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That’s honestly a shame…

Just after I finish TLOU Part 2 (again), given it’s a Ubisoft game it’ll be on sale in just a couple of weeks.

@Splat Agreed, there’s too much trailers already, we are only 6 weeks away so I’d rather just wait for a bit.

So if actors who participate in movies and TV shows don’t like AI to disrupt their work they go on strike, but voice actors for video games can go f… themselves apparently…

It isn’t a bad month but I’m still waiting to see the price increase justified, I wouldn’t be so judgmental of the lineup if they didn’t increase the price up to 30%.

@TheDudeElDuderino TLOU Part 2 has never been part of PS+ catalogue…

Still think it’s unnecessary and yet another waste of Naughty Dog’s time, but for $10 I’ll give it a try, unlike many I did enjoy Part 2 and its story.

FINALLY a good selection!
A Plague Tale Requiem is such a good game.

At least they didn’t award Cyberpunk as best ongoing game as in TGA, which was a joke as it has never been an ongoing game, they were rewarded for finishing the game 3 years later lmao

@CharlieChooChoo @danzoEX I also had a very buggy experience, more than any other first-party game since Days Gone to be honest, I’m beginning to think that the game could’ve used a couple more months in the oven but they rushed to get on time for the holidays, that’s why they had to delay the NG+ update even further, it’s not like it was unplayable or anything but it was noticeable the game was not quite ready.

@get2sammyb We all get it but then why reveal Wolverine in 2021 if it was so far off? (I won’t say more but it’s not coming soon).

I think we really need a showcase even if all they talk about is games for 2025 and beyond as I already assume that 2024 won’t have anything major coming from PS Studios, with all this live service crap we need reassurance that the studios we know and love are working in the type of games they excel at, if it turns out that Sucker Punch or Guerrilla have been losing time trying to pull off a GaaS same as Naughty Dog I’m going to be extremely disappointed.

Well at least the studio is now free to fully focus on their next game (TLOU 3 or new IP), but to say that Naughty Dog’s output this generation so far has been disappointing would be an understatement.

Hopefully this makes Sony understand that studios who specialize in single-player games shouldn’t shift to a live service model, and also that not all multiplayer experiences should be built as live services.

Yet another disappointing month, the highlight for me is Stranger of Paradise but I honestly didn’t like it as much, as for GTA well everyone already owns it but it’s nice to have the PS5 version if you didn’t get it already.

I still think this is completely unnecessary but I won’t deny that if it gets the best version of GTA VI I’ll eventually upgrade my PS5.

@DennisReynolds The expansion may be really good but Cyberpunk has never been an ongoing game, more like ongoing development, giving it that award was a joke as they were basically rewarded for finishing the game 3 years after launch.

Discourse on Twitter is wild right now, people comparing the cinematic action gameplay to Baldur’s turn-based mechanics to make it seem ‘bad’ as if both games were the same genre and combat was the sole thing that makes up a game, I don’t even know why people are being so bitter towards Baldur’s since SM2 wouldn’t have won against Zelda or Alan Wake 2 either imo.

@UltimateOtaku91 I honestly don’t even want to compare them to what Microsoft is doing, I only focus about what Sony themselves have in store for 2024 and so far is lacking, I understand that sometimes dev cycles simply don’t align well but the lack of communication coupled with a bad showcase does not raise expectations at all.

@ChrisDeku Jeez, so instead of calling out Sony for not having single first-party game confirmed for 2024 you somehow choose to bash Microsoft because they’ve announced games too early? Did you remember that Sony did the same thing last generation?

Also why did you hand picked that list? Where’s Forza Horizon 5, Psychonauts 2, Pentiment, Hi-Fi Rush, Redfall or Starfield?
Sure, some of those aren’t as high profile as Sony exclusives but those are still first-party games that released this gen nonetheless.

I don’t understand why you have to cope with Sony’s lacking with whatever Xbox is doing or not, let’s just forget about Microsoft entirely and focus on the issue at hand which is the lack of PlayStation games for 2024, it’s the first year since more than a decade ago that we just haven’t a single high-profile game from Sony announced for next year, you can make the argument for Rise of the Ronin but that’s a second party, a game developed by Koei Tecmo with some funding from Sony and even if it looks good it’s nowhere near the high-profile exclusives we’ve come to expect from PlayStation, if you really like the brand/console you should demand them better when lacking not excusing by essentially saying “but Xbox…”

@Ralizah Rise of the Ronin and FFVII Rebirth are not first-party games from Sony, in fact this show made me even more concerned about the lineup for 2024, I mean seriously what would Sony have if they didn’t have the exclusivity for Final Fantasy?

Just fine, and it was nice to get a surprise release for God of War’s DLC, however I’m now very concerned with Sony’s lineup for 2024, we didn’t get a single announcement for a first-party game, not even Death Stranding 2 which I was fully expecting to be further revealed for 2024.

@Dragon83 You got confused, I was talking about the 30% price increase for PS+ that went live a couple of months ago, the 30% they take on their storefront is fine since it’s a standard across the industry.

However the controversy surrounding their storefront is that it’s not fine being the single distributor of digital content for the platform, which is why they have an ongoing lawsuit in the UK and I’m glad for it because we need an open market for digital content, nowadays you can get Xbox and Nintendo games and subscriptions for cheaper in several sites outside their own storefronts, for example I get 3 months of Game Pass Core (which turns into 2 months of Ultimate) for around $10 USD, much cheaper that buying it directly from Microsoft, but if I want PS+ I need to pay the price that Sony determines as there’s no other way to get it, I used to get cheaper PS+ this way but since last year they no longer allow it and the only way to pay for it is via the PS Store with those abusive prices, that’s why I’m not renewing any tier ever again.

And yet, I’ve also read people bashing the UK government for suing Sony when it’s clear that Sony is the one screwing with their customers by limiting our options…

@TrickyDicky99 Couldn’t have said it better myself, I’ve even seen people trying to defend the 30% price increase for PS+ because “Sony can’t keep up with inflation” lmfao…

It’s also important for us who do play to also get some content Sony, so far for 2024 we have not a single first-party game confirmed (hopefully this changes after TGA).

I understand its importance for representation but the quest itself was probably the most boring out of the whole game.

@Nem No, we wouldn’t be fine, Nintendo isn’t a direct competitor for PlayStation, they made it quite clear during the FTC trials and with every other regulator, so if Microsoft were to get out of the console market it’d allow Sony to have absolute dominance over the market and that’s just not a good thing, they could set abusive conditions for both developers and consumers alike, they’d be able to price their hardware and software as high as possible since there’d be nothing to compare it with, and of course it’d make Sony more complacent as they wouldn’t have to launch banger games to attract users.

It blows my mind how many people legitimately don’t know or care how important it is to have strong competition in any market…

It really does feel like the quality went down at the same time the price went up.

@Intr1n5ic Are we really going to justify a “light” year in first-party games with overpriced hardware that is mostly irrelevant to a vast majority of PS players?
Come on, it feels exactly the same as when Xbox fans used to excuse the lack of games with new controller designs…

• VR2 hardware is cool but it’s basically abandoned by Sony with just one single first-party game for it, sales show that the vast majority of PS5 users don’t care about it and personally I think it’s too expensive and not enough games for it.
• PS Portal is one of the oddest things Sony has ever done and while I understand its use case it could’ve had so much more potential.
• Dualsense Edge again could’ve been a great product but it’s overpriced and battery life incredibly poor.
• I don’t think anyone gets excited about getting headsets.
• Spider-Man 2 is unquestionably a massive Win, also HFW’s DLC was good, I understand that other games were just not ready to come out yet but the showcase failed to make us excited for the future lineup.
• Absolutely no one is excited about those acquisitions, in fact it makes me more wary as they kept buying studios only to pump live-service games.
• And finally, don't you think every console maker is striving to sell as many consoles as possible? You nearly listed the price increase for PS+ as a W for Sony…

And yes, of course I understand games take a long time to develop, MS has been heavily criticized for years about not having enough games each year and they are barely catching up, so if I complaint about MS all these years for not having enough games I don’t get why I can’t do the same for Sony when they had a lacking year.
Also, that doesn’t excuse the terrible showcase we had back in May where they didn’t show any single-player game from PS Studios other than SM2, instead we had a glimpse of the push for live-service games which honestly looks extremely unappealing to me.

They’re being complacent, there’s is no getting around it, but we can either try to excuse them coming up with the hardware they launched instead of games or demanding Sony to do better either launching or announcing more games or not overpricing their hardware and services, anyone who isn’t a fanboy would choose the latter.

@get2sammyb Oh come on, with only one big first-party game in 2023 and nothing confirmed so far for 2024 plus a really bad showcase and price increases in everything you can’t possibly say Sony hasn’t been complacent recently…

It’s gonna be great for the full 3 hours that the camping lasts lmao

I’d have expected it to fully arrive on the service, not just a trial…

It really looks like a cheap knockoff from Wish and AliExpress, the exposed cable of the fan in the top looks almost as a design flaw, the disk drive bulge is ridiculous and the included “stand” is a really bad joke.

I know this isn’t targeted for the people who already owns a PS5 but people who get this model are getting a worse product for the same price as the OG, plus it now requires an internet connection to use the disk drive even if you buy the model with the disk drive included so there goes being able to play just out of the box and making physical media more worthless.

@Tr3mm0r If you aren’t a 5 y/o fanboy then I don’t get you, who’s saying all the people they laid off had limited contracts that expired at the same time? Did you say the same about the laid offs at several other companies including Microsoft?

Every single time there’s big laid offs it should be condemned and criticized, a company shouldn’t be able to spent billions acquiring companies only to fire their employees months later, and yes, including Zenimax and Activision Blizzard, when that eventually happens (cause it will happen) I’m going to complain all the same.

@Tr3mm0r What are you trying to talk about?

I honestly don’t understand how just months ago they were allowed to “evaluate” and take decisions on another studio’s game (Factions) and now they’re being laid off, I’m increasingly concerned that acquiring Bungie was a bad move for Sony who is widely recognized for their single-player experiences.

9/10, story is amazing but a bit on the short side, side missions were surprisingly great and the open world activities are better than the first game but still repetitive.

Just imagine how PlayStation would be if they let Shawn Layden stayed to lead this generation instead of Jim Ryan…

@Lukasamba Actually we’re seeing an increasing number of games that do require a download even if they are single-player, such as Hogwarts Legacy and Jedi Survivor, some developers choose to put a fully playable version on disc such as all PS Studios and Square Enix for FFVII Rebirth but that merit goes to the each developer who chooses to do it, not the console per se.

While Xbox is certainly not perfect with online DRM their work on backwards compatibility for hundreds of 360 and OG titles shouldn’t be under appreciated and in fact we should keep pushing Sony to do the same thing, I still can’t believe there isn’t a single way to play all the old God of War games on modern consoles, and that’s the case for tons of games.

Not gonna lie, this is concerning as she could be considered one of the founders of PlayStation and the fact that nobody wants to say why she’s going out may point that the rumors about Sony firing her are true.

Yes, quite a few actually, the most annoying one is to finish a section but then nothing triggers the next part of the mission and you’ve got to reload checkpoint and do everything again, that happened 3 times as I was completing the main story.

So far it’s amazing but I’m worried that I’ve only played yesterday and PS5 already says I’m at 50% of the main story, I really hope it’s wrong.

@mrbone You -can- but you shouldn’t as it helps with ventilation and stability, and the fact that all promo images are of the PS5 in vertical position WITH the stand the very least they could do is to include the $5 stand with the console and not trying to sell it separately for $30…

It genuinely shocks me how hard some people try to defend this BS.

Lmao EA just doesn’t let Callisto Protocol have a win, it’s not a coincidence that in the same month Callisto gets into PS+ Dead Space also arrives on EA Play and Game Pass.

I know many people won’t agree but I’m actually excited to see more competition in the gaming landscape, because this will obviously result in both Sony and Microsoft competing more aggressively for our money and to be completely honest that’s what Sony currently needs, they’ve been too complacent and greedy the last couple of years and we need a change, with Jim Ryan gone and a more aggressive Xbox there’s the perfect opportunity to refocus and strengthen PlayStation even further.

And for the people ‘worried’ about MS buying X, Y, Z publishers don’t even think about it, there’s absolutely no way that after acquiring 2 publishers and 21 months of regulatory hurdles another acquisition would be approved, this is it for publishers, but do expect more studio buyouts from both Sony and Microsoft.

I LOVE Splatoon ever since the first one on Wii U so naturally this caught my attention but having tried this for an hour it’s sadly just a poor attempt at a copy of Splatoon when it actually could’ve been a good one.

The potential is there’s since the artstyle looks interesting and I’d say that gameplay could be fun, however currently it feels so janky and slow to play, half the times I’m trying to do something my character takes seconds to react and someone else ‘foams’ me in the meantime, I tried to play with all characters but it’s the same result, also the maps are quite small and unappealing which results in the same battle dynamics and very few variety in battles.

Sadly I’m thinking this is gonna be yet another live-service game that disappears from existence less than a year after launch.

@Deoxyr1bose Splatoon 3 isn’t a live-service but it honestly gets more and better content than any live-service game that I can think of, plus the recently revealed paid expansion looks even better than the base game’s campaign.

I much prefer paying $60 outright for the game and all its content rather than be milked with microtransactions and all of that BS.

Read the room Sony, not even Epic is able to launch and maintain so many of these live-service games…

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@UltimateOtaku91 Lol prepare to be disappointed…

After getting the platinum for Spider-Man 2.