@nessisonett Problem is, it's sometimes hard to discern the difference between an AI-generated comment and a non-AI-generated one. Some people like saying that every lengthy comment they disagree with was made by AI. There's also people who sometimes write comments in a formal tone, and everyone falsely claims that they are AI-generated
@Dalamar I don't recall anyone saying that about NFTs lol. The difference between NFTs and AI is that we can already see just how major of an impact the latter is having on people's everyday lives. The average person never made or bought NFTs. AI, however? That's a different story.
Everywhere on the internet, regular people are making AI generated slop and posting it on social media channels. Kids are using AI to do their assignments, instead of actually learning anything. People are falling in love with AI chatbots, and talking to AI on a regular basis. Hell, the mere existence of chatbots and sites like ChatGPT has caused a considerable decline in viewership across almost all major news sites in the last few months, thanks in part to Google's dumb pro-AI algorithm changes.
I hate AI as much as the next guy, but it's kind of absurd to think that it's suddenly gonna die off and fade into irrelevance like NFTs did. If anything, it's only gonna get worse. We've seen how much generative AI has improved in the last 5-10 years. Soon, for all we know, deepfakes might dominate the internet, and it might become impossible to tell the difference between what's real and what's fake.
@Acquiescence That sadly won't happen. AI is basically the next big leap in technology, like the Internet was in the 90s. It's only going to get worse from here.
@ThatOneLevel Exactly, a lot of voice actors do this, but most don't. Some VAs don't even play video games. In Konatsu's case, it seems this is the first time she has ever played on a PS5.
@AdamNovice Sure, but this was before the reports really came through, sometime back in early December 2023. Afterwards, Jez said he started hearing rumblings about Sea of Thieves making the jump to PS5 in mid December, and after investigating, he wasn't able to pin down any leads, but he did eventually report that more Xbox exclusives were coming to PlayStation and Nintendo consoles.
Like, you can hate the guy for defending Microsoft or whatever, but let's not act as if most of his reporting on Windows Central has been wrong or something. Chances are the stuff outlined here about the next-gen Xbox is most likely true.
I doubt Halo games will ever come to PS4, so that might be something they overlooked. Sure, the next Halo multiplayer game may be a cross-gen title, but that seems unlikely, considering that Halo: CE isn't on PS4
@AdamNovice That tweet you're referring to about Jez denying Xbox games going to PS5 was literally just his opinion. All of the stuff he writes a report about on Windows Central (like the existence of Project Latitude, Xbox exclusives no longer existing, the ROG Xbox Ally, etc.) has almost always been true, cuz those are claims that he's actually verified with his sources. I'd like you to find even two Windows Central reports of his that were actually wrong.
Also, are you forgetting that Jez has regularly reported about which Xbox games are going to PS5, and when? Like, he was the first person to claim that Indiana Jones was the mystery Xbox game that was going to be announced for PS5 during Gamescom last year.
Even if this is true, it's likely that Microsoft will keep the paywall intact for the Xbox Series consoles. That way, this will be an incentive for Xbox Series owners to upgrade to the next Xbox.
Also, there are still gonna be a lot of people who will stick with their current Series X/S and will not buy the next Xbox. Microsoft will still be able to make money off of them, instead of getting rid of Xbox Game Pass Essential entirely.
@tameshiyaku Not sure how that's to blame when I'd wager that PlayStation probably has the most casual consumer base of the big three. That dudebro gamer image that Xbox fostered during the 360 gen is long gone, and isn't at all representative of the current Xbox audience. Hasn't been for over a decade.
I think there's a good chance that PlayStation attracts the most casual gamers at the moment; people who play Fortnite, CoD, Madden, and nothing else.
Since Xbox isn't that mainstream anymore, many Xbox gamers are probably more tuned in with the gaming community than casuals.
The real reason people left Xbox isn't because of the dudebro image they fostered (which people ironically miss nowadays), but rather because of the fact that Microsoft completely bungled the Xbox One launch.
@Lowdefal A slight correction, Rise of the Ronin was not released on PC a week before its PS5 release, it was a PlayStation exclusive for almost exactly one year. I'm guessing you looked at the Wikipedia page and thought that March 11 2025 (the date of the PC release) was a week before March 22 2024 (the date of the PS5 release).
@DennisReynolds Tbh I'm not sure Spider-Man would have had paid cosmetics, even if it was a fully multiplatform title. Games like Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy weren't created with the intent of selling consoles, and yet they had zero microtransactions.
Likewise, people give a lot of flack to EA, but they often forget that the Star Wars Jedi games have zero microtransactions, as well. Most of the skins you can unlock in-game for free, just like Spider-Man.
The costumes thing, I think, really depends on the intent of the publisher and the developer. It has less to do with exclusivity imo.
There's not a lot of information on it, though. Just rumors at the moment. But credible ones, since these rumors are coming from the same guy that leaked the Combat Evolved remake.
@Korgon @zhoont @AK4tywill Halo Studios is working on a standalone multplayer game that's going to have an evolving ecosystem, like Fortnite. That's why they're not including multiplayer in this remake because it would detract from their next game.
@Rich33 Yeah, that's basically what I was getting at. I don't have any concrete evidence to prove that this was the case, but I'm basing my assumption off the statement that Phil Spencer made about how Xbox needed to enter the mobile games market. I think he said something along the lines of how a company cannot survive without getting into mobile.
@Rich33 You gotta wonder, though: would Microsoft even be willing to keep Xbox around if they DIDN'T buy Activision-Blizzard? Knowing how greedy Microsoft is, it could have been a lose-lose situation for Xbox. Either buy Activision and go multiplatform while deprioritizing hardware, or don't buy anything and wind the gaming business down (or at least don't invest in it much anymore).
@Haruki_NLI I don't know how true this is, but apparently Activision had higher profit margins than Nintendo does prior to their acquisition by MS. They were averaging around 25-35% profit on a quarterly basis. So I guess Microsoft wants their entire gaming business to be more like Activision.
Keep in mind that Activision on its own makes just about as much money as Nintendo does, with far fewer games and no hardware. So it makes sense why their profit margins would be higher.
@SeaDaVie What I'm about to say is sacrilegious to popular opinion, but I don't think that's as a wild or as biased of a take as you say it is. BG3 just isn't my type of game, and I enjoyed Starfield more than most people did, so I'd probably rank it above that game too, tbh.
Would I consider Starfield my 2023 GOTY or some genre-defining masterpiece? No, but I'm fine with people having unconventional opinions, since I share some myself, and I don't take it as a sign of some massive fanboy bias or something.
@Weez I'm well aware of that. I used that 94% user score to show that the game is well-received, not that everyone thinks it's a 9/10. There aren't a lot of games, though, that get 94% user scores on Steam while also receiving a middling reception.
@SeaDaVie Comparing South of Midnight to a literal porn game is pretty disingenuous IMO, but hey, what do I know?
Yes, South of Midnight isn't some game of the year contender or anything, but my point is, there isn't anything weird or unusual about them giving the game a 9/10. Reading the reviews on Steam, you would see a bunch of people who do share similar opinions and view it in high regard. So I find it odd that you singled out this game in particular, as an example of why you shouldn't take Pure Xbox's reviews seriously.
Using your logic, I could make the same argument about Push Square and say that they're biased towards PlayStation games, considering that they've only given reviews of 6/10 or less to five first-party PS titles this gen (Until Dawn, Rise of the Ronin, Destruction All-Stars, Lost Soul Aside, Firewall: Ultra).
Compare this to Pure Xbox, which has also given five first-party titles a score of 6/10 or lower in the same time frame (Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, The Order of Giants DLC, Starfield: Shattered Space, CoD: MW3, and Redfall). Sure, you could argue that some of these are DLCs and don't count or whatever, but in reality, the two sites are not that far off when it comes to reviewing first-party titles.
@SeaDaVie Why should a review that gives South of Midnight a 9/10 not be taken seriously? The game isn't perfect, of course, but that's not that far off from the general player consensus. On Steam, South of Midnight has a 94% Very Positive user score, which is pretty much a 9/10.
@rjejr So many Japanese games, manga, and anime try to tackle dark subjects while also having the most cutesy art styles possible, and it usually doesn't work that well. Except when it's a deliberate subversion of genre tropes.
@PuppetMaster I made a mistake in my previous comment, I shouldn't have said they have a monopoly on anime, but rather that they have a monopoly on Western anime streaming services. To be clear, you can still watch anime on Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, etc. like you said, but in terms of dedicated anime services, there aren't really any major ones out there that aren't owned by Sony.
There's Hidive and Retro Crush I guess, but they don't have nearly as much anime as Crunchyroll does.
Very funny how the people so vehemently against Microsoft having a monopoly on gaming with the Activision/Bethesda acquisitions (even though they're still considerably behind PlayStation in terms of revenue), are also the same people that are okay with Sony having a monopoly on anime.
Anyone who actually uses/used streaming services like Funimation and Crunchyroll would know that Sony's consolidation hasn't been that great for Western anime fans. Ever since Sony merged the two services, Crunchyroll has gone dramatically downhill in terms of quality. Their subs are now largely trash, and the merch that they sell has declined in quality, as well.
This is happening because Sony fired all the old Crunchyroll execs and replaced them with the Funimation ones, which are far worse at their jobs.
@PuppetMaster There's also 007 First Light, Fable, Forza Horizon 6, Gears E-Day, Marvel 1943, Prince of Persia Sands of Time Remake, Yakuza Kiwami 3, The Blood of Dawnwalker, The Duskbloods, High on Life 2, Code Vein 2, Monster Hunter Stories 3, Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave, Gothic 1 Remake, Lords of the Fallen 2, Super Meat Boy 3D, Yoshi and the Mysterious Book, Professor Layton, Fatal Frame 2 Remake, Dynasty Warriors 3 Remake, Star Wars Zero Company, Subnautica 2, The Adventures of Elliot, Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined, Tides of Annihilation, and Beast of Reincarnation.
Also Danganronpa 2x2, which is not a big deal for most people, but it is for me personally.
@Max_the_German Quantic Dream was acquired by NetEase in 2022, so maybe they're the ones making them do it. NetEase does primarily publish live service games, after all.
@Stevemalkpus Even though Microsoft owns the As Dusk Falls IP, the game was actually self-published by Interior/Night on PlayStation. The Xbox and PC versions, on the other hand, were published by Xbox Game Studios. As Dusk Falls was technically the first of the Xbox games to go multiplatform, before Hi-Fi Rush
@PuppetMaster She doesn't even look remotely African, she literally looks like a generic anime waifu Dead or Alive character but with slightly darker skin
@dskatter The PS6's disc drive will probably be sold separately, like with the PS5 Pro. I don't think there will be any model of the PS6 with a built-in disc drive. That said, there's a pretty good chance that the next Xbox doesn't have any disc drive whatsoever, given how Microsoft hates physical media.
@UltimateOtaku91 Thing is, I don't think the PS6 is going to be particularly cheap, either. It'll be less expensive than the next Xbox, for sure, but I imagine it will cost at least $700 at launch, without a disc drive. There's no way Sony is going to sell a console that's considerably more powerful than the PS5 Pro at an affordable price point.
If the next Xbox is a glorified PC with several storefronts on it, then Microsoft probably won't expect it to sell that well and they therefore probably won't subsidize it. That means its price will probably be similar to that of the ROG Xbox Ally X, so around $900-$1000.
Due to their egregiously expensive prices, I think the PS6 and the next Xbox will be the worst-selling home consoles in Sony and Microsoft's history. A lot of people will just stick to last-gen consoles, and some will still be on PS4 and Xbox One.
@RBMango I don't even see how this would be a middle finger to Xbox? What would PlayStation be trying to say, in that case? "Hahaha we have a deal with AMD and Xbox doesn't (even though they actually do)?"
What's interesting is that Giant Squid recently confirmed on Twitter that they're working on a Switch port of Sword of the Sea. So even if Sony does acquire the IP/studio, they're still gonna bring it to other platforms eventually. Presumably after the one-year exclusivity deal expires.
Bruh I can't believe they have a Forspoken section on the site. Imagine buying a Forspoken Denim Jacket for $110, or a mediocre Forspoken Water Bottle for $30. They would have been lucky to sell even one of those each lol
Also, if they're gonna shut down the store, you would think they would give everything deep discounts, like 60-80% off, but I guess not.
@Oram77 Sadly, there aren't really any actual statistics from trustworthy sources that definitively prove that Xbox gamers do or do not buy games. But I'm just basing my assumption off of reasoning.
Yes, we've seen reports that have said that Game Pass cannibalizes sales of games in the service (which makes sense, of course; why would you buy a game that you finished through Game Pass?). But I couldn't find any report that says Game Pass has caused Xbox gamers to stop buying games entirely, or that it drastically reduced buying rates for games on the platform as a whole.
Here's my take on the matter: if Xbox gamers really bought no games because of Game Pass, then why has there been no decline in third-party support since the introduction of the service? On the contrary, there are so many franchises and game developers, who were never on Xbox in the past, that are now coming to Xbox.
In my opinion, it would make no sense for third-party support to improve considerably on the platform if no one was buying games. I do actually think the "Xbox gamers don't buy games" thing is something that was largely exaggerated by Twitter trolls.
@Oram77 That's the thing, contrary to what you think, most Xbox gamers never stopped buying games in the first place. Not every game was on Game Pass to begin with.
@Oram77 It seems most late ports of AAA games sell just fine on Xbox, since I don't see publishers moving on from the platform.
Also the "Xbox gamers wait for everything to come to Game Pass" argument doesn't hold as much water now, since many Xbox gamers have canceled their Game Pass subscriptions. Or, at the very least, downgraded from Ultimate.
@Propaperpusher To claim that "Xbox gamers don't buy games," even though third-party support on the platform has dramatically improved since the introduction of Game Pass, is laughable, to say the least. There is no definitive evidence that proves that no one buys games on Xbox, or that the Xbox ports for most third-party games don't sell well enough to turn a profit. Saying that this is a fact is disingenuous.
But it isn't surprising that you would make a statement like this, seeing as you are in the console war trenches.
@UnlimitedSevens I agree with what you said in the last paragraph, but to be fair, Jez outright denied that hardware plans are up in the air in his article.
While I get where you're coming from, the two rumors do contradict each other. Jez is saying that Microsoft's hardware plans have not changed at all at the moment, and that they aren't even debating whether to release next-gen hardware or not. He also claims that Microsoft, for the time being, has no plans to stop distributing hardware to certain retailers.
SneakerSO, on the other hand, is saying that Microsoft is currently debating whether or not to release a next-gen console, and that they plan to distribute Xbox consoles to less and less retailers in the future.
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Re: Millions Tune in for Halo PS5's Reveal on PlayStation's Social Media Accounts
@UltimateOtaku91 Do people associate Sonic with Nintendo more than Sega? I don't think so.
And besides, the game will come to Nintendo consoles eventually anyways, so it's not gonna become a PlayStation exclusive all of a sudden
Re: 'Significant' Layoffs Are Set to Hit Amazon Game Studios
@nessisonett Problem is, it's sometimes hard to discern the difference between an AI-generated comment and a non-AI-generated one. Some people like saying that every lengthy comment they disagree with was made by AI. There's also people who sometimes write comments in a formal tone, and everyone falsely claims that they are AI-generated
Re: PUBG and Hi-Fi Rush Owner Krafton Is Spending $70 Million to Become an 'AI-First Company'
@Dalamar I don't recall anyone saying that about NFTs lol. The difference between NFTs and AI is that we can already see just how major of an impact the latter is having on people's everyday lives. The average person never made or bought NFTs. AI, however? That's a different story.
Everywhere on the internet, regular people are making AI generated slop and posting it on social media channels. Kids are using AI to do their assignments, instead of actually learning anything. People are falling in love with AI chatbots, and talking to AI on a regular basis. Hell, the mere existence of chatbots and sites like ChatGPT has caused a considerable decline in viewership across almost all major news sites in the last few months, thanks in part to Google's dumb pro-AI algorithm changes.
I hate AI as much as the next guy, but it's kind of absurd to think that it's suddenly gonna die off and fade into irrelevance like NFTs did. If anything, it's only gonna get worse. We've seen how much generative AI has improved in the last 5-10 years. Soon, for all we know, deepfakes might dominate the internet, and it might become impossible to tell the difference between what's real and what's fake.
Re: PUBG and Hi-Fi Rush Owner Krafton Is Spending $70 Million to Become an 'AI-First Company'
@Acquiescence That sadly won't happen. AI is basically the next big leap in technology, like the Internet was in the 90s. It's only going to get worse from here.
Re: Silent Hill F Actress Goes Viral Streaming Acclaimed PS5 Horror Game
@ThatOneLevel Exactly, a lot of voice actors do this, but most don't. Some VAs don't even play video games. In Konatsu's case, it seems this is the first time she has ever played on a PS5.
Re: PS6 Could Be the Only Next-Gen Console Charging for Online Multiplayer
@AdamNovice Sure, but this was before the reports really came through, sometime back in early December 2023. Afterwards, Jez said he started hearing rumblings about Sea of Thieves making the jump to PS5 in mid December, and after investigating, he wasn't able to pin down any leads, but he did eventually report that more Xbox exclusives were coming to PlayStation and Nintendo consoles.
He wrote an entire report on the topic in February 2024:
https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/report-xbox-is-planning-to-publish-starfield-on-playstation-5
Like, you can hate the guy for defending Microsoft or whatever, but let's not act as if most of his reporting on Windows Central has been wrong or something. Chances are the stuff outlined here about the next-gen Xbox is most likely true.
Re: You Could Test Future Halo Games on PS5, PS4 in Insider Program Update
I doubt Halo games will ever come to PS4, so that might be something they overlooked. Sure, the next Halo multiplayer game may be a cross-gen title, but that seems unlikely, considering that Halo: CE isn't on PS4
Re: PS6 Could Be the Only Next-Gen Console Charging for Online Multiplayer
@AdamNovice That tweet you're referring to about Jez denying Xbox games going to PS5 was literally just his opinion. All of the stuff he writes a report about on Windows Central (like the existence of Project Latitude, Xbox exclusives no longer existing, the ROG Xbox Ally, etc.) has almost always been true, cuz those are claims that he's actually verified with his sources. I'd like you to find even two Windows Central reports of his that were actually wrong.
Also, are you forgetting that Jez has regularly reported about which Xbox games are going to PS5, and when? Like, he was the first person to claim that Indiana Jones was the mystery Xbox game that was going to be announced for PS5 during Gamescom last year.
Re: PS6 Could Be the Only Next-Gen Console Charging for Online Multiplayer
Even if this is true, it's likely that Microsoft will keep the paywall intact for the Xbox Series consoles. That way, this will be an incentive for Xbox Series owners to upgrade to the next Xbox.
Also, there are still gonna be a lot of people who will stick with their current Series X/S and will not buy the next Xbox. Microsoft will still be able to make money off of them, instead of getting rid of Xbox Game Pass Essential entirely.
Re: MySims: Cozy Bundle Settling Down on PS5 Next Month After Year of Switch Exclusivity
@Ichiban Your profile pic fits very well with your comment lol
Re: Halo PS5 Is Great, But Why Doesn't It Have Competitive Multiplayer?
@Starkei It's because Bungie doesn't want to do singleplayer content anymore, and they probably don't have the talent to do so anymore tbh
Re: 'Our Biggest Competition Isn't Another Console': Xbox Doubles Down on Multiformat After Halo PS5 Shock
@tameshiyaku Not sure how that's to blame when I'd wager that PlayStation probably has the most casual consumer base of the big three. That dudebro gamer image that Xbox fostered during the 360 gen is long gone, and isn't at all representative of the current Xbox audience. Hasn't been for over a decade.
I think there's a good chance that PlayStation attracts the most casual gamers at the moment; people who play Fortnite, CoD, Madden, and nothing else.
Since Xbox isn't that mainstream anymore, many Xbox gamers are probably more tuned in with the gaming community than casuals.
The real reason people left Xbox isn't because of the dudebro image they fostered (which people ironically miss nowadays), but rather because of the fact that Microsoft completely bungled the Xbox One launch.
Re: 'Our Biggest Competition Isn't Another Console': Xbox Doubles Down on Multiformat After Halo PS5 Shock
@Lowdefal A slight correction, Rise of the Ronin was not released on PC a week before its PS5 release, it was a PlayStation exclusive for almost exactly one year. I'm guessing you looked at the Wikipedia page and thought that March 11 2025 (the date of the PC release) was a week before March 22 2024 (the date of the PS5 release).
Re: Expect More Halo Games on PS5, Dev Says Series Is 'on PlayStation Going Forward'
@DennisReynolds Tbh I'm not sure Spider-Man would have had paid cosmetics, even if it was a fully multiplatform title. Games like Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy weren't created with the intent of selling consoles, and yet they had zero microtransactions.
Likewise, people give a lot of flack to EA, but they often forget that the Star Wars Jedi games have zero microtransactions, as well. Most of the skins you can unlock in-game for free, just like Spider-Man.
The costumes thing, I think, really depends on the intent of the publisher and the developer. It has less to do with exclusivity imo.
Re: Halo Confirmed for PS5, Remake of First Game Out in 2026
@zhoont Here: https://www.vice.com/en/article/new-halo-live-service-multiplayer-game-inspired-by-fortnite-reportedly-leaked/
There's not a lot of information on it, though. Just rumors at the moment. But credible ones, since these rumors are coming from the same guy that leaked the Combat Evolved remake.
Re: Halo Confirmed for PS5, Remake of First Game Out in 2026
@RoomWithaMoose Halo: CE is the worst of the Bungie Halo games, in my opinion. Never liked it that much.
Re: Halo Confirmed for PS5, Remake of First Game Out in 2026
@Korgon @zhoont @AK4tywill Halo Studios is working on a standalone multplayer game that's going to have an evolving ecosystem, like Fortnite. That's why they're not including multiplayer in this remake because it would detract from their next game.
Re: This Is Why Xbox Is Bringing All of Its Games to PS5 Now
@Rich33 Yeah, that's basically what I was getting at. I don't have any concrete evidence to prove that this was the case, but I'm basing my assumption off the statement that Phil Spencer made about how Xbox needed to enter the mobile games market. I think he said something along the lines of how a company cannot survive without getting into mobile.
Re: Rumour: New Halo Game Heading for PS5, Will Almost Certainly Be Announced This Week
@Nyne11Tyme Yeah no worries I get it lol
Re: This Is Why Xbox Is Bringing All of Its Games to PS5 Now
@Rich33 You gotta wonder, though: would Microsoft even be willing to keep Xbox around if they DIDN'T buy Activision-Blizzard? Knowing how greedy Microsoft is, it could have been a lose-lose situation for Xbox. Either buy Activision and go multiplatform while deprioritizing hardware, or don't buy anything and wind the gaming business down (or at least don't invest in it much anymore).
Re: This Is Why Xbox Is Bringing All of Its Games to PS5 Now
@Haruki_NLI I don't know how true this is, but apparently Activision had higher profit margins than Nintendo does prior to their acquisition by MS. They were averaging around 25-35% profit on a quarterly basis. So I guess Microsoft wants their entire gaming business to be more like Activision.
Keep in mind that Activision on its own makes just about as much money as Nintendo does, with far fewer games and no hardware. So it makes sense why their profit margins would be higher.
Re: Rumour: New Halo Game Heading for PS5, Will Almost Certainly Be Announced This Week
@Nyne11Tyme Microsoft has owned the rights to Halo since the release of the series' first installment, though.
Re: Ninja Gaiden 4 (PS5) - A Bloodthirsty Action Game Ripped Straight from the PS3 Era
@SeaDaVie What I'm about to say is sacrilegious to popular opinion, but I don't think that's as a wild or as biased of a take as you say it is. BG3 just isn't my type of game, and I enjoyed Starfield more than most people did, so I'd probably rank it above that game too, tbh.
Would I consider Starfield my 2023 GOTY or some genre-defining masterpiece? No, but I'm fine with people having unconventional opinions, since I share some myself, and I don't take it as a sign of some massive fanboy bias or something.
Re: Ninja Gaiden 4 (PS5) - A Bloodthirsty Action Game Ripped Straight from the PS3 Era
@Weez I'm well aware of that. I used that 94% user score to show that the game is well-received, not that everyone thinks it's a 9/10. There aren't a lot of games, though, that get 94% user scores on Steam while also receiving a middling reception.
Re: Ninja Gaiden 4 (PS5) - A Bloodthirsty Action Game Ripped Straight from the PS3 Era
@SeaDaVie Comparing South of Midnight to a literal porn game is pretty disingenuous IMO, but hey, what do I know?
Yes, South of Midnight isn't some game of the year contender or anything, but my point is, there isn't anything weird or unusual about them giving the game a 9/10. Reading the reviews on Steam, you would see a bunch of people who do share similar opinions and view it in high regard. So I find it odd that you singled out this game in particular, as an example of why you shouldn't take Pure Xbox's reviews seriously.
Using your logic, I could make the same argument about Push Square and say that they're biased towards PlayStation games, considering that they've only given reviews of 6/10 or less to five first-party PS titles this gen (Until Dawn, Rise of the Ronin, Destruction All-Stars, Lost Soul Aside, Firewall: Ultra).
Compare this to Pure Xbox, which has also given five first-party titles a score of 6/10 or lower in the same time frame (Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, The Order of Giants DLC, Starfield: Shattered Space, CoD: MW3, and Redfall). Sure, you could argue that some of these are DLCs and don't count or whatever, but in reality, the two sites are not that far off when it comes to reviewing first-party titles.
Re: Ninja Gaiden 4 (PS5) - A Bloodthirsty Action Game Ripped Straight from the PS3 Era
@SeaDaVie Why should a review that gives South of Midnight a 9/10 not be taken seriously? The game isn't perfect, of course, but that's not that far off from the general player consensus. On Steam, South of Midnight has a 94% Very Positive user score, which is pretty much a 9/10.
Re: PS5 Surpasses Lifetime PS3 Sales in the US
@RoomWithaMoose It was Jim Ryan who said that in an interview, not sure if it was before or after he retired
Re: Sony Game Helldivers 2 Is Proving a Monstrous Success on Xbox
@PuppetMaster I would say yes simply because it's a live service game
Re: You Could Now Play Death Stranding 1, 2 with Worse Graphics on PS5
@Deljo You can get an early glimpse at how Death Stranding 2 will look like on a Series S
Re: 'Players Are More Accustomed to Darker Stories': Dragon Quest 7 Dev Says the PS5 Remake Will Hit Harder
@rjejr So many Japanese games, manga, and anime try to tackle dark subjects while also having the most cutesy art styles possible, and it usually doesn't work that well. Except when it's a deliberate subversion of genre tropes.
Re: Sony's Increasing Power Over Anime Is Starting to Raise Some Eyebrows
@PuppetMaster I made a mistake in my previous comment, I shouldn't have said they have a monopoly on anime, but rather that they have a monopoly on Western anime streaming services. To be clear, you can still watch anime on Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, etc. like you said, but in terms of dedicated anime services, there aren't really any major ones out there that aren't owned by Sony.
There's Hidive and Retro Crush I guess, but they don't have nearly as much anime as Crunchyroll does.
Re: Sony's Increasing Power Over Anime Is Starting to Raise Some Eyebrows
Very funny how the people so vehemently against Microsoft having a monopoly on gaming with the Activision/Bethesda acquisitions (even though they're still considerably behind PlayStation in terms of revenue), are also the same people that are okay with Sony having a monopoly on anime.
Anyone who actually uses/used streaming services like Funimation and Crunchyroll would know that Sony's consolidation hasn't been that great for Western anime fans. Ever since Sony merged the two services, Crunchyroll has gone dramatically downhill in terms of quality. Their subs are now largely trash, and the merch that they sell has declined in quality, as well.
This is happening because Sony fired all the old Crunchyroll execs and replaced them with the Funimation ones, which are far worse at their jobs.
Re: PS5 Exclusive Marvel's Wolverine Is Now Available to Wishlist on PS Store
@PuppetMaster There's also 007 First Light, Fable, Forza Horizon 6, Gears E-Day, Marvel 1943, Prince of Persia Sands of Time Remake, Yakuza Kiwami 3, The Blood of Dawnwalker, The Duskbloods, High on Life 2, Code Vein 2, Monster Hunter Stories 3, Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave, Gothic 1 Remake, Lords of the Fallen 2, Super Meat Boy 3D, Yoshi and the Mysterious Book, Professor Layton, Fatal Frame 2 Remake, Dynasty Warriors 3 Remake, Star Wars Zero Company, Subnautica 2, The Adventures of Elliot, Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined, Tides of Annihilation, and Beast of Reincarnation.
Also Danganronpa 2x2, which is not a big deal for most people, but it is for me personally.
So yeah, 2026 is stacked.
Re: Heavy Rain Dev Announces Competitive Multiplayer Game Spellcasters Chronicles
@Max_the_German Quantic Dream was acquired by NetEase in 2022, so maybe they're the ones making them do it. NetEase does primarily publish live service games, after all.
Re: Sony Travelled to China to Discuss Mobile Adaptation of The Last of Us with Tencent
@get2sammyb Bruh imagine if Tencent made a Last of Us game set in China
Re: PS Plus Extra, Premium Games for October 2025 on PS5, PS4 Leaked
@Stevemalkpus Even though Microsoft owns the As Dusk Falls IP, the game was actually self-published by Interior/Night on PlayStation. The Xbox and PC versions, on the other hand, were published by Xbox Game Studios. As Dusk Falls was technically the first of the Xbox games to go multiplatform, before Hi-Fi Rush
Re: Unexpected PS5, PS4 Fighting Game Based on Avatar the Last Airbender Revealed for 2026
@themightyant Planet Earth 1&2 and tbh Chernoybl do not deserve to be that high imo, but that's IMBd for you
Re: Tekken 8 Newcomer Miary Zo Bursts into the King of Iron Fist Tournament This December
@PuppetMaster She doesn't even look remotely African, she literally looks like a generic anime waifu Dead or Alive character but with slightly darker skin
Re: PS6 Release Date Touted for 2027, Cheaper But Less Powerful Than Next Xbox
@dskatter The PS6's disc drive will probably be sold separately, like with the PS5 Pro. I don't think there will be any model of the PS6 with a built-in disc drive. That said, there's a pretty good chance that the next Xbox doesn't have any disc drive whatsoever, given how Microsoft hates physical media.
Re: PS6 Release Date Touted for 2027, Cheaper But Less Powerful Than Next Xbox
@UltimateOtaku91 Thing is, I don't think the PS6 is going to be particularly cheap, either. It'll be less expensive than the next Xbox, for sure, but I imagine it will cost at least $700 at launch, without a disc drive. There's no way Sony is going to sell a console that's considerably more powerful than the PS5 Pro at an affordable price point.
If the next Xbox is a glorified PC with several storefronts on it, then Microsoft probably won't expect it to sell that well and they therefore probably won't subsidize it. That means its price will probably be similar to that of the ROG Xbox Ally X, so around $900-$1000.
Due to their egregiously expensive prices, I think the PS6 and the next Xbox will be the worst-selling home consoles in Sony and Microsoft's history. A lot of people will just stick to last-gen consoles, and some will still be on PS4 and Xbox One.
Re: PS6 Out 'in a Few Years' as Sony, AMD Discuss the Future of Games
@RBMango I see, thanks for the explanation
Re: PS6 Out 'in a Few Years' as Sony, AMD Discuss the Future of Games
@RBMango I don't even see how this would be a middle finger to Xbox? What would PlayStation be trying to say, in that case? "Hahaha we have a deal with AMD and Xbox doesn't (even though they actually do)?"
Re: Just What Is Going on with Sony and Indie Dev Giant Squid?
What's interesting is that Giant Squid recently confirmed on Twitter that they're working on a Switch port of Sword of the Sea. So even if Sony does acquire the IP/studio, they're still gonna bring it to other platforms eventually. Presumably after the one-year exclusivity deal expires.
Re: Sony Reveals Icon Blue PS5 DualSense, Quite Possibly the Bluest Controller Ever
I honestly think it looks great, I'd buy it if I needed a new PS5 controller.
Re: PlayStation Gear Merch Store Closing Down, Sale Live Now
Bruh I can't believe they have a Forspoken section on the site. Imagine buying a Forspoken Denim Jacket for $110, or a mediocre Forspoken Water Bottle for $30. They would have been lucky to sell even one of those each lol
Also, if they're gonna shut down the store, you would think they would give everything deep discounts, like 60-80% off, but I guess not.
Re: Silent Hill 2's PS5 Console Exclusivity Is Coming to an End
@Oram77 Sadly, there aren't really any actual statistics from trustworthy sources that definitively prove that Xbox gamers do or do not buy games. But I'm just basing my assumption off of reasoning.
Yes, we've seen reports that have said that Game Pass cannibalizes sales of games in the service (which makes sense, of course; why would you buy a game that you finished through Game Pass?). But I couldn't find any report that says Game Pass has caused Xbox gamers to stop buying games entirely, or that it drastically reduced buying rates for games on the platform as a whole.
Here's my take on the matter: if Xbox gamers really bought no games because of Game Pass, then why has there been no decline in third-party support since the introduction of the service? On the contrary, there are so many franchises and game developers, who were never on Xbox in the past, that are now coming to Xbox.
In my opinion, it would make no sense for third-party support to improve considerably on the platform if no one was buying games. I do actually think the "Xbox gamers don't buy games" thing is something that was largely exaggerated by Twitter trolls.
Re: Silent Hill 2's PS5 Console Exclusivity Is Coming to an End
@Oram77 That's the thing, contrary to what you think, most Xbox gamers never stopped buying games in the first place. Not every game was on Game Pass to begin with.
Re: Silent Hill 2's PS5 Console Exclusivity Is Coming to an End
@Oram77 It seems most late ports of AAA games sell just fine on Xbox, since I don't see publishers moving on from the platform.
Also the "Xbox gamers wait for everything to come to Game Pass" argument doesn't hold as much water now, since many Xbox gamers have canceled their Game Pass subscriptions. Or, at the very least, downgraded from Ultimate.
Re: PS6 May Go Uncontested as Rumours of Next-Gen Xbox Cancellation Force Microsoft to Comment
@Propaperpusher To claim that "Xbox gamers don't buy games," even though third-party support on the platform has dramatically improved since the introduction of Game Pass, is laughable, to say the least. There is no definitive evidence that proves that no one buys games on Xbox, or that the Xbox ports for most third-party games don't sell well enough to turn a profit. Saying that this is a fact is disingenuous.
But it isn't surprising that you would make a statement like this, seeing as you are in the console war trenches.
Re: PS6 May Go Uncontested as Rumours of Next-Gen Xbox Cancellation Spiral
@UnlimitedSevens I agree with what you said in the last paragraph, but to be fair, Jez outright denied that hardware plans are up in the air in his article.
While I get where you're coming from, the two rumors do contradict each other. Jez is saying that Microsoft's hardware plans have not changed at all at the moment, and that they aren't even debating whether to release next-gen hardware or not. He also claims that Microsoft, for the time being, has no plans to stop distributing hardware to certain retailers.
SneakerSO, on the other hand, is saying that Microsoft is currently debating whether or not to release a next-gen console, and that they plan to distribute Xbox consoles to less and less retailers in the future.