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$70 for this trash game is highway robbery.

Whatever it is, I just want something completely different from E33.

Hulst is greenlighting a Backrooms Horizon game as we speak.

This is the rare thing I disagree with Shawn Laydon about.

In my opinion, what PlayStation desperately needs is a visionary or set of oddballs in the building that can create unique multiplayer games that have that spark and actually penetrate the market. Their current creative culture is too boring and out-of-touch for this live service thing to work on the level Nishino envisions.

That imbecile Hermen Hulst and his team of yes-men should also be shown the door, but that will never happen, sadly.

@PuppetMaster Sadly, it's really difficult for me to look at this list and not automatically think "damn, most of these will probably bomb".

There is no way Sony won't send a cease and desist to the makers of this mod, right?

The Witcher 3 is maybe my favorite game of the 2010's, but the amount of deceptive and arrogant bull**** CDPR pulled before and during the 1.0 of Cyberpunk 2077 liquidated all of the goodwill they got from me after Witcher 3 and left an immensely sour taste in my mouth. I can't even honestly say I'm that excited about their future projects, including Witcher 4.

Please god no more roguelites

I hate to be that guy, but Xbox shutting down Compulsion (especially after the dud that was South of Midnight) does not surprise me at all. Compulsion has great ideas, but executes them in such boring ways. With their shoddy quality control and stupidly long development times, they have no business being in this industry. Ironically, as incompetent as Xbox is, axing Compulsion is a very rare sound decision from them.

RE Requiem for me and nothing else I've played on PS5 this year comes even close.

@MrPeanutbutterz I 100% agree with you. With a few exceptions, I think Xbox's output quality this generation has ranged from incredibly mediocre to downright atrocious. I've had my major issues with PlayStation's output this gen, but none of their games have sunk to the bewildering low of crap like Redfall and Hellblade 2.

Ironically, I think Xbox has a very similar problem with their curated playerbase that PlayStation now does, just in a different way. They've trained and cultivated this core playerbase to expect a very specific thing for so long that any attempts at getting them to try new things is not going to work without major and long-term shifting of expectations and brand image. Xbox needs to cut the major anchor around their neck that is Game Pass and really refocus on training their playerbase to actually buy their stuff and create trust that it will be consistently good, but I have a hard time believing they have the vision and cache to pull it off.

No way in hell is this coming in 2027. Even 2028 seems too early to me. They haven't even started revealing the Disney worlds yet.

To be fair, Probably Monsters aren't exactly known for being smart decision-makers, besides selling off Concord.

@AdamNovice The benefit is so Asha can score brownie points from Klobrille, Jez Corden, Tom Warren, Colt Eastwood, and the rest of the Xbox journo/influencer sycophants because they're jumping right back into the incredibly stupid strategy of building a bizarre parasocial relationship with these people.

If they want a consistently healthy business with these exclusives, then they need to stop putting all of these Xbox-published games on Game Pass day one. Simple as that.

Considering I'm going to be downgrading back to Essential in a few months, I don't really care.

I find it really interesting that even the BBC covered the end of Destiny 2.

Asha must have seen an Xbox influencer on Twitter threaten to boycott Xbox if Halo was at the State of Play.

Having the subtitle listed before the series name is a pretentious trend I want to see die.

Wow, I'm shocked that I'm maybe the most positive person in this comment section, so far, about Hellblade 3, considering I absolutely HATED Hellblade 2. This looks to be way more in line with what I really liked about the first Hellblade.

Also, yeah, this going to PS5 but Clockwork Revolution and E-Day not makes zero sense to me.

@PSbox I'd actually respect Xbox a lot if they had the confidence to make ES6 an Xbox exclusive.

@UltimateOtaku91 In the famous words of Asha Sharma: "the plan isn't the plan until it is the plan until it isn't a plan."

This should be the case with ALL of the new Xbox-published stuff they announced at the showcase. Also, that explanation from Xbox PR makes no sense considering Hellblade 3, State of Decay 3, and Spyro are going to PS5 as well.

And what happened to the Xbox faithful who parroted the cringe-inducing "when everybody plays, we all win" line and said exclusives were outdated and anti-consumer? Or maybe that was utter bull**** to begin with? Hmmmmmm

Looks really cool, but their exclusives "strategy" seems like Asha Sharma is just throwing random shots at a dartboard. I'm sure the Xbox fanatics on Twitter are creaming in their pants, though. Good for them getting two exclusives, I guess.

I needed footage, but the horror tone is intriguing.

GOOD. This should remain a permanent Xbox console exclusive, especially if it turns out to be terrific.

Considering that the trailer has over a million views on PlayStation's YouTube channel alone, I think there's still a decent-sized audience who would pick this up. I don't know what PlayStation expects out of this, but that remains to be seen.

@Americansamurai1 The rumor was that it's using Unreal Engine 5, but it hasn't been officially confirmed.

Give it to Xbox for their showcase 😂

This is getting embarrassing...

Bungie - expertise in stepping on rakes

@glennthefrog @Oram77 Yeah, I get that Nakamura was trying to do her whole cute and quirky thing again that people liked at that E3 ages ago, but it really did not work for me this time around. Nothing against her personally. It's just that after a rather bland and overlong gameplay presentation, the last thing I want to see is a follow-up developer interview where the interviewee is trying too hard to recapture some kind of vibe and it comes off as mildly annoying instead.

I actually thought pacing was the biggest issue with this SoP. It had a very strong opening and finale, but the middle was more hit or miss for me, especially when they spent way too much time on games that didn't grab my attention like Dune Awakening, Ace Combat 8, and especially Kemuri. Also, Kena: Scars of Kosmora being MIA when it's supposed to drop this year was an odd omission.

Laufey looks way better than I expected it to. Other than that and Wolverine, I thought it was fine.

Of course it's a Klobrille tweet she's responding to. 🙄

@Olskeezy Oh no, I was agreeing with you by adding to your point about the people that come out of the woodwork to say AI crap is "inevitable" to justify burying their heads in the sand. Everything you said is 100% on point.

@Olskeezy 100% agree. Also, inevitable things don't automatically make them acceptable or artistically valid.

To hear the director of great, passionately made films like Bronson and Drive say this prattle to justify AI trash is so disheartening.

I know Kojima will get most of the backlash, but I think Refn's involvement offends me more. It's disgraceful.

@TartarusBlack That last sentence killed me. 😂

Besides the really bland looking protagonist, this looks magnificent.

I'm so happy they changed direction for this, because I've been a little nervous about the much darker original vision they had for this with "choice-based" story design. But this much brighter and more traditional vision is way more my jam. Can't wait!

I'll throw my hat in the ring on "no, I don't think it will". Unless those experimental PvE modes are game-changing things that attract an enormous number of consistent players, I think the die is already cast.

I'm still waiting on the next Ace Attorney 😫

I would lose my **** if a DQ8 remaster got revealed.

Even if it's a quarter of KCD2's depth and scope, I'll gladly accept that if it means the project pipeline is more manageable and fast.

$3.6 billion well spent

@AdamNovice There's a big difference between "not every game is for everyone" and "eye-rolling waste of time that will actively piss off your core audience". Fairgames (Break In, now, maybe, I guess) is clearly in the latter category.

Now PlayStation will do it just to spite you, Sammy.