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After everything some users have said on here this last week about team green, the mental gymnastics over this is going to be hilarious.

It's the way the industry is headed, their earnings report told you everything you need to know, their current business plan is unsustainable and changes need to be made and fast.

I actually resubscribed to extra last week as Sony offered me a year for £46, less than half price.

@Grumblevolcano The Outer Worlds Spacers choice is published by Private Division, and nothing to do with MS, who are publishing the sequel.

But it is possible, maybe we will learn more tomorrow

They need to find a way to make some actual decent profit margins. No point selling 100million consoles if they are barely breaking even due to increasing costs.

Its something I mentioned at their last earnings call, which a few of the diehards took offence to, but was right on the money, as explained by their CEO. Like I said then, the devil is in the detail always, you need to read beyond the headlines as they are always sunshine and rainbows

Even if they reach 21million and not 25million, they have had to heavily discount the console worldwide for almost a full calendar year. This is a far from ideal situation and leaves them with very little room to manoeuvre.

This is a problem that needs addressing sharp by the bigwigs as they have already increased the price of games, the console and the subscription and its still nowhere near enough to move the neeedle

Improving the business side of things due to razor thin margins was exactly what I said was their issue at the last earnings call, which I got some kick back about from people on here, that do not understand the business, because all you ever see is headlines of Sony selling consoles and celebration on push. But to do that over the last year they have had to heavily discount the system, and they still missed their target by several millions.

The gaming industry is in a difficult position right now and its something Sony needs to get on top of fast. No point being one of the top selling consoles if you are making hardly any money from it, even after increasing game prices, console price and subscription price very recently.

I am not sure what the answer is, as Sonys business is so reliant on selling consoles, which as a market is not growing and has not been for years. With their costs ballooning, this is a very bad place to be in.

I am sure some brainiac at Sony will be beavering away at a solution and I wish them the best of luck

Well done Arrowhead. Not my kind of game, but sounds like they did a good job for those interested

They have been on a mission since announcing the target

Feels like the PS5 has been on sale one way or another since Easter last year. (That was when I started seeing the reduced prices here in the UK anyway)

@Pranwell I've played both already and didn't enjoy Pentiment, found it very boring, but your mileage may differ

After all the rumours if its just a couple of smaller AA games it's going to me such an anticlimax.

NatetheHate was backtracking his Starfield rumours yesterday and said he doesn't expect it on PS now (I read an article yesterday about it)

Let's see Thurdsay

After all the rumours the past week I hope we hear about something interesting and its not just a couple of smaller titles. It would be such an anti climax

@Jimmer-jammer Gaming has now overtook Windows to become microsofts 3rd biggest business only behind AI and Azure

https://twitter.com/tomwarren/status/1752452485116018704

Death Stranding Directors Cut. Enjoying it and find the story really interesting

I think the chances are slim but it would be kind of funny if after all the rumours the past week, only a handful of smaller titles like Hi-Fi Rush made the jump and it ended up being a bit of a nothing burger.

Sunset Overdrive in 17th is criminal. Just feels right to hit PS after Insomniac were purchased by Sony

@pharos_haven it's actually number 2 behind EA FC 24

It would be nice if Sunset Overdrive got a PS release. I really enjoyed it, felt it went a bit underrated and now that Insomniac are one of PS top studios, it just seems right to me for it to hit PS.

Makes you wonder if we will even see Switch 2 this year, with the current console still going gangbusters.

I honestly find it crazy its still topping the charts after all this time and has sold over 139million units.

Its also good to see some PS software in the charts like the article mentions, competition is king

@ChrisDeku So initial impressions sound like a mixed bag from your latest response and it could go either way. Thanks for the update

@ChrisDeku and its half of Granblue Fantasy 115,000 or a tiny fraction of Pal Worlds 2.1million. As a steam numbers novice, it just seemed fairly conservative when compared to some of the other releases this year which have been reported on.

But thanks for offering some additional perspective, appreciate it.

Is 50,000 a good result for steam concurrent players on day 1? Maybe its just Pal Worlds 2.1million concurrent players reported last week that makes it seem very low?

Considering Days gone launched in a technical mess and reviewed distinctly average, that is not as reassuring as he thinks it is, but I appreciate the sentiment.

They should just rename it the ex-box

Ninja Gaiden 3 Razers Edge. I play at least 1 of the NG games every year, because they have the best combat in any game ever.

Seems kind of pointless when you have devices like the rog ally and steam deck.

Why limit yourself to a Sony device, when you can play almost anything on an Ally, as they launch their games on steam.

With a 3rd party device you can play Sony games and everything else with emulators. A much better proposition and that is before you even mention sonys appalling track record of supporting devices outside of its core home console (Vita and psvr as 2 recent examples)

How do you mess up a free game that was shadow dropped. Konami gotta Konami.

Silent Hill 2 Remake looked absolutely terrible aswell

I thought it being a ps6 title was obvious, if it's only starting production after ds2 releases in 2025. This is going to be close enough to a decade away more than likely

Best game of the show for me and one of my most hyped games for the whole year. Ninja Gaiden, Nioh, Wo Long are all awesome.

Got me hyped. Just please be a game and a movie and not a strange hybrid. This could be superb

Ronin continues to have me hyped. I was hyped for the new Kojima announcement until they mentioned movie/game then it died a little. Not really much else but Judas (as a big Bioshock fan) butnot every game has to be for me, so a solid enough show

I get Sony do not have a say in the gamepass deal, but they could at the very least make the same deal and put it on their own sub aswell, try and give some value back to their customers and not have such bad optics over the years.

PS plus really needs to improve alot to be in the same league as gamepass. It's nowhere near at the minute and some day 1 deals like that would get me to resubscribe. As a multiplatform gamer it's not even a contest on which service gets my money

If Ronin ends up being what I hope, a kind of ghost of tsushima with Nioh combat difficulty and depth, this should be awesome.

Star Wars Outlaws aims to tell a tighter narrative tale, which sounds like a refreshing change from Remedy's more open and, at times, meandering Star Wars Jedi games

Remedy dont make Star Wars games, that's respawn

Having reading the comments above, after the Blizzard info and now this, it feels like there's more MS news than Sony news on Push at the minute...

Even one of the sources you linked (techraptor) mentions that they are working on an Xbox game, in the title and text of their article, so why did you edit all that out and not mention it?

Please be better than the last handful of shows, I'm not sure how they could be any worse.

Really hyped for Ronin and any surprises they show! A re-reveal of Pragmata would be awesome!

I did predict pre launch it would not even sell as well as psvr1, as a lot of people got stung on psvr1 with motion sickness (Like myself - One of my most regrettable purchases ever) and a lack of any killer game.

PSVR2 was destined to fail even before the questionable launch (zero hype, not sold in stores etc) and not because its a bad product, but because VR is nowhere near ready for mass market appeal and a huge number of people have absolutely no interest in it at all

I tried the man erased his name and found it dull as dishwater and did not make it to the end. I Really wish I could get into this series, but every time I try, I just can't seem to enjoy them. I am a huge fan of Shenmue as well, so you would think these games would click, but they do not.

And as a side note: How are we ever going to stop getting fleeced as customers, when Sega's shady practises are brushed over every time by the media and the game scores highly regardless. We get what we deserve to be honest

Great review, your enthusiasm comes across well in the text

Stay classy San Diego

I am playing Skyrim, the special addition. Just finished the mages guild quests and I am doing the thieves guild quests at the moment. Will get to play some more when the kids are in bed tonight, taking them to soft play now. Happy weekend everyone

This is a remaster in name only. They did not remaster anything. They ported it to Ps5 with a little extra content. It's not even a remaster, Digital Foundry confirmed it's exactly the same. This guy comes across as completely out of touch

I recently finished part 2 on PS5 and while I enjoyed the game, it was way to long and boring and a step down from Part 1 (It was in my top 5 most played games last year)

I just watched the Digital Foundry video and I cant believe it is exactly the same with no visual enhancements. This must take the prize for most pointless remaster ever. Please stop remastering games that do not need it, this game is not even 4 years old! Just stop

As a Newcastle fan, any business owned by Mike Ashley is strictly off limits, because he's a terrible human and he asset stripped my local club

I mentioned this the other day but I have had 3 dualsence, 2 white and 1 starlight blue. Never got more than 4 hours charge at most out of any of them. 12hours is still poor compared to the competition. Two of them broke due to the RT snapping and going floppy. Between drift, poor battery and breaking triggers the dualsence has been a massive step backwards after the dualshock 4. I do like the rumble but the adaptive triggers are awful and just get in the way

Honestly just a better showcase please. We didn't get one for like 2 years and then last years was terrible and we may aswell not have had one. Really looking forward to Ronin from Team Ninja

Stop playing predatory games that have no respect for you. Live service games are a cancer on the industry and instead of making excuses for them, people should call them out and stop supporting them. Same goes for gacha games.

That means stop buying from the stores, and stop playing the games at all, or things will continue to get worse and worse. If you play these games you are telling devs and publishers that this sort of thing is fine, and nothing will ever get better for us the consumer. Be part of the solution, not part of the problem.

Well done to Sony, MS and Nintendo

The dualshock 4 is far superior to the dualsence. I am on my 3rd dualsence as both my previous controllers the springs have snapped in the RT. Its extra annoying as I hate the adaptive triggers, as they just get in the way, especially when playing difficult games (as I tend to alot) The battery life has also been a major disappointment, and the longest I have ever got out of a charge being approx. 4 hours with the triggers turned off, really nowhere near good enough

I do like the rumble, but overall the dualsence is a massive step down from the Dualshock 4

Only one I am interested in buying day 1 is Ronin, please don't make it casual friendly, and keep to your roots team ninja

Ronin is my most anticipated PS5 game this year, love Team Ninja.

Wo long was awesome last year as well!

Too many remakes and cookie cutter sequels for last year to be considered truly great, but your mileage may vary

Wo Long was a really great game. Team Ninja are the combat masters. Glad to see others enjoyed it as much as me