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“Increasingly” becoming a platform? What metric indicates that? Their entire business model relies the Game Pass which is far more of a PC gaming thing than an XBOX thing by the numbers now and actually selling their titles on PS5. They honestly seem to have less of a clue now than they did with Bond and Phil.

AI use and oversexualized teenagers…not off to a great start, despite the combat looking like a step up!

Not liking the sexualization of what appears to be an underaged main character. If they can address that, I’ll be down! Because otherwise it looks awesome.

I just don’t get why gamers hate gaming so much.

Some of yall need to do some soul searching to understand why you take such joy in the failure of others.

PlayStation still has a very large install base, so it makes sense that they would prioritize console exclusivity. XBOX does not have a large install base, and it therefore makes sense that they should NOT prioritize console exclusivity.

What they don’t understand is that they ain’t selling consoles already, and no one is going to leave the much more affordable PlayStation ecosystem or sell their PC just to play an 1100 dollar XBOX PC that plays XBOX and PC games but not as freely as on a true PC does. XBOX’s days as a console cornerstone are over, just as Sony’s days will end one day too most likely. Even Nintendo isn’t guaranteed perpetual success. One bad console generation can lead to a full on tailspin these days. Their best bet is to learn from SEGA. They can either accept that reality before it costs them a billion+ dollars or after.

The fact that the annual subscriptions are by and large unchanged is consistent with Sony’s statement that they want to extract more from the install base. They don’t want people riding monthly or quarterly subscription packages anymore. They want you on the annual

This is just another example of why Live Service is a completely unsustainable business model. Even when a company does it right, like Sucker Punch has done TWICE now, it’s simply not good enough for the people who think they should be given everything their heart desires for free. Social media has ruined us on that. People addicted to that type of product fundamentally don’t understand the cost of what it takes to produce it.

I haven’t really been interested in XBOX exclusives for a decade. That’s why I’m pretty happy here on the PS ecosystem. If I something does interest me from that direction, I can just get Game Pass on my laptop, but that hasn’t really been the case. The only exclusives I might be interested in jumping to are the Nintendo ones, purely nostalgia based bc that was my childhood ecosystem, but it’s still very childish overall, so I’ll go that direction and catch up once I have some kids of my own.

@Paranoimia I’ve taken stuff every month for nearly a year, but I get that some folks aren’t looking for as niche of stuff as I am.

@Daddee-Cree I don’t have Game Pass. Most PS Subscribers aren’t on Game Pass. Why would that matter anyway?

Haha how are so many people pissed at this? Every game on offer I’m truly happy to have for free at least (FIFA) and stoked because it was on my wishlist since it dropped for the others (Sols and Wuchang)!

IGN makes me laugh so hard. 😂

Xbox, where the world plays. 🤣😂🤣 gimme a break.

@InfamousOrange that’s what I was wondering too. If Forza 5 is still killing it.

Is Forza 6 Day One Game Pass?

@Mad-Vampire it might boost Game Pass sales, which is a not going to really impact things that much, but it won’t sell many consoles. The PS5 folks will wait, and the other purchasers will be slim in comparison. The data over the past year dictated that.

Good for them. It only took em how many years to put together a complete game?

As a PlayStation ecosystem guy who rarely plays PC games on my laptop, I’m quite happy with my PS Premium subscription, honestly. The catalogue is good, the Portal is perfect for my purposes. Sony is in a power position when it comes to the current market, even with their poorly handled current gen live service slop decisions. Just shows how far Microsoft has fallen sadly.

If I was a younger version of myself (now 37) who was on Game Pass and still played COD, this current deal would be my final straw for sure. They drop it a measly amount then I have to wait a year for the new COD? Who wants that? Oh well.

Hulst has got to go! He can retire with his millions somewhere nice, I’m sure. I have loved my PS5 experience, but very little of that experience has been down to PS produced titles. 3rd party is keeping PS afloat, and Sony has got to do something to show us why they “won” the console war with Microsoft, because it currently looks like Sony just got lucky.

Not a chance. How could this possibly be any good whatsoever?

For once, I hope Nintendo and Game Freak feast on this trash.

I haven’t played it yet, and I just upgraded to the Pro. Spider-Man 2 was beautiful, so it’s definitely up next.

Price increases might have slowed it down over the next year or two, but they just sold a metric ***** ton of PS5’s over the last couple weeks, worldwide. They will probably sell more units from now til EOY by jumping the price with a heads up than they would have without jumping the price at all.

@Matroska it’s called gamer math.

@ozkrmz 😂🤣😂🤣

Lots of folks with 10 year old TV’s trashing TCL like they know what they’re talking about. It’ll be fine.

I never had a problem with storage on the OG PS5, especially after dropping a M.2 SSD in. I’ll be in a holding pattern on my PS5 Pro til the PS6 Pro comes out anyway. So glad I upgraded this week.

I’m Day One on this one.

It’s sold really well, so I hope they reinvest that into further development, and it seems like they’re doing that. Thank God my backlog is at least a year long because it’s going to be really good by then (hopefully).

I know this feels gross, and it is, but…you don’t have to buy things that don’t match your evaluation of the product.

Clearly the critics and reviewers were unhappy with this game because sandbox adventure games don’t make good reviews. They’re hard to describe in a text based format, but when you get your hands on it, you know it’s good. I hope they continue to innovate with this game. Can’t wait to play it myself. I think it looks fantastic.

It’s like gaming companies still think that games are for kids, despite the fact that the entire gaming industry, especially the offline single player market, is actually held up by 30+ year olds who have been gaming for well over two decades…🤯

@IOI the model sucks, and even casuals notice. The whole concept is, “let’s do as little as humanly possible and structure it in a way that makes us as much money as possible.”

@HRdepartment I’d love to see the in’s and out’s of their finances.

Oh well, I know for a fact that this is going to be one of my favorite games from this year, even on my old beat up base PS5. 😜

@trev666 I was about to leave the same comment. Cyberpunk’s failure was so bad that it got me BACK into games. 😂🤣

I’m one of those! I still have the base PS5, but I’ve got the VR2, the Portal, and a Premium account. I was going to get a gaming PC or a Switch, but then I realized that I don’t have that kinda time. So I doubled down on PlayStation and bought a decent gaming laptop that I use for work and for Chrono Trigger anything else I can’t play on PlayStation.

@Neither_scene it took you longer to come in here and bitch than it would have to just keep scrolling.

I love playing Square Enix games, but SE leadership has been atrocious for a while now. Poor decisions leading to wildly unachievable expectations that result in strange overreactions.

@darylb24 wanna actually illustrate your point or are you just pouting?

@Midnyte-Monkey weird flex but ok.

@J2theEzzo absolutely. It’s how I ended up getting into Tsushima! I played Legends first and loved it so much that I bought the full game.

It’s fantastic. The best F2P co-op games out there. Highly underrated.

@Simulated-Soul if you’re willing to buy Legends then just buy Yotei! Lol

Who cares? I just want the case for the stack. 😎

I wasn’t going to get this game for a while, but this makes me wanna Day 1 it, against my better judgement.

I know it’s Sony’s decision to do this, but it’s still a justifiable reaction to Xbox’s business strategy. Xbox is done making “consoles.” This next one is a hybrid, and there is no way that Sony is going to allow their products to jump on the Game Pass, which is a huge reason why Xbox has fallen so far, for “free.”