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My eyes are so offended by the art style and character designs I still havnt made it to the end of the trailer

The art style is abhorrent, the original games have a great art style, what were they thinking!

Less than half of developers surveyed want to make a game for any console, seems kind of low to me?

Is it usually that low?

Game has been torn to shreds on Steam, doesn't look good, looks DOA

@darylb24 cost could go either way, just as likely the prices stay high as they are to go down (prices very rarely go back down in any infustry) And while all console tech is somewhat out of date I agree, this would be even more out of date then usual. Never a good thing got a generation expected to last 7 or 8 years.

Delay it a year or 2, and its a year or 2 out of date before it's even launched, they are not going to redesign the APU. It makes zero sense, please don't do it

Fable looked fantastic, glad they kept true to the originals with alot of the features like buying houses, consequences and kicking chickens.

They nailed the art style and the tech looks incredible

Japan looks beautiful, Playground games always deliver on that side

@nomither6 I completely disagree

I preferred the Art style when it was first revealed, it looks worse now and I wonder why they did that?

@SMJ you speak alot of sense from a consumer point of view, but alot of users on here are married to a Sony plastic box under their telly and won't even contemplate that there could be a better scenario for themselfs or the industry. Can't see the wood for the trees

While I am sure it sold well, Alinea Analytics are as unreliable as they come, and I have even seen reports they use user reviews and an "algorithm" to get there numbers. I would not trust there numbers at all

@rjejr Developer Direct is when the developers give a deeper dive into the game, not just a teaser trailer, for games coming out this year. Each game is usually presented by the actual dev team making it (or one of two of them anyway) Its geared towards the public and not developers, so is not full of technical mumbo jumbo or anything like that

I guess Call of Duty isn't dead after all, not surprised

Delaying the PS6 will just make it old tech before its even released. SoC takes years and billions to develop, so they wont do it again. What is the point releasing it later, just for it to be out of date before it even arrives. Sounds like a horrible idea tbh

Wait, wasn't COD supposed to be dead for like the 8th year running?

After reading the full transcript, Vincke actually comes out looking worse than he did in the interview as originally published.

Certain people on here really want to try and pick and chose which studios they have a go at over AI usage. If its a studio they like, its fine. If its Activision (for example) they are the devil. Its amusing

@themightyant Sony are signed up to the "Playing for the Planet Alliance" other EU green initiatives and their own "Road to zero" initiative by 2050. You can read about them all online but a snapshot of Road to Zero:

"zero environmental footprint by 2050, with accelerated targets for net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2040, achieved through energy-efficient hardware (like the PS5's chip and low-power modes), reduced packaging, and sustainable practices across the product lifecycle"

These have so far included significant low-power features, including extremely efficient Rest Modes (using <0.5W), energy-saving settings for USB charging and the already mentioned 100W low power mode for games/

It makes sense that these are to do with this and nothing to do with a handheld.

As a reference the switch 2 uses 11-12W handheld and 18-19w docked.

@themightyant they didn't dispute that there will be a portable. They said the 100W low power mode wont be anything to do with it, as it still draws way too much power, even after more efficient hardware is considered.

@themightyant nobody is always right, but they are very good at what they do and give reasons for their conclusions. Watch the video, it makes a lot of sense

Digital Foundry already rubbished the idea this would be for a handheld in a recent video.

Video game hardware spending in October grew 36% when compared a year ago, to $351M. Switch 2 was again able to offset declines across Switch (-52% versus a year ago), Xbox Series (-37%) and PlayStation 5 (-22%). Nintendo Switch 2 sold 328k units in October. It is 68% ahead of the sales pace set by the original Nintendo Switch and is 3% ahead of PlayStation 4’s previous record velocity. October spending on ASUS PC Portable hardware devices increased by 4.8x compared to a year ago and is now 30% higher year-to-date.

Switch 2 is doing incredibly well!

17ms improvement would barely be perceptible, 91ms is still shocking

Its awesome to have one of my favourite game series of all time back

Unless Sony and Microsoft course correct (i doubt it) i will be going Switch 2/PC from now on

Ps6 will be less powerful so they can scam everyone with a mild upgrade pro

@nomither6 Its better than the OG Switch, which was already a good console. As a farther its much more convenient than playing on the TV these days and I can just pick up and play whenever i have a few minutes due to the sleep mode etc. Its brilliant, would highly recommend

Switch 2 has become my number 1 console since it was released, its a great machine.

Its hard to disagree, especially as they seem intent on just pumping out cookie cutter sequels that don't hit the same heights as the originals. Done it all before and its been getting tedious the last few years

@get2sammyb it really is trash in my opinion, that's why I cancelled my subscription, as I voted with my wallet.

I will be doing the same with GPU

Gamepass is now expensive, and PS Plus is trash. What a time to be alive!

If Atreus is the lead im not interested, hated playing him in Ragnarok

Going to be my GOTY I would think, but I am highly biased as a Ninja Gaiden fanatic

Went to see it at the weekend with the wife. Was good apart from the very abrupt ending, guess we will have to wait for the next movie

@Mikeg1965 Careful, my comment got deleted for saying exactly this! Not only was the review total nonsense, now they are deleting comments calling them out for it, instead of admitting their mistake. Really bad from PS

Ninja Gaiden is my favourite game series of all time. Cant wait

the first game was so marmite, the sequel was always going to struggle more than the first.

@SeaDaVie i did mention especially sales in my previous comment, they even mention launch price in the article i have linked
https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2021/06/30/dev-details-sonys-frustrating-rules-for-discounts-and-promotion-on-playstation/

you cannot even do a launch discount without their approval and it is "very limited." That's right.... You can't do the thing that ever other platform does meaning the Platform X owners will always get the worst deal!

Oh but don't worry. There is a way to guarantee you get featured! All you need to do is spend a VERY reasonable minimum of 25,000 USD to get featured. Oh and then 30% of your subsequent earnings....Bargain!

Now when your game is on the platform, likely without any support from Platform X, you may think, no problem, I can sync up discounts on Platform X with Steam and others...Wrong! Discounts are invite only and invites are also "very limited."

It's been literal years since we could put a title of ours in discount, and I spoke to some other VERY POPULAR devs today and they had the same experience. So even if your game does well at launch and thrives on other platforms, you may still never be invited? Y? who knows?

And from Paul Tassi

I didn’t realize that there would be this arduous process for a game developer to need permission or an invitation to lower the price of their own game.

@SeaDaVie Sony do set prices, especially sales prices. Lots of developers have complained about this the last few years

The UK equivalent lawsuit was given the go-ahead in 2023 and earlier this year was given the green light to proceed to trial. It's not as frivolous as you make out

This article completely misses the point. The same court action is happening in the UK aswell with that consumer rights guy leading it

In the summons sent to Sony by Stichting Massaschade & Consument, there are two core accusations: the exclusion of competition, and the exploitation of consumers and game developers. The organisation claims PlayStation players are entirely dependent on Sony and its prices due to its closed ecosystem, while developers have limited commercial freedom with Sony setting prices.

Could just report the news instead of butchering it to try and defend a corporation?

The art style looks like a cheap mobile game. I wish Bungie luck but it was about as "meh" and uninspiring a reveal as I have ever seen. Generic shooter which costs money in a market dominated by free titles. Is that you Concord 2.0?

The art style looks like a cheap mobile game. I wish Bungie luck but it was about as "meh" and uninspiring a reveal as I have ever seen. Generic shooter which costs money in a market dominated by free titles. Is that you Concord 2.0?

What a strange article, gotta fan those flames I guess?

The problem with their shows recently is that Sony are so quiet, when they finally do say something you expect it to be worth while. But what we usually get amounts to about a blog post. Sony made this problem for themselves having no shows at all or poor shows for years now. It's not the fans fault they are failing to deliver. Hopefully in the summer they have something worthwhile to show us, even if it's not all first party. The shows need to be better

It was just a boring show, Sony really struggle to put on a show these days. The first 20minutes were unbelievably bad

Unless budgets come down, they will not stop the pc ports. Selling to one single console is not a big enough market anymore. I actually expect day and day in the next few years. They need a bigger market to sell their games to, they have been telling us this for years.

Told you so, all those year ago, while the fanboys were cheerleading this on and insulting fans like myself who said this would happen

Square themselfs said the sales did not meet expectations and this very website reported on it

Sad to see a game get hate and more dislikes than likes just because a character looks a certain way. People are rubbish but is this a suprise to anyone anymore