Microsoft should get rid of GP Ultimate and then roll in 1st party games after a year of release when they debut on PS5. They’d make bank both ways then. They’d easily have sold 10m copies of FH6 at launch.

As long as it doesn’t have blue shells I’ll be happy.

So when they said AI was going to take jobs, what they really meant was by sending silicon prices so sky high that everybody has had to castle up to make ends meet.

The lack of the same voice actors is a little jarring. Yuri Lowenthal et al are all still around!

People might question the logic but it makes more sense to keep Gears an Xbox exclusive. It’s not got a high enough profile to sell well on PS and it remains the original system seller for the Xbox 360.

Halo on the other hand is a game Xbox players have been through numerous times and PS owners have been starved of decent FPS material for a long time. This will sell a lot more, even if it doesn’t include the valuable multiplayer component.

I mean, yeah but it’s only a problem if you’re a fan of grimdark gothic overly violent combat games.

9000+ releases and apparently every other title is a grimdark fantasy with particle effect porn.

@Hundred_Hand_Slap If you’re not old enough to remember having an invincibility cheat in the 1990s was awesome for certain games. I might actually have enjoyed Sekiro if it had those options. I mean, you still have to actually beat the game still.

Honestly I’m at an age now where open worlds, crafting and grinding out levels just holds no interest. Give me some cheats and let me enjoy the world and the story.

These are useful accessibility features. It’s worth remembering games used to be full of these cheats, only they required a secret code to activate.

It makes me ill if I’m honest. It’s why I still can’t stomach playing as the Necromancer on Diablo 3. Glad I have the option.

I predict that they will have farmed off more franchises to Namco after the success of Patapon and Everybody’s Golf.

Surely Locoroco has to be next?

And there has been some motion on rumours of a remaster of the PS1 WipEout trilogy.

Sony seem to have spent a lot of money on developing projects nobody seems interested in. I could have told them for free that porting some PSP titles to mobile would have cleaned up. The likes of Locoroco, Patapon and Jeanne D’Arc would clean up.

Sackboy needs to return somewhere.

I was there for Destiny since the OG beta. It took the races, classes and gameplay of Phantasy Star Online and rinsed them through Halo.

But the game and its sequel failed to maintain the simple gameplay loop of its influences (PSO and Diablo 3) by bogging them down with silly currencies, stingy loot drops and nonsensical lore. The series was never at any point welcoming to new players.

@zebric21 Destiny 1’s campaign was a whistle stop package tour of the inner planets with Peter Dinklage. Nobody surely wants to experience that?!

As Sony will never get any ROI why not just spin them off into an independent entity and leave them to it?

I’d be shocked if this wasn’t canned. During the Sharma rejig they will have been reevaluating everything and whilst Forza was likely too long in development I expect Halo and Fable to get pulled.

Issue smaller budgets to make more games, support the indie market.

So in other words: we over invested and promptly cancelled loads of live service games leaving us with a pretty bare first party plate.

Two overly gory games that so get boring within the first 2 hours.

@twitchtvpat It was never really a problem with the number of games per se, just the number of PS exclusives. Sony dropped the ball with their live service push and there is a lack of smaller games as a result. Let all the studios put 20% of their staff on creative projects and the results would pay for themselves.

@twitchtvpat Objectively the majority of PS5 sales went to the FIFA and COD crowd though who buy 3 games a year. Those people are no less gamers than anybody else but PlayStation will sell just because it says ‘PlayStation’ on the box.

@PuppetMaster My original point was that Sony need to set a launch date of 2029 for the PS6, budget it and then use the change to fund a whole swathe of remakes, indie exclusives and under the radar titles to enrich the PS5 library. Saros and God of War are ironically the exact sorts of games I mean: not system sellers but preaching to the converted but these are currently rarities.

During the 3 and 4 the rich library was a reason to be jealous or jump ship as an Xbox player. There are maybe 2-3 really good PS5 exclusives but the rest of the library, even the smaller titles are replicated or clones elsewhere. I mean what’s left this year: a gory Marvel action title and a Marvel beat ‘em up. Gaming isn’t short on those genres.

Take last year: Death Stranding 2 will eventually be released elsewhere and if I want an open world Japan fix I can play AC Shadows rather than Yotei. 2023: Helldivers is on Xbox, Astrobot was amazing though. Ditto Spiderman in 2022. All the 2021 exclusives came to PS4.

I’m sure many people would agree that for a lot of reasons (Sony over investing in live service titles for one) the PS5 just doesn’t seem to have been around long enough to build up its own identity. It’s a good console, but in terms of decent exclusives the worst PlayStation console.

PS5 owners are hungry for more titles. Doesn’t have to be more AAA titles. There’s a big pile of unavailable PS3 games itching to be ported into the modern era. Who wouldn’t go for a Motorstorm collection or even a quick port of Calling All Cars? And let a 3rd party pitch a new WipEout.

@PuppetMaster But I don’t need a PS to play them and the God of War game is the sort of ten-a-penny platformer we see all the time.

@PuppetMaster All great games but none of them scream ‘PlayStation’ to me. Saros is brilliant mind.

@MrPeanutbutterz I’m talking the smaller releases that used to add value to Sony consoles. In this generation I can play just as many great games on the Xbox. But my Xbox One didn’t have Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture or Locoroco. My 360 didn’t have Flower or Journey.

They and Microsoft would be suicidal to launch any new console this side of the RAM crisis. Things need to be at 2024 wholesale prices before they even bother.

In the meantime how about some games, Sony? Microsoft are selling big on the PS5 because of gaps in the release schedule. Gamers are hungry: feed them.

@Matroska Surely Lego games are for playing on the sofa with your kids though? Who buys them on the PC?!

@Oram77 I would say VII is one of the greatest JRPGs of all time and a stone cold classic. But it’s nonsensical world building arguably makes it the worst FF on the PS1.

I prefer to play older JRPGs on my iPhone these days where the fixed camera gameplay is an advantage and I can just drop in for a quick blast.

Why FFX hasn’t yet had an iOS release yet I’ll never know. There isn’t any licences content and it’s already rereleased on Switch etc so it will run fine.

I never would have put Microsoft and Sony swapping customer service places on my 2026 bingo card.

Just give us a 20th Anniversary edition of Outrun 2006 running at 60fps. It wouldn’t be that hard to negotiate a new Ferrari licence.

But its still not offline playable and therefore not as good as 3

These would normally be the sort of QOL changes a holder might make when cheaper prices bring in a wider audience.

But that’s not happening any time soon why bother?!

1 Billion downloads?!? Surely that can’t be right? There’s plenty of fans of mobile gaming and football but I find it difficult to believe 1/8th of the human race has downloaded it. There has to be some massaging of the figures there.

My best advice to PS5 players is to do one of two things:

• blitz through the storyline, grab as much space magic as possible and then play the game properly on NG+
• Ignore the main storyline completely.

You’re now ready to organically explore the galaxy at your own leisure and roleplay the
Game how YOU want. Fancy being a scientist? Pirate? Bounty Hunter? Farmer? Settling down? You can do all these things. They trigger some great questlines!

But don’t do it during the story or you’ll be stuck with one of the Constellation bods following you around even if you don’t want them too. Apart from Vasco. He’s awesome.

Despite doing the numbers in traditional markets most of the world doesn’t even own a console, playing on mobile instead. If consoles hit £1000 they’ll die out.

It seems like aiming games at an audience with jobs and at least some disposable income vs a generation who can’t find employment and play everything on their phones is perhaps not the right way to go.

Journalists don’t call this out often enough which I think it a shame but any game that has more interactions than there are controller buttons and doesn’t include 100% rebindable keys as a result has utterly failed at accessibility.

Developers: streamline your control schemes and give us rebinds please. And whilst you’re there maybe program a camera that can follow the action without direct player input. If Nintendo could do it in 1998 you’ve no excuse.

A sausage machine cannot create a Michelin star meal.

@Lami See I always assumed that Sando was just another piece of annoying Gen Z slang I didn't get. No idea it was an actual thing! Might make some at the weekend!

Whilst I appreciate the international audience I also know these are British websites and so it's pronounced 'Sarnies'

Given the release of Helldivers and the need for as large a community as possible for online titles there is no chance this isn't coming to Xbox in the future.

Given the world economy is based entirely on the upscale of silicon devices this seems like a terrible thing.

Or it would be if the AI bubble wasn't about to burst. The general public still isn't paying for the product no matter how useful they find it and it turns out massive capital expenditure coupled with negative profits doesn't sit so well with investors.

OpenAI may have about 18 months left in their engine before their ashes get bought up by Microsoft at which point the big data centre spend is going to grind to a halt and flood the market with cheap computer parts nobody wants to be lumbered with.

2 years ago you couldn't have imagined a future when retro gaming was the cheapest option.

Really great retro games =/= Ren and Stimpy

There isn't the biggest jump between a game like Horizon 2 on the PS4 and most mid-range PS5 games. This gen also got off to a pretty slow start and hasn't come down in price at all yet. The PS5 should be around to the end of the decade because all a new console will offer is diminishing graphic returns and some sort of horrendous LLM integration.

@DonkeyFantasy They're helpful if they put a Rockwall boss into things. I spent 2 hours attempting the pixel-perfect timing on Leviathan on XVI at the weekend. Some cheats would have been helpful.

It's weird how people say 'nobody asked for this' when the only games people actually ask for are endless identical sequels to their favourite franchises of Rise of Skywalker Syndrome as it's known.

@captainsandman I think they miss a huge market not including local co-op, either via split screen or outputting a separate feed to a Portal. If it could be enjoyed offline in this way or as a single player I think more people would be enthusiastic. But as every online only game instantly starts with a countdown (however long) until it's demise where is the incentive to put in the hours? It's not like Phantasy Star Online which you can still play offline or on a private server.