They made cinematic fastfood of Avengers, now Spiderman franchise. It’s obvious two kinds of movies will earn a lot in cinemas: ones for kids because parents need to pay for 2-3 tickets to go with them, and dumb action movies packed with effects.

I grew up and no longer find these interesting.

Yeah, there are so many “Pokémon rivals” nowadays. But the original ones are still undefeated.

@Bot_Bot_69 but you encounter issues while playing the game, or you just quote DF article?

@DennisReynolds Sony and their analysts surely knew a lot when they started PS3 generation… ohh.. right… not so much.

@DennisReynolds Lets just wait to see how it sells I bet it won’t sell well.

@Vertere Sony as a corp needs to show income growth year on year. If PS6 sales drop, number of players they have drops. Means less games sell. Means they need to increase prices at some point.

Also because development costs will grow.

Sony is not building PS Store monopoly to not increase game prices at some point. That is the purpose. To control prices.

@Beerheadgamer82 Switch 1 sold 156 units. No one can match that.

@Rich33 with these prices they managed to secure it for max 3-4 months. They will increase prices very soon.

@HonestHick no way. Right after they kill physical games, they will increase prices in PS Store to $80.. few years later $90.. and so on. That’s why they want monopoly.

@Llamageddon you tell shareholders what they want to hear. There are ways to not tell the whole truth

@IllusiveMan Yeah, the Apple idea of their phones being leased for a monthly payments, it’s ridiculous. If you cannot pay so much for a phone, it means you cannot afford it and should look for something else. But Apple is state of mind. People would sell their organs to get one iPhone to show off they have it.

This will not work with consoles.
If one is too expensive there is always alternative.
Switch 2 will be 50% of PS6 price, and runs most 3rd party games just like PS, plus they have dozens exclusives every year. Not 1 of 2.
Dozens.

What Sony will face is some of their customers move to Switch and Helix.

I think they will see impact. And pretend it’s fine.
They also didn’t see impact for long when they messed up in PS3 generation.

Desperados 3.
Reminds me of times when as a teen I played Commandos 1/3 games, and first Desperados. And it is so great, highly recommend.

Beast of Reincarnation already preordered, physical, in a green plastic box. I’m taking the boycott seriously.

@EVIL-C Yeah, and it’s not a secret to me or you. Neither to Sharma. That is also why recent leaks suggest they seriously want to put that drive in Helix.

This is their chance to steal some players from Sony. It’s so easy to shoot a goal in a match when goalkeeper is gone. Hoping they will use that opportunity, this is their chance.

@UltimateOtaku91 Don’t think so. Sony isn’t aware of our expectations and what people want for quite long. It would be pretty surprising if they were aware what competition plans.

@Kakun PlayStation fans already changed camps in PS3 generation. That’s not impossible if MS delivers the hardware we want with functions we want and games. And it seems they also know that. At least Sharma.

Recent leaks suggest indeed MS plans to include physical drive in Helix.
They are not announcing this so early for a reason. If they confirmed disc drive now, they would give enough time to Sony to potentially reconsider and also add disc drive in PS6.

They wait until it will be too late for any hardware changes. I am pretty sure Sharma knows that having a disc drive will be a game changer and will indeed convince many people to change ecosystem from Sony to MS.

@HonestHick Better start realizing that PS6 price tag will be $1000-1200.
Which means they can soon increase PS5 price to align it.

@Rich33
“ Sony trying their best to keep consumer prices down, via excellent forward planning.”
Just wait one month this comment will not age well.

@MacBlayne many defenders are just fanboys, who does not realize that right after monopolizing doll game distribution by Sony and PS Store, prices will shoot up..

Oh, I rather want to see results for Q2

I feel it has an impact, since they decided to break the silence and say that.

Like in the meme with a dog in a house in fire: it’s fine

@RoomWithaMoose Neither Holland nor cast praise PlayStation because they like it.
This is Spiderman movie, distribution on Sony Pictures side. They have a contract to promote games etc

Don’t be naive.

Yeah, I’m not a fan of these sets.
Lego Technic on the other hand..

Already preordered a physical copy.
And not on PS5, they won’t see my money anymore.

95m units may sound like a lot until you realize Nintendo Switch sold 156m units. Sony won’t even match Nintendo DS with its 151m units sold. Even PS4 sold 117m units.

Since Sony plans to increase console prices again, these numbers will not go up that much as many believe.

@itsfoz FIFA is a disgusting piece of **** now. It seems they made a deal while he stayed in US with the orange man, ensuring his orange family member will get to take some piece of FIFA for themselves..

@MrPeanutbutterz Man, you will see economic challenges when you see PS6 prices in retail

A gaming PC will indeed start looking tempting.

@Mr-Cage Not so much. Bigger than they are have fallen in history of business. Few bad decisions can end everything.

Next gen will be real test. Selling less consoles, and games (with increasing development costs) as a result, but increasing profits mean only few things: higher prices.

No discs… and no disc drive. Better get used to that.

I love TLOU1.
I.. accept existence of TLOU2

Do you honestly believe, they are monopolizing games distribution in their ecosystem, to give players better discounts, better policies and regulations, refunds and possibilities to resell or exchange games..?

Oh.. man.. you will all realize how bad this change with physical to full digital is right AFTER they eliminate physical distribution: game prices will sooner or later be increased, discounts will remain the same or worse, no other improvements will be introduced.

Their discounts are ridiculous. Few years after release a game is sold at full release price to this day, with some discounts from time to time - and every single damn time the discount is exactly the same, being it 30% or at best 50% (but of course not a standard edition which you would buy at reasonable price now, but premium extra ultra edition so still expensive).

Their fans screamed “Microsoft will build monopoly buying Activision!”, yet now they create PS Store and distribution channels monopoly and I do not hear the same people screaming now, they are defending this damn change, because Sony must earn more, because.. it’s Sony.
Who will feel the consequences? You. Me. We.

Sony seems to be lost in their own logic.
Physical media was supposed to be dying.
This and preowned copies hurting their profits..

So why they invest in physical media now lol..?!

Maybe let’s stop pretending it’s about games and realize it’s about them ripping apart our wallets.
You all know what they do after killing physical games and removing disc drive.. their will increase prices in Store and for Plus. Just wait for it.

Fable day1 for me. Something fresh in the genre.
Laufey is a pass for me.

@get2sammyb I like the style of new Mortal Kombat or Injustice games more. Less cartoony.

Surely will take part in this.
Also because of vacation

Started Age of Empires 2, to just relax for a short session. It took me 4.5 hrs already.

Not really. Apart from Mortal Kombat, Injustice and Tekken, bo interest in others. I don’t like the art direction here too. Sales wise this won’t do well.

Oh, I doubt the sequel would come to PS. They decided to get back to exclusives.

@Wardenknight133 .. no.. I called it mobile because it looks like something for mobiles.

Nah, I’ll wait for PS6 Remastered Definitive Directors Cut Edition sold at full price again.

That’s why it’s good to have some physical discs with games guys

PSN doesn’t work, yet I played for several hours. Guess how.

@Bionic-Spencer Well, MS locked it for a year. Sony locks games forever.

@DennisReynolds
..more illegal than using internal information to buy or sell stocks before they grow or drop in value..?? You know why I say that. To show that ethical behavior and law matters only when they fear they may be caught doing it. When they are not, they break the rules. Same thing they did with how they estimated digital content sales. And did it on purpose to support their decision to shareholders and also customers. They literally think we are idiots.

@Swandivetotheasphalt
Yeah, it’s not a lie, it was already proven they did their estimations this way. Go defend your precious corporation somewhere else. I don’t buy it.

@naruball you just did.

@Toot1st hut why? This looks like a mobile game.

Since when superhero games used to suck?
Rocksteady Arkham series? Still a masterpiece and way ahead of even Spiderman with its world building and atmosphere. And mature story.

They managed to make 3 equally fantastic games with huge evolution between each.
Meanwhile we already have 3 Spiderman games that play like one and the same game, with little difference… and since milking never ends, there will be 4th game soon or later. Which will play exactly the same like those three..

@nomither6 on the other hand, DC has mature and serious themes and setting, compared to Marvel which always was like.. for kids.

Starting from color palette, villains, stories, Marvel was always level below DC.
And nothing changed when moved from comics to video games: Arkham trilogy >>> anything from Marvel.