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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

I certainly hope they make it back. Nintendo seems to be a lock, they are huge supporters of E3, just gotta get a couple other big dogs back and they'll be good. Sony might have too much arrogance/pride to return, but I know lowering the costs and getting rid of the whole public access debacle would really help. Here's hoping the ESA did some soul searching and gets it right

Still not adding up. You don't toss away all those assets with the Eidos-Crystal Dynamics deal and then immediately bail. I think the people above are right, it feels like they're trying to get to Sony

Dude moaned and groaned until E3 went away, he got the keys to the kingdom and has completely flopped. Nintendo bailed on him, Sony sends some scraps and the rest is just live service updates. Feels like gaming is in a weird place where we can't even get to be hyped for shows anymore.

100% agree with this. I know it's a cliché say but it was the "Christmas for gamers". So glad I got super obsessed with it when I did and got to experience it. G4, Spike TV, etc, it was truly fun, would plan my whole E3 week, watch everyone's conferences, the pre shows, the after shows, what a time! Still hoping they find a way to make a comeback! Respect Keighley, but he has quickly proved that his whole schtick is a symptom of how great E3 was, not the cause. We NEED E3!

I got beef with this. Was sold this stupid console because of the "exclusives", not to mention on how they gave these big sales pitches for how the games can "only work" on PS5. Gonna start thinking twice about preordering these big, bad "exclusives"

Me: wonder what's the next round of exclusives after cross gen Ragnarok
Sony: can we interest you in metaverse

Absolutely. The very people who run PlayStation went on a multi month tirade about how "generations matter, exclusive this, exclusive that", got us all fired up and buying into the PS5.
I'm simply following their lead, but we're almost two years in now, this is just how it's always worked anyway.
As for games, we were teased with Demon's Souls, Rift Apart & Returnal, but have gone completely backwards now + third party quality control for all these platforms is in an absolute state of terror.
Forbidden West is a perfect example that last gen has peaked, it moved zero needles, just a great PS4 game with fast loading times. Only speak for myself, but I went through the pre launch grind to secure the PS5 and invested in new hardware to go beyond what the PS4 delivered.

Sonic Adventure 1 & 2 not being playable on PS5 & Switch feels like a crime. They need to get on that! Heroes as well!

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I enjoyed it, felt more like a bloated end of gen PS4 game than a next gen "experience" like Rift Apart & Demon's Souls were, but all of these post launch patches prove that they should've launched as a Summer blockbuster and as a bonus would have avoided the Elden Ring fight.
I have similar fears for God of War Ragnarok (and any cross gen game at this point) and will probably hold off on pre ordering after stepping up for HFB and feeling slightly burned.

They've pretty much cashed in all of the goodwill/loyalty Layden and crew earned from the PS4 era. The Jim Ryan and Hermen Hulst era sucks

This sucks. At this point I've went from "when are we going full PS5 only" to "I hope they at least keep Insomniac's Spidey & Wolverine PS5 only". Feels like their whole generation plan got wrecked and the people who actually got PS5s are falling on the sword.

July. Sony doesn't touch holiday releases with the exclusives unless it's a console launch and I don't see them kicking off 2023 going all out on a cross-gen game.
Seems like they aim for a big exclusive during the Summer now and it's been very successful with TLOUII, Tsushima & Rift Apart

@naruball fair points! I understand the desire for the live service $$$, I'm just saying that I sincerely hope that it never comes at the cost of the incredible single player games that they put out. It's a difficult balance that has already sadly corrupted one of the big three.

They're gonna do whatever they want and the only thing I can do is speak with my wallet, but I'll still say it: don't fix what ain't broke. 20+ years of being a legendary brand off of the backs of incredible single player games. I truly hope they never forget what made them the juggernaut that they are.

Sad. I understand the hate for the ESA but always a little surprised at the cheering for E3's fall. It was a mid-year Christmas for all of us, one week of just all out gaming stuff.
I still stand by what I've always said, the PS4 isn't the global juggernaut that it became without the legendary E3 2013 press conference. Haymakers after haymakers and it was only possible because it was all LIVE. I'll miss E3

Pretty much a rebrand of PS Now and sigh of relief. I'd like to keep the party going that we've had raging since the beginning. Just keep the big exclusives coming like we've had since PS1 and they get my continued support.

Feels like the first time I've agreed with Jim Ryan in awhile. The proof of "subscription quality" is directly in front of us on you know where. Keep these massive legendary exclusives coming and I'll keep showing up to support them. Subscriptions are NOT the future of gaming.

Low expectations/interest for Spartacus, I'm guessing The Show 22 will launch with the highest tier and they'll push PS1 - PS3 classics as a heavy sell.
Extremely interested in a state of play the day after and it especially makes sense if they expect the reaction to Spartacus to be weak and need to remind everyone about the big incoming exclusives

Genuine garbage. I'll see y'all on Forbidden West & Kirby