@SMJ That's because when people remember fond things they take a small clip and preserve that in their mind and then convince themselves an entire experience or point in time was amazing when in reality you've just blocked out all the bad that surrounded the brief amount of good.
I guess these are just articles for the chuds at this point because it doesn't take much to find that while hardware sales might be down, PS revenue hit a record high this year. So what does it matter if Sony sells less PS units if they still rake in cash doing so? I feel like people think Sony are going to look at declining hardware sales, and then just ignore increasing overall profitability, and then go hey our bad, let's drop the price again and also add back the disc drive, lol. You all still aren't winning this war.
@hel105 nope. They’re all the same. Great art. Cool mechanics. Boobs. But extremely shallow and you eventually hit a F2P wall of grind for hundreds of hours or pay money.
Given the style of game this is, it’s not going to be made or broken by a VA. You could have put all the best VA’s in Lost Soul Aside and that game would still have been ass.
@Oram77 what mob are you referring to? The mob of Twitter and Reddit losers who rarely ever buy anything and if they do wait for the deepest sale? They’ve never supported anything anyways.
Woah woah woah. You mean the internet isn't a place where we wait for all the facts before we hurl accusations? No, I don't want to be a part of that internet. Sounds lame.
Ah, the 'player numbers' when a game doesn't actually do well instead of units sold, or even active player base numbers, or the amount of people who spent more than an hour with it.
@PercyChuggs that doesn’t account for inflation. In 2018 a ticket price was on average $9. Now it’s $11. So they are trending upwards with raw dollars, but doing so selling far fewer tickets. So that is why you can still see emptier theaters. If you actually break it down, the movie theater industry is doing better than the last few years, but it’s hardly a true return to form, at least for now.
This feels like another Sony title I can wait till a first sale for. I’m a big Wolverine fan but this game honestly doesn't look that inspired. I honestly don’t see anything from Sony in the near future that looks like day 1 anymore.
@ShadowRJ Sony takes 30% of all sales from the digital store front (includes MTXs even). They would never lock that behind a paywall because they would lose millions of players who spend money on free to play games, and tons of impulse buying, all from non-subs. It sounds nice for a doom and gloom post, but it's wildly unrealistic it would ever actually happen. The amount of money non-subs are probably already spending on the store front outweigh a monthly sub.
@NimrodNation20 no one tell him most of the games he buys come from corporate companies too, lol. He probably doesn't understand how many corporations he supports himself on a daily basis. But I am sure he supports the good corporations and you support all the bad ones...
This is ignoring the fact that retailer sites are notorious for not having very good anti-bot protection and I imagine a ton of these were bought up by resellers and those sites will be flooded with copies selling for twice as much when this launches. While it's true there is still a very small market for physical disc owners, this reeks of scalpers more than actual players.
@Rich33 threats about withholding purchases that only have physical are weaker given over 80% of purchases are already digital. If you think in 2028 that 20% of holdouts are just going to quit gaming or go fully PC, you're on one. If anyone here was going to go full PC, they would have already done it, because there is honestly no reason to console game if you're comfortable with a PC. In short, the holding out is a veiled threat that no one will stick with.
@TheDarts Right. All it shows is an ongoing interest in trophy hunting given the only reason it spiked was due to the platinum becoming unattainable soon. I don't think it means people wouldn't be interested in a new inFamous game. But this specific case does not support what the article is trying to say with that statement.
How are there so many 8/10 games in the supposed darkest timeline of gaming? The worst part about this timeline is just the lack of actual time there is to play everything...
Fingers crossed this is more like Stellar Blade or DMC and less like Lost Soul Aside. I won't get my hopes up though. These action titles are so hit or miss.
You can't say you produce "acclaimed original IP" as your studio is being kicked out the door because you can't sell any copies. Sure, if you think journalists get to determine what games get to be considered "acclaimed", but in the real world where it actually matters, you have to earn that by more than just minor internet praise. It just sounds goofy to say we are an acclaimed studio but we also might not be able to even keep the lights on. They might very well be better suited to just be a support studio too.
If Bud Light could come back, this is childs play for Sony. What we know is the average person forgets things quickly, and no one on Twitter buys anything.
Unfortunatley suing someone in 2026 doesn't mean as much as people think it does. The majority of these kinds of lawsuits never work out the way people who are sue happy think they will. I am going to sue you is about as common as saying hello at this point.
@Balaam_ I am going to guess you can't even fully upgrade your gear and abilities without the second play through too. It seems to be common with these more generic action type games because they are rarely ever worth a second play through. I thought Black Myth was a great game for one play through but having to go through it again to finish the platinum was tedious.
The only reason this won’t hurt PS5 is Xbox still has no first party exclusives worth having. How ironic the system that produces games no one wants is putting them on discs a handful of physical owners want.
@nessisonett when literally everything is somewhat protested now days you’re bound to luck into one of them working. 1 down and only 4,000 more to try and win.
It’s almost like internet twitter chuds who never spend any money and actual consumers who just buy whatever looks cool are two different groups of people with one group being significantly larger than the other.
@Old-Red Yeah, but the figure still shows 80% of people will buy digital media, lol. It doesn't matter if people WOULD have bought it had they both been released at the same time. If they can see +80% in digital sales, that's all that's needed to show they don't have to release a physical disc and still make sales. Understanding that doesn't make you a shill. It just means you understand what's actually happening.
Transparency International ranks Brazil 107th out of 180 countries in its Corruption Perceptions Index. So, yeah, this is not our savor, lol. This is why you don't fall for bureaucracy to fix problems. Even in the states, thinking that politicians honestly care about this issue and don't have many ulterior motives is downright foolish.
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Re: Here's How Much Better Metal Gear Solid 4 Looks on PS5
@SMJ That's because when people remember fond things they take a small clip and preserve that in their mind and then convince themselves an entire experience or point in time was amazing when in reality you've just blocked out all the bad that surrounded the brief amount of good.
Re: Xbox Paid More Than It Cost to Make STALKER 2 to Keep It Off PS5 for a Year
If anyone is wondering why Sony can make the bone headed moves they do, it's because MS is making 10x as many as Sony even on a good day.
Re: US PS5 Sales Down Almost 20% Year-Over-Year, Rounds Out Tough Month for Industry
I guess these are just articles for the chuds at this point because it doesn't take much to find that while hardware sales might be down, PS revenue hit a record high this year. So what does it matter if Sony sells less PS units if they still rake in cash doing so? I feel like people think Sony are going to look at declining hardware sales, and then just ignore increasing overall profitability, and then go hey our bad, let's drop the price again and also add back the disc drive, lol. You all still aren't winning this war.
Re: 'It Isn't Something Carved in Stone': Xbox Still Unclear on Future PS5 Ports
@GamingGod how are you playing God of War Laufey already?
Re: Two of PS5's Biggest Games Will Crossover This Winter
@hel105 nope. They’re all the same. Great art. Cool mechanics. Boobs. But extremely shallow and you eventually hit a F2P wall of grind for hundreds of hours or pay money.
Re: 'I Need to Take Time to Reset': Award-Winning Actress Leaves One of PS5's Most Promising Games
Given the style of game this is, it’s not going to be made or broken by a VA. You could have put all the best VA’s in Lost Soul Aside and that game would still have been ass.
Re: PS5's Regional Pricing Switch Has Players Concerned Yet Again, Here's What's Happening
@get2sammyb the writers here know what they’re doing, lol.
Re: Indie Devs Unfairly Attacked Over Sony Decision to Stop Making Discs
@Oram77 what mob are you referring to? The mob of Twitter and Reddit losers who rarely ever buy anything and if they do wait for the deepest sale? They’ve never supported anything anyways.
Re: Indie Devs Unfairly Attacked Over Sony Decision to Stop Making Discs
Luckily no one on Twitter buys anything anyways.
Re: Big Shake-Up on Sony's Struggling Live Service as Marathon's Game Director Departs
@Americansamurai1 wouldn’t be surprised if the game was shut down by the end of this sentence.
Re: Fallout 5 in Pre-Production, as Bethesda Playing The Elder Scrolls 6 Everyday
@twitchtvpat I bet we get Pragmata 2 and 3 before this...
Re: Fallout 5 in Pre-Production, as Bethesda Playing The Elder Scrolls 6 Everyday
This is akin to every other operational company coming out and announcing their employees are in fact working on projects today...
Re: 'It's Totally, Totally Irrelevant': GameStop Boss Unfazed by Sony's Physical Discs Decision
@Rezium I was about to say you know we are fishing at the bottom of the barrel when we are concerned with what Gamestop thinks about anything.
Re: DOOM Maker Continues to Repel Rumours It's Been Gutted by Xbox
@Dart-TheRedDragoon and you wonder why conspiracy content is the highest paid thing in social media...
Re: DOOM Maker Continues to Repel Rumours It's Been Gutted by Xbox
Woah woah woah. You mean the internet isn't a place where we wait for all the facts before we hurl accusations? No, I don't want to be a part of that internet. Sounds lame.
Re: Fallout 3, New Vegas PS5 Remasters Confirmed by Bethesda
@Balaam_ with what we know about modern day Bethesda it is definitely the latter.
Re: Fallout 3, New Vegas PS5 Remasters Confirmed by Bethesda
Nope. Remaster is literal wasted money to me at this point. If it's not a full remake, then it's a hard pass at this point.
Re: With Over 17 Million Starfield Players, Bethesda Commits to Sci-Fi RPG's Future
@DennisReynolds I don't think this game gets that much hate unless you consider it hate to think it's one of the most average games ever made.
Re: With Over 17 Million Starfield Players, Bethesda Commits to Sci-Fi RPG's Future
Ah, the 'player numbers' when a game doesn't actually do well instead of units sold, or even active player base numbers, or the amount of people who spent more than an hour with it.
Re: God of War Show's Kratos to Be Recast After Ryan Hurst Suffers Injury During Filming
With The Odyssey wrapped they could see if Elliot Page could fill in for this role now?
Re: This Wolverine PS5 Trailer Is Going to Sell a Lot of Copies This Holiday
@PercyChuggs that doesn’t account for inflation. In 2018 a ticket price was on average $9. Now it’s $11. So they are trending upwards with raw dollars, but doing so selling far fewer tickets. So that is why you can still see emptier theaters. If you actually break it down, the movie theater industry is doing better than the last few years, but it’s hardly a true return to form, at least for now.
Re: This Wolverine PS5 Trailer Is Going to Sell a Lot of Copies This Holiday
This feels like another Sony title I can wait till a first sale for. I’m a big Wolverine fan but this game honestly doesn't look that inspired. I honestly don’t see anything from Sony in the near future that looks like day 1 anymore.
Re: Sony Also Taking Pelters for Locking Crunchyroll's Store Behind a Subscription
@ShadowRJ Sony takes 30% of all sales from the digital store front (includes MTXs even). They would never lock that behind a paywall because they would lose millions of players who spend money on free to play games, and tons of impulse buying, all from non-subs. It sounds nice for a doom and gloom post, but it's wildly unrealistic it would ever actually happen. The amount of money non-subs are probably already spending on the store front outweigh a monthly sub.
Re: Look Away Now, Sony: Demand for Mortal Shell 2 in Physical Form Sees PS5 Boxed Copies Sell Out
@NimrodNation20 no one tell him most of the games he buys come from corporate companies too, lol. He probably doesn't understand how many corporations he supports himself on a daily basis. But I am sure he supports the good corporations and you support all the bad ones...
Re: Look Away Now, Sony: Demand for Mortal Shell 2 in Physical Form Sees PS5 Boxed Copies Sell Out
This is ignoring the fact that retailer sites are notorious for not having very good anti-bot protection and I imagine a ton of these were bought up by resellers and those sites will be flooded with copies selling for twice as much when this launches. While it's true there is still a very small market for physical disc owners, this reeks of scalpers more than actual players.
Re: God of War Laufey's Deborah Ann Woll Feels 'Totally Unbothered' By Online Haters
Don’t they all start out saying this until the numbers come in?
Re: Halo's Physical PS5 Disc Won't Play without a Download
@Rich33 threats about withholding purchases that only have physical are weaker given over 80% of purchases are already digital. If you think in 2028 that 20% of holdouts are just going to quit gaming or go fully PC, you're on one. If anyone here was going to go full PC, they would have already done it, because there is honestly no reason to console game if you're comfortable with a PC. In short, the holding out is a veiled threat that no one will stick with.
Re: PS3's inFAMOUS 2 Sees an Explosion of New Players with Platinum About to Become Unobtainable
@TheDarts Right. All it shows is an ongoing interest in trophy hunting given the only reason it spiked was due to the platinum becoming unattainable soon. I don't think it means people wouldn't be interested in a new inFamous game. But this specific case does not support what the article is trying to say with that statement.
Re: Denshattack (PS5) - This Ridiculous Train Game Is Off the Rails in the Best Ways
How are there so many 8/10 games in the supposed darkest timeline of gaming? The worst part about this timeline is just the lack of actual time there is to play everything...
Re: Ratchet & Clank Mobile Game Is Gearing Up for Global Launch, Pre-Registration Open
If only that third word in the headline didn't exist...
Re: New Tides of Annihilation Gameplay at Gamescom, PS5 Action Title to Go on Tour
Fingers crossed this is more like Stellar Blade or DMC and less like Lost Soul Aside. I won't get my hopes up though. These action titles are so hit or miss.
Re: 'We're Excited to Support the Dev of Memorable Experiences': Ex-Xbox Dev Looking for Work
You can't say you produce "acclaimed original IP" as your studio is being kicked out the door because you can't sell any copies. Sure, if you think journalists get to determine what games get to be considered "acclaimed", but in the real world where it actually matters, you have to earn that by more than just minor internet praise. It just sounds goofy to say we are an acclaimed studio but we also might not be able to even keep the lights on. They might very well be better suited to just be a support studio too.
Re: Mouse: P.I. For Hire Surpasses One Million Copies Sold as It Launches Physical Edition on PS5
@PercyChuggs haha, so buy the digital version to play if the physical holds value. For the irony alone that would be epic.
Re: Sony's Social Media Still Toxic Two Weeks After PS5 Discs Debacle
If Bud Light could come back, this is childs play for Sony. What we know is the average person forgets things quickly, and no one on Twitter buys anything.
Re: Staff Protest as MindsEye Studio Hosts 'Extravagant' Fan Playtest Following Mass Layoffs
This feels like something you’d see in a sketch comedy show, lol. I don't know which group of people seem more sad in this?
Re: Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls Open Beta: Start Times, How to Play, and What's Included
It feels like they put a bunch of words in a hat and just picked the first 4 that came out for the name. I fear this game won't last long.
Re: Here Come the Lawsuits! Sony's Physical Disc Debacle Likely to Keep Its Lawyers Busy
Unfortunatley suing someone in 2026 doesn't mean as much as people think it does. The majority of these kinds of lawsuits never work out the way people who are sue happy think they will. I am going to sue you is about as common as saying hello at this point.
Re: You'll Need to Play Pokémon Dev's Beast of Reincarnation Twice for All the PS5 Trophies
@Balaam_ I am going to guess you can't even fully upgrade your gear and abilities without the second play through too. It seems to be common with these more generic action type games because they are rarely ever worth a second play through. I thought Black Myth was a great game for one play through but having to go through it again to finish the platinum was tedious.
Re: PS5's Physical Disc Debacle Will Attract More Anger if This Xbox Rumour Is True
The only reason this won’t hurt PS5 is Xbox still has no first party exclusives worth having. How ironic the system that produces games no one wants is putting them on discs a handful of physical owners want.
Re: College Football 27 to Remove Single Player Microtransactions After Fans Threatened Boycott
@nessisonett when literally everything is somewhat protested now days you’re bound to luck into one of them working. 1 down and only 4,000 more to try and win.
Re: 'Bare Bones' PS5 Black Ops Ports Reportedly Have More Players Than Latest Game, Already Best Sellers on PS Store
It’s almost like internet twitter chuds who never spend any money and actual consumers who just buy whatever looks cool are two different groups of people with one group being significantly larger than the other.
Re: AC Black Flag: Resynced Records Two Million Sales in Opening Day Booty
Weird they are talking sales and not player numbers now, lol.
Re: Avowed 2 May Still Happen, Obsidian Skeleton Crew Continues Work
Translation, they are probably good enough developers to not want to let go of but don’t have anything for them to actually work on yet…
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 641
Black Flag. It feels good to relive what Ubisoft used to be like.
Re: 'Staff Are Being Asked to Do More with Less': Brutal Xbox Layoffs Leave Those Spared in Limbo
When you see videos like this, it is hard to imagine how tough that actually is, lol: https://youtube.com/shorts/e9tdlNFABJQ?is=yv3eAkoSHYft7rWF
Re: 'Sony Knows a $1,000 PS6 Won't Sell as Much': Analyst on Manufacturer's Plan to Maximise Revenue
@Old-Red Yeah, but the figure still shows 80% of people will buy digital media, lol. It doesn't matter if people WOULD have bought it had they both been released at the same time. If they can see +80% in digital sales, that's all that's needed to show they don't have to release a physical disc and still make sales. Understanding that doesn't make you a shill. It just means you understand what's actually happening.
Re: This Developer Wants You to Pay Less for PS5 Survival Horror
Let me translate for you all. It means it's not actually worth $60+.
Re: Brazil Is Taking On Digital Games Ownership and Preservation After Sony Says No More Discs
Transparency International ranks Brazil 107th out of 180 countries in its Corruption Perceptions Index. So, yeah, this is not our savor, lol. This is why you don't fall for bureaucracy to fix problems. Even in the states, thinking that politicians honestly care about this issue and don't have many ulterior motives is downright foolish.
Re: PS Plus Members Have Early Access to Select PS5, PS4 Games in PS Store's Summer Sale
Hell yeah. Early access to the same games that go on sale every other month. Winning.
Re: PlayStation to Show More Upcoming PS5 Games at Tokyo Game Show 2026
@NoPhysicalNoBuy123 if anyone wouldn’t give a crap about physical media for consoles i5 would be Japan. Very small console market.