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@GodofCapcom I think Street Fighter VI will score high too. Love the direction they’re going in with that one.

And Lies of Pi too I think.

There’s so much great stuff coming out this year it’s almost criminal.

@KaijuKaiser You’re missing Forza Motorsport and S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 in your list of big exclusives that are confirmed for this year.

Also, I think a lot of people are forgetting that Game Pass can also be fully played on PC while for playing playstation games you need the box. Xbox and Game Pass are doing fine. They’re making money too.

Also… all of this is not unexpected. Sony just released a big exclusive: God of War while Xbox had none. And Xbox just released a big exclusive the year prior to that: Halo Infinite, where Sony had none.

Maybe in China chips are taken out and ‘given’ to Russia?

I don’t get why this is an argument against the buy-out. Could anyone please enlighten me?

@stvevan probably prebuying for the upcoming capcom, square enix and bandai namco games.

Monster Hunter Rise, Resident Evil 4, Street Fighter VI, Octopath Traveller II, Final Fantasy VII and XVI and Tekken 8.

And Howarts Legacy probably. From what I heard Harry Potter is a pretty well known franchise in Asia.

@Max_the_German they’re now ready to start on the day 1 patch.

‘Growth, growth, growth’, the cancer of the world.

In other words, under this new exec Sony will turn into an evil company.

Shinra.

Looks great! Going to play it on GamePass

It’ll probably have a price in between the Truly Exquisite golden PS5 and the Golden Rock PS5.

That’s the budget I’m able to spend on a gaming console nowadays, so that’s perfect!

@Thumper it’s just changing hands. Sony could have gotten a 10 year deal for CoD too. I doubt they have a 10 year deal for CoD now.

In my opinion, Sony is afraid for nothing. They’re the current market leader with a lot of studios themselves, even with a lot of fps competing franchises. Or they could revive Ghost Recon or any of the other Tom Clancy franchises within those 10 years.

Most of Sony’s deals result in exclusivity (or the feeling of exclusivity) for entire franchises too. Such as street fighter, final fantasy, tales series, … They even bought EVO which makes them the console to go to if you want to be in the competitive fighting scene.

All in all: Their outcry just feels very silly after their own purchases and exclusivity deals in the last years.

@Tasuki it is, since sf5 was a playstation exclusive.

It is stupid that Sony keeps paying 3d party developers to withhold features or entire games from other companies services, while in the mean time starting a law suit because they are afraid Microsoft will give them ‘inferior copies’ of a game.

Blizzard-Activision stretching the ‘Do you guys not have phones?’ -meme to the max.

@OneWingedAngel you know Sony’s profit margin has increased 0,5% this year and that their current profit margin is 10%?

The price increase of the PS5 is ***** and absolutely not a necessity.

I played it but I prefer Super Smash Bros Ultimate.

@UltimateOtaku91 how do you know?

@Nem to each their own. But they showed a lot of games. Also exclusives.

But feel free to like whatever you like of course.

@JapaneseSonic

@RubyCarbuncle well. There’s flight simulator now. Scorn next month. Forza 5 in three months. Halo infinite somewhere in the upcoming months.

And the promise of one very big exclusive every quarter after 2021.

Dunno, but that’s almost as many as playstation 5 exclusives in a year. With ratchet and Clank being my only ps5 exclusive buy so far.

https://culturedvultures.com/biggest-xbox-exclusives-games-2021/

@RubyCarbuncle the platform is bad because games are also being released on pc?

@Nem both Nintendo and Xbox had a very good showcase.

https://www.ign.com/articles/xbox-won-e3-according-to-new-poll

Xbox mainly tried to sell gamepass. And if you see what’s all being released on gamepass for no additional costs in the upcoming months, plus the confirmation that bethesda games will be day one gamepass exclusives too, their showcase was absolutely what Xbox needed

It really depends on the title.

The writer mentions two remakes of older games. It makes sense the talk about those releases fade away relatively quickly. Doom Eternal is a sequel to Doom, a game that had a LOT of buzz for a long time because it had something new. But Eternal isn’t as innovative. We’ve seen the gore before in 2016.

The really innovative games stand the test of time. People still talk about God of War, the Last of us, Breath of the Wild, the Witcher, Skyrim. Makes sense that the other games fade away a bit, just like movies tend to do.

@soy it requires almost no extra steps to do so on a xbox series though. Almost anyone can do it.

@ORO_ERICIUS just as well as series x.

@ORO_ERICIUS 300. Series S.

Also, you sound jealous

@get2sammyb you have no idea what his plans are. So you can’t say that he should stop dancing around that answer.

He said they’ll decide on a game by game basis. And that’s a very logical thing to do.

Maybe Microsoft can implement their Office To Do app to achieve something similar?

So, we’re actually playing a to do list now?

Playstation’s overconfidence maybe backfires as it has done before. And as it has done to Microsoft too.

It’s all fun and games until you’re playing the prequel, Breath of the Wild.

Free to play?

Shame.... i was interested, but never knew it was a free to play game.

I’ll stick with the prequel for now, Breath of the Wild, until I hear some raving reviews.

@SamMR you are absolutely right, sir. Especially now that EA play is part of Game Pass the typical sports crowd might be moving over for instance...

@tomassi or play the previous installment which is more or less the same anyway

Just as Nintendo might be seen as an underdog once in a while but still finds its own blue ocean all the time, Sony will be just fine because of its high quality exclusives.

@Iroha you make comments like they’re the truth and not an opinion. That everything Bethesda makes is a disaster is maybe an opinion, but of course an untrue statement.

Mario 64 has bugs. Final Fantasy VII has bugs. Zelda Ocarina of Time And Breath of the Wild have bugs. Are they a disaster too?

Get real. Games of Bethesda are among the most popular on the planet. For a reason. And not because you think they’re only a meme, a disaster.

@Iroha you literally said ‘everything they [Bethesda] make is a disaster’, yet you edited your comment to nuance your statement and turn it into something else.

You would make a great politician....

@LiamCroft you’re right. My bad.

However, if you consider how EA usually adds games to EA Play, apparently it will be available 4 months after release? And until then, Fifa 2020 might be just fine for some people. Or am I missing something here?

https://www.reddit.com/r/XboxGamePass/comments/iuy9sx/will_fifa_21_be_included_in_game_pass/

Game Pass, guys. Get all the EA games you want from december onwards.

And on a sidenote: if you want to play a demo, just play any previous installment.

@Shepherd_Tallon true, but netflix was founded 23 years ago and you’re still able to buy movies.

I don’t think it’ll be a be all and end all I think.

So far, it’s great value and I will make use of it I think (while it lasts) .

@Stragen8 @Shepherd_Tallon you can buy the games you like with a discount though if you’re subscribed to gamepass. So you will still have it, just as with gog.com, steam and the likes. It’s an option néxt to buying games. Not instead of buying games.

Just an added bonus i’d say when comparing it with Sony’s business model.

@Iroha ok, so you don’t like Skyrim and all Fallout installments prior to Fallout 76 for example?

‘Everything is a disaster’, a lot of people disagree with that statement about Bethesda.

@B-I-G-DEVIL not necessarily.

If you have a big enough install base, you will earn enough money, also for the big games. The install base isn’t big enough yet, but they’re aiming to get 2 billion players. Everything is sustainable with that amount of people.

@Zeke68 you don’t know how big the pre-order stack was, though. Could be a couple of hundred for all you know.

@Hobbesyall you won’t! You can also play them on Android phones, tablets and PC!

Oh, and Nintendo Switch.

Mario: Bye bye!

@Sim1 maybe.

But I’m also not a fan of big blockbuster movies. I’m a person that can achieve tons of enjoyment with indie games. So it also could just be me .

@OneManDroid well said. I agree.

@Grimwood i agree with you. Not much that defines PS5. PS5 is just the same as PS4. No new experiences. Just expansion passes.

So spiderman, which can be played on ps4. I’m not a souls person.

I’ll be able to hold on to current gen a bit longer. That’s fine! No need for me to battle with the scalpers.

@Col_McCafferty ‘your bias is showing’.

Of course it is. I’m presenting my opinion. Which is per definition biased.

And yes, Odyssey is a milestone for Mario. Gameplay wise. And no, it hasn’t got anything to do with story, most of Nintendo’s games don’t have story, they focus almost solely on gameplay.

And if you think Flight Simulator isn’t a milestone, the general public and critics thinks differently. I also could have mentioned Half-Life Alyx if you think Flight Simulator would show me being biased or something. Alyx is just as much a groundbreaking game released this year.

To each their own.

And whatever. I don’t have to convince you or something. Hope you’ll enjoy your PS5 .

@Col_McCafferty Don’t know why but I’ve got the feeling you’re upset because I’ve said that a lot of Sony’s games are big block buster 3d party action games with different skins and different stories. They’re mainly relying on story and cgi—one-button-effects. They feel as if they follow exactly the same architecture / game designs, to me. Like 20 platformers, all different skins but you move from left to right. Also, Death Stranding isn’t a sony game.

Dunno, got bored by them after PS4. I’m back to RPG’s now, with which i got bored with 10-15 years ago. Guess it comes and goes in phases. That’s ok, right?

If you love PS4 games, PS5 is the exact same thing but with higher graphical settings if you have the setup for it. Nothing ‘new’ nothing ‘exciting’.

Haven’t played it yet, but I think Flight Simulator takes simulation games to an extreme different level. It’s not that you’re in a plane. It’s just that it feels completely real. The physics engine looks incredible. And really, having the actual real life world cramped up in a game and unfolding in front of you, that’s insanely spectacular. Technologically mind blowing if you ask me.

But as I said, haven’t played it yet.