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Social media is bad. Expect this one, where we collectively whine and cry about strangers making fun of the game we wanna buy. No truer voice of reason.

@Northern_munkey The irony of you feeling the need to announce this is not lost on me.

Would not be surprised, every sequel they've made on the PS5 seems to be virtually the same game as its predecessor with a dramatically worse story and cast to my understanding.
Probably a good idea to just skip them all at this point.

@tameshiyaku Dude, it's so irritating. These guys try so hard to have this veneer of apathy because they think not caring about a topic makes them look above it all.
If they actually didn't care they wouldn't be in the comment section being professional Sony sweepers lmao, who are they trying to fool??

To be fair to you, @Jamesy-2013 I shouldn't have roped you in with the other two and instead tagged you in a separate, less harshly worded response. I'm sorry about that.
What I was trying to get across with your original comment was that the negativity is warranted, and that these companies are only going to keep destroying the industry bit by bit if their playerbase continues to forgive everything they do because the next Marvel's Scrumblo or God of Literally Who is coming out.

But I shouldn't have treated you like you were antagonizing people in the comments, because you weren't.

@ButteredCrumpet If growing up means I gotta start talking like you, I think I'll pass bud.
You aren't owed good faith engagement, and you won't earn it from me by skirting around the point of my argument just so you can play internet sophist

@ButteredCrumpet Idk why you thought a second one of these would be more compelling

@ButteredCrumpet Thanks for the big empty-calorie diatribe that doesn't begin to broach what I was talking about, reddit commander-in-chief.
Maybe next time use your best witty remark and not every single one that comes to mind

@Northern_munkey Sacrcasm is when I believe something, but I don't want the stigma associated with said beliefs so I say it's just a joke bro.
If he was joking, he wouldn't have had to double down in the replies. And for someone who thinks I'm so off the mark about your character, you sure are vocal in agreeing with a point he apparently isn't serious about.

Why can't these mean ol' commenters just shut up about disks already so I can indulge in my addiction without shame? Or how about the fact that Sony can and will take any digital license from you at any time? Or how they invest large amounts of money into soulless live service garbage then shut down talented studios to subsidize their losses in that pursuit. And more terrible practices over such a short period of time.

For all of these there are white knights in the comments here essentially telling us we're only allowed to care about something for "x" amount of time. And that seems to be like a week until they start telling us to leave the multi-billion dollar company alone, because otherwise what would we do without Sony's mid-ass video games that play themselves.

If this was the "point" you guys are so eager to prove then you've done an exceptional job.

@ecurb7 "Don't ask questions. Just consume product and think about next product". Great perspective.

@Northern_munkey @Jamesy-2013 @ecurb7 I mean, you're the reason these companies get to do whatever they want. Blatant anti-consumer practices and their downright dystopian effects on the industry are nothing compared to your low impulse control.
It's not enough that you lap up whatever sludge falls off their conveyor belt, you'll actively mock people who refuse to do so out of principle. It's gross.

@RoomWithaMoose Safe to assume someone who already plays Fire Emblem will also be the most receptive audience to Fire Emblem clones.

Looks plain fun and it's cheap as hell. Pretty good deal from what I'm seeing.

Winning character designs there

@DennisReynolds Probably not many. I imagine most won't be getting either.

@darylb24 I'd definitely argue that the PS5 gen is extremely weak and held up almost wholly by third party support.
For whatever reason I never really cared much for the PS4, and my time spent with my PS5 easily dwarfs it. But yeah just looking at what's on offer by number of releases and reception the PS4 library is much, much better in comparison.

@darylb24 Not too many to my recollection. But certainly more than now because Sony were still supporting Japan Studio at the time. Ironically almost every PS5 exclusive has been a sequel to a PS4 exclusive lol, we're far from the crazy output of the PS1/PS2 days.

@DennisReynolds I mean, I agree, but that's mostly because its been the convenient and/or economical option. How many of the PS5's 95 mil install base will be in the market for a console at least twice its cost?
How much of that install base do you think still regularly use their PS5s for that matter? I think most people are gonna see the cost and either look for alternatives or just stick with what they already have.

@DennisReynolds I say this as someone who uses my PS5 primarily to play everything. Every game I've purchased for my PS5 is easily accessible on a different platform. That applies to the overwhelming majority of the entire library.
There's no good reason for me to upgrade to a PS6 at a 1k+ price point when it'll always remain technically inferior to a PC, it shares 99.8% of the same library of a PC (I'd have access to much more through Steam and emulation anyways), and now I won't even be able to buy games in my preferred format.
There's nothing/very little exclusive to the PS5 to entice you to buy a PS5 over competing machines, THAT'S what people mean when they say it has no games.

@get2sammyb Mercy, what would we ever do without the PS5's 15 exclusive releases over its entire lifetime? Perish the thought.

@Neuromancer Onimusha's horrendous english dub is something we can both agree on

Everytime I read interviews like these I'm reminded of the CEO from Smiling Friends S2

@Hyena_socks For sure, I'd love to be wrong and it turns out better than I expect. But after three $70 letdowns (including Monster Hunter Wilds last year) and a not-so convincing demo, I don't have a lot of optimism.
On the flip-side RE Veronica is being made by the same team that did RE2R and RE4R, so I imagine it'll be good, and potentially even be an improvement over the original this time around.

@Hyena_socks Yep, those are the ones. Requiem is a wildly unfocused mess of two half-finished games stapled together. It doesn't have a shred of originality or identity and is worse than the sum of all its parts. Also the nostalgia pandering makes me retch.
And PRAGMATA's "unique gameplay mechanic" never meaningfully evolves over the entire campaign, and hinders the action by requiring enemies to take ten business days to attack you so you don't get interrupted trying to solve a capcha.

Anything is a masterpiece if you're easy to impress, doesn't really mean much at that point.

Judging from the demo this game ain't going to have much of anything, which tracks with Capcom's other two major releases this year.

I find it laughable and almost pitiable that these FF directors can't possibly imagine creating an adventure that doesn't include wasting your time for hundreds of hours. Especially considering the source material they're leeching from does exactly that.

Unfortunately I don't think BioWare's getting the boot until after they re-ruin Mass Effect for the second or third time depending on who you ask.

@Dogbreath Sony is saving the planet by getting rid of discs. We are reaching critical levels of shamelessness now.
Sony might as well plug their fanbase into a grid and use them as human batteries to power their offices. That's basically all you guys amount to at this point.

@asdfghjklz He has a history of presenting sales data in a way that dishonestly suits major corporations. This isn't his first time doing this, and I'm not an expert myself, but plenty of people have poked holes in his data before like they're doing now.

But like I had prefaced before, a majority preference in digital sales isn't what's in contention. He's showing this to you to convince you that physical media sales are so low it OUGHT to go the way of the dodo, which only benefits Sony.
Some of my own thoughts looking at his chart
1. His chart accounts for a milestone of 100k sales only and doesn't specify by how much those seven games have surpassed that margin. He did that because 100k isn't an impressive number when comparing games that sold millions of copies. It's a deliberate lowball to paint a certain picture about physical games.
2. Similarly the "seven games" is a conveniently low number whether it's true or not, but remember that most of this year's major releases haven't even come out yet. Major publishers relegate Q3 through holiday quarter to the most marketable games. For 2026, you can even see this reflected with how comically bloated September's release schedule is because these publishers are too cowardly to broach GTA's release window. This seven games at 100k number is something Mat and the shill journalists who run articles on it would like to tout without you thinking about it.
3. I mentioned it before, but it's impossible for this chart to track lifetime sales. Which is important because the more expensive games have got the fewer people buy them at launch. Physical games tend to get deeper and more often permanent discounts than what digital storefronts offer. Obviously because retailers need to move product while Sony can sit on a digital license as long as they please without any extra cost to themselves.

All this is to say that this would be the ***** I was alluding to before. These corpos are salesmen at the end of the day and they use weasel words to delude people. I don't doubt for a second that Piscetella has incentive to be their weasel.

I'm not going to contest that digital purchases make up the large majority of total game sales because that's just true. But yes, this IS propaganda. This list does not and cannot account for the lifetime sales of game. That would mean games that have been marked down a year or years after release, or the used games market. These are options you have now with multiple storefronts via retailers, options that Sony conveniently has everything to gain by taking away from you.

Even if you don't buy a single game off a shelf, you DO NOT benefit from them doing away with physical media. Sony is among the greediest, most anti-consumer companys in the industry, you will see that reflected when the PSN store is your ONLY avenue to rent your games.
I assume that most people already know this and defenders just have a sycophantic attachment to Sony. But to anyone who's having difficulty reading through all the drama and the ***** - don't let industry puppets like Mat Piscetella and Push Square of all people sway you into thinking these corpos are doing you a favor.

Lotta pro bono shills working round the clock shifts in the comments, wow. At least the Push Square guys are getting paid to do it

Free Lucy skin goated

Probably getting the same treatment Oblivion got. No thanks

I'm getting the remake FOR Origins

Honestly I wouldn't have been too pressed if they left this one to the digital landfill lol

How's Xbox doing a decade later? Not to say their failures stem from a single issue, but they never did recover from the reputation lost by their anti-consumer *****. In fact Sony benefited from it greatly. Hmmm

Perfect reminder that P4 Golden is available on all platforms for $20 and goes on sale frequently... and that PS2 games are stupid easy to emulate and can run on just about anything you're using to view this comment now.

My disc games, a good 60-65% of my library don't even register on my profile anymore. They made their choice, ***** em

@get2sammyb Do you actually not get it?? I don't think I believe you, but for the sake of the argument we'll say that you don't...

If both platforms are digital only, what good reason do you have to pick the one that restricts your purchases to a single monopolized storefront with terrible service, terrible security, PAID access to online multi-player, and precedent that Sony could just take your purchase away from you at anytime for any reason.

Genuinely what reason does somebody have to continue supporting an objectively worse service other than having a religious devotion to the brand?

@dwayne91 Says alot that their magnum opus was lending Fallout to Obsidian

We're not seeing anything about ES6 this decade, would not be surprised if they haven't even started working on it past early concepts.
But it doesn't really matter when it releases, Bethesda is a hack company, every game to their name is worse than the last.

@Miserablefish It's ridiculous but there is an alarmingly large amount of people who think this way. Like it's more of a social event to them than an actual game.

They'll play the most popular releases, say it's the most incredible thing they've ever played, then a week later they'll never talk about it again and move on to the next thing.
The 90s and the 00s are filled with masterworks and overlooked gems, so it's their loss not ours.

I was already set on moving to PC, no option for physical games on a console is just another reason to do so.

Welp, time to invest in a proper gaming PC. There is literally no reason to buy a PS6.

@LogicStrikesAgain Got one right here Rockstar

Live action anime adaptations on netflix have never gone wrong before.
Who's even the market for this? Certainly not Persona fans. Maybe the posers who can't even be bothered to play the games and just watch let's plays and video essays... Actually, that's probably it...

What a joke, this game is sounding less and less worth the hype by the hour.

I'll pick this up in a few years once all the DLC is out

@DennisReynolds Yeah, maybe that was a bit harshly worded at the end there. I don't doubt they're good, there just isn't a shortage of alternatives for the kind of game Nioh is presently. Where games like Ninja Gaiden and especially like Dead or Alive are in very short supply.
I don't have a lot of faith in Team Ninja to deliver anything but another thinly-veiled platform to siphon whales with DoA7, it's evident they don't care.

It's a shame but it's clear to see that Team Ninja no longer care about the games that put them where they are today.

Dead or Alive? Let's have an indentiy crisis and destroy its reputation with aggressive microtransactions...
Ninja Gaiden? Can't be bothered to make it, let's outsource it to other studios.
Not even the Xtreme series can catch a break. Let's turn it into a dull dating game featuring a bunch of original characters replacing the DoA girls.

They didn't ***** the bed the second Itagaki left, but they certainly didn't take long to get to that point.
Just stick with Nioh, I guess, because the world was really hankering for more samurai souls-likes.