Coming to PS5? Place yer bets! I personally think it will, as previous entries were multiplatform and, perhaps most importantly, they'll never recoup the cost without putting it on other platforms where, you know, people will BUY it.

Hardly surprising. Not sure how many components it has in common with PS5, but I’d imagine that Sony wouldn’t want to take away from manufacturing PS5s. I don’t have a PSVR 2, but I think it’s a damn shame that Sony just left it out to die.

@L_R_V That's not really true, at least from what I've seen. The reviews have been pretty good, and certainly not bad.

Yeah, making it Xbox exclusive definitely felt like throwing the fans a bone, and was symbolic more than anything.

@themightyant I'd personally add "doesn't sound like a jet engine ready for takeoff" to the major improvements of PS5 over PS4 (and slightly further down the list: more consistent 60fps games).

So glad I bought a 2 TB SSD back in 2022 with my PS5. So many games are massive!

Nah. I'll play after work.

They would have made some money putting this on PlayStation. Maybe not tons, but the porting probably isn't crazy hard since the machines are fairly similar. Keeping it exclusive to keep the Xbox fanbase is a nice gesture, but means they're leaving tons of money on the table since people will just play this on Game Pass instead of buying it. I don't think the juice is worth the squeeze, in terms of keeping it off PlayStation. Lastly, the multiplayer population would see a bit of a bump. We'll see if Microsoft changes their minds.

@Skyliner That is a stunning 4K disc! My favourite movie, and it's never looked better.

Oh dear. Not hugely surprising, but very sad news. They took way too long making the next Mass Effect, and after the Dragon Age stumble (I liked it, but many didn't and it didn't sell that well), I guess it was bound to happen.

Except both Spider Man games AND Miles Morales came out faster than Beyond Good and Evil 2. Still don't think that this game will see the light of day.

Pivoting back to exclusives also won't help. It'll make existing fans happy, but won't attract new players en masse, and it's not a financially sustainable strategy, especially with Game Pass.

Could be great, but would Sony be willing to allow Bungie to work on a game that will almost certainly be multiplatform?

Hopefully it won't cost that much by the time I actually want to get one...which won't be for a few years. PS5 is plenty good enough for me for the near future.

Not only diminish the brands, but leave a silly amount of money on the table…which Xbox literally can’t afford and Microsoft won’t allow, with the brand losing money.

@get2sammyb In addition, I think people will skip the PS6 for some time due to not only the cost, but because...we don't know what games are coming yet. I'm sure a good number of people will put aside the disc outrage and buy one when killer games start arriving. Also, and possibly most importantly: we don't yet know if the PS6 will have a disc drive, or at least one that can be bought separately, so there's no point making judgments about the console now, in my opinion.

Like any tool, AI can be, to quote Blade Runner, a benefit or a hazard. If it can make games faster, less buggy, and with less crunch from developers, that's good! If it takes away jobs, and results in crap games, that's bad. But creative people are essential to art, and ultimately, AI won't able to make good games on its own, for the foreseeable future if ever. At the end of the day, as always, the market will decide: if the resulting games are crap and sell poorly, AI will largely be abandoned. If not, AI will have a place in the toolbox. As long as mass job losses aren't the result, I have no problem with using it to HELP artists and programmers make great games.

@IntrepidWombat The most recent trailer actually reminded me of ZOE a bit. And I agree that that would be a great format for a Gundam game!

Played this one for awhile and enjoyed it well enough, but it just didn’t get its hooks into me like previous entries for some reason.

Shame, I would have picked it up eventually. Would have also helped the multiplayer numbers if it was on PlayStation. But maybe Microsoft will change their minds. Makes me sad that we only got the first Gears and Halo, but at least we got those.

@Cikajovazmaj Ah, boo! Thanks for letting me know.

Man, I miss the Vice City stations, and I think it was GTA 4 that had the Gilles Peterson station? The ones listed here don't do anything for me, from the description. I'll give them a whirl in game, but I loved the hip hop/rock/latin stations in Vice City.

@TDHorizon Yeah, usually that's true! As you say, let's hope so in this case.

Wow. Started playing this a couple of months ago, and have been having a total blast. In fact, it's still in my regular rotation...and not going anywhere for awhile with a whole new island and exploration playlist (my favourite kind). Can't believe I'm saying this, but...bravo Ubisoft!

I wonder if those of us who got the games for "free" on PS Plus Essential will be entitled to the upgrades...

Would way rather have a remake of Resistance than the original Killzone, which was OK, but the biggest novelty of that game was really the graphics. I like the heavier feeling guns too, but still. Also, would love a Jak and Daxter remake/sequel rather than Ape Escape. Still, great that they're getting these old franchises back into the mix!

@Zeke68 That is curious, considering how well FH5 sold. It'll likely still sell well, but they could have had a real nice bump with Christmas sales.

And yet, as with everything else, Sony clams up and says nothing. They really need an attitude check. If only Microsoft or another competitor would step up. But they're too busy stepping on rakes themselves.

Sounds more like a revamp than a full on remake, but who knows? To me, "remake" is usually when they essentially rebuild a game from scratch, but this is a "director's cut", so is it a rework of the existing game?

Nice! PlayStation needs more games like this, from beloved classic IPs. Make it good, keep it shortish, and keep an eye on the budget. No reason this can't be a success.

More disgusting corporate greed. However, even though the pricing is "intentional", they don't explain WHY they're charging more for a used machine. Strange.

Girding myself to dive back in to The Last Of Us Part 2. Never played it before. Beautiful game, but a great sadness hangs over it, even in the flashbacks. The museum was very touching. The gameplay is fine, but I’m more just enjoying exploring the beautiful world.

@get2sammyb Thank you, Sammy! Much appreciated.

Sounds great! I do wish that these reviews would also be done on base PS5, with some notes about how the games look and perform on there, as that's what most of us (and, indeed, the PlayStation user base) is playing on.

Hopefully devs will go back and patch this in to many more games, but this is exciting stuff! May help out with GTA 6 on base PS5 for heathens like me.

This whole push of exclusives to attract gamers to Xbox was never sustainable, with the small install base and, especially, game pass. Say what you want about how it "betrayed" Xbox gamers, but especially as long as game pass exists, the multiplat approach made more sense for Xbox than anything else.

Hoping it's really good and sells really well to silence the stupid critics who have a problem with a female protagonist (I'll admit that I somewhat understand some other criticisms, but not that one).

Pretty much saying what we all already know, but always interesting to get his take. I don't know about "happy with PS5" for me personally (too few interesting, non live service exclusives, some stupid UI restrictions like not keeping all installed games on the home page at the top, like PS4, etc.), but I'm certainly not interested in getting a PS6 any time soon. With the lack of interest and the cost, I think PS6 will likely have a much slower start than PS5 did. And that will likely have an effect on seeing its "full potential", as devs will have to make games that also run on PS5 in order to be profitable.

Part of me is sad that they're not making as much hardware, but that's just not where the money is anymore.

Pissing in the wind. I'd be happy if Sony changed their minds, though I almost never buy physical. I just think that we should all have options, and all they're doing is saving THEMSELVES money and effort and passing none of the savings on to customers. But it seems like a fait accompli.

You spend the last sentence of the article not answering, or even speculating, about what it means for PS5.

How is this stuff not caught in testing, if there have been widespread complaints? I feel like testing games with gamers of different skill levels has dropped off significantly.

The second biggest question: Will it have an optional disc drive? I really hope so. Regardless, I won't be picking one up for a few years anyway.

@Kierant202 Oh, I didn't know that! Thanks for letting me know!

I would love to have seen remakes of Halo 2, 3, ODST, and Reach, but they probably wouldn't have been ported to PS5 anyway. A real shame. They're great games. But I'm glad that we got the first Halo on PlayStation. It's my second favourite in the franchise, after Reach.

Fantastic news. The game is in the best state it's ever been right now, so to bring back all that old content (that never should have been vaulted in the first place) is a great call. I'd love to get all that stuff back, get some patches to fix any problems, and then let the studio move on to another Destiny game. I'm ready for a fresh start, and in the meantime, I'll have LOTS of Destiny content to play with my friends. If people hadn't responded as passionately about the game's cancellation, and boosted the player numbers after the "final" update, I highly doubt that this would have happened.

This is great news! Would love it if they would add back a bunch, if not all, of the vaulted content.

Great stuff here!

Agree with the article's assessment that if either will be locked up by Microsoft, it'll be StarCraft. But I think they'll both come to PlayStation, as they'll likely have a larger install base than Helix, having sown up the last two generations and having more gamers locked into their ecosystem. And even more importantly, if Microsoft keeps putting exclusives on Game Pass day one, they'll want to recoup some of the money they'll lose by doing that.

@Staroceanblue I wonder about that. I don't think it was revealed that it will be a "forever" Xbox exclusive, but if so, that WOULD be weird, as it will likely not recoup its investment being confined to Xbox and due to GamePass.