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Really liking the look of this one. Will have to wait and see more gameplay but this may be a very rare day one purchase for me

Ya i dont think he "sticks his foot in" anything with his comments. From what i can see most people agree with him, including myself.

Love how the article tries to put a negative spin on it and it backfires.

All offended posts from Bluesky too, priceless

If AI can help with the 5 year waiting period between games im all for it. Dev time has become unsustainable and its why we get the constant churn of remakes. What do you think is worse, the same game getting released 3 gens in a row or new games made quicker with the help of AI?

@LogicStrikesAgain I completely get that. May be a bit of miscommunication here. What i mean is why would anyone sub for the classic games in the tier. If there are other reasons you do then fair enough

You can get a ps1 emulator running on a potato these days, why anyone would sub to premium for a massively watered down selection of these titles is beyond me

People who are just hostile towards any kind of AI innovation are the modern day version of horse riders hating the first cars coming on to the road.

What constitutes a minor hit? 😂 less than 20k peak player count on steam. And just because it is on game pass is not an excuse, so many games do far better even when they are on game pass. This was a major flop!

His weapon looks suspiciously like a Keyblade 😁

This is great, first game I have seen in a long time that I will actually buy! Only game I bought in 2025 was E33

Great news. People are voting with their wallets. We'll see how much manufacturing costs and tariffs matter to pricing if this keeps up. Something tells me even with all these blown out of proportion factors, prices will go down

Happy Christmas 🎄 Hope everyone has some deserved time off and here's to a great new year!

Still playing through BG3 with my gf, we played both divinity games before it so knew BG3 was gonna be a huge hit. Still would say DOS2 was better than BG3

There's a heck of a lot of toxic positivity in this comment section. Not every quirky idea is a good one. Never heard of this game but clearly it failed so wasnt good enough, we should be able to accept it and move on. Not every failure is a shame. It can be an opportunity to improve

@SeaDaVie yes, I completely stand by that statement

@Nyne11Tyme 60m doesn't include marketing BTW so maybe double that at least. Also guessing ff16 budget isn't exactly proving a point. Also Also whatever you call a financial success, raw sales numbers still account for a lot and raw sales numbers dont add up to much.

@Megabeenz FF16 had 3 million sales in its first week and was considered a disappointment. For a sony AAA first party game 3.3 isn't good

Struggling to see the difference between this and any other sale that is constantly on psn tbh. I guess the subs discount is different

My next console is going to be the steam machine which will make my ps5 redundant. I dont know if these rumours are true obviously but I can imagine Sony will be forced into this move because owning a console is ridiculous when you have the steam machine which has the best of both worlds

@TrollOfWar I completely understand why they are doing this. The point is maybe all the price hikes weren't necessary and we could actually be getting cheaper consoles 5 years into the ps5. So Sony is price gauging in areas where they can while making up excuses as to why they are hiking the price for customers that actually buy their products

So all these price hikes for the rest of the world were neccesary apparently but now they can massively discount it in Japan. Just another slap in the face for existing customers

Not looking good for Yotei. Now for the inevitable ps5 bundle to pad the numbers

@Northern_munkey you've said nothing wrong, the cope is insanely strong from a few people here. Its looking like it sold 1.6 million in its first week according to circana. Thats far fewer than GoT. The excuses like covid can come out over and over but it doesn't change the facts of the numbers being reported

@nomither6 sounds like a sound prediction.

God of war ragnarok has been out for a few years so must need remaster soon too 😂

Just wow, cannot fathom the disconnect between Sony and its fans. What will the output be of first party games for the ps6? My money says even worse than ps5

Really shows the how disappointing this gen has been just looking at the comments here. No excitement for a new console, I mean has the mood ever been this low before on news a new playstation console is on the horizon? I for one will wait until the pro version comes out before I decide if I am buying, I jumped too early with the ps5 and regret my purchase massively so I have learned my lesson.

@DennisReynolds time will tell Dennis. If we see this getting bundled with ps5s en masse like forbidden west I'll know I was right

@SeaDaVie my point is that physical sales of games in Japan are not 22% like you were insinuating when mentioning sonys worldwide software sales numbers and that the numbers reported on this article probably make up over half of overall sales of GoY

@SeaDaVie let's just take last year for an example since its the most recent full year.

There isn’t an exact public figure for PS5 physical vs digital sales in Japan for 2024, but based on available data we can make a pretty good estimate.
CESA’s 2022 industry report (summarized in several Japanese gaming outlets) showed that around 65% of PS5 game sales in Japan were physical at that time. Since then, digital adoption has grown globally and locally, and 2024 Famitsu charts show PS5 physical copies making up a much smaller slice of the overall market.

So a reasonable estimate for 2024 would be roughly 55% physical / 45% digital for PS5 game sales in Japan — possibly a bit lower depending on how you measure it.

Japan still leans more physical than Western markets which is what were are talking about here.

@SeaDaVie I disagree, going on the numbers we have which isn't much to be fair, I would speculate half Tsushimas sales or under. Not sure what data you are extrapolating your 10m plus prediction from

Yes from these numbers it will sell half or under half of tsushima. Predicted this

@DennisReynolds how do you have time to buy and play 3 games a month working 2 jobs??

I used to buy a lot more in previous years but this year has only been exp 33. I would buy more but have absolutely no interest in the types of games coming out these days. This isn't nostalgia talking, games were so much more mechanically deeper and challenging before let's say, 2020 but probably even earlier than that really. It's just slop open world busy work, looter shooter or movie games these days. The gaming industry is being held up by a few tentplole giants such as cod and sports games but the bubble is going to burst when companies cant milk the super enthusiasts anymore

No ff7 rebirth? Can't take this list seriously

@DadJKP agree with you, massive oversimplification. Just because you call yourself something doesn't make it true. Can fool some though and thats the idea

Would love a sequel. The first was really good and the second improved basically all of the first games systems. Really impressive and in depth gameplay which still puts a lot of modern games to shame. Can't see a point in a remaster as they are already avaliable for ps5, a fresh coat of paint isn't gonna make me want to come back but ya, a sequel would be great.

Debating on whether to play the psp version or this one....

@LuDaurre well said!

I've been using my gaming PC to play ps1 games i missed out on as a kid. Started the suikoden series and love it. No interest in the vast majority of new releases these days

The perfect game to buy for 20-30 euro and play with the Mrs. when its all patched and actually complete 👌

Very surprised at the survey results, at my time of checking only 52% said day one purchase. That's shockingly low for a playstation fan site. This game will be lucky to sell half of what GoT did. Could have been much more but it seems sucker punch have really changed these past few years and it's alienating a lot of potential customers.

@Pditty1980

1) sorry didn't realise I can only reply positively.

2) I have my reasons

@Pditty1980 your asking why I commented about liking the previous game? Why bother commenting anything if thats your logic

Really loved ghost of tsushima. Will never ever buy this

Square Enix, more like Square Remakes heh heh

I'll see myself out

This year is the first i have let my ps plus lapse since the ps3 days and I do not miss it one bit. Also spending extremely little on games this past year, just nothing of interest to me. Only new game I bought was exp 33, the other games I bought probably came to a combined total of 50 or 60 euro. Nothing for me in the near future is coming out either which is pretty disappointing because playstation always had games in the pipeline I looked forward to

The point i was making is do not take the reviews comments on the story being bland to heart. Other people might find it enjoyable. For example the review for veilguard mentioned how much they loved the story and characters. I can say for me personally and im sure many others that the story of veilguard was awful. So if a review mentions a story being bland in a game chances are, because of my taste, there's a good chance I will like it

Every time I see PSSR I read 'pisser'. I can't unsee it 😂

@Jettstyles completely agree, as a European I've been seeing these price increases across the board post pandemic. The free money given out during that time has caused the rampant inflation we are living with now. But ya, orange man bad, tariffs are the cause, sure