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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.

@PloverNutter Gameplay is the least of the problems once you reach the middle of the game as it completely destroys, demolish and obliterates Batman’s storyline from the Arkham games.

I’m still hoping/praying for Rocksteady to come out and say, “you know it actually wasn’t the same Arkhamverse” even tho it clearly is.

This marks my sixth month without PS+ and still feel I haven’t missed anything at all.

And this is why I hesitate to build a PC, I just don’t have the patience to deal with Windows, just one update can break dozens of games and you have got to wait until the developer fixes it or Microsoft does 💀

I’d love it but at this point I’m almost certain it won’t happen, my hope is that they just port, remaster or remake the games still stuck in that generation.

For being a trillion dollar company Microsoft’s incompetence is really something worth studying…

We were all focused on criticizing Jim Ryan when Hulst is just as responsible for this obsession in live service games, I don’t think PS Studios will get back on track until he’s gone (maybe another Concord-level failure will do just that).

And btw, it’s just sad that many fanboys just take and excuse whatever this company is up to even to go as far as claiming Concord and Helldivers 2 generated more revenue than single-player games, which just isn’t true as one is Sony’s biggest failure ever and the other was a successful but $40 (or less) priced game, plus it’s an unfair comparison as this year Sony didn’t release any big blockbuster game, would you say it did better than Spider-Man 2, Ragnarok, or any of those big games? Of course not.

This fanboy excusing and defending only gets us a complacent, cocky and even abusive Sony…

@greengecko007 Couldn’t have said it better, the first line is just pure hypocrisy, they could’ve phrase it better like “sales have not been in line with Square’s expectations” instead of calling out ‘media and fans’ for painting the game as a “spectacular sales failure” which is a term I have never seen anywhere else regarding this game, and it’s exactly what Push Square been doing since the game launched.

Really disappointed to see this site turning into a fanboy echo chamber instead of being professional and sticking to report news surrounding PlayStation.

Yeah no, I don’t believe a single word out of Hulst’s mouth and I just don’t trust his judgment after how hard he pushed Concord and how it bombed.

I honestly think this game has gone a bit under appreciated and overlooked just because it’s part of a remake, while for me who didn’t play the original both Remake and Rebirth felt like completely new games and damn good ones at that, specially Rebirth for begin a 100 hours game it never felt boring or sluggish to play which I can’t say for most 100 hours games.

This is the best outcome possible, that way Kadokawa stays independent with a large investment, Sony gets to tighten their relationship with them and they’re not at risk on collapsing themselves as Microsoft is doing with Activision and Xbox.

Some people being sad because FS games won’t be exclusive is just pathetic, just think about it this way, it was a very large undertaking and could’ve put Sony in a position of much needed cash flow that might ended up in Sony publishing games in every platform possible for a short-term gain, sound familiar?

As other have said it felt like a glorified tech demo and it really shows that they didn’t know how to come up with a sequel but they did it anyway.

The discourse around the game is going to be exhausting, Neil Druckmann’s ego already being present certainly doesn’t help.

An option should always be given, that being said I’ll most likely end up playing in single-player as I continue to refuse to pay for PS+ after the price hike.

For me the surprises were:

• Asian devs carrying this year hard.
• PS Studios disappointing year, except for Astro.
• Half the industry still imploding (including Sony’s live service push cuz Concord and Bungie disaster).
• Microsoft’s effective killing of Xbox in pro of Microsoft Gaming.

If the acquisition goes through you can bet Nightreign is the last ever From Software game to launch on Xbox.

1. FFVII Rebirth
2. Astro Bot
3. Stellar Blade
4. Prince of Persia The Lost Crown
5. Hi-Fi Rush

Yeeeeees! Literally was waiting for it to start playing, hopefully it isn’t a broken patch like some other games.

Same as always, good announcements (perhaps greater ones this year) but in a way too long show.

The concept looks spectacular, can’t wait to play Naughty Dog’s vision of a sci-fi world, that being said… I didn’t like the trailer very much and there’s too much Sony products placement lol

@Jrs1 Apparently it also have issues and hasn’t been updated yet.

@Deoxyr1bose I disagree, we’ve seen countless free games fail and another Marvel game fail spectacularly with the biggest IP they have, Rivals is a genuinely good game, not perfect by any means but just by playing a few hours you can tell it tries to mix up the genre, not revolutionizing it by any means but feeling different enough, while Concord never got past being a slower Overwatch copycat with comically bad character designs (another strength of Rivals btw).

Name a more iconic duo than Sony and online issues 🤣

It’s 90% sure it will happen as both companies want the deal done but they’re still setting the price.

I’m still not sure what to expect, we’ve seen nearly all gaming acquisitions gone wrong in some way, including some of Sony’s and this would be the biggest acquisition they’ve ever done for the entire group, not only gaming wise.

Is there any word about a PS5 Pro patch?

I already got it on physical but I feel this is one of the few games that could take great advantage of the Pro if optimized correctly.

It really is the most pointless console upgrade to date, and that’s coming from someone who actually bought it 6 days after launch in an unmissable deal at $550, still haven’t played one game that makes me go immediately say it was worth it, at retail price even less so.

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Guess I’ll just try it tomorrow…

I kinda want to get them but then I remember I own it on PS3 which remains the best version yet…

@Flaming_Kaiser Not really, just look at Marvel’s Avengers which back in 2020 was in the peak popularity for that IP and it flopped, they key is making a good game, and Rivals definitely feels good so far.

It’s quite impressive from what I’ve tried and it’s even enhanced for the PS5 Pro, characters have amazing designs and unique moves, mechanics for each of them are neatly done and it feels different to play with each one of them, best thing imo however it’s not even close to being as predatory as Overwatch is which is a huge W.

But I remember some author here saying that it sucked but Concord somehow left him great impressions… needless to say more lol.

I mean for being such a disaster it still holds 2x the player count of Concord on launch day 🤣

At most I watch some no-commentary gameplay when I’m unsure about a game, but I’ve never been able to stand watching gameplay while someone talks out loud about something completely unrelated to the game, really can’t understand how those get millions of views.