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@Haruki_NLI what a weird statement.

If you could have a few million more revenue and a million more profit, wouldn’t you take it?

Also, Resident Evil has been marketed as a Sony / Playstation product for ages. Of course it’d sell best on that platform because the audience is there. Doesn’t mean it’ll always be that way.

Interesting. Great to see Sony pursuing this path to give proper competition to Nvidia and the likes.

Sony has ported most of PS4’s and PS5’s great blockbuster games.

Apart from legacy games, there aren’t many games tó port left…

Pixel flow sounds like an amazing game.

Cant wait to not play it.

@get2sammyb I’m sorry Sammy, but I’ve been saying for a while now that Sony is a pathetic shimmer of its former self after they got their CFO (“I’m addicted to growth) and after Sony Japan got shanked. It’s just about quick money, not about a fanbase anymore and nothing new comes out of their studios. They thrive on 3d party games only.

That they don’t have competition from Microsoft Gaming anymore (with their new CEO who comes from META with a focus on AI) makes it even worse - free reign, no accountability.

We have Nintendo as the last one standing who will actually innovate. I hope they’ll make a switch pro that’s as strong as the PS5 and Sony’ll burn.

Yeah, i really enjoyed this one. Great to see Konami’s back, and great to see Sony teaming up with other developers to think of fresh new directions for their ip. Well done, Sony!

@Ainu20 i see, i didn’t know that, thanks.

Hopefully the bolted devs will find a new home asap.

If they didn’t spend money on the Game Awards slot they would have had money to pay a lot of these developers for a few months at least - since a GA slot costs on average more than a million and this was the main slot of the night. And it didn’t do the game much of a favor sadly .

David Jaffe, after playing Metroid Dread: “Metroid Dread is a ‘sacred cow’ with sh*t design. We can do this better, team.”

I’m VERY looking forward to this if true. Sony going back to a smaller bite-sized game would be a great transition in my opinion that could pave the way for a lot of experimental games again!

I fear 30 mins of Marathon, but looking forward to what Sony has been cooking in the last few years!

@get2sammyb it’s imo also because Sony started monetizing aggressively first (GaaS for instance, and price increases of all hardware and services). To offset their own (bad) choices. Not because they’re making multiplayer games.

For Aiur!

Wait, no, that’s a different SC.

Looking forward to this one too though, very much enjoyed the remake of the first game over the holidays 😊

@UltimateOtaku91 genshin has battle passes, boosts, etc that you can (actually have to) buy. I dont know about MH and No man’s sky, but Helldivers, GT and arc raiders also have staggered releases of micro transactions. That’s what makes it a live service game: paid, continuous and staggered releases of micro transactions and/or battle passes / boosts.

Thus no, ac and splatoon aren’t live service games. With Nintendo you mostly buy a game and thats it. They got massive flack for their dlc releases of 2025 (Donkey Kong and Pokemon) and I hope they wont lose their way too.

@UltimateOtaku91 splatoon and animal crossing updates werent paid, apart from one larger dlc for ac after three years. Thus not live service.

A game every year like CoD isnt live service, though the skins etc do count which I detest. Redfall went from live service to single player, which is why it failed too (no clear direction). ESO, Fallout and Diablo were among the ones that were already live service before Microsoft bought Activision, though I’d argue Diablo IV isn’t live service anymore.

And yes, i hope that revenue model wont be focused on anymore by sony too, after marathon and fairgame$.

@UltimateOtaku91 which live service games have Nintendo and Microsoft released in the last three years? Apart from F-Zero99 and tetris99 and the ones that already were? (WoW, Minecraft, Sea of Thieves)?

They never had this massive company wide push that pushed away most creativity from their studios. I don’t recognize Sony from the PS4 days because of this push and yes, I keep mourning about that.

I’m looking forward to the games Sony is making after Marathon, because I hope it marks the end of their live service activities.

Jeej. Very much looking forward to the games Sony will start making after Marathon.

It’s fitting for Sony in this day and age, where they’ve abandoned the Vita, abandoned the PSVR2, really turned down their first party output for their main console (Playstation 5), to now also release a AAA game on PC and Mobile without simultaneously releasing it on PS5.

Hades 2. It’s THAT good

Not on my bingo card, but on my blacklist from now on, though.

Fifa just released, so….

@naruball this is a direct price increase

I know like 4-5 youngsters (nephews and neighbours) who needed to get a ps5 and just play minecraft or fortnite on the machine…

Well, Sony’s recording record breaking numbers, so we’re clearly paying for them somehow.

Which live service success stories does Sony have?

Concord please!

Can’t wait

@darylb24 it sure is. Remove any PS4 game, and it leaves only a handful of games in here. Most of them remasters of PS4 games.

Concord is even there on the list as filler material…

Sony really screwed up with their live service gamble and their removal of experimental studios.

@ATaco that’s the Peter Principle for you.

Ceo’s and managers usually suck.

@MFTWrecks yes, you’re right. Do you know the Peter Principle?

It says that everyone rises till their level of incompetence in a company. So all managers are incompetent (unless they have chosen to turn down promotions).

Maybe Sony should put the studios they have to good use first instead of all the live service crap they were forced to create in the past few years.

Well, we can expect an increase in controller prices to cover the costs again, just like last time

It’s nothing short of a delusional statement when Nintendo currently clearly has a larger market share, even with ‘gaming audiences’. Especially in their ‘home market’ even though that has long gone now.

It shows how Sony has changed in the last 5-10 years. Too boastful for my liking.

@SMJ exactly.

@johncalmc 32 you mean? 😉

@Frmknst no, 500 million users played xbox / microsoft games. Thus xbox active users.

Minecraft and candy crush are for instance also part of the mix. Still very impressive numbers though.

I don't know what he's talking about.

SNES is an upgraded NES
GBC is an upgraded GB, GBA is an upgraded GBC.
Gamecube is an upgraded N64.

These new wacky experiences may definitely still come. The tech is there for developers to work with.

Nintendo did it loads on the Switch, with for instance Labo, Mario Kart Circuit and all Wario Ware games. They can do that again.

Also, most genre defining games in the last 8 years have been made by Nintendo. I am not able to point out a single totally new experience by the competition, except Elden Ring, Cyberpunk 2077 and maybe Baldur's Gate 3 (though I haven't played that one. Also not counting the Indie scene)

Yeah baby, live service crap.

Sadly, you have lost your way ten years ago, $ony, when greedy CFO’s took over, and it will take a while to find it again. Although you seem to have completely lost your home region (Japan) because of it.

$ony.

Greedy, greedy company.

@Cikajovazmaj all games come to playstation and pc anyway.

@LogicStrikesAgain apart from Yotei, we haven’t seen anything substantial from any of those.

Bit of cgi. That’s it.

@themightyant yet they keep increasing the prices. Sony’s not so much ‘for the players’ anymore.

‘For the payers’ meme makes more sense every fiscal quarter. You could also say ‘for the shareholders’.

@trev666 3d party even because that studio also makes games for other platform holders.

@Friendly guess they DID read through this comment section.

So Microsoft doesn’t have any first party exclusives, but neither does Sony.

Sony copying Nintendo?

They would never…

If Sony reads through this comment section, they’ll make sure to cancel the project asap.

Queue in the Astrobot Kart, Astrobot Party, Astrobot Tennis, Golf and Baseball and of course, the new classic, Paper Astrobot games.

@wildcat_kickz journalism has turned into getting traction as much as possible. The more likes, the more valid your article or ‘opinion’. There is still some journalism with fact checking, but most social media platforms and websites can’t bother with the time that takes.

@Rudy_Manchego I think you’re mainly referring to the Sony gaming infrastructure, with your comment, right? Mobile, indie and Nintendo’s infrastructure are both way different. Nintendo funds its bigger projects with a lot of experimental smaller ones in between, and gives space to indie devs on their platform too. Works for them. You’re correct that Sony put all their eggs in one basket only, just as they did with their narrative 3d action adventure games, which I’ve become sick and tired of during last gen.

@get2sammyb Sony themselves got rid of the smaller experimental studios and only wanted to invest in blockbusters and now live service games only.

Maybe they should have continued experimenting with new experiences, rather than betting on one horse only. The only reason they’re still afloat is 3d party support ánd the loyal fanbase. This fanbase doesn’t even mind price hikes on controllers to fund failed live service games.