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@heavyartillery56 Microsoft might be able to buy Sony. But Xbox is 0% of the reason it can.

Sony should just make video games and then sell the video games. It's why all their consoles did better than the competition. PS1 beat N64. PS2 beat Gamecube and Xbox. PS3 outsold 360. PS4 clobbered the Xbone. All because they made games and then sold games. I don't know why on Earth they thought shifting their entire philosophy after almost 30 years of success was a good idea.

@rjejr Nah. The market for consoles continues to grow. The PS5 is on pace to outsell the PS4. The market for consoles is doing the opposite of shrinking. I don't think consoles are going away anytime soon.

No way! I'm actually super stoked for this. Zach Cregger is amazing going all the way back to his WKUK days. I can't believe I'm actually hyped for a Resident Evil movie but they somehow found a way.

Bro I just finally got a PS5. can we cool the PS6 talk for at least another year and a half or so?

@Logonogo I'd recommend playing A Way Out with her as well someday. It's definitely lower budget than It Takes Two but it's fantastic as well.

29% of people are wasting their PS5. Why even play games if you aren't gonna play the good ones?

I want Halo 5 and Infinite on PS5. I know most people don't like them but they're the only Halo games I haven't played since I stopped with Xbox after the 360.

Not surprised. A Way Out was fantastic. And It Takes Two was even better. Hazelight is legit one of the best devs working right now.

Remember when they canceled Crash 5 because Crash 4 only sold over 5 million copies? Great company.

Split Fiction is one of my most anticipated games period. Hazelight is a fantastic dev that is seemingly only getting better.

Stoked for Split Fiction. A Way Out was fantastic. And It Takes Two was even better. Hazelight is one of the best devs right now, they continue to get better, and they're the only ones trying to do genuinely new and unique things with co-op games.

Astro Bot is so much fun. Honestly the best non-Mario 3d platformer I've ever played. If you like video games you should definitely play it. Supporting real video games is extremely important. Voting with our wallets is the only way we can make companies learn.

@tameshiyaku Nah. Donkey Kong.

And games like Concord are called "whoops party."

Who's hyped about this? CD burned through all of their goodwill from me with the first one. I ain't getting hyped for anything from them until after it releases in a finished state.

@wildcat_kickz Kitchen knives can be used to kill people. And that's why you wouldn't give them to someone who says they're going to use them to kill people. Executives in the game and film industry have been perfectly and abundantly clear that they're most interested in AI so they can cut labor costs. That means firing creative people and replacing them with AI.

@wildcat_kickz AI absolutely has uses as a tool. But the problem is that that isn't how it's going to be used. How it should work is as a tool to help creative people create games. How it'll actually work is that suits will fire the creative people and then try to replace their creativity with AI.

@nessisonett True. Phil Spencer was supposed to turn xbox around. It seems all he's done is help run it into the ground.

It's based on Batman Beyond? Man I am hyped now.

@Orpheus79V Also Gravity Rush 2 came out within three months of Resident Evil 7, Zelda Breath of the Wild, Nier Automata, and Horizon Zero Dawn. If it had come out at a less busy time with decent marketing it would have done much better.

@Fighting_Game_Loser I think there's a lot of truth to that. Nintendo doesn't make much difference in marketing between a smaller budget game like Pikmin and a bigger budget game like Zelda. And because Nintendo is always cognizant of release schedules those smaller budget games end up doing really well. I remember when Gravity Rush 2 came out. I had to go out of my way to find information on it. It also came out within a few months of Nier Automata, Breath of the Wild, and Horizon Zero Dawn. That's what the problem is.

Nintendo has known this fact since 2006.

@Lowdefal That's fair

@Northern_munkey I mean generally I think Japanese devs seem to make better games. But more pertinent to this article, I don't hear a lot about how the people running Japanese studios are super awful people. I do seem to hear it not infrequently with western devs though.

@Nem I think between like 2010 and 2017 there definitely was a period where people weren't interested in AA games. But then AAA games started becoming live service eslop and people went back to wanting good creative AA games again. I think that's also why the Wii U had a great library that nobody wanted at the time until they were rereleased on the Switch and everyone realized all of those games were amazing.

Honestly I'm just disappointed the game is going to PC at all. Console exclusives for life.

My favorite game was Resident Evil 9.

I don't have PS plus. And when I did I never actually downloaded any of the free games. Cuz I'd much rather just buy them.

Who’s gonna complain about free DLC?

@Rich33 I don't know why that would be an unpopular take. It's objectively true. You had covid which destroyed supply chains. That was followed up by global inflation during the economic recovery from covid. And now when things were just starting to get a bit settled you have the World's two largest economies throwing pot shot tariffs at each other. It's going to be difficult for a price drop to occur under these circumstances. There's just been way too much uncertainty over the last five years.

@Member_the_game Literally true for me until Astro Bot.

@Jireland92 I just bought my PS5 last month. Most games like RE4 I was just playing on my PS4. Astro Bot is what finally sold me on upgrading. So I think exclusives have definitely helped ship units the last year or so.

Also over 80% of the consoles sold have been the disc version. The death of physical media is overblown. People wouldn't be paying more for a disc drive if they didn't want it.

@get2sammyb Totally Agree. The Pro should have been $550-$600 with the slim taking a little price drop.

No Resident Evil 9. 0/10.

Resident Evil 9 here we come.

If the upgrades are free for people who already own the game. Then that's cool I guess.

Been playing Astro Bot. Outage didn't bother me.

I recently bought Sonic 3 and Sonic and Knuckles for my Sega Genesis. I wanted to get the version with the original Ice Cap Zone music. It's so nice being able to slap a 30+ year old cartridge into a 30+ year old console and not worry about whether it'll work or not.

"with company bigwigs typically looking at the profit margins of live service titles and concluding that everything should follow suit"

The actual problem is CEOs don't even look at the real numbers. They look at the profit margins for the 3 or 4 live service titles that are very successful. They seem to completely ignore the wasteland of failed live service titles. Some of which die in less than a month.

Nah. The Dualsense is one of the best controllers ever. If I wanted to play with a mouse I'd just play on PC.

4/15. Honestly pretty good considering I've never played any of the games.

I am very selective about what long games I start these days. There just ain't enough time in life to play multiple 100 hour plus games in a year.

Ubisoft needed it to bail out their entire company and pay for all those lawsuits. There's no way it was ever going to do that. No game could.

Xbox is officially a third party publisher.

Meanwhile Nintendo is smoking the competition with hardware from 2006. How? Games. Nobody wants a machine with power if there aren't any games to play.

Sorry Square. The Tifa cat is out of the bag. Can't put it back in now. I'll always stand by that Aeris is for Cloud but Aerith is not.

"According to analyst Mat Piscatella, 49% of all PS5 hardware sold in the US last year did not include a disc drive."

That gives us no information. How many of those were the PS5 pro? And how many of them were bought with the intention of adding a disc drive to it later?