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Loved XIII and XV so i’m sure I will enjoy this too. Famitsu’s review means absolutely zero to me though.

Im getting 89 on Metacritic vibes. Let’s see! Not played the demo though. And not fussed if it scores a bit lower either. Should be a good time.

I think the issue for a lot of people, including myself, is that I have Gamepass and PS Plus Extra… and whilst Playstation seems to be adding more games each month; most of them have been on Gamepass already. If you never had Gamepass then you will be getting more for your money with PS Plus.

Also with Gamepass there is the guarantee that if the game is a day 1 addition then most people haven’t played it and can be excited about it. With PS Plus the older games get added and you may have already bought them. Still can (and does) happen with Gamepass too of course; with those that aren’t day 1 additions.

But the lack of day 1 additions is still going to affect Sony’s sales I assume… for instance I never bought Rift Apart as I knew it would eventually hit PS Plus. And it did.

From the title of the article i thought this would be a trailer of Sony’s wallet!

@practicein2021 Xbox has their extended, less hype but possibly still interesting,
Showcase tomorrow as well.

@Neverwild a contract is in place to not announce other platforms even though they may very well be in development ; so ultimately it’s the same thing.

Gotta keep all the immature fanboys in check. PushSquare knows its audience.

Also remember the FFXVI PC version getting deleted off the trailer? As if Playstation doesn’t have its own embargoes…

Edit: at least with what you are referring to with Xbox you only wait 24 hours or whatever. Playstation’s deals are a lot longer so that you buy the game there first. The impatience is unreal. Imagine a game getting announced for the original Xbox and everyone had to wait 24 hours for it to get announced for PS2. Im sure they were fine.

Love this series!

It’s a good thing to be able to shop around for Xbox digital codes. I saved £14 on Diablo IV digital. That adds up per game so yea… Playstation not offering it is a bad thing. But the usual people are defending the decision… so stupid.

@Toot1st I was going to ask the same thing.

Twisted Pixel in the article (2nd Paragraph) should be Twisted Voxel. Confused me for a second as I love games by Twisted Pixel (Splosion’ Man, The Maw, The Gunstringer etc).

Unfortunately they are now owned by Meta.

@Kevw2006 I know this doesn’t mean the games are the same (and I am sort of saying this in jest but also… sort of not) but whenever I play a Playstation Studios game and you have to climb up some sort of mountain side with little hand holders and the slightly different coloured blocks/rocks/beams that show where you go next… I roll my eyes. Not sure why anyone thinks that is fun, especially not copy pasted in every PS game. Sure this is reductive but literally put “(insert Playstation game name) climbing” into google…

… it’s the same picture.

FFVII Remake was just “Okay” to me so was hoping this would be the special one. Going to play it asap regardless to get some use out of my PS5.

Sony may have made a deal with Konami… for marketing of these games, as opposed to exclusivity. But anyway the more platforms the better!

Recently tried Metal Gear Solid for the first time (PS1 port on Vita)… was still blown away by the production values attached to that intro; but struggled to get into it. Happy to start from a remake of the prequel and go from there.

69 Billion towards some timed/permanent exclusives then 🤷‍♂️ really think this was a bad call and rejecting the deal will for sure hurt competition as opposed to helping it.

Also the immaturity here is… depressing.

On the final final boss of Wo Long and loved the game! Played on Gamepass but obviously that deal still benefits Koei Tecmo so silly to see people here whinging about it.

@Keyblade-Dan Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon are not in the same conversation. Microsoft financed the start-up of Mistwalker to create these games from scratch. Nothing wrong with that at all; so don’t twist that.

@UltimateOtaku91 For Resident Evil 4 or a completely different unrelated game?

Also i’ve seen some of those comments and i’ve myself asked for digital to be included. I don’t think anyone expects Xbox to outsell or match PlayStation when there are more PS5s sold and 100million PS4s. The point is the gap is lower than reported, which can be true and is in this case. If they just reported digital sales and not physical; that would be an incomplete picture too.

@UltimateOtaku91 how is it copium if that is literally what has happened? As @GodOfCapcom said it’s usually higher on PS, we see figures like 87% etc which sets off a Push Square Circle Jerk. But this time digital is actually included so it’s down to 65% on PS…

XIII is awesome and it was awesome back in 2009. Great story and lore, great music, and beautiful graphics. I even liked the characters for the most part.

I wonder if Sony are making this because they are worried Xbox is making one; and Xbox is doing the same thing on their side… when neither one of them truly believes in it but they just can’t be caught with their pants down.

@tallythwack at least you tried it to come to that conclusion. Obviously most people disagree. Just a shame when someone writes it off without trying it!

@UltimateOtaku91 check it out on Gamepass. It’s the sort of game thats so addictive you can play it on Xbox for the achievements, and would want to go back and get all the trophies when it finally comes to Playstation and play it through again.

Actually loved this game; and the DLC.

And anyone dismissing it because of the graphics? Thick and I guarantee if it was on Playstation you wouldn’t be so quick to overlook it.

Surely Mark Cerny should be working on Knack 3 anyway?

Nintendo needs something but no thanks to Playstation and Xbox. I love new tech but it needs to come at the right time. All this is going to do is put people off; myself included.

This is hilarious seeing people trying to compare the 2 services when it depends on your taste in games… and what you have or haven’t played yet already. Xbox offering Day 1 release is great and if Playstation started doing it i’m sure it would be enjoyed by people here. Also no need to bring Xbox’s profits or whatever into it when gamers can enjoy it at the moment so who cares? That’s up to Xbox and doesn’t make the service any worse. Literally just a dumb argument.

As for Wo Long; I have it downloaded on my Series X at the moment but haven’t had a chance to check it out yet. I’m not so great at Soulslike games so not sure how far I would even get in this. I love Romance of the Three Kingdoms though so hell yea can’t wait to try it at least.

@WallyWest yea Konami needs to be acquired for the good of the video game industry. However there are teases of their return so who knows…

@MayaMousavi it’s physical only so doesn’t include anyone buying digital on Xbox which is a lot of Xbox users; as well as PC of course.

@Ravix One of the great things about Kamurochō is how it does grow and change as the years go by; from 80’s to modern day. But largely the city is the same; but it’s definitely cool to revisit places “20 years later”.

@Shstrick I mean Dead Rising and Oblivion came out before the PS3 was out so are you just listing random games that didn’t release at the same time on PS?

@UltimateOtaku91 70 billion will get Microsoft revenue from COD, World of Warcraft, Candy Crush etc. so not really comparable… and not really an “un”smart business decision…

@Artois2 Sony is now arguing that exclusives are bad and will hurt their business. So they have themselves to blame… for basically chatting *****. Microsoft just called their bluff.

@thefourfoldroot1 really, because Sony spoke out themselves about “day ones” not being viable…

@LiamCroft it’s annoying me that people are questioning you liking the stat tracking to be accurate because I 100% do too. Just like I used to hate Xbox 360 achievements that I accidently unlocked “offline” and so missed their date stamp. If the time is inaccurate it’s really annoying. I also have my Switch games ordered by time played on the menu. 3DS is still the best console by a mile when it comes to recording playtime. Xbox is good but could be better. But my PS5 tracker has been broken from day 1 unfortunately.

Basically the only reason I have a PS5.

And i’m not 100% on it yet but I have faith in the XIV team and their confidence in this game is selling me on it. Regardless it’s something I need to play.

Best to worst:

Y0
LAD
K1
6
K2
Judgment
5
3
4

Not played Lost Judgment or Ishin yet. Also how stupid does that spelling of JudgEment look.

@Ravix Yea i got it as part of the bundle as I had to… not touched it yet. Whoops!

@thedevilsjester then why accept the deal?

@GodofCapcom whats that got to do with anything?

@RobN thats one way of looking at it; but the other side is… a lot of these games I wouldn’t have ever paid for in the first place; but now have played through Gamepass and they are getting paid by Xbox.

It’s obviously hard to know but as an indie developer you would have the decision of upfront cash from Xbox or gambling it on sales of the game. Which could go viral and make millions or could fall flat on it’s face. So yes there will be some devs/publishers that come out better than others, and they may not even know it. It’s a case of not knowing how it would have sold for sure.

I do wonder about Vampire Survivors since they had the viral money from Steam so not sure why they went for Gamepass; but there is a lot of background we don’t know.

@thedevilsjester yes but they get paid to go on Gamepass which negates the lower sales. Thats the negotiation the publishers will come to with Xbox. So the profit is ideally the same or more or less who knows but the idea is for maximum profit because of course it is. You are acting like they put it on Gamepass for free.

They even get the payment upfront (I think?) which means they can get to work quicker on their next game.

If the devs get paid for making the games, the publishers get paid for the game going on gamepass, and Xbox get paid through the gamepass subs… then what do the sales matter?

So much hate for Gamepass here but it has saved me a lot of money and allowed me to try loads of random games. Obviously it’s all been said before; but these comment threads just get really dumb with random hate thrown out for no reason (though PS Essential is celebrated).

I would argue it has convinced more devs to come to Xbox too since they know they might be in with a chance of making it on Gamepass; especially indies.

I want a PS5/Series X version of Sonic R 🤤

I blasted the soundtrack the other day and my 1 year old was dancing to it. Good moment.

This whole thing really annoys me because it’s, firstly, hypocritical (watch Sony breeze through their SE acquisition). But secondly, I feel like the people making these decisions have no idea about the gaming industry. Literally no idea. In fact outside of UK game developers, I feel like barely anyone in the UK has knowledge of the video game industry. It seems like such an afterthought here. Hence why you see the chav games dominating the charts all the time. Not saying theres anything wrong with the Cod/Fifa/Gta holy trinity necessarily but it’s literally all the time. Because that’s all the casuals know about.

This comments section is pretty much a copy & paste of all the other ones regarding this. I hope both companies are preparing for game dev post this whole acquisition; whether it goes through or not.

This should really have flagged Sony’s exclusive practices and I really hope it does. Funny how even Forspoken gets released slap bang in the middle of all this with 2 year console exclusivity. Surely that should be a core talking point?

I don’t want Xbox buying up the market and thinking thats how they can get ahead; but I think the thing I hate most is Sony’s hypocrisy regarding game parity and keeping games away from gamers. I mean that might be the thing I dislike most about this industry. Hate giving PS my money for FFXVI but pretty much have to.

@Casco very well said.

@ShogunRok would it be dreadful if people on PureXbox said they were playing a game on PS Plus instead of forking out however much for the full price release? 🤔

Even if you love your PS that much, can always play it on Gamepass now and then buy it on PS when it’s on sale down the line. I saw somone one PureXbox say they bought it on PS instead of playing on Gamepass because they want to “own” it. But nothing is stopping them from playing on Gamepass now and then buying it to own later when it’s on sale, saving money all around. Except they clearly just wanted to play on PS that much; i’m guessing for the trophies. I made that mistake with Dark Pictures 1&2 where they were on PS plus but I still bought them on Xbox (on deep sale tbf) and enjoyed them, but like… what was the point? May as well have saved money and played on the sub service.

Chris Pratt as Kratos 👌 but yea seems like they want to rush it if they are starting with the Norse story. Unless they do a prequel after the fact.

Hoped for Kena. Otherwise this is all stuff I played on Xbox unfortunately for me. Obviously great games though so enjoy. Like A Dragon is one of my favourite games of the last few years. 6 is incredible too. Got all the achievements on both of those. Judgment was a bit more of a slog tbh but still solid and I may have been burnt out.

It would be nice if they announced these earlier in the month though. Kind of annoying when games come and go on sale.

157 hours with the order being:

1. Ghost of Tsushima Director’s Cut (Plat)
2. God of war (2018) (Plat)
3. Horizon Zero Dawn
4. Marvel’s Spider-man Miles Morales (Plat)
5. Uncharted 3 Remastered

I’m mainly on Xbox but interesting that my 157 hours was up 152 on last year! Ragnarok will likely be number 3 on that list realistically by the end of the year. I have 10 platinum trophies since 2008(!) and 4 of them were this year with the 3 above plus Astro’s Playroom.

2 hours into Ragnarok and really enjoying it. So obviously can see the praise. But Horizon only gets praise because its first party. The Horizon games are polished but otherwise they are the most 7 out of 10 games that ever 7 out of 10’d. They are also basically glorified Ubisoft games.

So I got this at £40 over black friday. I have played about an hour (I know thats not enough time) and I just… presentation as always is incredible but the gameplay is just so ***** right now. I did the same thing with the PS4 version. I hope it gets better. On the other hand I just played through God of War 2018 for the first time and that is actually a great game.

@SolaceCreed when did I say this means anything to Nintendo? Still makes the game multiplatform.

@R1spam to be clear; it makes no mention of Switch; just Nintendo. So these could be lined up for the successor system launch for example.