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Persona 3 and 4 have been around for over a decade each. If you don't know the story by now, you can't blame story leaks. Even my friends who never had a PlayStation console growing up, watched playthroughs from beginning to end.

I'll buy it after launch, how far after is based on the review

@solocapers why does this matter, when talking about gaming?

I suppose this is why Sony paid so much to Bungie. Not just the studio but for the staff to stay with the company for a set amount of years. Playground is potentially losing a few solid members after becoming a premium AAA studio for Microsoft.

@Flaming_Kaiser Ninja theory is now with Microsoft, it's the same issue with The Order 1886, I'd love a sequel, but Ready at Dawn is owned by Meta.

Maybe Sony will allow an indie team to try to recreate/build on some of their legacy titles. Sony can maintain their publishing rights, but give the community a chance to rebuild these dead franchises...

On topic, this seems like a great studio for Sony to invest money in, and help the project, like they do with Deviation.

@NEStalgia Them are fighting words. I generally hate shooters, I'm weirdly good at them, I usually have a 2:1 k/d ratio, but I never particularly enjoyed them until I played Killzone, especially 2, which is the greatest of the franchise Imho. You just see it as a brown shooter with low poli gameplay. But the game itself was incredible. Most shooters are incredibly generic with their tropes: aliens, terrorism, defending our homeland. On a glance you'd think the same of Killzone too. Try watching this video, the YouTuber does a great job going back and reviewing the game:
https://youtu.be/JVHMDxW--ik

@Flaming_Kaiser don't get my hopes up

@TaMpA_bLaCk

As of Sony's last purchase is 19.
6 of those being a support studio, and one being a mobile division studio. This doesn't include Bungie as they are a seperate entity to that of PlayStation first party studios.

Xbox currently has 23. With the addition of ABK this will be pushed up to 30+.

https://www.androidcentral.com/everything-sony-worldwide-studios-working#:~:text=PlayStation%20Studios%3A%20How%20many%20are,not%20develop%20their%20own%20games.

@TaMpA_bLaCk Sony don't have 23 studios, and Xdev is a support studio, not a IP producing studio.

Absolutely incredible, I'm very impressed.

@sonicmeerkat keep dreaming, not until we get knack 3

I hope they make it open platform, and not just locked into PS5. This is revolutionary, and I feel gamers all over could benefit from a controller like this!

Past experience gives me little faith in Bloober, but this is the time to prove me wrong. I'll still wait for early reviews before buying it.

I'll watch it.

I probably won't like it, but you gotta support these types of movies, to get Sony to open up about bigger projects down the road.

Hopefully at least one of these projects are a conventional shooter (action/adventure) with a multiplayer mode. They don't need all their projects to be Live action.

I'm sure one of their projects is likely Destiny 3, seeing as the recent release was the last dlc.

Not surprising, even as an aging system, it's relatively cheap and has a good variety of games. Though I wish Nintendo would sell their games at a discount more often. I appreciate the PS store for that. This generation is the first where I'm mostly a digital gamer..

If their batteries can give me good range in Canadian winters, I'll consider it

I don't know which is worse. If the game will be F2P with a seasonal game pass, or if it's a $70 game with microtransactions

I wish Sony had picked up Supermassive when they had the chance. Having an in-house Horror studio would have been fantastic.

@PhantomMenace84 I'd kill for a new Killzone or SOCOM ...

.... Figuratively speaking, ofc

Very excited. Unfortunately my budget is tight so I'll need to wait to get it. T_T

@NEStalgia I'm biased for Sony to acquire them (obviously) but it's because I'm a huge fan of Dark Cloud and Rogue Galaxy. I always wanted a sequel before they moved towards Ni No Kuni...chances are they won't go back to them which is a shame.

I can dream. I hope they as a company get their butts out of their own face before they crash the ship.

I will circle back to it after I finish platinuming Tactics ogre, just need to finish POTD lvl100...

@NEStalgia this is the perfect time for one of the big three to acquire them. They have a fantastic archive and have made poor decisions financially in the past few years. Same with platinum games, though I was surprised Microsoft didn't try to buy platinum awhile back.

@NEStalgia I believe the deal was 6 months of initial exclusivity with the chance to extend, on Sonys end. It was picked up by Sony, but was not confirmed for how long it was extended. I'd assume it's now indefinitely.

This is probably the best I've done all year.

Idk why people even respond on twitter. I just read news reports and announcements on twitter and that's it

I have last year's model, I really like it but I can't recommend it to people, for the price, I can only say I enjoy mine, and to do your own research as well.

I'll grab a disc copy to complete my FF collection

@Titntin FTC and other regulators have back door access to all records, public and private for all parties involved in the ABK acquisition.

This includes Sony. Sony doesn't have to hide anything from the public. Odds are they will wait till they are nearly ready to release projects to announce them. Same with the console. It makes no sense for Sony to announce it now, people would stop buying their current versions. They'll announce it a few weeks before they release the new console.

@nessisonett that got dark fast.

@PegasusActual93 lots of people have access to that information, it's why NDAs exist. There was that recent story of that YouTuber who was caught with a fake Twitter account revealing such secrets. Essentially ruining his career as a YouTuber. Colin Moriarty is another user with access, he is smart enough to hint at things rather than flat out admit anything, thus circumventing the NDAs.

Is it on PS premium?

@racinggamefanatic I would love for Killzone Mercenary to get Ported to PS5 with a facelift and online functionality. It was such a brilliant idea. Helghast and ISA are both humans, why can't we have mercenaries fighting for the highest bidder. Makes sense to me.

$20 is affordable enough for me to platinum the games. I 100% them when they didn't have trophies, I can do it again with trophies.

Looks incredible, I was never a big Harry Potter fan but I will definitely pick this up

Looks like a cross between fire emblem and dragon age. I'll add this to my wishlist

I didn't realize I played so much, 907 hrs, it is more than 10% more than last year. Guess I'm getting better with age haha

I'll wait till it's free on PS Essential

I see Amazon is finally entering the console gaming market as well...

@Hindenburg I can see that you love their work.

@pip_muzz can you provide a link?

@BeerIsAwesome I think with Jimmy being so obsessed with live service games, Sony is more willing to release to other platforms. They just want to own publishing rights, to ensure they maximize profitability.

@BeerIsAwesome Sony has yet to purchase a large IP/studio and keep it from their competitors. We can discuss their intentions on that matter after.
Bungie being their largest acquisition, remains a third party publisher.

@MaccaMUFC just because they don't get a 69 billion dollar deal from going in, doesn't mean they will still have that money to blow. After paying Activision 3B, I don't think their share holders will be too happy to put any money towards the Gaming industry in the near future. Shareholders care about profit, end of the day.

@KaijuKaiser I'm not surprised you got banned. They didn't like Sunset Overdrive, but God forbid Sony acquired them.

@SacredPYRO COD + Choice exclusives will still draw a substantial amount of people.
Versus
No choice

@TheMarinePS I don't play COD Either, but it brought in 1 B in opening weekend. And if I go to any group of people who play COD Primarily, they will go where COD exists. Simple. If it's third party it won't affect where people choose to game. If it's exclusive, it will.

@Cutmastavictory Subscription corners the market and kills creative competition. I rather pay for the games I will play then subscribe to this. I'll be getting all future Bethesda games on PC.

Even the US Antitrust sees the problem with this, no way Europe votes for Microsoft now.