@ShadowRJ oh it’ll sell massively I meant more salty review bombing and backlash online from “influencers” - like wolverine. Some games you can smell that’ll get buried by the mob. BF 2 was buried. It still sold loads and now is fondly remembered at the time the hate was real. I loved the campaign mode I’m surprised more didn’t at the time.

BF 3 is gonna get buried on release.

The salt will be real even if this isn’t true anyway.

Blade is a game I really want to play. You’d imagine blade would sell bucket loads. Hopefully it sees release.

Hopefully this constantly culling of job ends. Cost of games is out of control but it doesn’t seem it’s the game makers as in the staff thats the main cost. Which in itself is a bit bizarre

What a waste of money. “Games cost to much money to make these days”

Stupid things like this and the 1000s of limited edition merch packs sent to “influencers” aren’t helping 😂

@get2sammyb I’m sorry, what? Why would you believe this got piggyback more than most? What would you believe the motivation for this to be? It makes no sense, political issues I can understand but why do you think people with the ability to target bots in this way have it in for Sony, it’s tin foil hat time, like others have said everything is riddled with bots. It’s a really weak argument now made by insert any word to explain away something they don’t like - “fake news” it’s as bad as the bots themselves. People are upset over physical media and it’s why a massive spike was shown in physical buys for Wolverine or was that bots too…..

Anyway. Bots are rubbish and are only going to get louder and worse but it’s obvious by any metric that people are not happy with the decision. Bots or not.

I’m a huge Xbox fan just as I am a huge PlayStation fan and it’s clearly each day that Gamepass isn’t and never was a sustainable model and more so since the acquisitions, the old management made so many mistakes.

I hope they sort it out.

@dskatter exactly when the copies are readily available and cheap people will buy. The argument for digital is flawed as deep sales - we all know when you see a game half the price of physical on sale digital it’s tempting

@BeenGamingSince_83 haha I’m old too I love physical but hate all the boxes. I put disc in a disc holder and stow away the cases, love seeing other collections though! . Physical should still be the main way. Love the disc to digital stuff on Xbox. Taking ages to convert mine. Should be standard with all games imho

Physical version I got was £55 the digital was £70 along side the clear benefits of owning a game a greedy rich corp can’t just take away, basic economics has always been a strong selling point of physical. Digital mainly is one store one price, the less physical they main platforms will strip away all competition it’s really that simple

I can confirm I claimed WWII earlier I already owned Mafia 3

I’ve lost track of what they’ve added, I’m a offline solo player - have they added any sort of career or is it still that weird menu stuff that’s the main solo part?

@HonestHick 100% genuine hate the console war stuff and all the fanboyisms. We need both, we need steam and their machine and deck and we need Nintendo. Keep everyone on their toes. Xbox and Sony have both done great things but also both have terrible practises. We need them to balance each other out. I can’t believe so many relish seeing one fail. It’s worst thing that could happen for gamers and consumers

It’s a Third person action game that sits with the Batman games, Mad Max, Spiderman games, with a linear structure that respects your time. The scent trails fit with character and are part of his super powers - it’s like saying the Spiderman games had a strange stringy goo swing sections that made to too easy to navigate round New York. The discourse has been so stupid

@beltmenot I agree with you but also 4 would be really bad. From the starting point of the original this game would have to be a huge downgrade to be a 4… even from the review 4 seems harsh.

@Nepp67 he had played the game. Did you even read his comment he explains why he said that….

@8th_Observer @Msw7089 @BentIeyma I too enjoyed Mindseye. I’m glad others actually tried it.

Will give this a go when it comes out

I am expecting a U turn tbh. We will see. I’m invested with Nintendo, Sony, Xbox and a steam deck and xbox and it’s disc to digital is genius and great timing. Sony could walk to victory at this point is the issue. Competition is always good. I want them all to thrive better for gamers

@PuppetMaster one thing is game has shown me is that most people have no idea about wolverine 😂 the amount of misplaced anger is hilarious.

Sony are not the goodies or the baddies here, idiots yes, they are stoking a fire for no reason. The music, film and game industry are engulfed in greed (not the creatives in those industries) the rich money people. It’s gonna take a few law suits and it’ll shift. Apple Music is terrible for removing stuff you’ve owned. Loads of things like physical coming with digital versions should have been standard across the board but everyone accepted it not to be the case. £80 games and £20 digital movies we’ve accepted it so it becomes standard. They are pushing their luck until it all
Implodes.

@Czar_Khastik damn you - now I wanna play ShaqFu

“Marvel fatigue is crazy” checks Marvel numbers…… people seem to be enjoying it still so calm down Karen. 😂

Language like his is why people are turning on ps.

People don’t want to feel like they are being monetised. We want to feel like valued customers. But this is 2026 and greed rules everything

@AlexPorto exactly you can say it to you are blue in the face and people don’t understand any of the issues. It’s laughable the spin put on things.

Faux outrage is as bad as faux denial.

The face has changed. Clearly. Does it matter. Not really. But it looks way worse in terms of realism. Lighting and everything looks worse. It’s ok to point that out

Looks fine to me and as silly as any other Lycra superhero suit

@Fallon no I picked this article because it was slightly more positive. No everyone wants online battles over opinions.

I know everyone is against this game and the negativity is staggering but I can’t wait for this one. Looks amazing

Great game. One of the many many good recent games most gamers overlook and have negative feelings about because someone on the internet told them too.

Looking forward to the expanded story and especially the open world aspects. I paused my playthrough when I found out these missions are middle of the story will start playing again when they are released.

The map is excellent and having more to do will be brilliant

@themightyant to be fair the protest will move the needle during the “live aspect” daily their will be statistics as the live players and even small blips in the normal trends will have people at Sony looking into what caused them. We are such a statistic driven culture now - if a million players stopped playing for a week - Sony would pay attention even it they did nothing as a result.

I doubt I’ll play my ps5 that week anyway either way of a protest or not. So I’ll not cause a blip one way or another 😂 I don’t get much big screen gaming in these days.

There are two types of people in the world Intelligent people and people that say “why do people protest” - maybe the education system wherever you live failed you, but society and free society was built on protests.

Learn some history. Without a small minority leading and starting protests you wouldn’t live the charmed and privileged lives you live, a small rich minority right now are trying to manipulate you into believing protesting in the right way about the right things is wrong and want to create fake reasons to protest.

Even those people understand the power of protest

@get2sammyb if you turn off the network you can play offline I assume? Still have the same effect

I have no issues with trophies being taken away because servers turned off, i have no issue with not being able to download more missions but if you’ve downloaded missions created you should still be able to play them imho

@gordonps you probably think you are a renegade and a free thinker because you don’t want protections and regulations you couldn’t be further from the truth.

@MinervaX76 agree. The issue for me isn’t that digital is bad. (It is). But that shipped sailed.

VC is bad. Microtransactions are bad. Day one patches are bad. Most DLC models are bad.

It’s not progress - some of it could have been but almost all of it was embraced by the industry for greed. Digital itself is ok. DLC could be and Day one patches could be ok (with very limited use)

But we accepted all this and apologists and gaming media told us everything was good or needed to “support the industry grow” it was all a nonsense.

We are now painted in a corner having embraced it all.

The thing that makes this stand out above all the above and makes this worse it’s the removal of choice. Choice brings competition and helps consumers. To be pro digital only even if you are buy digital is stupid. Physical helps keeps costs down. Digital needs to compete.

Then you have game preservation but unfortunately due to downloads/day one patches, dlc and online requirements this is less of an argument for physical than it was.

We really embraced a whole of lot damaging nonsense and to argue this last drama is just a few of us in a echo chamber is ridiculous- some of us just knew for years all these little changes in the industry were so so damaging long term and it’s a snowball you can’t stop rolling

PlayStation have scored a few own goals but this is the greatest. Lee Dixon would be proud

PlayStation (push square) reporter says the dominoes jokes don’t land for him 😂 I don’t think they expected them to but the are delivering for a lot of people and it’s PR genius. If pushsquare could work out how to connect with people like Dominoes have they’d be doing numbers they can only dream of and maybe could cut back on the clickbait.

@PuppetMaster exactly. I’ll wait and see if it’s all on disc I’ve not even finished the last game so I’m in no rush at all. Red dead Redemption 3 and it might be different!

@dskatter tbh after the first three games even the humour which started ironic (adverts on the radio, some of the missions, many of the characters) stopped being ironic humour and R* embraced a lot of the things they were originally trying to send up…. It’s then even funnier their actual business practises have mirrored this. Funny what money and greed will do. They’ve lost their way so far. It’s a shame.

@Dogbreath I’ve just seen your comment after posting mine and exactly. Hate the whole culture of it’s cool for a game to be so difficult most people can’t be bothered 😂

Should be standard. At least 75% of this anyway.

On purely the difficulty setting I’ve never and will never understand why some gamers and devs love the GIT GUD mantra. All it does is puts a massive % off. Have a super hard setting for anyone that wants it. But for those with other factors or just want to enjoy a game and the story allow them to have an easy experience not sure who that hurts?

Spiderman was the very gold standard for this.

I’m not sure MS takes the blame for this? Surely Sony decide when someone needs a plus?

@NerdyPaul ah gotcha. Good edit and we will leave it that. 😂

@NerdyPaul I’m gonna bite, regret it after but I’m gonna bite…

Should kids be able to buy alcohol? You against that policy? What about car seats? Kids didn’t used to have to be in safe car seats, how you feel about that? Food standards? They a bad thing? Seat belt laws? These all a massive overreach by government?

Smoking? Let kids smoke…

As for the “it’s the parents job” crew - so just because some kids have bad parents we should as a society not put any protections in place? The social media companies did this to themselves.

Tech did this to themselves.

I thought there were some hot takes and lack of thought process shown in the closure of studios thread but this is a new low. Many of you are walking adverts for why the internet should be banned for under 16s. It’s a crazy place that makes you crazy

@Supern0va people are crazy. I find it hard to believe anyone hates this policy. In fact I find anyone that does a little bit suspect

Now all the hype and anti hype has died down - what game is this like? Is the story any good?

Thing is, it’s announced now and like this article it says the gaming industry is suffering, but look at the last few weeks easily the best and most decent game announcements we’ve had in years…. Something doesn’t add up…

Wish everyone well that’s lost their job. That’s the real issue here. Bad senior management and decisions cost those not involved their jobs

@LiamOliver everyone should not want this to be online only. So much solo player content and racing goodness that one day will be unplayable. Hope they patch it to be playable offline before they kill servers

@twitchtvpat it’s because “live service” has become a beast of a phrase…. This game is a monster solo player game that gets constant content to build on the launch content. IMHO that’s not what most live service games are… they are multiplayer focused games with no real campaign that try to follow a fortnite model

@Reeneman including you guys crying over guys “crying” over a game that doesn’t need an internet connection needing a internet connection 😂 some of you are not hot on irony are you 😂