Hades 2 being very soon is the biggest story there. Still surprised they havent brought Hades to ps+ yet. Seemed like a banker to add the first ahead of the second, perhaps they sneak it in this month.
@Jay767 for now. Plenty of games have brought out paid expansions after initially planning only free updates. If the sales are poor and they have to bring it to ps+ early to bolster the numbers and keep the game afloat, they'll make sure there are more ways to generate revenue other than just cosmetics.
Numbers don't surprise me if thwyre accurate. Doesnt seem to be any real mainstream hype around it.
Looking at the game on the Playstation store on ps5 where it tells you how many of your friends have the game, i don't have a single person on my friends list who has it.
Now that alone doesnt tell you anything, far too many factors not considered for it to mean anything at all but then I look at how many of the same friends list have arc raiders, which is a very comparable game, and i see that 13 of my friends list have that game. Think it then becomes a little more telling even from a minute sample size.
It will be on ps+ to boost hands on the game just as soon as they have either/or a substantial paid expansion ready to go or a heavily stocked micro transaction market fully set up and tuned.
Feels like the guy was very naive. Going out of your way to do extra work that wasn't requested is your own choice and will almost always count for nothing within big businesses. Don't assume that makes you indispensable and don't go moaning about it when it's ignored. Always ***** losing a job but there's plenty in much worse situations. He'll have been well paid and the guy should have no problem finding something else if he is as good as he is claiming.
Played it enough to get the platinum naturally, never understood the level of hate it got, i enjoyed it more than most other battlefields and it kept me playing for longer than others.
A lot of potential in their portfolio but yet to have the breakout hit evidentally needed to keep them afloat. A lot of games that you feel a sequel could be that breakout they need of they add a bit more know how and financial backing. Would be a shame if they are no more.
Regardless of the game itself this is ultimately a good thing as we would all benefit from Sony backing a handful of these projects a year to fill gaps in thebrelease schedule. They need to know that smaller titles can prove to be worthwhile financially and not just something that a small hardcore audience crave.
Will almost certainly be more added within the week. With it being a 5 week gap between refreshes this month, you always get late additions to the leaving soon section.
Feels like a vast overreaction to me, looks absolutely fine and in no way would I describe it as bad.
i'm speaking as somebody who generally couldn't care less about graphics though and I feel like the overwhelming majority of people would align themselves more to my view than this articles view that reads like it's suggesting it looks like a 20 year old game.
Complete nothing story. Without checking, I'd wager the share price over the last few months has shot up on the back of hype, this is just the market settling. Was always going to go down when the game was released regardless of how it was received. Happens all the time and really isn't noteworthy at all. Frankly a bizarre thing to turn into a news piece.
I mean it's a game that's been out for 2 years vs a bunch of games not released. It has the massive benefit of pre-order wariness not applying to it so probably not all that surprising really
Feels like a good score to me. A game that had this much hype will always fail to live up to it, always, and so reviewers will naturally mark it down a bit with that in mind no matter how hard they try to be objective. With something that tries to do practically everything, there will always be aspects certain people don't click with which again will mark it down so it was never going to be getting into the 90's. The score seems to be in the expected ballpark and one that would indicate a good game, a disappointment would be something in the 50-60 range.
Dont get why any dev would refuse to supply console review codes if requested. It does nothing but set all the alarm bells off. if there's a problem. It's going to be known soon enough and you then develop a reputation as a dev not to be trusted which will do much more long term damage to the studio. if there is no problem, you've just created a whole sceptical cloud over your game for no reason. Where's the benefit?
Have to question why they didnt put it on to ps+ a while ago. Wouldn't have cost them anything to do it and perhaps could have given it some kind of bump in playerbase. Not suggesting it would have resulted in a different outcome but at least be seen to be trying.
No issue with this. Their right to ensure their release date is protected.
Should be clearly labelled though. In an ideal world, it would be something that was disabled after release but that isn't possible, perhaps a work around would be only copies manufactured for release would contain it and future copies shipped without it
It's like the last however many years didnt happen. They've done exactly what they're asking for for many years and it hasn't proved successful enough to be worthwhile continuing. PC gamers had their chance to buying the games and show Sony its something to continue. Much like Xbox going multi-platform. Playstation gamers had their chance to show microsoft it was worth doing and they went out and bought forza in their millions to make sure it continues.
Definitely a marketing issue, however, most of them are simply niche titles that are never going to get widespread mass appeal. Every company should obviously seek to boost revenue but If SEGA starts chasing that heavily and alter games to do so, they might do more harm than good.
Solid month. Not a banger month by any means but can't have any complaints with that. The one remaining non-leaked titles being blaspehmous 2 definitely raised the quality this month.
Personally, blasphemous 2 is the one that i'll probably download the day its added but might not get to just yet and then space marine 2, metal eden and persona are all titles i'm not going to download straight away but I could potentially see myself getting around to at some point, backlog depending.
Dont know why the skepticism is in two "headliners" hitting extra together. firstly, dragons dogma 2 isn't a headliner, it's very much a classic ps+ extra title, niche with a bit of a cult following.
Playstation also have a habit of doing multi-game deals with some devs/publishers that sees a few titles from one source come to the service together. The double whammy of Capcom games adds validity to the claims in my eyes if anything, it fits past behavior.
That skin price scam is just about as shady as it gets, effectively charging $15 dollars but being too embarrassed to do so which implies the product is heavily overpriced. Surprised this is the first time i'm hearing about this, that is something where the generally over the top faux outrage would actually be warranted. That one decision alone is almost enough to make me want this to fail. Poor form.
I've yet to play this game in particular, doesnt look very good in my eyes but the principle of smaller side games I approve of.
I've long since said, Sony should have a handful of small, dedicated dev teams that make smaller scaled, low budget games that are specifically designed for day 1 release on ps+ extra or even premium.
Just 1 or 2 of these a year would seriously boost the profile of the higher tiered subscription service. They're already paying for a few days 1 releases anyway from 3rd party devs so why not have them be in house games for existing Playstation IP that can bolster the brand/IP and they can have tighter grip on quality control over them too.
The exclusive angle is being blown way out of proportion. Exclusives do sell consoles but releasing on PC a year or even 2 years after console release doesnt really, in practice, define them as multi-platform, for the vast majority, they're still exclusives.
Those that would buy a console for those games, are buying those games day 1 or close to it, they aren't waiting 12-24 months and the pc gamers buying the game on there after that long are largely going to be people who can take it or leave it, the overlap has to be minute.
No interest in this type of game personally, I anticipate it will do okay but only okay, don't see it being the breakout hit Sony wants and certainly nowhere near close to starting to justify the outlay to acquire Bungie.
I guarantee this will be on ps+ within 18 months, along with a meaty paid expansion.
Still think the better move was releasing it day and date into ps+ extra, that way you get multiple millions of hands on straight away and can look to make money from in game sales which is ultimately what they'll pivot to eventually.
Both sides have fair points. The skepticism is understandable as it seems to be an incredibly ambitious game from a studio with limited history.
The skepticism is in some way a compliment as for many, it looks too good to be true.
From their point of view, the constant questioning has to be incredibly tedious for them to deal with. Might be difficult to do so but probably best to just not say anything as they'll always be people unsatisfied with whatever response they give.
So much for years of content. Got to feel like if a Gaas title cannot sustain itself independently for say 12 months, it deserves to fail.
This has been heavily funded by wealthy backers, why didnt they have provisions set aside to keep it going for a minimum period if it didn't get a large initial audience? If they truly believed they had something, they'd take it back into Beta and turn it into something worth playing.
Sounds like disaster class in management.
As an aside, there is some serious egg on the game awards face too off the back of this. having a show ender survive less than 2 months before shutting down really damages their credibility.
Can't help but feel like although it may very well be a critical hit, this will fail to meet sales expectations by some margin. Just feels like they're expecting this to be a genre bursting, mass appeal title and so will be expecting monster sales but I don't see it breaking out too much from the hardcore fighting game community.
Where is the interesting part in this "news"? Studios hire all the time when they're about to ramp up work on their next project, just like they'll lay off others when it's done and they have no work for them. Game development has been a contractual industry for well over a decade now and yet the games media still haven't accepted this and feel the need to report on every single employment situation.
If you're building a house, you aren't hiring an electrician when you're stull laying the foundations, nor will you continue to employ a brick layer once you're on to plastering walls and furnishing the building.
Bloodborne would have been great but if fromsoft are saying no then that's out of everybody else's hands, they should have been able to come up with something better than an updated remake of shadow of the collosus.
Should surprise absolutely nobody that sucker punch didn't want to allow anybody else to do anything ghost related. There are loads of dormant playstation IP they could have looked at but if they're not pitching anything decent and doable then its actually no real surprise Sony shut them down if they need spoon feeding workable ideas. They should have asked sucker punch for permission to remake the infamous games over chasing a license to produce their own ghost spin off.
Doesn't really matter does it? If they're not selling well enough to be worth it to the point where they see exclusivity as a better path then nobody will be bothered by this.
@Member_the_game said niche annual sports titles, I attributed the niche prefix to the games and not the sport itself. I know Golf is huge, but pretty much all sports games are niche in that if you dont like the sport, it's very unlikely you'll be interested in the game even if that game happens to be an amazing game. Even FIFA would be considered a niche sports title in this regard.
Poor month in my eyes, niche annual sport titles are the absolute worst offerings alongside multiplayer games destined for shutdown within the year, and monster hunter rise is yet another essential title that we've already seen on ps+ extra. Noticed that is becoming a regular thing now.
Slime rancher 2 is a good addition, liked the first so i'll play that. Although I've zero intention of playing it, can't complain about an additional 4th title either.
Microsoft simply put have too much money invested in studios and IP to make them 1st party only for such a comparatively small player base, simply isn't feasible. Microaoft have seen 1st hand how much money they'd be leaving on the table to revert make to 1st party and nobody in a position of power is intentionally going to sacrifice that kind of income for minimal at best long term advantages. To do so would be effectively sacking themselves. Xbox owned games on Playstation are to stay. Might not be them all, but certainly the vast majority.
So many comments about this being a distraction from Bluepoint. It most definitely is not. Sony are not torpedoing their marketing plan for one of their blockbuster titles, that will bring in multiple hundreds of millions to appease a tiny vocal fraction of their fanbase. Completely absurd to even suggest it.
Bond dumped for not being good enough, Booty widely considered not upto the job he was doing being promoted and somebody with no experience in gaming heads yhe whole thing. If I was deliberately trying to create a recipe for disaster, it wouldn't deviate from this too much.
Genuinely hope they can see a revival of sorts as the sh1tshow Playstation have been serving up in recent times shows that you need competitors pushing to keep the industry leaders on their toes.
Remember a week ago when a very large percentage of watchers claimed they just watched one of the best state of plays ever? That goodwill lasted long...
If they felt the need to close bluepoint then surely Bend and media molecule have to be on the chopping block too and possibly others.
They're going to end up with a very small number of studios producing nothing but sequels to the biggest IP and a complete dearth of originality and 1st party titles.
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Re: Round Up: Here's Every PS5 Game Announced in March 2026's Xbox Partner Preview
Hades 2 being very soon is the biggest story there. Still surprised they havent brought Hades to ps+ yet. Seemed like a banker to add the first ahead of the second, perhaps they sneak it in this month.
Re: PS Plus Essential Game for April 2026 Leaked
Expected this to drop on to extra rather than essential. Happy enough with that, one of the many "will definitely be on ps+" games on my list.
Re: PS5 Players Seemingly Skip Marathon as Sales Estimates Look Very Weak
@Jay767 for now. Plenty of games have brought out paid expansions after initially planning only free updates. If the sales are poor and they have to bring it to ps+ early to bolster the numbers and keep the game afloat, they'll make sure there are more ways to generate revenue other than just cosmetics.
Re: PS5 Players Seemingly Skip Marathon as Sales Estimates Look Very Weak
Numbers don't surprise me if thwyre accurate. Doesnt seem to be any real mainstream hype around it.
Looking at the game on the Playstation store on ps5 where it tells you how many of your friends have the game, i don't have a single person on my friends list who has it.
Now that alone doesnt tell you anything, far too many factors not considered for it to mean anything at all but then I look at how many of the same friends list have arc raiders, which is a very comparable game, and i see that 13 of my friends list have that game. Think it then becomes a little more telling even from a minute sample size.
It will be on ps+ to boost hands on the game just as soon as they have either/or a substantial paid expansion ready to go or a heavily stocked micro transaction market fully set up and tuned.
Re: 'I Have Done So Much for This Company': Axed Fortnite Dev Can't Believe He's Been Laid Off
Feels like the guy was very naive. Going out of your way to do extra work that wasn't requested is your own choice and will almost always count for nothing within big businesses. Don't assume that makes you indispensable and don't go moaning about it when it's ignored. Always ***** losing a job but there's plenty in much worse situations. He'll have been well paid and the guy should have no problem finding something else if he is as good as he is claiming.
Re: PS4 Police Game Battlefield Hardline to Be Delisted from PS Store in May
Played it enough to get the platinum naturally, never understood the level of hate it got, i enjoyed it more than most other battlefields and it kept me playing for longer than others.
Re: Embattled Publisher Nacon's Three Biggest Dev Teams Are Now in Trouble Too
A lot of potential in their portfolio but yet to have the breakout hit evidentally needed to keep them afloat. A lot of games that you feel a sequel could be that breakout they need of they add a bit more know how and financial backing. Would be a shame if they are no more.
Re: PS5 Spin-Off God of War: Sons of Sparta Has Been a Big Hit for Sony
Regardless of the game itself this is ultimately a good thing as we would all benefit from Sony backing a handful of these projects a year to fill gaps in thebrelease schedule. They need to know that smaller titles can prove to be worthwhile financially and not just something that a small hardcore audience crave.
Re: You Lose These 2 PS Plus Extra Games in April 2026
Will almost certainly be more added within the week. With it being a 5 week gap between refreshes this month, you always get late additions to the leaving soon section.
Re: FBC: Firebreak Permanently Slashes Price as Its Final Major Update Goes Live on PS5
@MasterChiefWiggum already is. it literally released into ps+ extra as well as gamepass.
Re: Crimson Desert Looks 'Rough' on Base PS5, Here's 25 Minutes of Direct Capture Footage
Feels like a vast overreaction to me, looks absolutely fine and in no way would I describe it as bad.
i'm speaking as somebody who generally couldn't care less about graphics though and I feel like the overwhelming majority of people would align themselves more to my view than this articles view that reads like it's suggesting it looks like a 20 year old game.
Re: Crimson Desert's Mixed Reviews See Dev's Share Price Drop Almost 30%
Complete nothing story. Without checking, I'd wager the share price over the last few months has shot up on the back of hype, this is just the market settling. Was always going to go down when the game was released regardless of how it was received. Happens all the time and really isn't noteworthy at all. Frankly a bizarre thing to turn into a news piece.
Re: Xbox's Starfield Rockets to the Top of the PS5's Pre-Order Charts
I mean it's a game that's been out for 2 years vs a bunch of games not released. It has the massive benefit of pre-order wariness not applying to it so probably not all that surprising really
Re: Round Up: Crimson Desert Reviews Are a Major Disappointment
Feels like a good score to me. A game that had this much hype will always fail to live up to it, always, and so reviewers will naturally mark it down a bit with that in mind no matter how hard they try to be objective. With something that tries to do practically everything, there will always be aspects certain people don't click with which again will mark it down so it was never going to be getting into the 90's. The score seems to be in the expected ballpark and one that would indicate a good game, a disappointment would be something in the 50-60 range.
Re: Site News: Where's Our Crimson Desert PS5 Review?
Dont get why any dev would refuse to supply console review codes if requested. It does nothing but set all the alarm bells off. if there's a problem. It's going to be known soon enough and you then develop a reputation as a dev not to be trusted which will do much more long term damage to the studio. if there is no problem, you've just created a whole sceptical cloud over your game for no reason. Where's the benefit?
Re: Microsoft Is Putting 3 Xbox Games on PS5 in Just a Few Weeks
Kiln will be on ps+ before the years end ahead of servers shutting by the end of 2027
Re: PSVR2 Takes Another Hit as Sony Nukes Exclusive Shooter Firewall Ultra
Have to question why they didnt put it on to ps+ a while ago. Wouldn't have cost them anything to do it and perhaps could have given it some kind of bump in playerbase. Not suggesting it would have resulted in a different outcome but at least be seen to be trying.
Re: Starfield Finally Lands on PS5 in April with New DLC and Huge Updates
If you've already waited 2-3 years for this, what's another 12-18 months before they bring it to ps+
Re: Further Frustration as PS Plus' Latest Retro Game Arrives without PS5, PS4 Trophies
Cue people telling us how meaningless trophies are and how those who like trophy hunting can't enjoy games without it.
No surprises here. At this point, it would only be news if they actually had trophy support on launch into the service.
Re: Crimson Desert's Mandatory PS5 Update Sparks Debate About Games Which Break Street Date
No issue with this. Their right to ensure their release date is protected.
Should be clearly labelled though. In an ideal world, it would be something that was disabled after release but that isn't possible, perhaps a work around would be only copies manufactured for release would contain it and future copies shipped without it
Re: Starfield's PS5 Release Seems Practically Inevitable at This Point
Does anybody give a monkeys? This wont be a forza, not even a gears, it's in the same bracket as grounded and high-fi rush.
Re: 'We'll Lay Off a Thousand People': Blizzard CFO's Outrageous Threat Was the Last Straw for Overwatch Director
Overwatch died when Jeff left.
Re: 'No One Is Buying This on PS5': PC Port Begging Already Unbearable as Sony Switches Strategy
It's like the last however many years didnt happen. They've done exactly what they're asking for for many years and it hasn't proved successful enough to be worthwhile continuing. PC gamers had their chance to buying the games and show Sony its something to continue. Much like Xbox going multi-platform. Playstation gamers had their chance to show microsoft it was worth doing and they went out and bought forza in their millions to make sure it continues.
Re: PS Plus Premium Has Given You Just 1 Classic PlayStation Game a Month for Over Half a Year Now
£1.66 a month should entitle me to at least 8 games a month.
Re: SEGA's PS5 Games Get Good Reviews, So Why Aren't You Buying Them?
Definitely a marketing issue, however, most of them are simply niche titles that are never going to get widespread mass appeal. Every company should obviously seek to boost revenue but If SEGA starts chasing that heavily and alter games to do so, they might do more harm than good.
Re: 8 PS Plus Extra, Premium Games for March 2026 Announced
Solid month. Not a banger month by any means but can't have any complaints with that. The one remaining non-leaked titles being blaspehmous 2 definitely raised the quality this month.
Personally, blasphemous 2 is the one that i'll probably download the day its added but might not get to just yet and then space marine 2, metal eden and persona are all titles i'm not going to download straight away but I could potentially see myself getting around to at some point, backlog depending.
Nothing killer, but decent filler.
Re: Rumour: PS Plus Extra Tipped to Add Two Giant PS5 Games This Month
Dont know why the skepticism is in two "headliners" hitting extra together. firstly, dragons dogma 2 isn't a headliner, it's very much a classic ps+ extra title, niche with a bit of a cult following.
Playstation also have a habit of doing multi-game deals with some devs/publishers that sees a few titles from one source come to the service together. The double whammy of Capcom games adds validity to the claims in my eyes if anything, it fits past behavior.
Re: 'We're Discussing Ways to Improve': Marathon Dev Tweaking Monetisation and Difficulty as FPS Fails to Blow Up
That skin price scam is just about as shady as it gets, effectively charging $15 dollars but being too embarrassed to do so which implies the product is heavily overpriced. Surprised this is the first time i'm hearing about this, that is something where the generally over the top faux outrage would actually be warranted. That one decision alone is almost enough to make me want this to fail. Poor form.
Re: Opinion: God of War: Sons of Sparta Is the Smaller PS5 Game Fans Want, and I Hope We See More
I've yet to play this game in particular, doesnt look very good in my eyes but the principle of smaller side games I approve of.
I've long since said, Sony should have a handful of small, dedicated dev teams that make smaller scaled, low budget games that are specifically designed for day 1 release on ps+ extra or even premium.
Just 1 or 2 of these a year would seriously boost the profile of the higher tiered subscription service. They're already paying for a few days 1 releases anyway from 3rd party devs so why not have them be in house games for existing Playstation IP that can bolster the brand/IP and they can have tighter grip on quality control over them too.
Re: 'Sony Finally Understands': Over 70% of PS5 Fans Agree with Decision to Scrap PC Ports
The exclusive angle is being blown way out of proportion. Exclusives do sell consoles but releasing on PC a year or even 2 years after console release doesnt really, in practice, define them as multi-platform, for the vast majority, they're still exclusives.
Those that would buy a console for those games, are buying those games day 1 or close to it, they aren't waiting 12-24 months and the pc gamers buying the game on there after that long are largely going to be people who can take it or leave it, the overlap has to be minute.
Re: Mini Review: Scott Pilgrim EX (PS5) - Fans Will Be in Lesbians with This Fun-Filled Brawler
@stocko watched it around release, have zero memory of it though. Can barely remembered what game i last played and my Playstation is currently on.
Re: Mini Review: Scott Pilgrim EX (PS5) - Fans Will Be in Lesbians with This Fun-Filled Brawler
Errr. Interesting headline... exactly how far in to a lesbian will i get?
Re: PS Studios Show Support for Marathon's PS5 Launch with Brilliant Artwork
No tribute from bluepoint? Oh wait...
Re: Out Today: Marathon's PS5 Launch Puts Sony's $3B Live Service Gamble to the Test
No interest in this type of game personally, I anticipate it will do okay but only okay, don't see it being the breakout hit Sony wants and certainly nowhere near close to starting to justify the outlay to acquire Bungie.
I guarantee this will be on ps+ within 18 months, along with a meaty paid expansion.
Still think the better move was releasing it day and date into ps+ extra, that way you get multiple millions of hands on straight away and can look to make money from in game sales which is ultimately what they'll pivot to eventually.
Re: 'We're Not Hiding Anything': Crimson Desert Dev 'Sick' of Claims Around No PS5 Footage
Both sides have fair points. The skepticism is understandable as it seems to be an incredibly ambitious game from a studio with limited history.
The skepticism is in some way a compliment as for many, it looks too good to be true.
From their point of view, the constant questioning has to be incredibly tedious for them to deal with. Might be difficult to do so but probably best to just not say anything as they'll always be people unsatisfied with whatever response they give.
Re: Highguard Permanently Shuts Down on 12th March
So much for years of content. Got to feel like if a Gaas title cannot sustain itself independently for say 12 months, it deserves to fail.
This has been heavily funded by wealthy backers, why didnt they have provisions set aside to keep it going for a minimum period if it didn't get a large initial audience? If they truly believed they had something, they'd take it back into Beta and turn it into something worth playing.
Sounds like disaster class in management.
As an aside, there is some serious egg on the game awards face too off the back of this. having a show ender survive less than 2 months before shutting down really damages their credibility.
Re: Marvel Tokon Making Refinements Based on Player Feedback in the Run Up to Launch
Can't help but feel like although it may very well be a critical hit, this will fail to meet sales expectations by some margin. Just feels like they're expecting this to be a genre bursting, mass appeal title and so will be expecting monster sales but I don't see it breaking out too much from the hardcore fighting game community.
Re: Shocking: PlayStation Studios Are Hiring for New Games
Where is the interesting part in this "news"? Studios hire all the time when they're about to ramp up work on their next project, just like they'll lay off others when it's done and they have no work for them. Game development has been a contractual industry for well over a decade now and yet the games media still haven't accepted this and feel the need to report on every single employment situation.
If you're building a house, you aren't hiring an electrician when you're stull laying the foundations, nor will you continue to employ a brick layer once you're on to plastering walls and furnishing the building.
Re: Shuttered Dev Bluepoint Wanted to Remake Bloodborne, FromSoftware Blocked It
Sounds like bluepoint didnt pitch very well.
Bloodborne would have been great but if fromsoft are saying no then that's out of everybody else's hands, they should have been able to come up with something better than an updated remake of shadow of the collosus.
Should surprise absolutely nobody that sucker punch didn't want to allow anybody else to do anything ghost related. There are loads of dormant playstation IP they could have looked at but if they're not pitching anything decent and doable then its actually no real surprise Sony shut them down if they need spoon feeding workable ideas. They should have asked sucker punch for permission to remake the infamous games over chasing a license to produce their own ghost spin off.
Re: Rumour: Sony Backtracking on PC Strategy, Shifting Towards PS5 Exclusivity Again
Doesn't really matter does it? If they're not selling well enough to be worth it to the point where they see exclusivity as a better path then nobody will be bothered by this.
Re: Wolverine PS5 Release Date Reveal Sparks Bluepoint Cover-Up Claims
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Re: PS Plus Essential Games for March 2026 Announced
@Member_the_game said niche annual sports titles, I attributed the niche prefix to the games and not the sport itself. I know Golf is huge, but pretty much all sports games are niche in that if you dont like the sport, it's very unlikely you'll be interested in the game even if that game happens to be an amazing game. Even FIFA would be considered a niche sports title in this regard.
Re: PS Plus Essential Games for March 2026 Announced
Poor month in my eyes, niche annual sport titles are the absolute worst offerings alongside multiplayer games destined for shutdown within the year, and monster hunter rise is yet another essential title that we've already seen on ps+ extra. Noticed that is becoming a regular thing now.
Slime rancher 2 is a good addition, liked the first so i'll play that. Although I've zero intention of playing it, can't complain about an additional 4th title either.
Re: 'The Plan's the Plan Until It's Not the Plan': Xbox All Over the Place on Future PS5 Ports
Microsoft simply put have too much money invested in studios and IP to make them 1st party only for such a comparatively small player base, simply isn't feasible. Microaoft have seen 1st hand how much money they'd be leaving on the table to revert make to 1st party and nobody in a position of power is intentionally going to sacrifice that kind of income for minimal at best long term advantages. To do so would be effectively sacking themselves. Xbox owned games on Playstation are to stay. Might not be them all, but certainly the vast majority.
Re: Marvel's Wolverine PS5 Release Date Announced
So many comments about this being a distraction from Bluepoint. It most definitely is not. Sony are not torpedoing their marketing plan for one of their blockbuster titles, that will bring in multiple hundreds of millions to appease a tiny vocal fraction of their fanbase. Completely absurd to even suggest it.
Re: First PS Plus Essential Game for March 2026 Leaked Early
Yayyyy, our first of about 4 yearly titles. FIFA, NBA and WWE still to look forward to this year...
Let's hope for a few strong indies to prop up this month.
Re: Phil Spencer Stepping Down, Sarah Bond Leaving Microsoft in Huge Xbox Shake-Up
Bond dumped for not being good enough, Booty widely considered not upto the job he was doing being promoted and somebody with no experience in gaming heads yhe whole thing. If I was deliberately trying to create a recipe for disaster, it wouldn't deviate from this too much.
Genuinely hope they can see a revival of sorts as the sh1tshow Playstation have been serving up in recent times shows that you need competitors pushing to keep the industry leaders on their toes.
Re: Sony Goes Silent on Social Media as Fans Turn Feral Following Bluepoint Closure
Remember a week ago when a very large percentage of watchers claimed they just watched one of the best state of plays ever? That goodwill lasted long...
Re: Memory Crisis Threatening to Delay PS6 Could Last 'Another 10 Years'
Nothing but doom mongering.
Re: 'I'm Confident in the Direction We're Headed': Under-Fire PlayStation Boss Tries to Explain Baffling Bluepoint Closure
If they felt the need to close bluepoint then surely Bend and media molecule have to be on the chopping block too and possibly others.
They're going to end up with a very small number of studios producing nothing but sequels to the biggest IP and a complete dearth of originality and 1st party titles.