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@LogicStrikesAgain You made a great point there. The thing that a lot of hardcore gamers don't understand is that they do not represent the majority.

Most gamers these days play almost nothing but free-to-play live service games, like Fortnite, CoD Warzone, etc. They don't care about stuff like Expedition 33 or pretty much 99% of singleplayer games. That's why Sony is trying so hard to gain a foothold in this market.

@Old-Red Jason Schreier reported on the cancellation of Bluepoint's next project a few months ago. It was a live service God of War game.

@get2sammyb Yep. The live service stuff, the multimedia focus, the multiplatform push, etc. won't go away unless Hiroki Totoki and the other Sony execs are replaced.

@SeaDaVie Not really at all what BAMmozzy's comment is about lol. He's actually just talking about how, if the pre-orders for CoD are behind Battlefield 6, it makes sense, given that Activision has shared very little information regarding Black Ops 7's multiplayer modes. All they've shown so far is the campaign, which is the part of the game that people spend the least amount of time on.

No offense to the devs or the artist behind the game - I think it looks pretty good - but it could use a better cover art IMO. Maybe it's just me, but for some reason, every time I see the cover art for this game, I always think it's for an AI-generated game.

It's not that the art itself looks bad, but there's something about the color palette and logo that reminds me of the AI shovelware that's so rampant on storefronts these days.

If there's one thing I appreciate about Sony, it's that they actively try to seek out indie games from regions all over the world, not just Japan, Europe, the U.S., etc.

Microsoft and Nintendo, in comparison, don't do remotely as much to expand to other markets. Nintendo's games all sell like hotcakes, sure, but they don't even localize or properly sell them outside of the major European, East Asian, and North American markets. Which is wild, considering Pokemon and Mario are two of the biggest media properties in existence.

Microsoft at least does a better job than Nintendo when it comes to making their games available for sale in most markets, but their advertising efforts and attempts to court developers from non-English-speaking countries are... not that great, to say the least.

Aside from that incident on Steam where Sony temporarily removed their games from sale in 100+ countries, they generally seem to take non-major markets more seriously compared to their competitors.

@PuppetMaster They don't really have any internal devs anymore, that's kind of the problem. Pretty much all of their recent releases have been outsourced to other companies.

Neobards is making Silent Hill f, Virtuous is making MGS Delta, Digital Eclipse made the TMNT: Cowabunga Collection, Bloober Team made the Silent Hill 2 remake, etc. Even the MGS Master Collection was developed primarily by Rocket Studio and M2.

So, considering Konami doesn't have the manpower to develop a AAA game all by their own at the moment, I think it's okay to give them at least some credit for investing in new games, like Silent Hill f.

Do I want more stuff outside of remasters and remakes? Of course. But until Konami fully rebuilds their internal development teams, I'm more than happy to get their old games on modern platforms, especially since most of them are/were stuck on legacy hardware.

If this game was on UE5, it would also be running terribly on PS5 Pro, like MGS Delta.

@PuppetMaster Aren't they making Silent Hill f and Silent Hill Townfall? Or did people forget about that already?

And, say what you will about Konami themselves, but at least they are publishing a bunch of new IPs from indie teams, like Darwin's Paradox, Deliver At All Costs, Cygni: All Guns Blazing, etc.

@SeaDaVie Nah, I doubt it. Falcom tends to make dumb decisions like this.

@nessisonett When it comes to their business practices, Falcom and NIS are really scummy companies

I know this is a PlayStation website, so this may not be the right place to say this, but man, it sucks that Falcom refuses to put their games on Xbox to this day. Trails in the Sky remake would have been the perfect game to introduce Xbox players to the franchise with, but alas, it's still skipping the platform.

At this point, it honestly feels like there's a higher chance of Xbox getting Horizon: Zero Dawn or Days Gone than there is of it ever getting a Trails game.

This price increase isn't as bad as the Xbox price hikes earlier this year, but it's still bad. On the one hand, the PS5 is still $50 cheaper than the Xbox Series X/S, but on the other hand, the $380 Series S is a somewhat more attractive deal now compared to the $500 PS5 Digital Edition.

While it sucks that Bandai Namco will make us pay $80 to play both Tales of Xillia 1+2 (assuming 2 actually gets remastered), I'm just glad that this game is finally being freed from its PS3 prison.

The more PS3 exclusives on modern platforms, the better.

@Lysterao The Dead or Alive game that a Spartan appeared in (DoA4) was an Xbox exclusive, so it never came to PlayStation.

I mean, it makes sense. They already made the decision to port Helldivers 2 to Xbox, it would be weird if they actively tried to hide this fact on their website. That would be like intentionally not trying to sell your own product

I just noticed Push Square used a very similar subheading for both their Mafia 3 and Mafia: The Old Country reviews.

Mafia 3: "An offer you might want to refuse"

Mafia: The Old Country: "An offer you maybe can refuse"

@wildcat_kickz Yeah, maybe Geoff hyped it up a bit too much, but at the same time, if you're a big Okami fan, that was indeed a massive announcement.

Like, I know Mirror's Edge is a niche series, but if they announced Mirror's Edge 3, for example, I would jump out of my seat from excitement lol.

I'm surprised no one mentioned the 2.5D God of War Metroidvania. I'm thinking that will be announced at Gamescom next week, since it's supposedly going to come out this year. It won't need a long marketing cycle.

Most companies, aside from the ones that Microsoft owns, do not brainstorm a project, thinking "okay, this is gonna be a Game Pass game." They tend to decide on Game Pass after the fact.

Even when it comes to Microsoft's own games, the majority of people now playing them are on PlayStation/Nintendo - so it would make no sense to design them specifically with Game Pass in mind.

Make no mistake, Microsoft wants to make most of their money from sales/microtransactions, and they're not gonna bring Game Pass to PS5 or Switch 2 anytime soon.

Zelda coming to PS5 confirmed?????

@PuppetMaster I like historical fantasy as much as the next guy, but it is a bit weird that all these games have the same Wu names and all (barring the Wu-Tang game ofc) look the same.

They are literally gonna release a Persona soulslike and dating sim before Persona 6

@Bionic-Spencer Nah, I don't think so (at least I hope not...!). Ninja Theory is useful as a developer to Microsoft because A. they know how to use Unreal Engine, and B. they make a surprisingly high amount of money by renting out their mo-cap studio to other companies. If I remember correctly, according to their annual financial statements, that's how they were able to make a profit in the years between Hellblade 1 and 2's release.

@Ricksta @DrVenture69 I assume you guys are referring to Thank Goodness You're Here, right?

@SuperSilverback Hopefully Keanu Reeves lol

Yeah... this game most likely isn't gonna be on PS5. Definitely a PS6 title

@lazarus11 In Ace Attorney, all you do is just read and look at some images, but it's still a game

@Jammer Limited Run Games is releasing a physical copy of Hellblade 2 for PS5 and Xbox

@naruball Yeah, some people who loved the first game didn't like the sequel as much, and their complaints are perfectly valid. I just don't understand the whole "boring walking sim" and "Hellblade 2 is not a game" stuff.

A lot of the people here who say that this game "fails at being a video game" have probably never even played it themselves.

Thing is, I don't get the idea that a game is defined solely by its "gameplay." There are so many games out there, like visual novels, adventure games, point and clicks, etc., that have very little traditional gameplay, yet are beloved by many people. Just because you can't run around and mindlessly kill enemies doesn't mean it's not a video game.

While I can understand the criticisms about Hellblade 2's combat compared to Hellblade 1, if this game had gameplay like God of War or Heavenly Sword, then it wouldn't at all fit with the message and themes it's trying to convey. This game is not a hack-and-slash, and it's not trying to be. If you were expecting Hellblade 2 to be anything more than a "walking sim," like the first game, then that's on you.

That said, I do think Microsoft marketed this game pretty poorly and maybe gave people the wrong idea.

@Gamer83 Most PlayStation gamers don't care about exclusives that much. The majority of ppl who bought a PS5 will buy a PS6 so long as it isn't ridiculously expensive and has some timed exclusives.

Putting games on PC hasn't hurt PlayStation's console sales at all, so putting some old games on Xbox and Nintendo likely won't harm it much, either.

The only thing I could see harming the PS6 is if all future Sony games were released on Xbox and Switch 2 day-one. Then, there'd be no reason to buy a PlayStation. But that's not gonna happen.

@Gamer83 Not even close to being dead imo

@DennisReynolds They were supposedly working on a PC port for Dreams, but they cancelled it because Sony probably thought it wasn't worth it. Either that or maybe the game's code was too unwieldy to port to other platforms.

@AdamNovice It definitely isn't obvious. Something tells me you would have told me two months ago that it's "obvious" that Sony would never port Helldivers 2 or any live service game to Xbox, and yet the goalpost has moved. Just like it moved when Sony ported their games to PC and released Lego Horizon on Nintendo Switch.

The only thing that's "obvious" to anyone who has followed the gaming industry for more than two years is that nothing, I mean NOTHING, is off the table. Anything can happen, no matter how much you don't want it to.

If anything, I think it's very naive to think Sony will stop at just live service games and smaller singleplayer titles. In fact, I'd be willing to bet money that Sony will port a major singleplayer title to Xbox and/or Nintendo consoles at some point in the future.

@AdamNovice Why is it so weird to port beg when Sony has done this to themselves? Don't blame Xbox fans for port begging, blame Sony for bringing Helldivers 2 to Xbox, posting a job listing for multiplatform development, and refusing to clarify the situation.

@TrollOfWar Death Stranding is actually in like the Top 5 best selling games on Xbox right now due to being on sale for $15

@Dodoo Most of the Sony China Hero Project games are timed exclusives, they tend to come to Xbox and/or Nintendo consoles a year after their PS5 debuts.

@graymamba The Xbox equivalent to PS Plus Essential would be Game Pass Core, which is just okay.

Hopefully this incentivizes Microsoft to revive the SWAT franchise since they technically own it now

@gaston I mean, that's not too far from what Sony thinks, so...

@Old-Red Aside from Tango, what talented studios did Microsoft close? Arcane Austin was a husk of its former self by the time Redfall released, Roundhouse Studios and The Initiative didn't release anything, and Alpha Dog Games was a mobile game dev.

Tango Gameworks is the only studio that Microsoft closed for no good reason, but even they are still alive and well with Krafton, so no one is missing out on their games.

Soo... Is Sony gonna allow Light of Motiram to release on PS5, or are they gonna block the release?

@dskatter Honestly agreed. I never thought this game looked any good, the art direction is just outright terrible and the graphics really make it look like a low-budget PS2 game. Sure, there are plenty of amazing games out there with terrible graphics, but Tales of the Shire's visuals looked exceptionally bad.

@Fiendish-Beaver I think, due to the divisive nature of Gears 4+5, The Coalition wanted to return to where it all started and give fans a taste of that gritty OG Gears feeling again.

Also worth noting Rod Ferguson, who helmed Gears 4+5, left the studio after the launch of 5 and is not involved with E-Day.

@Balaam_ The foolish people are the ones that think Sony is gonna stop at just live service games and niche singleplayer titles.

Isn't that what Microsoft did last time, with the "just four games" stuff? Grounded, Pentiment, Sea of Thieves, and Hi-Fi Rush were just the kind of games that Sony is porting to Xbox and Nintendo now.

Soon, Sony will bring some of their major singleplayer games to Xbox and/or Nintendo consoles. It's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when.

@Fiendish-Beaver Thing is, I think E-Day entered development years before Microsoft had even considered porting Gears of War to PS5. Presumably it was greenlit sometime around 2020-2021, so it being a prequel is more coincidentally beneficial for Microsoft's multiplatform initiative rather than it being a concerted effort from Microsoft to introduce Gears to PlayStation players.

Basically, even if Microsoft never went multiplatform, I'm pretty sure The Coalition would have still made Gears E-Day first instead of Gears 6.

@MrPeanutbutterz Fair enough, I guess lol. My bad.

@Titntin Dude Sony wouldn't open two job positions specifically for Xbox and PC, if this was just a few games:

Senior Manager, Platform Sales – Xbox & PC

Manager, Platform Planning & Performance – PC & Xbox

Chances are singleplayer games will come to Xbox, as well.

@Lup There's only so many times you can resell The Last of Us to the same PlayStation audience, time to bring it to other platforms lol