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"In celebration of this magnificent win against the FTC, we'll be shutting down ten of our gaming studios!"
— Mr. Microsoft, probably.

They better release swimsuits skins for every character. They don't have the balls to release a swimsuit skin for Jeff the Land Shark.

Note to self: Make an action game with boobies.

I can't wait for this game to never get a remaster or performance boost on a hardware successor.

If that's the case, this could potentially be a smart decision. Putting out a small collection of Halo titles for PlayStation users to get a taste of, and if they like it, maybe they'll buy an Xbox (or PC) to play Halo!

Will it actually work? Hell no! Or at least probably not, but it's not a bad idea, I just doubt that most people will be willing to switch platforms, or buy a Xbox alongside their PlayStation, just to play Halo.

Then again, some people buy Nintendo consoles just for Mario Kart, so what the hell am I talking about?

The Nintendo Switch has sold over 150 million units from March 2017 to December 2024. https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/finance/hard_soft/index.html

The PlayStation 5 sold 9.5 million units during the holiday season of 2024, and has sold 75 million units from November 2020 to December 2024. https://www.ign.com/articles/ps5-has-best-holiday-ever-overall-sales-pass-75-million

Netflix Games shut down its biggest game studio and lost some major people in the gaming industry in October of 2024, and in February of this year, they laid off employees that worked at Oxenfree developer "Night School Studio". https://venturebeat.com/games/netflix-shutters-its-only-triple-a-studio-loses-major-industry-hires/ https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/netflix-has-laid-off-staff-at-oxenfree-developer-night-school-studio

Need I say more?

@breakneck I don't actually think it's uncool, but if I play Undertale music at a house party, I'm gonna get thrown out a window.

I remember when video game music was uncool...

It's still uncool, but let's act like it is cool, just for this article.

Ha! That's a good one, Push Square! You and your early April Fools jokes! I know better I know for sure that this game is never going to release.

I'm tired of single-player games and multiplayer games. Where are the zero-player games?

@Kelrics90 Why are you questioning someone else's opinion on a game that you, guaranteed, haven't played, and based on your dismissive comment, probably won't play?

If there's anyone I can trust with the knowledge of the creative process of game development and creative production as a whole, surely it's Push Square commenters! Right...?

Stellar, you can now see those [REDACTED] at a higher frame rate!

@tameshiyaku Funny you say that, because I think James Gunn's style is the best of all the MCU subseries. Although most films trying to replicate it, with exceptions, fail. Taika's Thor Ragnarok was a good example of replicating the humor. Love and Thunder, not so much.

I felt like the new Captain America was pretty boring outside of the action and some of the drama. I'm glad you liked it, but I unfortunately found it bland.

Still better than Quantumania though.

I'm hoping that this is closer in quality to the first three Captain America films and the Black Panther films, rather than the newest Captain America film.

Spoilers to the Captain America trailer and also major aspects of the plot of the film. I just need to make fun of it.
"You're not Steve Rogers"
"You're right...I'm not..." 🔥🔥🔥
Cinema.

Why do people always want Sony to buy these large companies outright? Did we learn nothing from Microsoft's acquisitions of Activision Blizzard and Bethesda, or even Sony's acquisition of Bungie?

Regardless, it's definitely something seeing Tencent buying further stakes in companies, especially after closing offices, laying off employees, and even having one subsidiary buy themselves out to get away from their shackles.

Moral of the story: Big companies suck.

You'd think that being a part of a big company, especially a conglomerate like Tencent, would be a more secure path than being an independent studio.

Yeah. If only.

Good on these guys for getting out of the shackles of Sumo Digital and Tencent. I hope the best for them.

The PS5 is the best-selling Xbox console since the Xbox 360 and Nintendo Switch.

@AverageGamer You're not wrong, but people hate Meta, and that alone is a reason for people to buy the PSVR2.

Honestly, for a modern-day PC VR headset, that's an absolute steal. I don't think it's an amazing price for PlayStation 5 in particular, but this is a really good competitive price against the Quest 3 for PC VR gaming.

I've never been happier to procrastinate a purchase.

Still getting it used.

Finally, a real reason to buy the PS5 Pro.

@Jay767 Video games never age, because if they did, the PlayStation 3 would be nineteen years old, and that's just ridiculous.

All jokes aside, I don't agree with that sentiment. Games still feel fresh to me for a few years, at least until a new generation, sequel, or it's been four to five years. It's probably because I take a while to actually play a game, but I still consider games from one or two years ago fresh or new-ish. Sales are just a part of the video game experience for me. Outside of Nintendo.

Old PS5 games? These are still rather new games, stop acting like the console is bordering on five years old.

Wait, s**t...

Hopefully the upcoming Leapfrog Leappad Ultimate version of this game is better optimized and does exponentially better.

@BamBamBaklava89 Marvel Rivals made over $130 million in the first month alone. A free-to-play game, making that much money. I think the issue is a whole lot bigger than people not appreciating art.

Source:
https://gameworldobserver.com/2025/01/09/marvel-rivals-revenue-136-million-first-month-global

@Cornpop76 Understandable. I cannot buy games early anymore, especially after I got Miles Morales for PS5 almost a year before I actually got a PS5.

Anyways, I'm hoping at Assassin's Creed Shadows is good. That'd be cool.

@Cornpop76 Wouldn't mediocre slop be a 5/10? 7/10 is still good, sometimes great.

Also, Avowed has more of an 8/10 than a 7/10 response at the moment. I'm not saying that pre-ordering is worth it, especially at $70 or £70, but if people want to pre-order, they can do that. I personally don't pre-order, but I do sometimes buy games at full price after they release, specifically if they have very good reviews.

Is it in bad taste to call these layoffs a Crysis?

The Order: Denied

Hmmm, should we put our Civilization game on the popular VR headset with great third-party support and ok first-party support, or the VR headset that's been considered abandoned by manufacturer that made it not even two years after it released? Hmmmm...

Jokes and whining aside, I just feel like Sony brought this on themselves. A $550 VR headset with only two original VR titles from Sony Interactive? Really? Oculus Studios isn't supporting the Quest headsets amazingly either, but at least the price and third-party support makes up for it, and when Oculus Studios does release a new game exclusive to Quest, it's usually well received.

But hey, can't wait for the PlayStation VR3!

Sorry everyone, I ate the server wires for PSN. I thought that it was spaghetti.

Honestly, last year's Batman Arkham Shadow for VR was honestly pretty good, and I have hope for a good flatscreen Batman Arkham game in the future.

@Reform No, the cover art is not AI generated.

@SMJ I will not stand for this Astro Bot slander.

Which is why I'm typing this comment while I'm laying down.

@RyuChamploo I'm kidding

I can't wait to play this at sub-720p at 20fps on PS5 Pro.

And yes Push Square commenters. This is a joke.

I can't wait for the Half Life 3 Netflix series to be announced and released before the actual game.

If there's no longer a market for physical games, that's because I'm dead.

I am a physical game supporter to the very end.

and yet my dumb*** bought a Series S.

while I'm still early, please bring Blinx back, Microsoft. I know that it's very unlikely, but the damn cat deserves another chance! L
Also Ori on PlayStation would be nice. Ori is the best Xbox franchise (lol), and it's incredible on Nintendo Switch, so I think that my fellow gamers (lol) at PlayStation deserve those masterpiece games as well.
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"Come on Phil Spencer, give us Gears of War on PlayStation!"

_{note: this can also apply for Halo, Microsoft Flight Simulator, Ori, Fable, Hellblade, Age of Empires, all of the Bethesda-Microsoft exclusives, you get the darn point.}

The fact that 1.5 million players in Dragon Age Veilguard is considered disappointing is kinda hilarious, 'cause dats a lotta people, but it also shows how expensive video game development has gotten. All of this without even mentioning how controversial the latest Dragon Age game is (you can already see conflicting opinions in this very comment section), and while I don't think anyone is really wrong for how they feel about the game, it's absolutely one hell of a problem to have a game with such a mixed reception.

I don't know if I would get GTA 6 for that much or not, but I do know that this $5 bagel tastes pretty damn good.

Apparently, Invisible Woman's power is that she can turn invisible.

@anoyonmus No. What we need is a PlayStation 5 Pro Pro, and an Xbox Series XYZ. That will solve all of our problems.

Oh God, they've Fallen. for the PS5 and PC, also available on PS4 and Xbox.

watch transformers prime.

I hope they're making the long-awaited sequel to Philosoma!

I know that most people here don't know what that is, but what would you prefer, another damn Concord joke?

In other news, green is grass.

Here's a bold prediction: The Xbox Series Something will be outsold by the PS5 and the Switch successor in terms of sales in 2025.

See? That's what I call unity, and there's nothing more unifying between Nintendo and Sony than beating Microsoft's ass.