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@carlos82 That was the Sony money talking, at the time. They weren't gonna criticize the exclusivity deal back then lol

@StitchJones If Steam is indeed available on the next Xbox (not sure it will be, I still have major doubts about this whole idea from Microsoft), then rest assured Microsoft and Sony will do absolutely nothing to prevent Sony games from being playable on it.

There is no way Sony would try to block their games from the Nexbox, since it wouldn't impact them negatively in the slightest. Buying Sony games via Steam on Xbox would be no different than buying them on PC.

@PuppetMaster I don't think this is a timed exclusive, seems like Sony has the marketing rights for the game because they haven't outright said it will be exclusive to PS5 or that PS5 is the only platform it will be on. Heck, they didn't even release a trailer for this game on the Konami channel. They're only using the trailer available on the PlayStation channel.

Seems to me Sony is doing what Microsoft did with Persona 3 Reload and the other Atlus games a few years ago, where they had an embargo to prevent Atlus from announcing other platforms aside from PC and Xbox. PlayStation fans were really pissed about that.

I doubt Konami would release an anime style JRPG exclusive to PS5 without even a PC port.

@Jay767 Sony funded the original Kena game as well as Death Stranding, FF7 Remake, Helldivers 2, etc. and yet they're still on Xbox. So no, if there's a timed exclusivity deal for this game then it may be possible for it to come to Xbox without Sony being directly involved. Just like with Death Stranding.

@JTDST Yeah unfortunately, but maybe it'll get ported to Xbox by a different publisher

That was absolutely fantastic, easily the best State of Play in years. Leagues better than that awful PlayStation Showcase they held in 2023, where they announced Fairgames and the Gran Turismo movie.

Sony knocked it out of the park with this one. Interested in most of the games here.

I'm surprised it's not available on PC. Though it was a shadow drop so I assume they prioritized the PS5 version first. Wonder if, when this does probably come to PC, Sony will port it to Switch, as well.

@Northern_munkey In Japan, there are literally vending machines that sell used panties from teenage schoolgirls. Although they're mostly banned these days, stuff like this isn't really new. This was referenced once in Yakuza 0 btw.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burusera

@Scottyy There were/are still a lot of people on the Final Fantasy 7 and PlayStation subreddits insisting that Part 3 will "definitely" be a timed PS5 exclusive because Sony signed a deal for the entire trilogy (which has never has been confirmed, and doesn't actually exist).

@Shepherd_Tallon I heard that game has apparently been cancelled because they didn't have enough of a budget. Not fully sure, though, I don't think the devs provided any official statements about this

@Flaming_Kaiser Agreed tbh, I might have actually played ZZZ or Wuthering Waves if they were singleplayer offline RPGs.

@somnambulance It does kinda look like AI though. I believe the devs behind that Street Racer remaster used AI for their cover art, so it made me think that is also the case with this collection.

Apologies to the devs if it isn't AI

Was that cover art made with AI?

@PuppetMaster Yeah, I was thinking of a AAA game with realistic graphics. But those are good games tho

@Oram77 Seriously, these Chinese games look way too damn similar. Either they're anime gacha games or grim wuxia soulslikes. Like, if you told me these were screenshots from Phantom Blade Zero, I'd believe you.

Look, I get this sort of historical fantasy wuxia stuff is really popular in China, but I really wish we could get a big budget AAA game set in modern-day China; sorta like the Yakuza series, but not necessarily gang-related and with less fantasy. Sci-fi/cyberpunk would be good, too, I suppose.

East Asia is such a big part of the gaming industry, but there are a shockingly few number of AAA games set in modern-day East Asia. At least not ones that aren't anime-style or whatnot.

@UltimateOtaku91 Exactly, I kinda dislike these PR responses. Just admit that it's a Microsoft decision

@TrollOfWar Yes, maybe some PlayStation developers would like to see their games on Xbox and/or Switch (hence why some Guerilla Games devs expressed their excitement on Twitter that Lego Horizon was coming to Switch), but you aren't gonna see anyone from PlayStation actually say that.

Isn't it funny how you only see Xbox devs talk about how they want to make their games available to as large an audience as possible? Never saw devs from Sony Santa Monica or Nintendo say anything along those lines. Gee, I wonder why...

Oh, and not sure I'd say PS5 would be the "biggest destination" for Fable. It might sell best on the platform, but it'd probably have more players on Xbox or PC, due to Game Pass.

@PuppetMaster Microsoft hasn't sold any games at $80 yet. They tried to with The Outer Worlds 2, but they changed their decision after the pushback. And considering FH6 is also $70, it seems they won't be doing $80 games in the near future.

@themightyant Kinda butting into this discussion late, but the 3DS was actually kinda a disappointment for Nintendo commercially. It sold around 75 million units, which while great on its own, was just half of what the Nintendo DS ended up selling. Remember, that console sold around 150 million units. Nintendo lost a lot of players during the 3DS/Wii U generation, which is why the Switch was exactly what they needed.

@Oram77 True...

@Leinad7 It does look really good actually I agree.

@Haruki_NLI What generative AI? Where do you people come up with this stuff?

Xbox exclusives are now well and truly dead. If it wasn't obvious already.

No better way to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Xbox than by bringing all the flagship exclusive franchises to PlayStation

@Oram77 Well, it was still made by Guerilla Games, so... just saying

@Oram77 Well Lego Horizon Adventures is a Sony first-party title, and it didn't get any PS5 Pro enhancements, so it's not necessarily a guarantee.

@Themanhutch What ads? I don't see any

@Frmknst That's not true in the slightest. When Oblivion was first released, its graphics were considered cutting-edge at the time, and it was one of the technical showpieces for the Xbox 360. Modern Bethesda games may not be lookers, sure, but let's not pretend as if early Bethesda games were bad-looking for their time.

@twitchtvpat They removed it from PC Game Pass a year or so ago. And that was the original Death Stranding, not the Directors Cut version.

Why the hell did the comment section for an article about a boiler malfunction at Rockstar North devolve into a discussion about geopolitics? Talk about getting derailed.

@Balaam_ I don't mean this as an insult, but as someone who has the condition themselves, I think you may have OCD. You seem to put way too much focus on trophy hunting, perhaps to a slightly unhealthy degree. It's similar to some of the obsessions I have.

@Oram77 Really? I don't think FF7 Remake has aged much. Maybe you could say the pacing is slow in some areas, but it's practically flawless in that respect compared to FF16. That game is the epitome of bad pacing.

@Naughtyottsel92 Because the subject of the article is PS vs Nintendo?

Not saying you can't bring up Xbox, but it does feel more out of place. The usual suspects on this site always feel the need to point out how bad Xbox sales are in Japan, whether it's related to the subject of the article or not, as if the console(s) has ever sold well there.

@graymamba No, I get what you're trying to say. You were talking about the Xbox fans who try to spin all Xbox games coming to PS5 as a win, even though it obviously is not. However, you did use the word "glut", so I thought you were saying this was a frequent occurrence on Push Square or something. Sorry if I wasn't too clear on that.

As for the other part of your comment, I actually can agree with you. There definitely are fanboys on both sites, but tbh you have a point that it does sometimes feel like most of the comments are negative. I don't think most of those negative comments are from fanboys tho, it just seems like they're from disgruntled PlayStation and Xbox fans.

@graymamba Yeah, so it isn't that surprising

@graymamba I'm serious, I see way more PlayStation fanboys on Push Square articles than I do Xbox fanboys. Not saying it doesn't happen at all, just not as common as you insist. If you want to see more Xbox fanboys, head on over to the Pure Xbox comment sections.

@Jammer Well, maybe not Adam the character, but more so if the player character's model was Adam's instead of Eve's. That way, "Adam" would basically have the same personality and role in the story as Eve currently does in the game.

@DennisReynolds Not triggered lmao, just pointing out the irony of your joke.

@graymamba The funny thing about this is that you rarely see comments like this on Push Square (that's more prevalent on Pure Xbox), but you do unsurprisingly see a decent amount of PlayStation fanboys talk smack about Xbox in the comments.

@Leinad7 Stellar Blade would have still sold well if the protagonist was that Adam guy instead of Eve. And if it didn't have overly sexualized female characters. People would have treated it just like Lies of P, or Phantom Blade Zero, or something.

@DennisReynolds So by that logic, are PS5 players beta-testers for timed PlayStation exclusives that come to Xbox? Take FF16, for instance. That game launched on Xbox with all DLC included for $70, while PS5 players who bought the game at launch had to spend upwards of $100 to get all the expansions included.

A similar case could be made for games like Ghostwire Tokyo, Deathloop, Zenless Zone Zero, and Helldivers 2, which received content updates to coincide with their Xbox debuts.

Or does this logic only work one way?

I know this may ruffle some feathers, but it would be nice if they started supporting Xbox, as well. Most other JRPG developers have started putting their games on the platform, so they should follow suit imo. Some people may insist that the sales on Xbox wouldn't be worth the cost of developing a port, but considering that there are many indie developers that continue to release their more niche games on the platform, I beg to differ.

Most Xbox players are in the West, and since Trails is doing poorly in Japan, Xbox's lack of presence in the market shouldn't be a barrier to them doing Xbox ports.

@LifeGirl When people use the term AI in the modern-day, they're usually referring to generative AI, not the AI that is used to code NPCs in video games. And generative AI in its current form didn't really exist until the late 2000s.

Also, when people say that AI-generated art is "soulless," they're typically referring to the fact that it lacks any creativity. Since generative AI can't actually create anything new and only uses existing sources to generate new images, it is currently unable to fully replicate the level of artistic creativity that can come from humans. AI-generated art is sort of like a Frankenstein's monster; you can see the seams of images stitched together more often than not, giving it that distinctive (and often ugly) AI sheen. Even iterative human art, barring artwork that outright plagiarizes other art, usually doesn't have that distinct lack of creativity in it.

I think the definitions of these terms are clearer and more accepted-upon than you're making them out to be. That being said, I do think it's possible that AI-generated art will soon be able to match human-made art in terms of creativity and "soul." Generative AI has already advanced so much in the last few years, who's to say it doesn't become perfected in a few more? And if some company ever actually develops an artificial general intelligence or an artificial super-intelligence, then AI may finally have the ability to create (or at least simulate the concept of creating) its own ideas.

@REALAIS That's fair, you do make some good points. Hopefully this supposed 2.0 update does fix some of your issues with the game.

@REALAIS Yes, compared to other games, it has more loading screens, but they never really impacted my experience. On SSDs it just takes like a second or two at best when using an elevator.

Starfield was never actually announced for PlayStation, Bethesda didn't even confirm any platforms for the game in its initial reveal.

Also, the loading screen thing is pretty overblown. I played on Xbox, and none of the loading screens even lasted that long. It was barely an issue to me.

Maybe this is a bit off-topic, but I hope Push Square covers the recent debacle surrounding Convallaria (an upcoming Sony-published Chinese game) and the accusations its developers have made regarding the China Hero Project. This report came out a few days ago, but I haven't seen many people mention it. Apparently, the China Hero Project has been having some problems, and Sony's lack of communication with the developers has led to the game being indefinitely delayed.

https://noisypixel.net/loongforce-sie-china-controversy-convallaria/

@get2sammyb Are you going to cover this?

Finally the first-ever Killzone content on Xbox

@LeeBB_Art Well I didn't want the studio to get shut down

@Fiendish-Beaver You're right, cuz the title does technically suggest that these games are all coming to PS5/PS4 and PS Plus. I guess a more grammatically correct version would be "PS5, PS4, and/or PS Plus."

@Simulated-Soul The title of what right?