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It must have been quite the unimpressive selection pool to propel this title into top 10...

@twitchtvpat Put 2 and 2 together.... On top of the pandemics impact on gaming development, investment and work on 1st party SP titles slowed even more in all of Sony's studio's during their gaas obsession - which eventually ended in multiple failures and cancellations. Facts that left them with a few year drought during PS5's lifecycle, a mud they are slowly crawling out from...
Sony's hard pressed to put 1st party heavy hitters out to recover losses, so it's either starting or accelerating developments of already started titles across it's studios.
Also, what are they going to present as PS6 launch titles ~ 2 years from now, cross-gens? 3rd party's? Remade Remasters of the same old titles? Wasn't PS5 riddled with them and back-lashed for for more than half it's life? Or are they going to hit big with at least 1-2 launch titles tailored made for the new hardware?
There's not much time left considering it takes 4-5 years to make games of the caliber they were known and loved for. If Intergalactic was chosen to be one of those titles (and it's 2027 launch year suggests it could be), there's tons to be done to get it ready in time, which leads to... this

Owner must make sure that the person playing does not suffer from anger management, as damage to the vehicle or accidents resulted from rage quitting and throwing controllers or other objects, are not covered by warranty or insurance

In other words: Sony is taking out it's severe management errors on the employees, in an attempt to launch new 1st party games asap, and make up for all the $$$ and time they've lost chasing GAAS "golden egg laying" geese without any back-up plan...

Call them what you will, indies, AA, AAA, short, long, in the bag by the door etc.

If the game is good and to my taste, I'm gonna play it regardless of who published it (devs or separate company) or of how many members the dev team has.

Call me ignorant, I don't care, gaming time is at a premium and only growing shorter with each passing year, juggling family, work, and the rest of the daily life chores - I'd rather play the game than label it

@species Yup, corrected, thanks.

It just has to be turn based, doesn't it? This genre seems to be all the rage nowadays, implementations of it winning top awards in 2023 and 2025. Meh...

Only 5 games ??
GTA 6 will certainly win this chart with so many hyped about it... good luck to them, but it's not for me.
Here are my selections :

- Crimson Desert
- Prince of Persia Sands Of Time Remake
- Marvel's Wolverine
- Resident Evil Requiem
- Lords of the Fallen 2
- Mortal Shell 2
- 007 First Light
- The Blood Of Dawnwalker
- Control Resonant
- Tomb Raider Legacy of Atlantis
- Gothic
- Phantom Blade Zero
- End of Abyss

Will they also bring back the "secret chime" ?

2:30 AM, crap...
On the other hand, watching it the next day comes with the fabulous perk "skip the parts you don't care about", which is perfect for time optimization 👍

Optimizations are always welcomed, but a battery with a bigger capacity wouldn't hurt either, not to mention TMR sticks - things included by default nowadays in a lot of other gamepads, some of them quite cheaper than the standard DS.

@themightyant You should play the second game, it's even better than the first. They could very well be 1 game split in 2, since SR2 actually starts exactly where SR1 one stops.

"established vampire IP" could also mean the Kain centered Blood Omen that started it all.

I would love to see those games revived one day, through a full on reboot, starting with BO1, ending in Soul Reaver Defiance, with revamped and enriched story (either by the same Amy Hennig or an equally gifted writer), thus also adding more lore and game content in-between the old titles.

I wish they'd release Demon's Souls on PC - would be a blast to have it spruced up with some good mods.

@BearsEatBeets So what is it about? And where?

In the middle it seems to be a door to a nasty domain (hell gate?). On the side are skeletons, some of them are even horned, demon-like. The crocodile has a hand instead of it's usual legs, and that bear could very well be a werebear, like the druid form.
To me it's more likely about an RPG, most likely a trailer for
the Diablo 4's 2nd expansion.

That also means no TGA trailer either....I hope they're not gonna delay it again.

At this rate, my 7 years old son will make it a day one purchase for his own kid.

Would be excellent in January of course, but not at the expense of quality. Best release it when it's 100% ready or keep it cooking 'till it is.

Already finished it, not going back.
My next playthrough will be directly on PC (if Sony keeps up the practice 'till then).

Game's good - shadow drop or not won't matter.

@LogicStrikesAgain Steam as a platform maybe, but not necessarily as a store... They lowered the "meaningful discount" cases bit by bit in recent years, and show no indication of stopping (personal overall observation over the years).
For some time now a better way to buy cheap games for the Steam platform is not from their own store, but from cd key sites, especially outside of Steam's promotional periods (sometimes even within...). It's not all sunshine on those sites either, not as it was 4-5 years ago, but you can still get lucky more often than on Steam's store.

Anything but a game...

I've finished both games on PS5 and on PC, about 3 times each over the years (4 times for ZD iirc), going for different trophies/achievements.
Loved every minute of it.
Haters can go f...find something else to play.

As I've said before in a previous comment, Steam machine will be sold at around 700$ price, a lot more or a bit less depending on the SSD storage and other components if they vary (RAM for example).
500$ is not realistic, given the PC parts costs nowadays, even for bulk purchases on Valve's part.
Should I add that RAM and SSD costs have just skyrocketed to kingdom come (with no deliverance ha ha) ?

CoD has been running for so many years, maybe it needs to stop?
As an IP, it definitely peaked some years ago and since then, on average, it's been on the downward slope.

At least change the devs, bring in new teams, fresh blood, fresh visions. Battlefield 6 as a direct competitor is doing great so it's time to change some core pillars in CoD if they are so set to keep it going.

But then again it's Microsoft, and like any big corporation "biggest profits with smallest investments" is in their nature.

Just like the Diablo IP has become a vision-less mess of non-cohesive stupid ideas for the sake of profit, I'm not surprised CoD is on the same path.

For those interested, to profit from BF discounts on PS+ you can use 2 accounts.
Make a new PS+ subscription in one of them, for 1 year for example.
Next year let it end and make a new PS+ subscription on the other.
As long as both accounts are on the same console, all games installed on one of them will also be playable on the other.
Use wallet top-up cards/codes to refill your PS store wallet if you use an account for a different region in which you don't have a bank account (if you live in Europe and want to use a US account for example, Sony won't let you use a european card to pay for stuff on US playstore, but you can top-up the wallet on the US account and pay that way).

Sticking it to your existing customers is not part of the "Playstation exclusive" portfolio, and it's not even new...
Without proper legislation to prevent it, all we can do is find ways to stick it right back using various tools at our disposal.

You've forgotten to add the lamest part of the promotion,
"in select regions", as it won't be available everywhere...

Simply reacting instead of pushing boundaries through innovation, vision and imagination is not a good sign about Sony's leadership...

"Away! Away! You are not wanted here!" said an angry villager while waving his torch.
"It's a curse... this is a damned curse!" added another, contemplating his continuously degrading condition, in a dark forgotten corner of the PS5's ssd.

Steam machine vs PS5 - the PS5 should be worried only if the SM costs about 400$... which it won't. Valve already stated "it will be priced as a PC" so I don't expect it to be cheap (my guess is around 700$ average, maybe higher for bigger storage, lower for entry level).
You can play many of Sony's exclusives on it since they are already on Steam, but don't expect them to look as good as they do on PS5 Pro, it doesn't really have the GPU to handle it.
However I'm very happy for the competition, especially if Valve could price it better than expected.

What I'm very interested in is the controller.... at least until they announce its price ha ha. I don't expect it to be lower than 200$...
Hopefully it gets to cover both the Dualsense Edge and the Elite Series 2 in complete shame from a "features/price" p.o.v....
Enough to shake Sony and MS into doing better? We'll see.

Horizon 3 will most likely be a cross-gen title.

As for what they're working on, if it's a single player title first and foremost (not gaas, mmo or other form of online MP-centered game), I'm all for it.

Skipped it, I've red the sum-up posted here today instead - nothing of interest, glad I didn't waste my time.

Thanks for the sum up, glad I didn't waste 40 min last night, completely uninteresting SoP.

Imo they won't delay it, because Microsoft is keen on releasing it's Xbox Magnus console-PC hybrid in the coming ~2 years or so, so PS6 could still be released in 2027-2028 due to competition.

Anyway, it's all speculation right now, 2027 is still 2 years away, we'll see in time.

And this year's Black Friday + Christmas shopping sprees are not even included.
With the big titles launching next year it'll certainly pass 100 mil

Great, Ghost of Yotei is an excellent game, well deserved!

And now queue in the launch dates reshuffling for the other 2026 titles...

Plane companies have been practicing dynamic pricing for years on their plane tickets and most of the time in the detriment of the buyer instead of the advantage... You have one price now, go away for 10 minutes, come back and refresh the page only to see it increase by 10-15%... call a friend, he goes to the same site, only to see a different price. And all that doesn't generate so many complaints. And that's just one example.

Not a justification for the practice, I'd rather have them sued to the shores of bankruptcy and then some, but without proper legislation all this is in vane... that's where the complaints should be aimed.

@get2sammyb How long did it take to put this list together ?
Seems longer than Diablo 4's seasonal changes log ha ha

Honestly yes, I didn't expect it to be so popular, given it's PS5 dependency, being a streaming-only device...

But the biggest overall PS5 gen surprise I have to say it's Astro Bot. No one could have predicted it becoming the next PlayStation mascot.

Excellent as it is, not everyone likes Ghost of Yōtei, and that's alright.

Whatever it ends up being (IF it ends up being), be certain it won't be pro-consumer given Sony's current management...

Ghost of Yotei of course, excellent game!

Are you happy Rockstar decided to make Red Dead Redemption 2 instead of persisting with GTA 5 DLC?
Are you kidding? It's the best decision possible.
And I'd rather they start working on RDR 3 instead of making any DLC for GTA 6

He implies growing up with the original MK games, and complains of input reading as if it's added to this collection ha ha

Input reading was implemented in those games from launch, every version of those games has it, Arcade and Consoles alike.
Arcade are faster to react though, console versions are somewhat slower.
The reverse of this "feature" is that the games become predictable and you can take advantage of that.
The trick is to look for patterns while playing, learn and exploit them to make your life easier in Single Player.

Here are some xamples:

• MK2 Arcade - Single player, medium difficulty: after the first 2-3 characters of the column (that are actually on Easy mode), you can make you opponent stop and jump after you when you jump backwards. This only works if you play with a few select characters: Cage, Jax, Baraka, the 3 ninjas, Shang Thung - it doesn't work with the rest of them. Iirk it doesn't work on consoles. The Genesis version though has it's own tricks that don't work on Arcade (for example Sweep followed by a step forward and a roundhouse kick rules supreme with many characters.... Or you can use a combination of roll + drop-kick + sweep + roundhouse kick with Mileena, I don't remember the exact sequence but it can be done fast and easy).
• MK3 Arcade - Single player, medium difficulty, middle column: after the 1st opponent (which again is on Easy mode), if you move backwards a lot of times you will determine your opponent to run towards you, and you can round-house kick them when they get close - works with every character. Works on consoles too.
• UMK3 Nintendo (Genesis too) - Single player - last column: from time to time the opponent stops at a certain distance and tries to maintain that distance by moving backwards if you move forward. You can move forward (which is a bit faster than his moving backwards). When you see you've shorten the distance between you by 1-2 steps, do a jump-kick towards the opponent. He will get lower, as if preparing to do an uppercut, but won't react until 1 second after you land - plenty of time to start a combo that starts with a kick (one that starts with a punch won't hit him while he's crouched). Does NOT work on Arcade.

Those are just some examples, there are quite a few other tricks on exploiting the AI of those games, some more difficult to explain than others.

You can't park there mate
"Da hell I can't! Client wanted fastest delivery, came by air - and look around you chief, the only free landing spot! Take it up with management, fine their arses, but I ain't leaving here until I get payed!

we suspect it’s only the most hardcore players who are going to be really bothered by the input lag.
No... It's like adding lag to a souls game, it will make it very hard to play...
Take for example MK2 arcade - there is a rhythm with very tight timings that need to be respected if you want to beat Kintaro. Lag will make it a lot harder if not impossible to beat him.
Combos will also be impacted in MK3 and UMK3 of course, especially the Arcade versions that are harder than the console ones.

This is disappointing... And I don't mean for this game in particular, but for PSSR in general. It's either avoided by the devs, or poorly implemented, and it's supposed to be the best up-scaling tech at the core of current and future PS consoles, the main ingredient in Sony's marketing campaign etc...

Is it so convoluted and difficult to use that the devs prefer other solutions? Or are they just lazy af and don't want to learn the necessary skills?

Maybe Sony should get involved... I mean
If the former, Sony should offer (more) training seminars, and tech support during the dev process. Invest heavily in support offers if this is supposed to be such an important tech for PS going forward.
If the latter... As I said in a previous comment, Sony could (and should) put together a team to test all games that are supposed to be PS5 Pro enhanced - and if problems found, publishing is stopped until the game is properly patched.

Also, Sony's 1st party studios do make proper use of PSSR on PS5 Pro, so it doesn't seem to be such an obscure and nearly impossible tool to learn... so the problem is in the training or on the 3rd party dev side (money to invest in learning, time to implement before launch because PSSR was launched too late in the dev process, problems encountered while implementing etc...)

Whatever the case, this whole πSS϶R situation doesn't bode well for PS in general, present and future cosoles...

Helping my son to solve some community puzzles in Talos Principle Reawakening on PS5 (the Schrodinger Cat puzzle pack is quite good), and with his trek in Keeper on PC (he's playing, I'm... throwing suggestions from time to time if he gets stuck).

For myself... I'm a bit in between games right now, so it's nostalgia time until I find something better. Started some Serious Sam Fusion, with The First Encounter HD, loved those games back in the day.

Have a fun weekend everyone!