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@Oram77 As I've already said in a previous post, there is no chance Microsoft would allow Xbox to go exclusive again. If Microsoft is demanding even close to the high profit margins that were demanded in the past under old leadership and because of the 70 billion ABK acquisition, they need all the money they can get. All of the Xbox fans who voted for exclusivity in the Xbox player voice questionnaires are just setting themselves up for disappointment.

What this probably means is that, Songs of the past will be similar in scope to Blood & Wine or Phantom Liberty, and it will cost as much as well. I have no problem with this since in my opinion CDPR are the best when it comes to DLC/expansions, just look how they won RPG game of the year in 2016, but with their expansion.

Best game ever getting even better! This cannot come soon enough

Companies patent random stuff every other day, stop being outraged by things that won't come to fruition.

I still fail to see how Microsoft would allow Xbox to go exclusive again, especially with such high profit margins that were demanded in the past under old leadership. It just doesn't make any sense, as it's obvious that Xbox will need every dime they can get as a result of the ABK acquisition.

@AdamNovice I'm not sure about that, although a lot of gamers have become a negative bunch, that's for certain.

@Oram77 You're right, I forgot about the Internal demo. After so much negative news, I think that they will try to turn the ship around and give some bright news for once, and man, do I hope they succeed.

@AdamNovice Female characters have been a part of gaming since gaming was invented and they were almost always liked. Problem isn't with male or female characters, it's with making said characters snark and insufferable, at least in my humble opinion. You are right about gamers being generally more negative in recent times though.

@Oram77 There are news that Sony is sending out invitations to media outlets to attend, so this event might just be big enough for Intergalatic to show up, I hope you're right. Just seems to me that Santa Monica's game would be earlier, since Nate also mentioned something about it being in the June State of Play.

@TrollOfWar I don't think this is going to be the one more thing of the show. That's going to Santa Monica's game 100%. Even Sony aren't that stupid and out of touch with their audience...I hope

Ship has already sailed, its a sunk cost fallacy at this stage and they have to reveal it at some point. Better get this over with sooner than later so they can finally see that people don't care about these dumb games.

With prices soaring up, there needs to be a bigger incentive for customers to keep being a part of the PS ecosystem and for the money they have spent to be justified, so while I understand if some of the PC users are going to be against this, it makes total sense why it's happening. Now, only thing they need to do is keep pumping out exclusives from 1st party studios, and maybe contract some outside studios to revive old IP, similar to how Nintendo goes about it.

@kcarnes9051 Funny how this has never been an issue when unrealistically attractive buff dudes/models appear in games. Are men immune to body image issues? I didn't see anyone, especially women complaining when Leon appeared in his 50ties as a buff model. In fact they were thristing over his character heavily. I can list even more examples but you kinda get the picture I'm trying to paint. I understand that hypersexualisation specifically for female characters was an issue in the past, but in recent times, I think it goes both ways, which obviously results in higher sales/engagement.

@Nei One of my most anticipated games this year. I hope it's fantastic.

Beautiful woman. Let the meltdowns begin for a second time!

@RadioHedgeFund You've played them?

A time in gaming when brains had to be used to overcome obstacles and creativity was born out of necessity, unlike today.

I think I understand what the crux of the problem is, people still willingly using Twitter and expecting rational thought and reasoning there.

@Divergent95 Or maybe people don't prefer the "game" because it's a three hour interactive cartoon, with downright weird scenes in it. You guys claiming that the criticisms towards games like these are solely based on that are just as bad as those so called chuds you mention. Both sides of the same coin.

@Yor-sama I love old Bethesda games, but the fact that modders have been fixing their mess every game so far should be downright embarrassing for them.

In my opinion, the best visual novel game of all time.

@Mr_Vengeance1980 I'm fully aware that it's an amazing show and I'm in for a treat, I will watch it definitely!

I hope that, after all this waiting, something of quality will come to fruition. Usually projects that get delayed like this either completely miss the mark, or are average at best. Hope it actually comes out and sticks the landing, as I think Bioshock is one of the best franchises in gaming ever.

@Andee An emotional kick to the gut indeed. I still haven’t watched Arcane, not in the mood for depression again lol

Seeing Edgerunners again brings back miserable memories ;-;

The guillotine was a fantastic invention.

So instead of getting the third game, we're getting whatever this is...Jesus Christ. And also, what in the actual hell are these goofy Pixar ass characters?

Damn, maybe the majority of you will disagree with me, but what the hell happened with the writing for Sony's first party games? I feel like the PS5 gen has suffered tremendously in the writing department, especially compared to the PS4 gen games. Also, with no intent to appear negative, or sound controversial, but, I gotta agree with other people here commenting that the way Sony first party studios write male characters is kinda weird if I'm being honest. Every male character appears to be written as a toxic piece of crap who HAS to be better, like come on.

For the sake of my sanity I hope this is engagement bait.

Game looks fantastic, can't wait to play it. Only thing I'm worried about is, it's a pretty niche genre, and it might not make record breaking sales for Sony, but it has already received critical acclaim, so I hope that counts for something.

Seems like the game is shaping up to be a banger, will definitely be picking it up, fantastic article.

@tangyzesty God forbid people expect a playable build of a game at launch, that doesn't have a million bugs and glitches and doesn't require hotfixes every 2 minutes. Just goes to show how lazy and uninspired the gaming industry has become, but keep giving them passes and excuses while they charge you more and more for less and less. I'd rather be one of those 5 that cries and complains than the majority who bend over to get screwed with every modern release.

To everyone in the comments ragging on people preferring true physical, it's good to have more options rather than less. And if you're taking the time to waste all the materials and plastic to create the physical cases and everything else included in it, at least don't half-ass it.

@Oram77 When those games come out...eeh it won't be nice, that's for sure. But if those games flopping means that it wakes Sony up even more to this live service issue, than so be it. I see a patern with Sony every generation starting from PS2 where one gen they do all the correct choices and are amazing (PS2/PS4) and then we have gens where they disappoint with baffling choices, but still deliver to a good extent. Hopefully they learnt their lesson and what's to come from PS6 is more akin to PS2/PS4.

Housemarque won't miss, I have full faith in them after Returnal, which was amazing

If they keep porting games it's good for Playstation fans. If they start making exclusives again, it's good for Playstation fans, because it will force Sony to reevaluate their approach in the future. Only thing that doesn't make sense is how they expect to make more money with higher profit margins if they return to exclusivity. Sony and Nintendo have managed because the install base is huge and the players are more willing to buy games, as opposed to Xbox playerbase, where there are a lot of gamers using Gamepass.

Too much effort put into this and too many new looks in the trailer for it to only be an April fools gag.

@Matroska I understand, but what difference does it make? The data is still on the disc. Only thing that comes to mind is you're saving SSD space by having it play off the disc instead of installing it. Thing is, the data is still complete on the actual disc and you don't need to verify anything online, you can play it without internet.

Embracer has been one of the biggest blights on gaming as a whole, just a complete circus run by jesters, running studios into the ground. I know how hard it is to find a job these days and hope those affected get on their feet as soon as possible. Also, those clowns at Embracer should just sell off the IP because Deus Ex deserves at least one more entry.

It's still funny to me how many people here and in general don't understand that 70-75% of physical games on PS5 currently can play completely off the disc without mandatory updates (not all of them are perfect, but still playable). Stop peddling fake info, Google is free. On a Starfield side-note, why bother putting the data on disc if you need a mandatory update to access it, that's just plain stupidity.

I would love a new game focusing on Sam and Sully’s adventures after Uncharted 4’s ending, even tho I think they are done with Uncharted.

@Vaako007 That’s not the case as far as I know. Most of them still work at CDPR, some that left even returned to the studio a while back. The devs working on The Witcher 3, worked on Phantom Liberty as well, and they’re still at CDPR working on Witcher 4.

@Ainu20 I’m always open to give them the benefit of the doubt, especially since it’s Santa Monica and Cory, but you have to understand, after so many misses and downright stupid decisions in the last couple of years perhaps the negativity is because of the current state of affairs at Sony and studios HQ

Always a pleasure to see more content for one of the best games ever made.

In that case what was the reason for SSM to turn a planned trilogy into a duology and rushing to get Ragnarok out, which was obvious given the rushed third act? Do you mean to tell me Cory left the team to work on another GOW game and with norse characters again? If that’s the case this is beyond disappointing. Also, I like Faye as a character, but really? Id rather have 3 norse games with good pacing playing as Kratos than to play as Faye. You couldn’t think up of anything else, maybe even Tyr since he was traveling the different realms and mythologies?

@ErrantRob it looks to be the case. All of the most prominent leakers are saying the game stars Faye as protagonist. If that’s the case it’s beyond disappointing, considering the fact that Cory stepped down from Ragnarok which resulted in a rushed game.

@Gemini53 You built it at the right time. If you waited a bit more you would've been screwed with how the prices are currently.

If they can find a way to keep development cost down enough, this decision might just pay out; And we've already seen that it is possible with Ghost of Yotei recently having a budget of $60 million dollars.

@nomither6 "its still dated hardware compared to most PCs specs these days". I literally gave you an example where base PS5 is better than majority of PC rigs out there and the survey was done on the most reputable PC platform out there: Steam. 90% of the games that released this gen on console offer acceptable and even fantastic image quality and good performance as well. News flash, most gamers don't want to spend 2-3K on a rig so your argument makes literally no sense at all. Couple that in with usual PC issues like Windows 11 being hot garbage and hogging resources, games launching with major shader compilation issues and being generally less optimized most of the times with driver issues in the mix as well, the incentive to buy console isn't only for the on paper spec and performance, it's also everything that I mentioned and ease of use as well. Also, go and try to build a PC that will offer equal performance and not cost 700$ and come back to me.

@nomither6 Im sorry to say, but the base PS5 has better hardware than 60-70% of PC’s currently being used, based on Steam hardware survey. For the price point the PS5 is great. Its the first generation offering 60fps consistently. With PC parts on the rise, the PS5 Pro has its place on the market, especially with this new PSSR upscale technique.