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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?

Honestly, this company has always made trash games, I never liked the Postal series anyways.

@KillerIsD34D Username and profile pic check out

@Pat_trick I didn't know fortune tellers frequented this site!

@get2sammyb Not the person you were talking to, but in my opinion, some of the Xbox One-era limited edition controllers have some really good designs, which are a step above many of the recent DualSense controllers.

Some good examples of this are the Sea of Thieves Xbox controller and the Forza Horizon 5 Xbox controller, as well as the limited edition Xbox Elite controller for Gears of War 4. Those look downright fantastic.

Sea of Thieves: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71BJ1Vd5+NL.SL1065.jpg

Forza Horizon 5: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81ORzDT-e6L.AC_SL1500.jpg

Gears of War 4: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/5182BACWbVS.AC_SL1000.jpg

A shame Microsoft doesn't really make controllers like this anymore.

@themightyant Reviews for the game on Steam are still mixed, so I didn't know about that. I guess not all of the bugs have been patched, though, since there are some people claiming that it is broken and unplayable.

Highly acclaimed? Wasn't this game torn to shreds when it launched last year?

Interesting thing to note is that it appears the next Stellar Blade game won't be a PS5 exclusive. On the Shift Up website it says that Stellar Blade 2 will be a "multi-platform action game that will launch on various platforms including consoles and PCs." Now, that doesn't mean it will be on Xbox and Switch 2 , but it does suggest that it will at least release on PC day-one, unlike the first game. I assume Shift Up will publish the game themselves.

https://x.com/Genki_JPN/status/1991891947116798013

@ButterySmooth30FPS I know you're probably just joking, but I meant users who are negative about Xbox and want it to fail, not just Sony.

I will say, though, that both Pure Xbox and Push Square have a relatively similar amount of PlayStation and Xbox haters/fanboys, on both sites. I personally haven't seen such a drastically different vibe between the sites, but I do agree that Nintendo Life seems to have the least fanboys/haters of any platform in general.

@ButterySmooth30FPS Tbh you could make a similar statement about Pure Xbox as well. Most of the comments there are understandably negative, there aren't that many fanboys there.

@dodgykebaab Did Jez actually say that? Lol if true.

But still, most of the rumors he writes about on Windows Central end up being true, considering he was also the first to leak the existence of the ROG Xbox Ally. IMO if Jez says something on the Xbox Two podcast or on Twitter, you should ignore it entirely. But if he makes a claim on Windows Central, as he did with the Partner Preview thing, then it's most likely true.

People want to discredit his claims entirely, but the fact is, that his Windows Central reports have a near-spotless track record.

@DennisReynolds I disagree about the staff part. Just because you got banned for a few days doesn't mean the staff at Pure Xbox are Xbox fanboys. They probably thought you were trolling or something. It's not like they only ban people who criticize Xbox; I think I was banned there once as well for getting into an argument.

@dodgykebaab Jez was the first person to mention that a Partner Preview would be held this month lol

@DennisReynolds Are you saying that the people working at Pure Xbox are fanboys, or that the people commenting there are fanboys? Because rest assured, Push Square has its fair share of fanboy commenters as well. I see people using the word "Xbot" here occasionally, and saying they want Xbox to die or something.

@Oram77 This is a third-party showcase, though, I can't think of a single game at one of these Partner Previews that has gotten cancelled. You don't need to be interested in Microsoft's games to enjoy this.

I get that this is a third-party event which will obviously have games from multiplatform publishers, but it's kinda weird for Push Square to be covering this, since I almost never see Nintendo or Xbox sites cover rumored announcements of State of Plays centered on third-party games. They will often do articles on "what games were announced at the State of Play," but rarely anything about third-party State of Plays (like the Borderlands 4 one) being announced.

@CutchuSlow Xbox's showcases have usually been better than PlayStation's, though.

Yeah... I don't buy this. Sony just hired a multiplatform manager to bring games to Xbox, Nintendo, and PC a few months ago. They even announced a new Horizon game for mobile and PC, but not PlayStation. If anything, Sony is gonna double down on PC and maybe even go fully day-and-date at one point, like Microsoft has.

As much as people here may not want to believe it, PC ports haven't harmed PlayStation console sales in the slightest and, as Shuhei Yoshida said, they're printing money for Sony. Sony needs to expand their business; they can't take the Nintendo route and avoid putting their singleplayer games on PC entirely. In my opinion, the PS4 generation proved that having permanent exclusives will not improve PlayStation console sales by a noticeable margin.

Most PC gamers who buy a PlayStation solely for exclusives are not going to be spending money on microtransactions or third-party titles in the PlayStation ecosystem. They'll be buying stuff on Steam instead, so long as it's available there. As such, there's little point in Sony trying to convince them to get a PS5, especially if they live in a region where PlayStation isn't popular.

@AdamNovice I'm very curious as to when Insomniac and Sony will stop making Marvel games. Like you said, they're surely not gonna be working on them forever. Spider-Man, Wolverine, X-Men, etc. It's gotta stop at some point, right?

When Insomniac does stop working on Marvel games and PlayStation loses the exclusive license to Spider-Man and X-Men games, I wonder who else will take the mantle for the two franchises?

People say that this showcase was for Japanese people, not Westerners, and yet it had barely anything new for Japanese people to care about. This was literally filled with stuff that we had already seen before, barely anything to get excited over.

This was easily one of the worst State of Plays in recent memory imo, the SoP before this one was pretty bad as well. The June State of Play was actually good.

@LogicStrikesAgain It seems Sony signs one-year timed exclusivity deals for every Enhance game, much like with Giant Squid. Their games tend to come to Xbox and Switch a year later.

@Oram77 They could have opened a new studio to maintain Factions 2, so that they could work on singleplayer games as well in the meantime. Easier said than done, yes, but it would be better than spending 4 years on a live service game, only to realize all of a sudden that you have to support it post-launch.

@Ainu20 What @themightyant is not really wrong, though. In order for some games to be playable in any way, shape, or form offline, the developers may have to put some additional effort into patching it and modifying its gameplay systems. There are a bunch of titles, after all, in which progression of any kind is intrinsically tied into their online functionality.

So, yes, even the bare minimum will require a decent amount of effort in some cases. Which developers may not be able to or willing to accommodate for.

@Max_the_German No because most PS5 owners don't even touch Astro's Playroom (some aren't even aware of its existence), while almost everyone who bought a Wii played Wii Sports in some capacity.

Also, as others have pointed out, Wii Sports was sold separately in places like Japan. Astro's Playroom is a free-to-play tech demo.

@LazyDaisy Tbh GTA 6 is the only game that could overshadow a mainline Mario or Zelda title. Like, if Nintendo released Super Mario Odyssey 2 during the same week that GTA 6 comes out, the game's sales would almost certainly be harmed somewhat, despite the drastically different audiences for the two games. People would choose to play GTA 6 over a new Mario game. Nintendo wouldn't want that, so I imagine they will avoid releasing games close to GTA 6, as well.

@TrollOfWar A lot of PC gamers bought PS5s for Final Fantasy, but now that the game will launch day-one on PC, there will be no good reason for them to get it on PlayStation, when they can play it at a presumably better frame rate on their preferred platform

@Max_the_German Considering GTA 5 never came to Switch, I find it unlikely that GTA 6 will ever come to Switch 2

@andrewsqual You think Series S is to blame for GTA 6's delays?

I don't know why you'd emulate the defunct PS2 version of FF11, when you can just play it on PC instead. So its absence is not really a problem