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PC store is easier to publish on and has less optimisation fuss whilst theres more work to be done to get the games running on set hardware. So of course the smaller devs are going to prioritise PC first, and then bring their games to console later if the demand is worth the effort. Also PC gets a lot more shovelware, probably has more visual novels and adult only games than the PS5 has in total.

That's a very big ambitious "might".

Especially coming from Compile Heart, them and Furyu games are always half baked.

@T-Bone09 They released TLOU Part 2 in June 2020 for PS4, in November that year came the PS5. So it's definitely something they have done before

@Mattock1987 It has some exploration segments where you can walk around the estate investigating.

Concord was a £34.99 game, this is free so I would expect it to have a much higher peak, but for its second day numbers to be that low means this game won't last long.

Surely there's an Expansion in the works, that will boost the sales and some players like to wait for the complete package.

How is the difficulty? I usually suck at souls like games but options and certain gear in Stellar Blade made it very doable for me. Does this game feature similar options or builds that make it easier?

The mostly negative rating on steam tells me all I need to know. I give it 6 months before this game is dead.

Only positive review on steam I can see and it's not even a positive, made me laugh though.

Upon completing my first game I turned off my pc and went outside. The first time in 5 months, thank you Highguard for giving me that experience.

@Ashina 13 was good but then part 2 and 3 ruined it and made it a bad trilogy overall.

Never played the game so I can't say if it's that bad or not, so Lightning Returns is still the worst one.

I think they should releases a PS5 native handheld whilst waiting, then mention how it will also play select PS6 games in the future.

It looked pretty decent, tbh this is probably the first Xbox game that's caught my attention and be considered a day one buy.

That trailer looks awful, and this is a current gen game? 😬.

Well Microsoft are a third party publisher now so it makes sense, Xbox is just going to be a brand name that gets rented out, and not a main console platform that there were once know for.

It would hilarious and such a troll move from Square Enix to not even follow the "R" naming pattern for this last part.

Final Fantasy has already use the Réunion naming for the Crisis Core Remake.

I'm going for Resolution, since it's bringing an ending to the Trilogy.

So Sony doesn't even need to do anything to get exclusives these days 😅. The way Xbox is going I can see more developers going down this route of focussing on Playstation and PC first.

@themightyant So are you saying that if Sony were forced to take a lesser cut then the games on the store would become cheaper? Because if not then what's the point, the only ones benefiting would be the developers and then the developers would then be charging more knowing they can take home a bigger cut. Same goes for mobile stores, if Apple lose their battle and these Asian developers still charge ridiculous prices for their microtransactions (especially those gacha games) then how has it benefitted the consumer.

That's more of a demake than anything.

@themightyant Well if that was to happen then surely it would also effect pc gaming stores and mobile too, so there would be strong competition against that in the courts. Also that would be a move that would see Sony double down on making their own live service games, if they can't get revenue from third party online games then they will surely just make their own. So indeed that would be a disastrous outcome if that was to ever happen, I'm sure Steam and Nintendo would also not be too happy.

Also if Microsoft were to push this then Sony would get nothing from allowing their games onto the PlayStation Store, and could just block them from doing so.

@orvisbean101 To boost gamepass numbers to 100 million, try and gain some player base back from Sony and as one email said "outspend Sony out of business". Obviously a few years later they failed on all three and probably regret it deep down. But on the bright side they are now primarily a third party publisher and Playstation players get access to a lot more games, IP's that were locked off from the platform for many gens. So in the end those deals were worth it in my opinion.

@Questionable_Duck Maybe because Microsoft told these studio's you're going to start putting your games on Playstation, and instead of saying its Microsofts decision they come out with this excuse that they want as many people to play their game as possible. How come these developers didn't say this last gen or the gen before that?

So that's 2 million sold in the US, it might be in track to out sell the Vita.

It is a great device and now a standalone console if you have Playstation Plus Premium. Been playing Banishers and High on Life on mine lately and the performance has been perfect, with my 130mbs Internet it feels like I'm playing these games natively. They now need to focus on adding PS3 games and maybe a OLED version.

@MrMajeeny They are free to play games so they won't be included, although even if they were I doubt Apex Legends would make the top 10.

@Oram77 It looks OK from what I've seen so far, I'm also quite interested in what the team behind Pokémon can actually do when they have a bigger budget and no time restraints.

This is why you ignore that haters that keep insisting it flopped, the fact it came out in mid October and still reached top 3 is an incredible achievement, and the icing on the cake is even beating Call of Duty.

Looks really good and il be there day one, same for Beast of Reincarnation. What a year for PS5 2026 is going to be.

I've put 300 hours into Wuthering Waves and that game has clicked with me so I'm not going to add anymore of these gacha games to my playtime unless they are truly something special, and this game ain't it.

@Friendly Depends on the definition of live service, Genshin and other gacha games are classed as live service but their updates are free, same for HellDivers 2 and Arc Raiders. For me a game that's either paid or free that continue to get regular content updates after launch for 2+ years are a live service. Games like Gran Turismo, Monster Hunter and No Man's Sky would also fit under the live service category well. Games that stay in service by keep offering content to keep players coming back.

But I agree that I would prefer Sony and Nintendo (who predominantly do) to just focus purely on Single Player games, leave the live service to third parties to work off their IP.

@Friendly For Nintendo I'd say Splatoon is a live service, so was Animal Crossing for the first year, Microsoft with the yearly Call of Duty games, the failed Redfall from guys who usually make single player games. Rare got turned into live service makers, no doubt there will be more ESO and Fallout 76 content pumped out over the next few years as well. They also turned Diablo into a live service full of ridiculous microtransaction. Sony seemed to have scaled back their live service push with their single player teams, the live service games to come like Marathon and Fairgames are from studios who haven't made any of the great single players games Sony are known for. Same can be said for the team behind Concord, they never made a game before so they took nothing away from us Playstation players. Their Horizon game seems to be the only one left that's being made by their usual single player studios.

@AdamNovice Just saw it as well, too much red for me. Would have been nicer if they kept to the lime green and white theme like the controller.

@BanChatum The collectors edition does come with the game, via a digital code.

Players will receive a separate PS5 voucher code for Marathon the Game which will not be redeemable on PlayStation until March 5th, 2026 at 8:00am PT

There are two collectors editions to be aware of, one with the game costing 229.99 and one without the game costing 170.

https://bungiestore.com/games-music/collectors-edition

Outside of Playstation consoles I don't bother with Sony's other products, I used to in the past like their phones and headphones but the competition offered better and at a cheaper price. They tried to be too premium with everything, but these Chinese companies can beat Sony on price everytime.

@SeanOhOgain Tbf most of the daily active commenters on this site don't actually like Playstation, and the ones that do most of them hate the idea of Sony making live service games.

But, it's currently the 5th top seller of steam and sitting 3rd and 4th on the PlayStation Store pre order charts. So I'd say there definitely a lot of enthusiasm for the game, just not on here.

Currently 5th best seller on the Steam store, with two free to play games and the steam deck in front of it. Seems like it's going to do just fine after all.

@Friendly I take it you also want to see an end to Nintendo and Microsoft releasing live service games?

If AI shortens development time then that means these game release schedules are going to get even more hectic, more games available means more choice and more games getting skipped and lost to the sea of releases.

I think it can get a bit overwhelming now with the amount of games I want per year, especially around September to November with around 6 games per month, imagine that becoming 8 games per month. Get ready for backlogs to become even bigger and build up faster.

After being disappointed by Arc Raiders I'm hoping this is good and gets me hooked like Hunt Showdown did. Definitely putting in my pre order at the end of the month.

The game should do OK, especially after HellDivers 2 reviving the Extraction Shooter genre, theres been a surge of interest ever since.

@darylb24 Well this comment didn't age well....

I hope this turns out great as I'm looking for a new multiplayer shooter, getting bored of Apex Legends now and Arc Raiders wasn't all it was hyped up to be.

@SMJ I have no idea why Sony gave up the handheld market, either they decided not to care about the Japanese market and focus on the West, or they knew they had no chance against Nintendo's cheap hardware and game development as Sony were chasing TV console like graphics over fun in my opinion, which would have put some developers off.

But they needed Monster Hunter to be successful, that game pretty much carried the PSP over there. Vita not having that series pretty much killed it on its own.

Just did some digging and this is the current state of sales with TV vs Handheld

Total hardware sold in Japan

Handheld only
Sony (2) - 25,595,000
Nintendo (5) - 114,502,000 (includes Switch Lite)

TV only
Sony (5) - 70,708,000
Nintendo (9) - 69,690,000

Hybrid
Sony (0) - 0
Nintendo (2) - 33,735,000

The best four selling systems in Japan all had handheld capability (GBC, Switch, DS and 3DS), which just goes to show Japanese prefer handheld gaming over the traditional console. This is why I think it's important for Sony to release a new handheld alongside the PS6, and make sure it's capable of running the latest Monster Hunter.

@OldGamer999 Also count how many more gamers who would have chose Xbox but go to Playstation instead because of those Microsoft games coming to Playstation, plus Wolverine, Saros, Marvel Tokon etc

Microsoft will make money off Playstation players but Sony will be getting more players, resulting in more subs and microtransactions in return.

Id say it's a win win for revenue for both of them, reputation wise though, not the same.

At this rate Sony will sell just over 9 million by the end of 2027 which is near enough keeping up with the PS4 sales in Japan. All they need to do now is make a native portable console to get back more of that market.

Those Xbox figures are embarrassing, and to think they still put on a yearly TGS showcase to win over the Japanese players 😬, to no avail every time.

Last hyped up "School RPG" i bought was Varlet, ended up one of the worst games I've ever played. So yeah I will need to see the reviews for this before i take an interest.

@Max_the_German "In the long term, a platform like PlayStation lives from is exclusives"

I don't think that's true at all, Sony could go all gen without releasing a first party game and they would still sell 80+ million consoles, as the majority of high end console gamers are primarily interested in third party games and multiplayer games, plus the addition of Xbox exclusives Sony wouldn't need to release a game again. Now that statement would ring true for Nintendo, if Nintendo went a while gen with no first party exclusives then there would be no pint in owning the system and wouldn't pass the 10 million sales mark.

Also Forza released in April, Yotei released in October, I'm sure if Yotei had 6 more months of sales it would be higher.

These lists are always depressing to look at, no wonder why everyone chases the live service train.

@LogicStrikesAgain Its base offerings aren't a joke, but it's new monthly additions (usely just 1) are. I'm happy to pay the price for the streaming service provided, my comment was about the monthly additions.