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I hate being on the dumbest timeline.

@GigaGaia
Is it cheaper than ever? RAM prices are going up, we're in tarrified inflation hell, and the prices of everything is going up. I'd love to be wrong, but I don't see how PS5s are cheaper to produce now.

If anything, I would have expected no price reductions through this generation, but the price increases are a surprise to me.

This does not bode well for the PS6.

Damn. It is so wrong one traitorous felon can screw up the world economy so badly!

I enjoyed the original Lords of the Fallen on PS4, so I'm sure I'll enjoy this.

I think this warbond was made for me. I love SMGs and fire. An SMG with an alternate flamethrower mode and a heavy flamer sounds lovely! I also really like mortars, but never take them because they are too lethal to players, too. A gas version sounds great!

Translation: It's a PC.

Playing as Faye? If I'm going to play as someone other than Kratos, it better be Thor or Freya.

With this game installed on my PS5 Pro, I HAVE THE POWER!!!

@PuppetMaster @8thDoctor

I think it has to do with Marvel since there are dozens of costumes (or more) per character they can draw from without just coming up with costumes from scratch and it's also sort of expected for comic book stuff.

The deluxe edition of this game seemed to be the best value because it only lacked cosmetics, but will have all the upcoming additional fighters. This is the first time I've genuinely wanted a costume, though. I may have to rethink things...

This is something I wish Steam did. You only see the current price and the current MSRP, but you don't know how much of a deal that is versus the launch price in the event the game got some MSRP price cuts.

Remaking or remastering Bloodborne or making a sequel is 100% what Bluepoint should have done if Sony had any brains.

Disgraceful is the perfect way to put it. Mismanaged and then shut down for being mismanaged. Bluepoint could have been cranking out banger after banger after banger after banger (Sheamus reference) if they were allowed to remake beloved PlayStation classics or create new things.

@scottXedgar
Yes, he does, and so do the others like him regardless of how their fanboyism leans.

Man, Alejandro comes off as really pathetic.

Somehow, Matt Booty is still there AND promoted? Nobody hates Xbox more than Microsoft. Jeez.

If I like Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night and the God of War series is among my favorite series ever, are the odds that I'd like Sons of Sparta, too?

Nooooo!!!! This is great mismanagement. Bluepoint could have been remaking all sorts of Sony bangers or coming up with something new. They were such a good studio!!!

At the next shareholders' virtual meeting, I'm bringing this up and I'm going to call them out on the stupidity.

@fatpunkslim2
If you say so. He gave me Twisted Metal and God of War, two franchises I adore. That's legendary to me.

Much respect to Jaffe because he's a game industry legend, who gave me two of my favorite franchises, but he gets far more wrong these days than he gets right. He likes being controversial and that clearly fuels his opinions.

I will always respect David Jaffe for giving me both Twisted Metal and God of War, two amazing franchises I love. However, I hear him often when he does the Jaffe x Moriarty episodes on the Sacred Symbols podcast and find myself rarely agreeing with him. He says truly outlandish and short-sighted things, so this could just be another one of those.

Game Pass strikes again.

@Naughtyottsel92

Only dumb, short-sighted people.

I think we have become jaded to things selling in the millions, but 92M is a metric sh*t ton of units. Most people can't imagine that many.

This just in: survey reveals businesses want to make money.

On one hand, I think this is very cool and definitely want one. On the other hand, I just bought a Portal late last year. On the third hand, I could sell my current Portal and get the new model, but I'd be losing some money in the transaction. On the fourth hand, I'd like to see what other improvements may accompany the new screen.

How many hands is that? Am I Goro?

Ace Combat 7 is, well, ace! For those that haven't played it yet, enjoy!

Fun fact: Warhawk, Twisted Metal, and Ace Combat were the three games I bought with my PS1 and all three were excellent.

The PS5 has some life left, so all the economic turmoil and RAM shortages causing a PS6 delay isn't a surprise. I just hope we don't get a weaker/worse PS6 when we do get one because of all of it.

@orvisbean101 @oram77

This is because ABK made about ~$2B in profit annually when Microsoft bought them. In the long term, that meant ABK would pay for itself over the next 30-35 years if profit remained flat. Microsoft had plenty of cash on hand that wouldn't create as big of a return as $2B a year, so they wagered spending the money to boost revenue by ~$8B and profit by ~$2B would be a better investment than holding onto the money.

Additionally, like every company, they believe in infinite growth, so likely expect to break even much sooner by growing profits. There is also the market power Microsoft claimed they needed to survive in the gaming business. Since the entire gaming business made $61B in 2025, that means ABK's average revenue (years 2022 - 2024) was 13% of the total. That's a lot.

Buying up everything seems to have worked for Microsoft. They have five games in the top 20 best selling list while Sony has two. (I'm including "multiple game publishers.")

@nessisonett wins the thread with his logic and rationale.

I have been a Sony shareholder for about a decade now and during that time, they've made many decisions I didn't agree with, some of which turned out OK and some did not. Regarding this announcement, it seems to me as a net positive because TVs are low margin. That gives Sony two options: raise the prices or sell even fewer TVs. Considering raising the price, especially with the cosmic sh*t storm going on in the USA, will also result in fewer TV sales, it's a lose-lose proposition. This joint venture will allow Sony to cut the costs of manufacturing their TVs to make the margins healthier and very well should make the Bravia brand just as good, but cheaper to make and buy. That's in theory, anyway. I hope it works out...

@yazzika
There was a batch of avatars released previously including Atsu and members of the Yotei Six.

I just picked up Armored Core VI as a direct result of this article. I love mech games, though I tend to gravitate to the Battletech ones (i.e. MechWarrior 5: Clans), and I loved the Earthsiege and Starsiege games as a kid, but the occasional Japanese-flavored mech game scratches another itch entirely. I'm looking forward to it.

Snoopy is big in amusement parks. That'll be interesting...

@Zaczumba
They showed off my game off my new most anticipated game: Total War Warhammer 40K!

Well-deserved success. I'd like to see the Portal numbers, too. Those were discounted and I finally pulled the trigger on one.

Industry consolidation is not good for consumers. Period. Maybe there will be some short term benefits ("Yay I can watch Welcome to Derry on Netflix!"), but that's all it'll be, ESPECIALLY if it's done by the dominant entity in a market to further cement their dominance. The long-term damage of one entity having too much market power or becoming too big to fail and subsequently also too big to care, is much greater than the seemingly immediate benefits.

@JoeNobody
That's a Push Square thing that has been driving me crazy for years.

The answer to the headline: NO!

Spider-Man 2, Ghost of Yotei, God of War: Ragnarok, Horizon: Forbidden West, and so many other sequels are epic.

Case in point, I just finished Ghost of Yotei and it is FANTASTIC. I loved every minute of it. I'll be working on the platinum trophy later tonight. It'll be epic.

Stellar Blade, Goat Simulator Remastered*, and Demon Slayer for me on PlayStation and MechWarrior 5: Clans on PC. Feels good.

*The timing of this sale was perfect. My daughter loves playing Goat Simulator 3 with me and we just finished it.

Stellar Blade it is! I've been waiting for the standard edition to go on sale and it's at its historical low now!

The timing of the worst Call of Duty coming out right after the best Battlefield is very favorable for EA. I've always liked Battlefield better and it's nice others will get to break free of Call of Duty and find out why.

@DonJorginho
Daaaang. I have been playing Helldivers 2 longer than I thought. I thought it came out February of this year. (I'm American, so 2025 has felt like two years.)

Thanks for the correction.

Helldivers 2 not GOTY is a travesty.

Edit: The game came in 2024, not 2025. Doh! Thanks for the correction below.

@Darude84
Indeed. It is a much bigger threat. You did have technological developments in the past that would displace jobs, but, until AI, there hasn't been a technological development that could displace almost all the jobs that don't require physicality (though that will happen eventually, too).
Technological displacement is not a new thing, but at this wide scale, it is.

As usual, Congressman Khanna is right. There does need to be something standing in the way of mass job displacement or eventually every job that can be replaced with AI will be instead of AI being a useful tool to increase productivity of those jobs.

The price point certainly helped. On Steam, the game launched for $30, but for a couple of weeks before launch, the game was 10% off, too.

@DadJKP
Thank you for the clarification.

People were boycotting the game (or claiming to) because the protagonist was a woman? How embarrassing!

I'm holding out for the standard edition of Stellar Blade to go on sale. Right now, the complete edition is 20% off, but I don't want all those cosmetics.