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PlayStation is making more money than ever - just look at Sony's financial reports. Sure, they leveraged somewhat to acquire Bungie and that hasn't panned out like they'd hoped, and they're cancelling a lot of stuff right now, but to think that Sony/PlayStation are in trouble or doing badly is just naïve.
I see this as PlayStation learning from its success with Helldivers 2 (do something original) and failure with Concord (do something original!) and making necessary readjustments.
At the end of the day, whatever the most vocal, terminally online fanboys like us say will pale in comparison to the almighty dollar, and on that front PlayStation are doing just fine.

Being selfish, I'd like Bluepoint to work on a glow-up of something I missed from the PS3 generation (when I had a 360), like a Resistance remastered collection, or Infamous 1&2, or something. They did great work on Uncharted Collection.

Bend I don't know well enough, other than from Days Gone (which I enjoyed most in the late-game - there should have been more hordes overall and the pacing needed addressing). I think Sony does need a studio doing more experimental, lower-budget, AA-type things to try and develop new IP and concepts. I dunno if that role would suit Bend.

I wouldn't pay $/£100 for GTA6, no. But then I'm not particularly looking forward to it. I am waiting for reviews.

I get the impression that GW is starting to realise the extra value that being selective can add to the Warhammer IPs. From what I read and see online, recent releases have tended towards a higher quality than was the case, say, a decade ago. I think they're starting to realise that crappy games leveraging a particular setting may satisfy parts of their community who are already Warhammer fans, but that good games have a potentially wider reach and would actually grow the community by introducing new fans to the IP.

@AhmadSumadi I'd never heard of that, it looks fun, thanks!

Who doesn't love a good time-loop movie... Suddenly far more interested in this. Not go-to-the-movies-to-see-it interested, but certainly watch-as-soon-as-it-drops-on-streaming interested.

Disney used to sue local bakers for making cakes based on Disney characters. I wonder if Sony will be as litigious with its IP?

Who’s the model for the guy in the diagram? Whatever he’s playing seems intense.

I had completely forgotten Godfall ever existed...

@Northern_munkey Oh, don't worry, I remember how much fun Hot Pursuit was. I don't know Outrun, but I recall greatly enjoying NfS:HP on 360 and the incredible cop-chases I would find myself in.

I just want to know what the hell Rocksteady and WB did with the almost year-long delay they did after the initial reveal was roundly panned on social media. I haven't played the game but I can't see any differences between the gameplay reveal and the streams/reviews/commentary I've seen since release.
I suspect that the time was mainly used to try and 'reset' the marketing cycle by WB, rather than try to take into account any of the feedback that had come from players. (I appreciate it would have been a momentous ask in many respects, but it's not like WB/Rocksteady weren't warned that the game had the appeal of a bucket of tepid sick to the market broadly.)

I only shut it down if I'm going on holiday or something. Rest mode allows the system to apply updates, download any digital purchases, and lets you get straight back to where you paused your game. Why would you shut it down?

I'll take NfS. I remember getting Hot Pursuit with my 360 back in the day, and playing the hell out of it. Might be fun to revisit.
Already have Stanley Parable.
Suicide Squad I'll just leave where it is. Thanks, but no thanks.

I’d like them to stick to co-op, I’m not a fan of competitive games. Maybe try to push co-op into a new genre within the HD setting. Elsewhere it’s been reported that they prototyped a Star-Fox style dogfighting game, though that feels too niche these days.

The Emperor would approve. Thoroughly good game.

I've only watched the Warhammer 40k episode three times, probably below average on their telemetrics.

Looks like its going to be a great year. I went with (in no particular order):

Death Stranding 2
Judas
Hell is Us
Ghost of Yotei
DOOM: The Dark Ages

If everything is an XBox, and given how Microsoft's other divisions are all about their software being available on any hardware, how long until Microsoft doesn't manufacture the only XBox console? I can see a future where they let HP, Dell, whoever, manufacture a box that sits under your telly but runs the XBox OS and plays XBox games, and maybe Microsoft makes their own too like they do with some laptops.

Excited to see that it’s ND, in whom I have a lot of faith, but retro sci-fi again?
I want to know more. Combat will probably look amazing with all ND’s animation prowess.

@PuppetMaster It's not poker, you just play poker hands to score. (And if you get the right jokers for your build, you might not even have to do that.) Give it a shot, it's fantastic.

Dev: What should we do to avoid a trademark claim from whoever it is that makes Conan the Barbarian...?
2nd Dev: ... Kronan?
Lawyer: Good enough, ship it.

It's a crying shame that these guys couldn't get licences from official toys and IP. This looks cool and all, but I'd be more excited if I actually could pit actual TMNT against G.I. Joe or Skeletor or Conan, etc. I think 10 year old me would have a religious experience if that were the case.

Fantastic lineup. Maybe I'll get to them before the PS6 drops at this rate!

Sweet, the Sly games are £8 each for non-Premium members. Definitely gonna pick those up to vote with my wallet.

@AFCC The PSN store is telling me that I already own Jak & Daxter 1. I already had it on PS4. So maybe it's that version or, if it is a PS2 emulated version, it's bundled for people that own the PS4 version already.

It needs to be an “and” product. PS6 and a portable alternative, not one device that does both like the switch, as I wouldn’t want there to be compromises on the games when docked for the sake of portability.

Buy Kunitsu-Gami. It’s great. And it constantly re-invents itself with new or twisted mechanics on every new stage. Thoroughly enjoying this one.

@Smash41 Small point, but there have been some select Early Access games on PlayStation. Palworld is early access. Temtem was also on PSN in EA before it reached 1.0. I'm sure there have been a few others.

Waiting to see what this actually is. I have my fingers crossed for a streamlined MH style of experience with Horizon's robo-dinos. I just wonder if Horizon has the weapon variety to keep something like that interesting.

Great, I'm yet to jump into any of these, so looking forward to getting to them with fewer performance issues when I do.

I'm no patent attorney, but this seems like Pokemon Company and Nintendo throwing their weight around to me. Catchable mounts... I mean countless other games do this? Are they going to go after Red Dead Redemption 2 next?

I dispute that Concord was good. Sure, I only played the second Beta, but the characters were all too slow, the team-mechanics were awful and discouraged collaboration to build a well-rounded team, the game-modes were all copy-pastes from better games, and the maps were dull and repetitive.
The graphics were good (though wasted on horrible art direction), and that's about all that could be said about it in my opinion.

Three cheers to Sony trying to put something in place to catch duds like Concord sooner in development and put them out of their misery before too much is lost.

Nice. Happy for PC and XBox to have been the guinea-pigs for catching any patches too.

I'd have been all over this if it was released in the £40-60 price range, as I've missed having a halfway decent Smash type brawler in my life since switching away from Nintendo after the GameCube. MultiVersus being F2P was utterly toxic to me.

Ok XBox, now we're talking!

Go play Pentiment too y'all. It was a really good historical thriller.

@Anke You mean ProbablyMonsters. They sold the studio to Sony for an undisclosed sum.

He'll be playing GTAV from the retro subscription by then.

@PocketHotDogs I've read feminists in my time that compare sex to a battleground, so I should imagine that this will be right up their street.

I was able to get £10 in PSN wallet funds for 2,500 points in the UK yesterday (Sunday, 27 October), but the £10 option was the only one available.

It's too real for me - My PS5 was complaining about an unreadable disc only last night.

Turns out my toddler took it out by accident and my Mrs returned it to the console upside down.

That Indiana Jones game had better hit. Us PlayStation-only folks are going to have a good few months to get reviews, let's plays, streams, etc, and decide whether its worth our time.

Great art direction. Interest definitely piqued.

@dskatter The latest update on the Kickstarter says that there will be 'discounts for owners of the original' so it sounds to me like there's going to be some sort of paid upgrade path, but not a freebie.

Those music levels in Legends were incredible. The one based on Whoa, Black Betty in particular never fails to make me grin from ear to ear.

Definitely looks worth the £10 to me. It's a shame its not something new from PS Studios, but all the same, for anyone who wants a re-play or to jump in for the first time seems like this will be the version to get.

@LiamCroft Typo in the middle there mate: "a life-sized replica of Yaoe's katana tsuba"

Nice. I managed to pick up the Part 1 remake, new, for £5 when my local GAME closed down (RIP physical media...), so I'll be jumping into that at some point. The £10 upgrade for Part II seems fair so I'll play through it again and check out the roguelike mode.

@LifeGirl Concurrent players only means those that are playing at the same time. Many will have moved from being daily active users to weekly or monthly active users. The playerbase is still very healthy and engaged. The game did better than Sony's or Arrowhead's wildest expectations.

It'd be nice of there was a remaster (or even a re-release on PS4/PS5) for those of us that missed the core of this series. (I was a Nintenkid and XBot until PS4 generation.)

More weight capacity please!

But seriously, DtD is a fantastic game, I'll be getting back to it once I plat Doki Doki.

I thought they did Miles dirty. Peter had a much more compelling story, but Miles seemed to be treading old ground with another identity-crisis storyline, which we already had in his standalone game. But the gameplay was a lot better than the first one and I liked Peter's story. Solid overall.

@Khayl Typo in the sub-title of this article mate: "Puublisher".