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@Boxmonkey the problem with Sony is, we can already guess PS6 games lineup now: Spiderman 3, Horizon 3, TLOU rerelease, Ghost of another Japanese Island and another GOW hopefully with Kratos, and probably Intergalactic as a cross gen. No surprises. No new ideas. No risks.

Maybe. But it also shows how low expectations we have if that satisfied many.

Only Tomb Raider matched my expectations.
Wolverine.. with all that blood disappearing after 3 seconds and lack of cutting enemies into pieces looks exactly like Spiderman reskin sadly.
God of War looks like Forspoken.. no need to tell more, huge disappointment

It does look like sh*t.
And close to Forspoken.
Huge disappointment

@Kraven “ third party adventures that have the same type of gameplay gets exhausting” is a result of most of us doing this “ I’ll be buying them, no doubt”.

@Almost_Ghostly oh it does exactly mean. You know it. I know it. But let’s pretend sure.

Blood disappears after few moments just like it was never there. What.. ok. He cuts enemies one after another.. they fall on ground in one piece.. whaaat… ok. Seriously. I don’t want to be the guy saying this but it looks like Spiderman reskin 99%. Hype disappeared.

Well. Nothing really special. Wolverine hype just disappear, looks like Wolverine from Temu. God of War that is more like Dragon Age than God of War.. plus the woke plus DEI.. Control looks nice, and Phantom Blade too. Well.. it was not a good Sony show, their own IPs were nothing special. Some third parties helped to improve the overall rating.
And seriously.. Wolverine.. so much blood.. too much unrealistic blood.. cut cut cut.. enemy lands on the ground.. in one piece.. whaaat… what is this..

@cainhurst94 the problem is the new ND game is full woke and that is something players don’t like.

@Nicekix Returnal still sold better

It won’t happen.
Emulating PS3 would mean no profit from selling remasters.

Seriously.
I’m paying full price for a console and for a multiplayer access to get ads..???

Another remasters..?!?

@Dalamar oh I fear their next game will be same formula. Sony likes milking same formula

A company is investing money in a project expecting it to release and make money. Years are passing, game still in production and budget is growing. I think Sony will be pushing on ND to release ASAP. That can be concerned about costs and lack of profit.

I cancelled Plus in February and do not feel I missed anything. Means it’s pretty worthless.

Sales numbers are pretty poor. That’s a fact.

No thanks. They were sending some messages to me but it felt like they were begging for attention.

@Oram77 I buy short subscriptions to just play what I want and turn it off. They don’t add significant games to Plus so why paying 12 month??

Deliver what?
We know they will show Wolverine which will look alike Spiderman 2 with different skins. And Intergalactic hopefully but I am not expecting it’s too early.

@Vaako007 It gets more boring when you realize this is Spiderman formula copy pasted with new setting. SM2 was already boring because of that. Which is surprising because Rocksteady managed to deliver all their Batmans so fresh and interesting.

Blood of Dawnwalker for sure.
Something fresh finally.

All others can wait for a discount.

Turned off my subscription last month.
Now I only see that was a smart move.

Anyone believing this is a glitch or fake news must be very trusting in corporation that already made it required to validate online your new disc drive for PS5 online.
And it took their communication department pretty long to prepare a statement to confront the news.

I think they did it on purpose trying to see how gamers will react. And they stepped back (for now) because of that reaction.

@AdamNovice Not so much, take into account that none of these games is really a system seller. Mostly sequels. The sales of hardware went up mainly because Sony plans to rise prices.

So now we observe mainly scalpers building their stocks to make money soon.

They’re milking this IP hard, even without Kratos… but as a spin off this will rather not be a huge success.

@Yor-sama some value was lost: money, time, talented people. Studio was created not so long ago and working on an AAA game for Sony. Obviously games are not created in one year. But check the names of people in this studio. Pretty solid names.

So in fact it is not Concord 2.0, but only Concord 1.5.

Wondering how long until Sony closes Bungie. The cost was huge and profit is small. They cannot afford that.

@Kraven well, not really. According to new reports, Marathon sells poorly. Especially on consoles. If not PC sales, it would be already cancelled.

I suppose I change my bet from 6-12 months to 3 months until they turn servers off.

Witcher 2 Assassins of Kings and a little bit of SC Chaos Theory. Plus some good movies, A Cure for Wellness right now, highly recommend.

@Oram77 the problem is, Sony does not want to wait several years for Marathon to establish anything. They wanted to sell millions and start monetizing now. We already see it did not happen and will not happen for at least year or more.

That means, they will change it into free to play by the end of the year. Just wait for it. That is the only way for the game to get more players.

Yeah, sure. The real summary of all that are sales results. And according to these, it obviously did better than Concord, but far far from expectations Sony had. They need a true live service gem that involves millions of players and leads to constant incomes. What it delivered, is around 250k copies on Steam and approx less than 1m on PS5+Xbox together.

That would be great result for an indie game.
It’s a terrible result for a live service that is supposed to provide constant income long term.

Anyone believing it will suddenly grow to 5 or 10m copies sold must be crazy It will sell more due to some rebates and sales, but it will take at least 6-12 months. Sony needed it to sell several millions to start generating income and with some add ons and dlcs to do so for couple years.

It will not. And we can already see that.

@UltimateOtaku91 “ offering discounts at different rates to different people” is charging more depending which person of these people you are

Well. Who can afford the price will definitely buy it to own the most powerful box under TV. Everyone talks about price, forgetting it is supposed to be even 40% more powerful than PS6. THAT will have impact how games run for sure. Higher performance, higher resolution, better ray tracing, and higher.. price. Everything that is better bigger or faster usually costs more.

That’s why V8 under the hood costs more than V6 or R4.

Honestly, why one should care? It’s 1/2 exclusive games a year. There are hundreds of games on PC that sell better.

Planescape Torment and War of the Ring board game

@Areus Uncharted had good writing, characters, dialogs and story. Horizon series on the other side.. nice huge colorful open world and stupid story, cringe dialogs, boring characters and writing and game pace is .. ridiculously boring.

That’s the case why ppl want Uncharted

First, this may somehow force Sony to release PS6 latest in 2028, and not 2029 or so. They cannot let competitor to take lead in new generation at the beginning. New generation is somehow a kind of new opening, if people will buy MS box they may not pay for Sony box.

Second, Sony remembers what happened when X360 released before PS3. Better or not, more expensive or not. It will be much more powerful and if they wait 1-2 years with PS6 release, people who want newer and more powerful box will already have one.

Let’s wait. A year or so isn’t too long it will pass fast.

@BearsEatBeets No they didn’t. They were probably paid for some PSSR 2.0 advertising and doing a comparison to convince some ppl to go and buy it.

Just notice how suddenly after next generation is postponed articles and comparison pop up showing how great the Pro is Marketing all the way.

@Northern_munkey Man you just said you prefer Marathon game style over ARC. That one statement is enough to be sure you would condemn Marathon if it wasn’t Sony product. That is the only reason some guys defend it.

Tried the demo.
Played 1h.
No.. it won’t sell well.
It’s strange, the style is too much cartoon, it’s damn boring. I played ARC. They are not even close to ARC. Sorry but no.

No. It doesn’t.
Decided to rather invest in ARC, which look more adult and less cartoon.

It’s pretty obvious she needs to learn.
I have seen some CEO changes, and there is always a phase 6-12 months where former leader is introducing new CEO to company, strategies, products and people, helping to start.

Suddenly it’s a bad thing..?
The bad thing is she’s going for interviews unprepared. Nothing else.

Why not Jeremy Davies..?!

@UltimateOtaku91 and Insomniac games, Guerilla games, Naughty Dog games, Housemarque games, Sicker Punch games and so on..

Where is creativity, where is passion?
I am tired of replaying same formula in similar open world, with similar assets, similar gameplay mechanics..
Aren’t you tired of this?

@cainhurst94 I’m a video game fan, not Nintendo only fan. And don’t have profile on Nintendo Life

I am just saying, that it is clear when you look at Insomniac games, that they are reusing same formula, same assets, same models, even same control settings in their games. It’s like playing DLCs.

@Carnage Returnal is an example of new IP that is and will be milked for two or three more sequels.

That’s right. Every single one cheater of these 20 guys willing to buy it.

Nah, thanks but no Maybe when they release it on smartphones. It looks like it can run on a 5 year old android.

@Carnage Wait. Did you just say Sony is not milking their IPs like competition?

Did you see their first party exclusives list from PS5? They are all damn sequels. Every single one.