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@lui709 These are my sentiments too.

I've accepted that it's happening and I'm not quitting console gaming, but they need to tell us how we're going to play our old discs.

Either a drive or disc to digital. Either or would work for me.

"A Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls gameplay trailer, detailing the moves and combos of Iron-Man, also went out on the fighter’s official account – but not the PlayStation one."
They skipped the Ms Marvel one last week too. I don't think this is related.

But everything else, yeah it feels like they've ran for the hills.

I have myself half convinced that the announcement today is just testing the waters, and tomorrow they'll do a temporary U-turn like they did a few years back with the legacy storefronts.
"Oh we didn't think you'd all get this mad. Okay we're cool so we'll back down. But PS7 is definitely going all digital 😌."

@themightyant This was my thinking too, that PS7 would be the one to kill physical media.

I was in denial about this for the longest time. Recently I accepted that it would happen eventually. I just wasn't expecting it so soon.

I also expected confirmation that there would be a plugin drive to run discs on or something.

@Questionable_Duck So either you're lying, or, you're telling the truth.
Interesting... 🤔🤔🤔

If "AI" is used as a tool to help me do my job faster I have no problem with it.
If it's used to replace me or do the job instead of me then obviously I have a problem.

That's more or less how I look at it in general. If Sony wants to use it to help their teams then great. If they use it to replace their teams then it's an issue.

I'd like to see Sony investing more in the mmo space.

Guild Wars 3 is the only live service game on my wishlist (aside from GTA6 Online), but it's one of the games I'm most excited for.
It's sounding like everything I've wanted from a console version of Guild Wars for about 20 years.

It does no harm either when they say it will have no battle pass model and no sub to play other than PS Plus.

Still chasing the last few folios in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth.
I could have wrapped it up during the week, but that ungodly heat made everything feel like a chore. The rain is down now though. Bliss.

@Oram77 I'm surprised more isn't made of this. Lies were definitely told, or at the very least there were significant exaggerations about the future.

Sony believed what they wanted to believe too though. Their eyes were bigger than their bellies that day.

I'll be chasing down the last few folios in FF VII Rebirth. I have the platinum, but there are still those few little things left to do.

Having ADHD myself I sometimes become hyper focused on my favourite hobbies.
But this is next level.

The two exclusives they announced were probably two of the safest ones to go with too. They wouldn't have sold as much on PS5 as Halo for example, but they still give the impression of exclusivity returning for the core audience on Xbox.

Disclaimer: I say this as someone who hasn't really played much on Xbox since the 360 days, so take the above as complete speculation with nothing to back it up.

To be fair this gives the smaller games a better chance to stand out. And as someone who felt instantly exhausted by the Xbox "normalise playing 5 games at once" social media campaign, this works for me.

TLDR: I'm okay with it 🤷‍♂️ Or at the very least it has no impact on me.

"some of these minigames are really good fun — like the chocobo racing — but others are downright tedious, and I do think they cripple the game's pacing a few too many times."

Exaaaaactly.

I love the game and I'm still trying to 100% it, but the tedious nature of some of the side activities was so brutal I've hardly touched it in over a year. Yet other side activities were legit fun.

The main problem I have with this game is me - l want to 100% it so I'll do the activity regardless of the reward. The result is that some of the activities ended up creating a sense of dread with regards to progression - I didn't want to move on to the next area or region in case I'd have to do another piano activity.

I completed most of the side stuff in the end. All I have left now is the combat sim and arena battles, but I've been putting that off since a few months after launch.

In any other game I'd skip stuff like this, but 13 year old me 100-percented og FF VII back in the 90s, and he won't accept anything but a platinum...

Amazing news. I never saw this coming. I never finished it on the Vita actually. I'll have no excuse now.

The Fable CE went pretty quick too. I was actually going to control myself and not get that one though.
Maybe.

@1UP-HUSKY I was just thinking the other day I'd love to see them again for PS6.

Definitely a lot of overthinking being done online in a search for some kind of narrative.

All I've been thinking about is how, between the two shows, an absolutely stunning amount of amazing games have been shown.

Guild Wars coming to PlayStation? I never thought I'd see it.

@Marquez The mini quests were absolutely a grind. It got to the point for me where instead of looking forward to seeing the next town, I was dreading it because I knew there'd be a piano mini game.

• 007 First Light - Haven't had a proper sit down with it yet. I'll be doing that today.
• FF VII Rebirth - Been meaning to go back and get the platinum for over a year. Was just too burned out after doing everything I had to do with the mini games. That trailer last night though has me hyped af.

@Robamuffin 😂 Well I hope it works!

I also have memories of getting very angry at that part, so I'm sure it wasn't the first idea I had either.

@Robamuffin I haven't played it since it released on PS2, but if I'm remembering correctly I did it near a save point.
So I'd get 5 and save it. Then do 5 more and save. That way if I was hit I wasn't going all the way back to zero.

At least, that's how I remember doing it. Was a long time ago.

I'm a life long X-Men fan and Wolverine did not disappoint. That's the big one for mise and has my vote.

I said before the show that I'd be happy with new Wolverine gameplay that included an X-Men cameo, and one other game that I liked the look of.

There were multiple games there for me. Some new, some known, but the standout aside from Wolvie in my mind has to be Laufey.

Before that demo I'd have said that maybe GoW needs to rest for a few years. But that gameplay had me mesmerised.

Happy to see it on this occasion. I'd have been too tempted to get it, and I already have the Dawnwalker CE ordered 🫠

"Have you no will power?" you ask.
"Clearly not," I say.

I wonder would my local betting place take bets on this guy. He's gotten so predictable at this point.

Just show me 10 minutes of Wolverine being Wolverine and I'll be happy. Anything after that is a bonus.

007 First Light and Crimson Desert for me.
Although I'm in bed atm playing Absolum on Portal.

If you grew up playing Golden Axe try Absolum.

Ní thuigim é seo. 🤷

Maybe Sony knows more about what the Irish government is up to than the Irish government does, because we've had nothing confirmed re age restrictions other than it's being discussed.

Answering "Alundra" to every question.

I've gone back to Absolum.
My friend finally started it so we've been doing co-op since last weekend. Great game.

@ShogunRok You're a glutton for punishment 😂

A very small naïve part of my mind is hoping Factions will be re-revealed at the State of Play with Bungie running it 🤷 Just so we'll all have something to talk about.

@datamonkey It could be amazing 🫠
Choose your response:
1. "Pint please, luv."
2. "Have you seen my wife?"
3. "Have you seen Liz?"
4. "Have you seen your wife?"

@LogicStrikesAgain You took the words right out of my mouth.
The majority of these shows are stuffed with games that aren't for me, but that's perfectly fine.
If they reveal a new Little Big Planet game I'm sure there are plenty of people in the core audience who would lap it up. It wouldn't be for me though. Neither is Fairgames. Trailers for games like that come and go in a blur, but they give me time to banter with my buddies in the watch party.

Show me some new Wolverine footage, maybe slip in one or two of my favourite X-Men as cameos, and they can show back to back FMV Coronation Street and Fairgame trailers for all I care.

Nothing for me yet. Been signed up every time, but so far I've never gotten in.

@Rich33 Agreed with this.
Personally I'm having as much if not more fun than I've ever had in this hobby. That's not to say there haven't been some serious blunders from Sony, but that's mostly interesting background noise for me. It doesn't impact my mood.

From this state of play I'll be happy with Wolverine and one other thing that excites me. That's a win for me. Not necessarily a win for Sony, but a win for me and that keeps me happy in my hobby.

@JonnyAces Same! I've been craving some PS2 Lord of the Rings lately. I even dug up my old memory card with my saves from way back.
Would love a remaster, but it's probably easier to navigate a bowl of spaghetti than it would be to sort out the rights to those games.

@ThomasHL Agreed. I have nothing against KCD or its gameplay, I just don't want that for an open world LotR game.
As one of the comments above says, I hope it's not a reskin.

That aside this is exciting news! Warhorse are excellent at world building and roleplay. If they get it right this could be special.

I've finished with Saros and Pragmata so I'm going back to Crimson Desert this weekend.

I'm also waiting on a new spindle for my PS1 to arrive. The original spindle cracked in the early 2000s and the console has just been sitting on my shelf like a monument ever since.
And since Sony won't release Alundra on Premium I need to get my fix from somewhere. (Aaaaaand I need to justify the 8bitdo wireless receiver and the old CRT monitor I threw money at recently...)

@IMustardMitt Same! Always loved Dalton. He remains my favourite.

I want it to do well but it's not doing enough right now to generate any real excitement for me. Keeping an eye on it. Maybe it will surprise me at launch.

The other issue is that I've had no free time for anything outside of Crimson Desert, Saros and Pragmata. When I finish with all of them (assuming that's before 007 First Light comes out) Yotei Legends is where I'll be spending my co-op time for the foreseeable.
I can't see this game pulling me away from that.

There are camels?
I'm 226 hours in and I've just gotten to the desert for the first time.

Gonna find me a camel.

• Pragmata: Finished the story last night but I still need to 100% each area and do a few other things.
• Crimson Desert: Almost 215 hours in and still not bored.
• Saros: If I wrap things up in Pragmata today I'll start this.

@Oram77 "Leak industry" at this point.
Ruining the fun and the surprise by leaking everything early is a profitable business model these days.

@cainhurst94 @themightyant
I'm very fussy about which YouTube channels I follow because of this exact reason, but in the past few days my feed filled up with recommended channels where "influencers" were presenting speculation as fact, and people were lapping it up.

We even have staff asking about "Sony's new DRM policy" in our company chat this morning, so the update from Sony on this hasn't circulated as widely as I would have hoped yet.

It looks fun to me. I saw the trailer for it a month or two back and added it to my wishlist.
I'll give it a go when I need a break from the bigger games.

I finished Screamer last night (great game!), so I'm moving on to Pragmata today.

• Crimson Desert
• Pragmata
• Yotei Legends

@shonenjump86 This.
I would love if they'd give me a reason to be excited about having an Xbox again.
My Series X is criminally underused.

@get2sammyb Right? They've been sounding more like a political party than a gaming platform for years.
(Makes me wonder if Sony don't have the right approach by being mostly silent.)

For me this just means I'm less likely to buy Fable. If there's a sequel and it's only on XBOX then it's no good to me.
Which is a shame - It's the first XBOX franchise I've been hyped for since the 360 days.

Just got the email but the address looked kind of weird. I figured I'd wait until I saw an article here before I did anything. Wasn't expecting one so fast.
They already have my phone number so I'll go with that and nothing else.

I don't think we have the social media age restrictions in Ireland yet. Sony getting ahead of it before it happens?

Update: "An error occurred during communication with the server." 🤷