Max_the_German

I don’t get the point of the article. Some people want this stuff and pay extra, some people don’t want it and don’t pay for it. There is nobody who doesn’t want it but is forced to pay for it.

The only group of people who are p!ssed are those who want this stuff without paying for it. Tough!

I wouldn’t be surprised if heavily discounted Xbox Series S kits will be the main choice for many GTA6 gamers; those gamers who only buy their annual FC/Madden, COD and the once-in-a-generation Rockstar Game and who hadn’t the need to upgrade from PS4/Xbox One before.

Why do these lists look so familiar each and every week?

I don’t get why they don’t sell it as part of a Collector‘s Edition for 120 $. Fans would be angry, but they would buy it anyway. And Sony could sell more copies.

@Falien And even „the game is fully on the disc“ doesn’t mean „an enjoyable version of tha game is fully on the disc“.

But at least the most renowned publishers wait for the devs polishing the game until it shines. And PS Studios is clearly one of them!

How to make a small fortune:

Take a great fortune and appoint Hermen and Big Jimbo.

@LogicStrikesAgain Physical games are needed to attract retailers, which are not interested in selling only bulky and low-margin consoles but not the tiny and high-margin games. But Sony is actively working on getting rid of retailers, with digital-only consoles and PS Direct.

Every business with recurring sales (for operating a machine for years) would love to copy the high-margin model of Nespresso.

I bet that we will see an attachable disc drive for PS6, but it will only play PS4 and PS5 games. PS6 games will be digital-only, obtainable via a purchase in PS Store and as code-in-a-box.

@lazymike Wouldn’t be surprised if Sony was supporting Take-Two‘s decision for this code-in-a-box BS. Most PS5 consoles sold in the last 2 years or so will probably never see a disc drive. And Sony is very happy that PS Store is the only distribution channel, with no retailers to share the games revenues.

And no market for used copies, as the main reason.

I don’t see a big problem with these titles.

• If you scroll through the important lists of charts or discounts, they don’t appear.
• If you search for a specific title, you will find it.
• And a huge amount of non-shovelware games is no fun either.

Sony doesn‘t have to remove them, not highlighting them is enough.

The concept of a console is an affordable and easy-to-use gaming device.

While PC gaming became easier to use with Steam, console gaming became more difficult, just compare the menus of PS2 and PS5. Setting up the correct video settings is not an easy task for many people out there!

And the affordability gets totally lost with a four-digits machine, and AAA PC gaming becomes a luxury hobby.

I bet we will see major PS5 game releases in 2035!

Sounds like a kid to me, saying „I want to make the hottest tabasco in the world“. This doesn’t sound like a lot of great entertainment to me. I will never understand this man.

PS6 would be more performant by a mile, according to the leaked specs. Yes, Sony can source with better conditions and could be willing to swallow an initial (small) loss.

But there‘s no doubt that a PS6 in 2027 would be a really, really expensive piece of kit, easily exceeding 1100 euros.

@get2sammyb I see your selection for the thumbnail as a subtle critisism of Sony’s statement. We haven’t seen anything new of substance from the man in the thumbnail for more than ten years now.

As Sony, I‘d stop selling the base PS5 and instead only selling PS5 Pro for the current price, but with just 1 GB.

89 euros, no surprise.

I think that Steam is the problem. It’s the dominant digital market place for PC games, Valve takes 30% of the revenues (just as Sony takes 30% of the revenues on PS Store).

Selling PC games would have been much easier for Sony back in the PS2 era, when PC games were sold in boxes. Sony could have used its retail market power.

But nowadays, Valve is the factual PC platform holder. And Sony knows how valuable it is to be a successful platform holder; the PS Store is probably the most valuable asset of the whole Sony group.

Creating a successful PC store front is hard. Epic struggles for several years now, and even Microsoft as the biggest publisher in the world is still dependent on Steam, instead of making its games Microsoft Store exclusive.

My conclusion: If Sony could have successfully brought its games to PC via a PC version of PS Store, avoiding the Steam toll and taking the full revenue, with day-and-date releases on PS and PC, it would have been a different story.

I‘m actually surprised. Fantastic PS Studios titles Saros and Marathon not in the top 3, here on PushSquare? In other years, beead-and-butter games like Spider-Man 2, Ratchet 2, Horizon 2, GoW 2, Ghost of Tsushima 2 and PS5 exclusives like Death Stranding 2 wiped the floor.

But who could blame the audience when an already stone-cold classic like RE9 is number one? My number one game for sure.

@LiamCroft You missed to mention an important information:

Microsoft mentions the feature of cross-progression. This could be the main reason.

That‘s weird. Does Microsoft have an incentive to force people into a Sony service Microsoft doesn’t get a single penny from? This game even has no online component at all.

Or is the Xbox account „online enough“ for Sony to make PS Plus a requirement?

If that‘s the case: For its own accounts, there is no requirement from Sony for PS Plus. A classic platform holder BS move.

„$70 - $79“ is your answer for the question „What do you WANT to pay?“

Aka wishful thinking.

@AtomB You order a live band everytime you want to hear some music?

Wouldn’t be surprised to see PS6 launching end of 2027, with the cheapest model for 800 euros with less than 1 GB SSD storage (and no disc drive, ofc).

@Haruki_NLI Yes, was expecting that these efforts were mainly made to bring CoD soon to Switch 2, and PS5 (and PS4?) being just a by-product.

I prefer unsigned articles, because it shows a high degree of confidence in all authors well representing the magazine. But these days, only the most-renowned newspapers and magazines still apply this style.

Cyberpunk 2077 on Switch 2

I‘ve played it before on PS5 with version 1.5.3, and while that was a stable experience, in comparison, version 2.3.1 feels like a MUCH better game. Finally, the RPG systems make sense, and I understand how to combine upgraded for a certain playstyle.

And with the cosy playing with a handheld on the sofa or in a train, I take more time to explore the world and do sidequests, wjich are often surprisingly entertaining and tragic.

Habdhelds are great for RPGs! Let’s see if Sony will bring the rumoured PlayStation handheld for an attractive price.

@Matroska This result is no surprise to me. Now imagine that wouldn‘t be Games Radar, but Famitsu. It’s clear the result would be different. And for Final Fantasy 7 Remake, the Japanese market accounted for more than 25% of the whole world.

And with target platform, I don’t mean the platform with the highest share of sales, but the platform a game is designed to run „well“ (however a developer defines „well“). Switch 2 is becoming too important to design a game for PS5 and then downgrade it to run on Switch 2, with ugly visible compromises (example: Witcher 3. Instead, many studios will design their games for Switch 2 and then upgrade it for PS5 (like Sony did for GoW Ragnarök, to give a familiar example).

I would have waited a few hours more until the Nintendo Direct has aired. It can have third-party reveals which are interesting for PS5 as well.

But I‘m already very happy with Alien Isolation 2, Gen Atlas and RE Veronica!

Physical disc + download code? Microsoft knows what collectors want!

Too bad we are heading to an adorably all digital future of gaming.

@Matroska

„FF has always targeted the most powerful hardware.“

That is not true. PS2, PS3 and PS5 are clearly not the most powerful hardware of the respective generation. PS2 wasn‘t even the most powerful Japanese hardware of its generation.

MH Rise, Octopath Traveler and other JRPGs show that Switch is an attractive platform for games of this genre, especially because of its popularity in Japan.

Will Persona 6 come day and date on Switch 2? I wouldn‘t bet against it.

@INeedGoodGraphics Gratitude is of least relevance in business relations.

After the unsatisfying commercial result of FF16, I wouldn‘t be surprised to see Switch becoming the new target platform for new Final Fantasy games.

Alien Isolation 1 would be one of the best PSVR2 games imaginable.

The fact that they didn’t use the chance to announce a remaster of AI1 in this trailer tells me that we will probably never see it.

I‘m surprised about the comments here. I‘ve watched the trailer several times, and while it includes brief snippets of gameplay, I can‘t get a feeling of how this gameplay will turn out.

What I‘ve seen is not enough to get me excited.

Capcom and SE showed how to make trailers, again. These studios are on fire.

My problem with many of these games:

Almost every gamer has the same experience with a game. The same paths, a similar order of the enemies encountered, the same cutscenes and scripted events. This holds particularly true for GoW and Wolverine.

The best gaming experiences I had in my life are those which let you have a different experience than other players!

After completing GoW, watching a streamer playing this game isn‘t particularly interesting, because it’s very similar to your own playthrough. Compare this to games like BotW, Dark Souls, Baldur‘s Gate 3, Cyberpunk!

And unfortunately, it seems that there are not many games of that style on that list.

@mwatcher

A Collector‘s Edition with dust catchers and a code-in-the-box is an insult to every collector.

Interesting. I saw this article and checked for the demo on Switch, but the game isn‘t even listed in the eShop (or I‘m not clever enough to find it).

Okay, I will test it on PS5.

It‘s the drastic misallocation of PS Studios dev capacity into genres these developers are not familiar with, some games weren’t released, and the resulting games lacked commercial success.

A huge management misperformance.

Edit: To make it clear, it is not about the lack of commercial success of specific games, but of the whole portfolio compared to the totally spent development costs.

The same procedure as almost every month: open the app, click claim, don‘t click download

This statement is true, because if Sony would release GoY on PC in future, the advertisement would be simply outdated.

@get2sammyb A title without an unnaturally added „PS5“ would be less SEO, but a better title.

I still don’t feel the hype. Maybe because almost no new titles can catch my interest anymore.

If Sony is smart, they will avoid anything that smells remotely like live service, particulary Break In (aka Fairgames aka Fairgame$).

@Dalamar Nothing, because I think they must include trophies on PlayStation. With „a developer“, no specific developer was meant.

I find it bad that devs and gamers can‘t ignore trophies entirely.

This whole „no trophies when modifiers are used“ discussion shows to me:

A developer can make more wrong than right with trophies.

Oh boy, I hate these meaningless virtual cups so much.

The new bottom mark. The definition of crap

I don’t like that some people say „Souls-difficulty is bad“, and others say „tame and shallow difficulty is bad“.

As long as it doesn’t feel unfair, every difficulty is fine! It’s just like with the spiciness of food: There’s no wrong and right!

People can’t wait to see Fairgame$ in all its glory. Hopes for the reveal of the heavily rumoured Bloodborne Remastered from Bluepoint are high. And I still can’t decide with which Horizon MMO I will spend more time, so I need more footage of both games.

Can’t wait!