.

DAMN IT, PUSH SQUARE!

Out of all the "third-party exclusives" (quotation marks made necessary by the oxymoron), this is easily the one that makes the most sense. What I don't get, perhaps, is why building on the origial MGS when The Twin Snakes exists. They should, er, remake the GameCube remake.

It's not like Nintendo players would mind a mainline Kingdom Hearts on Switch and the like, even a past one, or, say, like Xbox fans would mind Spider-Man in their Avengers game, either.

Push Square seems to have a very strict anti-port-begging policy; it shouldn't work in one way only.

I have my reasons to add popcorn to my healthy diet.

Let's see if this sticks by the time PlayStation 6 rolls around.

I remember Phil Spencer being described as a hypocrite around here for similar reasons.
I can't help it: I'm a sucker for irony.

One model has to be cheaper than its Xbox counterpart. If not, Sony really needs to bring out big guns this time around.

I'm talking about pulling all the stops and going the extra mile. I'm talking about, y'know, actual exclusives - as in, first-party IPs. Funding a new Wipeout, Parappa The Rapper, Sly or Jak and Daxter game would get Sony much less hate than, say, making sure the Xbox version of Marvel's Avengers has less content for the same price.

It's about time they brought back the Japanese-ization of the brand, after keeping the western title screen themes in N. Sane Trilogy.

... wait.

Turns out I'm as old as the PoP franchise. Huh. Who knew?

The more Sony waits, the less time Sony fans (younger ones, or otherwise unemployed) have to save the money needed to get the console by launch (or even Christmas). And considering the digital-only edition is far less different than the standard one compared to the abyss between both versions of Xbox Series X... yeah, you can do the math.

I was kind of expecting a funeral, I wasn't that much far off.
Here's how Super Smash Bros. Brawl did it for the save data deletion option in the Japanese release.

"Bring home the bacon"
Peter "Spider-Ham" Porker confirmed, then?

Nintendo eShop is just as much of a trainwreck, if not even more so. The Nintendo 3DS iteration of the platform used to shuffle things around, but nowadays it's mostly a showcase for Nintendo Selects and Switch stuff.

The Xbox store has only now solved the long-standing issue of "if you want to buy a 360 game, buy it on a 360". I used to have fond memories of the PS Store, but ever since the PSP dropped its support those are long gone.

"It couldn't conquer the cutesy might of Nintendo Switch exclusive Animal Crossing: New Horizons"
And in ten years, when all consoles will be equally unable to exceed reality, nothing will.

@LiamCroft
Gun Gun Pixies on Nintendo Switch was my first review code. Opening segments are rarely a sample of what the entire game has to offer, but sometimes you don't need a second impression.

For a moment, I envisioned Sony's boss as S.C.E.J.: Society Capturing Exclusive Junk.

Seriously though, headline and opening lines are trying way too hard at this.

@nessisonett
And common sense gets the first comment. You've earned a like, kind sir.

I was betting on PS fans popping their champagne bottles, just not on this site to do so. Classy.

There's not much that needs to be said, outside of the obvious fact that the trailer is almost at Apple levels of brand narcissism.

That said, I might further point out the obvious by stating that if I buy a PS5 it's for Ratchet And Clank: Rift Apart, for The Pathless (which I utterly adore because of its Breath of The Wild-esque game design, contrary to the unoriginal ripoff that is Genshin Impact) and for, I dunno, The Pedestrian maybe? Not for content on a multiplatform title that makes other versions worse (and yet sharing the same price).

Cross-play is always good, no matter how PC cheaters can spoil the fun. Unless your game is a first-party heavy hitter, you can fully expect your local online environment to be eventually devoid of players. A unified online userbase is good for everyone.

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Speaking of Exhibit A, I'd like to point out I'm totally siding with @nookie_egg on this matter. Third-party exclusives - may they be software or content, if content is on such a significant scale - are not "exclusives", they're bribes by a more flattering name. Unless an exclusive is gained by financing the game's actual development (e.g. Bayonetta 2, Cuphead) and not by securing a deal, that's just grabbing a game from other console players.
Don't get me wrong: I have utmost respect for most of Sony's IPs (case in point: Ratchet And Clank, which manages to keep Insomniac Games out of the edgefest the industry is seeing), mostly because they're... well, Sony's own IPs. (I have played one game in the series, Size Matters on PSP, but I always found the reliance on bolts and ammo to be rather sluggish in terms of gameplay.)

@Col_McCafferty
Wait, what? Polygon and Kotaku? They're... anti-Sony? I'm not that much of a lurker on either, to be honest. But they're not exactly the first two names that could come to my mind when thinking of being anti-Sony.

@Arnna
It's not like "our" side - the Nintendo one ("side" is figurative, natch9 - is completely exempt from the "sour grapes" treatment, either.

"Bafflingly"
That's some Gamestation 256 claptrap right there.

"After hours and hours of transforming into stuff" indeed.

@redd214
Wait, wheels?

7/10.
Ouch, the "late port" factor hit this game pretty hard.

Who cares. People from the gaming industry pick sides all the time. While PS5 might not get too much Valve stuff, it's not like the actual output from Valve is that vast. We're talking about The Orange Box, and that's pretty much it.

Dragon Quest XI is definitely the best game to be stuck at home in front of a TV with. It just wouldn't feel the same to be able to take it outside for a walk. Thank goodness there is no other port whatsoever that allows to do just that. Nope, it doesn't exist.

@Cromwell

Well, I'd be glad if you folks ended up getting it: whatever timed exclusivity needed to do has since been done and done again. Just be thankful for the guys who funded the game's development so that the devs themselves could get their houses out of mortgage.

@DiddyWahDiddy @3Above
Oh boy, it's time to bring THAT up again!

Alternate headline: "So that's how it feels to be at the wrong end of the treatment".

@kyleforrester87
"Just win the race, just win the race, just win, just win, just win the race!"

I think what's wrong with what he said is implying that other consoles are to blame. Truth is, the time isn't right yet.
I would take Xbox Game Pass on Nintendo Switch any day, and I'm sure anyone of you would, too. But it would necessitate a good streaming infrastructure, and at the moment internet connections flat-out don't allow it.
I just got optic fiber-powered online, and it still (occasionally) runs like crap. I shudder at the thought of what Xbox Game Pass on all devices entails outside of a country as technologically evoluted as Japan.

"The origami king"
That got a smile out of me. Thank you, @LiamCraft.

inb4 "Kojima, you ungrateful cockroach, this is how you repay Sony for letting you develop your filthy game on PS4 and [insert gibberish-styled slippery slope tirade here]"

If no one makes a "Ghost of Sushi" joke I'll be very disappointed.

I'll be mad, even. I'm just ill-tempura that way.

Well, said it before, will say again - there are two kinds of exclusives.

One is the kind of game that's exclusive by definition, as you - as in, "you who make hardware" - own the IP. You know, Ratchet & Clank, God of War, and the like. That's perfectly fine - I want a Mario game on PlayStation as much as you'd want Kratos to score combos with button prompts that show... shiver in fear... letters.

The other kind is the one you get when you bribe publishers.

There's also next-gen exclusivity at work here, but I just wanted to point it out.

It depends on one thing. If Sony charges users to get the next-gen version of a game they have, then consider PS4's chances D.O.A..

It's inevitable, given that generational upgrades have to resort to things other than graphics. Today it's lighting and loading times, tomorrow it will be something else, and two generations from now... well, good luck.

First things first: HARASSMENT IS BAD.

Yes, I wanted to prove my point with Jim Sterling videos despite me being a Nintendo fan. Make of that what you will, if you think it invalidates my point.

And neither of the two nayxt-jayne (bonus points if you read "next-gen" in Jim Sterling's trademark nasal voice) consoles have a known pricing. Hoo boy, I don't envy you folks.

Next headline: "Yes, we're playing on a Sony system."

Welcome to the wonderful world of Reggie faces as article images, Push Square. Reggie's Nintendo years have been a riot over at Nintendo Life. Guy oozes charisma.

"Can we expect anything special?"

"Studio worried by Rowling comments"
We all are.

As much of a lurker as I might be in the PS scene, I'd take Ghost of Tsushima's violence over The Last Of Us Part II's any day.

I understand the sarcasm, what with this being Push Square and all, but that doesn't justify the grinning Kratos. That picture is cursed as all hell.

"as the Japanese software charts are often dominated by Nintendo Switch titles these days"

Excuse me as I frame this sentence for posterity.

"it's unclear what this bullet point refers to"
Well it ain't 24 players at once, I can tell that much.

Anyway, joke's on you guys, Crash got his non-spinoff, platforming game multiplayer back in the GBA days.

Aaaaaaaaaand it sucked.