Bionic-Spencer

But, but…. Microsoft said consolidation was a good thing. 🤪

Microsoft sounds like the company that just keeps on giving, eh? 😑

It would make for a really nice collectable if Microsoft were to allow for a proper anniversary edition, with a steelbook, Artbook and maybe even a bobble head! However, I would expect we will be doing good to just have the game on the disc… (if there is even to be a physical, haven’t checked that yet).

Edit. Just read the article. Not even a physical to have bought…

Even if this game had been a fabled 11/10 game in Phil Spencer’s word, I wouldn’t pick this game up for love nor money. Having 1.3G on a disc is completely unacceptable and is just Microsoft flexing control. I prefer to own my games on Disc and always purchase that way over downloading games. If servers allow for it in years to come, no one that ‘buys’ this game will even be able to download it. The E3 back in the day when Microsoft showed off Xbox One and basically tried to force DRM on everyone was a turning point. But wow, have Microsoft been sneaky in implementing control procedures that are reminiscent to those policy’s. Next they will say that it will be only one download per disc and we will be right back at the beginning of their decision process. That is something that wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest.. Until Microsoft starts to put their games onto disc fully, I won’t buy a single game from their studios moving forward.

I find this entertaining to read. This would never even be a subject from Microsoft if they hadn’t been smashed to pieces for 2 generations by Sony. They bought all those developers (and publishers) not to make themselves a multiplatform super publisher, but to take away games from gamers and control what we played. But it hasn’t worked out at all as the influx to Gamepass never materialises. Now they are having to use PlayStation as a way to make money back on their investments. If Microsoft had done what they said they were going to do in Leaked memos and had buried the PlayStation brand, this would never have been spouted. I have bought 2 games made by Microsoft developers myself, Sea of Thieves and Gears of War, but I honestly don’t plan on buying anything else. Their games just don’t appeal to me at all.

Microsoft can F Off with this way of releasing games on PlayStation 5! Until they stop releasing game keys, I won’t be buying a single game from them, not that I am too interest with their games anyway, but that’s another matter..

I will definitely hold back from buying PS6 anywhere near launch. I imagine that the first year will have games releasing cross gen again. Maybe the release of PS6 will allow developers to push the PS5 a bit harder because it really hasn’t been a generation that has blown me away personally. I could even see myself waiting until the PS6 Pro inevitably releases before jumping into the next gen.

DOA… I can’t see anything improving with this, I’m afraid..

Me and my friends have been saying that Gamepass was the worst idea in gaming for years now and everything is really coming to pass with what we had spoken about. If it had been Sony pushing this as much as Microsoft without the same levels of Money, Sony would have been absolutely f-*^%d. I also think that the lack of coverage over at Pure Xbox about this is pretty poor, but I guess no one wants to keep reporting negativity because I don’t think Xbox fans can take much more..

Amazing to think that a few years ago, Sony did an absolutely brilliant Death Stranding Pad and the Spiderman 2 design. How things have fallen off from those heights. I think the last pad that I wanted was the Astro Bot one, but since then it’s gotten pretty poor.

I personally didn’t really like the halo franchise as a whole and stopped playing them after ODST, but out of the games I did play, the 3rd one was the one I liked the most. Probably the coop element was the best thing for me, playing that with friends back in the day was pretty brilliant! If and when a Halo jumps to PlayStation, I hope Microsoft ensure that the multiplayer works a bit better than Gears and Sea of Thieves. Those games servers leave a lot to be desired.

I personally buy everything Capcom related, they are my most favourite developer so no matter what, this game was a 100% purchase regardless, but it is looking to be shaping up to be an absolutely fantastic title. Really loving the mechanics that have been implemented into it. Games look and style reminds me a little bit of Vanquish, so that is even more awesome for me personally! Can’t wait for this!!

I think Sony should just concentrate on releasing awesome games, because everything else they want to try ends up being a bit of a mess..

If that’s the case, Alan Wake 2 will be a fantastic game for everyone who hasn’t already played it. I really enjoyed it when I played it! Crazy and fantastic in equal measures!! 😆

I am actually glad I didn’t bother picking up a ps5 Pro. There are way too many issues with games releasing on it..

I’m really glad that Capcom realise the numbers that this has sold is worthy of recognition, but remember when the Darkstalkers Collection was released on ps3 as a test bed for a new game and Capcom wanted the game to sell 6 million before they would consider a new mainline entry, that certainly was wacky… 😅

I only bought into PlayStation gaming when Resident Evil 2 was released. I was a complete Sega fanboy and preferred beat em ups to anything else, so the Saturn ended up being my console of choice. Now, when I say I bought into it, I didn’t really as it was my sister that gave me her PlayStation that her ex left with her after they split up! That was a good break as far as I was concerned! 😂 ! I bought Resi 2 just because of the Capcom logo and that game changed my whole perspective moving forward. From that day I was a PlayStation player and I have had every console since!

@get2sammyb Awesome to know, Cheers!!

This is fantastic news!! I played this to death on the Sega Saturn back in the day and this will be a day one purchase for sure. Music was amazing, I hope that there is no alterations to that on this release!

Yeah, I think it’s really time for Sony to evaluate this properly. Is it going to sell? Probably not. Will it make money back to make it worthwhile? Not a chance. And while they are at it, Herman Hulsts position needs to be looked into by Sony aswell. On his watch, this has been a ***** Show of a generation..

Forget making stupid comments about console wars, The coalition and Microsoft need to start fixing the many issues on the game. Worst one is when teaming up with friends, only the party leader gets counts towards their trophies and everyone else is just along for the ride at this point, but it wouldn’t be a Microsoft game without issues…

@Questionable_Duck if that is the case, then I would imagine that there will be a retention of staff for the motion capture benefits. I like ninja theory too, but I can’t see them having much of a future with how Microsoft are running their developers right now.

I have a feeling that ninja theory won’t be doing too much after this game has released. A few performance patches most likely and then I would not be surprised if there is a studio shutdown coming..

With how gamers have been able to play the game for a couple of years and for those that haven’t, reading the negativity regarding Starfield, this is one game that Microsoft won’t be able to talk about huge sales figures. Definitely should have stayed on Xbox. It would have been a great seller if it had come out on PlayStation day and date, but now it seems like a bad idea. I put a lot of time into this game when it launched and me personally, I won’t be rebuying it. It was not the best game that had come out of Bethesda, not by a mile. I’ll hold off buying another Bethesda game until Fallout 5 hopefully arrives!

I played this at launch and didn’t really see too many issues with the games performance on PlayStation 5. I thought it ran pretty good in fact. However, biggest issue I had was how easy the game turned out. I predominantly run for Platinum Trophies, so I had set myself the idea that this was going to take a lot of time. I had 600 hours sunk into Worlds and most of that was hunting Gold Crowns during the endgame. This game however was a walk in the park. I hardly needed to play with people either, doing a lot of the hunts on my own. That certainly isn’t what I have come to expect with MH games. Once the best weapons and armour were manufactured, there never felt any more need to farm for other things and the endgame dwindled away for me. I can’t see myself going back for any reason and unless there are some major work going on behind the scenes at Capcom with the, I assume Monster Hunter Wilds “Iceborne style update”, I probably won’t be back to this version of the game now. Capcom needs to address the lacking RE Engine for games like this, they need to focus on making it way easier to play with friends and there also needs to be the necessity of meeting other people to play together. Make it feel like we need to partner up with people, but don’t just make the monsters weapon sponges with one hit kills, make everything feel meaningful. I really do trust Capcom to do things right however, they make missteps and usually find a point of correction moving forward with a game, but 100% priority right now needs to be making this game run really well on PC, because if they can get Steam Users back on their side, things will be a lot easier moving forward.

@Shad361 err, but it is AI, so my statement is sound.

Ironically, the only one that used AI is a load of crap compared to the others! Just shows the talent in real artists..

After playing Starfield at the time, I don’t think I would rebuy that for the PlayStations eventual release. I didn’t like the game at all in the end. So far, the only game I have bought into on PlayStation was Sea of Thieves. Horizon 5 is an awesome game for sure and I did like the look of Indiana Jones but I would really like to have the games completely on Disc, so I would definitely wait until sales before buying anything more from Microsoft.

I will wait to see what Cory himself announces. At least then we will all see what it is and what is wasn’t.

It’s going to be a long time before everything calms down. And to think Microsoft argued that they were going to bring stability to the games industry with their gigantic purchases of Activision and Bethesda. They just thought they would gain complete control of the industry and all these layoffs and pulling of funds is because they failed. It’s a real shame that so many folk are losing their livelihoods because of a greedy corporate company that thought they could steamroll in and make us all play games how they wanted.

@Lup yeah, your right! 🙏🏻

@Lup ?? I know that there are great games released on the service but with Obscure 33, that released on PlayStation and sold brilliantly well even without a day one release on PSN .I didn’t say Gamepass was good though. I personally don’t like it at all. I buy my games physically when possible and digitally only if I have to. And as far as the topic of discussion goes, I’d far rather pay for a Sony game on day of release that is going to probably be very good as opposed to seeing how many first party games release on Xbox GamePass that aren’t really all that great.

It always feels that first party games on Gamepass are shadows of the games they used to be by developers who are shadows of their former selves aswell. The quality of gamepass first party really isn’t as hot as people expect or argue, there is no incentive for the developers to pour their heart and souls into a game when it doesn’t even matter if it sells or not, so long as a few million people try it for 10 minutes…

Square Enix are delusional.. maybe people just don’t like their games as much as they used to, but 3 million is actually a brilliant amount considering it was just a PS5 game for so long..

Anyway, on topic it really is great to see Sega post such great sales figures. I have been a fan of Sega since the Master System and the pain of watching the incredible Dreamcast die so soon when it was leagues ahead of its time was terrible!! I hope their numbers keep steady and secure them for years to come!

Can’t wait to see more of this game!!

I don’t know why they didn’t just make a massive single player universe and build a story like Halo. Bolt on multiplayer and away you go. This game is DOA if it ever materialises and Bungie are screwed. I just think the amount of money that has been wasted here should fall on Herman Hulst aswell. His (and Jim Ryan’s) chasing of the Live service dream goes against everything that I loved about the games Sony made, it’s just a complete mess!!

When a company goes to these kinds of lengths to secure something that they feel fits the game they want to build, you can only applaud them. They could have easily dropped interest and moved onto someone else and been done with it quicker, but this really isn’t the way Capcom works nowadays. The game looks brilliant and I expect will be brilliant! Can’t wait to play it when it’s ready to release!!

If they had made marathon a brilliant single player game with an awesome story, because Bungie used to be able to do good stories, and bolted on an online multiplayer experience as an additional extra, I would have been interested in the game. But in no way am I going to pick up a game based entirely on playing online like this. It’s probably doomed..

I didn’t like this game at all, really tried my best to get into it and put a good 30 hours into doing so, but it never hit like the first game did. I hope that all the fans of the game really enjoy the remaster (if and when it’s revealed) but this will be a pass from myself this time. I think the hype got the better of me with the original release of 2.

If these are simply Download Keys, I’ll 100% pass on owning any of these physically. There is simply no excuse to release these games without that actual game on the discs..

The Outer Worlds didn’t look anywhere near worthy of an £80 price tag. Microsoft are just trying to make their gamepass look all the more enticing by ramming the prices up to own games (well, with what’s on the discs, that’s not even a thing anyway). I hope Sony keep their games as they are, they probably won’t, but I’ll definitely say that I don’t feel short changed buying Sony first party titles over Microsoft’s ones.

I would like to see a few surprises on this show, things that we haven’t heard about or don’t expect. I don’t mind knowing about Gears, Fable, state of decay etc, but none of that is really interesting to me. Now Devil May Cry 6 on the other hand?? Oh yeah!! 😂

Im sad to find out that Capcom will probably never get to a Marvel Vs Capcom after this was announced, but Arc System make some of my most favourite fighting games, so if it isn’t Capcom, I am not too sad with Arc making this. Who knows, perhaps there is a future acquisition for Sony here?

I expect an unfortunate update about Fairgames to say that it’s very much on track. But I would love to see news on something Resident Evil Related, it would be good to see some Xbox related confirmations too and l would be extremely happy if there was a big showing at the end of the presentation of perhaps Wolverine or a glimpse of the game that Cory Barlog has been working on! That would make for a great show for me. But we will see..

Fantastic news! One of the worst things that came from Microsoft’s consolidation of the industry was the closure of Tango! They were one of my favourite developers and I hope that in time they are able to work on a horror title that will help replace the loss of The Evil Within!

I’d be very happy to see Injustice 3, but I suspect WB will make NetherRealms double down on micro transactions on a new title. The armour and equipment upgrades in the series will make it an easy implementation unfortunately..

Maybe Sony needs to have a long, hard look at Herman Hulsts employment benefits. He has come in and chased the live service dream, spent billions on acquisitions that have so far been nothing more than a headache to Sony. Bungie has been a real mess, firewalk a huge financial disaster and now Haven can’t even make a game that plays well after years of development. This guy really doesn’t have an eye for a game and he has cost Sony way too much to be sitting pretty in his corporate eye in the sky! Buck falls on him, he has to go!

My subscription to premium was up for renewal just last month, but I dropped myself down to the lowest tier. I just don’t think premium is worth it at all. One of the things Sony should have done was insist that every PS1 game that was released on the service should have a set of trophies as mandatory. The recent Capcom and Namco releases would have been brilliant to play through with the added incentive of receiving a platinum! As a trophy hunter, that would have been a plus that would have kept me interested big time. But that’s a small wish. The whole service loses was too many good games and never seems to replace them with like for like quality. It’s just a terrible service now. Amazingly, in the beginning I thought it was a great rival to Gamepass.

I thought that Bungie should have made a huge story based game out of Marathon, Bungie were good at that at one time of their existence and bolted on the PVP to keep players that want to play extraction past completion instead of making the whole experience about that, that would have been perfect. Also, as far as the artists graphics being used, I think it looks pretty cool as far as having similar aesthetics are concerned, Bungie should grovel with apology and then pay the artist to use their stuff. If it was good enough to include in the game then it’s good enough for them to pay for using it now.

Edit: I’ve just finished watching the Arc Raiders video over at YouTube as I hadn’t before. Looks fantastic. Marathon is in trouble for sure, that game just looked so much better..

I was going to buy the game, had it all pre ordered, but as soon as news broke that the physical edition was nothing more than a download key, I was out. Now I’ll get it when it’s cheap as chips, I don’t mind waiting years for that either and I’m sure that my decision isn’t exclusive to me.