Max_the_German

@SMJ Idk, is it some form of coping? People here complain about my „negativity“ towards Sony, probably because they think that being a fan must mean to cheer. I find this weird, football fans usually complain the loudest about the coach and the performance of their team.

@Reeneman Than you know more than me. I thought that Microsoft let AMD implement the full RDNA2 set of features, including features like VRS and INT8 which are both NOT supported by PS5 (because Mark Cerny didn’t request them).

@judgmentarrows In the long term, a platform like PlayStation lives from is exclusives with „wow“ appeal. No question that in the moment, PlayStation is very healthy even with few games of this calibre. But the decline of Xbox is something that also reminds Sony that permanent success is not a given and not guaranteed. And ND games are THOSE „wow“ games to keep the platform fresh and exciting.

@LogicStrikesAgain

I‘d love to see Sony thriving with PS5 exclusives from PS Studios. What was the last game with that level of impact, both financially and critically? Wikipedia says Spidey and God of War, both in 2018. Now it’s the year 2026.

Edit: Okay, Spidey 2 performed good as well. But there are not many PS Studios games on PS5 with huge success, unfortunately.

@Oram77 And GoY, SIE’s star of 2025, is on 9 and 11 respectively. As SIE, I wouldn’t be happy. And I‘m sure there WILL be discussions why it didn’t perform better. And I think they will compare Jin and Atsu and will draw comparisons with Joel and Ellie of Part 2.

Xbox Series X and also S could technically get FSR4 as well (the INT8 version), while base PS5 lacks the requirements. Obviously, Microsoft is focusing on the next platform and doesn’t invest into the Series consoles anymore.

As a PlayStation product, it would offer Link support. Instead, it’s just plain Sony.

I‘m surprised that the missing Link support isn’t even mentioned in the article.

I think the new PSSR will be a huge improvement, based on what we can see from the existing FSR 4. Static scenes will look much crisper, and the ugly „pumping“ will be almost gone. The technologies of the AMD Redstone suite are not quite yet where they should be, but we see steady improvements!

@Mintie

At first, I read „Riders of Sophie“, which created even more vivid pictures.

I‘ve said it many times: KCD2 has the potential to become a stone cold classic. All I know about this game is from reading and watching videos, not first hand, so don’t hesitate to attack me (and probably rightfully so). But what I’ve seen is a long, not easily accessible, but highly memorable game which can create unique experiences. Everyone can tell their own story about it, as it is the case for Witcher 3 and Breath of the Wild. And this is what only video games can do.

My backlog is small, I‘m only interested in very few games, and KCD2 is one of them.

Stupid name for a game. Actually so stupid that I remember it, which is remarkable for an unremarkable game.

@Dan12836666

For worst game of 2026, the hottest contender is Neo Berlin.

This is an Xbox

Sammy can’t interpret this statement, and I can’t. How can almost everyone else here in the comments?

PushSquare confirmed the release date for GTA6. Finally I can look forward to playing it!

This was remarkably close! I expected E33 getting more votes than the second and third combined. And 420 votes for the forth game KCD2 is a high number.

@themightyant @SeaDaVie

>> What was your favourite PS5 action game of 2025? <<

53% of the readers’ votes for Ghost of Yotei

I couldn’t see the joke in that as well. Maybe I must work on my communication skill.

Happy new year!

@TheArt And I‘m tired of cynicism.

@TheArt

> No you can't have no opinion or subjective view on this <

This is the kind of ignorant statement which makes the internet so unappealing to me these days. Do you really believe that there is such a thing like objective assessment of art?

@get2sammyb

This is a valuable learning: getting PS Plus Extra and never buying any game.

@HaveTheSauce

Your conparison is debatable. Demon‘s Souls and Dark Souls created with their new gameplay - slow third-person action RPG where even a single standard enemy can be a real threat - a distinct genre. E33 is a turn-based RPG with some button action in the style of Super Mario RPG and later Mario RPGs. A unique artstyle is not enough for me to found a „Clair-like“.

So the PS5 generation finally starts…?

Also, if China attacks Taiwan, there will be no manufacturing of consumer electronics hardware for a long time. The prices for used PS5s will double over night.

@Balaam_ When will the inevitable E33 hangover come?

For this category, PushSquare had the chance to give GoY the top spot without accusations of fanboying. It has the most cohesive and elegant art direction I’ve seen in years. And yet, it only got bronze.

That MindsEye question was meh. Everyone knows that its Metacritic score is in the 30s. And that is all you have to know.

The big winner for almost all GOTY awards in 2011 was Skyrim. These days, many people see Dark Souls not only as the best game of 2011 but of the decade.

Let’s see how people will look on KCD2 and E33 in 2035.

@Logonogo Thank you!

I haven’t played neither the first nor the second game, but this looks a lot like a scratch for my Witcher itch.

My question: Does playing the first game before enhance the experience in a great way? Or is it not good enough to spend my precious free time on it?

And my Netflix account provided me with films and series for more than 100k of value, based on the original retail prices of the DVDs. And now?

I haven’t played Silksong yet, because I wait for the physical version for Switch 2. But this whole hype about it (no preorders etc.) turned me off a bit.

And then I read the review in Edge, where it got the score 8/10 (Hollow Knight got 9/10). The main complaints were 1) a less interesting lore and 2) an unbalanced difficulty, which is higher in the first half of the game.

Long story short, I‘m still looking forward to play it in 2026. But after so many years, my expectations were higher.

Can you confirm these two points? What were your impressions?

This is the proof: You don’t need AI to create slop.

That’s because Astro Bot is the best game on PS5 and it isn’t close.

Nah, there are few other very good games on PS5 as well, but not too much, as with every system.

I miss those NFT times…

@somnambulance I also love to read these lists. I‘m not sure if I would love to write them, though.

As a team member of PushSquare, I wouldn’t tell my top 5 PS5 games. Many comments are negative, and I wouldn’t see a benefit for neither the website nor myself which would compensate this negativity.

Sandfall Interactive probably doesn’t care. It is a small studio, and the commercial success of E33 proves it right.

Everybody loves the story „A small studio made a fantastic AAA game with a small budget“. But when the developers use advanced tools, the rage starts.

@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.