Max_the_German

The result of these price increases for components is: We won’t see PS6 in the next few years.

It’s similar to what we saw with Switch 2: The hardware was ready long before its release, but Nintendo obviously waited for cheaper chip manufacturing by Samsung. PS6 must be a mass market product. Sony can’t afford to announce a price of USD 900.

And the „PS6 Portable“ is dead.

„If you want to go from PS Plus Essential to PS Plus Extra, or PS Plus Extra to PS Plus Premium, then you get a discount“

I think this is incorrect. You only get discount if upgrading to Premium, NOT if you want to upgrade from Essential to Extra.

Really nice from Sony for not distracting me with interesting „free“ PS Plus games.

@themightyant @Oram77

I wouldn’t be surprised if GT8 would release not before 2029. GT7 could become the Super Smash Bros Ultimate of console racing games. This whole licencing of car models and music for a new game is probably a huge bargaining effort.

I‘m waiting for the reviews to decide. Blind day-one only for a very limited group of games, where I trust both the devs and the game series, like RE.

Here, I trust the dev, but it’s a new game series.

@4fold Why would you pay £80 if £44 is enough for your yearly CoD + FC season, and then going back to Fortnite and Apex Legends for the next nine months?

@Swandivetotheasphalt The editors started with this article a discussion which is not so nuanced, to put it mildly. More like a display set to full contrast. I didn’t want to break the party with a slighly more nuanced approach. As I said, kindergarten time at PushSquare, and I want to blow the biggest trumpet!

It’s kindergarten time at PushSquare, again.

I find it curious why Microsoft games perform so much better on PlayStation than Sony games on PC. Some argue that Sony‘s first-party games just don’t match the PC gamers‘ taste.

But, maybe - I hardly dare to say it - is it because Microsoft games are… you know… … … better?

@get2sammyb Appreciating that you allow comments on this topic. Don’t let Trump censor our opinions on his policy nor let us censor ourselves.

When I was reading the title, I read „Sony Reportedly Confirms Shift Back to PS5 Single Player Games“

Was a bit of wishful thinking I guess.

If Sony can’t sell ugly clothes in live service games, they look for other sources of recurring income. Tada, PS Plus!

In the blink of an eye, if they include Bloodborne Remastered.

Just don‘t call your game Early Access, and Sony will allow its listing in the PS Store. Worked well for Crimson Desert.

@Oram77 I‘ve read it, and I thought the leaks were caused by PS5 disks, which was wrong.

I‘m still surprised that it only takes 14 days between the start of creating the masters for printing the disks and the worldwide retail release!

„Going gold“ is so meaningless these days!

Does it mean that now they start printing the discs? Obviously not.

Does it mean that there will be no significant patches day-one? Porbably not.

So what does it mean?

Great news! TTP is a gem of a series.

Resident Evil 5 is still the best-selling RE title ever. And it sold better than any MH game in the last fiscal year, which is wild (no pun intended).

Define „industry“

I still have most of Returnal to complete (if I want to), because it is damn hard and unforgiving. And I don’t want to be forced to play 3 hours in a row to make significant progress, because muscle memory and knowledge of the enemies‘ attack patterns must be very fresh for this game.

I first want to find the time and mood to beat Returnal. And then, MAYBE I want more of the same, but for a much lower price (paid only 15 euro for the physical copy back the ).

ASW saw the review scores of Mixtape and said „We do the same“.

PS4 was DEFINED by Sony‘s first-party games and SIE-published exclusives. Too bad that Big Jimbo and Hermen had other plans with their precious teams.

@psmr The B movie vibe and its comic reliefs are what makes the horror of RE more digestible. After playing Dead Space, I want to drink a shot because I feel a kind of horror overload. Not appealing to the mass market imo.

The last official number of 155 million is not the final number. It must be between 158.6 and 161.8 million, with a tendency to the upper bound.

The underlying calculation is here:
https://x.com/ZhugeEX/status/1774120869096235518

160 million is an absolute plausible number.

And this „competition“ is meaningless.

I‘d love to easily reconfigure this Share button for other functions, like controlling the volume of connected headphones.

During covid, I played all five console games for the first time, one after another in logical order. So I can say I don’t have nostalgia for one particular title.

U2 is nice, but has a weird highschool comedy vibe of its time, and it’s painfully formulaic, as it’s the case with U1. U3 is much more nuanced in my opinion, you can see the beginning influence of Neil Druckmann.

U4 is peak in all aspects: story, presentation, mechanics. And Lost Legacy is more like a stand-alone DLC and shares all the positives of U4, but for a slightly lesser degree.

I see a different aspect here: I suppose most reviewers are good in playing video games and try to play them „correctly“.

But the true test is if somebody tries to play it in a different way. It can be a glorious experience like in Breath of the Wild. Or the facade falls in cases like this game, and all the poor systems behind that facade become visible.

AI is so good in improving software code automatically. Who wouldn’t love to give this tedious task to a machine?

And that includes the search for game bugs. AI can automatically test dependencies like „Quest 1 started, Quest 3 completed, will Quest 2 run properly?“, and that for the weirdest combinations possible, all day and night. The QA staff is needed for verification of the AI results, to set priorities and to discuss the problems with the developers.

The result should be a higher quality from day one, and I‘d love that.

While 45k for Switch 2 aren’t particularly good numbers, 13k for PS5 is horrible. And Sony seems to heavily subsidise these consoles. Japanese gaming habits changed, that seems to be the main reason to me.

Sony‘s worst ever acquisitions were the working contracts with Big Jimbo and Hermen.

@TrollOfWar Exactly that. My guess: You could buy your PS6 for $799 or for $499 plus a special 24-month subscription for PS Plus Premium for $25 per month. Basically an application of the „$1 phone“ model.

@Mostik Nintendo started charging $10 more for physical cartridges, which is reasonable due to the high cartridge costs. But also for Sony with the cheaper Bluray disks, selling digitally for a $10 lower price is beneficial by avoiding retailers.

I think that we will see an optional disk drive for PS6, and it will solely play PS4 and PS5 disks, because PS6 games will be digital-only. And PS7 will never get any physical drive whatsoever.

85% share for digital games on PS5 means 100% share on PS6, I suppose.

Customers complaining about AI in video games is a weak, repetitive combat.

I find this statement a BS move. As the boss, you stand behind your team, even if you‘re unhappy with your people and their performance. This statement is just public offending.

Now, also the title was leaked:

Worms + Rabbids

No stress, it will be $89 (or $119 for the Digital Deluxe Edition, with 14 days of „early access“).

@get2sammyb

The title sounds like you had the word „yet“ in mind, but didn’t write it. Or deleted it to avoid accusations of fatalism.

Either way, I am very interested in what the devs in Amsterdam, who created iconic action-adventures with a distinct art direction, really think about their new creation.

@LiamCroft This list of CoD games on PS4 seems incomplete to me. What about these games:

https://www.pushsquare.com/games/ps4/call_of_duty_modern_warfare_remastered

https://www.pushsquare.com/games/ps4/call_of_duty_modern_warfare_2_campaign_remastered

These are the best news for eFootball in years. Because they are the only notable news for eFootball in years, and the game gets some attention at all.

@Oram77 Wanted to write the very same text. NTE is Sammy‘s „GTA“, and his anticipation was so high, maybe it had a lasting effect on the score.

So, was Survios actually highly regarded or not? This article rather confuses me.

@ozkrmz
Praise the Sol(s)

These numbers tell me: Original games like Ghost of Tsushima are more successful than sequels like GoW 2, Spidey 2 and Horizon 2.

And are 710k in its first 30 days a poor number for such an evergreen like GoT?

Was MindsEye one of those „promising“ games according to PushSquare?

I‘ve only heard highest praises for Nine Sols. If I like it on PlayStation, I will buy and play it on Switch, for me the „natural“ platform for this kind of game.

A price of USD 89.99 wouldn’t affect sales numbers in any significant way.

@SuckySwitch2 Are you a clown?

@get2sammyb

I still don’t get it. You have played probably several hundreds of games during your professional career, and some of them are regarded as the best games of all time. Where does your obsession with this „GTA-like“ (I envy you for your fantasy) come from?

Next article, based on this comment section:

PlayStation fans unanimously HATE IGN and call it FAKE NEWS. IGN IS OBJECTIVELY WRONG.

Thank you for your attention on this matter.

„Data-driven approach“ means that she doesn’t trust her publishing team to decide based on general understanding of the customers and markets.

Nobody knew how well a Forza Horizon 5 would sell on PS5, but Microsoft did it anyway. A „data-driven approach“ would have led to „no data, no action, no mistakes, no regrets“.