Bionic-Spencer

I guess thanks to the fact that PlayStation is smashing the sales numbers compared to Xbox, it’s inevitable that the sales numbers were going to be as high as usual. I ain’t a COD fan, but I know a lot of friends that are and they are ‘business as usual’ when it comes to where they are playing the game. I asked one of them if she would continue to play on PlayStation or would the Gamepass release entice her to move over to Xbox. She literally plays nothing else but COD. Never crossed her mind, so as long as the game is available on PlayStation consoles, it’s going to keep selling massive numbers each year.

@Balaam_ Thats a shame that you didn’t get to Destiny 2 because of that bud, I myself was sceptical about the No Death trophy on the first game too, but honestly, finding literal random people on Destiny that became good friends to this day and completing all the Raids without deaths made for incredible gaming memories. And when Bungie released Crotas End, more and more people were able to complete the trophies as that Raid was way easier than Vault of Glass!

I was worried that some of the Trophy names would be tampered with, but really pleased that they are all intact! A small thing, but definitely welcome to see!! 😅

I wonder if these ‘insiders’ actually have real life activities to do instead of spread false info whenever the time is right for them? One day it’s being mentioned everything is on hold and then the next, the main man at Microsoft is out inadvertently refuting rumours. I guess it does do one thing though, Satyas statement helps to dispel rumours as quickly as they appear and helps to reduce info that encroaches on their obvious move over to being a 3rd party developer. Personally there isn’t too much over at Microsoft that I would be desperate to play on PlayStation. I’m not really a Halo fan, I played enough of Gears of War back in the day, but I certainly do like the Forza Horizon games (especially 4). Apart from that and the already released Sea of Thieves, everything that is genuinely exclusive to Xbox or always has been is not really my kind of gaming anymore.

If Saber like to read players comments then they should have been aware of all the positivity surrounding the title at launch and left it mostly how it released. I don’t get why Nerfing a game is good for a player base in the first place..

@Whately86 No. What it is that throws me is I play my games to the platinum, move on to another game and then I find having to come back when a DLC gets released has me relearning games. I want to keep my account as close to 100% as possible, so I’m compelled to go back. This usually happens on games I can’t wait to play. However with a big backlog, I have been playing games that all the DLCs have been released so once I am done with a game then I can move on to a new game without worrying that there will be an incomplete list down the line! 😅

I am more than happy for Spiderman 2 to miss out on DLC. I am a bit of a trophy hunter and like to get my games to 100% and I don’t really like when games get DLC that gets me back to a game. Don’t get me wrong, post release content is a good way to extract the longevity out of a title, but with the backlog of games I have building up and the fact I like to move onto new game after I have finished something, it’s good to hear a developer moving on to its next thing with some clarity!

If this doesn’t give Blooper Team a chance to remake the very first game then I don’t know what else will! I have a friend who is incredible cynical when it comes to remakes and he was not holding out any kind of success for this remake at all. Spoke to him yesterday and he said it was probably his favourite remake that has been done yet, so it must be fantastic!! 😂

@Markatron84 I only bought into Sea of Thieves when it was released on PlayStation 5, so I am not really in a position to comment about the combat aspects of the game from anytime beforehand, but the combat experience me and my group had when the game first arrived was very enjoyable. We actively searched for Reaper ships to attack as we knew that we had more of a chance of winning than losing. It became my most played game of the year until the updates I mentioned. If I had gone into Sea of Thieves as a new player today, I would 100% agree with you, but when the game launched, I and the guys and gal I play with thought combat was fantastic! Of course, this is simply my own opinion and you are more than entitled to your own. 🙏🏻

It’s just a shame that live service titles allow for this to happen in the first place. Although I haven’t personally played this, talking to friends about it, the game released in pretty good shape and was a huge amount of fun and just got tampered with too much. Although a completely different game, Sea of Thieves is going through the same thing. It launched on PS5 in fantastic shape and was a huge amount of fun to play, but after the last few patches in particular, combat wise it’s now no fun at all. The good thing about Arrowhead is that they are willing to listen to the fans, but Rare it feels just don’t give a ***** at all!!

To be fair, PS5 is unchallenged in most areas that Microsoft sells Xbox aswell anyway. 😅

I am playing Sea of Thieves with my friends! Even though Rare seem to be doing everything they can to completely destroy the game and everything that was fun about it, we are all Trophy hunters, so we are in it for the long haul

I saw a video on YouTube which used AI to update all the characters in Concord and the results were awesome. Doing something like that may have done something for the game, but I highly doubt that anyone will be able to convince some of the devs that their character models were plain and simply a load of Crap. I think Sony would be absolutely insane to let Firewalk anywhere near another game and if this game indeed goes Free to Play, that in itself is going to make zero difference. It’s been tarnished now, no going back. Just pull the plug and move on.

Yep, and then the dreaded stick drift comes into play…

Surgeon : “well there is good news and bad news..”

@Discol76 his user name is undeadgaminguk 👍🏻

I have a buddy on Instagram that paints designs on Control Pads and PS5 cover plates. I personally only get him to make me designs when I think of something that will be cool and he always comes through. I have a OG PS5 and he made me some Destiny 2 Plates along with a control pad themed around the Witch Queen expansion. It’s a whole lot better than the official stuff, that’s for sure! 😀

When you have an audience on PlayStation 5 over double the main rival, developers are going to prioritise making games for a console where they are more likely to turn a profit. Also. Microsoft are more focused on game pass and although it’s a guaranteed money earner for a developer initially, the money they receive will pail in comparisons to what they would receive by making sales in number, especially for an awesome game like Lies of P, which only recently left Gamepass, yet that championed over a million sales very quickly on PlayStation and PC ( I assume). With all these questions being asked, Microsoft themselves are going to focus on releasing games on PlayStation given the untapped sales that can be reached. Each generation will further entrench the mass market users that there is no need for any other console than a PlayStation and less and less developer will run the risk of losing out on sales and just focus where the money can be made.

The best solution would be to do something akin to a crowdfunding like Hasbro Pulse does, put the consoles up a good 6-12 months on a backing system and let people pay for the project. Instead of limiting the console to 12300 people, allow the backing to run for a month and then stop it. Everyone that wants one gets one and these scalpers could be eradicated when it comes to PlayStation consoles. Anyone that misses out, misses out, but at least the people that genuinely want the console can get it.

I was on the 360 back in the day as my main console and God of War 3 came out. I was all good until I had to do the music mini game and it went to hell on me. Muscle memory was a real sticking point. Not long after that, I moved back to PlayStation so I would have issues playing Xbox games for the same reasons now.

I always used to think that software was where a company made its money. Lose on hardware and then have a good proportion of games for an owner to purchase and make the losses back slowly, so increasing the hardware prices and not just dropping the price to get more people to purchase is just so weird. At this rate, Sony should just forget about the Japanese market entirely because once Switch 2 arrives, it will obliterate the PlayStation Sales to date and Sony can be like Xbox in the region and sell 100s a month.. Poor generation for sure.

Well, at least I can happily catch the ‘highlights’ tomorrow now…

@Mikey856 Oh he will be there, being as condescending as usual talking about how great something is (not).

If ever Sony needed an absolutely brilliant showing, this is it. Sony have felt so disconnected with the fans of late, if they were to show a proper look at what they are planning for the next year at least with announcements of games that are in the works, even if they are months upon months away, I would leave this stream very happy. I hate seeing a game a mere few months from release without having any kind of build up and not getting excited for future releases. Thinks like Ghost of Tsushima 2, the new game from Santa Monica and maybe even a proper announcement from Naughty Dog with what they are planning. I mean, why does every studio head come out and say “We can’t wait to share our next game, but we can’t talk about it right now” I mean, WTF? In all honesty, I expect this to be a FairGame$ re showing, Remakes/Remasters and not a lot else and that would make for a pretty sad showing.. I would love to be proven wrong.

If this is all about having a handheld console that can play the entire PS4 library, then I would find this very interesting for sure, but only if the PS6 is a seperate unit that plays PS6 quality titles that the handheld console can’t play. Because if this is anything like the Series set of consoles that Microsoft released, then we will be back into a generation where one console holds the stronger console back, and I am definitely not a fan of that scenario! However whatever happens, I will probably only buy into the generation when the inevitable PS6 Pro gets released. That way I will be able to play PS5 games at 4K 60fps and the PS6 games at the best possible speed. My backlog is a Generations behinds worth anyway.

I moved over to PlayStation when the Xbox One was revealed and I am really glad I did. Definitely has been the best place to play games. This generation has been incredibly messy though, but when Sony is on song with their first party games, nothing comes close for me personally on Xbox. I wouldn’t dream of going back to Microsoft exclusively again, I just like my gaming on PlayStation. I definitely hope Sony takes this generation as a warning though. They have been complacent of late, but when the main competitor is languishing so far behind and is making moves to possible go 3rd party, I can’t see how Sony would lose their position to Xbox.

Firewalk are done. Even if their next game was literally amazing, all people will have to read is .. “From the studio that brought you Concord” and it will crash and burn. Best case scenario is take the most accomplished and talented people from the studio, especially the ones that are sane (because reports suggested some crazy individuals are there) and move them to other studios and just close Firewalk down and move on.

Because Sony has faffed about all generation trying to get on the live service bandwagon. They got studios that were single player specialists to look at live service and it’s meant that there has hardly been any first party titles this generation. Now to bolster releases, Sony are rereleasing games that are from large franchises to artificially build up their line up. It’s all a bit crap really. Days gone was ok, but I don’t for the life of me know why Sony aren’t looking at games that really could do with a remastered overhaul. A Bloodborne remaster would surely make a huge amount of sense an opposed to a new Horizon Zero Dawn for instance. That game was a 4K title that looked awesome on the PS4 pro and has had a PS5 update and Bloodborne, although brilliant, still looks exactly as it did at launch. Nah, if this is how Sony sees their generations moving forward, I’ll buy a PS6 Pro as my next console from them and play all the PS5 and PS6 remasters of games that I’ll probably miss out for now..

With the way this generation has been, I won’t be jumping into the next generation until at least the PS6 Pro. I can see the cross generation being as long as this one has been, so I’ll just play through my backlog (which stretches to PS3) and by the time the PS6 Pro is coming, I should be just about ready!

If that’s what they are charging for 60fps and sharper graphics, we are all doomed. I was thinking that come the PS6 generation to hold off and get the 6 Pro, because we are only going to see what the PS5 could have done once we are out of this generation, but I genuinely feel that I won’t be able to afford to buy consoles if they jump to over £700. I think Sony are in for a very rude awakening..

When I played Days Gone, I found the main character to be annoying as hell, and that voice.. it didn’t work for me at all and it just frustrated me playing it. Then I started to hear similarities of Kronk from the Disney film ‘the emperors new groove’. Then I started to find the game hilarious to play everytime Deacon talked. It was a weird time, that’s for sure! 😂

I am most distressed to find out that my game of the generation, Concord has been somehow taken offline, so I WONT be playing that this weekend after all! 😱

All jokes aside, I’m playing AstroBot and God of War Ragnarok! Both awesome games!!

If it was rereleased, it’s never going to shake the monicker that it’s had since it launched. Even if it was taken back to the drawing board, all the characters were made into bad ass looking MFs, new Maps, everything that people didn’t like were removed from the game, if it was still called Concord, it would fail again.

That’s how you do it Sony. Stop ***** around and just put out single player games that people want!! 😀

Yes, Herman Hulst said that Concord was an incredible game aswell, so really looking forward to what FairGame$ is like. Im sure it will be brilliant aswell.. 😉

It’s an obsession with growth, growth and more growth. Sony left all their fans expecting massive single player extravaganzas, because that has been their bread and butter for many a year, but maybe they should keep with that formula but drop the scope a bit. Focusing on things like Spider-Mans story and reeling in the open world missions a lot would perhaps mean that a cheaper product that still has ultra high quality could reach market. God of War Ragnarok could easily have been split into 2 games and made the series become the trilogy points that so many wanted with more flashing out of the story. Same could be said for Horizon. Don’t get me wrong, I feel overloaded when it comes to Sonys titles and in turn I never feel like I am not getting my moneys worth, but chasing the live service dream is just not worth these risks when their single player games are what put Sony in its dominant position. Firewalk will likely be shut down, and I am not surprised that they will as they really aren’t going to be trusted again after this absolute mess of a release. Some of their developers are extremely Toxic and really don’t follow the leads of Sonys other great studios like Santa Monica and Naughty Dog. I mean, attacking the fans because they didn’t like Concord is beyond crazy. Also, 8 years of anyone’s life is too long to be making a game that is this much out of touch with what gamers want. Sony should have stayed with the partner process with the studio and seen how it panned out before taking on a studio that simply didn’t fit with Sonys ways. I expect FairGame$ to look a lot different when it finally rears its head again and most likely it will be free from the get go, just as Concord should have been. Sony needs to release Betas way further back than a few months from launch of a title also. And they need to listed to the fans. Running headlong into a release because Herman thinks it was amazing shows he ain’t got a clue about these kinds of things and I worry that he will do more damage than this to the Sony Brand. They should have also released a beta for Factions 2 aswell. That is another huge outlay of cash that won’t see a recoup of funds. The least they could have done is allow the fans to try it out and let them Know what they thought of the game. In the end, we keep the PlayStation brand healthy with our purchases. It’s a mess right now and I really hope that Astro Bot is a giant success. That would certainly show the bigwigs what we all want. And it doesn’t have to cost hundreds of millions to get there!

You know, Sony really need to announce this console ASAP. I am sure that a lot of people will buy into a PS5 Pro, but with cost of living at an all time high, it would definitely take a fairly major adjustment for people to save for a console and giving them 6 months notice would allow the vast majority to get their funds in place as I can’t see too many people nowadays having a spare £/$/€700 odd just sitting doing nothing. Well, I don’t anyway.. What happened to building up a level of excitement?

Series X can run games as well as PS5 but the Series S simply isn’t up to the task. I was absolutely flamed when I made a comment on an Xbox forum that the Series S was holding back the Xbox brand by making it extremely difficulty to have games running on it. I said this when Baldurs Gate 3 was not released on time because the developer themselves said that it was having difficulty in reaching parity between S and X. Sony didn’t buy exclusivity on Black Myth Wukong and they haven’t bought Enotria. It’s just Microsoft made it difficult for everyone..

A lot of people say that they feel sorry for the devs, but honestly some of them were so Toxic when replying to people, I don’t really care that this game is failing miserably. I hope that the higher ups at Firewalk get booted out.

There is no way that a Last of Us live service game would have done this bad. Concord had everything going against it from the start. It’s just a sad affair that I hope Sony moves away from quickly. It may cost them hundreds of millions, but their AAA story based single player titles are what got them To where they are in the industry.

Oh my ***** god… 😲

I actually think that this is the worst news I have ever seen. Capcom are my fave developers bar none and the Devil May Cry franchise is definitely my most favourite. I think I’m gonna have to lie down, I feel sick..

I genuinely don’t think it has been signed over as an exclusive, Sony aren’t marketing it like they had paid for it on the console, but even if they HAD, it is nowhere near as bad as buying up giant publishers…

It would be amazing if Sony would start using the AstroBot games as launch titles for their consoles. Astro is definitely a really cool mascot that a lot of people can get behind and similarly to Nintendo, releasing mascot game with each generation gets a lot of fans onto the platform with a great game to start off! The Astro game that was included with the PS5 is still probably the best utilisation of the Dual Sense pad and I still play it to try and beat my time attack times! Most of my gaming friends are picking this new game up at launch and that is definitely not a normal habit by most of them! This kinda has the feel about Sonic on the MegaDrive for me, it’s a game that lots of people are very excited to play and it’s appealing to a wide variety of people!

I was reading through articles, trying to see how much Firewalk cost Sony and I came across this from Herman Hulst “we continue to be impressed by the team’s ambitions to build a modern multiplayer game that connects players in new and innovative ways.” In a press release, he added, “I think fans will be very pleased when they see what Firewalk has in store for them.”

Herman is so out of touch. He was in charge of Killzone and Horizon, so he isn’t a fool, but since moving up the corporate ladder, he is following a very different path.

Concord should have been free to play and I am absolutely dreading the publics opinion when FairGame$ arrives. Whether people like it or not, Sony got to where they are with huge single player extravaganzas. Best to invest in those types of games instead of wasting cash on buying studios to chase a Gaas cash cow that has been tied down by other, better games.

A few months ago he said that it would only be 4 games. He said Indy would not be on PS5 and now he is saying that he is doing this to strengthen the Xbox brand? I don’t think he has said anything truthful for years now and I honestly think if you take the desk away, we would see a higher up Microsoft executive controlling him using a Dual Sense..

I never liked microsoft buying up entire publishers, the possibilities of gate keeping titles that at one time would have been available day one for both PlayStation owners and Xbox was not the way I wanted to see the future of gaming going. The news that this will be available mere months after it arrives on Xbox is great news for gamers in general as it surely highlights the way Microsoft will be moving forward with all their releases to come.

Never played this originally, although I do own it, so u a very much looking forward to playing this. The Thing is one of my favourite old horror movies, so I am sure it will be a cool visit!

Sad to see Horizon leaving, but it’s been there for quite some time now and has been an asset for the service. If Sony were to perhaps add God of War or the Remake/remaster of The last of Us to the service in its place, I’m sure that would go a good distance to appeasing people.

I wish Sony would do something completely out of the norm and, say, show the PS5 Pro. At an event like Gamescom it would get massive exposure and be a genuine surprise. All talk would be on Sony in a positive light and would get folk excited again.

Very much looking forward to playing this game, but the fact that so many concerns are surrounding the ps5 release is very worrisome. The console has been great at throwing out PS4 quality games at 60fps and too many people have been all over that, but as soon as something that rightly pushes the console to perform expected next generation graphical standards, it may struggle? I always thought the PS5 generation started way too early and if this doesn’t perform well on the console then all my fears will come true.. That means that this game would possible need the PS5 Pro to reach the desired levels of quality for the title and that doesn’t bode well for an Xbox release either. I think I’ll hold off on PS6 when the time comes as I really don’t want to go through another ‘generation’ like this one.

The original on the 360 and PS4 is still my favourite game in the series! I am very kuch looking forward to playing this again, and with how good it’s looking I can’t wait!!