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I’m beyond excited for a new game from Housemarque but revealing one of their games, which are 100% gameplay with a CGI trailer is definitely not doing them any justice.

Poor, the only thing that saved it from being an utter disaster was Housemarque’s new game.

Seriously, just 1 PS Studio announcement plus yet another unnecessary remaster (not the one we all wanted) is so disappointing.

Also, it’d be beyond ironic if this launches on Switch but not Xbox, when all Xbox games are being ported to PS5.

Please don’t let this be the highlight of the event…

Visually it’s going to be stunning in a PS5 Pro, but the game itself is just boring.

I really wish the recently rumored God of War Greek collection remastered is real, that plus some new look at DS2 or Yotei would be more than enough for a great State of Play.

I don’t think there’s still much left to do in the Greek mythology, it already showed in Ascension they were running out of things to do and story to tell, I’d honestly prefer having remasters for the Greek saga (with PSP games please) and set the new entry for a new direction entirely.

It also raises serious questions about Sony’s increasingly lack of communication, they’re even giving away 5 days for PS+ but no explanation whatsoever.

Ok, now I’m really having 2011 flashbacks.
I believe it hasn’t been down that long since that time.

It’s ridiculous it’s gone down this long, no other competing service has had an outage for more than 12 hours already!

Does anyone actually doubt it’s coming? The only reason it isn’t confirmed yet is because the port ain’t ready and MS already has a stacked lineup of ports for Spring.

Press [X] to doubt. I have no doubt yet no proof it’s coming Summer 2026.

Lmao they are beyond clueless…

At least SEGA had the decency of getting out clean being transparent and not outright lying repeatedly letting users stranded mid-generation as Microsoft is doing, it’s creating bad faith among their most loyal fans.

@StrickenBiged Right? Yesterday was Halo, today is Fable, tomorrow will be Starfield. There’s no point in keep speculating if it’s almost a fact that everything is coming over.

@get2sammyb But your article is using his tweet as source, at least other sources like Tom Warren, Andy Robinson or particularly Tom Henderson have more credibility, but then again, at this point everyone expects it to happen, it’s still gonna be a bombshell when it drops for sure.

Again, stop using Jez Corden as a source, a year ago he literally said “no, xbox isn't porting it's console exclusives to playstation. its just hard hopium from fanboys.”

Also, at this point everyone expects every Microsoft title to be on PS5 (and Switch 2), in fact I fully expect at least Starfield and Gears to also make the jump this year, feel free to use this comment as source, it has more credibility than Jez Corden lmao

Welcome to the irreversible death of Xbox and rise of Microsoft Gaming.

Will this be the year where Sony finally has a good showcase? We’ve gone since 2021 without a massive good show like we used to get at E3 last gen.

@MasterChiefWiggum They’re no longer any competition to Sony tbh, this year they’ll be just another partner/publisher for Sony and Nintendo.

Another W for PC users. See what you can get when you complain instead of being complacent?

High on Life is one of the funniest experiences you can get, if you have simple humor or like Rick & Morty this will be a blast for you.

Thanks Sony, you make it so easy to not subscribe to PS Plus lol

They need only to remove Hermen Hulst and they’ll have a winner chessboard.

It’s nice to see some excitement instead of the usual Ubisoft hate, I’m definitely playing this day one.

@Sacrosanctus Couldn’t agree more with you, and since that 2021 showcase we haven’t had a good show like that, it’s been beyond disappointing this generation and it’s all because most if not all PS studios were making live service BS that got cancelled, effectively losing 5 years of development time and money, a disaster, just like Push Square out it a few days ago.

@themightyant Yeah pushing forward development doesn’t seem to be a thing so I’m still expecting it 2026-2027, for the Venom game I really don’t know what’s going on, if it comes out this year they need to reveal it ASAP, if the next SoP goes by and it isn’t mentioned then my guess would be that it’s delayed or cancelled.

It’s kinda hilarious that more than 4 years later they are still fixing some bugs lol

We already know from the leaks the earliest it can launch is 2026…

Huh so scummy Sony…
For “only” $15 more than yearly Essential I can get a year of Deluxe, but nope, not falling for that, I’ll only resub once I can’t get it at $40 a year like we used to.

@get2sammyb At this point there’s more games cancelled for PS5 than exclusives released to it, you really think fans shouldn’t complain about that?

The problem isn’t that Sony is venturing into new types of games, is that they did a massive shift overnight where they decided that their studios renowned for making some of the best single-player games in the industry were suddenly given instructions to pump out a live service product, with no experience to do so, they thought buying out Bungie as a “consultant” for live-service games would solve it but they had their own disaster going on internally, plus buying studios exclusively for live-service development has somehow turned out to be even worse, look at Firewalk and I feel the next studio getting the axe is Haven.

It really feels that everything that could go wrong with that live service strategy did go wrong, and many of us called it out the moment it was announced Sony was pumping out 12 live service games in such a short time, I repeated time and time again that no matter what their PR response said those same resources could be used to make more single-player games and here we are with absolutely nothing but time and money wasted across most PS Studios.

I’m a fan of PlayStation but being so complacent with the brand only gets us this BS and €799 consoles, so I’m sorry if our complaining annoys you but we’re going to continue to do so, complaining got Sony to deliver an outstanding PS3 generation after a disastrous launch, they absolutely can do better.

Jeez, I do think it’s the best path forward but what a staggering amount of time and money just poured down the drain, is there any studio at PlayStation that wasn’t wasting time with live service BS!?

I’ve been waiting for this game almost 12 years and I wouldn’t get it at launch at $100 even with the money in hand as it’d just be too much greed, but we all know if someone can get away with it that’s Rockstar, good luck to any other publisher that attempts it tho.

I had the first PS VR and realized it’s just not for me, I pushed trough Astro Bot VR (the OG!) but I always ended up dizzy or even sick having to throw up, I had to use it with a fan on for 1 hour at the very max and still ended up very dizzy.

Just think that most of these could’ve been single-player games already released and the PS5 gen would look substantially different.

I don’t get why people get mad for calling out Sony to stop this stupid push for live service, they absolutely need to be called out, the people responsible for bleeding this much money for absolutely nothing should be gone and until that happens I’m gonna keep complaining and I applaud Push Square for doing it too because we all know Sony can do better instead of being a complacent fanboys who disregards all critics as “doom and gloom”.

Couldn’t agree more, this entire generation feels just wasted by PlayStation.

@ShogunRok Yoshida saw that and literally said “Alright I’m out”

@AK4tywill While Jim Ryan was CEO Hulst had the role of managing PS Studios, all of this failures, cancellations and misguidance at first-party studios have been under his watch whether on one role or another. He need to go ASAP.

This stings as both studios just lost around 5 years of time and money for absolutely nothing, same as Naughty Dog with TLOU factions and I bet there’s more we still don’t know about, Bend in particular were done dirty as Sony cancelled Days Gone 2 for live service BS only for that to be cancelled too, but now is there still a chance for Days Gone 2?

This f***ing obsession with live services needs to stop, it wasted this entire generation and I keep saying Hermen Hulst is a big part of the problem if not the root, he shouldn’t be CEO with so many cancellations and massive failures under HIS watch.

I do think it’s not Nintendo’s goal to eat up at PlayStation market share but it will end up being competition one way or another, if the price is lower than the digital PS5 you can expect the Switch 2 to outsell the PS5 from launch onwards (until GTA 6 launches).

Plus if it does get major third-party support as rumored it might convince more casuals to only buy a Switch 2 as they do like handhelds a lot, and honestly this is all a good thing, with Xbox dying we need more competition in the console market and it really can’t get better than a strong Nintendo against a strong PlayStation.

I mean, it’s a pathetic excuse but at least now it doesn’t entirely sh*t over the storyline they had created across 4 games, hopefully they can truly continue the story with another Batman game.

Two hilarious things, the fact you used Jez Corden as a source (who at this time last year was saying Halo or Gears would NEVER get to PlayStation), and that you wrote “Cordon” instead of Corden twice 🤣

@Toot1st Lmao sure, in PC everyone uses Steam, their Cloud Gaming still sucks and 90% of their GP subscribers are from console. Microsoft can tell themselves all they want, the fact is that the bulk of their audience is/was on consoles and they’re effectively nuking it.

They’re about to become completely dependent on Sony and Nintendo just to be able to sell games, which is both pathetic and ironic, great for Sony and Nintendo tho.

Only videos for Platinum and screenshots for Gold, they certainly add up in space but it’s always interesting to remember how I finished X game.

Great for PS5 and Switch 2 players but once Halo releases on any console other than Xbox, the brand is irreversibly dead.

Damn, game must be in a rough state for 2 delays in a row, but at least I’m gonna play Avowed and MH Wilds first.

The IP itself is great, has lots of potential and the movie could actually work really great, that being said, they definitely need to tone it down, we’re getting too much Horizon too fast, plus the fact the second game wasn’t as good and the Lego game straight up sucked isn’t doing any favors.

It’s not hate, it’s fatigue of getting too much of the same.

Yeah actually a movie would be better than the cancelled Netflix series, IF well done it can actually be pretty good and successful, but if they tie producers for Madame Web, Venom and Kraven, well… 💀

@Mikey856 How much is revenue from consoles again? Yes, it’s a good chunk of money but it’s still minuscule in the grand scheme plus porting games ain’t free, why do you think they’ve also sold a remaster/upgrade for PS5 users alongside most PC releases?

Yeah I think they’re right, as much as hardcore players move to PC the bulk for console sales are casuals who just want to click and play and couldn’t care less about the PC.

And also, the sales performance for PS games on Steam has been nothing short of disappointing, in some cases such as Sackboy I actually wonder if they were able to recoup the cost of the port but even with big franchises such as God of War or Spider-Man I frankly expected them to do better, and this was all before the PSN requirement.