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@MrPeanutbutterz Well this is good information to know. I have it in my library but will not create another account just to play. Deleting it tonight.

I think this is the sign of the times. The games industry has grown enormously and has come to the point of over expansion. Though this sucks right now, I believe all the layoffs and studio closures will ultimately do more good for the industry. We've already seen results from indie and AA studios because of all the mass layoffs creating opportunity to form these smaller more passionate teams.
This is a season of compression, much needed compression, for the industry. You are seeing a certain sense of freedom in developers as they no longer have the corporate oversight.This is allowing them to focus on unique gameplay mechanics, take risks with style, have some actual fun with the process again. We will probably see more big studios topple but I believe that is inevitable due to the over stretched industry.
This is analogous of natural law. Everything in the universe expands and grows, then hits a point where it starts to compress and pull back in to create more energy before exploding out again. From acorn to tree to acorn again. Stars to supernova to gas clouds to rebirth of stars. Physics formula to new "insurmountable" equation to insight to new formula. I know that may be a bit too heavy handed with philosophical comparison but it holds true regardless.
I do not like that Sony has done this and I am not defending them. I am however believing this is good for the industry in the long run. The next evolution of it. This industry is a consumer luxury and as all industries, work is not guaranteed, nor a right. Creativity has a great inherent risk and unfortunately we have seen this risk manifest too often in the past couple years. Unfair, yes, driven by corporate greed, yes, but the blame cannot be placed solely there as much as we like to think that.

I hope it is not another GoW. I would love to see Santa Monica revive an old IP or take a gamble and release a completely new IP. Of course, if it is Egyptian GoW I am def going to play it! They make great games, just don't want to see GoW go the route of Assassin's Creed.

Goodness there are a lot of comments. Didn't even try to read them all so don't know what the overall view is from Square's users but here is my two cents.

I think it is a good thing that it is delayed. I am hoping that this will drive creativity among developers (both indie and AAA) and have them be bold with gameplay mechanics, aesthetics, and story. Everyone is moving to UE it seems and games are all starting to look similar in style depending on genre (i.e. everything is being fortnitified, cartoonish with GaaS, and all soulslike are essentially the same look, etc.). Even though the system will be the longest generation yet, it will mean that we will see some amazing things squeezed out of it because developers will need to innovate to stand out. I don't expect much of this from AAA but the indie devs are already killing it and I imagine they will be able to astound with the extra years before the PS6 now. At least, that's my sincere hope.

@HotGoomba This comment had me dying!! Bravo!!

This game really is just every major hit from the last 10 years rolled into one. I hope it works cause it looks incredible.

@somnambulance It's concerning for me. I want this game to be great but it seems there will be a lot of systems to keep track of which runs the risk of becoming tedious fast! Just hope it actually plays well because I want this, granted it will be some time before I can play. Stupid backlogs and responsibilities.

I would love to see this morph into an EVE Online scenario just to see the massive economies that would spring up. I know it's not that type of game but I can imagine it would be on an epic scale.

Shadow drops in this industry are unbelievably rare but since Oblivion did it almost every other game is to be rumored to be doing it (hyperbolic usage). The masses are stupid, I don't know why this irritates me so much lol

@LogicStrikesAgain This is quite a succinct summary of the fanbase (including myself in that) and it's hilarious seeing it. Bravo!

This may just be stirring the pot but there is an unbelievable amount of documented crunch and poor working conditions from western developers in the past several years without anything coming close to this "aggressive" forecast. How poor are the working conditions for these companies in China and other Asian cultures that are putting out exceptional games, both subjectively and objectively (given personal preference)?

I love the art style for this game but I haven't played anything Bungie since Destiny 1. I hope this does well just because of the art alone! Who knows, maybe I'll get it if they offer a beta to check out before hand. I loved the destiny multiplayer. Say what you want about Bungie on storytelling and content but you cannot knock them on multiplayer gameplay.

I would love for Super Stardust to be released for PS5, goodness that game was fun!

MOST ANTICIPATED!!! I really need to play the Alan Wake games now. Control is one of the most interesting games I've played and loved the disconnected story telling.

Well this is horrible news! Don't know much about the gaming side but netflix is crap at adapting books to screen and they will no doubt butcher the HP series. Mind you, I didn't have much hope for HBO to do it well either. Certainly wasn't a series that needed rebooting or a "modern" (read trash) retelling. Will be just a bunch of contemporary nonsense.

Everyone needs to read up on the fiduciary and legal obligations corporations are held to toward their shareholders. It is not that these companies care more about AI then their employees but that their shareholders have legal recourse to sue (and potentially tank) the company if they are not putting their share value first and foremost. This is codified, not just some company by-law.

I am not writing this in defense of adopting AI and screwing over people but that everyone might have a better understanding as why things are progressing like this. And before all the "cool" comments are made about late stage capitalism, this originally began back in 1919, and has more to do with greed than anything else.

What I took away from this is that the development budget was only $15M!! That's peanuts compared to some other budgets. Since Remedy only has ~$80M in assets it hurts them but at least it is not Concord levels. The game may not have stuck but at least we know Remedy can do great work with a small budget.

The infamous games do not need a remaster! They need a new entry! Please stop remastering games. I get all the arguments but it's the wrong move. Sucker Punch should not remaster anything. Lease their IPs out to other studios trying to make a name for themselves.

Does anyone know the names of the songs used in the trailer??

I think they will explore the war/battle against the Writers that Clea mentions she is fighting while the rest of the family is off grieving in the painting. Would be connected but give them the foundation to try entirely different things with whatever power a Writer holds.
I don't mean it has to take place at the same time the rest of the family is in the painting though. I may be wrong, but I inferred that Verso was killed by a fire that the Writers started, so a lot of overlap can be had with the Dessendre family. Just my thoughts and hopes.

This looks ***** wild and I am here for it!! Goodness I love indie for it's off the wall ideas that I would never think of but damn if it doesn't look fun.

@Sergo you're not lying! It's just one "great" (TBD of course) game after another. Had no idea about this one but it is definitely on the list now!

Sword of the Sea!!! This is one of the very few games I will BUY and had no idea it was going to be part of PS+. And I get to add some games to my library.

Sure would be great if they took some of that extra capital and invested it in their customer support department so I can play the damn game!!

@8thDoctor Well *****! I don't have the email I signed up with and I've been reading nothing but horror stories of people who have tried to get support through EA. Looks like I'll be forced to pass on this then.

I wasn't able to play this. I tried but I got a connection error everytime with my EA account not connecting to my PSN. Was so disappointed. There was no way to disassociate the EA /PSN accounts to relink them and possibly fix the problem either. Hopefully next weekend it will work. Really want to play this! Does anyone know if the EA account will be required for the full game?

This is one of my anticipated games of the year. I wasn't sold on it until they released a little trailer showing that YOU had to figure things out without all the normal video game handholding. Really hope it's executed well and is successful.

I would love to see them get an old IP from Sony to revitalize. I think it would be too soon to reboot God of War in a different mythology. Would I play it still, abso-*****-lutely!

In the great words of Falcon, "As the GDP dips, the characters get hips!"

The one feature I would love to see return, though it has nothing to do with PS+, is the ability to customize your Hub screen, not just your profile. Let me put screenshots in the background again. Change up the icons for fun. Just add a little flair to MY screen.

@HaveTheSauce you don't need any! This game has great matchmaking and everybody plays well together for the most part.

It's crazy that a company worth TRILLIONS is making cuts to jobs to save millions. Would it really be that bad to report a loss for a few quarters. I know there is probably more nuance to all this but it seems to me that a parent company worth that much could weather the storm for its sub-groups or subsidiaries. I can understand this for Ubisoft but not for Microsoft.

@Kraven There were people who didn't like the combat in TW3? This is a serious question because I loved the combat and didn't know there was any dislike about it.

I mean, I know there is a lot of complaining and claims of uninstalling but there will be another "news" story about this again in 4-months because no one is actually going to stop playing. Activision keeps doing this because it WORKS and stupid people buy their games who don't care about quality and can't stand on missing out with the latest CoD BS. This IS gaming and we all voted for it through our wallets and our persistent belief that they will change because they said so. Luckily, I got too old and started getting my ass kicked way to much to enjoy CoD, so gave it up for completely unrelated reasons to money.

I never played Atomic Hearts, was it any good? Not sure if I'll ever get around to it with the size of my back log.

@Ravix Okay, so don't feel one way or the other about this game but after you pointed out the car rolling I had to go back and watch it. Is that buggy AI or could it possibly have been the car he is chasing ran into and made it roll or tip and it was just slowly falling back onto all four wheels?

@jvecc As cool as that may be I'm sure the licensing fees alone would be astronomical for all those characters. I doubt many publishers consider it financially sound. Would be freaking amazing though!

@themightyant bwahhaha I was thinking this when reading through the comments, "Was the article about jason statham??" Even though I had just read the article lol Absolute gold.

This would be perfect to introduce a MGR: Revengeance style dismemberment feature!!

Well, it's good to know some things never change. Case-in-point Ubisoft never learns.

@Hapless Halo and ES: Oblivion were the two games that really brought the next gen in for me as a kid after the N64. I despise remasters but for these two titles I will gladly make the exception and throw away my principles lol you are right, it will be a strange day when you play Halo on Playstation.

The inevitable end of all live service formats.

@ThorsHammer my thoughts exactly! Just give me the multiplayer deathmatches and another great campaign. Does not need to be a constant grind game.

@MidnightDragonDX I didn't know it was that far back, crazy.

This is gonna be good! Need some more Ghost in my life.

Could you imagine how epic this announcement would have been if there wasn't people leaking info?!?!? Always someone out there that has to ruin the fun by being the first to break a story.

Let's ***** go!!!

@Bentleyma 9 DAYS OFF!! Must be nice, you work at a bank like Arvest or something!?

Was super excited and then saw "2026" damnit!! Will def be getting this and adding it to my already immense backlog but I love me some tactics and star wars.

As of December '24 there were approx. 47.4 million PS plus users. To keep math simple, if you did essential pricing for all of them at $80 USD (yearly) that's approx. $3.8 billion! I don't run a major corporation nor know how much Playstation makes Sony overall but the fact they "need" to raise the price is absurd to me.