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That implies that once the cost of production and supply stabilises, or comes down, the prices of consumer goods will also come down, instead of staying roughly where it is and acting as higher profits at a new normalised price.

Ah capitalism.

Now we can actually play it at a decent resolution and frame rate on consoles!

Shame this franchise is dead. So much they could do going back to the more platformer elements (that never left, even Lost Frontier had them) but it all got sidetracked because GTA.

The Company doesnt and will not thank you for your hard work, or help you if you need it. But they will get involved if you do a bad job. That's how it works in retail over here at least.

You are a cog in a machine, and you can be replaced if it makes the machine cheaper and smaller to run,

@LowDefAl He absolutely should be shown the door, but so should Jade Raymond. All she's done is hop from publisher to publisher, never releasing anything and setting up studios that inevitably falter before putting a game out.

Why Sony acquired her studio we will never know, because you could see it coming. It's like hiring Phil Harrison to launch a platform: just don't.

I mean, given the rising cost of energy I'd be happy with a low power mode, even if you'd rather keep your boxes guzzling.

Though, the cynic in me reckons the savings on energy you make can be siphoned to Sony by way of their dynamic pricing for you.

See you use low power mode? Means you've saved a few pennies, here's a game slightly cheaper. Revenue goes up.

Though I think it says more about me that I came up with that concept.

@nolifebr Shame it's a Sony account and not a PlayStation account though.

Tagline: Finally, a racing game doing something interesting.

First sentence: Arcade racing games exist, but only just.

So shouldn't it have been "Finally, and arcade racing game!"

Although, does Gran Turismo/Forza not doing anything interesting?

Yeah but it didn't make ALL the money.

So the suits won't see it that way.

We want games that cost less to make faster that are shorter to play.

Suits want the same revenue from that as a new big budget release.

Having experienced Monster Hunter Wilds on PC, where the FIRST THING it asks is you please turn on Frame Generation...uh...no thanks.

It adds so much latency at lower frame rates it's insane. It's a cool tech, but much like DLSS and FSR, it has its place, alongside good optimisation, not in place of it.

@get2sammyb Except we haven't seen their full first years sales yet, and its on pace to be record breaking for the industry, so the idea it was all condensed at the start is nuts to me.

Sure, the games line up has been hit or miss with quality, but the games just won't slow down in general.

It's like at Black Friday, everyone was bemoaning the Switch 2 had flopped when it was outsold by the PS5 on Black Friday, but what that data didn't show was the Switch sold consistently over the month, but was outsold by cheap PS5s that week.

So month on month paints one picture, longer periods paint another.

Also, older established system outsells newer one with smaller library. Like how Switch outsold PS5, and now PS5 outsells Switch 2. Switch 2 will probably be outselling PS6. The generations are now offset.

Sony's PlayStation Gaming System Online Infrastructure and Customer Facing Retail e-commerce Services

Rolls right off the tongue

PlayStation 2nd Entry Fee

Makes you wonder why they bothered with Switch 2 and especially Xbox versions. One seemed like more effort than it's worth and the other is a dying platform.

Was the coffin ever open?

Is it right to call the Portal a phenomenon? Or is it more apt to say a popular accessory that sells well to PS5 whales?

Can't believe the game has done so well, and only across PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC as the article states.

It'll pop up in a Nintendo Direct, much like RE9 and Pragmata did at random, with the release date.

If this was relatively well priced, capable, and offered PS6 games at an acceptable spec, then I'd consider it.

Otherwise, a standard PS6 doesn't interest me after both the PS4 and 5 didn't offer much for my tastes I cant also get on PC.

Wonder how the site would have reacted if it wasn't coming to PSVR2.

Looks good though. Horror is the go to VR genre it seems.

I mean, they didn't lie, the game IS multiformat.

Just because it's not EVERY format doesn't mean it's not a multiplatform release.

I think you guys need to reconsider what they meant, because you clearly took it as "Everything on everything especially PS5" when Xbox and Nintendo fans seem to have took it as "On more than just one platform".

Which is the definition of multiplatform.

Also, can we talk about the absolute hilarity of this site, when in one day there's an article b******g about this, but also mocking PC gamers wanting games ported to them?

Pick a damn lane.

@CaptainWow I just went and re-read my posts and no, I dont suggest the content be changed, just explaining my reasons for not liking the content.

Changing content just....no? There's no need to do that.

I'm also colour blind, I'm not asking for devs to properly colour balance games to accomodate me, or anyone else like me, because that's a VERY wide spectrum (And also impossible, even most colour blind modes....dont do it right for every person), so I just make do.

It's also funny when streaming games when I can't see something, but that's the fun part.

@CaptainWow I know it's on me to do it.

I do do it.

I don't play horror games.

Did I say, in my original post, I'd like someone to do something about it, like amend a games content? No.

My post was about the specific "grow up" comments above, and that while that's a lovely sentiment, it's also not the right thing to say.

It's not a case of "we'll get over it you baby" or "be brave for once" it's "I avoid this for a reason, and it's a shame, but I have my reasons, and you could appreciate that and move on".

I don't want the games to change, because they exist to please their audience, just as weird niche games exist for me and others. You can appreciate art and things you don't like, like I wish Switch 2 users would with games not called Mario or Zelda this year: games aren't for you, but they are for someone, and you can be cool with that and appreciate what they bring to the table.

But to look down on people who don't like horror, or have issues with jump scares, or the themes of a game and what have you in such a way isn't right. We're not advocating for it to be changed, just don't have a go and be derogatory when we say we aren't interested or "I wish I could play that".

Jesus Christ I've joined the woke social squad. Time for an impromptu shower. 🤣

I havent bought anything on the PS Store in....uh ...18 months? Don't even know the firmware my PS5 is on. Also don't subscribe to PS+.

Which means when I do eventually turn it back on, I'm gonna get Hella deals.

And a notification asking if I'd like to update my account details assuming the account holder died.

@MrPeanutbutterz Yep, and I get up and leave, or work on my PC while she plays it.

Watching her play it amounts to jumping in and explaining a gameplay mechanic to her and then glancing up at the screen as something loud happens.

The reason that doesn't scare me, is because I'm distracted, I'm not anticipating it.

To all those above, I've been watching my partner play RE9 (Great looking game btw) and she keeps asking why I won't play it myself, and the answer is plainly because I'm scared to.

Now you might think, well either get out of your comfort zone or play something else, and I do, but for someone like myself with a rather crippling anxiety disorder, the anticipation of something happening, by virtue of it being a horror game, and this designed to be scary, or psychological, or in more modern ways full of YouTuber appropriate jump scares, is the worst part.

The scare isn't the problem, it's anticipation of the scare that makes it unplayable for me.

But sure, I'll just grow up I guess?

@RoomWithaMoose Heck, for the price of Premium get NSO Expansion for the whole family of 8 for a year, plus a pizza party.

Modders and fans doing what Nintendont.

Wait.

I imagine for some of these series it's a case of not existing for decades, like Shinobi, historically being crap or spotty or best like Sonic, oversaturated like Yakuza, or getting inevitable rereleases from Atlus.

PS1? Yes.

LEGO anything else PlayStation?

No.

Disney not coughing up enough cash then?

The other component to this is they said part of the plan was release older games ready for a new one to land on PS5, so people want to buy the console and move from PC.

On that point:

1) Why would anyone move from a PC to a comparable machine with fewer features and less flexibility where they already built they're library?

2) Why would you tell them, in advance, that this was to pull them onto PS5 and basically admit you weren't really going to do any more and it was just a way to try and sucker people in? You said the quiet part out loud Sony!

I mean, I can argue the PS5 has value. I think the last time I turned mine on was late 2024.

Those first party games don't interest me much (mainly because I lack the time to sink into them more than anything these days), and I also realise I'm not the average gamer, nor am I the average casual gamer that makes up most of the market. I am a minority in a minority who likes the more traditional stuff over live services, but doesn't subscribe to play online, or actually play many games.

So they head hunted him, invested in it, kept investing over 5 years, and then realised wait, video games are expensive can we have the money back pls?

What the hell. That's the crap Google and Amazon pulled when they tried games.

I blame the Switch 2 holding back gaming progress.

@PuppetMaster From the sounds, none of those sold well at all.

@themightyant It's weird, because Konami put out a remake of Haunted Castle, which is very much traditional Castlevania. Bloodstained has multiple traditional games as well as Ritual of the Night.

I think this game is gonna be more like Symphony of the Night onwards, so heavy exploration, backtracking etc. But that's not traditional Castlevania. That's the modern Castlevania.

I love hearing that this is "Traditional" Castlevania.

It's not, but pop off I guess.

@mittensknox The fact Bend and Media Molecule still exist confounds me. Media Molecule especially, after spending the best part of a decade making one game that didnt land to its fullest.

@ButterySmooth30FPS Bluepoint also did level design and support on God of War Ragnarok. Didnt save them.

It's also worth noting, Sony isn't really in the business of selling games. They are making more money now than all prior generations combined....with less of their own games.

So no, PC is a drop in the bucket, so is first party. They are now the default system, and that means all the live service 30% per purchase, plus third party games that feel they have to release on PlayStation.

On that note, RIP Nixxes. If they couldnt find something for Bluepoint to do, there's no point keeping a PC port specialist studio they bought for that purpose.

Nixxes will be gone with a year or two.

It's in the same boat as Ratchet now, joining the likes of Sly, Twisted Metal and others, because their studio has found the golden goose and that's now all they can afford. The budgets are so high the profits from said game have to go into the next guaranteed hit, rather than make smaller games for less.

@cainhurst94 @mrbone Also worth acknowledging that #3 in the charts is the more expensive, Switch 2 exclusive Triple Pack of 7/8/9.

God of Lust, starring Aphrodite, and it features scantily clad folks from gacha mechanics.

Surprise live service!

I can see Nixxes going the way of Bluepoint soon, given they were bought for this express purpose.

I mean, it makes sense to start slowing this down. They're hardly pumping games out so it would slow down naturally.

A guy named Meth came up with a giant cock musuo.

2026 folks.

Yes, it's dead. They'll just sell through whatevers left, and I'd be stunned if we ever see another attempt at mainstream consumer VR from any business.

Also, saying PS Studios have abandoned it....implies they ever tried in the first place.

@StitchJones Who said I'm the smartest guy in the room? I'm sure not. I didn't mean to cause any offense. Sorry.