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Definitely agree competition is pushing all market players to innovate. It is unfortunate Microsoft has decisively lost in traditional console space and is looking to exit. I believe we will all only lose due to that. However, it does need to be a competition, one can not support alternative just for the sake of it.

Additionally, Switch is not a direct competitor, and that will be reflected on prices and future Sony hardware

Ohhhh.. it takes an unplayable game for Sony to issues refund. How did they mess up this bad?
Interestingly, devs always seem to be sorry after the fact, once the sales don't pickup..

I would love this feature!! Ideally, same controller would work on PS5, PC, and Android without having to repair all the time.
DualSense is my preferred controller, and I still use some others simply because I'm too lazy to re-pair all the time and these ones were either around from old consoles or are 3rd party cheapos.

It seems like they felt they had to show this off in light of Marvel Tokon, but man it does not compare well.

Yeah, first game was dreadful. I'm ok skipping sequel..

Damn, this was a tough one to choose. There is like 1 game in that list I'm not interested in. Seems public agrees as votes are all over the place. Amusing to see, generally positively accepted show without clear favorites..

Absolute banger for me. It was one of those presentations that reminded me why I love gaming (and it's not live service or quadruple A corporate "products").

Recently I got into The sinking city Remastered. Sherlock Holmes: Chapter One was quite good, but I felt like earlier games were not that great..
Anyway, I decided to buy Sherlock Holmes: The Darkest Mysteries Bundle (Game) for €7,19. Is either of the games in the bundle any good?

@Nalim you sir are correct. For some reason I was under the impression only the rear HDMI port was 2.1 : facepalm:

@diegooliveirafhc indeed, when you actually succeed you don't hide behind number of people who have interacted with our games title screen.

@OldGamer999 well you say that...
I don't own a Sony TV and wouldn't be able to comment on them, but I do run LG C1 (which is not spring chicken anymore) and it only has a single HDMI 2.1 port and a different HDMI for eARC. Which luckily for me is enough, but not ideal.

Not a month for me, but I believe most people will love addition of new NBA. In a similar sports spirit, I kind of hoped they would add F1 24 with 25 just coming out..

Only thing these upgrade discounts have caused in my behavior is that I have allowed my PS Plus sub to expire twice now. And I'll be doing it again. So GG Sony.

Second series was just plain bad, no way around that. And I understand there are many challenges adapting a story like TLOU2 (which by the way is amazing game, better of the 2), but man, they basically butchered central characters journey and development - along with many support characters ofc.
To conclude, I don't expect it to recover

Few of their latest WRC games were perfectly fine, so I'm glad licence is back with Kylotonn. I even liked Generations more then EA WRC, so there's that.

I'll be surprised if anybody except reviewers actually buys this.

As predictable as PS5 release was, I'd also predict this to be first Xbox studios PS release dud.
Sequel was a way worse "game" compared to the original, literally a tech demo that can be "played" with same level of interactivity through YouTube in 4K.

Sea of Stars is on sale. It used to be part of PS Plus Extra lineup, and it received a free DLC with about 10 hours of extra story content (and other fixes), so I believe it's perfect time to jump in or return (at least I'll be showing my support and buying the game).

No idea why people are laser focusing on Doom performance last couple of days.
I loved Eternal and I'll probably like this. Unfortunately, based on reviews and reviews alone, gameplay might speak to me a little bit less and I'll be picking it up later down the line when on sale.
If I still had GP sub, I'd prioritize Expedition 33 over it, so yeah, it might just be slightly worse accepted compared to last one and that's fine. It's a different type of game, it was always going to be an expectation reset.

Tried the demo.. Perfect example of why MercurySteam needs external IP. Just look at how well they did with Metroid Dread. This latest game obviously shines decent mechanic through, but setting and finishing touches are just disappointing.

Sure, awesome. I shall be switching my focus to Switch 2 I guess.
Maybe try acknowledging that your core audience does not want to be engaged with a single game for a long period of time, and instead wants to purchase one off licences, stay engage for month/s, and move on. Then adapt budgets according to that goal.
Instead of trying to forcefully re-educate your audience and move them into an unwanted model (and fail miserably if latest news are to be trusted).
This doesn't seem to be that hard, just build stuff people tell you they need and you'll be fine.

Not really happy about anybody losing their job, but Jade Raymond hasn't delivered anything in 8 years. She is slowly approaching Peter Molyneux territory of unreliability.

Is this really surprising though? The game was a known and acknowledged commercial flop. As a customer who bought it I don't like what happened, but surely you can't expect developer to continue pumping out content for a failed game beyond 2 years..

Very cool. I don't own a Steam Deck but it's always a good sign performance-wise when a game can target such a low spec profile. Bodes well for future tech reviews and word of mouth in general.

MS working really hard to lose any good will they might have earned last couple of months.
As a friend of mine used to say "fear of success is a genuine thing".

One of the worst decisions ever made by Ubisoft to disband that team, and that is telling a lot.
Would love to get more, but I'm scared Ubisoft will turn it into AC as they seem to do with every IP they invest in.

As I've said after Nintendo announcement, they were just first to make it public (and ate the proverbial negative PR bullet). Decisions like these were contemplated and decided much earlier than Switch 2 reveal, MS just held of from going public so Nintendo can be sacrificial lamb.

Can't wait to hear from Randy how surprised they are B4 failed commercially..

Sony is working really hard on making PS Plus Extra/Premium a deal I can refuse.

Isn't Disco Elysium getting removed too?

Only thing that could turn me away is going to be game pricing. Console as such is way beyond what I and most expected, and people who are trying to say otherwise are just delulu..

Who knew there would be a limit to how many times you can sell same s*it with a fresh coat of paint.
Color me surprised!

It's sad to see he felt like he had to comment on it. Not every game needs to be a modern live service borefest. They made an awesome game, and budget and scope defined are just proof that bubbled up budgets and cut-throat practices AAAA teams practice are wrong and bound to fail.

@Fiendish-Beaver well, what you propose is just one possible reality
Maybe MS doesn't buy or make games in Ubis less popular IPs, like the ones you mentioned. Maybe they take PoP and make a live service game out of it. Them making another good metroidvania from the IP is realistically not a most probable outcome (mentioning that as I rather liked how PoP got reinvented).
So, if the question then becomes would I rather have old IP stay dormant and untarnished while making space for new IP, vs. have a giant exploit it for easy cash grab, I'd choose option one.

@Fiendish-Beaver I wouldn't necessarily agree, as I'm not worried about MS not putting games on PS (if there are enough interesting exclusives I'll just buy the platform, which I tried with XSS but opted out), I'm worried about market getting monopolized by extremely large corporations with different priorities vs. fun gaming.
I'd say the same thing (and I did when they acquired Bungie) for Sony.
I would rather have AAA market with ultra safe, boring releases crash; and for second coming of indie gaming to happen, than to have one of these giants take whole space for itself.

Microsoft can you please try not to buy gaming, others want to have fun too. Thank you.

Few games I wanted to try, UFC 5 I'll probably get into. For anybody who hasn't already played/beat it, PoP is an awesome game, very underappreciated.

I got refunded a few times, for either buying the wrong version or actually getting a DLC from incorrect region. Assuming you get to a human being, didn't run the game/DLC, they are pretty understandable.
However, if you ran the product, they used to have zero tolerance policy in place (well, maybe only Nintendo really has zero tolerance policy).

I don't want to sound ignorant, but if you are running a business, now might be the time to re-evaluate how much of it you want to have located in the US.
This sucks for regular working folk, but at the same time if you decide to push you need to expect to be shoved.

Are they purposely sending these to die? It's 4 years of Xbox exclusives (it was very dry 4 years) they are releasing in the matter of months.
People have limited budgets and overall sales will suffer..

I really hoped they would do a Metroid Dread sequel, that game was best 2D Metroid in a looooong time (as since Super Metroid).
But I'm willing and looking forward to checking out what they can offer in GoW alternatives world. Looks right up my alley!

EDIT: While it undeniably takes inspiration from GoW, I also felt some Immortals: Fenyx Rising, and BotW vibes. Am I crazy?

Ok, best month in a while. DA has tanked and there are obvious "political" reasons, but there is still a decent game in there. Other two are genuine fun games.

@Toot1st at least as of now, and most likely while the generative AI models we currently use are not replaced with different approach, this is not true. But it is being marketed and sold (very well) as if it was.

@Balie3000 nope, almost zero regulation. We are still in the "steal now, be sorry later" phase most new technologies go through before they either cause a catastrophe or market stabilizes (typically the former).

What this technology is gonna do in relatively immediate future (and it has been worded carefully to be able to be used for this without lying to the "fans"), is fire a whole bunch of artists and turn a senior artist into a "senior AI prompter". Instead of manually creating beautiful levels and biomes, AI will be prompted to generate decent/mediocre ones for a fraction of the cost.
Looking at the GP model and offerings over last 4-5 years (they did have good last few months though) that outcome is very much on brand. I'll be skipping, thank you very much. I have limited gaming time and I'll be using only for the best experiences.

One has to love how "there was nothing shown" during the SoP and excitement poll having like almost 30 entries..
Anyway:

• Tides of Annihilation
• Split Fiction
• Saros
  But there is at least 3-4 more that I weighted upon before settling on these 3.

It is like this game exists in an alternate universe, where there is almost no Sony corporate greed, and games are built for fans.
Not being in SoP proves it!

Definitely would have upgraded for $10, but only Nintendo can make me pay full price for the same game multiple times.

If the price is exactly the same every 2 weeks, is it even a sale?

Terrible list for me. It's 2025. and the only game appealing from that list is Pac-Man. High on life is just abysmal, less funny than Borderlands movie.