Atreus97

I guess it's much easier to sell millions of copies of a game when it's roughly £10-£15 nowadays.

I mean yeah great but is it Arkham Knight at 60fps too much to ask? Sigh

@get2sammyb
I get that. I'm exaggerating but even you say he "HAD" a great reputation from his work from Guerilla.

But now?
Helldivers is a success but it's seen as a convenient accident. He's had more misses than hits recently so the general feeling around him doesn't seem to be positive, and now even the market reflects that.

Try that again, shall I?

Nobody in the online world or business world seems to think Hermen is competent, based on these results and the general discourse of his tenure.

He has much to do to rebuild his credibility. Maybe too much.

Ragnarok released in 2022.

Its Jan 2025 - I really hope they're long past casting at this point 😅

On Gamepass too I believe. If only PS could add it to PS Extra

Is this better or worse than Gangbeasts? My nieces and nephews go crazy for that so if this better I am so there

Worrying thing is that if it is a next-gen game, which it likely is, then we're looking at 2028 earliest.
But they'll need a solid user base to make any money which could mean 2029 or later.

Perhaps it'll be cross-gen which means before 2028 but that doesn't sound as exciting from a technical standpoint

Oooh game changer. Ok I'm buying it on the next discount

"Keep your expectations low, Boy..." you all know the rest by now

Remember when Sony took Cyberpunk off of the PS Store and gave refunds to everyone?

Yeah, CDPR haven't forgotten. Why would they bother support Sonys mid-gen refresh for free, when they could opt not to and leave Sony hanging?

Sucks for gamers though.

I don't know if I'd call 2 main games, 1 remaster, 1 Lego version and 1 online version 'milking' the franchise if this has all taken place over 9 years.

How many CoDs do we get in that time? Fifa? 2K games? Assassin's Creed? Come on

Tbh, no amount of words, photos or YouTube videos can give justice to how good this game looks running on PS5 pro and an OLED screen.

The saltiness in this comments section is just... Wow.

Anyway, I think Ragnarok on the Pro looks just as good as this. It's comparable to a high-end PC, it's that spectacular.

Also found it impossible to do the data transfer. My old 'fat' PS5 is usually wired but I connected it and my Pro to the same WiFi, with them connected via ethernet to each other.

The transfer wouldn't work on 3 attempts, despite my download/upload speed being 700mbps+.
In the end I just transferred everything apart from installed games/apps which worked. Re-downloaded my games/apps when back on ethernet and job done.

Thought they bought Bungie specifically so that they wouldn't make such obvious mistakes.

This sounds like what the Bungie expertise was supposed to help with?

Ricky Hatton probably kicking himself right now

As much as I agree that the writing was bland, I'm still really disappointed with this. I can't bring myself to replay the story again but I'd have paid whatever for DLC.

Man, I BEEN waiting for this.
Can't believe it's been 4 years and we've barely heard a peep.
I get the feeling 2025-2026 is gonna be a feast for gamers.

PS5 Pro wasn't really made for games like this though, was it?
It's made for games where you prefer 60fps but consequently have to suffer a drop in image quality.
Ratchet & Clank is not one of those. Loads of other games are.
I'm certain it'll be worth it.

@djlard
That mod to remove Atreus and Ironwood is gonna feed families

@Shalooda
From how what you're wearing impacts your visibility depending on the weather or environment, to how loud your movement is depending on your speed or the weather.
Or how the enemy adapts to your tactics by wearing more night vision goggles if you always attack at night. Plenty of more mechanics which are really cool.

It's not perfect, but dude it is miles ahead of 'Star Wars Outlaws'

Looks superb but the last two tech demos have yet to be realised in games so I don't appreciate the blue balls tbh

At one point I was so buying this game. Then all the trailers looked progressively worse which put me off.

Right now, I'm playing MGSV for the first time and the stealth mechanics are incredible. I can't go from that level of stealth to what I've seen in Outlaws, no matter how many bugs they squash.

This will be the PS Portal all over again.

All the noise will be about how useless and poor value it is, but the numbers will paint a very different picture.

Anyway, I'm absolutely getting this.

@AhmadSumadi
Wrong. Non pro owners will miss the PSSR. Not a pretty sight

Ironically, I want a couple of PS4 games patched 😅

RDR2 and Batman Arkham Knight. I refuse to replay either game at 30fps.

Considering how many songs Rockstar need for this game, I'm genuinely curious about what people think would be a more reasonable offer?

Google says there were 441 songs in GTA 5. Let's assume this game is bigger and they go for 500 songs. Multiply that by 7500 and you've got $3.75m as an assumed total music budget.

In that context, I reckon Rockstar could afford to quadruple the offer for every song, bringing the fee to $30k and total budget to $15m and they'd STILL make their money back within 2 literal minutes of the release.

$30k is probably still gonna piss artists off though. So what's a reasonable solution?

@Czar_Khastik
Fantastic idea. It should be called
Hogwarts Legacy: Kill Harry Potter

"Concord would go on to connect players in new and innovative ways, of course – as it was met with a level of disdain and indifference on a scale we’ve never seen before"

Good gawd almighty 😂

@McTwist
I love Arkham Knight to death. It was a true labour of love from Rocksteady. You can tell it was made by people who had both the talent and passion for the material and that reflected on the end product.

Not having a high quality boss fight was unforgivable, though. They must've ran out of time because it is inexplicable. That is the one and only fault the game has in my eyes.

Anyway, it's so sad to see what has become of the studio.

Already beat the incredible Witcher 3 on PS4, and then again on PS5.

But I'll be damned if I'll let a bunch of newbies play it for free without me joining the fun. Here goes playthrough #3

@Deoxyr1bose
I agree with a lot of this.
Imagine if TLOU 2 could've been ported to PS3? Unthinkable, right?
The fact that 'current gen exclusives' can be ported to the PS4 speaks a lot about this gaming generation.

For a site full of 'hardcore' Sony fans, it's shocking how few of you actually get it.

The single player games we all love are taking longer and costing more than ever to make.

If we want Sony to keep churning them out while hitting our quality demands, games like these NEED to succeed because they have the potential to generate enormous profits.

Jim Ryan gets a lot of heat in these parts but he identified the problem and offered a solution. Sony needs more live service games in order to continue to develop high quality single player games. It's as simple as that.

@nessisonett
Except most of the "haters" haven't actually played it, so there's no balance there.

Looks like the majority of people who've actually played it quite like it - myself included.

@DennisReynolds
Before long, they'll be coming for your kind too.

This is the first PS game I ever played. I wasn't much older than a toddler but it's because of this game that I'm a gamer.

I mean, he has to say that. Don't know if he's right or wrong. Don't know if the Eurogamer previewer is right or wrong either.
We'll see we're the prevailing opinion is when it releases. I hope it's as awesome as it looks.

Waiting for GTA IV

Anyone else questioning their identity as a gamer? I haven't truly looked forward to ANYTHING or properly loved any game in quite some time. Think I'm getting too old for this

11 million copies sold and 11 or so people came here to say they hated it. Lol ok.

"In the four years PS5 has been on the market, it’s amassed $10 billion in operating income, more than the $9 billion PS4 managed between 2013 to 2019."

Having looked at the presentation, I don't believe these figures are adjusted for inflation. Sure, 2013-2019 wasn't that long ago but I think inflation will eat into the $1bn difference between the PS4 period and the PS5 period.

Brilliant actor. I always thought Isaac as a character had such an aura but was underused in the game. Let's see if we get more this time.

Or how about:
"Reaction: Why You Shouldn't Worry Too Much About PS5's Year-on-Year Decline"

... Because most of us don't have shares in Sony so who tf cares?
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Not the console we need, but the console we deserve.

What we really need is a bigger focus on the CPU. But we deserve this because we'll all buy it and continue this obsession with graphics

Doesn't sound like a "direct contradiction" to me. They both are ultimately in agreement that the game is not being developed.

I paid £32.99 for the Batman Arkham Knight season pass. In 2015. That was 9 years ago.

Nothing is new under the sun.

So here's an example of the problem Digital Foundry say we have with the PS5 Pro. A 10% CPU upgrade won't be of much help in situations like this. I hope they're wrong.

Whoa. Was NOT expecting something this interesting. Excellent trailer