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The best way is to let people change the difficulty halfway through the game, but only when they want. I hate those popups saying pretty much "You suck! Need me to babyproof the game for you?"

"We made the best online game of all time, but you'll never get to play it!"

Well ok. Glad to know that.

Awesome, it's been at least 15 seconds since we've heard a rumour like this. And yet I was hoping the PS5 "lite" would put these rumours to rest. Should we all agree not to speculate on this until at least September next year then?

Why is an accessory compared to console sales? This makes no sense whatsoever. Are the psvr2 and all controllers in this list of so called "systems"? Also selling out could mean Sony didn't believe in it and didn't produce much.

@themightyant My point being, it's called "The Game Awards", but it barely has time for the people who receive those awards.

I'd love to see Rockstar patent the name "Florida Joker", just to provoke him.

They barely tried to hide the fact that the awards were just a pretence to get some highly paid advertising.

It's a lot better than a boring open world just to follow a trend. I'd rather have a tight semi-linear game than an dull open world like Hogwart's Legacy or AC Valhalla.

I'm sure they just want to keep the Xbox exclusivity quiet as long as possible following the Activision-Blizzard acquisition.

There is your justification for increasing the ps+ price. 9 games at once! Oh hang on, they are removing those games...

There has been more unfinished junk released and layoffs than great games. Not sure it can be considered as "achievements"

Sony acknowledged a problem? That doesn't sound like them. Remember in the distant past (by which I mean earlier this week) the problem with randomly banned accounts?

OK folks, that more than 30 comments. Time to wrap up this comment section.

The good thing about postponing release is that it might not be under baked... Unless they release it because they just couldn't make it good and didn't want to cancel it altogether. I'll wait for the reviews and a discount (not paying 80€ for a game, especially from the DLC specialists)

Since Bethesda games are riddled with bugs and are only fixed by mods, so they could manage to sell bug fixes. I'd love to see that.

Sony is the worst when it comes to communication. A simple "we are aware of it and working on a fix" goes a long way.

Rockstar is big enough to track and sue the leakers. If they get caught, Rockstar will probably make an example out of them.

3 years since the PS5 was released and their system is still fully broken. Sony really is the worse when it comes to software. It feels as if they are still firefighting the mess they created when they rushed the PS5 release when the XSX was announced.

It will still be ported to the next 2 generations of consoles before GTA7 is released in 2038

@PixelDragon You are wasting way to much time trying to convince people brainwashed by the Church of Digitalism™. Common sense won't make them change their mind, and so many stupid articles about digital overtaking physical comfort them in their little digital world. I'm not even sure they'll change their mind when 2nd hand market and competition don't exist anymore and games cost over 150€/$ not including DLCs.

All digital future would mean all piracy for me. If I'm not owning anything, I'm not paying for it either.

I really hope it's like CP2077. A total wreck at launch that gets patched eventually. This way we'll have some fun news, the game will cost 20€ barely 6 weeks after release and be great a year after launch.

Hopefully he would also spend some of this hypothetical huge budget on printing the game physically.

I'm amazed developers and publishers can still find new ways to describe reasons for a delay in the stupidest way.

Can't they just say "It's not ready yet, please be patient so we aren't forced to release an alpha version as the final version."

Wait, it wasn't already planned for western release? For some reason I assumed it was since the announcement of DQX offline.

I miss my MMO days, but I can't stand playing online anymore, so this is the perfect game for me

Modern Warfare 3 PS5 bundle? I bet Microsoft would love to buy Sony and sell Spider-Man 3/Horizon Now Allowed West Xbox bundles.

I was never interested in dreams. Same thing with Mario maker. I just don't get the appeal of browsing thousands of bad games made by people as creative as I am (understand not at all) in hope of finding something entertaining for more than 5 minutes.

This is a minor mistake that is barely worth mentioning.

If I had to whine like this every time an American film or series butchered my native language, you'd never hear the end of it. It's just a lack of culture, no big deal.

Another good reason for me to wait for a GOTY version.

@get2sammyb I have to agree with other comments. Your articles are great but this title is just a nasty clickbait. Still looking forward to whatever you'll write next.

While I have no doubt the game is great and better than slogs full of macro transactions and DLCs (not included in the overpriced season pass) like AC Valhalla, what kind of director would say "you know what? My game is not worth the pricetag, you should wait for a discount."

I've played free mobile games over 10 years ago that looked and played much better than this.

some people were excited about this when the publisher only releases stinky turds. This reminds me of Balan wonderworld. Everyone was excited even though the first trailer looked like absolute crap.

They should buy GameMill. Having the latest King Kong dev would definitely be something. Also they can probably acquire it for less than 40$

"With the exception of Nintendo, there’s no question Sony is gaming’s market leader"

You probably meant "console gaming". Because you'd most likely need to add Valve, Epic, Unity, nVidia and AMD to the list of exceptions.

I'll accept full digital if the base price for AAA games drops to 20€/$. If not, I'll only buy a console if I can hack it and get all games for free

Sony is about as good as Bethesda when it comes to firmware. My Sony TV crashed about once every hour after an update, and it took over 6 months for them to patch it properly and release a stable firmware.

Also everything was such a mess when the ps5 was released. They also destroyed their own website and made it much much worse.

So the console has the same pricetagw but you need to buy the stand if you want it vertical. They managed to further increase the price when a console is suppose to get cheaper over time.

The CEO and COO probably descended into madness when they realised how screwed they were after accepting the contract, they probably believed they were Gollum, the lord of the precious.

He either is an idiot or a scapegoat. I'm not going to feel sorry for him either way. I planned on learning Unity, but I'll go for Unreal or Godot.

Hopefully they will do things in the right order:
1: Start developing the game for a few years
2: Do some trailers and teasing staring Chris Pratt or whatever

I don't see a problem with a game coming on 2 disks. It's better than the Activision way with 70MB of data on a Blu Ray just to download the entire game. A complete edition should always contain the entire game, even if it has several disks.

I usually imagine every name with a thick Japanese accent and the deepest voice possible. It would be something like "Kaito Shitu!". It does make everything better... or maybe I've been watching too many anime lately.

I wonder if their certification is harder to get than in the past. They must have changed it somehow with games like Anthem which broke PS4s.

I borrowed HFW. It wasn't as good as the first one, but I wasn't disappointed since they tried something a bit new with the story. I'll wait for the complete edition to get much cheaper, so I can play the DLC.

• Squeenix on launch day: "the game is perfect as it is and will never get a patch or be changed in anyway!"
• Squeenix aftera few patches: "we are open to taking more of your money with a DLC"
• Squeenix after 10 patches: "We decided we want even more of your money with 2 DLCs"

I'd rather buy an Xbox than pay for the ps plus. This is how much I hate all of Sony's never justified price increases

You misspelled TRPG. It's not P5 Strategia but Tactica.

I'd love to have a summary of what happened behind the scenes. I'm sure none of it made sense and Microsoft accepted absolutely anything to calm Sony's tantrum.

Sex sells. Hopefully they won't have an idiot who give it a 6/10 just to lower the score when everyone else agrees it is worth at least 9-10 like TotK.

Did anyone seriously expect Ubisoft to sell a complete game? Even their overpriced ultimate versions are usually incomplete (looking at you AC Valhalla)