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$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.

I maintain that anyone who has only played the modern games will find little here for them. These are technically very simplistic and imo do not hold up.
Still though, there is no doubting the value for money here. This is probably a good present for 90s gamers.

Permadeath is very much not for me. Especially online, where griefers make a sport out of targeting low level players.

@TruestoryYep Dude, why do you think criminals use burner phones? Look up how they caught the Soham murderer Ian Huntley all the way back in 2002. Hint: It was the cell towers reporting his location.
And if you want a funny Google search, look up just how how many terrorists we've killed with cruise missiles thanks to their phone signal.

Lol. Do you have a phone, a passport or a driving licence? Then the government already knows everything there is to know about you.
Heck, if you have a phone, the government knows exactly where you are and where you've been down to the inch. They can lock a drone strike onto your phone signal.

No Green/White Ranger?
That's a fail. Tommy is by far the most popular character of the classic show.

They've decided to take the stunning and brave decision to actually make money again.
Hopefully whoever decided that BF5 and BF2042 was a good idea has been promoted to the role of collecting everyone's coffee from Starbucks.

@Midnyte-Monkey ''A chunky 360/PS3 vibe'' is exactly what I was thinking. I can't put my finger on it enough to put it into words other than to say that the game looks both new and old at the same time.

I see Christie, where is this Miary that you speak of?

@MrPeanutbutterz I won't be selling any of my Tekken games to buy it, put it that way.
I'm not sure that many modern gamers will like it, especially with the steep difficulty curve.

I've been burned twice. I will not be convinced until I watch my first release day stream of it.
But even my cynicism can see that there has been a move back towards Battlefield 4 which is what they ALWAYS should have done. You do not attract new audiences by completely demolishing what everyone originally loved about your franchise. Why is this mistake continuously made?

They had better drop the cringe emotes too. Battlefield back to its roots shouldn't have its soldiers dancing and making stupid noises - I do not know why they ever thought that we would.

The console wars never actually existed. Plenty of useful idiots for many years fought online wars over their console of choice giving these corporations billions of free advertisement.

I would call this a PS1 game but that seems unfair to the PS1.