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As a consumer, its like they enjoy kicking us when we are down. This is nothing to celebrate

The only thing I have ever won from a contest happened years ago as a kid. I got my parents to buy me a multipack of Jaffa cakes from Costco and I won a PS1 with Croc 2, so this brings back some awesome childhood memories!

Look forward to the nostalgia trip

as a multiple console owner, I will be supporting the blackout 100%

If its $1000, the only way I am interested is if it plays PC games as well, then I can save some money and not upgrade my PC and kill two birds with one stone.

If it just a bog standard console, I am not interested at that price

That is the second time Playstation has been dunked on by a pizza chain in as many months, what a time to be alive!

If it can play PC games aswell, I would be interested in a over £1000 price. If its just a bog standard console then no chance.

Atleast if it plays PC games, I can not bother upgrading my PC and kill 2 birds with 1 stone

So what happens when prices dont come back down, as most people predict?

Are Sony going to release a 2027 console, in 2030, at an even higher price than it would have cost in 2027 (see ps5 /series x price increases as evidence)

What happens to the ps6 when prices continue to rise? It needs to be released ASAP or it will cost even more and be even more out of date

Never thought i would see the day that a Sony studio gets bodied by a pizza chain. What a time to be alive

Crazy how this mobile game looks infinitely better than the Guerilla made Horizon Hunters Gathering game on PS5.

It doesn't look like *****, but its definitely not the direction I want the franchise to go in. After 2018 the franchise just seems to be on a bit of a downward trajectory

@nessisonett without you, the world would be much worse off.

Times are hard at the moment for most people, we just have to stick together and support each other as best we can.

You can do this!

"Given the stage of our console cycle, our hardware sales strategy can be adjusted flexibly, and we intend to minimize the impact of the increased memory costs on this segment going forward by prioritizing monetization of the installed base to date"

Tao Lin Sony Group CFO

Considering the cost involved, Marathon is a colossul failure and doubling down on that is probably the most insane thing I have heard this year. Marathon will never be profitable, and throwing more money at it will more than likely lead to the death of the entire studio.

Bungie used to be one of my favourite devs, its very sad what has happened, but entirely predictable

Break In is clearly the technical term Sony have assigned for further monetizing the current install base and shaking us all down for every penny we have.

"I honestly don’t know where the industry goes from me, but I also could have told you Spellcasters Chronicles would end up in this situation the moment it was announced.
If I, a mere blogger, could tell you that, then why are studios continuing to make these ridiculous bets?"

Kind of a bold statement coming from the website who told everyone to "ignore the haters" about Concord, and more recently, Marathon

(By the way, I’m not going to feed Microsoft’s tedious engagement activities and write XBOX here, because that’s just freakin’ nonsense, isn’t it?)

The OG XBOX start up screen had XBOX in capitals, it was originally like that

The way you write articles about the competition is completely bizarre for a professional

"Given the stage of our console cycle, our hardware sales strategy can be adjusted flexibly, and we intend to minimize the impact of the increased memory costs on this segment going forward by prioritizing monetization of the installed base to date,"

Tao Lin Sony Group CFO
You told us you were going to shake us down already, no need to lie to our faces

"Given the stage of our console cycle, our hardware sales strategy can be adjusted flexibly, and we intend to minimize the impact of the increased memory costs on this segment going forward by prioritizing monetization of the installed base to date,"

• Tao Lin Sony Group CFO

You told us you were going to shake us down already, no need to lie to our faces

And people keep trying to say COD is dead

Currently 170,000 concurrent players on steam, and only those who purchased the £110 special edition get early access today.

Looks like its going to be another smash hit for Playground games.

Not sure when I will get round to playing it, probably sometime later in the year

@get2sammyb according to various quotes like

"Nishino would go on to explain how generative AI is being pushed internally at Sony, being used to automate repetitive workflows, improving productivity, and accelerating quality assurance. He then pointed to one tool being used - Mockingbird - which generates facial animations from captured performance data in substantially less time than required without the tech. Nishino pointed to Naughty Dog (The Last of Us) and San Diego Studio (MLB The Show 2026) as developers using the tool, including on released games."

Playstation are in fact using generative AI, mockingbird is gen ai, theres more information on Eurogamers article and many others if you want to read them and adjust this story, as it doesn't seem to be correct at all, when you state they are not using generative ai.

In your article you state: "Indeed, during his PlayStation-specific presentation, Nishino didn’t touch on anything resembling generative AI in the slightest." This is just not true at all.

@KundaliniRising333 you, me and a few others predicted alot of Playstations problems ages ago and everytime we spoke on it we just got attacked, called negative and xbots.

People couldn't understand we were worried about the trajectory of Playstation.

It wasn't hate, it was concern.

They really need to turn this ship around, as their reputation is in the gutter atm, but its not looking very good. I really hope they can get back their best, but I doubt it currently

Stop, its already dead

They also qrote 204million off last year due to Destiny 2 underperformance

Thats almost a billion in 12months, scary times indeed

People always mention Horizons sales but rarely mention that those numbers include the ps5 bundles where they were giving the game away for nothing and it was the only way you could get a ps5 at the time. Its nowhere near as popular as people make out.

They inflated the numbers after poor initial sales of HFW

@get2sammyb Welcome to 2026, where nothing is fact checked, who cares if its accurate, lets just post it anyway for engagement.

Blows my mind how far standards have fell.

I do appreciate that you added the additional context and scrutiny, its much better than most, but in my humble opinion, if an article needs that much context and scrutiny, its probably not worth writing in the first place. This company is best ignored.

Your sister site pure posted the same info without any additional context which is crazy to me, since everyone knows how flakey the numbers are, after they explained their methodology.

They use user review numbers and pass it through their "in house algorithm" to get the "data"

When they explained this, they got so much heat, they deleted the post.

You may as well make up a number in your head and write an article about it, it would be just as reliable

Why people are still making articles from these guys data, I have no idea.

Devs should not be put on a pedestal for releasing an unfinished broken game.

What sort of message does that send out.

No wonder the industry is in the gutter

Push Square Starfield review:
"The PS5 version, as such, is comfortably the best Starfield has ever been on a console."

Its literally the worst version of the game

Like I said previously when this topic was on push last month, you would have to be unbelievably naive to think this game didn't have a 250million budget, considering the sheer size and scope of Bungie. 6-7years this game was in development and Bungie is a huge studio, with huge overheads in one of the most expensive cities in America.

It actually shocked me how many people didn't understand this and kept gaslighting people with far lower figures.

With marketing (Marathon was everywhere at launch) the total will be at least another 100m on top of the 250m.

Then you have the costs to keep producing content and running the online infrastructure, and the player numbers are already down by like 70% since its pretty terrible launch numbers.

The future looks bleak indeed and its a real shame as Bungie are a great developer who have unfortunately destroyed their own reputation for years due to the decisions they have made, and are basically insolvent

Kinda funny reading all the praise for the map, after so many were bad mouthing it on Push earlier today on the other article.

Not sure I will get to play it at launch, as I am still knee deep in Pokopia, but it sounds like its shaping up to be another fantastic game by Playground Games, who are one of the best in the business

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We were told the same thing would happen at the start of this generation with Kraken, that file sizes would get smaller. And while it has obviously helped somewhat, file sizes have continued to explode throughout the generation with big games often coming in at 100gb+

If it can play previous PS generatuons and can also play pc games, i would be tempted at $1000.

But if it doesn't play PC games, I dont think I would be interested as it would make the package way less appealing at that price point

@Ainu20 thanks, it's a choice all businesses have to make, and you live and die by the choices you make

@Ainu20 I'm talking about a PLC and I am the CEO

@themightyant I run a civil engineering company and have absorbed lots of costs the last few years, never passed increases on to my customers, and they appreciate that and will remain loyal.. As long as I make enough money to keep the lights on, I am good.

While its a completely different scale to MS/Sony I admit, the same principle could apply. It is easily possible, its just a different business model to price gouging.

@naruball What a time to be alive!

@themightyant They could easily have absorbed these costs, they are not losing money. But they chose to pass it onto the consumer. Would it really be the end of the world if just once, a company absorbed these costs and didn't screw over their customers?

They recently announced a cheaper JPN model, are we subsidizing that now? It sure looks like it

@themightyant They are making record levels of profit, while gouging their customers even more. Its a terrible look no matter the mental gymnastics used to defend it

@get2sammyb I'm not having a go at you at all, not even sure why you would think that.

My point was I am not concerned at all with Sony's business perspective, when they keep announcing records profits. It makes no sense.

@get2sammyb Sony's business perspective? Didn't they just announce record profits?

What about the consumer?! That's who we should be championing!

@get2sammyb yay! Cant wait for Sony and MS to shake me down even more than they already have the last few years, with obscene price rises in almost every facet of the hobby.

What a time to be alive, what a generation! /s

Using Bungie as an example, after yesterdays news. I have seen some people dispute Marathon cost 250m (400m+ with marketing) but I really don't see how they think that.

Bungie has almost 1000 employees in the very expensive area of Seattle, Washington and have been working on the game for over 6years. Just in wages alone that is an absolutely insane number.

I don't really think people appreciate how expensive these prestigious studios are, just to keep the lights on.

@Nyne11Tyme 250m budget for the game, including marketing its estimated at 400m. Bungie is a huge studio, the cost is always going to be high

Atleast the gaslighting can finally stop from the staunch defenders, this has been so obvious from the moment it was announced.

A game to wait 12months to see if they fix any of the list of problems.

I wish them luck

@Cry_Zero No, it seems to cost the same 2ms of frame time as the previous version

But it does improve image quality from what little I have seen, so that is good!

DF have fell off hard since going independent. Chasing the bag has made them lose all their credibility in a crazy short period.

Its sad to see

The pro has drops to 30-40fps in performance mode, that is not a good sign for the base PS5/series X

@MasterChiefWiggum Series X dev kits went out in summer 2020 and the console released November 2020 during a pandemic, so 2027 is still possible

@CielloArc Doesn't sound like they were listening during GDC then, or you didn't speak to dev's.

Development is being powered by the unified xbox GDK across console and windows, means the code will work without any porting.

"One of the standout announcements for that idea was a new Unified Game Development Kit (GDK). This "devkit" basically bridges the gap between platforms, allowing developers to build a game for PC and automatically have a version ready for next-gen Xbox hardware. Also, the GDK is designed to maintain full compatibility with the current Xbox Series X|S, ensuring no player is left behind during this transition."

Its a unified graphics API for xbox and windows