Good. The amount of people throwing surface level stuff out like "Sony is crying", "Sony getting their way", etc, etc do not understand what this deal means. You do not want anyone, let alone Microsoft, who has been incompetent at making games & keeping franchises healthy for over a decade now, having that much control of the industry. Not to mention how they blatantly lied about Bethesda exclusivity.
I can't believe people are finally starting to see through Phil Spencer and crew's little fake hero act but it sure is happening at the right time.

Not sure the PS2 era of gaming will ever be beaten but this is well earned and well deserved. Incredible comeback after the Wii U. Nintendo's first party exclusive output has simply been fantastic, very curious how they handle the Switch successor!

But Twitter told me that Microsoft is a hero and Game Pass will rule over all!
Don't fix what ain't broke. Massive AAA - single player - story driven exclusives lead the way for Sony, while Microsoft has given up on making "bangers" and only cares about GP & "live services". It's that simple.
GAMES are all that matter. Keep making ones like Ragnarok, Rift Apart, etc and the arrow will only be pointing UP.

Between the new marketing stuff and getting rid of an incentive for early adopters, it feels like they're getting ready to finally make the "next gen" push.

"No thanks, bro!" - Leon S. Kennedy ... and Jedi Survivor on challenging the legendary looking Resident Evil 4 Remake

Genuine hype. Favorite game of all time, one of the most confident pre orders I've ever put in.

Nice flip by Embracer, big flop by Square, who is dangerously close to becoming too reliant on just Final Fantasy.
Amazon is just going to be Microsoft 2.0, throwing lots of money at things does not guarantee a good product , especially in gaming.

Alright I give in after defending the need for E3 for so long, it's done. Very thankful for being able to experience "E3 week" many, many times, nothing beats the hype those live press conferences would bring. Good times!

When they announced the show, it was like "do I really want a TLOU show?". After two eps, the answer is YES. I'm all in.

My favorite part of this whole saga is that Microsoft essentially threw a tantrum and started buying up the industry because they couldn't keep up with Sony & Nintendo's console selling exclusives.
Now, apparently exclusives are bad unless Microsoft does them, which they will of course start pushing again if they get control the third of the industry they're trying to get.
Sony crying about COD $$$ aside, my be careful what you wish for is that Microsoft has shown complete incompetence with managing franchises, all they care about is "live services", and subscription services, Gamers™ are not going to like what's on the other side of this deal if it goes through.

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, you're up! Seriously though, all these studios chasing "live services" is comical, the market is now cornered (Fortnite, GTA, COD, Apex, Destiny, Rocket League, Overwatch, Sports, MMOs, etc, etc), we even saw Halo & Battlefield exit the fight after titanic flops.
Invest in single player, story driven, optional co-op games, not hollowed out skin selling schemes!

Ubisoft getting eaten alive by the game industry they tried to push for. They used to make some really cool games and then went all in on "live service" shared world crap, all of the games become eerily similar and just plain boring with zero creative heart. Sad.

SpongeBob Cosmic Shake for me!
Forspoken: interested but will wait for reviews and betting it will go on sale fast because its not really exclusive.
Dead Space Remake: will play but in no rush.

I respect the hope, I guess I'm just more jaded with gaming at this point, especially with how Sony handled 2022. I want an event, I need the energy back.
I'm at least expecting a better core of games for 2023 with Spidey 2, RE4 Remake, FF16 & Tears of the Kingdom.
The thing killing me is how hard multiplayer has stagnated, we need something new!

Sony treating PC players like gold and they still won't support it. Have fun with those Miles Morales numbers again lol

Phil Spencer's little PR games finally flopped. This is bad for the industry and the right decision. Jim Ryan was actually right in his crusade.

I'm a bit of an outlier with Days Gone, I absolutely loved it and really thought they had something great, but yeah the article nails it, just close social media and take a breather instead of posting that stuff.

As everyone with a pulse predicted. Microsoft had nothing besides an unfinished, beaten and broken down Halo game for the past two years, might as well take the PR win.
Now that they have anything close? "Oh yeah $70 for us too, sorry broz, 'member Sony still bad, exclusives bad, even bigger megacorp your friend!"

Two straight flops. No way that little influx of cash is worth it.

The PC ports are still mindboggling from a long term business view. Absolutely devaluing their brand, reason to buy consoles, taking the allure away from their games, etc just for some scraps from PC players. PC players show loyalty to no one and that's not an insult, just the truth. This should be a wake up call.

It just feels like everything with PlayStation console gaming costs is getting wild. Everyone hit their peaks in 2020 and now anyone who stuck around is trying to be squeezed to keep those numbers afloat.

Microsoft winning this PR battle should be studied. How they have made themselves, a TRILLION dollar juggernaut, the underdog feel good story is a masterclass. Why would SONY want to give Microsoft more market share by using their PLAYSTATION player base? It would be letting the devil in your kitchen.
The "unity" thing from gamers has gotten weird, just say you like Game Pass and want Microsoft to gobble everything up because you think there's a fairly tale deal where it costs $15 a month to play the entire industry.

Full offline campaign and current gen only. Huge NFS fan, they got my interest!

Every 3 months the timeline gets shorter. Not too long ago it was 2 years. PlayStation exclusives are no longer a thing, they took the bait from Microsoft, any core gamer who cares about exclusives has already figured this out. Sick of the PR games from Ryan & Hulst.
Nintendo is the last one standing and currently has one of the most successful consoles ever, they know how valuable exclusives are.

PlayStation in 2022: Remasters, PC Ports, crying about COD. One thing noticeably absent: PS5 exclusives.
I don't know how anyone can be happy about this, they've abandoned the brand new console and are almost mocking console players to buy whatever they put out. This isn't arrogant PS3 Sony, this is a whole different beast.

I mean it's never good to lose access to games, but I can understand this. I just want to see them actually stick to it, all that big talk before PS5 came out and we haven't had a PS5 only game in over a year already, next up you'll have VR2 sales slow and all of a sudden it's "you can't play old VR games, but all of the new ones will be made for VR & VR2 lol!". Zero trust in their words at this point.

@Richnj that's nowhere near accurate. These deals happened after Sony mopped up Microsoft with multiple E3s and Activison jumped ship.
Sony doesn't want that deal to go through because Phil Spencer is like every other crony suit (including the ones at Sony) who is saying what needs to be said to get the deal through. Microsoft is gonna rip COD away from PlayStation so fast it's not even funny and anyone who thinks otherwise ain't paying attention.

Nintendo burying the competition with exclusive megatons before the other shows even start. E3 is truly back!

Direct & State of Play. I guess we get E3 2022 in September this year! Love it!

Jim Ryan showing some fight instead of following Phil Spencer around like he has for the past few years? About time.
As for exclusives, I stand by everything I've ever said, we need them and without them, the industry becomes a live service, skin selling playground beyond what it already has.

Excuse me for being jaded by the game industry, but this is how it starts. Empty statements, output of said single player games slowly goes down.
Bottom line: mobile games, ports, live service, etc cost less and if any of those really take off, the first group to get squeezed will be us single player gamers, which is ironic considering those games got Sony to where they are with PlayStation!

Sony's betrayal of the Japanese market is one of the saddest things to come out of the PS4's success. So much short term thinking to try and sustain numbers that were never sustainable in the first place. Couldn't just be happy selling 100+ Million consoles and billions of dollars in exclusive software

Same people in here every time defending Jimmy Boy and arrogant Sony. For the price of PS5 you can get a Switch, with its gigantic library of exclusives that will never appear on another platform & Series S to play 3rd party stuff. The PS5 sales pitch is now simply: exclusives, which they have very few of and continue to thin them out even more.
I thought I was a fanboy, but even I can see how bad of a road PlayStation is going down.

Enough is enough. This has been building to this moment with Jim Ryan & Hermen Hulst, mask off, full greed, turn console players into payers. Time to start speaking with the wallet. I'm sure Big Jimmy's PC players will back him like we did during the PS4 era

They went from phasing campaign out to using it as an incentive to preorder (and go digital). Gaming!

At this point, I'm convinced this has to be a test from Sony to see how much they can truly get away with while still having the diehards defend them.
I hate rooting against an incredible game like this, but you gotta hope this struggles and sends Big Jim & Hermen a message to quit trying to take advantage of us.

The impact of this will be fascinating. 2020 - 2021 will be the peak of "engagement" for live services and a lot of people, who only look at numbers, bought in on some extremely unsustainable numbers.

Wouldn't pay for a skin if you paid me to buy it. I guess my multiplayer peak was just at the right/wrong time for me to embrace this cosmetic crap, we used to unlock all the cosmetic stuff by playing and then buy a pass or map pack for half of that price and get real, meaningful content added to the game!

COD put in some serious work for PS4, that marketing deal heist Layden and crew pulled off was massive, you gotta respect COD's value from a business view.
Sony's failure in this situation was Jim Ryan & Hulst playing into Microsoft's "exclusives are bad" game and now they can turn 30% of the industry exclusive with a snap of a finger while Sony doesn't have their own castle fortified anymore.

Honestly kind of smiled reading this. First, seeing Jim Ryan eat his arrogant words is beautiful, second, this hasn't been a great year for big games so we all played less instead of forcing ourselves to play crap and live service hamster wheel games.

I respect whatever way people want to get games. I'll always be team physical, same goes for movies! Love having a big collection, love the smell of new games and oddly, I love changing discs out!

I hate being a cynic but that tweet reads like "yeah...you got us". Next up is the speeches about "toxic" PlayStation fans to distract from the real issues.

Games as a service destroyed Ubisoft, the creativity, uniqueness, risk taking, everything. Thankfully (pure sarcasm), Sony is going all in on service stuff as well!

I understand the emotional reaction of this article, especially after Push has been towing the line of defending the "remake".
Sony built a level of absolute trust during the PS4 and it's just been kind of hard to see it be weaponized against us during the Jim Ryan/Hermen Hulst era

Impressive and well deserved! Takes me back to that Summer insanity when TLOUII & GOT released just 1 month from each other. So fun!

I'm all in on E3's comeback. Whatever salt there was is a thing of the past, especially after Keighley has completely fumbled after being handed the keys to the kingdom.
I'm confident Nintendo will return, will be interesting to see if they can bait Sony back

With you. Only Souls games I've ever truly loved and played all the way through is Demon's Souls & Bloodborne. I describe them in a weird way, those two feel more like PlayStation games as opposed to the "torture chamber" games like Dark Souls & Elden Ring.

Well this comment section made me smile. LOVED the RE3 Remake as well, even more than RE2R, already have the plat but will go back for a fun playthrough!

No words for how excited I am, and it's nice to see a PS5 only game again, a good reminder even with this gen transition starting to get incredibly annoying, the true PS5 only games that we were promised are coming.

I'm sorry and I only speak for myself but I didn't buy a brand new $500 console to play the second remake/remaster/rerelease of a PS3 game, AND it's $70. Unless you love live services, this "new" generation is already turning out to be a whiff