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I forgot this game was even on PS5.

@PercyChuggs if fanboyism is cancer, being hyperbolic is AIDS…

@psmr In nature, there's something called the food chain. It is where the shark eats the little shark, and the little shark eats the littler shark, and so on and so on and so on, until you get down to the single-cell shark. So, now replace sharks with game studios, and that is all you need to know about business.

$40 for something that looks like it came from a quarter machine 20 years ago is wild...

I knew it was over when PC players lost their minds because Helldivers 2 was going to initially require a PSN account. If the goal was to create PC ports to try and convert them to PS players as well, that was a clear indication it was not going to happen. Now when you realize it doesn't add much to sales, and the burden of creating the port on top of it, it doesn't make any sense to me, from a business standpoint, of why you would keep doing it. I think Sony made the right call here.

It won't fail in sales, but will it fail the culture is the real question.

People just don't want to face the Covid aftermath now. A lot of people figured about 5 years post Covid this would all come crashing down in multiple industries. And it has. People also keep acting like every single person at every single studio is a beacon of talent. Clearly a lot of you have never actually worked in corporate America...

@wildcat_kickz Except in this case damn near every Xbox studio is a loss leader, lol. You have to have some studios actually generate enough to compensate for that and in Xbox's case, they practically have none.

"Strand-based hair" technology equals GotY?

OMG seeing a handful of the known Pro chuds here who are back tracking about it not being a big deal is hilarious...

They would have to show me games that would make a PS6 worth it. There is barely enough to make a PS5 Pro worth it — though don't tell the few Pro homers here, lol.

@Balaam_ You say that like Bungie hasn't been reduced to 25% of what is was at it's peak (1600 to 400 now), or Ubisoft who has cut thousands, or EA laying off devs right after the most successful launch of a BF game ever. Like, it's everyone, brother.

Given they have sat around practically doing nothing for 7 years, I think they could have remade both of them. Especially once Intergalactic bombs.

@Bot_Bot_69 I don't think you realize the majority of people don't post things on the internet. So when you make a claim like 'it impacts the majority of people's lives', it's nothing but ignorant because you have absolutely nothing to substantiate that with other than Twitter and Reddit hate any mention of AI.

This is the same company that still puts live service games at the for front and says they are the future while they have barely produced a single successful game in that market. Someone over there is smoking something.

@Leeg it was basically just a reskinned Tsushima but with a worse story…

@Number09 brother John Lennon died with a $200 million net worth, lol. He was one of the people clapping jewelry…

I really don’t care about playing the game day 1 so I might even be able to wait out a first sale.

@Oram77 had Microsoft not responded, I would feel inclined to agree. The fact that they felt the need to say something though, means they definitely feel something more than just internet chatter…

No. The coolest part about Wolverine is playing as Wolverine, not looking at artwork of him.

I’m actually hoping for this game to fail in multiple ways to stop some of the trends happening in gaming. It obviously won’t fail in copies sold. But I think this game is over hyped to the point of probably not living up to expectations and I hope that at least other companies will take notice that without the GTA name, none of what they’ve done would be possible for other companies.

Thank god for that handful of boomers still gaming, lol.

Justin was just as divisive as Pete ever was, lol. Anyone could see that failure a mile away.

@RoliePolie91 bungie execs made 10’s and 100’s of millions of dollars in this ordeal. They are absolutely the ones who made out right. Blaming the execs really goes nowhere. They are only here to make money and they did just that.

@nielsonjuan it just means D3 is not happening right away. Marathon has no future. So unless they lay off the rest of the studio at the end of this year, what the hell would 500 people even work on? My guess is they will shed dead weight, shut Marathon down, and start Destiny 3 at the end of this year or start of 2027. Anyone who thinks Marathon needs to 4-500 devs is insane. If they are keeping that many people then they have to be switching to a new project and Destiny 3 is the only thing that makes sense.

@AdamNovice I’m pretty sure Pete wasn’t the one who had devs sitting around making a dating sim for Destiny. It definitely starts at the top, but it’s plain as day that studio is a mess right down to the bottom. It needs a refresh.

Make more Marathon content? Isn’t that like trying to put out a fire with gasoline?

At least we know there wont be any shortage of articles to write about this issue given the prices will never actually come back down.

@sorteddan I love how some countries still don’t even have clean drinking water but because it’s kind of more expensive for you to game now the future is dystopian, lol. Bring privileged rules, doesn’t it?

I dunno. With Capcom, Korea, China and other eastern devs all making the best games lately, and also optimizing them extremely well, I’m not sure what the pull for a day 1 PS6 will be? If devs want to make games that won’t run well on a PS5, I won’t feel bad when they don’t sell enough copies and get fired or shut down either.

I can’t wait to start breaking controllers playing this. If you told me a Star Wars pod racer game would be on the top of my list this year I’d have punched you square in the mouth.

I’m honestly glad it’s $100. I’m tired of poor people being allowed to play games. With the continued rising cost of consoles and PCs too, we might rid ourselves of these freeloaders once and for all.

The only thing that bothers me is the GoW in the title. They obviously just want the name recognition because they don’t have enough faith in an original title. But it just sounds goofy every time I read it. Kratos earned the title. But I guess it’s fitting in 2026 we just give it to a female without having to work for it.

I like how people are mad at Rockstar for just building what idiot consumers will pay for.

I can’t tell if buying your own company back just to lay yourself off over the publisher is a baller move or just dumb…

I’ll wait for reviews and have to see this has perfect performance and be game defining before I spend that.

Rriigghhtt… cause video games are where consumers go “I can only afford 1 game” instead of putting them all on a credit card like everything else. You either have a game people want coming out or you don’t. Blaming a packed release for a game flop always makes me chuckle.

I don’t care if these game exist but they should be in their own section that you have to go out of your way to find.

@themightyant no way bro. I know for a fact Sony reads all the fan girl comments from here one by one.

@Mio_Nakashima but in reality it was over inflated from Covid and it’s just continuing to correct itself…

I feel like they invented this category just so Sony could always make sure to get an award…

There’s no doubt they are boxing poors out of gaming. But this has to make anyone in the PS ecosystem feel pretty good about where we are at compared to all the competition.

I don't know why anyone would put blind faith in any company like they haven’t all failed us in one way or another. There’s such an easy solution too. Just wait for the game to come out and watch reviews before you buy it. If it reviews like ass, buy something else. There’s literally no shortage of banger games to play in this market. Do I trust them? No. Do I think they probably learned their lesson and this should launch fine? Yeah.

I feel like this game will fall in line with Yotie. It’ll review well, be a decent game, and sell well. But it will have zero legacy in gaming culture. It’ll be talked about for a week or so because it will come embroiled with controversy, but in a month no one will ever talk about it again. And that’s because deep down we all know it’s going to be mediocre because it’ll be another safe game from Sony. It’ll take no risks as to try and not offend the delicate flowers in western gaming and thus be another dry piece of content no one remembers. Thank goodness eastern devs are pulling the weight they are pulling right now.

@LifeGirl ND is in the same boat as Bungie. People keep thinking this is the ND that made Uncharted and LoUP1. Those people are probably mostly gone. With LoUP2 coming nowhere close to P1, the second season of LoU bombing, there’s little reason to think Intergalactic is going to be up to the standards people fondly remember this company by. They are very much in line to be the next powerhouse to fail and people finally realize it’s not the same company from a decade ago.

I have no idea why people think with Sonys track record of multiplayer games that this ever stood a chance? I swear all these same people would praise a Concord 2 if Sony announced it.

Wow. You mean industry people praised other industry people? Shocking.

I won’t be buying them so make em $60, lol.

Who do you honestly think Sony finds as a more valuable customer? The person who can spend a $1000 on a console, or the person who has to wait until it goes on sale? The person buying a $1000 console probably has another $1000 they can spend on games. The person waiting for the budget console more likely spends their time playing the PS+ catalogue. I think people are missing the bigger picture here. These companies have figured out it’s better to have fewer whales than a ton of minnows. It’s basically what happened with sports. It’s now coming for games. It’s basically more lucrative to cater to a few big spenders than a ton of freeloaders. For example, BMW sells half as many cars as Hyundai, but records equal to or more in revenue. You don’t have to sell as many units when something is priced higher and is still highly coveted.

I mean Saros bombed and God of War with no Kratos is most likely not going to move a big needle. I think Intergalactic is going to bomb compared to what it’s expected to do too. I really don’t think this stretch of Sony is going to live up. Wolverine looks nice at least.