Max_the_German

Why only for retro gamers? Every gamer with style will see its qualities.

@Oram77 @get2sammyb Yes, of course having a disc with a flawed version is better than none. But a great Golden Master version is so rare these days!

And while people still begging „Your devs will anyway work another six months on bugfixing, just delay the release by a few months!“, nothing has really changed.

I‘ve got the bad feeling that bugfixing nowadays is connected to the commercial outcome: If people buy the game regardless of its poor technical quality, publishers spend money for bugfixing. If it’s a flop, then publishers are happy not to waste even more good money for the crap.

So if Cronos will be in a great technical shape, forget my comments. If…

Oh, that’s great! So I can still play it in 15 years in full glory when PSN support for PS5 is shut down…

Full glory without all the inevitable upcoming patches which are essential for an enjoyable experience?!

@KundaliniRising333 @Midnyte-Monkey Yes, gimmicky and unfun is what it looks like. As you can see with Donkey Kong Bananza, implementing new gameplay mechanics needs some time, and Capcom took it. But that is no guarantee that it succeeds.

@mohok That‘s a transformation in the post-game, Astro Bananza. But it is silent, because in space, no one can hear to sing.

DayZ and MHOJ2 are almost irrelevant this month, but Sony still pays for them (almost nothing, I hope). I‘d prefer to get only one game per month, but of a similar calibre as Lies of P.

„Beware of Peach and Toads“

If true, it will be interesting to see how a PS6 Portable will play PS5 games while having only a quadcore CPU (PS5 has 8 cores), with a TBP of 15 W. And all of that in two years? I‘m sceptical.

Gran Turismo 7. Come on, Sony, milk the cow!

„No, I don’t want the shoes of influncer XY like everyone else in my class. It’s not because I can’t afford them, no, no. I just prefer gritty realism.“

@Oram77 I know the meaning of the term „probably“.

We will probably know more in 3 hours after today’s Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase.

@PsBoxSwitchOwner I agree, and that’s the real danger of Xbox. In a group like MS, every division has to be profitable in the medium and long term. The respective IRRs may differ, but more profitable divisions get more strategic attention (aka money for investments), and they rise the target IRRs for the less profitable ones.

I don’t know whether a partial IPO of Xbox would be a smart move or not. It would reduce the profit expectations for Microsoft, due to its then lower importance for MS. On the other hand, if Minecraft really becomes the gate to a glorious metaverse future, MS would be very happy to own Xbox alone, so it can easily be integrated into the whole MA ecosystem.

@SeaDaVie Yes, the real numbers are much behind the projections. They were based on a success of Xbox Series X/S which never happened. With our PlayStation glasses on, we focus on the MS releases on PlayStation. But the real music plays on the PC, in China, India, Africa. That’s the future, not console business in the West.

@PsBoxSwitchOwner Despite its relatively small size, MS will remain in the gaming business. Because everyone saw how hard it is the get into it (Google Stadia, Amazon Luna), and gaming seems somehow to be the entry point and cornerstone of the metaverse.

In the past I laughed about this concept, but Fortnite and Roblox show what metaverse really means. That’s the reason why Nintendo is doing this NSO Playtest Programme, and I would bet that Minecraft will be Microsoft‘s steppingstone into this new era of interactive platforms.

I don’t understand the downplay of the 5B annual revenue for Game Pass. For comparison: Netflix had an annual revenue of 39B in 2024, and this is a service a huge number of people has.

With the latest addition of studios and IPs, the steady shift to PC gaming (which is the dominant platform in the growing markets worldwide) and the upcoming console-like PCs, I am not worried about Xbox‘ future.

I came into the PlayStation ecosystem with the PS5, and the PS Plus Collection was a huge deal for me: all these great PS4 games, played with higher framerates on PS5, for only 60 Euros per year. It was clearly Sony‘s answer to Game Pass, and perfect to bring over Xbox One players to PlayStation.

But now? I have more money for games than time to play them. For 80 Euros, I can pick 2-3 discounted games I‘m really interested in! Elden Ring for 30 EUR, RoboCop for 17 EUR, … And they remain in my collection after halting my subscription, even mainly as physical disks.

So no, unless Sony offers me Essential for less than 50 EUR on Black Friday, I‘m out after 5 years. Will I miss it? Probably yes, but not enough to feel bad.

My main takeaway: The 2.5B for Mojang in 2014 and the 7.5B for Zenimax in 2020 were very well invested, the 69B for ABK in 2022 less so.

Finally a game which justifies my subscription!

@Czar_Khastik The best thing about your comment: It is unclear whether you did a joke or not.

My prediction: Tencent will win, the game becomes a huge success on PC, Xbox and Switch, and Sony regrets its decision due to millions of missed in-game purchases.

Relax, everyone! In a few years, AI results will be so good that only experts can say with certainty whether a picture is generated by man or machine. Is this a good development? For artists, creativity and art in general, definitely not. But 99% of all pictures etc. are kitsch, not art.

Thank God for indie games like this! They contain so much soul and passion for video games.

And they also act as a window for the industry, showing an alternative to risk-free AAA sequels which want to please everyone but please nobody.

Very creative indeed! Wouldn’t been surprised to see EA and others to jump onto this train. NFTs are dead, but freely tradable crypto coins may be the way forward for them.

@Oz_Who_Dat_Dare I agree, this game will most likely be CPU limited, and the Pro only got a 10% higher performance here. That means a mode with 60 fps „target“ could also be a thing on the base PS5. And most likely, people will buy it regardless of the existence of a 60 fps mode.

A remaster of Dark Souls 3 is what we need, because the existing version is perfectly fine on PS5.

And I was pleasantly surprised when they released the 60 fps patch for Bloodborne. We already knew before that it was just editing two lines of code, but PlayStation is the gift that keeps on giving!

@djlard Nope

@Oram77 AI voices can be interactive, which is not the worst fit for an interactive medium. I think the future of interactive entertainment won’t be a combination of interactive gaming with prerecorded film-like sequences. It will be much more context sensitive than the cutscenes in Death Stranding, where the only interactivity are the cosmetics of the characters.

This last collectible will make me enormously proud. I will sit there in front of my TV (the PS Portal screen is just not big enough for this) for a couple of minutes and watch this „Mystic“ PNG with a deep feeling of humility and being one with the universe. And I will show it every guest on my next birthday party. I can’t wait to see their reactions!

God of War is one of Sony‘s strongest IPs, and Santa Monica can make great GoW single-player games. The answer is clear.

Complaining about Roblox is nice and all. The better answer is to make a superior alternative.

With Half-Life 2 came Steam, and people were upset. Why such an online store with 30% fee, why not buying directly from the publisher? Nowadays, Steam is not only totally accepted but somewhat appreciated by a huge number of PC gamers as their single point of PC gaming.

These were the platforms we are totally fine with these days. The next step are the metaverses, Fortnite and Roblox (and none from Meta).

If you don’t like Fortnite and Roblox as metaverses for your favourite franchises, support alternatives or create them by your own. There market is big enough for a GOG metaverse!

Yeah, 10% off for Clair Obscure. Now all those people who wanted the game but found the original price to high, they will buy it now.

Seriously, @PushSquare, please focus on the games with 40% or more discount and are not permanently in „sales mode“. That would be much more helpful for us readers. Thank you!

THAT is something I don’t get. Okay, Switch 2 cartridges are expensive, I get it. But PS5 discs? Probably dirt cheap.

Main problem with a multi-disc release could be that you play the games on disc 1, while a friend of yours plays the games on disc 2. and after some weeks, you exchange them.

But we are talking here about a collection of established games. Saving money won’t be the top priority for most buyers!

As long as genuine Xbox (not „Xbox“-PCs) is a relevant platform, Sony will think about bringing the heavy hitters to it. Milking the cow is the REAL premier league of game publishing.

@Czar_Khastik One of your best!

„The Last of Us Part II is probably about the furthest you could possibly get from a normal video game in the AAA space“

You lucky naive soul have never experienced a thing called „Death Stranding“, right?

The title is misleading. I find Cyberpunk 2077 the best PS Plus Extra game of this month (and it won’t get a Pro patch).

The first PlayStation game which will perform best on a Nintendo platform.

At this point, I take everything half decent on PSVR2.

After the last and hefty price hike, I considered letting running out my Essential subscription, but I renewed it. Because I had great experiences with A Plague‘s Tale 1 and 2 and Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order.

But nowadays I want to spend for things and sevices I really use. And this bit of multiplayer in FromSoft games just might be not enough to justify the Essential subscription.

Nintendo Switch Online with Expansion Pack is a much better deal for me. Half the price and better games!

@colt45z Which one? Wet Dreams Don’t Dry or Wet Dreams Dry Twice?

I find articles about PS4 firmware updates more interesting than about games with weird halfnaked Anime characters.

The original order is part of the artistic expression and in my opinion carefully handled, I don’t want it other than that.

In contrast, Part 1 would benefit from a „chronological“ mode, with Left Behind seamlessly integrated into the main game.

@Nakatomi_Uk Sorry, I thought the contradiction of „The proof“ and a clearly false statement (Sony closed several studios) would be clear enough to see that this comment was sarcastic. Despite having no GamePass, Sony closed a multitude of studios, because the expected outcome wasn’t high enough. With or without a flatrate subscription service.

Let‘s guess the Game of the Month for October 2025!

@Oz_Who_Dat_Dare Good points!

@Oz_Who_Dat_Dare Your and my impression about Microsoft‘s interest in gaming differ: They invested dozens of billions in gaming, and they also spent a billion for fixing the Red Ring of Death back then with Xbox 360. In such a corporate group like Microsoft, every division must be profitable by itself (with a risk-adapted interest rate), there is no longtime subsidisation.

Thankfully, Microsoft is not as dependent on one division as it is with Sony. THIS is what is much more worrying to me! If PlayStation suffers, the whole Sony group is in danger.

@LogicStrikesAgain I‘d be surprised if Microsoft had to pay a fixed price for offering a game on GP. A model in which Microsoft pays the publisher a small fixed fee for the number of months in the catalogue plus a bigger fee for every user playing more than X hours is much more likely in my opinion, but it’s just guessing from my side. In such a model, the number of subscribers is of a far less importance.

Does anyone actually know how the payment scheme works for GP games from third-parties?

@MFTWrecks I hoped that „The proof:“ in combination with a statement which is clearly false would be telling enough that I was just cynical. Colantonio gives a very one-dimensional explanation here, blaming the publisher, obviously still very frustrated by the events that happened to him.

We mostly see the success stories, but many (most?) games will never earn money, their making was instead a waste of resources, enthusiasm snd creativity. So to thrive, a publisher must eliminate those developments with high costs and high probability of commercial failure as part of its portfolio management.

There are SO MANY game releases these days! And many customers stick to their favourite games for years. Game business is brutal.