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It didn't hurt TLoU and it won't hurt Horizon.

A political hand-puppet in a bananenrepublik sponsored by M$, who would have thought...

Great selection, got a lot to play this and next month.

I have the feeling the investment in more development time is a waist of money. This game was DOA from the start.

Funning thing is Xbox started with paid DLC (I'm not talking big expansion packs but actual microtransactions). And they started with exclusive DLC. They also started with paid online gaming (still free and doing great on PC).

Yeah, due to the rebuy thing I stopped buying tables and keep my old Pinball FX3.
It's a horrible decision that probably cost them more than when they would have gone the import route as no future sale from me.

Judging from the trailer, the graphics look decent. The acting and writing in cutscene is very bad, this goes also for the gameplay.
The turn based thing is a preference thing and for me it's a thing I hate.

In a Bananenrepublik this kind of behavior is probably the way to get what you want, but in the rest of the civilized world the law will judge if a sale can go trough.
When everything is said and done Xbox gamers won't play a game less if the sale doesn't continue. If they ask sugar-daddy Phil nicely he'll pay to get CoD on their beloved gamepass.

100% not going to play MP/GAAS crap.

@nessisonett Yes constant growth is for sure the wrong thing to do it when it's only one product, but here growth is (I think reading the article) going into the car business with Honda and that is smart. Electric cars use a ton of components Sony is really good in like camera's and software so it's smart to diversify your portfolio and going into business with an excellent car maker to be less depending on the entertainment pillar that is doing to well for them at the moment.
It's like theme parks for Comcast, it's doing so well for them (Universal Studios) they now have a third pillar making their company much stable unlike Disney who only is in entertainment.

She has a point, Xbox, even after 20 years with the backing of a trillion dollar company, isn't able to rise above the third place.
They should be able to buy their success to compensate for their lack of quality and capability to manage game studios and the creative people that work there. Acquisitions will help (in the short term) until the creatives are fed up and move on.

E3 had a good run, I loved them in the past, but the last 5+ years it showed it wasn't relevant anymore. Game companies can now release information at a time it's convenient for them, no more crushing for the show and that is a huge plus.

We are at a point a higher spec game console will not push the game much.
Hardly any games have come out that take the hardware and push it to the maximum.
Sure you will have a higher resolution, higher framerates and better ray-tracing but it doesn't change the experience much.

I like the episode, love the changes but I have a huge problem with the camera.
That thing is shaking too much during regular scenes. I get it when there is action but walking around does need a stable cam, I got motion sick.

@Eldritch It's fairly normal in Europe to have a 4 day work-week as most people value free time, being with family and having a hobby more than work.
The 10% raise is just for the hourly wages and is fair as due to the energy crisis and cost of loving that has raised significantly.

I was excited until I read it was for mobile.

I loved the demo as it made me decide not to buy this game. The gameplay and world didn't do it at all for me.

Mine is vertical and I play a bit more than 1000 hours a year and never had a problem.

PlayStation releases a console for on the road!
The car and tech looks awesome, love it. This is a concept model by the way so things will change.

The Council looks horrible but it's actually a very decent adventure game that I liked.

Have Olivier Richters (The Dutch Giant) play Kratos, he got the look.

Looks very good and the gameplay looks fun, can't wait to play this.

Zero interest in this kind of games, luckily PS added the ME trilogy making it an amazing month.

The setting is cool but the game looks rough. Lip sync is bad, animation is generated, both should be motion captured nowadays for a big title. Shadows are non-existing and facial animation is just bad.

It would be great if you could turn it off if you don't want it. I thought it was too much to quick and it spoiled exploration a bit for me.

Firmament (Cyan) is missing in the list.

I know playing Max Payne and having a lot of fun with them but time hasn't been kind to these games. I hope for a good re-imagining that captures the mood but improves on everything else. Control was an amazing game and I'd love to see a new story in that universe. Alan Wake was fine but didn't live up to the hype it got on Xbox. As with most games from Remedy the control of the action is a bit clunky and could be smoother in all of their games but the Twin Peaks like atmosphere and stories keep me going for sure.

That is great for people who like that, not me.

Japan is strict on violence, the USA gets picky when it comes to sex and the list goes on. Every country is free to create their own rules and as a developer you play by those rules or skip the country, no problem.

Wolverine at best is in pre-production. It not a number 2 like Spider-man but a new ip and that takes a lot of time with prototyping, writing story etc. I presume Wolverine will go full steam AFTER Spider-man 2. M$ should stay with the facts but that doesn't look as exciting I guess so they pull something out of their behind like always.

240 euro?!!!
Hahahaha, yeah when hell freezes over.

A lot of things are going on with gamepass. First of all the games that have heavy monetization. Most Xbox exclusives and many non exclusives have it and is making Xbox money, even when the service runs on PlayStation. I'm positive Sony wants a piece of that pie is previously it was theirs.
Then games that are sold on the PlayStation store and in brick and morter stores, Sony, like MS, get 30% of the sales but when it's on gamepass who is getting that profit? Not PlayStation.

If Xbox pays Sony for all lost revenue I'm positive Sony would accept it but I'm sure that Xbox, who is already loosing a ton of money on their platform, won't do that.

In the end there is a simple solution that Xbox and PlayStation can work with.
Xbox stop making consoles and start making games for PC and PlayStation (and maybe Nintendo). They can do like EA and Ubi does, make a subscription with games they make after they made their money in innitial sales. Just like some movies from streaming platforms first release in cinema's. Xbox could become another Tencent and maybe start making a profit.

This is not the first time this studio is negative in the news. It's a shame as Disco Elysium is a great game but I have a hard time supporting a studio that doesn't have his studio in order and people aren't treated fair.

Spreading yourself thin is a great way to achieve quality...
It's so hard to get excited for this studio after what they did with CP2077.

Overpromissed and under delivered. Game works fine now but isn't what was advertised so any hype for any CDPR game is gone for me. If it's good and not broken I probably by it.

There we go again as if this is news. Lets look at the facts:
1) A tv series is being made of the Horizon ip.
2) So a PC version needs to be re-released on PC.
3) And because of that they use the updated engine, texture etc to make the re-release.
4) They re-release it also on PS as it doesn't cost them anything and there are enough people who double dip.
5) All this is probably mainly done by juniors and interns and it's a nice learning oppertunety.
6) It make a few more millions of free money (to probably dump in MP/Live Service crap).

I am very interrested in the PSVR2, but I want to see the amount of investment Sony is preparing to put in the platform.
For their multiplayer/live service crap they put 10 exclusive titles in production and bought a studio for $7B. I don't see that yet for PSVR2. Also the promise of hybrid games still has to come to fruition for the PS exclusives. So I wait until they come true to their promise.

Please invest in PSVR2. the whole Live Service thing will get old realy soon and die like most of those titles.

No PlayStation, no E3.
So E3 is (still) dead.

Disney never understood "oversaturating the market" is a bad thing and devalues any brand. the same goes for "quantity over quality". Then again, Disney is garbage.

@zebric21 True, especialy as I have glassfiber internet with rediculas speed but I lack the technical knowhow to change a router unfortunately.

I unfortantely can't forward my port in my router (it's a terrible modem and the option isn't open) so my intertent logs in and out a thousend times when I'm on my PS5.
Because GT7 forces you to be online allways I stopped playing as it bothers me too much. A shame as the game is fun.

I don't think Jim Ryan does a bad job, where the problem is lies in the communication department of PlayStation.
Look at Phil, doesn't know how to make a game and most released on his watch is garbage but he gets a positive rap because he smiles and talks a lot (often out of his a$$ but you get my point).
PlayStation has too much class to go for that but their communication department needs a refresh. Hermen Hulst is a godsend as a leader for the studios as he knows how to make games and it shows in his leadership.

If you have 10 mp (game as a service) games in development at you own studios and above that invest $7B in Bungie for the same thing, I'm a bit dissapointed that all we have seen now is the Horizon game. Assets where already there so it can't be to much of an investment. The promis of Hybrid Games is made but we still have to see proof of that. It's not that I don't care about indie games, some are amazing but I want big tripple A experiences and a 7 hour Horizon game isn't that.

One of the very pleasant surprises. Looking forward to this game.

September 13 is the real E3.

Xbox buying Activision Blizzard, no one wins.
Xbox gamers are getting nothing new, they get the games that would have been made anyway. The only "win" is that they come on gamepass. There is a caveat as no studio bought by MS has performed better than when they weren't bought, always worse. And gamepass will get more expensive as eventually investors will want to see a return on investment (something Xbox hasn't done ever).
PS will initially lose as they will miss income from the sale of the games and the many dlc/microtransactions, gamers who are devoted CoD players will jump ship. Caveat, It will force PS to invest and create a better multiplayer game. Above that PS will try harder to get players back to their system or make sure gamers don't leave (like in the PS3 era) and to be honest that was a big win for the gamers.

Xbox not buying Activision Blizzard, nothing changes, no one loses.
*Disclaimer: I don't play mp games or care much about the Activision Blizzard games so I couldn't care less.

I love the Witcher 3 but are enough key people still working at the company to make it as good as it needs to be.
Cyberpunk was such a disillusion that it's hard for me to get excited. I'll wait until trusted reviews are in (ACG) and the game is out for the general public before I consider to buy it.

The Thing would be great as an inspiration for a new game. You don't know who is the monster and the story can change every playthrough where everyone can potentially be the monster.

If the sales goes trough and all Activision games get on game pass day one than the UK will loose a lot of money from physical sales.
PlayStation is much bigger in the UK so all sales from physical disks for both console will evaporate instantly. Xbox doesn't sell the game but only the pass that is in their own financial system so the UK tax payer will see taxes rise eventually.