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this project would simply not exist if herman hulst wasn't in charge. that is all i am going to say about that. nobody was expecting much so it's not even worth talking about this (likely to be a flop) game any more than that.

@Gr8VngnzN4esAngr you forgot to mention ND's cancelled last of us online (factions). i bet the resourses they lost on that is twice as much as the horizon mmo due to the fidelity ND was striving for. there was also the cancelled live service games for god of war, twisted metal and spiderman. we're talking about $1-2b+ flushed away

so long as the hardware is listed at a price that is 50% higher than its actual value and there are no true ps5 exclusive games worth playing, i'll stick to the ps4, thanks. it's a bit sad to see sony begging people to upgrade when they have failed to give any incetive to do so 5 years after launch. the rare game that isn't on ps4 can be played on a moderately spec'd pc so i'm good, sony!

that's fair. although the entire game will be up on twitch and youtube within days anyways so does it really make a difference? unless, of course, rockstar goes nintendo on content creators and threatens copyright strikes and channel suspensions for showing story content... which is possible i suppose. even atlus did this with persona 5.

also, rockstar couldn't care less about the 0.001% threatening not to buy the game until the physical disc comes out haha. the other 99.999% of fans waiting the past 15 years for this game will not be bothered by this in the slightest. the game will generate billions of dollars in a matter of days after it releases no matter the format it releases in.

@jFug monster hunter wilds and dragon's dogma 2 are considered to be fairly big disappointments by the community at large. to say that they are firing on all cyclinders considering those blunders is a bit of a stretch. also, an overrelience on remakes and sequels is quite boring, regardless of quality.

overall, B+ or A-

the image on the left looks a bit too clean doesn't it? not a single jaggie or aliased pixel... maybe thats how the game looks on max settings on pc but in either case, it looks great for a barebones remaster of a 20 year old game! i think i'll stick to the remaster collection that i already own.

@UltimateOtaku91 vita sold well over 10m units so chances are no.

in other words, a big production remake of the sands of time was simply out of scope and budget for this new, lean, poorer ubisoft of today... got it. ubisoft will now be focusing on smaller budget releases for the prince of persia games... perhaps a barebones remaster of the ps2 trilogy or a sequel to lost crown. sometimes you need to read between the lines. to be fair, though, the sands of time remake was never going to make its money back after all the delays and mismanagement... it was simply too niche for the remake treatment so ubisoft may have made the right decision for once in cancelling the project. should have done it years ago though

i don't know how anyone can play this game now without finding it incredibly over rated. the praise has been sensationalized at this point. let good games be good. do they need to be perceived as the greatest of all time? give it a rest.

as somone who has yet to play e33, i doubt it has anything on xenogears

this is one of those times where it's a blessing to not receive a piece of hot trash from ubisoft. i can say that the world is better off that this remake doesn't exist. i never understood the business side of it seeing as there are very few people who would play it in the first place. it is a true platforming, puzzle game with very light combat sequences thrown in. it was simply too niche to warrant a remake. a barebones remaster will suffice for most people if ubisoft can handle it that is.

as for the rayman games currently in development... i hope those turn out well. the last 2 games are all-time classics and among the best platforming games of all time.

@DennisReynolds according to what source? sony PR? by what metric exactly? as far as i know, sales were behind ps4 pro its first month on sale. we know that ps4 pro only made up 12% of total ps4 sales, so the ps5 pro making up less than 10% of ps5 sales is a very safe bet, especially because of its absurd price point... how does that translate to selling "pretty well" exactly?

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/ps5-pro-sales-have-fallen-behind-ps4-pro-in-the-us/

ultimately, it has been an overpeiced, disappointing product, panned by owners and news outlets alike. speaking outside of sales, it has not moved the needle in a positive direction, hence, sony is still trying to "fix" it more than a year after release

this is probably the last time sony makes a "pro" model. it's been a training ground for ps6 with ps5 pro owners being the guinea pigs. sales are likely even worse than predicted

sony wants to keep charging people $50 for a piece of plastic and refuses to release new hardware SKUs with different colours for some reason... nintendo is one of the most anti-consumer companies out there but at least they release hardware with different colour choices. bloody hell.

@twitchtvpat i hear that argument about ps1 and ps2 games and yet many of us adore that era of gaming, even in 2026. gaming is not just about graphics and performance... modern gaming is missing the creative output that we were so spoiled with back then. but specifically about the framrates of ps3 games, emulation would clean that up in most cases and give you a locked 30/60fps.

@themightyant the tech really doesn't matter anymore. i think the arms race is over. it's diminishing returns with graphics as incremental improvements don't really move the needle for most people. gamers just want good games and an emphasis on graphics over gameplay doesn't have the same advantage that it once had in the AAA space when there is no real competition for sony anymore. what's important is getting the hardware out at a time and price that makes sense. even if they release the hardware at a reasonable price before 2028, sales would slump since it seems people are not ready for a new console, nor do they want to spend more money when they don't need to.

i think hulst is immune to scrutiny since he controls an IP (from a studio that he co-founded) that is in active development with not 1, not 2, but 3 games (not deservingly so). he can also blame the next pitiful 5 years of 1st party output on jim ryan and get away with it. as much as i also believe he should be removed, he won't be until the ps6 cycle at the earliest.

the rest of the predictions above are pretty safe bets, while others are quite inconsequential so not really worth debating.

well, they are going to have to push it back by 3+ years then because this AI rampup isn't going away anytime soon. there is a blackhole now sucking up everything in its path. to be honest though, the graphics arms race was eventually going to crash anyways so we are seeing the expected result play out, just differently than anyone expected. might as well keep optimizing the perfectly capable ps5 hardware until 2030 since we have barely seen its capabilities yet. anyone who cannot stand ps5 graphics can just leave and buy themselves a $5000 pc if it bothers them too much

people just want good games. they don't need an excuse to shell out more money on yet another box under the tv in the name of cold, lifeless capitalism and consumerism. give people more value for their ps5 purchase instead.

@MrStark

"Having said that, putting older games on other platforms is perfectly fine because they would bring in additional revenue/profits."

not necessarily. perhaps in the short term. you have to consider the people who would have purchased sony's hardware had the games not been ported to pc. now sony will lose those players in its ecosystem which is a potential loss in the thousands of dollars per player (software sales) over the console generation. porting to pc also costs sony more resources. nothing comes for free. it's not as clear cut as: porting to pc = more revenue/profit since indirect consequences need to be looked at as well.

that is precisely what is wrong with the ps5. the playstation brand is on the decline due to a product that adds little to no "value" to the player outside of the typical console gaming conveniences. but as far as software is concerned, there is nothing notable about the ps5. the moment your software can be found elsewhere, you no longer have that special, intangible, novelty factor that used to make playstation consoles "must-haves". with all that said, sony 1st party dropped the ball this gen anyways so even if its limited number of games remained exclusive, it wouldn't have moved the needle for me to purchase a ps5. get it together with the ps6 sony. it's nice having the option to play sony's games on pc, but if we are talking strictly about what non-exclusivty does to a console and brand, the answer is: it kills it.

@Drnsnsr as far as i know, the fan translation is only 75% complete. i never booted it up myself, but it sounds like its a lot more than the fmv's that never got completed?

i have heard nothing but negative or mixed reactions about the first two front mission remakes. the third one will likely follow suit as this is the same developer. the front mission series is greatly underrated and its unfortunate s-e didn't give these remakes the budget they deserved. also, front mission 2 remake is the only way to play the game in english since not even a fan translation exists of the original ps1 release. i would stick to front mission 1st DS and the original ps1 release of front misison 3 over the remakes but each to their own.

as someone who has been very critical and concerned with the gaming industry over the past 5 years, i actually think this is very good news. we need the big publishers to take a financial hit and acknowledge that they are not only pricing people out of the hobby, but they are sacrificing long term stabilility for a short term gain. this business practice is backwards and not sustainable.

a few quarters like this and i am confident that we will see an MSRP drop from sony and nintendo. the hardware is simply not worth its cost to the average person. we are in a cost of living crisis afterall. i have been saying it forever but even if sony subsidizes the hardware by an additional $150-200 from where it is now, they will more than make that back in software sales within a year or two. obtaining new players into their ecosystem is far more valuable than losing $200 per console sold! that is how the hardware model used to work but sony and nintendo clearly hit their heads too hard and need to re-learn the business i suppose 🤷

sorry, but a sale that drives the console price back to where it was 5 years is laughable. glad people saw through that nonense.

if you are going to charge a premium price for this service, you have to bring the feature sets and entice people. as it stands, people are better off saving their money and either modding an og ps2 to play the absurd number of classics on the platform or emulating to their hearts content... with emulation, you can even get achievements these days. sony's ps2 offering is a complete joke on so many levels. price, library, lack of features... it's all bad.

don't these people realize by now that slipping the term "AI" in any capacity as it relates to game development or art of any kind is going to result in online backlash? you would have to be pretty dense not to know this. larian has a perception problem on its hands now, warranted or not. do not use the words "AI" publically and you will be fine. i feel like jason schreier is playing dumb here and knew of the potential risks in getting into this subject... bad pr is good pr? perhaps, but it's not like larian needs help selling its next game.

@somnambulance agreed. capcom recently stated that they intend to revitalize the mega man franchise with new releases, remasters and remakes so there's a decent chance they are considering doing remakes of the legends games. perhaps after they finish up with all the sprite-based stuff (they should be nearly there now). outside of bringing back the breath of fire series, i doubt there is anything else more often requested by the fans.

@Luigia that would probably be the ps2. console released in october 2000 and received it's last game on november 2013 (Pro Evolution Soccer 2014). the ps4 is getting very close to this 13 years of support marker though and will definitely be surpassing it. technically, the ps3 holds the record though as far as i know. the console released in november of 2006 and got its final game in 2020 (Shakedown: Hawaii), but that is an outlier case. real support had stopped 2 years prior to that

can only imagine how long the ps5 will be relevent for if this is any indication. it's all about the software sales at the end of the day. why would a publisher care which platform their game is being purchased on? i'd argue that the ps4 could handle 90% of indi games being released today... why couldn't the ps4 continue to get ports for another 10 years? the answer is, there is nothing stopping that from happening other than sony itself.

@HaveTheSauce true, but there is one exception. genki's Tokyo Xtreme Racer which came out a few months back.

the abysmal sales of ff xvi will haunt s-e for another 10 years it looks like. ff 7 rebirth didn't fare much better. outside of rushing out to remake ff 8/9/parasite eve/xenogears/chrono trigger etc, i don't think there is much hope for this company to turn things around. relying on remakes will buy them some time, but once that well has dried up, s-e needs to solve the fundamental question/problem: what is final fantasy and how can they make the franchise relevent (again) to fans of old and new at the same time?

this game is never coming out... at least, not as a AAA game that people want it to be. maybe this reveal is for more bare bones remasters of older games. that's the talent level over at amazon and embracer.

if dead space as a series didn't sell that well, including the remake, i don't see many publishers wanting to purchase this IP. the remake was apparently quite well done and still greatly underperformed afterall. a publisher with the will and resources could create its own sci-fi horror franchise with disememberment mechanics... it means nothing if you don't have a passionate and competent development studio behind it... with a vision. dead space as an IP doesn't hold much weight in other words seeing as the original developers were dismantled ages ago.

i can't see this "game" ever getting released. microsoft doesn't care about prestige projects in the way sony used to... and you know there will not be any marketing behind it. this is destined to fail so why even back it up if you are microsoft? it's a tough sell even on a sony platform, but on xbox it's DOA. if i was kojima, i would cancel it and put all hands on physint.

@BrownOwl agreed. it's as if the franchise is so mainstream, that it doesn't have real fans or a dedicated following that would be willing to go to bat for it. the movies are incredibly forgettable, cliche and the very definition of syle over substance. i would take it a step further and call the character designs trite and ugly. the movies really do look like video game cut scenes at times. at any rate, the avatar movies aren't in the same league as alien 1/2, terminator 1/2, indiana jones 1/3 or jurassic park as far as the great blockbuster films of our time... in anything but revenue generated anyways. hard to believe cameron has dedicated the past 20 years on this franchise. such a pity.

@PuppetMaster oof, you guys missed the point entirely. not sure how many times i can explain it

sony's output of its own AAA games has been disappointing and that is a result of mismanagement. sony should have released at least 3-5 additional games by this point in the ps5 cycle. do a search on youtube or read the comments in various articles here and you will see that many people share that feeling... that this gen has been fairly diappointing.

now, to make up for sony's poor showing, there has clearly been an emphasis on marketing deals, timed exclusivity and partnerships with chinese and korean publishers of AAA games. as such, games from china in particular are going to be flooding the market now (i never said that is a bad thing per say). the quality of many of these games is questionable, though, and sony really doesn't know what it's getting leading up to release. all sony cares about is getting more AAA games on its platform (at the expense of quality control in some cases) to fill the gaps of its own 1st party releases. so yes, sony is relying on more AAA games from asia to help fill out its release schedule.

that's it. is that too difficult for you to comprehend? 🤷‍♂️😂

@BacklogBrad the amount of censorship would be awful.

@Boxmonkey no doubt prices will increase. that said, even with a price increase, it will likely work out to be cheaper to have hbo max and netflix content under the same sub, rather than sub to both, netflix and hbo max, seperately. but for those who don't want hbo max content with their netflix account, and are forced to pay a price increase, it sucks!

dont much care for the mortal kombat games anymore... the last 3 games are carbon copies of themselves, except progressively worse in quality. netherrealm is a legendary developer for what it has done over the past 30 years on the whole, but it is a one trick pony. as for harry potter IP and games? decent movies, but do i need more HP in my life? nope.

rocksteady is the only developer from wb games that carries some weight, but their legacy is tainted by suicide squad now. i honestly don't know what the current status of that studio is considering all the management and talent that has since left. it's worth giving them another shot to see how their new batman title turns out. even to this day, the arkham series is probably the best series of games ever made in a comic book universe.

now, if we get into the movie/tv stuff... it is very likely that netflix will only release the biggest blockbusters and prestige films theatrically now... and for limited runs. so from that standpoint, this acquisition is bad news for those who enjoy the movie theatre experience. sub pricing on netflix is bound to increase by a substantial amount as well... unless netflix decides to focus on more tier options instead.

inbcredible achievement! i have not played any banjo games, but i would give this a go. hopefully microsoft won't try to remove it

@LogicStrikesAgain most games i listed are in fact AAA games with high production values. many of them are ps5 and pc only. sony is most certainly forming partnerships with many publishers. i suppose nothing will convince you that sony's output has been lackluster the past 5 years and i cannot see how you would call this cycle successful from a AAA software standpoint. agree to disagree. the number of asian games hitting the ps5 is no coincidence under the circumstances. had things been different, many of these games would have remained on pc only, but sony is going the extra mile to ensure they hit the ps5 to make up for its void of releases and project mismanagement.

@AhmadSumadi naw, just pointing out sony's over reliance on unproven AAA games from asian territories because it has fumbled and mismanaged its own projects the past 5 years. see my post above. sony should have had an additional 3-5 noteworthy 1st party releases by this point but they don't exist due to being cancelled or because they wasted time and resources on service games (that were also cancelled or failed) that otherwise would have gone into a traditional release.

@LogicStrikesAgain first off, you listed 5 games that are cross gen with ps4... so you can remove those if we are discussing sony's ps5 output.

i don't blame you for not knowing the extent of this over reliance on asian games because there are a ton and it's hard to keep track of them all. also, i was not referring to sony published games specifically... yes, they published some asian games, but the majority i am listing below are not sony published. that doesn't mean there are not partnerships in place to score exclusivity or timed exclusivity. they are relying on these games to fill the void of their own 1st party releases. at this point, they outnumber sony's own output of AAA releases.

China:
-Genshin Impact
-Honkai: Star Rail
-Black Myth: Wukong
-Black Myth: Zhong Kui
-Phantom Blade Zero
-Wuchang: Fallen Feathers
-Lost Soul Aside
-Where Winds Meet
-Project: The Perceiver
-Swords of Legends
-Project Jinyiwei
-The Legend of Jin Yong's Heroes
-Tides of Annihilation
-Daba Land of Water Scar
-Ballad of Antara
-Blood Message
-The Grass of Genesis
-Lingxu: Return
-The Lost Heaven
-Light of Motiram
-Loulan the cursed sand
-Longevity Yin and Yang

Korea:
-Project TAL
-Woochi the Wayfarer
-Stellar Blade and its sequel

many, many more games in addition to those. other games that i didn't list are only announced for PC at the present time, but will likely make their way to PS5 as well! also, i haven't even listed the india hero project games or most of the china hero project games released and currently in devleopment. i mean, are we really going to praise sony for its 1st party output when this cycle has clearly been its worst showing in 30 years?

@NoNameLad yup. i just built a PC earlier this year and i'm very thankful i did. It would likely have costed me 25% more had i purchased the parts with current market prices. take good care of your PC and you should be able to get 10 years out of it

@NoNameLad there is no law against that because the US government is all in on AI. the current administration will gladly manipulate the stock markets to make money (as we have seen with their tariff strategy). in fact, i will goes as far to say that donald trump became president precisely to make money, not to run the country. in the past year, he has become $3b richer than he was prior. unless there is a government actively against AI investment (i have not heard of any), they will gladly sacrifice their land, energy and water supply to build AI data centers and screw over the average citizen in the process by way of job losses, higher utility bills and absurd inflation on tech components due to massive supply shortages. once the bubble bursts, our investments will crash (unless you invest in options outside of the stock market). we are on our own to fight against this

@BrownOwl we can agree about your latter point — it will change the world and our lives in many ways (i see it being far more negative than positive).

but on the subject of the bubble, the market could very well crash and we will still have a future of AI influence and dependence. both things can be true at the same time. i just don't see how they can go all in to this extent without any fallout in the process if so many AI companies are losing vast amounts of money on a daily basis. the moment the financials take a sharp turn downward, investments will slow and investors will sell and walk away with their millions (or billions). half of this AI nonesense is merely a get-rich scheme for investors and an excuse to keep the markets up at a time that would otherwise be a recession. it is superficial and short term in that sense. 30-50% of the entire stock market is currently tied up by AI stock investments which tells me this is a bubble and gamble of the worst kind.

so yes, AI is here to stay and will alter the world whether we like it or not... but the current rate of development and investments will eventually nosedive and take the markets down with it. once that happens, AI will continue to evolve, but at a much slower pace. just an educated guess of course

@BrownOwl you have no way of knowing that. there's little chance that the AI investments can continue at this aburd pace if there is no return in the short run. i.e. open AI is losing billions of dollars and has no way of turning a profit. if enough AI investment are ***** the bed, the market will crash...eventually.

i want nothing more than AI bubble to burst and these corps to lose billions of dollars of investments. i think its a very possible scenario, seeing that they have no clue where this road leads... they are heading for a wall or a cliff...

that said, i'm starting to look at the shortage of tech components as no accident. i think one of their end goals is to prevent us, average people and customers, from having access to build our own computers, so that we have no choice but to rely on AI and other subscription for work and game related tasks. they want to get the entire population into some sort of AI ecosystem and certainly don't want any stranglers. i think they are underestimating the potential pushback that is coming their way. people such as myself will never give into AI when an option is available. i am happy to spend more time on a task if it means i do it entirely on my own without AI assistance. it is more fulfilling and i stand by my own principles. besides, what is the point of more efficiency in daily work if all that means is your boss will just expect more productivity out of you anyways? it's a fool's errand.

sony continues to rely on chinese and korean games for its AAA output. it's a very odd strategy since most of these developers are unproven (many projects having already disappointed the masses). but it tells me that sony knows how barren its own 1st party output has and continues to be. they had no choice but to throw all these potential games at the wall and see what sticks. if sony had a good roadmap of its own, these asian games would be gravy, but as the main course, all you can do is cringe.

@OldGamer999 agreed. the fight with nintendo has already begun. sony is trying to retain as many japanese customers as possible with the ps5 so that when its handheld (deck-like device) releases, it has a head start with customers in its ecosystem. gaining ps5 users (with subsidized hardware) is not a fool's errand since their software purchases will transition to sony's new handheld which will be heavily targeted to the japanese market and compete with nintendo 1:1. there are far too many people on here claiming that selling ps5's to the japanese market is a waste of time — they simply don't see the strategy. and let's be honest, sony should have created it's native handheld 5 years ago, but better late than never.

(if true) barely a month away without a peep of marketing behind it? heh, yea, that's not how this is supposed to work. i enjoyed the original, but this is very tough sell. even a perfect remake would struggle considering how niche this genre is... they simply don't make them anymore... actually, they never did. this is a true platforming/puzzle game with some basic combat sprinkled in (weakest element of the game). this remake will bomb and ubisoft will be convinced that the franchise is dead. again. good times

had no idea this was based off a mobile game. well, that sucks. this can probably be skipped and isn't considered canon.