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@ilyn I mean gamers as in total people playing games.
A LOT of social stigma still existed back then, particularly for female gamers. This was also very much the Jack Thompson era where parents were being scared into believing that their kids will go out and kill someone because of GTA.

@KundaliniRising333 If you think this is bad, wait until you find yourself debating some Switch 2 fans.
Nintendo is going out of their way to rip people off but they get away with it because they're Nintendo.

@Max_the_German The PS2 managed those sales back when the total amount of gamers was at an absolute fraction of what they are today. I find the comparison apples and oranges tbh.

Sounds to me like Sony have perfected grifting rather than this being a result of anything natural.
Sad times. Sad, sad times.

@Oram77 Completely agree with you. I want the ability the enter every building in GTA5 and open every drawer Shenmue style.

Yes, probably never happen. Point is, that is what i want. I do not care about graphics getting any better than they currently are in all honesty.

An anniversary edition without Silent Assassin or Contracts is kind of insulting actually.

I bet I know why too. It's because they are too difficult for the modern general audience. Disguises that barely work, a time limit on the anesthetic, fewer "secret" ways in that might as well have big glowing signs over them saying "way in". These were hardcore games.

I find it very hard to believe that if you've nearly made it into 2026 without buying a PS5 then this sugar overdose of a trailer is going to convince you.
There is only one thing left that'll convince anyone to take the plunge and that is GTA6.

Metal Gear 1 and 2.
As in, the 1980s originals.
Think about it: the fistfight with Grey Fox in a minefield, the showdown with Big Boss where he reveals your parentage, Solid Snake's breakdown from a naive scrub to PTSD.
They have kept us waiting too long for these remasters.

@Th3solution Considering that one of the biggest complaints against the PS5 has been its UI this is a foolhardy solution.

Yeah. I think Tencent has a point.
''Clones'' are a time honoured tradition in gaming. Doom clones, COD clones, Battlefield clones, GTA clones, PUBG clones. I see no problem with an Horizon clone and I think that there is protectionism on Sony's part here.

Eh... i mean this politely... Teal'c could have played Kratos.
Sadly Judge has gone to seed since then. Love the man btw, but time comes for us all.
As for Momoa and Batista, I am not convinced that they have the acting talent. They are fine if you just want a big man role. But Kratos is popular precisely because he is far more than just a big man.

@SeaDaVie Just a reminder to you that:
A) Endgame was six years ago, before a pandemic, before several huge loss making films.
B) Deadpool and Wolverine was one film. It was one film. One film does not invalidate a general trend.

@Anthony_Daniels News broke last week that Marvel has lost 60% of its combined domestic and international audience.
It wont.

$200 million on a $15 million budget with (as far as I can tell) relatively little marketing.

If i was a grossly overpaid Hollywood actor or director I would be crapping myself right about now. With precious few examples the era of the big budget movie is crashing down. Avengers Doomsday for example will never make the billion dollars required to make its money back. Not a chance.

My suspicion is that multi-format sales are harder to track rather than the idea that Sony does not care about it.

He stepped back from season 3 of TLOU because he does not want his name attached to something that is coming off a 55% drop in ratings. I would have more respect for him if he admitted it but I suspect that his peers wouldn't.
What I want to know is, was it his decision to reduce the impact of Ellie's roaring rampage of revenge with all of that wisecracking jokey cringe? Because honestly we should all be worried about his next project if he thought that was a good idea.

@Ricky-Spanish The Hideo Kojima controversy was too strong to remake MGS.
The winds are slowly shifting imo.

@beltmenot No.

@ItsAlwaysSunnyyy Part of the reason why the world is in such a state is because of the continuous and wilful denial of facts.
Yes, fine, what an anime is or is not does not matter in the grand scheme of things. But it is just one more example of people just picking and choosing what they want to believe.

This is not an anime any more than Dragonball Z is a cartoon.

This is a cartoon. Or at best, an "animated feature".
An "anime" has a very specific definition which a highly American website such as Netflix does not meet.

@CupidStunt You get Sydney Sweeney to play original Lara. You know why, we all know why.

Incredible. Just incredible.

She doesn't match 90s Lara Croft, 00s Lara Croft, or 10s Lara Croft.

I'm glad to see my lack of faith in Waller Bridge was deserved. DOA.

Whilst we are on the subject, this also goes for Twitter controversies regarding certain authors and grifter Youtubers.

You let the money talk. Not the mob.

Watching this trailer it looks astonishingly generic. There is nothing here that screams ''Perfect Dark'' to me.

Why bother fixing all of the gameplay problems when this irrelevance is ripe for the taking?

Controversial opinion: The more I think about it as time as passed, the more that I am glad that Kojima was removed from MGS.
MGS 4-5 were a mess story wise. Full of convoluted retcons, nonsensical twists and the just straight up character assassination of the MGS3 cast. The gameplay was fun but there was nowhere near enough of it, sandwiched in-between LONG cutscenes.
Y'know what? Reboot it and let someone else have a go. Why not?

@Oram77 It'll happen eventually but I suspect there is less anticipation for MGS4 and Peace Walker than there was for MGS 1-3.

So... there's nothing really all that ''Goosebumps'' about this game is there? You could take the name away and this could be just about anything else.

@RagnarLothbrok No, not really.
We are talking re-release vs a launch. Two completely different metrics.

@Kidfunkadelic83 Oh, fair enough. Interesting to see if that gets a release. Standards are very different nowadays of course.

Was this the game with the controversial lesbian kiss in it? Controversial not because of homophobia but because it was there solely for the male gaze?
Either way, never played it back in the day. Might give it a whorl.

@LogicStrikesAgain "And also saying it’ll be better to switch to PC if consoles get more expensive isn’t really considering the fact that same specced PC’s will always be more expensive relative to consoles"

That simply is not true. Consoles upon release are already old tech. That is how they (in theory) make them cheap. The PS5 is a dinosaur compared to even a basic gaming PC.

@johnedwin Depends on what your definition of a gaming PC is. If you want the best of the best then sure. But if want something that'll match the creaking PS5, and I greatly suspect the PS6, then sorry, but that won't cost you much more.
And let us not forget that Sony is waving goodbye to the console exclusive. A lot of it will end up on PC eventually.

I think that the PS6 might be so expensive that you might as well buy a gaming PC. I'm not paying £600 for a console for the same reason that I am not paying £15 for a McDonalds. There are better options out there.

@Americansamurai1 The great VR revolution will never ever happen until they can shrink a pair of VR goggles into something the size of Geordi LaForge's visor.
The majority of people just do not want this huge thing on their head that gives them headaches.

Far too many people seem to have forgotten how to play a game without it going "ping" every few minutes. It's kind of sad tbh.

Let me clue those of you who need to hear this to the inconvenient truth: the only place where the console wars ever existed was in the minds of the customers. The corporations only cared about all of that lovely free advertising that you were giving them.

But now, risks are higher, prices are higher. Exclusivity no longer pays like it does. So they are saying goodbye to your misplaced allegiance to a consumer product that you invested so much of your time and emotions into and doing what they think will make them the most money. Them's the breaks.

@get2sammyb 😆

Never before have so many people tried to tell me that a franchise is popular with zero corroborating evidence as they have with Shenmue.
Cool soundtrack though, I will give it that.

So in other words, the single player mode will be unplayable once the next Call of Duty comes out and everyone has moved on.
Good job there are no trophies linked to single player then!

Battlefield needs to learn how to walk and run again before it can fight the champ. If it comes out of this scrap with a bronze then it will have succeeded beyond anyone's wildest dreams but a few years ago.

Does anyone else remember when the PUBG boys got so salty regarding Fortnite's success that they tried to sue them?

Lol.

Resident Evil 2 and 3...

LET'S GOOOOOO!!!!

This is how you justify my Premium sub, Sony.

They are waiting for the PS6 release date to be announced.

@Oram77 The hit rate is better than it used to be but there are still some TERRIBLE movie tie-ins. Borderlands anyone?
Zelda has the warning signs imo.

This is some classic cope if I've ever heard it.
Make no mistake about this: If this game was selling gangbusters then we wouldn't need to speculate on how many copies it has sold. They would be right there bragging to us about it.
And the real nail in the coffin here is that I know several streamers who have been going back to playing 5 and 6. That tells me that they are not making money off 7.

@Oram77 I hope he isnt tbh. Chris, Leon, Claire and Jill's stories are done imo. Lets have new people now. One of the worst parts of 8 Imo was the Chris reveal. Didn't even feel like him.

The Tekken Tag games are the best ever Tekken games.
There. I said it.

@get2sammyb You say that Sony has barely yet to get their live service push off the ground, I say that the multiple failures in recent years proves that there is no appetite for new live service games.

Live service is no different to the MMO market. How many of the thousands of MMOs released in the last two decades have managed to unseat World of Warcraft? None. And yet there are people who still try, failing each time.

This is a closed market. Live service gamers are not interested in playing new games.

@nessisonett This entire comic book series in a nutshell.

1) Superman does something evil.
2) A hero/villain you've heard of fights back.
3) Superman is nearly defeated.
4) Superman wins.
5) Repeat option 1.