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@DrVenture69 Bloodborne remaster is said to be at every State of play by the hardcore fans and yet all we get is Horizon Zero Dawn and Day’s Gone, the 2 that NO ONE asked for. Seems an odd choice. Maybe one day it hit’s a show and people will be super excited. 😊

I am playing Avowed at the moment but after some more patches on this i might give it a try. I like RPG’s in the winter when i tend to stay indoors more as i hate the cold weather. I want to finish Avowed as it’s a truly special world to roam around in. Graphics are nice and the balance mode running it at 40fps seems to be its sweet spot. This game seems to be largely running great as well from the little i have heard on it.

@kedireturns Astro Bot the best game in a long time from Sony only selling 2 million copies tells me all i need to know about PS gamers buying games. Apparently not the good ones. Rockstar for optimization time never releases day and date on PC. But the PC is the better version not that translate to better sales. Cause normally it doesn’t and that part i agree with you on.

MS making back them billions one game at a time should mean we get the whole series and other lost in time Activision games. Happy to see these come back. They were some of the biggest games of their time.

@kedireturns in fairness to PC, over 70% of Black Myth Wukong was on PC and Hell divers 2 would be a small game if only on PS5. PC carried it to a megastar hit. So PC does line the pockets of dev’s, but Sony is still not quite right with its timing and coding to put massive money in their pocket yet. Keyword is yet cause i think Sony will get better on PC. The money is there and needed when done correctly.

There was some good games and i am a different type of PS user. I only come here for the exclusives. So the fact 94% of the show was multi plat games i was just so so on it. Nothing wrong with that per se, but those cancelled live service games are taking a toll on the PS5 pipeline. We last saw a small teaser of Wolverine back in 2021. Well and the leak, but that don’t count. We haven’t even seen a 20 second clip of gameplay yet. I don’t know, it’s just not exciting enough for me personally. But i know many that enjoyed the show and thats all that counts.

@magera no kidding right! I wasn’t to to surprised to see it. It’s been rumored for quite a while. I must say for all the flack leakers get for supposedly, not knowing anything , they sure do get a lot right in the end. I never played Day’s Gone and i am not sure i will bother. But for those that do i hope they enjoy it. Yeah more PS remasters!!

@Northern_munkey eh it’s not you friend, it’s me, it was early in the morning and i was upset at the state of play last night, so i am captain grouchy haha. I just wish Sony wouldn’t have wasted all that time in bad live service games. Year 5 and i still don’t use my PS much. I do like live service games and hope they continue to try but at least make good enough ones to launch and stay on the market for a year or two. Sprinkle in a few single player games and I’d be happy. Anyways hope you enjoyed the show and have a great early to mid year of games to enjoy 😃

@Decimateh-xblz anytime friend. Yeah i don’t think it will now as it’s no longer Project eve and it’s stellar Blade. But i am happy to see it hit the PC. Hopefully it will pick up some sales there and we will get a sequel for those that want it. 😃

@IOI i 100% agree, this on the show would have excited me some. I love Astro Bot. That Show was weak sauce for me. More Astro Bot is always something i would look forward to. Oh well. Maybe Sony has a June showcase this year and will focus more on in house games. Otherwise 2025 is another wasted year for me on PS5.

@Decimateh-xblz Stellar Blade was Project Eve and announced as a multi platform title.

@LogicStrikesAgain true but then the industry has to have that same energy when games go to GP, cause it’s the same thing, it’s taking an upfront check for lost sales not being other places.

Going forward i see less and less deals like this as even Square isn’t doing single platform no more. Most dev’s now want their games everywhere. Which is good for the gamer.

Sony: heres a title we believe so little in we won’t do a sequel for, but please buy the remaster. Oh and we promise it’s not a money grab or filler cause we have no games in our pipeline.

@Northern_munkey no but it is money the dev could have had along with Xbox and PC if Project Eve didn’t get bought into a PS5 timed deal. Which i think it’s fair to say less and less dev’s want to do anymore, cause they want PC, PS, and Xbox money all upfront. This game sold around 2 million units last i seen. Could be a touch higher and i am sure by now it is. But it didn’t set the sales charts a fire. If it skipped PC i would be shocked as money was left on the table for a title that was first announced as a multi plat.

@Apollo2212 i call it the Sony Xbox 5. Cause the best games coming to it lately are from MS. Can’t wait to see the reply’s that one get’s, but in all seriousness wow man they did this gen in on those live service dud’s. Cancel cancel, release canceled in 10 days cancel cancel wait until PS6. I get it, i come here for the exclusive games. Much like Nintendo. I use Xbox or a near complete built PC for my 3rd party games. But even PS3 that started slow and 360 being my all time favorite console ever, they had GAMES, and i played them on that trash can of a six axis controller. But this gen, i like the hardware, controller is decent for Sony standards and I like the Ui. But outside of like 2 games i am sitting here saying waste of money!! For me of course, not everyone. I am thinking take my losses and go to PS6 cause it will have some games ready in that time frame. I will for sure buy it , but if they treat it like PS5, that will be my last Sony console, i will just wait to play them few exclusives on PC or miss them. I know this isn’t popular on here, but yes there are very casual PS fans here like me. Not everyone thinks their you know what don’t stink!

@MrMagic im sure you don’t, as you shouldn’t. Nor do i care that this state of play shown how lost Sony is this gen. If this was Xbox one vs PS4 show case it would be all about how 90% of the show was 3rd party. Cause Xbox has no games. Now it’s when are we (PS gamers) getting Xbox games? When you keep receipts it’s like free cloud saves the gift keeps giving. You do get free cloud cross platform saves right?

@LogicStrikesAgain couldn’t disagree with you more, ONLY that i have seen next to zero of anything you listed. Could they be great maybe! Could they be average to me like others this gen has been? Maybe, but truth is as a PS exclusive only guy, i am five years in and been underwhelmed extremely. Example, my favorite console of all time is Xbox 360 hands down. But even in a time when i am having my best console experience ever, I LOVED me some PS3 exclusives even tho playing them on that trash six axis controller was a thing. But i did cause the games were insane fun, PS4 was a little boring for me but there were games there even if not my style. PS5? I mean i love Ratchet and Clank Rift Apart, beat it 3 times. But otherwise im ready to sell and wait for PS6. Happy for those that are happy but dang man, other show of games i can play on off set thumb sticks. With a few exclusives that i am just not so sure move me.

@MrMagic I’m not the problem the problem is all the good games in there are games i want to play on a controller with off set thumb sticks. I come here for the exclusives and i didn’t see much. I would agree with you there was games there if you only own a PS. But wow in year 5 we are seeing the effects ole Jimbo Ryan had on the 1st party.

@Apollo2212 Well that was a massive waste of my time.

You too huh? I am sending Sony a bill of what i make hourly cause i would have had more fun working an extra hour today. Highly unlikely they pay it, but i did include PSN 24 outage cost as well.

Jokes aside it’s good that Sony has console sales to lean on to shield them from the fact the PS5 has been their worst PS generation ever and it’s running out of time to change that. All the YouTubers and fanboys will defend Sony to the hills and back. But i am so bored with PS5 i am considering selling it for a Switch 2 and playing on that and Series X until PS6 comes out. To be noted i only play PS exclusives on my PS consoles. So all the other games I’ll play on the other box.

Thats one way to get the game into more hands. Cause it didn’t set the sales chart on fire, but man is it ever a well made and fun to play game.

Great 2 walking Sim’s on the way. Can’t wait!

Between stories of denied by Sony and cancelled, i am starting to question Sony’s leadership as to how to get a game started and finished. Seems like they are turning into the GOW, Horizon and Marvel console. PS5 is such a good machine but very little for me to get excited for. I buy a PS console for their exclusives only. Welp, better luck on PS6 at this point for me.

I own a PS5 and Series X, so when one goes down i just play the other. Still stinks for those wanting to play on PS at the moment. Hope they get it back up and running well soon.

@Oram77 thats a lot of bread. But i would say at least 30. If i was another dev team i would not even try to launch my game in the same week, maybe month. They can have it. The only game i want more than GTA 6 is Gears of War E-day! This back half of the year is going to be interesting to see what comes out and when.

I can’t even imagine how many copies will sell in just 24 hours.

I know it’s still my favorite PS5 exclusive. I beat Rift Apart 3 times.

Been waiting on this one. Which it was a little sooner, but glad they are taking their time also. Should be good! SNAAAAAAAKE!

@Nakatomi_Uk for sure, i would like to see more competition in the GPU space. But it’s just not there. I love the AMD CPU’s but not GPU’s. We need competition in all things or it’s just free money for the other company and they don’t have to innovate or keep their pricing in check. It’s so important. 😊

@DrVenture69 yeah so far mine has held up. But i don’t use them all the time. Agreed on the 3.5. Otherwise i really like them.

I have the Sony Inzone headset and love it. I found it to be worth the money. Hope Sony keeps the Inzone line around and continue to improve it going forward. These i have never had but heard they are solid.

Please be a good Battlefield game. The industry needs it. It would make for better competition with COD. Plus BF has a decent size following when the games are good. I have my eye on this one as i am a huge shooter fan. Really want it to be good. Now if only Sony would give me Socom.

@RoomWithaMoose i am excited for Switch 2 and for sure will buy one as soon as i find one in stock. But not so sure it will be that much of the gaming space. It highly likely won’t play GTA 6 and GTA6 will be a huge portion of players for years to come when it launches. I do think MS will have a role some how. But i think PC and PS6 will do large numbers going forward along with Switch 2. Hard to tell, but PS6 could easily set the price up and not be all that much bothered. People and myself will buy it. But if they got crazy think well Xbox is gone and people that want to game on PC don’t buy consoles anyway and Switch 2 can’t run said games, they could very easily try and maximize profits.

@Anti-Matter would you also like $100 dollar copies of God of War and $1000 dollar consoles? Cause if you think that won’t be what Sony does, look no further than Nvidia vs AMD. I am no PC gamer but they are smarter in the sense they ask for AMD to stick around and compete in the higher end GPU market cause as of now Nvidia is charging and doing what they want cause they can. If you think the gaming world is worse for having Xbox in it, careful what you wish for having them out.

@IOI only Sega couldn’t find two nickels in their pockets and MS has 3 trillion dollars. I ain’t saying it’s a good idea or bad idea in this comment. I am saying if MS wants to continue to make hardware and Xbox Os for PC handhelds they can easily do that. If they don’t want to then they can let others make “Xbox” consoles and your content moves to that seeing as it’s the same just made by Dell or Asus. They have said they are continuing to make a Xbox console and even handheld. Sega didn’t and couldn’t do that. Again for this comment i am not saying i like or dislike their plans but everyone saying they are leaving hardware forgets to mention they ain’t leaving hardware.

Haha all of a sudden these Xbox one games and new current games are good? I was told as a PS and Xbox console player, that all the Xbox games sucked and weren’t worth owning. Now the floodgates are opening and wow i can’t wait to play all these games. I mean some of you and i know you won’t need to eat crow. The same way Xbox players said Death Stranding was a walking Sim and boring and it was the best selling game on Xbox when it launched. I mean come on gamers.

@RZ-Atom “Now, if only I could use an Xbox controller on PlayStation”

That would be the most Epic gaming news ever. I love PS games and all but i do not love nor really like their controllers cause of the thumb stick layout. If this became a thing, oh my! I would buy way more games on PS then have since the PS3 came out with the worst controller i ever used in my life. PS3 console was awesome, but that Six Axis. Yikes!

I didn’t buy it cause it ain’t my style of game. But i am happy for Konami cause i want them to be healthy and making games again. Someday i want a new Castlevania. Good news hope it sells another million and half in its later days with discounts and continues to make them some money.

@Intr1n5ic i openly discuss what game i am playing on what platform. Every one on Pure knows i was having a blast with Astro Bot. Still a little mad that didn’t hit 5 million in sales or more, but is what it is. I hope Sony gives us a Jak and Dexter on that scale. I would eat that up as well. Imagine how good that would look? There was an article on here saying Sony is revisiting idea’s from legacy games. That could be good.

@Intr1n5ic to that point people shouldn’t have been surprised to see me say i had games to play on Xbox One with a weak MS 1st party outage. Goes both ways right ?

@Intr1n5ic well yeah if i said it like that HAHA. Which i didn’t i am just saying there is a gap now for sure without any games coming from Sony. Not to mention 3rd party games have been a little dicey here lately. I just seen Dragon Age sold 50% less than EA wanted. But MS is cooking over there. I thought South of Midnight looked awesome from Compulsion games. MS would be smart to bring that over to PS at some point. It’s a single player game. Could do well. Doom really impressed me also. The Shadow Drop of Ninja Gaiden was a nice surprise also. Like i said i am looking forward to the State of Play. Let’s hope they have something cooking.

@Intr1n5ic which game from the list I provided was a remaster or remake from Sony, None, i never said they were. I said in an interview with a Ex PS leader he said we should buy remasters and remakes if we want new games. Thats not a comment to the list you gave.

I don’t get called out by people cause i said Sony paid for some exclusive deals on games that i didn’t want to play to fill out their year cause they had a light 1st party offering. Those games didn’t interest me or i would have bought and played them on my PS5. But i find it odd that PS gamers didn’t buy those games in bigger than 2 million or less in sales. There’s 70 MILLION PS5’s out there. The reason some may call me out is there way of coping with me having an opinion on the industry that don’t aline with theirs. Which is also more than fine. But don’t come on here week after week after week and say PS gamers buy and support games. When a GOTY amazing game couldn’t hit big numbers. I loved Astro Bot and bought it day one digital. I think it’s the best all around use of the PS5 and controller we have seen yet. My opinion of course. As for what MS spent on their games. A huge amount we all know that. But that is allowing them to have these big successful shows , it’s allowing them to not have to chase live service games, they have built and established ip’s that gamers want to play on whatever platform they choose. Right now that is more exciting than hearing canceled, canceled, canceled! I see a lot more complaining on here about Sony’s choices this gen than i ever had before. I think Sony needs a massive reset. I only buy a PS console for it’s exclusives. That i have said on here for years, most people that chat with me know that. So when all i see is studios that i enjoy and buy a platform for have canceled canceled canceled, then yeah i am about to starting barking about it bud. In closing between the PS5, Edge controller, Sony Headphones and the yearly online fee i have around $1000 dollars invested into the PS5, i don’t want to see their studios not having games. Bluepoint and Sony Bend are likely now to be PS6 games. Have to wait and see what the state of play looks like and hopefully they have a June showcase that will be killer.

@Intr1n5ic thats mostly true. However i don’t think MS is doing great per se. Certainly not on the hardware side at least. However on the software side MS does seem to have it going now. Hence every week there is articles on here getting excited about those games maybe being port over. I mean last June MS had a great software showing and this month that was excellent, and they will have even more of the roadmap of games to show this June. What has the month looked like from Sony, 3 canceled games, very very questionable decision to ask Bluepoint to make a live service GOW. Who wants that? While MS is showing games gamers want. I mean at the end of the day gamers want games right? Sure Sony had a few titles that they paid for that didn’t interest me, which is fine. But they sold like a can of trash. So excuse me that i took a shot at the people on here that claim PS gamers buy games. Well you could have fooled me with the numbers those games did. NOW had those games not been tied to a PS deal. They would have seen more money from PC, Xbox and PS all combined. Square Enix got the memo. It’s ok to take a shot at dumb stuff, i do it to Xbox all the time, they are the king of making dumb decisions normally. Now you be a good gamer and buy those remasters and remakes so you can get new single player games. Cause that too was told to us this month. I mean come on man that is not a good look for them. Seeing as the PS4 ran smooth as butter all last gen. You think i need 4 games from yesterdays MS event to knock the idiotic choices at PS right now? I thought you knew me better.

@NattyKing Not sure when Wolverine is coming, that could be 2026. I am not a huge marvel fan, but Wolverine was my favorite x men when i was younger so maybe i will give that one a try.

@IamJT i think older games are doing well cause retro is always a cool thing. However the top played games on consoles are largely the same month in and month out. COD, Minecraft, Fortnite etc etc.

@Intr1n5ic What does sales have to do with quality? Is that what you're hanging on to dismiss their worth?

I;ve been asking myself and others online this very question. But when i ask questions or try and make points about the industry on Sony lead sites i have to use their metrics, i have to mention sales cause thats all that get thrown back in my face.

@Intr1n5ic i have no disagreement with anything you listed there. ONLY that 30% of what you listed one being a GOY title didn’t crack 2 million in sales!!! Great games and I LOVED Astro Bot. But for a platform that claims they “buy” games, how did a game of the year sell 1.5, rise of the Ronin sold like a tuna fish and 2 year old spoiled mayonnaise sandwich. Stellar Blade for all its T & A sold like trash. I mean look i get your point, we have gone rounds on here in the past, but if you are looking at those games with 9 cancelled games as a success for the most popular brand in the world of video games, then you lowered your standards and i think even you would admit that. As for GOY, 2024 was a weak year but i will take nothing away from those games, the sales yes. Art form no i won’t slander that. But as for PS gamers being thankful for MS games to play that i find odd as the most successful selling game of that first 4 was a Xbox One game that was called Trash on here 2 million times. Don’t get me started on halo sucks and now MCC and infinite on PS5 would be SO WELCOMED. For a brand that made a living on the internet bashing other platforms titles and praising theirs to go to when is this or that MS game coming to our platform and watching 9 cancelled games. Can you give me a break here buddy? Please and thank you!

@LogicStrikesAgain 3rd party games yeah, sadly might not see too many big Sony 1st party. Hoping they have something tho. Kind of tired of seeing cancelled games tho. Took a little wind out of the sail for me at least.

@Jay767 cause we “Xbox” guys also love our PS5 and Switch. It’s clear on the PS5 we have time for new games from anyone making them seeing as Sony has canceled more games than announced lately. Surely we all know PS5 won’t see many more games from a lot of our favorite PS studios when they got Bluepoint of all studio’s trying to make a GOW live service. I am happy to see some good games at today’s Xbox show. Now let’s hope Sony follows with a good state of play.