Back again with the toxic positivity from Push Square, some in the comments even pointing fingers at people being bad at MP games and hence the reason that Sony live-services fail spectacularly, you can’t make that s**t up 🤣

Being realistic tho, it looks generic af, like one of those filler games Geoff puts in-between the big announcements, and even if the game is decent enough it has no chance in the current climate, if Wolverine is being so heavily scrutinized while still being a fun game just imagine the reception this will have.

@Dan12836666 I actually would like an entirely different game like Sunset Overdrive where they can unleash their creativity without the constraints of comic book characters and storylines.

Reading a couple of reviews and seeing that 78 Metacritic score confirms my expectations, still a fun game but a step down from the Spider-Man games and I really think that being relegated to a Marvel games’ studio is starting to eat away the talent at Insomniac and sadly we unofficially know they’re tied up to do Marvel games for the next decade.

Good, I like these for a second run or trophy cleanup, but the first playthrough should always be as the game intended.

@LogicStrikesAgain I’d agree with that justification if Sony was in such a dire position losing money quarter after quarter but they’re not, in fact they’ve repeatedly stated this is their most profitable generation ever and particularly this fiscal year is the best in PlayStation history, did they really have such a dire need to cancel a project of one of their most longstanding partners? It’s not like Kojima is an unproven dev, Death Stranding was both a commercial and critical success and the sequel has already sold better than most PS Studios releases this gen.
The same Sony who funded Concord for $400 million is now doubting Kojima’s next big thing?

Given the long-standing partnership (and the fact that Kojima himself is a Sony fan) why outright seeking to cancel it instead of negotiating different terms? Or why even signing and publicly announcing the partnership for this game in the first place?
This is cocky Sony showing itself again, same thing with the getting rid of discs situation, they didn’t have to go nuclear and cease physical games entirely but they feel so untouchable they don’t care and now we know they don’t care about maintaining devs relationships but they’re quickly forgetting that precisely solid devs relationships (and CDs) is what made PlayStation so strong in the first place...

It’s so funny how Sony is on a generational run for bad decisions but there’s ALWAYS some fanboys who will try to justify every single decision they make even with the most outlandish arguments known to man.

From the creators of “discs are destroying the environment hence Sony is trying to save it” we now get “Kojima wastes too much money on movie stars and Sony is only protecting its budget” without ANY basis to immediately place the blame on Kojima.

Edit: And now some are coping with this by hating on Kojima, on Death Stranding and even on other platforms just for existing, fanboys truly have no limits…

They’re saving the movie trailer to open the next State of Play 🤣

Such a GOATED month, the most beloved game of all time against the most advanced game to this date, I really feel fortunate to be able to play both on day one.

@DennisReynolds Sure they’re based on the voice actors but they can’t quite nail the look, characters look caught up trying to look both realistic and stylized and end up looking intentionally ugly or generic even when the actor/actress themselves are not bad looking at all.
But not sure what use is to argue with you given how nothing Sony ever does seems even a tiny bit questionable to you…

Something changed in Insomniac right when they changed Peter’s face model to look like the most generic white boy ever and it really shows in this game as every character, including Wolverine himself, looks off…

@get2sammyb Ok then, care to explain us their reasons? It’s been 2 months and you haven’t done that article, would be helpful as I really struggle to see a reasonable explanation for all this other than simply greed, to protect their margins against an ever-growing uncertainty in the gaming industry.

But now every opinion you don’t agree with you dismiss it as “Twitter discourse”? That’s rich given how much you rely on said discourse to flame users and reach 100+ comments for several articles you post nowadays, but only when you don’t agree with the discourse you don’t want to conversation to “devolve” into it…

Absolutely nothing, at least in the short term.
They’ll take no action until it hits their revenue, and that won’t happen anytime soon because of GTA 6, however I expect a couple of quarters after its launch everything will begin to crumble down as revenue won’t grow as much YoY, they’ll begin to miss their sales targets just in time when they have to market a $1000+ console after actively treating its users like trash the entire generation.

@Nei I know, I have a Pro and a large collection of digital games as well but I personally see this game rather differently and more like a collectible, I’ve got Deluxe Editions for Remake and Rebirth but now I’ve got the dilemma of spending on a hollow disc that might not even get supported come next generation or a hollow cartridge for a game that will look worse but that will get supported for the foreseeable future.
I might double dip and buy it digitally for Xbox or PS5 but for the physical version as a collectible I think I’ll be going for Switch 2 (as for all my physical games moving forward even if it’s a GKC).

That’s a huge disappointment. I think I’d rather get the Switch 2 physical edition even if it’s the same being a game-key card, at least the platform doesn’t have a deadline for physical games and both Remake and Rebirth perform rather impressively compared to all versions.

I don’t think there’s enough outrage for the sheer disrespect of opening with a movie trailer on a games’ presentation for a franchise that isn’t even Sony’s…

Wow, almost no new announcements whatsoever, mostly mere reminders of games we already knew were coming. Even Gamescom was better…

@AdamNovice Back again like clockwork with the “leave the corporation alone” comment.

Yes, all digital storefronts are the same yet I don’t see Steam massively removing licensed content like Sony did with movies a few weeks ago, and I don’t see Steam or Microsoft gaslighting its audience rubbing in their faces they own nothing right after announcing the end of games you could actually own…

Lmao they really are doing everything they can to turn into 2013’s Xbox…

How insufferable all those grifter accounts are, the rumor itself makes no sense (What does a 100% physical Xbox even means?) but they repost it as good ol’ engagement bait and well, Push Square isn’t being any better…

@Steve_BTW Pushed how exactly? I remember they marketed it as the game was solely possible on PS5 and its groundbreaking SSD but playing it felt like another R&C game and only a year later it turned out to run fine on PCs with HDDs…

To me Returnal was more technically impressive and felt more “next-gen” from that same year, but still I’d argue we haven’t seen a game that truly pushes the PS5 to its limit until now.

@Steve_BTW Nah honestly they can’t be directly compared, Death Stranding is a barren world by design with no NPCs in the open world whatsoever, almost no interiors and no ray-tracing at all, what we saw yesterday is impressive and shouldn’t be disregarded.

@8th_Observer Not upset but continuously disappointed in the entitled tone of several articles recently, this site didn’t use to rely so much in flaming users and console warring but I see they’re taking cues from social media where everything is more toxic but it does generate more engagement so I guess it’s working?

@8th_Observer Then what’s the point of this article? Only to try and flame PS users against Xbox trying to spark some controversy because a release date –for a game that is publicly announced and confirmed– hasn’t been announced yet, and some have already taken the bait.

And I personally find laughable the sheer hypocrisy and entitlement of a PS site almost demanding with pitchforks and torches the release date for an Xbox port when mere months ago they were dismissing all PC players as ‘port-beggars’…

Wait. Didn’t Push Square complained a few months back that “port-begging” was unbearable? 🤣

https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2026/03/no-one-is-buying-this-on-ps5-pc-port-begging-already-unbearable-as-sony-switches-strategy

The port is confirmed and will be announced and released in due time, what else do you expect?

@AdamNovice It’s Sony who send out an email to remind people we own nothing mere weeks after announcing the end of physical discs.
You don’t think people have a right to be pissed?

It’s always “leave the corporation alone” from you.

@get2sammyb I think he meant that while this article is about how well it’s estimated to sell on PC you shoved in the “PS5 Console Exclusive” in the title.

I can’t believe people who still defend how out of touch Sony is, it’s so arrogant how they literally feel too big to fail but bigger empires have fallen, corporate and otherwise…

@ShadowRJ Exactly. Enthusiasts as ourselves have already little incentive to get a PS6 as a main platform, hardware might be cheaper than Helix or building a PC but in the long run without physical games and the platform being monopolized by the PS Store I can guarantee that after buying a few games it’ll end up being more expensive than any other option.

I feel Sony is having some sort of mirage right now, where they say “there’s no impact to the business” for all their recent decisions because GTA 6 will inflate their numbers substantially a couple of quarters, BUT after its launch as console sales fall to their lowest ever while trying to market a $1000+ PS6 we’ll see if they dare to repeat “there’s no impact to the business”…

It will be a mortal blow for the console market overall, we’re severely underestimating how easily the casual audience will simply move on from console gaming altogether and find another cheaper hobbies, and us enthusiasts who still want a console, we are going to be squeezed to the last dime as companies will try to maintain the same revenue with 40% less audience or more.

The very first thing I thought back in 2021 when Sony was bragging about 10+ live services was that all those resources were taken away from single-player games, and both execs and diehard fanboys (even right here in the comments) proclaimed time and time again that it wouldn’t disrupt the single-player releases, and well, the obvious ended up happening…

What a waste of time and resources, we’d be closing out the Horizon trilogy right now if Guerrilla (as all PS Studios this generation) wouldn’t be making something no one but Sony execs asked for.

If you cherry pick you will find comments like these for EVERYTHING.

Twitter/X is the land where everyone is miserable, they act like a hate mob and right now Sony is a prime target for that mob, eventually they’ll move on to hate something else.

@Can-You-Believe-Sith Specially with how much it messes with PSSR, while I like this release for being classic Halo CE, it continues to demonstrate how incompetent this studio is for what was one of the biggest gaming franchises of all time.

@Flaming_Kaiser Would you want to alienate your most loyal audience by entirely getting rid of physical media or just keep it as a limited option for those who want it so they stay on your platform?

We can’t expect Sony to do what we consider to be logical but rather the greediest option of them all.

@Balaam_ You must think in terms of what shareholders want, would they want to sell you a drive to play all the games you have or rather force you into buying all your games again?

At this point I wouldn’t be shocked if some Sony exec ends up saying “fortunately we have a product for people who want to play their physical games, it’s called PlayStation 5”…

Something about this game just doesn’t hook me, I went from wanting it day one after 2021’s announcement to not being sure if I will get it at all, way more hyped for Phantom Blade Zero and Control Resonant.

I’ll pass, the thing that annoyed me the most from the base game was having these flashbacks switching from present to past to tell the story.

Why can’t we just get basic black plates for PS5 Pro? I’m not convinced about the design, the silver one looks decent but I wouldn’t rush to buy it, the yellow one is simply not for me at all lol

I agree and it’s a trend for every sequel that we’ve got this generation, Yotei, Ragnarok, Spider-Man 2, Forbidden West have felt a bit formulaic and not as impactful as the games that came before, still great games but gameplay is too similar and there barely was an evolution between entries while the story in my opinion has been a clear letdown for all these sequels.

@HonestHick And also remains the only account where you can’t change your region, so if you are in an unsupported country and make an US account you won’t ever be able to change it, PS Support will literally tell you “just make another account”.

Their digital infrastructure is simply archaic and as far as we know there’s zero improvements planned as they simply not care, they really said “take it or leave” and as for me I’m clear that PS won’t be my main platform come next generation.

@naruball Exactly, Sony (and most major gaming companies nowadays) are severely underestimating how easily the casual audience will simply move on from console gaming altogether, it already is happening this generation as the console audience keeps shrinking from the heights of the 2010’s, many young people are simply not interested in consoles even at their 2020 price and why many companies including Sony are shifting towards squeezing money out of their customers rather than gaining new users but that’s simply unsustainable on the long term.

I’m seeing GTA 6’s launch as a last hurrah for the console market before things really start to get ugly.

The ultimate confirmation this is set in stone, there’s no countermeasures planned or any improvements whatsoever for the all-digital ecosystem, it’s really an ultimatum of “this is what we offer, take it or leave it” and I honestly expect them to remain in that cocky attitude up until the PS6 struggles to sell after launch which will inevitably happen.

They’re banking on the casual audience to keep buying the brand forever but they’ll leave as soon as they see the price tag and the enthusiasts who were willing to pay any price are the ones who Sony is forfeiting with their decisions, if you want any indication on how “loyal” the casual audience is just look at how many jumped from the PS2 to PS3 (barely half of its user base), the PSP to PS Vita losing 3/4 of its user base or an even more dramatic case with the Wii and Wii U losing 90% of its audience, and yes I’m aware those are different circumstances and times but no brand is invulnerable of flying too close to the sun…

Insane, a company listening to feedback and actually doing something about it 🫪

Rest in pieces, EA.

Dave is a good actor but this show is full of red flags now.

It’d be poetic but let’s not kid ourselves, Microsoft began the all-digital push ever since 2013, Game Pass is also a big push for it, 90% of their recent physical releases are nothing more than game key-discs, and to be honest they’ve actually invested in having a better digital ecosystem, there’s no incentive for them to keep supporting physical discs other than a few days of positive clout on social media.

@TDHorizon I think you’re confusing installment plans to subsidizing, the way many phones are sold with carriers is that they include the cell services within the price of the phone for X months and ends up being cheaper than buying the phone outright and separately paying for cell service (effectively subsidizing the price of the phone), consoles simply don’t work like that, there’s no one selling PS5s with unlimited games included for a monthly price, MS attempted something like that with Xbox and Game Pass back in 2021 but it didn’t take off.

The latest trend as shown by Apple this week is hardware leasing which to me is completely dystopian but I can already see the pitch on the console side, personally I’d rather sell my old hardware to buy new one or simply buy older or refurbished devices before paying a monthly fee for hardware I will never own.

@TDHorizon I get it but that’s an apple to oranges comparison, phones nowadays are almost essential and many subsidized with carriers whereas consoles are not, in fact the console market has been shrinking and younger generations are not as interested on AAA gaming, the few ones who do are quickly getting priced out of gaming altogether which makes existing console makers more reliant on the existing audience to keep spending more and more.

Let’s see if they keep this cocky attitude when they try to sell us on a $1000+ PS6.

@tangyzesty It’s sad to read any comment cheering on the corporation for making more money while trying to ridicule the customers who disagree with their decisions, it’s obvious that any effect of their recent decisions will not be immediate, these numbers don’t even include any data after the July 1st announcement but you didn’t care to read that, only to cheer for Sony.

And I’m not saying there will be a large-scale boycott or a big sudden dip in their revenue stream, but do you seriously expect them to do this good when they try to sell us on a PS6?
The effect will be gradual, just look at Xbox now, a shell of its former shelf selling less than half than a decade ago yet still exists, PlayStation is not invulnerable to failure or gradually dwindle over time in the same way.