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People were craving an old school PvP multiplayer shooter not an old school shooter campaign. They missed badly by not making this a Halo multiplayer experience.

@LikelySatan In overall quality it is right in line with every other dragon age game. Metacritic seems to back that up with it being within 4 points of the best and worst scores. I thought it was a solid game and felt it was worth the 45 hour playthrough. To me it felt like the other 3 games.

I thought Veilguard was fine. It is right in line with the other dragon age games.

Does it fit the definition of overpriced if they went on to be one of the years best selling games? Clearly a sizable group of players felt the game was fairly priced.

Amazon Luna is surprisingly decent. They have a solid game collection and streaming performance. Not bad for being included in the prime membership.

Starfield is great. I am on my 4th new game+.

Im excited for the xbox feature. I like having my huge physical collection on display but digital is way more convenient. This seems like the best of both worlds and won't make the eventual switch to digital only a lot less painful.

Pc became my main platform about 5 years ago and it was worth it. I still bought an xbox and ps5 as supplemental systems but now that consoles are $1000, it just simply isn't happening. Goodbye playstation.

This should be the template for every publisher that wants to close a studio. Xbox handled this reorg surprisingly well given the circumstances. I was expecting many games to be canceled, all the ip to be dormant xbox ip we never see again, and all these studios just being closed.

As things stand now, I will not be getting a ps6. They have a massive hill to climb to make me believe it will be worth the money. Taking away discs was a big step in the wrong direction.

At least with the new xbox I will have access to my huge steam, gog, and epic libraries. I dont know if I will end up getting the next xbox but as things stand now, it is way more appealing to me than a ps6 or handheld ps6.

I am walking away from playstation all together after being there since the ps1. The price tag has gotten out of hand, the exclusives aint what they used to be, now we cant rely on cheap discs on clearance/reselling.

The grass is greener on PC.

Playstation is not the type of company that caves to the online petitions or negative discourse. They are very much a 'this is the way it is, deal with it' company.

They only need to wait a day or two until the next xbox disaster hits the news cycle (it will be a doozy this time).

Then it will be Playstation's turn again to deliver their next massive disappointment for us. Its the new console war, who can run the worse platform.

We saw how Sony treats consumers that purchased digital movies from them.

I can see the day where they re-release The Last of Us for the 10th time and they take away the previous versions from your digital library.

Since the ps6 seems to be a switch-like hybrid, it would make sense that discs are not an option. Sucks though, collecting physicals was the one thing that made buying games on any of the consoles more appealing than steam.

I will be buying on steam as much as possible and might even skip ps6 all together.

So are big box retailers still going to sell a box with a code it in? Will they sell the game codes on a gift card size card? Would very many people buy the games like that? Will they sell videogames at all?

Retailers (especially used game retailers) seem like the ones taking the biggest hit here.

How long until they announce the return to multiplatform? They are about to realize no one is going to spend this much no matter what exclusives they have?

Im starting to doubt how many new users will come to xbox or Playstation for even GTA6 with these prices. We're talking about close to $800 to play a single game. I just dont see casuals doing that.

Delaying the launch by a year or two is not going to make it a $500 product again. If they want to launch the ps6 in the next 5 years, it will be very close to or over $1000. Its very possible that we never see $500 consoles again.

Its up to the consumer if that is worth it. Like we saw with the ps4, if enough people resist the upgrade it will force Sony to keep supporting ps5. I dont think we will see any games that flat out cannot run on ps5 for the ps6 gen. Its likely the two gens are blended together. The "we believe in generations" era is over.

The idea of a pc console is appealing to me. I have fallen in love with the multiple device model like xbox's play anywhere. I play on my high end pc in my office and when i want to move to the couch. I pick up where I left off on the Series x, series s or steam deck.

I will probably wait for more info on xbox's iteration or any other similar upcoming devices before coming to a conclusion on which one I will get.

Im not convinced the prices will be any better in 2028 or 2029. If that is the case then waiting would do more harm than good.

Their pc ports were set up to fail. Given the choice between the brand new games that everyone is talking about or the playstation games from 1-2+ years ago, people were obviously going to go with the brand new games. The quality of the ports did not help either.

They could have made their pc strategy work but here we are. Since they admitted the AAA games are not making enough money to justify their budgets, we should be worried about where this is heading.

I am really excited for this game. Day 1 purchase for me.

It's looking more and more like ps5 will be my last Playstation. Im not paying $1000+ for access to a very small number of exclusives.

At least on steam they would be getting some money from me but guess they dont want that.

The classic "due to market conditions." They say this so when gas prices, ram prices, or whatever current headache drops in price they dont have to cut prices in response. Its permanent.

So now on top of the $600+ for a base ps5 newcomers need to spend at least $130 per year for online(before taxes on all this). Its getting really hard to recommend playstation to any newcomers.

Yeah, Sony isn't getting a refund. They would need to prove how much money they lost solely from the tariffs and they would also probably need to cut their prices that were supposedly caused by the tariffs. Passing the loss on to their consumers is an admission that they were not going to lose money over the tariffs.

The whole refund thing is going to be a mess and probably not going to amount to much refunded money to anyone.

The 'everything is an xbox' strategy is starting to look like a decent call.

AI is the best chance for publishers to do something about the skyrocketing dev cost/time but people riot if its used. No win situation that will probably get worse for everyone until AI is more broadly accepted for development.

Meh, I think games are distracting me from other things as well. I often wonder how much better I would be at guitar without videogames taking away a lot of my free time. Or if i spent that time on studying or learning a new skill. If you enjoy watching cat videos on Instagram then go ahead and watch.

"Time enjoyed wasting is not wasted time" John Lennon.

They will probably spend 90% of their time talking about xbox like every other playstation podcast.

This was already a complaint for me about playstation games. The second you step out of the direct path in the last of us, you get bombarded with the "need a hint dummy?" message. A very annoying thing for a game that makes you scavenge for resources and has collectibles. Seems like you should be encouraged to explore, not ushered to the endpoint. Im not looking forward to AI interrupting to ask if I want its help every time it notices me doing 360s off tables, trying to climb unclimbable areas, or other tomfoolery.

AI could be great for making you better at the games but having it take control of the character isn't going to help you. Personally, I hope it is used for more of a session analysis where it breaks down your play session with statistics that teach you what hurt you or helped you.

Things like
You died while reloading 8 times and reloaded with more than half a clip 12 times. Don't reload as often.

Here is a heat map of where you died last round. Which weapon killed you the most. Etc.

Using spellX instead of spellY would have led to X increase in damage against that boss and here is why.

Sounds bad if its mandatory crunch just to get a usable demo ready for the Sony brass to see. You would think ND would have a little trust and credibility built up to allow them all the time they need. I guess if it ain't Last of Us 3 then it ain't safe.

Not bad for a boycotted game.

To me it is just about budget size. If it has a small budget or small budget vibe then I consider it an indie game.

I am not bothered by other people's definition differing or a silly award show result. I wont ever be the guy complaining about how someone else defines them. I will also keep using my definition of indie regardless.

"Best use of AI" needs to be a category at the game awards. Get with the times Geoff.

Well we know where netflix would focus cuts next time they felt the need to trim costs. It is possible we have already seen the last game release from one or more of these studios.

At least hogwarts success got their attention. Maybe that franchise is safe for now.

Fingers crossed that netflix loses this deal.

People's ai bias led to job loss, how ironic. Toxic bully campaigns are causing the thing they claim to be fighting against.

I would rather see the Saudi group buy them than slimy Netflix.

@DenzelDM we cant scream dey tuk r jobbs (in a south park voice) at every new innovation. This has been happening for centuries. The job market will adjust just fine to AI if needed like it did for every other new tech threat.

@DenzelDM moment of silence for that one hypithetical artist that might have missed out on a contract for a single ad opportunity.

@DenzelDM did it take someone's job? Do they have an advent calendar position? Its more likely that this would have not been an ad at all if not for AI and there were definitely humans involved with. But that's easy to ignore right?

What are the odds that it was isolated to this one instance and one artist?

This is a good use case for AI image generation. It is entertaining to see so many people turn into art critics over something as meaningless as an advent calendar. Its just a seasonal throwaway market campaign.

@PsBoxSwitchOwner you claim no humans were involved in making this game? Bold take

Couldn't care less if calling cards and marketing material is ai generated. Zero impact on my gaming experience.

It would be a colossal waste of time to have thousands of hand drawn calling cards that people spend 20 seconds choosing then never think about again. Use human talent elsewhere.

The exciting thing is that it is another streamlined home console-like experience with playstation games on it. I really want one and I have a legit pc tower hooked up to my living room tv already. The form factor should be great for taking to the cabin, hotels, etc.

It won't be an outright threat to playstation but they should be concerned that they might have the only home console without pc like framework.

Maybe the playstation pc app is their solution to this where they can get 100% of theor pc games sales instead of settling for giving 30% to steam, epic, or xbox.

Rhythm music games seem like an ai centric genre. This might be a good fit for the franchise.

We should assume that every new game was developed using AI in some form.

Personally, I have no issues with its use.

This is great news. Hopefully every other 3rd party publisher follows suit. Games should be on all platforms.

So almost surely day 1 releases on pc. This is great news. I love the idea of games being available as many places as possible.

I've never been happy to pay for multiplayer. For as much as people gripe about the cost of pc gaming, they dont consider that you save a ridiculous amount of money over the 7 or so years of a console life by not having to pay for the priviledge to play with friends every month.