Max_the_German

@SeaDaVie

Live service can be great, no question. In the context of SIE published games, „live service“ is the chiffre for „studios famous for their cinematic singleplayer games are forced to make multiplayer games now“.

@get2sammyb @ThomasHL

GT7 feels a bit like Super Smash Bros. Ultimate to me, with a fantastic gameplay system and a huge amount of content.

A GT8 would either be a new game with backsteps in many aspects. Or it would be a GT7 with a new name and tweaked visuals.

What do you think?

GT7 combines all virtues a PS Studios game can have: highest quality, a pinch of quirky Japanese humour, constant support with content updates, great PSVR2 support, and abundance of personality.

Other titles are slick and pleasing in comparison, and I don’t mean it in a positive way.

I would NEVER integrate a streaming solution in a car. A car is expensive enough: Why not integrating a full PS5 board instead?

I get it, they want to easily replace the PS5 with a PS6 when available. And that requirement would constrain the design of the PS6 board in an unacceptable way. But streaming is a bad compromise either.

My main takeaway: There is a strong indication that PS6 will support PS Portal.

The Japanese market is not important due to its significant size, but because some of the most influential studios are located there.

But both the world market and the studio landscape change. Maybe the next game with an influence on Dark Souls level will come from China.

Having a good market position in China should be more important, both from a financial and creative perspective.

@PuppetMaster

With „remaster“ I was imprecise, I didn’t mean the PS4 port of the PS3 original, but Part 1 (which isn’t a remake for me, because it uses the basic gameplay code).

Part 1 was a lot of work for the asset team. Was it inspiring to recreate existing assets? Maybe not.

Remastered and Part 2 Remastered were/are important from a financial perspective, no doubt. And smaller projects like them help to get the grip on new technologies (like PS4 and PSSR, respectively).

Many of these developers are real artists. They need constant inspiration and time for experimentation. I think, they got neither.

I don’t think it’s the studio‘s fault.

Big Jimbo pushed ND to
1) a remaster/remake nobody asked for and
2) a multiplayer game that was cancelled after a huge amount of nerves and lifetime was spent.

These developers made some of the best, boldest and most ambitious games in the world. And their talent was wasted by Big Jimbo.

And now, Hermen Hulst pushes them to be „motivated“.

Jimbo und Hermen damaged some of the best studios out there.

Trailer was great. This will be a must-have PS6 exclusive.

When there is too much PlayStation fanboyism even for the PushSquare staff…

@47Levi

I think it will be mostly interactive art, on websites or in art museums. And I think it won’t be static prompts but prompt generators, created by the artists, which analyse the AI results and continually reprompt to modify the results automatically, with the results morphing into something surprisingly over time.

Think of the demo scene. Some of these people are genuine artists, no doubt, and their products can be stunning and inspiring.

This is what also drawers probably said about the first photographers and musicians about the first DJs. And most photographers today are not artists and most photos are not art, but there are exceptions. And we will see these exceptional AI artists pretty soon; not artificial artists, but real artists using AI.

@get2sammyb

I‘m curious if Europe will remain console land and US will become PC land, due to tariffing rules.

@SeaDaVie

I asked ChatGPT about the tariffs for the PS5, and it said something around 20%. The manufacturing costs didn’t sink as much as for prior generations. The inflation increased worldwide, and therefore labour costs.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the return to original MSRP is brutal for Sony, while profits of Switch 2 for Nintendo are razor thin.

High discounts for consoles in the US mean that Sony „bought“ a high market share. Because under the new (permanent?) tariffs, these discounts could result in no profits or even losses for Sony. I think that Switch 2 is still popular, but Nintendo wasn’t willing to give profits away as Sony did.

The fact that PCs are exempt from tariffs could result in higher numbers for gaming PCs. Are there any numbers available for that?

I don’t see why using a publisher should disqualify for being an indie game. In my understanding, publishers are especially useful for small developers:

Handling the whole struggle with platform holders, age ratings (in case of physical releases), physical releases, music studios and orchestras, voice acting, motion capture studios, localisations and translations (-> poor Chinese translation for Silksong), trailers, advertisements on the Geoff‘s, …

There is a reason why independent authors („indies“ by definition) still need publishers BESIDES the need for printing and selling the books.

So actually, an outrage about the statement that Larian uses AI for internal prototypes, mood boards, etc.? Do these anti AI fundamentalists really believe that the team which created Baldur’s Gate 3, a piece of passion and love for the medium, would use AI in a sloppy way? For Larian‘s own and beloved IP?

It’s becoming increasingly ridiculous.

Beans, beans… Every f***ing day only beans!

Great, PushSquare confirms that GTA6 will come in 2026.

Seriously, I think that Pragmata with its Shooter + Puzzle gameplay can be a huge surprise.

And 007 looks like finest AAA.

Now, from what I see, Marathon gives me the vibe of „not terrible, not great“. Boringly good, with a decent player base?

That would still be not good enough to justify Bungie‘s acquisition.

Don‘t forget the many children who get a used PS4 from their uncles, older brothers etc. Your general taste for gaming is formed at that age. Without playing Zelda A Link to the Past and Super Metroid as a child, I wouldn’t probably love their genres as much as I do.

Therefore I think it’s crucial for Sony to bring family-friendly games with Sony IPs to PS5 and also PS4.

Not bringing Lego Horizon to PS4 is a huge mistake in my opinion.

1) Clair
2) Obscur
3) Expedition
4) 3
5) 3

Just kidding, I don’t like Mario & Luigi, so I‘m not interested in E33.

But maybe one day I will try KCD2. It has the potential for a stone cold classic, like a smaller brother of Witcher 3.

@Korgon

A publisher financing the development of a game of an external developer is the most normal thing in the world, no matter how small or big the studio is. What do you think how most films are getting made or most books are getting written? Do you think that FromSoftware is an „indie“ because absndai Namco is the publisher?

I want to play Indy, and I’m still waiting for a physical copy for a reasonable price. But the prices only go up…

From what I‘ve seen so far, Troy Baker does a PHENOMENAL job in bringing Dr. Jones from the first three films back to the screen. I know, he won everything in the video game space, but THIS performance…

E33 overshadowed almost all other games this year and therefore won in categories where other games are regarded as better when the hype is over.

@Reyzore

The credits list over 400 people. How couldn’t it not be an indie game?

I don’t like trailers without gameplay. But the trailer for Divinity is a blast. And Capcom rocks.

The most impressive cinematic game trailer I’ve ever seen. If this camera work is also present in the final game, good Lord!

@Quintumply

Please don’t follow this wrong narrative about the release date. It is 28 April, not 30 April.

Here, cutscenes and gameplay blend perfectly in each other, creating one coherent experience.

Conpare this to many other trailers of this show: BS talk, fight, cutscene with flying BS, fight, …

Capcom shows everyone what a world class AAA game must look like.

If you just watch the few seconds of gameplay which is not in slow motion, it suddenly becomes a normal looking third-person action-adventure, like hundreds of others out there.

If Sony wouldn’t publish this stuff, almost nobody here would care about.

Imagine that people would have a higher interest in a film, just because it were published by Sony and not Paramount or Universal or WB or Disney. Sounds ridiculous? Definition of fanboyism.

Optimisations originally made for an upcoming Switch 2 version, which will be announced at TGA 2025?

Thank you! I can’t wait to see Sonic Rumble winning the award for Best Mobile Game.

@Oram77

I think, these days publishers want to concentrate the MP gamers on a small number of dedicated MP games. The demands for regular content updates are much higher than back then. The curation of several similar games with a split player base is a bad outcome. COD can still provide a new MP game every year, in addition to Warzone, because of its (still!) tremendous popularity. Other publishers rather curate only „their Warzone“.

Maybe, Microsoft will soon announce a new MP Halo or revive and improve Halo Infinite‘s MP.

@Ainu20 Oh really, that’s embarrassing from my side.

With its similarities to Returnal and the familiarity of its target group with the gameplay, the next trailer should also include the release date. Another „Here are new tidbits of the gameplay, 2026“ just wouldn’t be enough for my taste.

Closing the whole studio is a drastic move. I thought they could rescue it, by simply replacing all the bad assets with man-made ones.

But the root cause seems to be deeper: Maybe all of the assets were made with AI tools, quick and dirty. And the studio’s budget didn’t allow to hire proper designers and remake all the assets. At this point, we can only speculate.

In any case, this events will serve as an example for the effects of uncurated and extensive use of AI tools on the fate of development studios. And the whole situation will heal a bit.

@darylb24

I guess that more than 50% of world‘s land mass and population will sleep during the runtime of this show. But it’s a great time of day if you are on Tahiti, in the middle of nowhere.

@EfYI The basic principle of this show only allows it to be bad. Hours of trailers and trailers and trailers of free-to-play MMOs from China, which look all the same, soulslikes, which look all the same, rougelite character action-games, which look all the same. The few exceptions of unique trailers are mostly big names of already announced games, like RE9.

Like they say: The new stuff was not interesting, and the interesting stuff was not new.

@somnambulance Does a huge portion of the fascination for E33 stem from the departure of Final Fantasy from turn-based interaction? If FF16 had been a huge success as a classical turn-based RPG, would people have cared less about E33? Or is the success of the latter independent of the recent development in AAA JRPGs?

@somnambulance Anyone can play it and has a unique experience, the best description for this game I‘ve heard so far. Despite having a highly linear game progression, you can often choose the gameplay mechanic to approach a certain section, and it often becomes chaotic, in a positive way.

It is, like all 2025 GOTY contenders, a piece of love for the medium.

@somnambulance

DK Bananza is the most risky AAA game Nintendo has made in a long time, and it succeeded artistically and probably financially in the long run. Also a great political statement that for big publishers, there is not only the path of ever-evolving sequels to minimise risks.

„New Bloodborne“?

If I‘ll ever need a quote for unrealistic wishful thinking in video games journalism, I know which citation I will use.

@LogicStrikesAgain

But it will be pretty power hungry nonetheless. Probably not 100 W, but maybe 50 W when setting the screen to full brightness. And with 100 Wh the realistic maximum capacity (because it’s the allowed maximum for flights), it would result in a heavy and clumsy device and still only 2 hours of battery life.

To my knowledge, this was already mentioned by other sources. „PSSR 2“ will be an incarnation of FSR 4, with its high image quality and a much wider acceptance in the industry. PSSR as a PlayStation-only solution will be then a thing of the past.

Let’s hope that RDNA 3 will soon officially support hardware-accelerated FSR 4 ML upscaling, so with the arrival of PS6, every major new platform (including Steam Machine) will have ML upscaling, and developers almost can’t get around implementing it.

Is this a joke? There were several articles over the course of the year like „Release date could be announced in the following days/hours“.

Never seen such a show around the announcement of the announcement of a game.

And when „the lion awakens“ in a „World Premiere“ during the 4-hours trailer show „The Game Awards“, it will say „2026“?

Sony is obviously not earning a lot at these prices. But it’s always the same: Discounts for the requirements result in higher prices for the main product (here: games) itself.

This is a great example:

• The smart use of AI tools by artists to make game creation faster and easier is a big win for involved developers, publishers and customers.
• The mindless usage of AI tools to create slog games is rejected by all customers.

Hopefully, we will soon come to a more nuanced discussion about the usage of AI. Both „AI is THE future for games“ and „AI is in principle bad and steals jobs“ are tiring me.

Should we celebrate that battery life isn’t poor anymore but reaching industry standards?

THE game the world waited for to spend precious time and money.

Obviously, The Game Awards is an advertisement at its core, positioning itself as a prestigious event where the accolades matter.