Max_the_German

@Reeneman Marathon daily Steam max player count stabilised below 20k.

So Fairgames rather than Fairgame$? Sony knew why they changed the title so early on.

PlayStation is still too important to avoid it.

I think the much more interesting discussion at Microsoft is whether to leave Steam in favour of Xbox launcher exclusivity or not. These 30 per cent for Valve really hurts!

Great to see when quality and AAA presentation result in success!

As a publisher, I would use flattery to sell more copies. PS5 Pro customers are very happy to hear that it is superior. And obviously they are willing to pay more for gaming, perfect day-one buyers!

„Bubsy“ and „good“ in one sentence!

@Romans12 Microsoft is a trillion dollar company (is it?) because of great sales, not because they don’t care about the sales.

I prefer a late release: The worst bugs and balancing issues are solved, the release can be accompanied by a major content update, and with a bit of luck there is a physical release (of this matured version).

That’s great for those people out there who need often, easy and mindless gratification. I will stay with my „inaccessible“ games.

LEGO Party! as best family game is a hard slap in the faces of Mario Kart World and Donkey Kong Bananza.

I appreciate that E33 won the central categories, but not all possible ones. We see that the E33 euphoria is mostly over.

I‘m a bit afraid that IOI is revealing too much at this moment. I hope that this game will make a big splash on release. AAA at its best.

And great intro btw.

PS Studios closes promising studios, while games with zero-point-zero appeal still get financed until the bitter end, some weeks after release.

Either Hulst must be a genius, and I’m just too dumb to get it.

Or he is of a kind, if I‘d describe it here, this message or my account would be blocked.

I‘ll watch it, if all of you watch Melania - soberly.

January 2024 was still the time when Ubi games became super-cheap after a few months, so every sane person just waited, and many forgot about it (backlogs are high enough).

And so PoP never gained the attention it needed to become a phenomenom. The endgame was a bit anticlimactic, but every other aspect of that game was top notch. It’s hard to imagine a better parcours-focused Metroidvania than that one: „Wall Jump: The Game“.

@D6rkLordS6t6n

I‘ve never played it before and started it last year on Switch 2. Open world games have gone a long way…

@danzoEX You have seen the picture before you clicked the article, right?

Lukewarm games can‘t expect stellar sales.

@lacerz That story is so weird, it must be true. Is your Pro damaged, or does it look fine?

Eurojank is back, baby!

It’s not only the quality, but also the cadence of Capcom releases which is impressive. And the most games seem to have a reasonable budget, not these 300m USD monsters.

I hope that Capcom will remain Independent for a very long time.

This is of lower significance than it seems on first glance. Microsoft has several publishers, and if it wants to bring Forza Horizon 7 to PS6, it could use Bethesda Softworks, Activision Publishing, Blizzard Entertainment or even a third-party publisher to do this, no Xbox Game Studios needed.

The Last of Us Part 1 and Part 2 Remastered came with the HBO series in 2022 and 2024.

Uncharted: Legacy of Thiefs Collection came with the movie in 2022.

Let‘s hope for the best.

„To its credit, the Japanese giant resisted the temptation to adopt the model, iterating on multiple occasions that it felt putting its own first-party games in PS Plus was “unsustainable”.“

That just isn’t true.

Sony DID follow suit. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have played The Last of Us, God of War and other games in 2021 on my PS5, with a standard PS Plus (Essential) subscription. Without Game Pass, there wouldn’t be a PS Plus Collection. Sony was obviously afraid that Xbox Series could win back customers with Game Pass. But it turned out that the existing PS4 libraries were strong enough to keep PlayStation gamers on Sony’s platform.

While many subpar games are titled here as „highly anticipated“, this is a game which is really highly anticipated by many.

Did anybody here expect a lower budget?

Meanwhile, the Steam player count is declining constantly week by week. What a shame.

And no, I didn’t buy it, it’s not my genre.

Switch 1: 16,300 units
PS5: 13,500 units

And that with the PS5 Japanese-only model highly subsidised, while Nintendo is probably earning money with every Switch 1 sold. That is the worst part of the story.

I want an option to disable trophies entirely. I get my satisfaction from mastering the game, not stupid icons popping in.

@ShogunRok

„But like the article says, it might be a case where a couple of major patches sort out the worst parts.“

Like repetitive gameplay? Which patch in the world ever fixed fundamental flaws of a game’s central mechanics? Which patch made a boring, unfunny game an interesting one?

Give me a PSVR2 version, directly into my veins.

The current layout is perfect for using just a D-pad and two buttons. But why keeping it simple? Add L1 and R1 to the mix!

I want to be one of these billionaires which serve as targets in Fairgame$, but the poor ***** are killing each other, and I watch them in my lounge like in Squid Game.

I can’t claim LotF in the app. The only possible action for the PS5 standard version is to wishlist. For the other games no issues.

@PuppetMaster

IF the PS6 gets a disk drive, it will probably be optional and only capable of playing PS4 and PS5 games. I highly doubt that we will see physical PS6 games. The profits of digital distribution over the own PS Store are just too high for Sony, and this move would eliminate the need for any disk drive for PS7 and beyond (the rumoured PS6 Protable will already be almost certainly digital-only).

A digital-only strategy was not feasible before, because retailers are not interested in selling consoles (low profit, high space demand) without selling physical games (high profit, low space demand). But Sony isn’t dependent on local retailers anymore. There will always be online retailers offering only the hardware, and be it the own PlayStation Direct store (which offers higher profits for Sony compared to other retailers, too)

With a disk drive only being an afterthought for PS6, and the current focus on PS Plus, we could be happy to get straight emulation of PS3 games in PS Plus Premium, without boosts in resolution and framerate.

Using your own PS3 disks? That’s not what I see from today’s SIE.

Radagon is Marika

@Frmknst You’re right. If slop like Jesus Simulator gets banned, why should sloppy games like Oblivion be allowed?!

@Boxmonkey Striking logic. Metroid Prime Remastered is still version 1.0, never received patches, the devs are obviously lazy or incompetent and never listened to the audience.

I want to start Sekiro, never played it before.

After becoming a Souls player, it’s hard to get back to other games.

@REALAIS I was one of those who made the loudest jokes about Marathon. But the substance of this game seems to be great and unique, a game which wants to be mastered, which I appreciate. And I think that people will see that and try it.

So, my prediction for a later success of Marathon is half wishful thinking, half believing in the sheer quality of this title.

"Partnering with talented independent studios to publish exciting, exclusive titles for PlayStation players worldwide."

This is less clear than it seems. If you need a PSN account to play a PC game (I know, they removed that requirement), then you can be called a „PlayStation player“, can’t you?

It’s clear that Crimson Desert will win this. But what I read so far about Marathon, it seems to be a real banger, excellently crafted, with great mechanics and a stunning art direction.

Let’s see how Crimson Desert and Marathon will be seen in two years.

@Oram77 Uncharted 4 as the last main entry released TEN years ago. Teenagers today have probably no strong connection to that franchise anymore. Men in their 40s are not the ones who shift many more millions of PS5 consoles.

I‘d argue that Spider-Man is the only SIE franchise that is well known by gamers of different generations. Sony has no Super Mario, Zelda, Pokemon, Mario Kart, which are well known by most gamers of any age, and which could attract them to buy their first Switch in 2024. The latest FC and CoD run still fine on PS4, no need for a PS5 (so far), and their stars are sinking.

@Oram77 After so many years after its last main release, I think many gamers don’t know who Naughty Dog is. They know The Last of Us and love the setting and story (from the TV show), but not the studio behind it. Will it be enough to say „From the studio behind TLoU“? I‘d argue that ND fans are PS fans, and most of them have already upgraded to PS5.

At this late state of this console generation, you need really heavy hitters with broad appeal to the masses, like RDR2 for PS4. Or even better, GTA6.

>> But again, these are likely to sell to the existing install base. <<

I agree. From all the games mentioned in the article, only GTA6 will attract new customers to PS6. PS exclusives are demanded only by longterm PS fans, and most of them already have an PS5.

Next, thanks to Cinemersive Labs: PSSR 3

With these specs, the price would be astronomically high. It’s clear that Sony started working on it before the latest explosion of component prices and poor worldwide economy.

With a high price and low sales numbers, this portable PlayStation would suffer the same fate as PSVR2 and PS Vita, an abysmal software support. A self-reinforcing spiral downwards.

I guess chances are low that this device will ever see the light of day.

What they show here is really imaginative. From what I’ve seen of the first game, Cold Symmetry improved the whole mechanics and world building a lot. And it looks fine!

The Balanced mode could be a great 40 fps experience, but the resolution of 1280p is set too high for many scenes. 1080p with FSR3 upscalibg to 4k would have been the better choice.

Why spending so many precious hours of your life with mediocre video games? I will probably never understand that.

We will definitively see a „small“ SDD in PS6. Most gamers out there buy 2-3 games per year. 500 GB would be more than enough for them.

Disk drive: I think that

• Sony will offer an optional disk drive for the generally driveless PS6 and
• it will only be usable for backwards compatibility with PS4 and PS5 disks.
• PS6 games will be digital-only.

Horizon Steel Frontiers is primary a mobile game. There is seemingly nobody left at PS Studios to manage mobile games.

Will Sony still be the publisher? Will NCSOFT take over? Or will we see the announcement that HSF got cancelled?