Without ignoring the sins of Sony, Nintendo, Valve, etc., I will say that Xbox is the most absurd of them all. They would bottle their own farts and sell them if it would turn a profit. They think so highly of themselves.

Between Ocarina of Time and GTA VI both, the rest of this year is so set for me. What a great month to game!

Capcom is on it. They’re releasing excellent titles, they’re across all major platforms, and they just won’t stop. Even Switch 2 versions out the same day as PS5 and that other console’s versions. It’s all impressive.

I’m so very happy with PS5 and Switch 2. I don’t see myself needing to upgrade to the next generation for a long time as long as the software keeps coming.

Game first. Hell yeah.

Sony either gets its security 💩 in order or they can kiss their all-digital monopoly over PlayStation software distribution goodbye.

These fools really do forget that the Internet is forever. It is so profoundly disturbing when guys like this do that. It’s a public display of (sorry, mods) sexual depravity. They’re involving every reader in their fetish and sexuality and I don’t think they realize just how creepy, sad, impotent, and deranged it is.

Psyched for this game! She’s very pretty and badass imo.

While my modern experience with classic Sonic games is on the Switch because for me Sonic fits in the best on that platform, I can concur with the memories and nostalgia the collection has provided.

I get completely where Sammy is coming from with the strange mix of vibes that likely could use thematic fine tuning, though I feel that it may be a side effect of the game not taking itself too seriously and manifesting in a bit of awkwardness. With that, I bet I enjoy the Hell out of this game.

Also: “…says Sharma, acknowledging the potentially massive obstacles that stand in the way of mainstream gaming.”

Does she acknowledge that one of the factors causing massive obstacles for mainstream gaming is the parent company her division is owned by?

I know that Sony is currently auditioning as Evil Corporation™️ at the moment according to a lot of folks, but I do not care if Xbox was giving consoles away for free. I trust Microsoft as far as I can throw them.

Considering PlayStation and Switch/Switch2 have much larger audiences than Xbox, it is yet another example of Microsoft shooting itself in the foot. What a tragic fall. They must be working from that mid-late 90s Sega playbook.

All 20 of these people sure will upset Sony.

Imagine devoting your free time to something this shallow. Hell, there are legitimate problems just in the gaming industry alone worth more salt than this.

It’s always so easy for people to just dive head first into something without reading context. Seeing that Sony retweeted it so putting it on blast without common sense cognitive function is obnoxious and dumb.

I remember my character listening to Shinedown, mixing drugs and alcohol, then dying lol

Somewhere along the way, Sony has convinced itself that players are simply asking for them to reverse course on a phase out of physical media. While not a majority, a sizable number of their consumers are not asking, but telling Sony to reverse course. When consumers go from asking to not providing an option, they need to be careful with their next moves. They could Xbox One themselves if they don’t tread carefully.

Edit: This is coming from a 95% digital consumer myself.

Xbox is super unstable. If they think taking an axe to everything is going to fix their issues, I don’t know what could save them at this point.

@ThePlaystationStan “Disgraceful”. Yeah, okay. Anyway, they’re both doing things that are crappy to the industry. One evil does not equal the dismissal of another.

@ThePlaystationStan Criticism can be levied at Sony and Microsoft simultaneously for different reasons. Just because one turd sandwich has a cherry on top, that doesn’t mean it’s not poop.

Microsoft has failed these studios they’ve purchased over the years. Big promises, disappointing delivery, that’s even if they delivered at all. I can’t say I would understand why anyone would willingly work under the Xbox umbrella anymore. They have proven to be one of the riskiest employers in the business to work for.

Can we just put the lid on these AI companies already? They’re treating this like the NFT scam. Let’s disrupt the hell out of global technology markets for the worst reasons while banking on “gee, I hope this all works out and we make lots of money”.

Microsoft really has just 💩 the bed in too many aspects since 2013. What a tone deaf demand with inflation as high as it is and the barrier to entry being the most difficult it has been in 20 years. It sucks because I was rooting for Xbox this generation back in 2020 and they proved me wrong about everything. Between my PS5 and Switch 2, I’m set. But Xbox still gets to bring their pants-on-head-ridiculous moves and policies to these platforms because they bought up ABK, Bethesda, etc.

@11001100110zero Oh I completely hear you on the counter point and your consideration of those facts is totally valid. I also understand that it can all be pretty subjective.
It’s hard to actually call those numbers a failure unless you’re comparing them to the competition. They want to be bigger than PlayStation, why wouldn’t they? PS2, PS3, PS4, and PS5 have almost the same third party games minus exclusives that are mostly just timed exclusives these days. Their always online Xbox One fumble caused an entire console generation at a critical time for consumers to be investing purchases in a blossoming digital ecosystem to go PS4. PS5’s PS4 backwards compatibility is a huge deal. It basically has that same system people spent ridiculous amounts of money on built into it.

Xbox has done a respectable job from sales throughout the years but they helped set a standard that they let get away from them and is now divided up between their two biggest hardware/ecosystem competitors. Their competitors that they now find themselves publishing for. They’ve failed to meet their own metrics. They helped shape the industry as it is today and don’t appear to like the standards that they helped set. I adored my Xbox and Xbox 360. So many good memories. But…

• Flip flopping on exclusives
• Taking PlayStation consumers for granted by saying “Let us introduce you to this franchise (Gears)” then “Oh, the people who bought our system are angry that you don’t have to do the same, so no highly-anticipated prequel story for you.” Everything on the earth is stupid expensive right now and Microsoft just told PlayStation owners “Just kidding, go buy yet another expensive piece of hardware to enjoy this series that we catfished you into.”
• Cementing themselves as one of the biggest publishers then proceeding to 💩can so many developers and employees across the entire Xbox family of developers after putting them through a tremendously anxiety-inducing post-pandemic corporate buyout that involved the FTC’s scrutiny and scorn. Xbox has failed as a hardware manufacturer because they continue to fall short of having a concrete business model that fans can depend on.

The exclusivity ship already sailed for them. They’re a 3rd party publisher with a hardware line that has been struggling since 2013.

@skinnybass Between Nintendo and Sony, I game well. ❤️

It’s been amateur hour in the gaming division at 1 Microsoft Way ever since the Xbone reveal and they keep finding innovative ways to middle finger literally every “side” of the gaming community all these years later. I’ve lost all trust.

Microsoft continues to put this brand in the hands of fools.

@DarianStarfrog Respectfully, I don’t feel that this is totally fair. God of War games have mostly done a good job maintaining the core series identity. Not perfect, but I think it is too early to write this game off so arbitrarily.

Also, the whole “ew woke” thing, that’s so tired and devoid of any meaning or seriousness after two decades of “keep politics out of my games”. Media can speak for itself without the need of an empty political trigger phrase.

Don’t tell David Jaffe. He’ll generate an AI YouTube thumbnail for his next unhinged rage video and continue to display the emotional tact of a 7-year-old.

I think Sony can be strategic with their IP appearing elsewhere. MLB, makes sense though I know MLB is why that happened. Stuff like the Namco-developed Hot Shots Golf, the Horizon Lego game being on Switch, Helldivers being everywhere, I understand all of that.

Nintendo, even through their worst (Wii U) survived without sending their IP to the land of publishing on other platforms. Sony leaving PC behind makes sense. Plus, with all the nonsense Microsoft is pulling with their identity crisis that they’ve made the whole industry’s problem, I can’t say I blame Sony.

@Gbarsotini I picked it up on Switch 2. It’s extremely charming and fun.

“People aren’t angry enough at rising costs literally everywhere else in their lives, why don’t we exploit these troubled times for additional profit as well?”

This infuriating phenomenon is obviously not exclusive to video games. The powder keg of rage that these folks continue to pour gasoline over is flirting with absolute disaster.

This man’s perspectives are ridiculous. His little dash of ableism in there is the cherry on the 💩 cake.

Did he have to invoke Epstein in his takedown of a side-scroller? This guy may or may not have some valid criticism of the game but his delivery makes any value of his opinion void.

I haven’t played the game so I don’t know if it’s any good or not, but that is some unfortunate and nauseating behavior.

@Questionable_Duck My PC, PS5, and Switch 2 are the coolest Xboxes I’ve ever owned.

Boiler explosions are no joke.

Meta is just awful

Give me PS3 emulation that supports physical games. I will wear that PS5 out.

My take is that Nintendo and PlayStation leverage their hardware in innovative and efficient ways for their exclusive IPs. They’re the top dogs for a reason.

“14 years” Excuse me while I turn to dust.

@judgmentarrows Which would be dreadful for consumers. Sony and Nintendo are arguably the best at what they do. Competition between them and success between them drives innovation to create the PlayStation games you love so much.

Willing to give Nintendo and Sony the benefit of the doubt here. Nintendo is so risk-averse to non-gaming utilization of their properties that I’m sure they’ve extended a lot of trust to Sony for this one. Which… all of this is still weird to say 🤣

@AdamNovice That was me in the early 2000s. My parents weren’t keen on buying more than one or two game consoles and Sony scorned them with a bad warranty on a TV so the Sony brand was viewed as toxic by them. Nintendo/Sega then Nintendo/Xbox it was. I had to borrow my friend’s PS2 to play Final Fantasy games when I grew up playing them on Nintendo.

AI has become unavoidable. That being said, I absolutely do not trust any of these companies to utilize it ethically. Imagine the soulless filth EA will have ready with this technology.

@thechetearly Yes! Seriously! Maybe some QoL upgrades by then but I’m totally fine with Sony doing what Nintendo did with the Switch 2 Pro Controller: Essentially same device, same layout, same reliability, cleaner feel, better quality.

I don’t care what they say as long as their games come out where I play: PlayStation + Nintendo

I hope the game is excellent and launches on PC, Xbox Series S|X, PlayStation 5, and Switch 2 with cross platform multiplayer. I’m a huge Nintendo nerd and PlayStation fan but I love me some Halo!

I love these games and their stories so I really don’t care.