I get the feeling we’re in the period of the PS4 lifespan where we’ve hit the heights in the mid to mid-late section (Nier, Spider Man, God Of War etc...), and now everything else being judged against those games are never going to hit the same heights. I wouldn’t call it filler, just not as good as the glory days.
I bought Devil May Cry and enjoyed that, but nothing else really springs out to be worth my money.
I question if SF’s high jumping, projectile characters work in a 3D space, and if Tekken’s more realistic fighting characters work in a 2D space? Seems like you would have to alter the essence of the characters to get them to fit the other game.
To me it would be like putting Superman in Star Wars.
It’s pretty obvious Sony are waiting to see what the new XB is going to be before announcing anything else. From all the rumours Microsoft are going to have the more powerful machine, so the PlayStation is going to have to be a far more financially appealing option. Plus you’ll see Sony gazump a XB2 reveal by announcing some big titles launching with the PS5- they still are going to have a more diverse lineup than the FPS heavy XBox.
I'm okay with this, still haven't completed the game and looking to continue playing once the story is over to improve some of my ranks and find the hidden stuff.
But to the average PS4 owner who is a borderline casual fan (me for example), I don't see the size of the horde. I see a browny-grey looking open world game where you shoot guns and try to avoid zombie monsters. It doesn't have a guy in a Spider suit or a guy with a big flying axe fighting ogres or robot dinosaurs. That's the sort of thing to get the non commited PS4 owner to part with their cash.
Not to say it won't be a great game, but it's a harder sell with this visual/genre hanging around it's neck.
I’ll always remember that interview he had with the bare knuckle boxer when he asked if the guy could show him how he fought or something so he punched Dyer in the face.
Instead of it being a bunch of products that needed an advert, it felt like an advert that needed a bunch of products. If there wasn’t anything big enough to celebrate, why bother with such an elaborate set up?
The truth is XB1 is not a direct competitor to Nintendo. If you want to play high def shooters you own an XB1, if you want to play more quirky family friendly stuff that isn't so bothered with 4K but works as a handheld then you get a Switch. I think most people would agree Cuphead will sell better to the Nintendo audience so it being on the Switch helps the developer.
As for PS4, it's that middle console that's competing for both markets, so it's unsurprising that relations aren't so friendly.
We all know the deal now: PS4 and XB1 gets games first to play in high graphical fidelity, then the Switch gets those games 6 months or so later for people to play on the go but less pretty and with a little extra to sweeten the deal for double dippers.
It’s just up to the consumer if you buy the early PS4/XB1 version, or wait in hope for it to come to Switch.
COD. Battlefield. Battlefront. Halo. Titanfall. Rainbow 6. The Division. Over watch. Player Unknown. Warframe. Fortnite. Splatoon. Anthem coming. Dozens more. And Fallout 76!
Maybe... just maybe there may be more online shooters on the market than the market can support? Destiny cost a lot, so maybe Activision aren’t wrong in axing it with the thought of loot boxes being banned. Let’s be honest, cash will come before art because without cash art doesn’t get made.
If I were Bungie I wouldn’t be so certain that Destiny going forward is a viable business model- unless they plan to cut costs or change how the game is paid for- which isn’t so easy in this race to F2P these days.
If I sell hula hoops, and 99% of my customers have hula hoops, and I barely have anything new in hula hoop technology to flog for a year, why would I rent a market stall with barely any product on it? Same for Sony, most of the core games market owns a PS4 and they know about the last few bits to come out on it. Showing the same demo's again of those last 3 games is just going to annoy people, and obviously the PS5 isn't going to be ready this year.
In my opinion the next gen of the PS/XB war will be won on who has the best exclusive launch games on their system, which takes a page out of how successful Ninty was with a jam packed first year for the Switch. I doubt that one console or the other will be massively overpowered to the other, so Sony are holding back their big guns to get early adopters next gen- even if they are going to release the last 3 games on both the PS4 and PS5.
Playing through this after getting it for 20 quid in a sale. I'm enjoying it, although it is very stop and start from lots of things attacking to 2 minute dialogue scenes. where you have no control. It's more of a switching brawler game to animated movie thing.
I think about all the story games that I have loved enough to buy DLC for, and in every instance I’ve felt bored, short changed, duped, or just apathetic for another 5-10% of a lesser version of what I’ve just played. And they’ve actually tarnished my memory of what I’ve played.
Actually the only DLC I’ve been impressed by was Mario Kart 8.
Let’s be honest: at this stage in the life of the PS4 most people who wanted one have bought one, there is far less new games driving sales, an the PS5 is looming on the horizon.
What I do find interesting is how the list of Switch games are all different genres. Nintendo has worked well to make a diverse selection of games and they all seem to be selling well- at least in Japan.
It wouldn’t hurt for Sony to take note and add some wrinkles into the mass of over the shoulder sandbox/story based adventure games.
Let’s be brutally honest, 99% of PS4 owners have either forgotten about this, didn’t know in the first place, or don’t have the slightest idea of what it is.
It certainly backs up the argument you shouldn’t announce a game more than 6-8 months out.
3 games isn’t much to convince a Nintendo fan like me to buy an XB1 though, is it? For the people that like XBox I’m happy they love it, but it definitely has a limited market- just like Nintendo isn’t going to be drawing in people that want shooters and Assassins Creed type games.
For the XB2 (or whatever the name is) to grow it’s user base it needs to draw in a new crowd of players. The XB1 only has 30 million consoles sold, and probably only 20 million people who bought those. Variety in games lineup will bring in more players.
If I were Sony I’d call it the PS6. A little bit of tippex to add an ‘i’ to all those P S5 consoles in a warehouse somewhere and they could have an incident on their hands....
Anyone would have thought they had replaced pretty much their entire management team in the past year.
My biggest issue with Playstation is they have put all their eggs into one basket by making lots of similiar sandbox games that they hype forever and a day. That isn't a balanced ecosphere of gaming and I'm starting to get a bit bored of it. Of course Nintendo is exciting at the moment with stuff like Splatoon, Arms, Octopath, Smash, and even Labo which dares to be different. Frankly if I never craft a pair of longjohns out of some cowhide and rivergrass and then stealthily raid a bandit camp it'll be too soon.
E3 is where mainstream media covers gaming, so yes it’s still relevant.
The question is does Sony have anything that hasn’t been revealed for 2019? Because it’s not just E3 they’ve exited from in the next 12 months, but their own event.
From a monetary position this makes sense: if they have nothing to say, then why pay a fortune to stand on a stage and twiddle your thumbs?
But from a fan psychology position people are going to ask: ‘so does this mean they’ll be diddly squat new on the PS4 in 2019?’ Does it make people think twice about getting a PS4 for Christmas in anticipation for TLOU2 and Death Stranding next year? It feels like 2016 for the Wii U. Yeah they’ve got 3rd party but COD and Assassins Creed for another year are getting on people’s nerves. I get the feeling I may never buy another PS5 game again (depending on Kingdom Hearts 3).
Admittedly it doesn’t mean XB1 will be stealing players as there isn’t much on the horizon there either, but I do think people will consider in investing in a Switch as what seems the only vibrant platform with big exclusives coming in 2019. Curious to see if the PS5 launches with a heavy weighted games lineup.
Personally I'm of the opinion that XB suffers from having a lot of grey/brown/beige games where you shoot things and not much else. As a primary Nintendo player their console does nothing for me, whereas PS has a selection of japanese stuff/colourful 1st party games that got me to buy a PS4.
If Microsoft can use these developers to broaden their genres maybe they'll do better, but if all they do is make more Gears of Halo clones then they won't be doing much than making their current fanbase happy.
I think the biggest thing Sony are lacking in their lineup is a bit more humourous/lighthearted franchise. Uncharted, GOW, TLOF, HZD, and Spidey are great for their audience, but I get the feeling Ratchet and Clank, Little Big Planet and Knack aren't anywhere in comparison to what Nintendo does. It really wouldn't hurt putting some more good cartoony fun platformers and alike to appeal to a broader cusomer base. I know I wouldn't mind it.
When you think about it, the PS1 has aged horribly. I loved Destruction Derby, FFVII and Tekken 3 when I was a kid, but I don't have the same desire to play them as I did the SNES classics.
To be honest if I didn't like a game I wouldn't buy the DLC. If I did like the game (Like Spiderman) and played it for 50-100 hours, I don't know if I would want more after spending so long with it.
Seeing there are 3-5 big 1st party titles left (and they cancelled the PS event this year so they aren't going to anything that big any more), you would guess were around 18 months away from a new generation.
I wouldn't be surprised if they ship it Q1 2020 so they don't experience stock shortages at Christmas.
At this point with Nintendo's inspired plan to release the Switch with an absolutely massive tentpole title that sold lots and lots of consoles and then brought out another six months later, I feel Sony would be smart to release the PS5 with The Last of Us 2, then follow it up with Death Stranding. Neither really float my boat, but it would make a lot of Mature PS4 owners early adopters of the PS5. Why waste a 'console seller' on a system that has probably reached full price sales saturation?
I’m not sure if I’m more frustrated that Capcom seem to have forgotten that the journey and challenge is what makes this sort of game work, or that there is a group of people out there that will buy this so they can quickly platinum a game to impress a friends list that doesn’t actually care about how clever you are for robbing yourself of the content of a game.
The only reason Capcom does it is because they know people will pay for it.
At least I've heard about it now. For a while now I've only turned on my PS4 to watch Netflix and SKY but I hope to be playing Spider-Man soon and there's nothing I hate more than my 'quick half hour' of playtime being eaten into by one of these updates that really don't make owning a PS4 any better for me personally.
It’s pretty obvious both Sony and Microsoft are in a holding pattern until the next console is ready to announce. There are games left to come and the core fans will eat it up but the magic hype has definitely gone. It wasn’t too long ago where Wii U owners were feeling deserted by the Nintendo PR department. Now the Switch is out and even with a dip in original titles, there is far more hype around the Switch than the PS4. I own both and I just feel more excitement for playing a year old indie port on the go, than Sony’s big autumn title that I’ve known about for two and a half years.
At some point PlayStation will bring its A game and I’ll be interested again, but at the moment it’s a distant 2nd to the white hot Switch.
Personally I don’t think the PS4 has had particularly good exclusives this gen compared to previous consoles. A lot of the different or kids stuff has been rather ‘meh’, and in recent years there’s been a reliance on sandbox games. Plus quite a few of these exclusives can be played on a PS3 if not so shiny. Separating the exclusives from the massive third party support really does show up a weakness.
Saying that, still leaps a bounds better than XB1. But nowhere as good as the Switch when it comes to diversity in game variety.
I’m curious if he means multiplayer in an online COD/Halo/Battlefront way, or as in a Local Street Fighter/Mario Kart/FIFA sort of way?
Because the former makes you more money in micro transactions and PS subscriptions, where the other gets you more cred from Families and college students
Although I commend Sony in new IP (as in characters, worlds, etc), they are sort of playing it safe in the fact they make a lot of 3rd person open world/semi open world games with a lot of cg cutscenes. E3 highlighted the problem with 4 games that follow the template of that 3rd person open world. Dreams is the only thing in a while that doesn’t fit that formula (and I don’t think many people are aware of what that game is), and we get a few remasterers of stuff like Parappa and Medievil to mix it up- but they are not really risks being rereleases. For me personally I’m a little bored of the collectathon sandbox with 12 story chapters these days, and my PlayStation hasn’t been used to play games for a while.
The risk is not deviation, the risk is playing in the sandbox for too long.
“We’re never going to be like Nintendo, holding the lion’s share of the Nintendo platform game business, because that’s not the way we work,” he said, reinforcing the notion that Sony’s exclusives exist to complement its console’s catalogue of third-party titles. “We want to make the PlayStation platform available to all of our third-partners. I think we build success for PlayStation by getting as many people inside the tent as possible that aren’t necessarily controlled by Worldwide Studios.”
To me he's saying Nintendo is stifiling 3rd Party by being mean and releasing to many games in competiton. It's like he's talking to Ubisoft, EA, and Activision and telling them they'll get a fairer deal on PS4 than on the Switch. In reality loads of indie 3rd party games have done really well and Crash has just been a big seller on the Switch.
It just seems the sort of catty remark that I couldn't imagine Kaz Hirai or Andrew House making about the competition. It makes Layden seem like he's having to defend Sony against the first bit of competition they've had in 5 years.
For big good looking games with deep narrative for core games Sony wins.
For unique original games with fantastic control that anyone can play, Nintendo wins.
There are probably more Nintendo games released a year but they aren’t all Breath of The Wild. There is no need to have a measuring contest of who’s is bigger- If you like Sony buy Sony, if you like Nintendo, buy Nintendo, if you like both then pick and choose from both.
The real story here is why Layden feels the need to be so defensive about why Sony is better than Nintendo? They have the biggest selling console by a mile, these little jabs feels like he can feel Miyamoto breathing down his neck.
‘...the company wants to expand the spectrum of experiences on PlayStation, rather than double-down in categories already well serviced. “We’re not here to create games that steal market share from other publishers,” he concluded.’
So 90% of Sony’s output of recent games have been because 3rd party has been ignoring the Sandbox narrative genre?
Frankly I think what he’s saying is an insult to Sony’s first party studios. It implies they aren’t trying their hardest to create the best they can to give 3rd party a chance. Which is also an insult to 3rd party games as well.
I’m guessing it’s a thinly veiled jab at Nintendo for having first party games that dominate the sales on their systems, but to me all games are competition to each other- people will put their finite money in what they want the most. That doesn’t mean Nintendo should lower game production to force people to buy a 3rd party game in a different genre instead. If you’re spending your last £50 on Spider Man, you won’t be buying Red Dead, or COD, or 4 indie games for the same money. It’s the duty of the game publisher to have a good idea, execute it to the best of your ability so the customer gets a good game for their buck, and expect your competition to do the same.
I can remember a time when XBox was the dominant brand in gaming but then with few unpopular policies and some bad PR they lost it all and Sony stepped in. The same could be said with Nintendo with the N64.
Playstation should be wary of ignoring it's customers because there are no guarantees they'll continue their dominance with the PS5 if they fall into complacency and bullishness.
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Re: Round Up: RAGE 2 Reviews Aren't All Rock and Roll
I get the feeling we’re in the period of the PS4 lifespan where we’ve hit the heights in the mid to mid-late section (Nier, Spider Man, God Of War etc...), and now everything else being judged against those games are never going to hit the same heights. I wouldn’t call it filler, just not as good as the glory days.
I bought Devil May Cry and enjoyed that, but nothing else really springs out to be worth my money.
Re: Tekken Director Harada No Longer Sold on the Idea of Tekken X Street Fighter
I question if SF’s high jumping, projectile characters work in a 3D space, and if Tekken’s more realistic fighting characters work in a 2D space? Seems like you would have to alter the essence of the characters to get them to fit the other game.
To me it would be like putting Superman in Star Wars.
Re: Feature: Sony Won't Be at E3 2019, But Here Are 7 Reasons to Still Be Hyped
It’s pretty obvious Sony are waiting to see what the new XB is going to be before announcing anything else. From all the rumours Microsoft are going to have the more powerful machine, so the PlayStation is going to have to be a far more financially appealing option. Plus you’ll see Sony gazump a XB2 reveal by announcing some big titles launching with the PS5- they still are going to have a more diverse lineup than the FPS heavy XBox.
Re: No More Devil May Cry 5 DLC as Development Has Finished, Capcom Reiterates
I'm okay with this, still haven't completed the game and looking to continue playing once the story is over to improve some of my ranks and find the hidden stuff.
Re: Sony's Flogging Days Gone Harder Than a Freaker Who Keeps Getting Back Up
@JoeBlogs
But to the average PS4 owner who is a borderline casual fan (me for example), I don't see the size of the horde. I see a browny-grey looking open world game where you shoot guns and try to avoid zombie monsters. It doesn't have a guy in a Spider suit or a guy with a big flying axe fighting ogres or robot dinosaurs. That's the sort of thing to get the non commited PS4 owner to part with their cash.
Not to say it won't be a great game, but it's a harder sell with this visual/genre hanging around it's neck.
Re: Sony's Flogging Days Gone Harder Than a Freaker Who Keeps Getting Back Up
The biggest problem this game has is it isn’t half as exciting as Spider-Man, or God Of War, or Horizon Zero Dawn.
It looks like a lot of other Zombie games before it, despite what the quality of the game is.
Re: Poll: What Are Your Thoughts on the PS5?
P S5
And because you can add a letter and get a rude word, it won’t be called that.
Re: Naughty! RAGE 2 Cheat Code Unlocks Cockney Geezer Danny Dyer as a Gameplay Commentator
I’ll always remember that interview he had with the bare knuckle boxer when he asked if the guy could show him how he fought or something so he punched Dyer in the face.
Re: Reaction: State of Play Can and Will Be Great Assuming Sony Sticks with It
Instead of it being a bunch of products that needed an advert, it felt like an advert that needed a bunch of products. If there wasn’t anything big enough to celebrate, why bother with such an elaborate set up?
Re: Animated Arcade Game Cuphead Skipping PS4
The truth is XB1 is not a direct competitor to Nintendo. If you want to play high def shooters you own an XB1, if you want to play more quirky family friendly stuff that isn't so bothered with 4K but works as a handheld then you get a Switch. I think most people would agree Cuphead will sell better to the Nintendo audience so it being on the Switch helps the developer.
As for PS4, it's that middle console that's competing for both markets, so it's unsurprising that relations aren't so friendly.
Re: Poll: Have You Bought Devil May Cry 5?
I’ve bought it and I’m trying to teach my fingers it’s not Bayonetta.
Re: Final Fantasy XV's Episode Ardyn Release Date Reminds Us Square Enix Is Still Working on This Game
“The most important things to remember about backstory are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting."
-Stephen King.
Re: Poll: Do You Think Sony Is Telling the Truth About Cross-Play?
Sony have every right to only allow what they want on their platform.
Just as we are in our rights to support or not support a company due to their business practises.
Re: Will Dragon Quest XI on PS4 Get the New Nintendo Switch Content? Square Enix Hasn't Decided Yet
We all know the deal now: PS4 and XB1 gets games first to play in high graphical fidelity, then the Switch gets those games 6 months or so later for people to play on the go but less pretty and with a little extra to sweeten the deal for double dippers.
It’s just up to the consumer if you buy the early PS4/XB1 version, or wait in hope for it to come to Switch.
Re: Shawn Layden Explains Sony's Decision to Pull Out of E3 2019
"The World is changing."
Like Sony is changing by not making any moe PS4 games beyond what's announced.
Re: Spider-Man PS4 Update 1.14 Adds Two Fantastic Four Suits for Free
The white one isn’t really flattering on Spidey, is it? #doesmybumlookbiginthis?
Re: Soapbox: The Destiny Divorce - What Bungie and Activision's Split Could Mean for Destiny
COD. Battlefield. Battlefront. Halo. Titanfall. Rainbow 6. The Division. Over watch. Player Unknown. Warframe. Fortnite. Splatoon. Anthem coming. Dozens more. And Fallout 76!
Maybe... just maybe there may be more online shooters on the market than the market can support? Destiny cost a lot, so maybe Activision aren’t wrong in axing it with the thought of loot boxes being banned. Let’s be honest, cash will come before art because without cash art doesn’t get made.
If I were Bungie I wouldn’t be so certain that Destiny going forward is a viable business model- unless they plan to cut costs or change how the game is paid for- which isn’t so easy in this race to F2P these days.
Re: Talking Point: What Should PlayStation Do to Replace E3 2019?
Depends. When are they going to have something big and 1st party to sell?
Re: Sony Made a Bad Decision to Skip E3 2019, Says Pachter
If I sell hula hoops, and 99% of my customers have hula hoops, and I barely have anything new in hula hoop technology to flog for a year, why would I rent a market stall with barely any product on it? Same for Sony, most of the core games market owns a PS4 and they know about the last few bits to come out on it. Showing the same demo's again of those last 3 games is just going to annoy people, and obviously the PS5 isn't going to be ready this year.
In my opinion the next gen of the PS/XB war will be won on who has the best exclusive launch games on their system, which takes a page out of how successful Ninty was with a jam packed first year for the Switch. I doubt that one console or the other will be massively overpowered to the other, so Sony are holding back their big guns to get early adopters next gen- even if they are going to release the last 3 games on both the PS4 and PS5.
Re: Game of the Year 2018: #1 - God of War
Playing through this after getting it for 20 quid in a sale. I'm enjoying it, although it is very stop and start from lots of things attacking to 2 minute dialogue scenes. where you have no control. It's more of a switching brawler game to animated movie thing.
Re: Marvel's Spider-Man: Silver Lining - A Lukewarm End to the City That Never Sleeps Story
I think about all the story games that I have loved enough to buy DLC for, and in every instance I’ve felt bored, short changed, duped, or just apathetic for another 5-10% of a lesser version of what I’ve just played. And they’ve actually tarnished my memory of what I’ve played.
Actually the only DLC I’ve been impressed by was Mario Kart 8.
Re: Japanese Sales Charts: PS4 Numbers Increase Dramatically, But Nothing Can Stop Smash
Let’s be honest: at this stage in the life of the PS4 most people who wanted one have bought one, there is far less new games driving sales, an the PS5 is looming on the horizon.
What I do find interesting is how the list of Switch games are all different genres. Nintendo has worked well to make a diverse selection of games and they all seem to be selling well- at least in Japan.
It wouldn’t hurt for Sony to take note and add some wrinkles into the mass of over the shoulder sandbox/story based adventure games.
Re: Media Molecule Claims the Dreams Beta Is Still on Track for 2018
Let’s be brutally honest, 99% of PS4 owners have either forgotten about this, didn’t know in the first place, or don’t have the slightest idea of what it is.
It certainly backs up the argument you shouldn’t announce a game more than 6-8 months out.
Re: Obsidian, InXile Will No Longer Make PlayStation Games
@dani_i89
3 games isn’t much to convince a Nintendo fan like me to buy an XB1 though, is it? For the people that like XBox I’m happy they love it, but it definitely has a limited market- just like Nintendo isn’t going to be drawing in people that want shooters and Assassins Creed type games.
For the XB2 (or whatever the name is) to grow it’s user base it needs to draw in a new crowd of players. The XB1 only has 30 million consoles sold, and probably only 20 million people who bought those. Variety in games lineup will bring in more players.
Re: Editorial: Fake PS5 News Will Be Rampant Over the Next 12 Months
If I were Sony I’d call it the PS6. A little bit of tippex to add an ‘i’ to all those P S5 consoles in a warehouse somewhere and they could have an incident on their hands....
Re: Soapbox: Fans Think PlayStation's Losing Momentum, And Sony's to Blame
Anyone would have thought they had replaced pretty much their entire management team in the past year.
My biggest issue with Playstation is they have put all their eggs into one basket by making lots of similiar sandbox games that they hype forever and a day. That isn't a balanced ecosphere of gaming and I'm starting to get a bit bored of it. Of course Nintendo is exciting at the moment with stuff like Splatoon, Arms, Octopath, Smash, and even Labo which dares to be different. Frankly if I never craft a pair of longjohns out of some cowhide and rivergrass and then stealthily raid a bandit camp it'll be too soon.
Re: Poll: Is E3 Still Relevant, Especially Now that Sony Has Abandoned It?
E3 is where mainstream media covers gaming, so yes it’s still relevant.
The question is does Sony have anything that hasn’t been revealed for 2019? Because it’s not just E3 they’ve exited from in the next 12 months, but their own event.
Re: Sony Confirms Zero E3 2019 Presence, Will Share New Plans Soon
From a monetary position this makes sense: if they have nothing to say, then why pay a fortune to stand on a stage and twiddle your thumbs?
But from a fan psychology position people are going to ask: ‘so does this mean they’ll be diddly squat new on the PS4 in 2019?’ Does it make people think twice about getting a PS4 for Christmas in anticipation for TLOU2 and Death Stranding next year? It feels like 2016 for the Wii U. Yeah they’ve got 3rd party but COD and Assassins Creed for another year are getting on people’s nerves. I get the feeling I may never buy another PS5 game again (depending on Kingdom Hearts 3).
Admittedly it doesn’t mean XB1 will be stealing players as there isn’t much on the horizon there either, but I do think people will consider in investing in a Switch as what seems the only vibrant platform with big exclusives coming in 2019. Curious to see if the PS5 launches with a heavy weighted games lineup.
Re: Obsidian, InXile Will No Longer Make PlayStation Games
Personally I'm of the opinion that XB suffers from having a lot of grey/brown/beige games where you shoot things and not much else. As a primary Nintendo player their console does nothing for me, whereas PS has a selection of japanese stuff/colourful 1st party games that got me to buy a PS4.
If Microsoft can use these developers to broaden their genres maybe they'll do better, but if all they do is make more Gears of Halo clones then they won't be doing much than making their current fanbase happy.
Re: Rumour: Is Sony Planning More MediEvil Games?
I think the biggest thing Sony are lacking in their lineup is a bit more humourous/lighthearted franchise. Uncharted, GOW, TLOF, HZD, and Spidey are great for their audience, but I get the feeling Ratchet and Clank, Little Big Planet and Knack aren't anywhere in comparison to what Nintendo does. It really wouldn't hurt putting some more good cartoony fun platformers and alike to appeal to a broader cusomer base. I know I wouldn't mind it.
Re: PlayStation Classic Full Games Lineup Revealed
When you think about it, the PS1 has aged horribly. I loved Destruction Derby, FFVII and Tekken 3 when I was a kid, but I don't have the same desire to play them as I did the SNES classics.
Re: Insomniac on Spider-Man PS4 DLC: Are People Ever Satisfied with How Much You Give Them?
To be honest if I didn't like a game I wouldn't buy the DLC. If I did like the game (Like Spiderman) and played it for 50-100 hours, I don't know if I would want more after spending so long with it.
Re: Sony Offers Brief Comment on PS5
Seeing there are 3-5 big 1st party titles left (and they cancelled the PS event this year so they aren't going to anything that big any more), you would guess were around 18 months away from a new generation.
I wouldn't be surprised if they ship it Q1 2020 so they don't experience stock shortages at Christmas.
Re: Sony Cancels PSX 2018 As It Looks Ahead to Next Year
At this point with Nintendo's inspired plan to release the Switch with an absolutely massive tentpole title that sold lots and lots of consoles and then brought out another six months later, I feel Sony would be smart to release the PS5 with The Last of Us 2, then follow it up with Death Stranding. Neither really float my boat, but it would make a lot of Mature PS4 owners early adopters of the PS5. Why waste a 'console seller' on a system that has probably reached full price sales saturation?
Re: Red Dead Redemption 2 Details Hunting and Fishing, New Screenshots Released
My friend is obsessed with getting this game. I don’t know why but it leaves me quite unimpressed. Waiting for something I haven’t seen before.
Re: Devil May Cry 5 Has Microtransactions for Some Stupid Reason
I’m not sure if I’m more frustrated that Capcom seem to have forgotten that the journey and challenge is what makes this sort of game work, or that there is a group of people out there that will buy this so they can quickly platinum a game to impress a friends list that doesn’t actually care about how clever you are for robbing yourself of the content of a game.
The only reason Capcom does it is because they know people will pay for it.
Re: PS4 Firmware Update 6.00 Released, Available to Download Now
What does it do? I found out. It causes the phantom disc ejection fault to come back on my PS4. Had to redownload it in safe mode.
Re: PS4 Firmware Update 6.00 Released, Available to Download Now
At least I've heard about it now. For a while now I've only turned on my PS4 to watch Netflix and SKY but I hope to be playing Spider-Man soon and there's nothing I hate more than my 'quick half hour' of playtime being eaten into by one of these updates that really don't make owning a PS4 any better for me personally.
Re: Soapbox: Sony's in Danger of Becoming Closed Off
It’s pretty obvious both Sony and Microsoft are in a holding pattern until the next console is ready to announce. There are games left to come and the core fans will eat it up but the magic hype has definitely gone. It wasn’t too long ago where Wii U owners were feeling deserted by the Nintendo PR department. Now the Switch is out and even with a dip in original titles, there is far more hype around the Switch than the PS4. I own both and I just feel more excitement for playing a year old indie port on the go, than Sony’s big autumn title that I’ve known about for two and a half years.
At some point PlayStation will bring its A game and I’ll be interested again, but at the moment it’s a distant 2nd to the white hot Switch.
Re: Guide: Best PS4 Exclusives 2018 - 20 Essential PlayStation 4 Games
Personally I don’t think the PS4 has had particularly good exclusives this gen compared to previous consoles. A lot of the different or kids stuff has been rather ‘meh’, and in recent years there’s been a reliance on sandbox games. Plus quite a few of these exclusives can be played on a PS3 if not so shiny. Separating the exclusives from the massive third party support really does show up a weakness.
Saying that, still leaps a bounds better than XB1. But nowhere as good as the Switch when it comes to diversity in game variety.
Re: Germany Bans Pre-Orders for Games that Don't Have a Set Release Date
I wonder if this affects kickstarter? Essentially if you back a kickstarter you're pre-ordering a game before it's even in production.
Re: Shuhei Yoshida Wishes Sony Was More Successful at Making Multiplayer Games
I’m curious if he means multiplayer in an online COD/Halo/Battlefront way, or as in a Local Street Fighter/Mario Kart/FIFA sort of way?
Because the former makes you more money in micro transactions and PS subscriptions, where the other gets you more cred from Families and college students
Re: We're Making a Huge Bet Every Time We Start a New Project, Reveals Sony
Although I commend Sony in new IP (as in characters, worlds, etc), they are sort of playing it safe in the fact they make a lot of 3rd person open world/semi open world games with a lot of cg cutscenes. E3 highlighted the problem with 4 games that follow the template of that 3rd person open world. Dreams is the only thing in a while that doesn’t fit that formula (and I don’t think many people are aware of what that game is), and we get a few remasterers of stuff like Parappa and Medievil to mix it up- but they are not really risks being rereleases. For me personally I’m a little bored of the collectathon sandbox with 12 story chapters these days, and my PlayStation hasn’t been used to play games for a while.
The risk is not deviation, the risk is playing in the sandbox for too long.
Re: Sony Feels It Has the 'Right Amount' of First-Party Teams
@Paranoimia
“We’re never going to be like Nintendo, holding the lion’s share of the Nintendo platform game business, because that’s not the way we work,” he said, reinforcing the notion that Sony’s exclusives exist to complement its console’s catalogue of third-party titles. “We want to make the PlayStation platform available to all of our third-partners. I think we build success for PlayStation by getting as many people inside the tent as possible that aren’t necessarily controlled by Worldwide Studios.”
To me he's saying Nintendo is stifiling 3rd Party by being mean and releasing to many games in competiton. It's like he's talking to Ubisoft, EA, and Activision and telling them they'll get a fairer deal on PS4 than on the Switch. In reality loads of indie 3rd party games have done really well and Crash has just been a big seller on the Switch.
It just seems the sort of catty remark that I couldn't imagine Kaz Hirai or Andrew House making about the competition. It makes Layden seem like he's having to defend Sony against the first bit of competition they've had in 5 years.
Re: Sony Feels It Has the 'Right Amount' of First-Party Teams
For big good looking games with deep narrative for core games Sony wins.
For unique original games with fantastic control that anyone can play, Nintendo wins.
There are probably more Nintendo games released a year but they aren’t all Breath of The Wild. There is no need to have a measuring contest of who’s is bigger- If you like Sony buy Sony, if you like Nintendo, buy Nintendo, if you like both then pick and choose from both.
The real story here is why Layden feels the need to be so defensive about why Sony is better than Nintendo? They have the biggest selling console by a mile, these little jabs feels like he can feel Miyamoto breathing down his neck.
Re: Sony Explains Its First, Best, Must Philosophy to PS4 Exclusives
‘...the company wants to expand the spectrum of experiences on PlayStation, rather than double-down in categories already well serviced. “We’re not here to create games that steal market share from other publishers,” he concluded.’
So 90% of Sony’s output of recent games have been because 3rd party has been ignoring the Sandbox narrative genre?
Frankly I think what he’s saying is an insult to Sony’s first party studios. It implies they aren’t trying their hardest to create the best they can to give 3rd party a chance. Which is also an insult to 3rd party games as well.
I’m guessing it’s a thinly veiled jab at Nintendo for having first party games that dominate the sales on their systems, but to me all games are competition to each other- people will put their finite money in what they want the most. That doesn’t mean Nintendo should lower game production to force people to buy a 3rd party game in a different genre instead. If you’re spending your last £50 on Spider Man, you won’t be buying Red Dead, or COD, or 4 indie games for the same money. It’s the duty of the game publisher to have a good idea, execute it to the best of your ability so the customer gets a good game for their buck, and expect your competition to do the same.
Re: Drake's New Record Has a Final Fantasy Jam on It
would much prefer the sort of Final Fantasy Jam that you could spread on toast.
Re: Michel Ancel Aiming For a Beyond Good & Evil 2 Beta 'End of Next Year'
I can't believe this is coming to current gen consoles personally.
Re: Report: AMD's Next-Gen Graphics Tech Is Being Built Specifically for PS5
Who cares about how fast the graphics chip runs. Will the PS5 stop doing the beepy beep beep thing that ejects the cd?
Re: Sony Issues Statement Regarding Fortnite Cross-Platform Play on PS4
I can remember a time when XBox was the dominant brand in gaming but then with few unpopular policies and some bad PR they lost it all and Sony stepped in. The same could be said with Nintendo with the N64.
Playstation should be wary of ignoring it's customers because there are no guarantees they'll continue their dominance with the PS5 if they fall into complacency and bullishness.