Max_the_German

Dedicated gamers spend maybe 2 hours per day for playing, 60 hours per month, 2-3 big games per month, 240 $ per month. For a hoppy of that intensity, that’s not too much in industrial countries.

If you are a junkie though, spending 4 hours per day, then play Fortnite or other F2P stuff.

The reviews just sound worse than for the previous games.
And here is my steep thesis: There is an FPS fatigue right now.

@Scarface82G1 I don’t think that it needs a remaster, just a port with tweaked settings (what I wouldn’t call a remaster).

I assume that these external testers were from Bungie, with the same task as they had with Factions.

While they probably killed a great TLoU game (with too little meat on its Live Service bones), in this case they could have done both Sony and the customers a great favour.

I wouldn’t be surprised to see an announcement of the cancellation in the next weeks.

@ChrisDeku I love the opposite, shooting with talking and making even fun of it. So everyone can get what they want these days, and that’s great!

So I‘m what Kojima really hates: someone who doesn’t care.

„Performance mode adjustments.“ Any hint what this could mean?

I‘m lacking fantasy, because I can’t see anything close to „GTA-Style“ in this trailer.

@Andy22385 1000 games, this is quantity. And how many of these games do you really want to play? And are all the games you want to play on this service? I can answer this question for me: For that price, I can buy 3-4 games per year I REALLY want to play.

In this video, I see a fast-paced action game running with 30 fps and hear typewriter sounds. Wouldn’t be my favourite style of playing.

Oh yeah, conspiracy myth „Xbox makes PS version intentionally worse“

@ChrisDeku Activision with its multiple CoD studios could pump out such a game as well.

@Fiendish-Beaver I tend to agree. But PS5 trained me to 60 fps, and going back to 30 fps for Zelda Tears of the Kingdom was a very bitter pill to swallow. Its framerate somehow ruined this game, and maybe playing it on Switch 2 can heal it, but I‘m sceptical.

@CutchuSlow I also prefer these kinds of team based games. Or games with an Ellie helping me to hunt down Clickers.

„teamLFG“ sounds so disposable. Makes it easier to „make the hard decision to…“

Based on your reactions, I think Blizzard did everything right: so expensive that it really hurts, but not expensive enough to push the real fans significantly away. Has a lot of „PS5 Pro price“ vibes.

I still don’t give up my hopes for an unlocked modewith reduced graphical fidelity on PS5. 30 fps is just a bit too low for me these days.

I like what I see there. Maybe this is the real first realisation of a AAAA game, both by effort and quality.

It’s not too long ago that people said „Xbox has no games“.

Now they wait months for getting a PS5 exclusive (Yotei) while the sales are dominated by Xbox games. What a dramatic change!

With the two best games being only in the Switch bundle, its price is much better.

These will become two very interesting months. And I have the feeling that we haven’t seen other heavy hitters which will arrive later this year.

Commentators often say „This will be the best gaming year for decades“, and in the end, it’s not on that level. Great to see that 2025 almost flew under the radar for these commentators so far, gives me hope that we will really see an exceptional year!

You can’t be disappointed if you never believed the promise in the first place.

Ubi doesn’t know what it wants. Great games? Mediocre mass market stuff? With this strategy, I wouldn’t buy any stocks (disclaimer: I only have depts for my flat and am very happy with it).

With the new standard price becoming 80 $, F2P games will be priced 10 $?

@MrMeeeseeeks „We were robbed of a sequel.“ I didn’t know you can get robbed if you‘ve never owned it (or never had a legitimate claim).

Well, this is no surprise:

• The original games typically get broad attention also by platform-independent (online) magazines, while remasters are often ignored by them, especially if their original releases scored low. So for the remasters, platform-specific magazines have a higher share with the Metacritic score (and „platform-specific“ also often means „platform fans“ with their „unbiased“ views).

2) the original release of Days Gone seemed to be a big technical mess, which influenced the scores.

I remember that Returnal uses a resolution of 1080p on the base model. So a factor of 2.5 would result in something like 1696p, which would make a huge difference in clarity.

@Ainu20 2K paid for this SOP, 2K gets it.

@UltimateOtaku91 And there seems to be high interest in another Mario Kart. So what’s the point?

@UltimateOtaku91 And I wager that Concord costed even more. Following this logic, Concord should have been priced at 70 $, or even more. So with a 40 $ price tag, Concord’s success should be guaranteed, right?

@Yegor Of course I defend it, because Mario Kart is and always will be wildly successful; 75m copies of MK8 and MK8 Deluxe are the premier league. Pricing is first and foremost what the customers are willing to pay, production costs are of lower priority.

@Lowdefal I think it would reduce overall revenue. But this is not the question here. The question here is whether the publishers could increase the total revenues for subscription services if they wanted to, and I say it’s possible. Would it be a smart move? Probably not. Microsoft obviously likes the predictable steady revenue flow, which allows more risks with games.

Yes, there are differences between TV streaming services and video games. For a video game, you invest much more time than for a typical TV show season, and it’s a much more personal experience due to its interactivity. A Netflix season is much more „disposable“.

However, I want to disagree to Piscatella‘s findings: If Sony would bring all of SIE‘s published games to PS+ day one, we would see a dramatic increase in PS+ Premium numbers.

Demon‘s Souls would be the remaster I‘d prefer on PS+ Essential.

Resistance Collection? Under Hulst as Head of Studio Business? Guys, seriously ???

@naruball I know, and I guess that Sony picked the games with the highest playtimes. I haven’t played them, but the replay value for the games you mentioned could be quite limited.

@PloverNutter Sony is probably quite unhappy with the need for PS3 streaming due to the high costs, so this should really be the reason for removing the Resistance games.

I guess that Sony is currently working on a recompiling tool to run PS3 games natively on PS5. And this takes some time. Sony surely wants to get rid of PS3 server boards with their very special chips.

Oh yes, these licensing costs for the Resistance games must be unbearable for Sony. Wait…

And even more criminal is the lack of a PS5/PSVR2 version of Alien: Isolation.

@Cakefish I agree to most of your arguments. But is the NS2 CPU really superior to the PS4 one? Yes, the architecture is newer and ARM is great in general. But the PS4 clocks at 1.6 GHz. Digital Foundry will certainly find a way to benchmark the CPUs.

I guess that these voices are a vocal minority. Most people are happy to get PS4 performance on a 10 W mobile device with an acceptable battery life.

@Czar_Khastik Your comments are gold. You should consider starting an own YouTube channel (if you haven’t already), I‘d be your first subscriber!

For most games you‘d have to pay me for playing. So where are the news?

@carlos82 THAT is something probably nobody will understand.

With Game Keys becoming the new stamdard model for third party releases on NS2, will PlayStation become the last fortress for real physical games? What an irony!

This generation was great in 2020 and the following years: My PS5 was relatively cheap, and I could play many great games for the first time almost for free with the PS Plus Collection.

I bought the PSVR2 day one and was deeply disappointed by Sony’s „games support“.

Astro Bot was a real high note. And now? Marathon and Intergalatic in a distant future?

@Boxmonkey Complete forever? The relevant story was already told in the first part. It’s the same with Back to the Future.

The physical version is really intriguing. But I think I‘m occupied enough with DS3 and Elden Ring for the rest of 2025.

It can't be for nothing.