MasterChiefWiggum

As themightyant says, I'm assuming Sony has done their best to find jobs for the studios they're shutting down within their own group. So these hires would be for jobs that couldn't be done by people they laid off. But who knows?

Bloodborne fans hitting the copium hard. Forget it: it ain’t happening.

Tried this last night for a few hours. The funnest part was playing co-op with my friend so we could bitch about how tough it was, how there’s no point getting cool loot because you lose it all if you’re killed, and Bungie’s insistence on using mouse type controls in their (horrible) menus. Seriously, the UI for this game is terrible. Oh, and the cooldowns are absurd, there’s not enough ammo around, and healing items are too hard to find. Both of us felt sad, as this will be the first Bungie game we WON’T be buying in over 20 years. They should have made Destiny 3, or something else (preferably non-live service). I don’t think this will be another Concord, but it’s going to have a pretty small audience, methinks.

Sony has a headset?!

Part of me feels sad they’re pulling back on this. While keeping games off Xbox made sense (when they were still actual competition), I liked the idea of PC gamers getting some Sony love. The PC space feels so different from the console space that it doesn’t feel like competition in some ways. But if the juice ain’t worth the squeeze, it’s hard to argue that they should continue porting to PC as much.

Doesn’t seem like my type of game (too sweaty, you can lose all of your loot), but will definitely give it a go this weekend.

Will play as much of it this weekend as I want (wife is away), but highly doubt I’ll pick it up. Too many strikes against it for it to be my kind of game, from everything I’ve read and seen. Still, I’m curious to give it a spin.

No way they’ll stop putting games on PS5. They’re making way too much money doing that. They MAY have longer windows for Xbox exclusivity on first party releases, but as has been mentioned, GamePass is cannibalizing their sales on their own platform. I think GamePass will be neutered at least somewhat to incentivize people to buy more games on Xbox, and they may keep some smaller games exclusive (lower budgets make this feasible), but I don’t think we’ll see any really big swings under the new leadership. She’ll be looking to leverage AI to lower costs ans streamline processes.

Well, of course not. The reason they went multiplatform was because keeping all of that sweet studio output inside Xbox’s walled garden (and Game Pass) wasn’t economically sustainable. And they’ve made a ton of dough releasing games on PS5. Why would they just stop that?

Losing a potential Bloodborne remake is the least of my worries with Bluepoint being shut down.

Agree, this feels like a massive stumble from Sony. Starting with getting Bluepoint to make a live service game. So Sony made a dumb decision, and now another dev has to pay the ultimate price. What the hell?!

Simple: PS6, like PS5 Pro, will have an optional, detachable disc drive that can be purchased separately.

Visually, it looks good, and I’m sure the gunplay will be tight. But losing all of your stuff because some sweat sniped you means I likely won’t be buying this. Will give it a go during the open beta, of course!

Would be nice to have a new IP, but God of War is fun, so that’s alright.

PS5 is just getting started. Let PS6 cook a little longer.

@cainhurst94 Exactly. They would have happily horded all of the games from those studios if they could. They’ve had to change their tune because Game Pass is economically unsustainable.

If it ain’t a live service game that will be improved by a larger player base, I say Xbox fans can probably forget about Sony sharing first party games with them.

The enshittification of gaming continues.

@Scottyy Was gonna say the same thing. Charging full price for this will definitely limit its audience. Arcadey racers are just not popular enough now to get away with it, generally speaking.

Returnal was fun but just too damned hard for this old geezer. This looks more manageable, but…I’m done with roguelights/likes. There are just way too many of them.

Hopefully not a new God of War. Not because I don’t like it, but because they truly have their bases covered with that IP already.

I can understand why a lot of people were hyped by this, but there were only a couple of games that interested me. It feels like what’s popular now just doesn’t jibe with my preferences, but that’s what backlogs are for!

Brutal. I really hope this GAAS trend dies down (or off) soon. It’s just too risky.

Looks (graphically) awful. They might as well at least make this cross-gen; no reason why this couldn't run on PS4 as well. They'd open their audience up a lot by doing that. I'll wait for reviews, but I'm not really into the "retro" look, as it looks cheap, not charming.

Add it to the pile.

More time and resources being squandered chasing the GAAS dragon. I’d be very surprised if this winds up a hit; it looks generic and boring. They should have focused on making Horizon 3 instead.

Generic-looking GAAS dreck. A waste of resources that should be put to making Horizon 3 instead.

Looks pretty generic and not my cup of tea, but will wait for reviews…or wait until it’s on PS Plus.

Well I would hope so; PS3 (especially at launch) was a massive fumble for Sony. I and everyone I know jumped over to Microsoft that gen, and I have no regrets. But don’t get me wrong: I was happy to switch back to Sony when the PS4 reveal knocked it out of the park!

@Nakatomi_Uk Personally speaking, my friends and I were kicking ass with the tank and a mech on the field. Very fun!

The tank has breathed new life into the game for my friends and I! Now we stomp around with a mech and a tank. Heavy armour column coming atcha! Although I accidentally cut my friend in half more than once with the machine gun when he was entering or exiting the thing! Arrowhead have done great work keeping the game feeling fresh.

Nah, I’m good. My muscle memory is already well dialled in to the DualSense, and I way prefer physical buttons to a touchscreen for gaming controls.

@Oram77 Took the words out of my mouth!

Sounds interesting! Would be good to know how this performs on base PS5 in the preview, since that's what most people would be playing it on.

That would be a very smart move. PS5 has barely got going, in terms of a proper generation where the hardware is really being pushed. Not enough first party games have come out for PS5 yet. And with all of the stupidity of tariffs and the AI boondoggle causing prices to skyrocket, best wait until things settle down a bit so there's a chance the PS6 will be somewhat more affordable. Lastly, the console will be even more of a technological leap than if it releases next year or in 2028 (though I'm still not expecting a massive jump).

Ugh. Couldn’t be less interested in this one. Hopefully the others are more up my alley.

Will absolutely pick this one up. Possibly day one depending on the price. With no multiplayer and just the campaign, I feel like this one should be no more than $30 U.S., but I feel like Microsoft will probably charge more since this is Halo. We’ll see. If need be, I’ll just wait for a sale.

@IronCrow86 I think it would be great if Sony shared their toys with Microsoft. More players = better for any IP/game. But I don’t think it’ll ever happen, as Sony don’t need to share.

Seems like everyone but BioWare could tell. Knowing what goes into a successful live service game, which they’ve never done before and is a huge undertaking, may have provided a clue. I really enjoy Anthem, but it definitely had major problems, from uninspiring loot to inadequate content to the weird design schism of “we’re out in the world playing together, but then I go back to the hub and I’m alone”.

Excited about Primal, too! Would be great if that got a resolution boost, too (it’s still only 1080p), but this is still great news! Gotta give Ubisoft props for these free updates.

Great news! Bought this and was sad that it was only 30 fps, so never played it (last played on 360). Looks like it’s back in the queue!

I know this one! The answer is: greed.

Control was alright. The look of it was probably the most interesting thing about it.

It was flawed AND needed more support (and time in the oven). Fun game with problems including not enough content. Should never have been a live service game, and definitely should have had a single player, offline mode.

Good. It SHOULD be cheaper, and so should all games! If they lowered the price of games a bit, they’d sell more. Possibly a lot more, in some cases. Gaming is getting to be too expensive now, which isn’t good for us or the industry.

Nice! Will pick this up at some point for sure, as it looks really fun. So glad we’re getting Microsoft’s games now. Roll on Halo!

Such a shame that this game was rushed out the door and never should have been live service to begin with. They should have packaged it like Mass Effect, with offline single player and coop modes, then done a few DLCs. The bones of the game (traversal and shooting) were solid, but the campaign was a mess and there wasn’t enough to do. Still, could have been retooled into an offline game so people could keep playing. RIP Anthem.

@OldGamer999 Very unlikely GTA6 will be 60 fps on Pro, according to Digital Foundry. The power delta is not that big, and the CPU is only around 10% more powerful than the base model, if I’m remembering correctly.

Absolutely will come to PS5. Just read an article stating that Forza Horizon 5 has sold five million copies on PlayStation, so no way this won’t come to PS5 at some point.

Must have been fun to review this pile of Dino do-do.