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I mean, they all chase money. The Big Three work in a wildly different way now. MS is bringing stuff to PlayStation because it makes for big news.

PlayStation is chasing GaaS to get a hold on a constant revenue stream. Even if they spent however many dollars on that failed game I already forgot the name of.

Nintendo is releasing expensive stuff that mostly caters to younger players.

Yes, it sucks that MS owns a lot of developers. It also sucks that mainstream development is geared towards service games with multiplayer elements.

But also, the prince of Saudi Arabia owns EA. So like, what are we expecting here? E-sports paved the way for all this junk.

RIP Itagaki! I’m a huge fan of his Ninja Gaiden entries and Devil’s Third was actually a really fun time for me, especially that insane online mode.

Damn, really wish he got to release one more game. He blazed his own path and didn’t care what people thought of his opinions. A truly unique game maker.

I’m still playing through Tsushima, got tired of the open-world side quests and not really looking forward to doing more of that. But the combat/story here seems much more engaging, will pick it up eventually.

Well this one looks more my style. Wasn’t a fan of playing Death Stranding but still thought the mechanics and plot were interesting. I’d love to see what he could do with tactical action with current tech.

Also, so glad there wasn’t any talk of live service games.

Cool, keep giving us SP games with fun/different mechanics though. Mark of Kri comes to mind. I like seeing Sony when they want to innovate in game design. I’m not a Death Stranding fan, but applaud that it’s a very different kind of SP experience.

They got narrative storytelling down, but that ends up feeling like watching movies with the same camera angles and plot beats after a while. I hope they break the mold moving forward.

Yeah, the British accent sounds too weird for me. Besides that, I cannot wait to jump back into the Onimusha world. One of my faves!

“And if you’ve got that soulslike fatigue setting in, fear not, as there isn’t a drop of the FromSoftware formula to be found anywhere in Ninja Gaiden 4.”

Phew, that makes me much happier. Can’t wait!

I really like the first one, so all that reads more like a 7 for me. Don’t care if it’s short with walking sections, I prefer that over a huge open world with dothesamecrap-itis for 150hrs. This’ll be a welcome change of pace.

Good, they need to learn from Sandfall. About outsourcing talent, listening to gamers, and not throwing away fun mechanics because of reasons.

I was going to play the game eventually, but this is what sold me on release. Hope I can mix the 3 modes together, but even if not I’ll be switching between these.

Kurosawa mode showed me that vibrant colors destroy my eyes after an hour of gameplay.

I like the sumi-e version, but after reading comments, don’t think I have a PS5 slim. How lame.

Looks like something that would be in a new Parasite Eve game.

Happy birthday FF9!! 25 years later, and it’s still one of the best entries.

Right up there with FF6 as my favorite entries. Love the artwork, here’s hoping this is for an actual remake and not some reboot like the new FF7 stuff.

Surprised you didn’t mention he’s Daredevil. Dude is a good actor, hopefully we get more of his voice work in other games.

So they fleeced folks through micro transactions…cool.

It’s either a chart of how well PS5 is doing, or how crappy the state of the games industry is.

I mean, Clair Obscur happened…that’s a better Final Fantasy than the last 3 or 4 Final Fantasies.

Simply put, FF16 sucks. They copied Game of Thrones themes way too much and overall told a boring story with it. Add to that a dumb exclusivity deal, and anyone on XBO would sooner skip it to play more…Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.

The FF franchise has the power to move units, but they’ve been spreading themselves thin and it shows.

Nothing in the soulslike genre, that’s for sure.
Ghost of Yotei
Snake Eater
Ninja Gaiden 4
Mafia

There’s a lot more I’m eager to play, but it’ll likely be on other consoles.

We all know PS5 is about the higher-end experience. It needs the games to achieve that, and not ones focused on monetization schemes.

It needs leadership that doesn’t get hung up on chasing Live Service junk with a shiny golden representation of how that could all go wrong (Concord). And let’s not forget that they doubled down on that path, despite the absolute failure.

These Nishino articles prove investors are worried about Switch2 and multiplatform games being split further across consoles.

Investors are clearly eager to jump on any PS6 news, given the current sales climate. It’s nothing but R&D right now.

There’s an article about a dev studio going through layoffs about every 3 days…

I get it guys, this game isn’t worth $80, but it likely is what’s needed to keep the developer afloat, regardless of how sub-AAA it seems. Guess they should’ve added some BS digital artbook and then the $80 would be viable??

Anyway, the Days Gone dev did a great job with their PS5Pro upgra——whoops, they just cut 30% of their staff….

It had its flaws, mainly being a short game at full price. Besides that, a decent plot and a generic shooting gallery. I liked the characters, would make for a sweet “Love, Death + Robots” short.

@EfYI

Hit the nail on the head lol

If it’s being implemented now, then they’ve been preparing it for a good while. Nintendo was just the first company to show this hike was happening because it was tied to their new console reveal.

Ps+ was hiked in price, games aren’t tariff-proof, and Nintendo doesn’t control the world market lol

Didn’t they just hike up the price of PS+ across the globe?

Do we not see that they’ve always sold $80 game bundles that come with a few skins or an artbook?

MKWorld will likely have seasonal updates and the like, if that’s how they want to sell it, then so be it. Bundled with the Switch2, it’ll be $50.

This is some silly stuff to beat your chest over.

Digital deluxe editions hit $80 on the regular, I’ll do exactly the same thing I do with those editions. Not buy them, and if it happens to be up for sale during some promotion, I get it for cheap.

In the case of Switch2, a base game’s price needs to be even across the board. It shouldn’t feel like you’re at a flea market, bargaining with the publisher.

If Im getting that system, it’ll be with Mario Kart World bundled in for $50. Otherwise, I won’t be picking it up.

I hope they at least reference the original games. When we’re talking about ancient warriors and oni, even some time travel, I think it’d be cool to reference the entire series.

Finding Samonosuke’s gauntlet, maybe some of the weapons from Onimusha2 characters, a lil bit of Jean Reno. It’d be exciting lol

FF6 and 9 are my all-time favorite entries, really hope they give us westerners a chance to get a lot of the planned products. Always wanted the soundtrack on vinyl.

Happy 25th anniversary!

At this point we can just agree that it’s a flop. If it wasn’t, there wouldn’t be so much back and forth (all from SquareEnix) in its responses over the years.

Furthermore, this shows what the problem has been in gaming for several years now. Counting units sold TO STORES as actual units sold. Those aren’t going into player’s hands/consoles, they’re collecting dust until said store sells it for cheap as hell…then the publisher boasts “omg we sold THIS MANY units!!” Conveniently after (INSERT HOLIDAY HERE) but really they were on massive discount and so the perceived value of one “unit” is a sliding scale.

The only publisher who has been on-point with their “shipped-to-store” boast is Capcom…and I wouldn’t be surprised if even those numbers are revealed to be cooked years down the line.

I don’t follow leakers or any of that junk. Don’t need remasters to line up with the 20th anniversary either.

This is a franchise that’s been resurrected, and not in a “reboot” kind of way, but in an evolved way. Yes, they should be doing more than an avatar and skin. Valhalla wasn’t free DLC for the anniversary, but stuff that they planned for ahead of Ragnarok’s release.

They should be making a splash, so that other media can follow and God of War can grow. Remember, GoW: Ascension was a “side-story” and arguably killed the franchise for a good while. That can happen again with this new side-story…so maybe let’s get some more comics going and some sort of interest in an animation, rather than the possibility of a stinker and then they hide it away for another 5-6 years.

Cool, now make it into an actual handheld system with its own games please!

Cloud streaming is nice, but I want it 1:1 when it comes to a lot of games.

Wow, shout out to Monolith Productions, such an amazing studio that deserved more for what they brought to the table. Really hope all these devs land in other spots and keep bringing their talent to video games.

I get the feeling that the next game will be a sequel in-line with the previous two, but the story will explore young Kratos in Greece. Time travel played a role in the first series.

I’m gonna take a wild guess and say maybe they’re remaking DMC1 and 2 to flow better into the next sequel. Like a sort of abridged remake that keeps the plot beats but updates combat to DMC5 standards.

The original is my favorite, I love the clunky controls and plot. Also, the commercial for it was awesome :]

“Sony, in response, has argued that in order to improve the reach of its titles, it needs to release them on PC.”

….so then the PS5’s attach rate is horrible right? Because that’s the only reason they’d double down on bad PC ports while having a supposedly huge PS5 user base.

First and foremost, the PlayStation brand needs great titles on their PlayStation console. At a steady clip too. Between Live Service games and cheaply porting things to PC, we’re missing development on actual games with variety.

They need to stop catering to crowds that do not care about them and work on their actual players. All those scalped consoles really gave them a false sense of pedigree.

I like OG Warhammer more than 40K, so this is sucky news since we rarely get anything related to that IP.

Warhammer Online is the last one I can think of, very short-lived but a great MMO. A lot of the ideas they had eventually made its way to WoW, FF14, and even more recently with Diablo4’s emergent quests.

I only see this ultimately hurting PlayStation in the coming years. Live service games are tanking their dev teams and there’ll be nothing to show for it. PSVR2 has no exclusive development going on. There are some sweet games lined up for 2025, but they’ll be few and far between. With how bloated development is, wouldn’t be surprised if they push back to 2026.

I just got a PS5, so definitely would prefer to see Sony get their head out their ass and start pivoting towards real friggin’ gaming, not this Live Service junk.

It’s been a complete disaster, not one silver lining moment at all. They would’ve been better off waiting for “the next big thing” in the live service space, and bought it out. Instead of thinking they’d be the cat’s pajamas at everything they touch because…reasons??

It isn’t over either, we can bet they’re still looking into ways to sink more money into live service BS.

Just make a new Ape Escape, Mark of Kri, or Jak + Daxter game, and start over from scratch. Because the management there have completely lost their mind.

PsVitaR2. Maybe PSVR3 will actually be supported by the company that makes it.

Would love to see Sly Cooper and The Mark of Kri make a return!

“Our sales numbers are great, you don’t have to look at them or even discuss them!”

“But we will be launching the next one on multiple consoles…totally NOT because of those secret sales numbers!”

They’ll remaster the remake and rebirth, release those everywhere, then launch the last one multiplat.

Nice! Think I’m getting a PS5 next week, so that’s gonna be some goooood gaming!!

Whoa, that’s awesome! I can’t wait to play these gems again.

I’m late, but still celebrating!! Happy birthday PlayStation!!

Special mentions for the PS1 and PS2. The game libraries of those two systems are absolutely bonkers amazing. Really wish they’d find a way to have it all available digitally and maybe even on their upcoming handheld system.

But until then, keep riding the PlayStation wave!!

I consider this gen a tough one for the big two. Lots of games were duds, and the best ones were few and far between.

I feel like the PC-like architecture they went with ended up showing gamers they don’t really need to stick to consoles. Quite a few PS5 games can be downscaled to work on PS4, they just want to keep it on their newest console…as they keep touting that their games are coming to more devices. That doesn’t make sense folks.

Sounds like Wolverine is going through development woes. I get that the other guy worked on the awesome SpiderMan games…but Wolverine ain’t SpiderMan. There’s a danger here of two different characters possibly playing the same.

Either way, I’m down for both of these titles to show up soon, we need more games.

Usually, companies mirror the production costs with marketing, which is why folks are thinking $400mil is the total. And they definitely did initiate marketing, because this game is going to have its own episode in a tv series this December. They paid for that, and it isn’t cheap.

The chance of gamers collectively going to your LSG and staying there, is extremely small. It would only be a matter of time before they have to start with the collaborations, and knowing Sony, they’d be so lame that the collective would rather bounce back to Fortnite.

Furthermore, Fortnite isn’t some ultra high end graphics powerhouse…you could play it on Switch. Because they said “I want it on all devices” and then did so. Sony can’t even be bothered to slightly downscale stuff to make it available on PS4….wtf makes you think they could port to other devices with any semblance of good timing?

These guys are insanely whacked.

This comment section is a great example of why this industry is in shambles lol

You deserve Live Service games.

Aww, they removed the blood splatter? It isn’t a big deal, but that really added to a scene when characters are talking passionately while covered in dark spawn blood. Sometimes, it’s the little things.