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@Fishmasterflex96 This game will never win GotY. These kinds of games are not built to do so.

I would have hoped the city sections would be way bigger...

It doesn't seem like anything to me. I would rather them work on the PS storefront always loading, lol.

The company I almost founded was going to do the exact same game too.

@somnambulance Most of Ubi's "other" IPs died with the merger, lol.

I am curious what the price will be. If it's more than $50 it defiantly wont be a day 1 play. I have yet to see Ubisoft release anything worth more than $50 in the past 6 years.

@playstation1995 a 7 is basically the industry standard for average. It’s basically a 5, but since the industry standardized 7 as average, whenever you see a 7, it’s really a 5. And a 5 or maybe a 6 is right on for this game.

I’ll wait for a half off sale. Played the base game on the Box when it first came out. Wasn’t a terrible game by any means. But there’s way too many better games out there ahead of this for now.

@Northern_munkey I didn’t even realize that wasn’t Aloy until you pointed it out. I still don’t see much of a difference.

@SodaPop6548 influencers do actually sell products though. Fat ugly people don’t. When fat ugly people start moving product, you’ll see them more.

Wow. You mean you still have to look good in order to be in video games or on TV in 2026? Shocker. No one wants to watch ugly people. I can tell you as an ugly person I don’t even want to watch ugly people.

@StrifeInMidgar I wouldn’t. Starfield isn’t the at deep.

@themaladroit oh, the only people making the cringe comments and want the stuff taken out are lonely dudes, lol.

@Divergent95 yeah but the dev group is trying to sell the game to more than just die hard fans too…

@Oram77 The combat is extremely fluid and satisfying too. There are plenty of games that show you have to have more than just sex appeal to sell it.

@Haruki_NLI If this were true then The First Descendant wouldn't be a waste land.

@Ultrasmiles Honestly, aside from what we all know is part of the obvious, if Alloy just didn't have all that angry white woman energy, I think she would be more liked without an over sexualized appearance.

@MrSensical They are another studio in a long list of studios who thought "magic" could sustain them forever. They took for granted that actual people with actual skill and talent were needed to create that "magic". And now the kinds of hiring practices out there, studios wanting to prioritize profits over vision, and indie and AA studios raking in better talent to compete with AAA games, they are all going to be forced to realize their studios never had any "magic". Bungie is in the throws of this. Ubi has fallen. BioWare. All the studios that used the term "studio name + magic" have not done well post the initial covid surge. The best games coming out are not bloated, 500+ person teams anymore.

@Balaam_ I don't think anyone gave them a free pass on this. It didn't move any consoles, you never hear anyone talk about the "game of a geration" in a positive light, and the fact that almost all Xbox games are coming to PlayStation basically show Xbox isn't viable anymore. If MS didn't have more money than god, I don't think Xbox would even exist.

@Shaw_Brothers This is the ironic part because all the studios that get shut down, or games that get shut down, they all said that at one point too. So it doesn't really mean much outside of we intend to support it a long time, but we really have no say in the matter.

And we know that publishers, game directors, studios... they are always trustworthy when they come out and say they will support something for a long time, lol.

I’m going to play that game where you open the PS catalog, spend 30 minutes sifting through games, not decide on anything, and then go watch TV.

@Hypoman it will. They just lump it in with Pro. The Series X has 60 FPS so the base PS5 will support it too.

I haven’t played this since it first came out on Xbox so I am looking forward to seeing if it’s any better now. Glad it’s only $50.

In order for me to get into a Sony handheld, it would need to produce dedicated games. I would even pay $500-$600 for something like that. But without a true dedication to the handheld, I am not buying a smaller screen to play games created for the big screen. This thing still seems mostly poised for gamer parents who want a way to game but their terrible children are taking up the TV.

@wildcat_kickz I think it is the same for CoD. It's the same game with a new number. But it's still the same game. That's all I am saying for Destiny. I get the onboarding issues. I think Destiny 3 could have easily been WitchQueen – Final Shape and we could be on Destiny 4. But to me these companies are still building forever games because there isn't much changing from release to release other than artwork. I don't really know of a company that built a live service game, saw a few years of real success, ended it, and the built something else. All live service games (or at least the vast majority) either reproduce basically the same game with a new number, or die. Bungie is the prime example. The PvE live service king tried making a new game, Marathon. And while it is a hardcore PvP game that was bound to appeal to a niche player base, it is new and different, but it's very unlikely that game lasts long. Or makes its money back. Even Division 3 is just a continuation of Division 1 and 2. It's going to be the same game with new artwork. But a fresh start like you say — which I agree is helpful with onboarding new players. But I think all of these are still just forever games.

@Boxmonkey The games doing that were well established long before today. Look at Bungie. Destiny enjoyed being the live service king back when the live service model was gaining the most momentum and so it carried that game — and to it's inevitable demise today. And now they launch Marathon and no one is around. I don't think there is a taste for live service games anymore. Not the taste there was even 5 years ago. I think people are certainly okay with still buying and playing live service games. But they are more likely to tap out at the 40-50 hour mark, if lucky, and really never dive back in, and daily like used to be the norm. I don't think live service games coming out now or even a few years previous are going to hit the 5-10 year mark of daily log in players who invest hundreds and thousands of hours. Most people just don't want to game like that anymore. I think the live service model can still exist but it needs to be scaled back in scope and cost so that the games don't need hardcore grinders to make it "successful".

@wildcat_kickz Bro, you can't say GaaS don't need to last forever and then give the example of Destiny 1/2 and then potentially 3. That is all the same game just broken up. That is basically trying to keep Destiny alive forever, lol.

@Questionable_Duck No one likes to admit it but the best gooner games are actually good games first.

There is no gameplay loop hook. Like, I don't really care about the skins they chose to make to hook some people. I played when they had the big event that made upgrading everything easy for the Platinum. And within that 30 hours of play it was just pretty boring and bland. I found myself never having any real idea of what progression even was. I finished with maxing out a couple characters and I got to a place where I just didn't know what the point of doing anything more was. So I uninstalled and don't know of a reason I would ever play it again.

@Vladspartan Devs forcing people to buy Pro's? What are you even on? No one is upgrading to a Pro for this single game, lol. This is not GT6. It's not a console mover.

@Atreus97 I don't think you are getting everyone to upgrade because 1 game theoretically can't handle it, lol. If every single game coming out now does this, then sure. But as far as I can tell, every other triple A game that's come out this year have worked just fine.

@KundaliniRising333 This is just fodder for internet nerds. The average person playing video games doesn't care about frame rates and graphical fidelity the same way niche purists do. I imagine there are some drops noticeable enough to catch the everyday gamer, but it's not some epidemic the way people here are claiming it to be. Gaming news outlets have become the worst.

@MrPeanutbutterz Or just play this on a base PS5 because the average person doesn't sit with a program open on their desktop to watch frame rates...

This all reads like marketing to sell PS5 Pro's, lol. I am not convinced the average person would be able to tell the performance levels these articles are talking about. These must be the same people who watch Steam chart numbers instead of playing video games too...

@solocapers I could see it being no different than when you sign up for internet they give you an option to just rent a modem from the service provider. Could be similar with Sony. You sign up for one big deal, get the console included in the monthly price along with PS+ and whatever else would come in a monthly package deal. You wouldn’t own the console in this scenario. If you quit the service you’d have to give it back similar to an internet company with a modem. People would still have the option to just buy a PS, similar to how you can buy your own modem or outright buy your phone. But this wouldn’t be aimed at them. It’s aimed at people who can’t afford high tech upfront which is the majority of people with Apple iPhones and everything else most just put on a credit card anyways.

He’ll be on his death bed from old age talking about how he predicted the console would die for 60 years, lol.

@Enuo I think you need a break from the internet. Get some sun, fam.

@VenomUK yeah I don’t think hardly anyone is lined up to play either of these on PS.

@Vaako007 we all know why this game can’t really be judged fairly…

@SBBuds there’s a lot of unemployed internet dwellers who don’t understand EVERY company is using AI now. Even their favorite companies. They just don’t see it yet. Anyone ready to boycott AI better make watching paint dry their new hobby because there isn’t anything else you can do that isn’t touched by AI in some form at this point.

@Thrillho there is no shortage of people fired from any industry that you couldn’t find to say something bad about wherever they were fired from. I’ve never met a person who was fired and said “yeah they made the right choice” like we all haven’t been at companies were you went “I could see why they would for that person,” lol.

I bet a disgruntled employee is an excellent source for this too.

@Oram77 how? MS has been open about bringing their games to PlayStation so it’s reasonable to want or ask if this is coming. The studio that made Suros never said they were making it for PC.

Staggering the release makes no sense for Xbox. No one is buying Xbox’s for these games. Xbox lost a long time ago. I know they are trying to save some face but Forza, this, and whatever else comes should all be day 1.

It seems like Intergalactic is poised to fail so maybe Cuckman will move on from the studio and they can get someone new to finish the third part. Sony studios all need big shakeups. Sony just really hasn’t done sequels well.

Sad to see layoffs but mobile games ain’t it. Can’t image playing any of the titles listed here and the mobile crowd doesn’t have much of a connection with the Sony brands. No Horizon fan wants a mobile version and no mobile fan cares if it’s a Horizon game. Doesn’t feel like it pleases anyone.

@Kraven That game will be shut down by the end of the year so you know at least know that's the latest you'll start this.

@Andy22385 I don't think they dwell on pointless comments like "I will wait for sale" etc. I am pretty sure they have a team that sifts through comments that actually matter and then relay them to the devs. It would be a waste of time for the actual devs to sift through a lot of these trash comments. The people claiming they are waiting for sale are most likely just mad they can't play it right now for whatever reason. Maybe they can't actually afford it, or they really are playing other games they want to finish first. This game won't go on sale for a while so I imagine a lot of people claiming they will wait actually wont.