@wildcat_kickz “If it doesn’t affect me then complaints are surely overblown”.
It’s disappointing to still read some comments like this, trying to be apologetic to Sony and doing backflips to justify them, we all knew digital games were taking over but to have a sudden cutoff like this doesn’t make you even slightly uneasy? Don’t you think that if PlayStation will become a digital-only platform they must do A LOT of improvements to their tech stack and customer policies? Don’t you think they should have elaborated on these improvements and the impact for the millions of people who still have physical games? 15% of 90 million is still quite a lot of customers they’re kicking in the balls and you expect us to go quietly? I’ll certainly not.
I’ll be very clear, I don’t like an all-digital future, I understand it’s inevitable and always expected Xbox to be the first digital-only platform and Sony beat them to it.
However the Xbox/Microsoft Store is just much better positioned to be an all-digital platform as they allow to sell digital games in several other storefronts often with cheaper prices, they have regionalized pricing and support every country’s currency instead of imposing USD as the PS Store does, their refund policy isn’t nowhere near as restrictive as Sony’s, many games even give you a double entitlement for console and PC, you’re allowed to change regions if for whatever reason you made an account elsewhere or changed country residency, hell even the eShop allows most of these and they’re simply not as restrictive as Sony who seems stuck in the 2010’s, specially with cybersecurity which is the account most vulnerable to be stolen via social engineering and for years they’ve done absolutely nothing to improve it.
@ShadowRJ They are cowardly hiding under a rock not even daring to post anything on social media, they’re waiting for this to blow over and go back to business as usual, it’s up to us to keep being loud even if it won’t change anything.
This goes to show it’s a decision entirely on Sony’s end, there’s alternatives as the manufacturing line will remain open but Sony is just choosing not to, they could reduce production and pass down distribution costs to customers so that few physical copies remain for the people who are willing to pay for them, but again they’re choosing not to, they’d rather go nuclear and cease to produce discs entirely, it’s beyond disappointing how Sony is behaving.
Never before I’ve seen such a fierce pushback against Sony and I’m so glad people are not taking any more BS, I don’t think they’ll change course but all that remains is to keep being as loud as possible and vote with your wallets.
Yeah it was pretty telling from the blog, by the time they introduce new hardware they want to have gotten rid of physical media already so they can avoid the awkward situation of still releasing some PS5 discs while marketing a digital-only PS6.
However I’m still a bit flabbergasted, there’s no one forcing Sony’s hand on this, there’s no crisis situation with the Blu-ray Discs themselves as they’re still very cheap to produce, they didn’t even provide an option to keep physical media as a more expensive alternative, they actively chose the nuclear option of ceasing production entirely and also chose not to elaborate on the impact for the millions of customers who have dozens of physical games, adding to it Sony is the only major platform holder to have a monopoly on digital games for PS5 as all other platforms allow to sell digital games elsewhere, this was their opportunity to change their stance on that and chose not to.
I probably have never been more disgusted and disappointed with Sony than today.
Lmao such a disingenuous and pathetic statement, how exactly they have numbers for how much it has sold on PS5? If they’re so sure why can’t they provide actual numbers? In fact, why don’t they provide sales numbers for every game, console, and subscription sold? Oh right they don’t disclose numbers they can’t brag about.
Can’t believe that with all the turmoil surrounding Xbox (or XBOX) an exec decides comes out with this pathetic fanboy butthurt comment, can’t they focus on more important things like I don’t know, don’t closing the studios they spent billions to acquire?
Honestly it isn’t, been waiting for this game for over a decade and I’m positive it’ll deliver on my expectations, I already knew some disgusting practices were coming and I ready myself buying discounted PSN gift cards to pay for the Ultimate Edition for around $70.
However that doesn’t mean I agree with or like any of these practices and I’d even say this release encapsulates everything that’s wrong with the current industry but it’s not the first time we’ve seen all this, basically every gaming company has had these practices for years now, look at all those premium editions/upgrades that are cut content from the base game, people expecting Rockstar to be a good guy and launch the game at $70 (as many were commenting here just last week) was completely unrealistic, I don’t like it but it’s the way the industry behaves, I bet Take-Two executives were thinking ‘if everyone has gotten away with it, why wouldn’t Rockstar?’
The least they could do is be transparent about this and call it as it is, a digital-only release, both Crimson Desert and 007 proved that you can lock a disc until a day one update is released, not the perfect scenario but even an empty disc holds much more value than a code in a box, this is really just about killing that resell value and second-hand market so they can profit off every single copy sold throughout the years.
It’s so paradoxical they still want to invest in live-service games after losing billions on projects that appealed to no one, but they cancelled the one live-service IP that many players do find appealing, the one they essentially paid 3.7 billion for, it seems they haven’t learned a lot…
Definitely going with the standard edition, really don’t care about some skins you could get variations from while playing, but it sucks that there’s no disc at all, only an empty box with a code and also no edition whatsoever with a map or collectibles.
I completely agree, also in this context they just can’t make any PS6 exclusive games to push the new platform as it’s been traditionally done, doing so would doom those studios as the install base of a $1000+ console would never be enough to cover the costs of a ‘next-gen’ game, and with no exclusives for next-gen there’s no reason to have a next-gen at all.
They literally told investors in the latest quarterly earnings their current plan is not to sell many consoles but rather milk dry the existing user base.
It’s now official that at least Ninja Theory is shutting down, what a pathetic excuse of a company showcases a new game from a studio they’ll be shutting down 8 days later? Completely moronic.
@Jacko11 They’ve had a second, third, fourth, fifth, honestly countless chances and they’ve failed time and time again, the only reason they still exist is because of Microsoft’s subsidy, that’s done now as they’re forcing Xbox to stand on their own two feet hence why these brutal cuts, if even then it’s not profitable enough for Microsoft it’ll be the end.
Microsoft is done subsidizing Xbox, this is the last Hail Mary to make it profitable and the bloodbath is going to be insane, the biggest ever in the industry, there’s Compulsion, Double Fine, Ninja Theory, talks around Arkane and even ID Software.
This is all consequence for years of claiming the unsustainable (ahem Game Pass) was sustainable and if you want to have a good laugh go to Pure Xbox to read all those Game Pass evangelists now doing backflips to justify these decisions, from cheering for Microsoft to buy the entire industry to now say “it hurts but it has to be done” when talking about firing thousand of people MS spent billions to acquire, gtfo…
I’m actually very excited for this one, it’s been a long time since I played CE campaign, it’s looking visually amazing with notable PS5 Pro enhancements and gameplay looks classic Halo with Dualsense features.
Don’t really have any problem if this is ends up being the only Halo game to come to PlayStation as I like to own all consoles (as long as they keep existing) and not being tied to one brand or dealing with a PC, but I do want the best version of this remake on consoles and physically just for the novelty of it even if it’s just a key-disc.
This is a very big reason why they’re U-turning with some games (and higher up execs were ok with it), being multiplatform wasn’t working all that well, the sole success of this strategy has been Forza Horizon 5 but while it sold more than 5 million copies it also caused a big drop in Xbox console revenue as many users stop spending on console (my case) or completely abandoned the platform, sales from ports (mainly FH5) just wasn’t enough to cover up the losses from people abandoning their platform.
It’s a similar situation to Sony and PC ports, as ports just didn’t sell all that well and there only was one big success being Helldivers 2, at least Sony pulled out before they were becoming dependent on PC revenue, it might be too late for Xbox to do that as few sales is still better than no sales.
Sorry but every article that has “some PS5 fans” in the title turns out to be a clickbait of 2 random tweets making some claims that fit your narrative.
Laufey is a brand new announcement so it’s only logical to keep promoting it weeks after reveal, come September you think all the focus won’t be in Wolverine? It’s quite literally just a normal marketing cycle for Sony after every State of Play.
@Stocksy The game has some amazing aspects but the story is definitely not one of them, it’s there and sometimes makes sense sometimes it doesn’t, it’s honestly so disjointed it ends up being unintentionally funny, like in the first hours they just said “hey there’s this girl you can play with” without elaborating or telling you absolutely nothing about her, that keeps happening throughout the game lol
@Logonogo I ended up loving the Abyss tbh, at first it was a bit jarring since the game literally tells you nothing but it became second nature as there’s often more than one way to complete them and in some you can even “cheat” just like with the shrines on BOTW, TOTK or puzzles in Immortals Fenyx Rising making your own way out.
Why so many fans get on defensive mode when a saga that used to be only at PlayStation gets shown in some other event?
Suddenly there’s claims that the games aren’t as appealing anymore and apparently every franchise that does this like Final Fantasy, Persona, Kingdom Hearts or Stellar Blade are “double-crossing” or downright “betraying” Sony just over announcing a game elsewhere as it’s not even skipping PS, while also trying to downplay said platform in which was announced, petty childish behavior imo.
While I agree that Microsoft promises just can’t be trusted didn’t you post an article saying this was such an “tiring” topic? Lately there’s been more Xbox articles on Push Square than on Pure Xbox…
Lmao just read the comments gloating on the news about Sony scrapping PC ports already in development and compare them to this article’s, some even used Xbox no-exclusives as an example on why Sony was right to U-turn but today are saying Xbox is wrong to have exclusives 🤣🤣
@jly1987 That’s a whole other topic, there’s hypocrite fans on both Xbox and PS sides, I personally have always had the stance that exclusives are vital for any platform and been calling out the sheep Xbox fanboys who defended the multiplatform pivot until very recently, but I will also call out the hypocrisy on the PS5 fans side which is running rampant in these comments.
63% of PS5 fans apparently “don't care” about this and yet we’re closing on 100 comments in record time.
It’s so hilarious to read such hypocrisy and double standards with some of the arguments used here, many of the very same users who praised not porting PS5 games to PC now seem extremely “worried” about an Xbox game not selling as much because it ain’t launching on PS5? Lmfao absolute popcorn material…
I ultimately think the same than with Sony stopping PC releases, it’s a good thing as it’s clear now that every platform needs some exclusives to compete and we desperately need more competition in the console space, not a brand to have supremacy over the rest.
Sorry but it’s ridiculous to read the false superiority of some PS5 fans here, third-party publishers don’t owe Sony anything, they already pay their 30% cut for every game sold, times are simply different as most publishers nowadays don’t want to have any exclusivity deal because it’s been proven that games just sell considerably more in the long run when they’re available everywhere from day one, it’s not only a much bigger audience but word of mouth travels faster before the hype dies down.
Just look at Death Stranding 2 (my personal 2025 GOTY), PC launch came and went without any fuss whatsoever and even the day one PS5 launch didn’t set the world on fire either, while a new IP like Crimson Desert released everywhere from day one, it quickly went viral and sold more than 5 million copies, that’s the way forward.
@TheDarts Yeah because the new Tomb Raider games developed by Crystal Dynamics and produced by Amazon looks like a giant advert for online shopping right?
@get2sammyb I find it very disappointing how easy people pay more only for some skins in-game, basically screaming to be charged more for nothing and signaling it’s ok to charge $80 for games…
Oof it just hurts to read that cringey response, whoever is running the PR account clearly felt very salty about Domino’s joke, and also it’s embarrassing that they can’t seem to accept that some folks legitimately have that opinion, I don’t necessarily agree with it but I respect it, they must have known that the first ‘mainline God of War’ without its protagonist would spark some controversy…
On a side note the actual shady exclusivity deal is for Control Resonant as early-access is bizarrely exclusive for PS5, I really don’t get why Sony would even pay for such things, it’s just bad PR for both Sony and Remedy as it won’t result on a PC/Xbox player buying a $600 console just to play one game 48 hours earlier.
@Fiendish-Beaver The cube already appears in the promotional posters and even made a whole mocap and hired Jack Quaid to play it, it’s definitely not going anywhere and I do worry that it’s gonna be talking all-game long, I got very annoyed in Ragnarök whenever I wanted to explore some character just wouldn’t shut up saying I’m not following the story path.
2027 would be a reasonable date, but I certainly wouldn’t be calling a potential PS6 release next year “exciting stuff” unless you have +$1K burning in your hands, the PS5 Pro is just barely starting to show its potential…
People here are mixing things that have nothing to do with each other, Amazon will only handle the publishing (aka selling the game) while full creative control will remain at IOI, just look at the new Tomb Raider games, they both look amazing and while being published by Amazon they’re being fully developed by Crystal Dynamics and it shows, same thing with Amazon MGM, they produced my favorite movie of the year so far (Project Hail Mary) because they left full creative control to the people actually making the movie, comparing it to EA is nonsense.
These just don’t sell anymore, I still see the Ghost of Yotei Collector’s Edition sitting on shelves with 30% off and no one is buying it, same thing with every collector’s edition this generation and it’s easy to see why.
Games are already expensive and the very select public who are willing to spend that much place more value on a physical disc with the full game included rather than a plastic figure with a redeemable code for 3x the price.
@DennisReynolds Not a good comparison, we’re getting this instead of another Kratos game not in addition to, I’m not saying it’s a bad thing but we’re definitely not getting another game with Kratos for a long, long time, perhaps why they decided to start remaking the OG trilogy earlier this year.
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Re: PS6 May Not Be the Only Fully Digital Console Next-Gen
@wildcat_kickz “If it doesn’t affect me then complaints are surely overblown”.
It’s disappointing to still read some comments like this, trying to be apologetic to Sony and doing backflips to justify them, we all knew digital games were taking over but to have a sudden cutoff like this doesn’t make you even slightly uneasy? Don’t you think that if PlayStation will become a digital-only platform they must do A LOT of improvements to their tech stack and customer policies? Don’t you think they should have elaborated on these improvements and the impact for the millions of people who still have physical games?
15% of 90 million is still quite a lot of customers they’re kicking in the balls and you expect us to go quietly? I’ll certainly not.
Re: PS6 May Not Be the Only Fully Digital Console Next-Gen
I’ll be very clear, I don’t like an all-digital future, I understand it’s inevitable and always expected Xbox to be the first digital-only platform and Sony beat them to it.
However the Xbox/Microsoft Store is just much better positioned to be an all-digital platform as they allow to sell digital games in several other storefronts often with cheaper prices, they have regionalized pricing and support every country’s currency instead of imposing USD as the PS Store does, their refund policy isn’t nowhere near as restrictive as Sony’s, many games even give you a double entitlement for console and PC, you’re allowed to change regions if for whatever reason you made an account elsewhere or changed country residency, hell even the eShop allows most of these and they’re simply not as restrictive as Sony who seems stuck in the 2010’s, specially with cybersecurity which is the account most vulnerable to be stolen via social engineering and for years they’ve done absolutely nothing to improve it.
Re: Sony's Been Planning All-Digital Future for 'Some Time', Unlikely to Reverse Decision on Game Discs
@ShadowRJ They are cowardly hiding under a rock not even daring to post anything on social media, they’re waiting for this to blow over and go back to business as usual, it’s up to us to keep being loud even if it won’t change anything.
Re: Sony's Been Planning All-Digital Future for 'Some Time', Unlikely to Reverse Decision on Game Discs
This goes to show it’s a decision entirely on Sony’s end, there’s alternatives as the manufacturing line will remain open but Sony is just choosing not to, they could reduce production and pass down distribution costs to customers so that few physical copies remain for the people who are willing to pay for them, but again they’re choosing not to, they’d rather go nuclear and cease to produce discs entirely, it’s beyond disappointing how Sony is behaving.
Re: Everyone's Clowning on Sony's Decision to Go All-Digital, and Rightly So
Never before I’ve seen such a fierce pushback against Sony and I’m so glad people are not taking any more BS, I don’t think they’ll change course but all that remains is to keep being as loud as possible and vote with your wallets.
Re: PS6 Release Now Expected End of 2028, According to Analyst
Yeah it was pretty telling from the blog, by the time they introduce new hardware they want to have gotten rid of physical media already so they can avoid the awkward situation of still releasing some PS5 discs while marketing a digital-only PS6.
However I’m still a bit flabbergasted, there’s no one forcing Sony’s hand on this, there’s no crisis situation with the Blu-ray Discs themselves as they’re still very cheap to produce, they didn’t even provide an option to keep physical media as a more expensive alternative, they actively chose the nuclear option of ceasing production entirely and also chose not to elaborate on the impact for the millions of customers who have dozens of physical games, adding to it Sony is the only major platform holder to have a monopoly on digital games for PS5 as all other platforms allow to sell digital games elsewhere, this was their opportunity to change their stance on that and chose not to.
I probably have never been more disgusted and disappointed with Sony than today.
Re: Reaction: PlayStation's Burned Through the Last Remaining Goodwill of Its Fans
For the first time ever in my life I doubt I’ll get the next PlayStation, that says everything.
Re: PS6 Will Be a Digital Console, And Sony Has Huge Questions to Answer About Backwards Compatibility
Not gonna lie, this ruined my day…
Re: Layoffs at IO Interactive as Project Fantasy Ends 'Relationship with External Partner'
@wildcat_kickz They’re too spent on live service nonsense and it’s not like they’ve been good stewards for most studios this generation either.
Re: Rumour: PS6 Costs Sony Almost $1,000 to Make Right Now
Somehow the Third Console Curse continues…
Re: Microsoft Responds to Reports of GTA 6 PS5 Pre-Orders Trouncing Xbox
Lmao such a disingenuous and pathetic statement, how exactly they have numbers for how much it has sold on PS5? If they’re so sure why can’t they provide actual numbers? In fact, why don’t they provide sales numbers for every game, console, and subscription sold? Oh right they don’t disclose numbers they can’t brag about.
Can’t believe that with all the turmoil surrounding Xbox (or XBOX) an exec decides comes out with this pathetic fanboy butthurt comment, can’t they focus on more important things like I don’t know, don’t closing the studios they spent billions to acquire?
Re: Talking Point: Is GTA 6's Dodgy Ultimate Edition a Deal-Breaker?
Honestly it isn’t, been waiting for this game for over a decade and I’m positive it’ll deliver on my expectations, I already knew some disgusting practices were coming and I ready myself buying discounted PSN gift cards to pay for the Ultimate Edition for around $70.
However that doesn’t mean I agree with or like any of these practices and I’d even say this release encapsulates everything that’s wrong with the current industry but it’s not the first time we’ve seen all this, basically every gaming company has had these practices for years now, look at all those premium editions/upgrades that are cut content from the base game, people expecting Rockstar to be a good guy and launch the game at $70 (as many were commenting here just last week) was completely unrealistic, I don’t like it but it’s the way the industry behaves, I bet Take-Two executives were thinking ‘if everyone has gotten away with it, why wouldn’t Rockstar?’
Re: GTA 6 PS5 Disc Hopes Seemingly Dashed by Rockstar Source
The least they could do is be transparent about this and call it as it is, a digital-only release, both Crimson Desert and 007 proved that you can lock a disc until a day one update is released, not the perfect scenario but even an empty disc holds much more value than a code in a box, this is really just about killing that resell value and second-hand market so they can profit off every single copy sold throughout the years.
Re: Sony Will Continue to Chase Live Service Dream, Despite Mostly Disastrous Execution to Date
It’s so paradoxical they still want to invest in live-service games after losing billions on projects that appealed to no one, but they cancelled the one live-service IP that many players do find appealing, the one they essentially paid 3.7 billion for, it seems they haven’t learned a lot…
Re: PS5 Costs Too Much, But These New Xbox Price Increases Are Just Absurd
Better don't gloat on it, Sony might do the same before the year is over.
Re: PS5 Adds Custom GTA 6 Start-Up Screen, Sony Rebrands PS App as Pre-Orders Go Live
It really feels this entire generation for Sony is riding on this one game.
Re: GTA 6 Ultimate Edition and More Detailed Ahead of Pre-Orders Going Live
@For-Kier It’s the sad truth, as much as we complain the Ultimate Edition will be the most sold game on the PS Store within hours.
Re: Where to Pre-Order GTA 6 on PS5
Definitely going with the standard edition, really don’t care about some skins you could get variations from while playing, but it sucks that there’s no disc at all, only an empty box with a code and also no edition whatsoever with a map or collectibles.
Re: GTA 6 Confirmed to Be an $80 Game
As expected, at least I’m very glad they didn’t go with the early-access scam.
Re: Opinion: The PS6 Cannot Come Out in This Era of $1,000+ Consoles
I completely agree, also in this context they just can’t make any PS6 exclusive games to push the new platform as it’s been traditionally done, doing so would doom those studios as the install base of a $1000+ console would never be enough to cover the costs of a ‘next-gen’ game, and with no exclusives for next-gen there’s no reason to have a next-gen at all.
Re: Rumour: GTA 6 Price Potentially Leaked by European Retailer
Exactly what I predicted the other day.
$79.99 Standard / $99.99 Deluxe and $129.99 Ultimate.
Re: Sony May Mitigate Hardware Pricing Nightmare by Simply Selling Fewer PS5s
They literally told investors in the latest quarterly earnings their current plan is not to sell many consoles but rather milk dry the existing user base.
Re: Poll: How Much Will GTA 6 Cost?
Re: Hellblade Studio Hunting for Buyer, Days After Announcing New Game for PS5
@Oram77 Yeah feels like we should question if every game that isn’t launching this year will ever launch at all…
Re: Hellblade Studio Hunting for Buyer, Days After Announcing New Game for PS5
It’s now official that at least Ninja Theory is shutting down, what a pathetic excuse of a company showcases a new game from a studio they’ll be shutting down 8 days later? Completely moronic.
Re: Hellblade Studio Hunting for Buyer, Days After Announcing New Game for PS5
@Jacko11 They’ve had a second, third, fourth, fifth, honestly countless chances and they’ve failed time and time again, the only reason they still exist is because of Microsoft’s subsidy, that’s done now as they’re forcing Xbox to stand on their own two feet hence why these brutal cuts, if even then it’s not profitable enough for Microsoft it’ll be the end.
Re: Three Xbox Studios at Risk of Closure, in Talks to Become Independent
Microsoft is done subsidizing Xbox, this is the last Hail Mary to make it profitable and the bloodbath is going to be insane, the biggest ever in the industry, there’s Compulsion, Double Fine, Ninja Theory, talks around Arkane and even ID Software.
This is all consequence for years of claiming the unsustainable (ahem Game Pass) was sustainable and if you want to have a good laugh go to Pure Xbox to read all those Game Pass evangelists now doing backflips to justify these decisions, from cheering for Microsoft to buy the entire industry to now say “it hurts but it has to be done” when talking about firing thousand of people MS spent billions to acquire, gtfo…
Re: Halo PS5 Poised to Sell Extremely Well, Topping PS Store Charts Around the World
I’m actually very excited for this one, it’s been a long time since I played CE campaign, it’s looking visually amazing with notable PS5 Pro enhancements and gameplay looks classic Halo with Dualsense features.
Don’t really have any problem if this is ends up being the only Halo game to come to PlayStation as I like to own all consoles (as long as they keep existing) and not being tied to one brand or dealing with a PC, but I do want the best version of this remake on consoles and physically just for the novelty of it even if it’s just a key-disc.
Re: Even with PS5 Ports, Many of Xbox's Games Have Been Underperfoming
This is a very big reason why they’re U-turning with some games (and higher up execs were ok with it), being multiplatform wasn’t working all that well, the sole success of this strategy has been Forza Horizon 5 but while it sold more than 5 million copies it also caused a big drop in Xbox console revenue as many users stop spending on console (my case) or completely abandoned the platform, sales from ports (mainly FH5) just wasn’t enough to cover up the losses from people abandoning their platform.
It’s a similar situation to Sony and PC ports, as ports just didn’t sell all that well and there only was one big success being Helldivers 2, at least Sony pulled out before they were becoming dependent on PC revenue, it might be too late for Xbox to do that as few sales is still better than no sales.
Re: PS5 Fans Think Sony Is Pushing God of War Laufey Harder Than Wolverine
Sorry but every article that has “some PS5 fans” in the title turns out to be a clickbait of 2 random tweets making some claims that fit your narrative.
Laufey is a brand new announcement so it’s only logical to keep promoting it weeks after reveal, come September you think all the focus won’t be in Wolverine? It’s quite literally just a normal marketing cycle for Sony after every State of Play.
Re: Crimson Desert Hits Six Million Sales Milestone Inside Three Months
@Stocksy The game has some amazing aspects but the story is definitely not one of them, it’s there and sometimes makes sense sometimes it doesn’t, it’s honestly so disjointed it ends up being unintentionally funny, like in the first hours they just said “hey there’s this girl you can play with” without elaborating or telling you absolutely nothing about her, that keeps happening throughout the game lol
Re: Crimson Desert Hits Six Million Sales Milestone Inside Three Months
@Logonogo I ended up loving the Abyss tbh, at first it was a bit jarring since the game literally tells you nothing but it became second nature as there’s often more than one way to complete them and in some you can even “cheat” just like with the shrines on BOTW, TOTK or puzzles in Immortals Fenyx Rising making your own way out.
Re: Kingdom Hearts 4 Magically Returns in New PS5 Gameplay Trailer
Why so many fans get on defensive mode when a saga that used to be only at PlayStation gets shown in some other event?
Suddenly there’s claims that the games aren’t as appealing anymore and apparently every franchise that does this like Final Fantasy, Persona, Kingdom Hearts or Stellar Blade are “double-crossing” or downright “betraying” Sony just over announcing a game elsewhere as it’s not even skipping PS, while also trying to downplay said platform in which was announced, petty childish behavior imo.
Re: Reaction: Mealy-Mouthed Microsoft Takes Us Back to 2023 with Mixed Messaging on Xbox Exclusivity
While I agree that Microsoft promises just can’t be trusted didn’t you post an article saying this was such an “tiring” topic? Lately there’s been more Xbox articles on Push Square than on Pure Xbox…
Edit: Found it.
https://www.pushsquare.com/features/xbox-is-flip-flopping-on-ps5-again-and-its-truly-getting-tiring
Re: 'There's a Finished Version of Gears of War PS5 Sitting on a Drive': New Game E-Day Was Almost Done
Lmao just read the comments gloating on the news about Sony scrapping PC ports already in development and compare them to this article’s, some even used Xbox no-exclusives as an example on why Sony was right to U-turn but today are saying Xbox is wrong to have exclusives 🤣🤣
https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2026/03/sony-apparently-pulls-the-plug-on-pc-ports-of-saros-ghost-of-yotei
Re: Rumour: Gears of War: E-Day Was Coming to PS5, Xbox Cancelled Port Very Recently
@jly1987 That’s a whole other topic, there’s hypocrite fans on both Xbox and PS sides, I personally have always had the stance that exclusives are vital for any platform and been calling out the sheep Xbox fanboys who defended the multiplatform pivot until very recently, but I will also call out the hypocrisy on the PS5 fans side which is running rampant in these comments.
Re: Rumour: Gears of War: E-Day Was Coming to PS5, Xbox Cancelled Port Very Recently
63% of PS5 fans apparently “don't care” about this and yet we’re closing on 100 comments in record time.
It’s so hilarious to read such hypocrisy and double standards with some of the arguments used here, many of the very same users who praised not porting PS5 games to PC now seem extremely “worried” about an Xbox game not selling as much because it ain’t launching on PS5? Lmfao absolute popcorn material…
I ultimately think the same than with Sony stopping PC releases, it’s a good thing as it’s clear now that every platform needs some exclusives to compete and we desperately need more competition in the console space, not a brand to have supremacy over the rest.
Re: Reaction: Some PS5 Fans Think SGF Showed Sony Losing Its Grip on Third-Parties
Sorry but it’s ridiculous to read the false superiority of some PS5 fans here, third-party publishers don’t owe Sony anything, they already pay their 30% cut for every game sold, times are simply different as most publishers nowadays don’t want to have any exclusivity deal because it’s been proven that games just sell considerably more in the long run when they’re available everywhere from day one, it’s not only a much bigger audience but word of mouth travels faster before the hype dies down.
Just look at Death Stranding 2 (my personal 2025 GOTY), PC launch came and went without any fuss whatsoever and even the day one PS5 launch didn’t set the world on fire either, while a new IP like Crimson Desert released everywhere from day one, it quickly went viral and sold more than 5 million copies, that’s the way forward.
Re: Mission Accomplished: PS5 Hit 007 First Light Sells Nearly 3 Million Copies in Its First Week
@TheDarts Yeah because the new Tomb Raider games developed by Crystal Dynamics and produced by Amazon looks like a giant advert for online shopping right?
Re: Poll: How Would You Rate Summer Game Fest 2026?
Easily the best Geoff summer event ever.
FF7 REVELATION!!
Re: Unlike Other Sony Exclusives, Wolverine PS5 Will Launch with New Game Plus Day One
I have the feeling this will be shorter than expected, perhaps closer to the length of SM: Miles Morales than Spider-Man 1/2.
Re: Wolverine PS5 Cuts Through the Crowd, Tops PS Store Pre-Order Charts
@get2sammyb I find it very disappointing how easy people pay more only for some skins in-game, basically screaming to be charged more for nothing and signaling it’s ok to charge $80 for games…
Re: PS5 vs Pepperoni Pizza: New God of War Sparks Tense Exchange Between Sony and Domino's
Oof it just hurts to read that cringey response, whoever is running the PR account clearly felt very salty about Domino’s joke, and also it’s embarrassing that they can’t seem to accept that some folks legitimately have that opinion, I don’t necessarily agree with it but I respect it, they must have known that the first ‘mainline God of War’ without its protagonist would spark some controversy…
Re: No Rest for the Wicked Comes to PS5 Before Xbox, But It's Not Some Shady Exclusivity Deal
On a side note the actual shady exclusivity deal is for Control Resonant as early-access is bizarrely exclusive for PS5, I really don’t get why Sony would even pay for such things, it’s just bad PR for both Sony and Remedy as it won’t result on a PC/Xbox player buying a $600 console just to play one game 48 hours earlier.
Re: God of War Laufey Is Much Closer to Releasing on PS5 Than You Think
@Fiendish-Beaver The cube already appears in the promotional posters and even made a whole mocap and hired Jack Quaid to play it, it’s definitely not going anywhere and I do worry that it’s gonna be talking all-game long, I got very annoyed in Ragnarök whenever I wanted to explore some character just wouldn’t shut up saying I’m not following the story path.
Re: God of War Laufey Is Much Closer to Releasing on PS5 Than You Think
2027 would be a reasonable date, but I certainly wouldn’t be calling a potential PS6 release next year “exciting stuff” unless you have +$1K burning in your hands, the PS5 Pro is just barely starting to show its potential…
Re: Amazon Is Stepping in to Publish Future James Bond Games After Smash Hit 007 First Light
People here are mixing things that have nothing to do with each other, Amazon will only handle the publishing (aka selling the game) while full creative control will remain at IOI, just look at the new Tomb Raider games, they both look amazing and while being published by Amazon they’re being fully developed by Crystal Dynamics and it shows, same thing with Amazon MGM, they produced my favorite movie of the year so far (Project Hail Mary) because they left full creative control to the people actually making the movie, comparing it to EA is nonsense.
Re: Rumour: Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 Reveal Is a Lock for Summer Game Fest
Honestly FF7 Reunion sounds perfect but it was already taken for Crisis Core’s remaster.
Re: There's No Collector's Edition for Marvel's Wolverine PS5, and Fans Aren't Happy
These just don’t sell anymore, I still see the Ghost of Yotei Collector’s Edition sitting on shelves with 30% off and no one is buying it, same thing with every collector’s edition this generation and it’s easy to see why.
Games are already expensive and the very select public who are willing to spend that much place more value on a physical disc with the full game included rather than a plastic figure with a redeemable code for 3x the price.
Re: God of War Laufey Is the Next Main Entry in the Saga, 'Coming Soon' to PS5
@DennisReynolds Not a good comparison, we’re getting this instead of another Kratos game not in addition to, I’m not saying it’s a bad thing but we’re definitely not getting another game with Kratos for a long, long time, perhaps why they decided to start remaking the OG trilogy earlier this year.