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Havent bought it yet, but I'm excited to play it once I do!!

Sony needs to let studios release some indie or smaller AA type games as side projects. Similar to what Xbox studios seem to be doing. They may not light the world on fire, but at least it keeps releases going and brings variety. I haven't been excited for a Sony game, or bought one on release since TLOU2

I loved how off the wall the game was. When the credits rolled and it started a totally different game I was so shocked.

I doubt a sequel will capture the same magic since I went in at launch totally blind to what kind of games he makes, but I'd still love to revisit a non-gacha game from the creative mind of Yoko Taro

Way to save this great big special announcement for the Studios to say there Phil. Lol.

Everything that dude says is nonsense.

I love Kevin Hart in everything I've seen him in. But as Roland??? It's been a while, but I don't remember Roland being comic relief.

He would have been a better annoying claptrap voice.

I can see JLC doing a great job as Tannis though.

Still my expectations are EXTREMELY low for this. I don't expect Jack Black and Kevin Hart to save whatever plot this movie cooks up.

SUPER pumped for Greedfall 2. Turned out to be one of my favorite PS4 games.

Hopefully they've got a good slate of content ready/can push forward to keep the momentum going.

Hiring and reacting to success will take months to implement and grow, which by that time, people will have moved into the next thing.

I'd be shocked if Sony replicated this with the two games mentioned in this post.

This game came at an unusual time, and managed to get a ton of positive press, releasing next to another live service games that got tons of negative press (Suicide Squad) and is rather unique in its presentation and style.

Honestly I think Suicide Squad really helped this game by making it look like a saint in terms of live service/monetization in comparison.

What a bunch of emergency PR crap.

Let's be honest. If a game doesn't hit it's ROI, it'll be multiplatform in a year or two.

They can't keep taking losses on games where theres a console with a 55 million instal base of potential sales.

I'm really excited to get my hands on this!

Price and the fact that it has 'coming to PS+ in a year or two' written all over it didn't help.

Thats why I didn't buy it and I'm sure many others! We've been trained to wait to purchase games because they'll be dirt cheap or on a subscription service soon enough! Unless it's an established IP or we don't want spoilers.

Plus we have waaaaay to many games freely available for the little time we have that it's hard to justify

My top answers are games that have historically been releasing on PS. Amazing how much of this list is recently 'exclusivized' franchises.

Waiting for a sale! I'm expecting 20$ off in about a months time, and I can wait!

I'm such an old fart. This brings me no joy and further disillusions me on the direction gaming has gone over the last 10 years.

I wish this wasn't an exclusive game

Unfortunately I play with a mix of PC and Xbox users so it's hard to convince a gaming group to playing besides titles on all 3 platforms.

I appreciate him saying what we all fear, and I agree with him!

Although the movie industry seems to be more creative within the subscriptions vs the movie theaters where it's sequels and nostalgia remakes constantly.

Day 1 buy from me. Can't wait for updated controls.

I have the games on just about every device, PS3 Classics, PS1, PC, Android - but can never get very far before being frustrated at the controls so maybe I'll finally finish them!

I wonder how many new fans the games are picking up along the way.

I've been a gamer since PS2 era but never got into FF. While the combat change is aimed at gamers like myself, I couldn't get past the 10 hour mark in FF15, forced myself thru 7 remake, and couldn't stand the demo of 16, even tho I thought I'd love it, it just didn't feel as slick as other hack and slash games.

I can't help but wonder if they need to shake the franchise up more if they want sales to get higher - or maybe scale back expectations for the games and focus on what the fans want versus chasing what may attract new gamers.

I'm all for this push. Build new smartphone focused studios! This will have very little impact on PS5 titles, but could help bolster Sonys checkbook to continue to push amazing creative single player games instead of chasing live service crap.

Also I cant believe Monopoly Go is on there. It's not even a game. Push a button and watch a piece go around a board randomly while you buy more spins. Awful awful game.

Hoping Sonys upcoming games can kick off this gen! Spider man, GoW etc all are just iterations of what was awesome during PS4.

Let's get some new PS5 defining experiences!

I hope they can find a way to make Bella Ramsay look older than 13. While skeptical of the choice, I thought she did a good job.

That's awesome! GR is a really fun franchise that would make a really neat series or anime. Its a shame the franchise will likely never see another game in the current landscape of big budgets and huge sales projections

I wish Sony would push more partnerships to embrace haptic feedback. It's so underutilized in a lot of games.

Heck Sonys own Bungie doesn't even have it implemented!

Survey exposed how few games I bought this year. Probably my lightest year ever. But I do play a lot of PS+ or backlog games.

I didn't even know you could get mods on PS for Bethesda games. Shows how far behind I am. Played Bethesda games to death on PS3 and dabbled with Skyrim VR

I love these quizzes! Doesn't feel like a year ago that we had the last one!

I'd be surprised if we got a drop of info on anything Sony related during the show.

I think Sony has shown they can manage studios very well.

They really should dissolve the higher ups at Bungie, reducing costs and clearly bad decision making over the last 10 years, and let the talented developers do their job like other Sony first party studios.

The first game really didn't click with me (I did finish it). But based on these comments, I'm glad to see there's an audience and Sony is investing in something different than a traditional 3rd person adventure game or GaaS!

I'm not a GTA fan, but somehow this just shot to the top of my gaming wish list. I want to be on of those 'Florida Mans'

Although it's crazy how GTA doesn't even need to parody the real world today...that crap happens every day...America has morphed into the joke of itself.

This is why games like BG3 and AW2 launching digital only stinks.

Thankfully BG3 was popular enough to warrant a physical edition but still waiting on AW2...

Let's wait to see how this ages in 3 years. Or the next MS email leak

I'm not a series fan, played 5 back at launch but that's it, but I'm excited for this one.

I like the premise of GTA Online, but the controls and gunplay are so awful I gave up very quickly.

RE5 is in my top 5 games of all time.

Capcom better not screw this up. It's so easy to tweak. Open up the sections more, make the lighting better. Make it more like RE4remake basically.

I'd buy GP on PlayStation in a heartbeat.

I really hope Xbox doesn't exit the console race. We see how lazy Sony is when they're ahead. The latter half of the PS3 when Sony was trying to stand out and catch up the 360 was their best years. And it paid off cause in the end they overtook the 360.

Although it looks like in a console generation from now Xbox may be the next Stadia with online only and on every device thru the cloud

A lot of their practices are very predatory - but isn't that almost all GaaS type games? They all use FOMO or other tactics to engage players just like Destiny.

I think what Bungie has nailed, is knowing how to engage players for years, and they have massive data on what works and what doesn't. And for the most part, even with all the negativity over the years (almost every expansion....) They still have managed to engage a HUGE number of players for 7 years and kept a studio of 1000 people financed through it.

The issue is in the fact that D2 has failed to innovate enough over time, and resources clearly spread out other places. It's a fantastic game to play, the gunplay is phenomenal. But after 7 years you're going to start to get burnt out if it's not innovating enough. Bungie should have leaned more into the MMO aspects of the game (which they've moved away from dramatically) and spaced out larger sized expansions and big overhauls versus repetitive seasons. But again, it's all good data for Sonys other games.

Hopefully Sony stops doing a copy/paste of old game styles (e.g. Sackboy runner) and does their own thing. Copycat games rarely have longevity or stand out.

If they copy Genshin with this Horizon MMO, I don't see it lasting, but if they make it unique enough it could be a huge hit.

@NinjaSixx They're publicly traded. They have to show/attempt to branch out and grow and mobile is the biggest market right now.

A huge part of the MS/Activision deal was for the mobile component as well.

@nessisonett I'm pretty sure the layoffs were mainly in non-production roles such as community management etc.

It really sucks that AA games like this in genres that aren't super popular are at a point where they just aren't financially viable

Hard to imagine a time when Rockstar worked on more than 1 or 2 games.

Honestly I have a hard time believing they're working on anything but GTA6 and content for it. RDR2 really didn't make money like the GTA series does so I could see them focusing on GTA only in the future.

It's amazing when you think back 10 years ago at what DLC cost and what microtransactions cost.

I think LBP costumes were like 0.99$ each. That's a real microtransaction, when a full game expansion cost 15-20$.

Now we don't even get expansions as DLCs it's just costumes that cost the same price as the game a year after it launches.

These crossover sets are pretty bad. The PS crossover was the worst, but outside of the Titan, id have no idea it was Witcher themed.

Plus they're 20$ a costume. At least in COD you can get something that ACTUALLY looks like Lara Croft lol.

This is his 3rd or so Mobile game since Automata launched. So frustrating he keeps working on annoying gacha games instead of console experiences after the massive success of Automata.

I tried his previous gacha game when it released in the states SinOAlice or whatever....it was neat for like a week.

I've been interested in this since day 1 but never bought it for this exact reason.

Yes I'm part of the problem, but this is what subscriptions has done to the industry. Tailored me to be patient and just wait for games to come to the service. Worked for Horizon 2 and Miles Morales and many others....

This is the first year Sony isn't hugely represented which feels so weird. But as good as Spidey is, AW2 and BG3 deserve to sweep the awards!

It's an amazing time for gaming when two amazing single player, non mainstream genres are the best games of the year!

This is the first COD I'm excited for since PS3 era.

I had no idea it was just MW2 content until the reviews came in and now I'm excited and want to buy it....although at 70$ I'll probably wait. I put 32 days of playtime between when MW2 and BO1 launched. It's embarrassing but a time I look back on as my golden days of gaming with friends.

Gaming has become just like TV/Movies. Relying on established IPs and cranking out same after same. Thankfully the quality of indie games/AA games from small studios have really increased over the last decade

I'm interested to see how this turns out. Honestly it seems like X could use PS more than the other way around right now. Negotiations should be interested, although we'll never hear about it after this.

We can be sure of one thing. Gamers will overhype and idolize this studio for the next few years like CDPR after Witcher 3.

Hopefully they can work on simultaneous games and return to Divinity universe while also branching out to other things. They're so big now they almost need to work on multiple titles to keep the cash flow going.

Thankfully they also have a normal name unlike Sonys typical products. I've already forgotten the name of their flashship ones mentioned in the article I read 20 seconds ago lol.

That's what I was waiting for! Can't wait to get my hands on this now!