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@nolifebr So it was a coincidence that ALL major studios started work on live-service games around the time Jim Ryan became CEO in 2018-2019?
Sorry but I don’t buy that every major studio at Sony has a cancelled or flopped live service project because the studios themselves decided to try and fail in doing games very different from their existing expertise.

Take TLOU Factions as an example, Naughty Dog had developed several multiplayer projects before but they were expected to have a game with a roadmap for months, a battle pass and all of those live service BS, they just couldn’t deliver and in the process proved that studios can’t really be both, you either develop and maintain one live service game every decade or develop 3 brand new games, rather than launching a simple factions multiplayer mode as in the first game they canned the whole thing losing 4 years of active development.

I’m sure every studio has single-player and multiplayer ideas, but they were very clearly instructed which ideas to pursue or prioritize, it’s the same thing I’ve been saying since this live service push became public in 2021, all these resources, mainly time and money, were actively being taken away from the single-player projects, I remember right here in this site I was called a hater for saying that and people insisted that the live service push was completely independent from the single-player games output, and well, it’s obvious now that wasn’t the case, some people have been excusing this live service push for +5 years and still don’t want to admit it was a disastrous idea by Sony, because again, this push was made by Sony, not all studios collectively and coincidentally agreeing on making these games.

@ED_209 I disagree, Sony doesn’t need more studios, this is clearly still a consequence of Jim Ryan’s mandate for every first-party studio to develop live-service games, which might go down in history as the worst decision from PlayStation ever, it obliterated half the first-party games from this generation.

This might get me to finally Platinum the game!

Some people wishing the game to do badly just because it ain’t going to be exclusive is beyond pathetic…

I can accept Microslop killing their own platform but slowly killing their studios with that 30% profit margin target that’s basically impossible to achieve it’s going to get much uglier pretty fast.

It was a monumental mistake not to film both seasons back to back or just have one long season to cover the whole of Part 2 story, the second season being bafflingly written plus that dumb unnecessary cliffhanger killed any momentum the series had.

Nah, it’s definitely dead. The only scenario for a new game to release is for someone else to buy the IP, Ubisoft is done for.

Honestly it doesn’t look bad, this isn’t nowhere near as unappealing as Concord, however at $40 plus having to pay for PS+ it’s just to high of an entry barrier when lots of another options are readily available and free without mentioning MTX monetization that’s bound to happen sooner or later.

After Starfield I lost hope in Bethesda to deliver a truly great game, imo the last one was 15 years ago with Skyrim, Fallout 4 was the first misstep, 76 was a disaster but Starfield a HUGE disappointment.

And this is why I still treasure my PS3 Slim.

Ugh I just want black PS5 Pro covers…

@Deljo It has both, you can use the Right stick or motion controls with the Dualsense.

@JimmyRiddle Certainly not all the time but Epic Mickey is quite a good one specially for Kids.

I think everyone agrees he’s right, not only it creates value for their platform but also incentivizes competition between platforms, that’s a big reason why the PS2/Xbox/GC and PS3/360/Wii were easily the best generations ever in gaming.

The only outlier that keeps saying otherwise and failing spectacularly is Microsoft.

Wait, so the only new game Naughty Dog has announced for this entire generation is already “off-track” and the best case scenario is for it to release 3 years after announcement? What a disgrace.

Gotta give it to Microsoft, they have a unique talent to ruin everything they touch, remember how Nokia seemed unstoppable? Microsoft stopped it. Now remember what everyone says about Call of Duty being too big to fail? Guess what, it’s failing…

Sorry but this game is just way too overhyped, yes it’s a great game and the dev story alone makes it a worthy GOTY winner, but it didn’t deserve to win indie game when Silksong or Hades 2 are right there, it didn’t deserve best narrative, audio or direction when Death Stranding 2 and Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 are right there too.

Once again it shows that this “awards” are not really meant to award the best of the best in each category, but the game the press hypes the most.

Control Resonant is the big highlight, excited for Saros but that new trailer did nothing for me, RE9 looks sick, Tomb Raider looks amazing but still ways off, and Fate of the Old Republic is a dream that might never come true.

Lame, long, boring, predictable and its just hard to be excited for games coming in 2+ years, my favorite announcement was Control Resonant.

@SeaDaVie You chose a wrong comparison, a new game in an already established franchise is not necessarily a sequel, like how is Breath of the Wild a sequel to Skyward Sword when those 2 games are basically total opposites even if they come from the same franchise? Same thing with Mario Odyssey and Galaxy, it’s rare when Nintendo actually does a direct sequel like Galaxy 2 or Tears of the Kingdom.

Sequels on PS5 are different in the sense they all play VERY similar to the previous games and picks up the story right where it ended, except for Yotei which has more gameplay and story differences, but all the others are basically just more of the previous game and while still good games the novelty has worn off and there hasn’t been enough new IPs to balance out the sequels, the only one from this generation so far is Returnal (my personal favorite game from PS5).

Would it really be surprising?

Destiny is the ONLY IP that Bungie owns and it’s actually popular, Marathon will need a miracle to not flop at this point so the only logical step for them is to go back to work on their only successful franchise.

I only hope they make it accesible for newcomers, I tried several times to get into Destiny 1 and 2 and just never could.

Excellent news.

2026 is going to be a very tough year for gaming, if this situation doesn’t improve (and it doesn’t seem that way) both Sony and Nintendo will be forced to increase prices eventually plus there’ll be console scarcity again, and if this situation extends to the end of next year coupled with GTA 6 launch, assuming it won’t be delayed into 2027, could spell an even worse disaster than 2020/2021 for the gaming console market.

@Dogbreath I’m in my mid-20s and what I see from people my age or younger is that there’s little to no interest in single-player but specially story driven games, some friends have indeed grown out of playing Fortnite, Warzone, Apex, etc, but the thing is, they didn’t keep playing at all, some sold their console or never got the new generation, others still have it but only play a Fortnite run every few months and that’s it, there’s really no way to get them to buy even a $10 game, let alone at $70 on launch, maybe the only one would be GTA 6.

That’s just sad, and it legitimately worries me as the younger generation starts to take over while more and more single-player games fail to succeed because all the time (and money) is being spent on this black hole games.

@SeaDaVie In the other article it also says that it was the previous management who just didn’t care about Sony’ eroding market share in Japan, and given that it was Jim Ryan administration’s decision to close Japan studios it’s pretty obvious that even tho the decline of home console had been an ongoing trend, PlayStation outright didn’t care about their home region once Jim Ryan was made CEO.

And that’s just one aspect of Ryan’s disastrous administration, may we count how many failed live service games have been cancelled, or how much Concord lose, or how buying Bungie ended up being the worst business decision Sony has taken?

I still find it unreal how just in 3-4 years a Japanese company almost ended up exiting the Japanese market all because of Jim Ryan’s disastrous management and decisions, the damage caused by the previous management hindered the entire PS5 generation imo.

He only means it’ll keep being supported well into the PS6 lifespan, same way as we’re still getting many PS4 games 5 years after the PS5 released.

Good news, let publishers know that smaller games can be successful too, not everything has to be a AAA juggernaut that needs to recoup +$300 million in development costs.

Still a worthless device for MY particular use case, surprised how many people don’t know of the Remote Play app.

To me this signals the PS launcher being imminent as Sony just wouldn’t give a Steam license for free, and the incentive to use this launcher would be having access to your purchased library on PS4/PS5 plus trophies and maybe cross-saves.

If they stop selling games on Steam and only having them on their launcher it would be an a-hole move for PC players but I can totally see it coming, because that way they’ll be able to keep 100% of the sale (same as the PS Store), collect all the data they want and most importantly, restrict the devices that can install that launcher as a move to keep PS games off the next Xbox.

And I claim that digital downloads are 100 times worse for customer ownership and rights.

Honestly, numbers are not “monstrous” in any way, debuting in Top 3 and already falling a bit behind isn’t a big success specially considering that sales on Xbox in the monthly Top 10 doesn’t amount to millions, I’d call it a “just enough” success.

@naruball Sony too has raised prices in absolutely everything this generation and they’ve been doing great, “extremely loyal fans” can only get you sales around 13 million after 5 years such as the Wii U or PS Vita…

The SW2 is clearly a success, don’t try to downplay it because of some console war BS, many people here don’t seem to understand that given Xbox’ suicide it’s now key for BOTH Sony and Nintendo to succeed, the console market quite literally depends on it.

Quality mode on PS5 Pro is flawless now with +60 FPS

So EA, Activision, Bethesda, Xbox and Ubisoft are pretty much done…

2025 is the year where the games industry decided to f***ing die or what?

Looks fantastic in every way, but this should’ve been the very first time they revealed it and not with a CGI 4 years ago!

Day 1 for me as Returnal still is my favorite PS5 game so far, but this is Returnal 2 in everything but the name.

Saros and Wolverine 10/10
Everything in between 1/10

Just remember that the “2.5D God of War” was also supposed to be revealed at the previous SoT according to Insider Gaming…

Spoiler: It will be an State of Play, not a Showcase, calm down your expectations.

Just came in to say I simply can’t stand Borderlands (:

Another year without a showcase…

Lmao just a few years ago they were bragging that they had dozens of live service games in development but now that most have been cancelled or became the biggest flop ever for the brand the quantity is suddenly “not important”, wish they’d have taken that advice back in 2019…

Also, I really don’t like this approach of exploiting an IP to almost burn it, just look at TLOU, for a franchise with only two games it feels incredibly burned and overused, and when they don’t nail an adaptation, just like Season 2 of TLOU it plays against the IP and even devalues it.

And mind you, this push isn’t necessary, same as becoming more multi platform, Sony has repeatedly exceeded financial expectations every single quarter and have said this is the most profitable generation by far and it’s not enough, at this rate they’ll end up losing much more while seeking that extra $1.

Honestly it was more surprising that it took this long and they raised it before everywhere else but the US.

And remember, it can always get worse, it’s only been 7 months out of 48.

Back when they announced the store was going to close I decided to mod my console, the first time I did with a PS console and it was like a second life for it, I still use it somewhat often and never plan to get rid of it.

It’s pretty clear Sony is seeing that selling more software even outside their already successful platform leads to more revenue than keeping a closed platform and they clearly want more, all signals are there but denial is strong here, don’t end up as the Xbox folks who did believe it was ‘only 4 games’…

And somehow there’s still people here trying to hype the game up, I remember the same thing with Concord lmao

With touch-screen support and mouse controls this definitely goes for the Switch 2.