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@Oram77 Totally agree. That would do the numbers, whereas I don’t see Marathon being the big hit that they need right now.

It was definitely the sales. Sony doesn’t care if the game reviewed badly; if it still made “enough” money, they absolutely would have made a sequel.

Sony have been terrible at communicating with their customers for ages now. I don’t think they’ll say anything else; they think what they told us is “good enough”.

If the price is going to be discounted plus a pack in of Astro, that could move some consoles. Of course, we’ll see some REAL movement with GTA 6, hopefully later this year.

@PsBoxSwitchOwner Highly doubt it; I feel like Halo will be announced separately by Microsoft, like Forza. There’s enough “outrage” about these titles coming to PS5; allowing Sony to be the ones to announce Halo could exacerbate the hurt feelings (not that I care). I hope I’m wrong, though; would be great to get an official announcement!

@GirlVersusGame …and overcharging for the used games that they sell. There was a time they had decent deals…now a used game is like $5 cheaper than brand new.

Fully back to normal. I wonder if Sony will ever explain what happened…

Down here near the east coast of Canada.

More like BLUNDERWOMAN, am I right? Geddit?

@SMJ True, but they have to catch up after wasting time chasing the stupid GAAS dream.

@MrPeanutbutterz You beat me to it! Tragic that TF2 was put out to die and we never got a third game.

I haven’t played the game, but anyone who’s been following it knows that its “failure” has nothing to do with it not being a live service game.

So far, so good. Now, if they can make some other improvements (bad UI/inventory handling, sparse fast travel points, not being able to sell junk conveniently, off the top of my head), we’ll be in even better shape.

Nice! This one is a tight, short Far Cry game, so I’ll definitely give it another go. Last time I played it was on PS5, so I’ll be treated to a resolution increase, HDR, AND this frame rate boost!

My wallet is going to be hurting this year (if the rumours are true): Master Chief Collection, Gears Collection, Borderlands 4, GTA 6…crazy year. Gears and Halo were the two franchises I was saddest to ditch when I moved back to PlayStation, and I’m so glad that I’ll be able to play them on PS5 (hopefully). Microsoft will also make a mint if they release these. Win/win! I know some Xbox fans will be disappointed, but at least there’ll be a bigger pool of players for multiplayer.

Will absolutely buy once on sale; I’m too poor to pick it up day one.

Exciting! Always wanted to play this. Will definitely be picking it up.

Some gamers are such whiners. Sabre gave a roadmap for content and they’re sticking to it. Plus, as the article mentions, this is not a GAAS.

Surprised the new Mass Effect isn’t ready for a bigger team to work on; it’s been in development for a long time now.

Great that Microsoft is seeing success as a publisher. I want to see them continue to be healthy and profitable, and a source of competition for Sony. Having said that, I'm also really happy that they're putting more of their games on PS5. As far as I'm concerned, we should share the love the other way as well, but that's extremely unlikely.

This is not what Destiny needs to save it.

Series X and PS5 are essentially the same, feature wise. Sony’s biggest innovation was the Dualsense controller, which does offer a unique experience.

Elliot is correct: keep the price at the current $70, maximizing sales, THEN make mad bank with GTA Online (which I personally won’t bother with).

@nomither6 Well, remember certainly at the start, there WAS no real first party. Sony started snapping up devs soon after, of course (Psygnosis, etc.) But I’d have to say it was a combination. You had games like Gran Turismo, Crash Bandicoot, and so on, along with great third party games like Tomb Raider and really good fighting game ports (a big deal in the ‘90s) like Street Fighter and Tekken. I think PS1 was successful because it was marketed as a cool gaming platform, AND it was where devs wanted to be due to the voluminous, inexpensive CD format. Sorry for the long response, but I hope that it made sense!

Good! Have to admit, haven’t played the second one but love the first.

@johnedwin Absolutely. A healthy number of classic games on that console.

@HotGoomba Preach!

@nomither6 “ outside of mario kart , smash bros and goldeneye - was there any other reason people had a n64 for the most part & wasn’t it seen as a couch-co-op machine ?”

Back in the day, those were basically “forever games” like Fortnight, and they were killer apps to boot. Don’t forget Mario 64. So those were very good reasons to own the console.

It’s all about the dollars, not “empowering creators” or any of that guff. Microsoft haven’t suddenly grown a heart and decided to be generous. If Xbox was selling well, they absolutely would have kept most (if not all) of these games exclusive.

As long as it’s helping artists versus replacing them, that’s fine. I like the idea of AI as a “copilot”, helping out but not doing the work. Also, as long as it’s not outright stealing other artists’ work. Like any tool, AI can be helpful or harmful.

Looks cool, but $50? I’ll wait.

Not sure about the melee/parrying…everything else looks great!

• as many games as I want displayed on the Home Screen
• a more robust mp3 player

Nice to see Helldivers 2 so high in the charts! Great game. My friends and I still play it weekly for its brilliant mix of white knuckle tension and big laughs.

Don’t need more than Essential. How about a discount on renewals, like they used to do?

I mean, that would be really bad if true. But it’s still bad that Sony is chasing the live service dragon, and wasting studios’ precious time by cancelling projects that they’ve spent years on. This generation will see far fewer first party games because of that.

With the time it takes to make ANY game these days, there’s probably little chance that we’ll see anything from Bend or Bluepoint this generation. Unless they had other projects that they were working on that we don’t know about. This live service push, barring Helldivers 2, has been a huge waste of time…as most people suspected from the start.

“If you want new single player games, buy remasters of old games. We need the money!” No. You don’t. You need to rethink budgets and scale and how AAA games are being made. Gamers “investing” in remasters to get new games is a ridiculous idea.

@Airsqueeble I’m sure a new Halo (as well as the MC collection, hopefully) will land on PS5, but yeah…probably not day one. Although that WOULD be a good way to beef up multiplayer numbers.

Skyrim remake coming next…

@djlard Same. Glad I waited on Diablo too. These games need time in the oven before they’re at their best.

Diablo 4. Long campaign! Really having fun with it. Interspersing some WRC 9 and COD BLOPS Cold War multiplayer in there for the twitching (it was free on PS Plus). COD fun so far, but what’s with installing the game, and then having to install multiple texture packs?! Then I go back into the game, and campaign hasn’t been installed…and it’s like 200 gigs?! Thank god I have a 2 TB SSD installed in my PS5!

Day one for the Master Chief Collection. One of the franchises I really miss on PlayStation after switching back post-360.

Basement dwellers need to touch grass.

I always shut down. Any updates don’t take long anyway, and I’m just old school in terms of “if you’re not using it, turn it off”.

I think consoles represent a mindset. You can argue that it’s easy to set up a PC in your living room now, but nothing will ever beat the plug and play nature of a console. And as long as Sony keeps making consoles backward compatible, gamers can keep their collections while also being able to play the latest and greatest. I personally will keep buying consoles as my means of gaming.

Would rather have the option to have as many games on the Home Screen as I want, rather than just a handful. A stupid downgrade. A more robust music player (like we had on PS4) would be nice too.

Diablo 4 has its hooks in me!

The uptake of new consoles is slower than ever for various reasons, including “forever” games (GAAS), smaller technological advances, and backwards compatibility. They’ll need to keep supporting PS5 games well into next gen. I bet there will still be PS4 games released during PS6’s lifetime.