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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.

Horizon Zero Performance Dips
Horizon Forbidden Resolutions

I got nothing for the third one.

Maybe this IS PSSR 2.0, and it's Hermen's solution.

@StitchJones Why would the publisher of a game paying the bills on said game who is paying for development and publishing said game on PC go about a Switch 2 version of said game?

Money.

Maybe they want to acquire him.

And then shut it all down within a few years.

Huh.

Then I guess nothing will.

Sony: Closes studio and goes quiet

Microsoft: Everyone leaves, AI head takes over

Nintendo: You like games? Here's Pokémon and Xenoblade see you next week for more.

What the hell is happening

This review is on point, but it does make me chuckle.

It goes from 5 games, noting the GBC version is interesting, to then ending with "four identical games", implying actually, it isn't.

Spend $3bn on a studio that hasn't done too hot, buy a studio from a woman who hasn't managed to put out a game in over a decade, buy multiple other studios then kill them, then start chopping at ones that are proven to work well.

Seems legit. Let's see if it pays off Cotton.

That screenshot is straight out of Fortnite, and I've not played that since 2019.

That's damning.

Going for the Duke Nukem Award

As a Nintendo Switch player for the past 8 years, you get used to this experience.

Then again, its nice its not the Nintendo version leaking for a change, though no word if a Game Key Card would even function before launch day.

They didn't lie, their games are in fact multi platform and not locked to one system.

@UltimateOtaku91 Absolutely, we can have it launch and not buy it in 2027.

Then when many of us do feel obliged to upgrade and move on from PS5 to PS6, it'll be more expensive than it was at launch again.

@AhmadSumadi No, I'm saying that's what the card could have said if we went full corporate.

As I said, I'm cynical. It's a nice gesture but it also could have been so much funnier.

And almost all of these games are available now, in PS+ Premium!

I'm too cynical.

Sometimes I do wonder about the things gamers worry about.

I thought he was busy fighting Ryu from Streets in the World Fighter Tournament.

It costs HOW MUCH for such a small game?

Fire Emblem fans are busy paying attention to Fire Emblem Fortune's Weave.

Theyre already proven to not be able to focus on much more than one thing at a time.

@UltimateOtaku91 Not much. They revealed a small team is directing and managing, and the actual game is being made by multiple outsourced companies.

Edit: Several dozen companies.

"The director added how "fortunate" Game Freak was to have the "support of several dozen reliable development partners" working on Beast of Reincarnation. "Game Freak handles the creative direction, technical problem-solving, production leadership, and overall project management to ensure everything stays on track," Furushima closed"

Bold assumption it's for PS5 if it's early development.

Big Metroid Prime 4 and Bayonetta 3 energy there. Flash a JPG and say see ya in a few years, we were working on nothing until now.

Also, all those rumours of a God of War Remake a while back, and they clearly looked at those and went....oh yeah, we COULD do that!

So what was Santa Monica doing for the past four years?

Also I look forward to God of War Trilogy Remake on PS6 in 6 years. I thought the industry learned from flashing a JPG and saying "Now In Development"

And this is the benefit to building and optimising for the lower spec first. You get better performance.

@PuppetMaster That was physical copies only, and it was reported as being widely out of stock across the country. Digitally it's topping the eShop in several regions.

Safe to say it's done well enough for SquareEnix.

He said the physical copies won't be delayed.

Because there won't be any to delay. Kekw

PC has the least barriers to entry.

PS5 and Switch 2 are the market leaders.

You know it's bad when the Steam Deck, an option that's only sold about 4m units, is more popular with developers than Xbox.

At least the Wii U and Vita died quickly.