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@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.

With all the canceled games there is no shortage of time to play this.

@__jamiie Sony did the same thing when the Vita was going down hill instead of trying to turn a product around they just go to the more successful console and double down on it. Which i suppose from a profit perspective thats what they have to do. But this is why i never buy anything from Sony outside of the PS home console. They have all in some ways not been supported to a level i view worth my cost of entry. Surprisingly the PS5 is even starting to become a weak investment for me as they have so many cancelled games or games i am not interested in. Been a weird gen to say the least.

@Oz_Who_Dat_Dare as for subscription services, they seem to be the future of TV. Being are still cutting the cord left and right. Cable won’t last another 10 years in my opinion. Music is a lock. No one is giving up it’s Spotify and Apple Music. Games can be a different breed of consumers. But i do think in time, the console’s will start to be less and less important and handhelds with a subscription will be very popular, alongside mobile. That seems to be the younger kids bread and butter. The older you get the more money you tend to make and the less time you tend to have. Having a mobile or handheld device that can slot into gaming time you wouldn’t have in front of your TV is going to be a huge slice of the market in the coming years. Subscription makes a lot of sense for that. I think GP is here to stay, Sony i am not sure as they have huge debt and thin pockets.

@Oz_Who_Dat_Dare Yeah MS now makes 5 Billion in just COD skins, when i read that number I couldn’t even hardly believe it. Sony wants that kind of money but they simply suck at online games. Single player games simply just don’t make that kind of money. Now if it’s a great game it will still make some profit. But as we know Sony’s first party profit is razor thin at the moment. They are trying to change that, but God of War as a live service game? That tells me they simply lack creativity in house, cause thats the worst series they have to make it live service. I truly think Sony is gong to bring some of its games to Switch 2 and much sooner to PC. That’s free money and it’s not going to stop people from buying a PS. 85% of PS5 sales are causal players. They don’t care if God of War 2018 is on Switch, they don’t play those games to begin with. But they might want to chill on the live service games as they have studios starting over this late into PS5. They need those studios to have something in the next 4-6 years. I’d assume Bluepoint will get put back on a remaster to cut that time in half. Bend i have no clue, they can’t seem to catch a break.

@Oz_Who_Dat_Dare i mean all of what you said makes sense to me. Thats why i am saying the services are nice options to have alongside being able to buy games. Which i don’t see that changing anytime soon. But for some people the service is the better way to go. I just like options and we have them in today’s gaming world. As long as the player is having fun and getting decent value they are good with, then thats the best we can ask for! 😊

@ShogunRok and here i thought it was dumb that Bethesda forced Arkane to make Redfall. This might be up there or worse. Sony is a shell of itself. Wow sure hope for a big rebound for both studios. I expect some layoff’s, they have too until a project starts.

Wow we went from Xbox has no games to PS has no games to Xbox is bringing all its games to PS. I mean you can’t make this stuff up. This industry changes faster than any other it seems. I know people on here defend Sony to the high heavens cause they sell a lot of hardware but this has been a mess from a game’s perspective. I mean imagine if MS wasn’t in the bed they made for themselves and weren’t bringing games to PS. It would be a little dry over there. Just wow is all i can say and this is bad for the gamers cause we are losing games and excitement for the hardware we have invested in. Sure hope they get those 2 studios straight and onto a great new project.

@arsmolinarc it cheapens games you say?

Sure looked like Indy was great and loads of PS5 players will be buying it on PS. Not to mention this site often writes articles saying such and such game is coming to PS from MS and players here get excited, also GP games. COD sold 80% on PS, it’s PS’s largest game of the year every year, pays most of their bills. It’s now on GP. Sorry bud, that argument sailed the moment MS said those games were coming to PS. GP filler argument is DEAD.

I want to add to my above comment. We are seeing a time which courts are saying getting a 30% cut for just hosting the store isn’t good. If and we should know more later this year and into 2026 that number reduces, lets say it goes from 70/30 to 80/20 or a death blow of 90/10. PS is in trouble. They will have to put their games elsewhere as the free cash of the store will be cut to a really low margin. Not saying this happens but if so, look for Sony and others to use all platforms and new methods to make money. This one has a huge impact on the mobile space and gaming space. I doubt it goes to 90/10 but i could see the courts ruling a 80/20 spilt.

Yes and no. I mean 30 plus million on GP isn’t something to overlook, but it won’t ever be Netflix numbers. Sony’s offering is largely not well priced for what it provides seems to be the general consensus. I mostly agree with that. I think the thing that the video game industry often forgets is change in this business takes time. There was a time when players laughed and mocked and HATED STEAM. How did that work out? Took time but i think we know how that story ended. Will GP and PSN + follow? Hard to say but there is always a newer generation of players coming in and what they adopt will be pivotal. I remember the days people said digital will never outsell or replace physical, again how is that working out years and a decade later? To early, whats not to early is people voicing their opinions on things they aren’t in control of. Therefor looking a fool many years later.

@TruthClaire1 it’s easy money and they don’t even need to bring the heavy hitters at first. Bring over some cheap ports from PSP and PS Vita. Then some older PS4 titles. They could make enough off those to produce a new AAA game or continue to push for live service without having heavy investment. They are already on PC, so they are already a 3rd party publisher.

@MrMagic certainly a wise decision. I am hoping we get the official reveal of the Switch 2 here soon. I am looking forward to it even if the rumors are true it won’t launch with a Oled screen. Which i get, keep the cost down and get us all to sell ours in a few years and buy the Oled model.

@MrMagic i would check that before saying for sure. I know Mario kart 8 get’s bundled with the non Oled. But it’s not year round from what I’ve seen. Maybe in this last year clearing out inventory? That could be. But again i went to GameStop and target and they don’t have it is my point. That don’t make me a lair by the way, link included for proof. Overall Nintendo is the only first party that drives these kind of sales for individual software titles. There are countless on here that think Sony’s first party drives that type of sales and attractions. But most games Sony and to a lesser extent MS have only reach 10% of the player base at best. Astro Bot is way too fun and well made of a game to be under 2 million sales. Case in point.

https://www.target.com/s/switch

@MrMagic i went to GameStop and target. But i do know the bundle exists. I seen them during the holiday, my point was, they aren’t; 100% of the time a thing. For a long while in the switches life they didn’t bundle anything cause it was selling out as fast as they hit the shelves. Holiday bundles aside. Mario Kart 9 has been selling huge along with everything else they made and ported to switch for years. Let’s do non bundled sales of Mario kart vs anything you want to pick of Sony’s non bundled sales. Would that make it a little more digestible for you? The end results is the same, Nintendo ran Sony out of Japan and to California to make action adventure titles.

@MrMagic the Mario Kart bundle is limited, heck i just went to 3 websites right now and they don’t even have a Mario kart bundle. Nintendo has bundled a lot of things with switch, Animal crossing, Mario Odyssey etc etc. they don’t last forever and Mario kart has been selling gangbusters since it came out. Same with the PS5, they had GOW, the Spider-Man 2 of course horizon for a little while. It’s all the same limted time. Now one game that was forever bundled was Wii Sports. That one doesn’t count. But thats not the case with Mario kart. Sony has to bundle those games tho due to cost of development and how little single player games sell after a short while. Nintendo don’t have that issue due to low cost and their games sell in the 10’s of millions. You should know this. I feel like i am telling you something you already know. This ain’t your first rodeo around here haha

Sony should bring some of its PS4 games to Switch 2. They would print Sony money in Japan and elsewhere. Nintendo OWNS Japan. I mean like in ways i never thought it would get too. Switch 2 is going to print money all over again for them as time goes on into the Switch 2 life. Good to see, even tho i only use my Switch for Nintendo exclusives, it’s still a great time!

@MrMagic Those copies of Mario kart are just from Switch bundles.

So are most of God of War and Spider-Man 2 sales. Horizon as well. Bundles make a difference.

I always liked this studio. Returnal wasn’t my type of game, but i still think it was well made. Sales for it wasn’t out of this world. So i hope they get a chance to make a game on a scale loads of gamers would buy into.

@LifeGirl you are spot on! I don’t need a corporate business to tell me how to treat others. I was raised by loving parents for that. Disney has hurt their company so much recently and it’s all their fault. Great point LifeGirl 😊

Strange that gaming companies push agendas on its audiences to love all people and so many in the past and present do the opposite to their own workers none the less. Maybe this is some of the backlash and lack of sales for movies and games “creative” agendas i mean ideas. Just food for thought, don’t be mad at the ones asking questions others should ask themselves. Really sorry to hear this and i hope it get’s resolved quickly.

@MrPeanutbutterz with what you just described that type of console would have to have around 10 million or less in sales and in no way are any of the big 3 in those positions. Nintendo not getting 3rd party often times has nothing to do with sales of the console but cause of power and people buying the game on a more powerful platform or the game skipping the platform all together. Again is the news for PS5 merely down to well it’s the mainstream sold box? Surely not i am just saying it’s getting a little boring seeing all these talking heads point that out and then ask when is MS bringing its games to PS5. When is Sony bringing some games to PS5 is what i want to read and what are those games. Please please please be Resistance or Motorstorm. Hey a PS3 fan can still dream right?

@Jay767 Sega sold 9 million consoles and couldn’t bring their games to PC. But i get your point and yes sales matter to a extent. Steam deck don’t have 30 million in sales and it get’s a lot of worthy press news. I am ok seeing and hearing sales on a quarterly bases but it’s every week thats all i see. Now granted cause Sony doesn’t have an exciting roadmap of games ready to talk about outside of Wolverine and GOT. I understand the content for clicks is a little low. But come on. There is more Xbox and Nintendo news on here than a purely PS site should have.

Still not sure why we live in this bubble of caring what something sells as if it’s a measure to the excitement or fun we can have with a product. I drive a Chevy Truck, Ford has been the number one truck seller in the US for 40 plus years on end in a row. Doesn’t make my Chevy any less enjoyable to drive. To that guy all i would say is if Sales matter take a look at what a game like Mario Kart 9 will sell compared to multiple Xbox or PS exclusives combined. Nintendo will be just fine with whatever number of Hardware and software sales it makes in 2025. Look at Sony they are in like 5th place or worse in TV sales but they keep making them and they ranked high among my favorite set’s of the year. Gets so old that the only thing written about PS these days is the units sold of the machine. Cause i really like the PS5 for just the base value of fun and features it provides not that it sells a lot.

@ChrisDeku Yeah that quote was a while back. Said they spent around 1 billion a year bringing titles to the service. The thing is it does bring in decent money. But as to how that money is spent and managed, i have no access to that information. But overall i think the service can be good for the company and the player if balanced and handled right. As to what the exact monthly numbers are i think it’s hard to say, but that was the last quote from MS that i seen. So i shared it as there number and not mine 😊

@Flaming_Kaiser couldn’t tell you. I don’t work at MS. But Phil said they spend 1 billion alone in getting games to the service. Plus you’d have other expenses. My point was when others write articles about GP they make it sound like it’s a non profit service. I am sure it’s less profit than other means. But it’s also designed to keep you in the ecosystem spending money on other Xbox things. Much like the PS services. They keep you in Sony’s ecosystem. Thats all Amazon Prime is as well. So i think there’s a place for them. It’s just a fine line of budgeting it right. Now if MS is doing that correctly or not i can not say. I wouldn’t have access to that information.

I guess this is why we don’t see GT7 and Spider Man and MLB the show in Sony’s service, yet GP get’s MLB the show in GP every year. I mean that’s a story in itself. But while we know the service takes away some sales. It also brings in around 8 Billion a year last said by MS. So a service can work to a degree. But MS will continue to bring games to PC and PS and other cloud devices in the future. I would just like to see Sony beef up their service offering a little more or at the very least have more sales on their older games so players on a budget can access them once they’ve reached a level of sales. Now thats not me. If a game is great i buy it at full price. But we can’t always just think about our needs when writing articles or talking about the industry as a whole. We have to look at all budgets and ways player access games. To me GP does a good job of that as it’s one option.

@Matthewnh you did know it’s a 3rd party controller and not made by Microsoft right? Nah you knew that!

@__jamiie wonder if this controller has better than 6 hours of battery life, i kid i kid, no im not kidding. I’m with you. I still prefer the Xbox controller layout for most of my games. PS is mainly the exclusives. Dual Sense isn’t awful like the first 3 PS controllers. Dual Shock 4 was ok i guess. I’d give it a 6/10. But everything else i like about PS consoles. Yet i take crap on here sometimes cause i rail Sony’s controllers as being bad for my play style. It’s normally the only bad thing i have to say about Sony’s hardware tho. Now those live service games they got going on or already canceled that’s another story. I rail on those all the time. Sony don’t know how to make online games. Never have and still don’t from what i can see.

Good enough to know it was inspired by Gears of War cover system. Which is why competition is good and spins great idea’s from dev teams all around the world.

Not for me. I will stick to PS and Xbox as my places to play. I don’t even like PC’s. I use Mac’s and iPad Pro’s. I think i will stick to that. But if Sony and MS can make money off the PC player base then by all means they should and will. But i don’t think it will move masses of players to PC. Time will tell but PC and console have co existed for decades.

@GeeForce this is true. On Pure it was much more detailed to be a 3rd party controller. Gotta throw shade for clicks tho. It works, sadly!

I like Sony TV’s well minus them not having 4 HDMI 2.1 ports. Otherwise i always used Sony TV’s. But they have lost a lot of marketshare in this space. They are like 4th or 5th now in brand share. So they tend to play it safe on most their models. But their flagship model is always worth a look. Excited to see what will be there.

It’s clear people look at pics and not read. It’s clearly a 3rd party controller and not MS.

@dschons Thats not a bad idea. I would be ok with that. I would day 1 it for sure. It would look so good. Plus with all the crazy guns they could throw in some Dual sense features.

@dschons resistance on PS5 would look outstanding. I loved the enemy art on that series. Maybe not as much as the enemies in Gears of War but close enough to make me wish resistance would get one more chance to become a staying IP. I hated the PS3 controller. But still logged insane hours playing Resistance. Same with Motorstorm.

@awp69 the day i see Motorstorm is coming to PS, i might drop my iPad from raising my hands and yelling finally!! I love that series. If that did that and Resistance. I would be beyond stoked. Hope we find out sooner than later what titles they are working on.

a@__jamiie Spot on my friend. The only way to make $300-$400 million dollar games and be profitable will be to eliminate hardware cost. Throw it for pennies on the dollar on an online app to anyone with a TV, PC, maybe tablet and let them play it. I love hardware and i think it will continue to do well for a little while longer. But again this site get’s it wrong so many times. COD and FIFA is PS, not spider-man and God of War. When the causal PS fan can play FIFA on a PS app, why would they buy a $500-$700 box? We aren’t there yet, and the keyword is yet. GeForce now is already very very playable, it will continue to get better. If you would have told our parents 30 years ago when they were on the phone corded to the wall that they would have a iPhone that could do what it does they would look at you like you were on drugs or a super genius. Games are 30 years old. New ideas and innovative tech will come to it. I would love to be able to own a Xbox and PS app with all the games. But the Billion dollar question is when and if so would MS keep all that IP to their app? Cause if so Sony is looking thin! MS would have all the games on it’s app that carry the bigger audiences. Sony admitted in the insomniac leak that they feared this deal in ways this site don’t tell cause they are still on the plastic wars. Something MS lost back since OG Xbox and yet here we are!

What Rockstar was able to do with RDR2 on that hardware. Then take it to PC where you can throw $4-5K on it and it looks photorealistic. No doubt in my mind GTA6 with the time and budget they have behind it that it will be one of the best tech demonstrations of what video games are capable of capturing. If the gameplay loop ain’t your thing, i get it. But to knock this game from a build standpoint will be foolish. It will have dev’s on other teams going we need to reach this level at some point. Rockstar is miles ahead. Again RDR2 in my opinion is still a masterclass.