I look forward to the day Game Pass inevitably goes into PlayStation, because it'll be fascinating to see how the Sony fans defend it. Seriously reading comments on here if I was Jim Ryan I'd instantly double the console price increase and charge an extra £10 for all games, because it seems you all will be more than happy to pay that! It highlights perfectly why so many satire videos are made about Sony fans on You Tube.
@UltimateOtaku91 haha fish and chips cost more because the U.K. put sanctions on Russias fish exports, and the U.K. market gets around 30% of its white fish from Russia, or did, so the price increase has bugger all to do with the increase in inflation. Your analogy is flawed and not applicable.
And last I checked Sony wasn’t increasing its prices on all the other products they make and sell like TV’s and speakers etc…
@BritneyfR_ee Unfortunately you’ll have to wait till Ridley Scott releases his vice grip on the franchise before that ever happens. We can expect more Prometheus rubbish instead.
@NEStalgia It is a fantastic little machine; so much potential, I have my launch PSP still too that still works, although I don't use it much these days as I want it to last and not kill the laser. Both devices are pocketable though. I have a Switch OG model too but don't use it much. I still use my Vita though. I couldn't believe what Sony did to it? I think they were scared of competing with the mobile gaming market revolution that was growing and tablet gaming. And Apple. Funny thing now is all the successful mobile apps these days are based on console games.
@NEStalgia Sony went to great lengths to try and turn the Vita into effectively the PS4’s little bitch to stream PS4 games. What a waste. Thank God the developers and communities loved it.
Been playing Uncharted Golden Abyss on my Vita. I do t think Sony will support it much longer though, Jim Ryan seems to have the Vita’s number, he doesn’t think it means for life unfortunately the git.
@somnambulance I think their are a lot of hidden gems on Game Pass, even multiplat ones. But the big games are coming, personally I enjoyed Halo Infinite campaign. Just depends on the delays, lots of those happening. I did hear Naughty Dog may be working in a new IP? Could be interesting. I think it will be a good battle this time. It's what you need.
@Fyz306903 All those plastics end up in the ocean though and then in the food chain. People have micro plastics in their blood these days due to that. You can blame big energy companies all you like, sure they are scum, but we all have a responsibility to change things.
I’m surprised at everyone here is claiming it’s fine I can afford the money, well the fact is consoles and other devices on standby use power and cost money. Do least not to help the planet a little can you not fully power them off? I mean SONY gives you that option in the menu even!
@GADG3Tx87 Again you are wrong, that’s why you won’t convince me of anything. You ignore facts, MS suddenly only started using AMD? You haven’t a clue where they use AMD chips unless you work for them, and judging by their access to chips looking at their supply chain, they use them a lot more then SONY does and get priority treatment.
@GADG3Tx87 No, Game Pass is on mobile devices, any computer, tablets, and console. I think you'll find their are a few million more computers that can run Game Pass via streaming or natively, then their are consoles. Your the one ignoring the facts and twisting them to suite an incorrect narrative.
@GADG3Tx87 Oh dear, well you can ignore simple well know factual business practices and believe the hyperbole rumours if you like, more fool you. Console sales aren't important to Microsoft, they are only a nice surprise to them. Shame you don't get that.
And it's a well known fact also that more Series X consoles are available as it has finished building and installing its Series X server blades, all facts you are choosing to ignore.
@GADG3Tx87 And they still place bigger orders with AMD then Sony does, it's entire game streaming service runs on thousands of Xbox Series X server blades for one, so you are wrong. Do some research yourself. You could look at the Surface store page for one as you'll see AMD chip versions are offered alongside Intel ones.
And why are posting a link to a 'rumour'? Any business in existence has priority customers, it's not a big secret but the only way they get the status is by being big customers placing the most orders... it's not rocket science.
@Mezzer What a ridiculous nationalist comment, you do actually realise Sony closed most if not all it's international SEC offices and moved operations to America right? So most of the staff at PlayStation making the key decisions are probably Americans, how does that affect your hate?
@GADG3Tx87 MS don't pay for 'chip priority' that doesn't exist, instead it's the exact same as any other company, the more orders you put in the higher up the list of priority customers you climb and more requests you can make, and the reality is Microsoft spends a lot more with AMD then Sony does, thus it gets preferential treatment.
Bit of a tip for you, I got my brother in law the WD Black 1TB SN850, (the one Cerney recommended) with heatsink for his PS5 last Christmas, got it in the Black Friday / week sales, and it was cheaper on Western Digitals own website then Amazon was, so make sure you check the manufactures sites also. My Brother in law hasn't made any complaints about the drive so must be working well for him, when I tested it I found it very fast too.
@Titntin A balanced reply, and in app purchases or MTX, whatever you want to call them, unfortunately are being forced on people. It’s the result of the mobile games market, developers found out they could data mine you and sell that information on, and make a killing on in app purchases in ‘free to play’ games. And they have been trying to repeat that same forums in premium titles ever since. It is just plain simple greed at the end of the day, it’s what’s wrong with the world today, greed and selfishness is out of control, must offer value to share holders etc. I only hope players refuse to buy the game, hurt them in the pockets as that is the only way to make them change it. The power of the customer can change the direction of business models if they can’t sell what they want to you to maximise profits.
@Titntin Their greed is balanced? Is that what you are saying? I didn't call them evil I said it's corporate greed, which it is. A game that lacked in app purchases in review copies, releases full of them.
It's also a little confusing as on one hand you claim you don't need to grind to earn cars but in the other you do? But if it's no different to before, however I've seen many say it's not the same as before and you have to work harder to earn cars now. So it seems to be differing opinions on this game.
But in app purchases of cars should have no place in the game outside of DLC packs at reasonable costs. It to me sounds just like the mobile game Real Racing 3 which introduced the cost of buying a single in game car as the same as the 70 pounds they charge for GT7.
We will agree to disagree I think.
You also did not need to bring up Xbox games either that have nothing to do with GT7 other then you using it as an excuse to somehow paint Sony as good guys, rather then a company after all the money in your wallet.
@bbauer36 Firstly it's auto correct that spelt their name wrong, and secondly nope sorry, not a salty Xbot as you proclaim, wrong on that one. But if you enjoy being fleeced blind of all your money thanks to corporate greed be my guest, I'll stick to my opinion thanks. Looks like your young and incredibly naive.
@Titntin Wrong, you do not need to spend money in Halo or Forza 5 to buy weapons or cars, you DO in GT7. Their is a big difference in the approach, GT7 is like a free to play mobile racing game, only it’s also a £70 premium console game… it’s disgusting corporate greed from Polygon and Sony playing on its fans wallets.
The fact it’s single player campaign has to be always online to work is just icing on the mess of a cake they’ve made of GT7, which is a shame as it’s a legendary racing series, but greed has evidentially got the better of them now.
Haha it gets 7/10 here and on this sites sister site Pure Xbox they give it 5/10, I have preordered it and Dan it wait and shall reserve MY judgment till I've played it, because reviewers 'opinions' and scores will vary.
Sony fans ripped on Xbox's Smart Delivery idea. Well now you know why it was a brilliant idea. No reason what so ever why Sony can't do the same thing. They just seemingly don't want to?
@OneWingedAngel You quite clearly have little understanding how big business works. Your attempts to single MS out as special in some way is hilarious. Most companies would not have gone bankrupt, that's pure drama on your part, most would have done exactly the same as Microsoft did.
@HungryHungryHomer haha, I can imagine. But I do remember Sony execs throwing just as much mud back at Xbox during the PS3 / 360 days especially Kaz. I can recall Major Nelson etc. and the British guy who was running Xbox at the time.
@HungryHungryHomer I only remember endless PlayStation fans and content creators and media constantly stating the Xbox has no games. So I don't recall Xbox starting it at all, even if they others took it to the next level agains Xbox. As for COD I never said it won't be in other platforms. Although reading the press release that may not be true, but we shall see. And COD doesn't need to be different, it's more or less the top selling game every year, it doesn't need to change.
@The_Moose So your still trying to downplay the money Xbox generate. And you know what I mean by over the shimmer story simulators, It's a lack of variations that other platforms enjoy.
@The_Moose Yes they are, with 25 million subscribers: http://news.xbox.com/en-us/2022/01/18/welcoming-activision-blizzard-to-microsoft-gaming/ and growing, and that £1 you keep going in about is a special offer only for new customers and is for a limited time..
Game Pass is fantastic and no doubt when Sony launch their version of it, Sony fans will be praising it as the greatest thing in gaming.... because that's the hypocrisy they have. Microsoft aren't strangling anything.
As for safe games, just when was the last time Sony allowed it's studios to make a game that wasn't an over the shoulder third person story simulator?
@The_Moose Yeah mate it is... it's called a business model... it's why they are making a profit from it. And I crating understand it. But hey if you are more qualified to know better then the entire Microsoft executive team, management, analysts, marketing, then please do tell.
But over a year now and it's going from strength to strength. And Sony are heavily rumoured, even in articles in this very site, to be copying the same business model. But sure it's not sustainable.
@ShogunRok Good grief you lot STILL don't get it? Amazing and Netflix and Apple and Meta have all showing a great interest in gaming, all offer big service platforms, I won't be surprised to see them start buying up those publishers and studios you mention. Because that is exactly what Phil meant when he said Sony was not their competition anymore. Your eyes shouldn't by on Microsoft all the time..
This 'end of an era' clap trap is pure click bait knee jerk reaction. Sony aren't going anywhere, but I'd suggest they ditch the management there...
@DotM Well, Sony and Nintendo fans spent years constantly calling Microsoft out as not having any exclusives. So along comes Phil, turns around a sinking ship, and totally changed its business model and it now has umpteen exclusive games.
But look at Sony, they had a massive success last gen on the PS4, so why do they do? They close all their international offices, replace the board at Sony, move all of SCE to the US, ignore their home market, fire or push out the heads that made the PS4 such a success and then try to cancel the PS3 and Vita rather then embrace backwards compatibility.
I think if they left the PS model alone as it was with PS4, rather then rip it up and start again seemingly, they would be in a better position. But stock shortages aren't Sonys fault entirely.
The PS5 is a very capable machine, for me it's just the management that are questionable.
@OneWingedAngel Starfield was never once ever announced for PlayStation, that was entirely a fantasy made up by Sony fans. COD is an established global phenomena in gaming. Look at its sales numbers to see that, I think it'll still be on PS at a price.
Hahahaha oh dear talk about knee jerk reaction drama.... COD will be in PS, but I'd expect it to be day and date on Game Pass too... Nintendo don't seem to like COD these days?
Remember when Phil said, repeatedly, that Sony and Microsoft are not their competition? And Sony fans ridiculed him for that? Do you get it yet? Microsoft are competing against Netflix, Amazon, Apple, Meta, huge corporations with pockets as deep as there's. And they are moving to a subscription future that sells consoles too. But console sales aren't their main concern. They are creating their future. COD day and date on Game Pass? £70 on PS5? That's huge.
But it has to pass through global competition commissions first.
I read this then as Nintendo are beating Sony and winning the console war sales, between the Switch and PS5, but the article title is pure utter clickbait. Sales numbers matter not revenue. Sonys machine costs a lot more to make so unless you can break down if So y is making more profit per console then Nintendo are with the Switch, which is doubtful, then it means bugger all if Sony are making more revenue.
@Fatewalker He’s the perfect salesman and CEO, he promotes great value, stress worry free purchasing to drive up sales. And does it so well it sucks many a fan right in, many still defending him and Sony even now, despite the facts he blatantly lied through his teeth to them and has indeed done the total opposite of what he publicly claimed. If that’s what Sony fans want then you deserve to be ripped off.
Wow! Now that’s both original and clever. Never heard of this on an industrial scale though! I suspect they stole all the PS4’s though. Seeing as they are criminals at the end of the day.
@Hakin 😂😂🤣😂🤣🤣😂😂🤣 your one triggered fanboy! Seriously, seek professional help, you have a serious problem with attaching yourself emotionally to plastic inanimate objects. Your hypocritical delusion seems to know no bounds. Be careful not to get your d**k stuck in your PS5's disk drive 🤣🤣😂
@Hakin Seriously, seek help. You are arguing over a plastic box calling others trash because your one totally and utterly deluded blind fanboy. Sony thanks you for the free advertising. Have fun continuing to do so with no pay cheque from them.
Reading your second paragraph your also hilariously utterly hypocritical of yourself too. With your language you must be 12, shouldn't you be in school?
@OmegaStriver I agree that the PS3 and Xbox 360 had the best games generation so far. Sony needs to start being honest really and stop manipulating things like 'we believe in generations' and then releasing PS5 games on PS4.
@Hakin Complete total utter garbage, spoken like a true blind fanboy. the fact you proclaimed Sony's exclusives outselling Nintendo's is utterly hilarious, come back when Sony manage to keep one of its games in the top ten for months on end like Nintendo does.
And then you go in with the insults, which just demeanours any respect your pathetic argument possessed, quite clear your are blindly signing your allegiance to a particular plastic box, have fun with that.
@Martsmall I think a lot of confused hypocrites are commenting to be honest. And your right, Game Pass seems to be working just fine for Microsoft. Microsoft brought a new business model to gaming, Sony brought the traditional one. Both are working for now, but when it comes to exclusives it's as you said, they've existed for years and years in gaming and is not new in anyway shape or form.
@arra1213 You really have absolutely no idea what your talking about. It's hilarious reading your posts. Go and Google some more and post your made up crap with no links.
That revenue you posted is not even the bigger revenue you just stated they made in a quarter in your last post, yet now your claiming it's their entire revenue for a year? 😂😂🤣😂🤣😂 you truly are a confused hypocrite.
@arra1213 What article? All you did was type a load of crap you clearly don't understand and twisted it and you just look like a fool. But carry on digging your own hole. Your not quoting earnings from last year as you claim. The rest of your drivel is just an immature fanboy attack. Just makes you look even more like a confused hypocrite.
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Re: PS5 Price Increase Has Some Japanese Players Praying for PC Port of Final Fantasy 16
I look forward to the day Game Pass inevitably goes into PlayStation, because it'll be fascinating to see how the Sony fans defend it. Seriously reading comments on here if I was Jim Ryan I'd instantly double the console price increase and charge an extra £10 for all games, because it seems you all will be more than happy to pay that! It highlights perfectly why so many satire videos are made about Sony fans on You Tube.
Re: PS5 Price Increase Confirmed for UK, Europe, Japan, Canada, and More
@UltimateOtaku91 haha fish and chips cost more because the U.K. put sanctions on Russias fish exports, and the U.K. market gets around 30% of its white fish from Russia, or did, so the price increase has bugger all to do with the increase in inflation.
Your analogy is flawed and not applicable.
And last I checked Sony wasn’t increasing its prices on all the other products they make and sell like TV’s and speakers etc…
Re: Neill Blomkamp's Gran Turismo Movie Speeds to Cinemas on 11th August, 2023
@BritneyfR_ee Unfortunately you’ll have to wait till Ridley Scott releases his vice grip on the franchise before that ever happens. We can expect more Prometheus rubbish instead.
Re: Sony Confirms PS Plus Subscription Stacking Has Been Blocked
@Resi32 Corporate Greed!
Re: PS Vita's PS Store Says Content Is No Longer for Sale
@NEStalgia It is a fantastic little machine; so much potential, I have my launch PSP still too that still works, although I don't use it much these days as I want it to last and not kill the laser. Both devices are pocketable though. I have a Switch OG model too but don't use it much. I still use my Vita though. I couldn't believe what Sony did to it? I think they were scared of competing with the mobile gaming market revolution that was growing and tablet gaming. And Apple. Funny thing now is all the successful mobile apps these days are based on console games.
Re: PS Vita's PS Store Says Content Is No Longer for Sale
@NEStalgia Sony went to great lengths to try and turn the Vita into effectively the PS4’s little bitch to stream PS4 games. What a waste. Thank God the developers and communities loved it.
Re: PS Vita's PS Store Says Content Is No Longer for Sale
Been playing Uncharted Golden Abyss on my Vita. I do t think Sony will support it much longer though, Jim Ryan seems to have the Vita’s number, he doesn’t think it means for life unfortunately the git.
Re: Microsoft Bigwig Implies PS5 Is Losing Marketshare to Xbox
@somnambulance I think their are a lot of hidden gems on Game Pass, even multiplat ones. But the big games are coming, personally I enjoyed Halo Infinite campaign. Just depends on the delays, lots of those happening. I did hear Naughty Dog may be working in a new IP? Could be interesting. I think it will be a good battle this time. It's what you need.
Re: British Gas Blasted for Advising Customers to Turn Off Consoles Like PS5, PS4
@Fyz306903 All those plastics end up in the ocean though and then in the food chain. People have micro plastics in their blood these days due to that. You can blame big energy companies all you like, sure they are scum, but we all have a responsibility to change things.
Re: British Gas Blasted for Advising Customers to Turn Off Consoles Like PS5, PS4
I’m surprised at everyone here is claiming it’s fine I can afford the money, well the fact is consoles and other devices on standby use power and cost money. Do least not to help the planet a little can you not fully power them off? I mean SONY gives you that option in the menu even!
Re: Microsoft Bigwig Implies PS5 Is Losing Marketshare to Xbox
@GADG3Tx87 Again you are wrong, that’s why you won’t convince me of anything. You ignore facts, MS suddenly only started using AMD? You haven’t a clue where they use AMD chips unless you work for them, and judging by their access to chips looking at their supply chain, they use them a lot more then SONY does and get priority treatment.
Re: Microsoft Bigwig Implies PS5 Is Losing Marketshare to Xbox
@GADG3Tx87 No, Game Pass is on mobile devices, any computer, tablets, and console.
I think you'll find their are a few million more computers that can run Game Pass via streaming or natively, then their are consoles. Your the one ignoring the facts and twisting them to suite an incorrect narrative.
Re: Microsoft Bigwig Implies PS5 Is Losing Marketshare to Xbox
@GADG3Tx87 Oh dear, well you can ignore simple well know factual business practices and believe the hyperbole rumours if you like, more fool you. Console sales aren't important to Microsoft, they are only a nice surprise to them. Shame you don't get that.
And it's a well known fact also that more Series X consoles are available as it has finished building and installing its Series X server blades, all facts you are choosing to ignore.
Re: Microsoft Bigwig Implies PS5 Is Losing Marketshare to Xbox
@GADG3Tx87 And they still place bigger orders with AMD then Sony does, it's entire game streaming service runs on thousands of Xbox Series X server blades for one, so you are wrong. Do some research yourself. You could look at the Surface store page for one as you'll see AMD chip versions are offered alongside Intel ones.
And why are posting a link to a 'rumour'? Any business in existence has priority customers, it's not a big secret but the only way they get the status is by being big customers placing the most orders... it's not rocket science.
Re: Microsoft Bigwig Implies PS5 Is Losing Marketshare to Xbox
@Mezzer What a ridiculous nationalist comment, you do actually realise Sony closed most if not all it's international SEC offices and moved operations to America right? So most of the staff at PlayStation making the key decisions are probably Americans, how does that affect your hate?
Re: Microsoft Bigwig Implies PS5 Is Losing Marketshare to Xbox
@GADG3Tx87 MS don't pay for 'chip priority' that doesn't exist, instead it's the exact same as any other company, the more orders you put in the higher up the list of priority customers you climb and more requests you can make, and the reality is Microsoft spends a lot more with AMD then Sony does, thus it gets preferential treatment.
Re: Microsoft Bigwig Implies PS5 Is Losing Marketshare to Xbox
@somnambulance Actually they outsold the Switch too.
Re: Best PS5 SSD 2022: Boost Your PS5 Storage Capacity
Bit of a tip for you, I got my brother in law the WD Black 1TB SN850, (the one Cerney recommended) with heatsink for his PS5 last Christmas, got it in the Black Friday / week sales, and it was cheaper on Western Digitals own website then Amazon was, so make sure you check the manufactures sites also. My Brother in law hasn't made any complaints about the drive so must be working well for him, when I tested it I found it very fast too.
Re: Gran Turismo 7 PS5, PS4 Patch Restores Servers After 24 Hours, Polyphony Digital Comments on Microtransactions
@Titntin A balanced reply, and in app purchases or MTX, whatever you want to call them, unfortunately are being forced on people. It’s the result of the mobile games market, developers found out they could data mine you and sell that information on, and make a killing on in app purchases in ‘free to play’ games. And they have been trying to repeat that same forums in premium titles ever since.
It is just plain simple greed at the end of the day, it’s what’s wrong with the world today, greed and selfishness is out of control, must offer value to share holders etc.
I only hope players refuse to buy the game, hurt them in the pockets as that is the only way to make them change it. The power of the customer can change the direction of business models if they can’t sell what they want to you to maximise profits.
Re: Gran Turismo 7 PS5, PS4 Patch Restores Servers After 24 Hours, Polyphony Digital Comments on Microtransactions
@Titntin Their greed is balanced? Is that what you are saying? I didn't call them evil I said it's corporate greed, which it is. A game that lacked in app purchases in review copies, releases full of them.
It's also a little confusing as on one hand you claim you don't need to grind to earn cars but in the other you do? But if it's no different to before, however I've seen many say it's not the same as before and you have to work harder to earn cars now. So it seems to be differing opinions on this game.
But in app purchases of cars should have no place in the game outside of DLC packs at reasonable costs. It to me sounds just like the mobile game Real Racing 3 which introduced the cost of buying a single in game car as the same as the 70 pounds they charge for GT7.
We will agree to disagree I think.
You also did not need to bring up Xbox games either that have nothing to do with GT7 other then you using it as an excuse to somehow paint Sony as good guys, rather then a company after all the money in your wallet.
Re: Gran Turismo 7 PS5, PS4 Patch Restores Servers After 24 Hours, Polyphony Digital Comments on Microtransactions
@bbauer36 Firstly it's auto correct that spelt their name wrong, and secondly nope sorry, not a salty Xbot as you proclaim, wrong on that one. But if you enjoy being fleeced blind of all your money thanks to corporate greed be my guest, I'll stick to my opinion thanks. Looks like your young and incredibly naive.
Re: Gran Turismo 7 PS5, PS4 Patch Restores Servers After 24 Hours, Polyphony Digital Comments on Microtransactions
@Titntin Wrong, you do not need to spend money in Halo or Forza 5 to buy weapons or cars, you DO in GT7. Their is a big difference in the approach, GT7 is like a free to play mobile racing game, only it’s also a £70 premium console game… it’s disgusting corporate greed from Polygon and Sony playing on its fans wallets.
The fact it’s single player campaign has to be always online to work is just icing on the mess of a cake they’ve made of GT7, which is a shame as it’s a legendary racing series, but greed has evidentially got the better of them now.
Re: Dying Light 2 (PS5) - Good Sequel Hurt by Expectation
Haha it gets 7/10 here and on this sites sister site Pure Xbox they give it 5/10, I have preordered it and Dan it wait and shall reserve MY judgment till I've played it, because reviewers 'opinions' and scores will vary.
Re: Sony's PS Plus, PS Now Cross-Gen Bullsh*t Continues
Sony fans ripped on Xbox's Smart Delivery idea. Well now you know why it was a brilliant idea.
No reason what so ever why Sony can't do the same thing. They just seemingly don't want to?
Re: Will Call of Duty and Other Activision Blizzard Games Come to PS5, PS4?
@OneWingedAngel You quite clearly have little understanding how big business works. Your attempts to single MS out as special in some way is hilarious. Most companies would not have gone bankrupt, that's pure drama on your part, most would have done exactly the same as Microsoft did.
Re: Microsoft Buys Call of Duty Publisher Activision Blizzard
@HungryHungryHomer haha, I can imagine. But I do remember Sony execs throwing just as much mud back at Xbox during the PS3 / 360 days especially Kaz. I can recall Major Nelson etc. and the British guy who was running Xbox at the time.
Re: UK Sales Charts: Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart the Next Insomniac Game to Take Top Spot
@arra1213 So you don't understand what your talking about and seem very young. Keep dreaming.. Xbox is making nice profits. And MS has deep pockets.
Re: Microsoft Buys Call of Duty Publisher Activision Blizzard
@HungryHungryHomer I only remember endless PlayStation fans and content creators and media constantly stating the Xbox has no games. So I don't recall Xbox starting it at all, even if they others took it to the next level agains Xbox.
As for COD I never said it won't be in other platforms. Although reading the press release that may not be true, but we shall see. And COD doesn't need to be different, it's more or less the top selling game every year, it doesn't need to change.
Re: Will Call of Duty and Other Activision Blizzard Games Come to PS5, PS4?
@OneWingedAngel So are you claiming now that Xbox doesn't generate a profit then?
Re: Will Call of Duty and Other Activision Blizzard Games Come to PS5, PS4?
@The_Moose So your still trying to downplay the money Xbox generate. And you know what I mean by over the shimmer story simulators, It's a lack of variations that other platforms enjoy.
Re: Will Call of Duty and Other Activision Blizzard Games Come to PS5, PS4?
@The_Moose Yes they are, with 25 million subscribers: http://news.xbox.com/en-us/2022/01/18/welcoming-activision-blizzard-to-microsoft-gaming/ and growing, and that £1 you keep going in about is a special offer only for new customers and is for a limited time..
Game Pass is fantastic and no doubt when Sony launch their version of it, Sony fans will be praising it as the greatest thing in gaming.... because that's the hypocrisy they have. Microsoft aren't strangling anything.
As for safe games, just when was the last time Sony allowed it's studios to make a game that wasn't an over the shoulder third person story simulator?
Re: Will Call of Duty and Other Activision Blizzard Games Come to PS5, PS4?
@The_Moose Yeah mate it is... it's called a business model... it's why they are making a profit from it. And I crating understand it. But hey if you are more qualified to know better then the entire Microsoft executive team, management, analysts, marketing, then please do tell.
But over a year now and it's going from strength to strength. And Sony are heavily rumoured, even in articles in this very site, to be copying the same business model. But sure it's not sustainable.
Re: Microsoft Buys Call of Duty Publisher Activision Blizzard
@HungryHungryHomer Be in denial if you want, your choice. You keep claiming Xbox has no games..
Re: Reaction: Activision Blizzard Buyout Is Devastating for PS5, PS4
@ShogunRok Good grief you lot STILL don't get it? Amazing and Netflix and Apple and Meta have all showing a great interest in gaming, all offer big service platforms, I won't be surprised to see them start buying up those publishers and studios you mention. Because that is exactly what Phil meant when he said Sony was not their competition anymore. Your eyes shouldn't by on Microsoft all the time..
This 'end of an era' clap trap is pure click bait knee jerk reaction. Sony aren't going anywhere, but I'd suggest they ditch the management there...
Re: Microsoft Buys Call of Duty Publisher Activision Blizzard
@DotM Well, Sony and Nintendo fans spent years constantly calling Microsoft out as not having any exclusives. So along comes Phil, turns around a sinking ship, and totally changed its business model and it now has umpteen exclusive games.
But look at Sony, they had a massive success last gen on the PS4, so why do they do? They close all their international offices, replace the board at Sony, move all of SCE to the US, ignore their home market, fire or push out the heads that made the PS4 such a success and then try to cancel the PS3 and Vita rather then embrace backwards compatibility.
I think if they left the PS model alone as it was with PS4, rather then rip it up and start again seemingly, they would be in a better position. But stock shortages aren't Sonys fault entirely.
The PS5 is a very capable machine, for me it's just the management that are questionable.
Re: Will Call of Duty and Other Activision Blizzard Games Come to PS5, PS4?
@OneWingedAngel Starfield was never once ever announced for PlayStation, that was entirely a fantasy made up by Sony fans. COD is an established global phenomena in gaming. Look at its sales numbers to see that, I think it'll still be on PS at a price.
Re: Will Call of Duty and Other Activision Blizzard Games Come to PS5, PS4?
@The_Moose haha I think the market and grown ups will trust Microsoft and its team to know what is and isn't sustainable lol.
Re: Will Call of Duty and Other Activision Blizzard Games Come to PS5, PS4?
Hahahaha oh dear talk about knee jerk reaction drama....
COD will be in PS, but I'd expect it to be day and date on Game Pass too...
Nintendo don't seem to like COD these days?
Re: Microsoft Buys Call of Duty Publisher Activision Blizzard
Remember when Phil said, repeatedly, that Sony and Microsoft are not their competition? And Sony fans ridiculed him for that? Do you get it yet?
Microsoft are competing against Netflix, Amazon, Apple, Meta, huge corporations with pockets as deep as there's. And they are moving to a subscription future that sells consoles too. But console sales aren't their main concern.
They are creating their future. COD day and date on Game Pass? £70 on PS5? That's huge.
But it has to pass through global competition commissions first.
Re: October 2021 NPD: PS5 Is Still the Best-Selling US System of the Year
I read this then as Nintendo are beating Sony and winning the console war sales, between the Switch and PS5, but the article title is pure utter clickbait. Sales numbers matter not revenue. Sonys machine costs a lot more to make so unless you can break down if So y is making more profit per console then Nintendo are with the Switch, which is doubtful, then it means bugger all if Sony are making more revenue.
Re: Sony Will Make You Pay Extra to Upgrade Horizon Forbidden West from PS4 to PS5
@Fatewalker He’s the perfect salesman and CEO, he promotes great value, stress worry free purchasing to drive up sales. And does it so well it sucks many a fan right in, many still defending him and Sony even now, despite the facts he blatantly lied through his teeth to them and has indeed done the total opposite of what he publicly claimed. If that’s what Sony fans want then you deserve to be ripped off.
Re: Police Raid Ukraine Warehouse Filled with 3,800 PS4 Consoles
Wow! Now that’s both original and clever. Never heard of this on an industrial scale though! I suspect they stole all the PS4’s though. Seeing as they are criminals at the end of the day.
Re: UK Sales Charts: Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart the Next Insomniac Game to Take Top Spot
@Hakin 😂😂🤣😂🤣🤣😂😂🤣 your one triggered fanboy! Seriously, seek professional help, you have a serious problem with attaching yourself emotionally to plastic inanimate objects. Your hypocritical delusion seems to know no bounds. Be careful not to get your d**k stuck in your PS5's disk drive 🤣🤣😂
Re: UK Sales Charts: Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart the Next Insomniac Game to Take Top Spot
@Hakin Seriously, seek help. You are arguing over a plastic box calling others trash because your one totally and utterly deluded blind fanboy. Sony thanks you for the free advertising. Have fun continuing to do so with no pay cheque from them.
Reading your second paragraph your also hilariously utterly hypocritical of yourself too. With your language you must be 12, shouldn't you be in school?
Re: Reaction: It's Time to Accept We Can't Predict PlayStation Anymore
@OmegaStriver I agree that the PS3 and Xbox 360 had the best games generation so far.
Sony needs to start being honest really and stop manipulating things like 'we believe in generations' and then releasing PS5 games on PS4.
Re: UK Sales Charts: Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart the Next Insomniac Game to Take Top Spot
@Hakin Complete total utter garbage, spoken like a true blind fanboy. the fact you proclaimed Sony's exclusives outselling Nintendo's is utterly hilarious, come back when Sony manage to keep one of its games in the top ten for months on end like Nintendo does.
And then you go in with the insults, which just demeanours any respect your pathetic argument possessed, quite clear your are blindly signing your allegiance to a particular plastic box, have fun with that.
Re: Bethesda Apologises to PS5, PS4 Fans 'P*ssed' at Exclusivity
@Martsmall I think a lot of confused hypocrites are commenting to be honest. And your right, Game Pass seems to be working just fine for Microsoft.
Microsoft brought a new business model to gaming, Sony brought the traditional one. Both are working for now, but when it comes to exclusives it's as you said, they've existed for years and years in gaming and is not new in anyway shape or form.
Re: UK Sales Charts: Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart the Next Insomniac Game to Take Top Spot
@arra1213 You really have absolutely no idea what your talking about. It's hilarious reading your posts. Go and Google some more and post your made up crap with no links.
That revenue you posted is not even the bigger revenue you just stated they made in a quarter in your last post, yet now your claiming it's their entire revenue for a year? 😂😂🤣😂🤣😂 you truly are a confused hypocrite.
Re: UK Sales Charts: Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart the Next Insomniac Game to Take Top Spot
@arra1213 What article? All you did was type a load of crap you clearly don't understand and twisted it and you just look like a fool. But carry on digging your own hole. Your not quoting earnings from last year as you claim. The rest of your drivel is just an immature fanboy attack. Just makes you look even more like a confused hypocrite.
Re: UK Sales Charts: Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart the Next Insomniac Game to Take Top Spot
@JJ2 I never said they were, if you actually read my first comment on here it stated:
"These sales figures will become more and more irrelevant as more games are launched in Game Pass."
Never once stated they were irrelevant now. Don't know why you think otherwise.