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@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!

I have mixed feelings on this. If they can revamp it to feel like a quality game that can be enjoyed both offline and online then I'm all for it!

However, if it's a multiplayer only game still, I don't see it making a dent when the market is flooded with F2P multiplayer games or premium games with established IPs. Games like Exoprimal etc have generally seemed to fail to catch on when they require an upfront investment for something that's online multiplayer only.

I'd love that. It's almost like automatic save states.

Although as eluded to in the article, itll likely never come to fruition or be abandoned/unsupported like Activity Cards.

I would love to see how AI could be integrated with RPGs games like Elder Scrolls/Fallout.

I totally understand the issues surrounding AI and jobs, but if integrated correctly I really could see it bringing a new dimension to games. Graphics are no longer a leap between generations, but these are the types of gameplay advances that can really make games feel deeper and 'next gen'

Only reason I haven't gotten BG3 yet is due to digital only. If I walked by it at my local Walmart, I'd have picked it up, but being available anytime from my couch....might as well wait until I'm ready to play, a sale could pop up!

I hope not. 5 was fantastic but is so held back by releasing on PS3, I really hope they learned and will make this current gen only, we know it'll get insane support for the next decade, I hope that support can take advantage of current power.

'company laid off employees because they're not making enough money, so let's cancel preorders and show them!'. How does that not just compound the problem to laying off more people. This isn't a small indie dev, they don't care about anything but $$. Gaming landscape has changed. All these companies care about is maximizing profits. Micro transactions and dlc of PS3 era have become 20$ skins and drip fed crumbles of content.

The fact that they relied on a 2017 game to fund 1100 employees and development of 3 games is mind boggling. Especially when said quality of releases is not good.

Revisiting the PS3 made me realize how many games/genres Sony was pushing in those days. Especially on the publishing end.

They really need to step up their Indie/publishing smaller titles. Investing tons of money into these live service failures is not helping them. I get it, from a business perspective they need to chase trends, but man I miss the days of random games like Fat Princess.

I wonder how much is due to high resolution stuff.

I wish I could opt out of a high res pack.

Or let me install it to my external HDD and play it from there.

Rocksmith pretty much ruined Guitar Hero for me.

I wish Ubisoft would have invested more into Rocksmith and especially RS+. I'm afraid it'll die with how awful the soundtrack is.

They should have let their studios experiment with small scale live service titles to test the waters.

Let the teams be creative and experiment and figure out what works and what doesn't.

The shift in gaming to chase the latest trends has never worked. This new Sony strategy is going to bite them. They went from releasing so many unique games to only single player third person adventure games -which was okay when everyone else was doing multiplayer - but have lost that unique and fun edge over the last decade.

It's crazy that Bungie was able to get the game basically canceled.

As a hardcore player of Destiny 2, their live service is terrible. They have the unique position of having ZERO competitors in the space and great gunplay. All their core activities are so stale, their revenue models (seasons) have been so redundant and so much in need of a shakeup, they're being done away with next year.

U2, U3 and Factions had fantastic multiplayer and engagement. Especially U3. Let ND do their thing, don't turn it into the grindy checklist that Destiny is.

Although ND did massively screw up with U4 multiplayer which is insane to me since all they had to do was copy U3

I had been looking forward to Weird West since it was announced! I hoped it would come here eventually!!

Home was a neat concept. I enjoyed the 'marketing' aspects of it, as I could visit a virtual RE5 booth and play mini games and such. I think I remember a virtual E3 in there one year.

I had a schoolmate who lived in PS Home, for him it was a second a life and he had a whole community there, it had its audiences and would be neat to see a revival for people who love that sort of thing.

Honestly, it's time for Tomb Raider to find a new development home. I wish Sony would have got it and used it as a way to give us more adventurer style games while Uncharted takes a break. Could have piggybacked the franchises to reduce the franchise fatigue between them.

As someone who played each CD Tomb Raider with the launch of Legend (and as a young child attempted to play the originals on PC), I'd consider myself a pretty big fan. Underworld was one of my favorite PS3 games.

2013 was fun, but very flawed when compared to it's main competitor, Uncharted. Rise was very enjoyable and a clear step in the right direction with a few flaws.

But Shadow.....what a hot pile of absolute garbage that should disappear (yeah I know it wasn't fully developed by CD, but they still had a hand in it)

I'd buy an Xbox for both of these games. My favorites back in the day.

That's a shame.

Unfortunately I guess I'm part of the problem. This is a game I looked forward to playing and something I would have gotten day 1 a few years ago.

However, PS Premium and the industry at large has taught me to be patient and itll be free on some cheap subscription soon, so why shell put 70$ or whatever when I can do a one month sub somewhere for way cheaper to play it?

I remember getting stuck at that fight with the 6 arm sword dude in the photos. I beat the two of them but couldn't figure out how to get out of the room! Maybe adult me will be able to beat it!

Funnily Destiny 2 on PS5, a now Sony owned game, shows keyboard buttons in the in game chat.

It displays Shift and Tab for specific functions and I have no idea what buttons they're supposed to map to so I can never actually use the chat correctly!

I already questioned my Extra membership.

I guess the streaming is a nice feature but they add far too few classic games. I think I've used the feature twice when bored since the service launched.

Guess I'll maintain what I have until it expires and drop down to essentials once it's up.

I wish Sony would just so we have ONE Western RPG developer locked on our systems. Stupid MS buying the rest.

Honestly, this show will fail mainly due to launching on Peacock.

Who has peacock?? And this isn't TLOU level of great to draw in subscriptions.

If it was on something most people had already like Netflix it probably would have done OK. Can't see it faring well on here.

Surprised to see Game Informer is still relevant. Still have a pile of magazines from 10+ years ago sitting in a box somewhere haha

I want Ubi to give me the Rayman 3 remaster on PS4!!

Also Raman Arena would be quite fun too.

I hope this is good, but the PvP aspects of Destiny are, honestly, not very good or well supported.

For an 'ultimate live service game' I'd expect frequent updates and changes in a large scale to the game like Fortnite etc. Destiny has had, what, 1 new multiplayer map in like 3 years.

And don't get me started on Gambit. A mode I actually quite enjoy.

Hopefully being a new IP itll get loads of support and content from the get go

Similar sentiment as others.

This type of game screams F2P and I can't see it catching on without adopting that model.

There is just too much out there already for people to drop 70$ on an online multiplayer game, especially one that's a new franchise.

Sony Mobile output has been so bad.

The new sackboy game was a clone of a 10 year old game that had its heyday. I'm not sure how anyone greenlit that thing.

I'm all for chasing mobile trends since that's what the market does, but at least copy a recent trend or make it a quality game. There's a level of polish and depth I expect from the Sony IPs, not a cheap knock off with 10 minutes of value.

@Jaz007 They could expand it pretty nicely, College (like RPD) then Church/Underground Lab then China section. They could reduce the China section to be similar to the action focused island part of Re4r and the game would have an overall good balance like classic RE games.

Re5 is probably my favorite game ever. It needs a remake/overhaul though to give it a more open feel like re4r. They should tone up the darkness in the areas after the town and really expand on them/rework them entirely.

I'd love for 6 to get a remake, but it should be remade into multiple games. Leon's campaign is actually a good setting for a RE game like everything post revelations 2. It should be expanded to a game of its own.

I'll be in the camp alone hoping Playstation All Stars 2 is announced.

Lol I bet Sony is thrilled a company is telling them to reduce an important engagement metric. Not that many people actually have 100 friends they regularly play with but still

Love PS3's ribbon startup and theme.

Need a poll for best menu/User interface!

I love the thumbnail lol

Eh it would happen eventually. Just a bad look after how awful the latest expansion and season was.

Season of the Deep needs to knock it out of the park.

I'm ready for their next game. I bought it day 1 but never really played it past that time.

Really looking forward to what they do next, I love LBP1 and 2 as well as Tearaway.

I hope to see them return to LBP, been playing through Sackboy since it launched on Plus and man did Sony mess up marketing on that one, I had no idea it was the game it is, I love it and would have bought it in a heartbeat had I seen a meaningful ad that actually showed me what it was.

One of my favorite raids, fun mechanics and beautiful encounters. Plus the traversal between encounters is a lot of fun.

Our clan didn't get a contest mode win about 16 hours trying to beat it and couldn't get past the final boss.

It may have been done in 2.5 hours, but it was by no means easy!!

Although when contest mode ended we beat the final boss on the first try easily, so it may end up being on the easier/faster side as far as raids go!

I've been a big Destiny advocate on this forum, but Lightfall sucked. It was a rush filled expansion with so many reused assets and lack of meaningful content considering the cost.

The story is horrendous, post campaign if gets a bit better, but it's awful for any new or returning player.

They made some fantastic QoL changes but also some terrible changes to various other things like lost sectors, etc.

I still heavily enjoy the game but this was a massive blunder when the community outlook was at an all time high from the amazing year of Witch Queen.