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This state of play was purely for Japanese/Asian game updates and indie reveals, they stated that before the show began so how people can still complain is beyond me. Yet you have idiots online still expecting Sony first party reveals 🤦.

I've been playing it on the Portal and it's been great so far, I'm level 10 but I've been focussing on just the first two maps. The game is very hard though, I can deal with wasps, hornets and the small bots usually in buildings but anything else destroys me and sometimes ruins the experience. Mostly play with squad fill on as well as then I have back up if I run into hostile players 😂.

@Oram77 Yeah your probably right, just find it funny they let Bunjie make the calls about their live service games. They could have given Bunjie the IP to work with instead and made a multiplayer TLOU Extraction game instead of Marathon.

Also that "expand it further" may mean there's a PS5 native handheld on the way.

Maybe they plan on supporting the PS5 for many years after the launch of the PS6, just like how the PS4 was supported after the release of the PS5.

So if the PS6 launches in 2027 but still support the PS5 for two years after that then yes technically it is in the middle of its life cycle right now.

They worst part is the they let Bunjie take a look at their other live service games and cancelled them at their advice. We lost TLOU Factions because of their advice, yet they can't even run their own live service games well.

Sony should just turn Bunjie into a single player studio like they used to be and get some exclusives shooters.

@Fiendish-Beaver Microsoft have more multiplatform games such as Minecraft that's on over 10 platforms but a Microsoft account is required, I'd say the same for any of their PC games as well. Also pretty sure a Microsoft account is needed to play small games like solitaire downloaded off their Windows store. They also have big mobile games like candy crush which has millions of players, probably more active players than their Xbox users.

Thinking about it I can't see much getting revealed tonight, if they were going to show big new reveals then they would 100% want it in English as well. So I think it will just be updates on existing games and maybe some release dates but in terms of new reveals I doubt we will see any, plus it sounds like there's going to be a few interviews which will slow down the pacing, I might just skip this one and get a recap after the show.

@Oram77 According the outspoken minority.

Probably from Xbox players making the jump over to Playstation and from new PC accounts playing games like HellDivers (if they count).

Two years left to reach that 100 million, should easily be done.

@Fiendish-Beaver Well surely it will be in the xbox store sales as well within a few months, as per with almost every game that releases.

Can't believe I'm seeing Xbox players online moan about the game potentially having it's original retail price and that it should be cheaper due to it already being on Playstation for a year. Erm Forza Horizon 5 says hello.....

I will probably start the game for the first time once I'm done with TLOU 2, luckily it's on Playstation Plus so I may play it on my Portal in bed for an hour each night, lights off and headphones on just how horror games should be played 😅.

Microsoft must be desperate.

This sounds catered to me as I love Japanese games. Can't think of anything big that would be revealed though, the next Persona and Dragon Quest are still years away, maybe updates on Resident Evil and Pragmata. Kingdom Hearts 4 has also been missing for a while so maybe thats due an update.

Of course we will get the usual gacha games getting some run time, especially with Infinity Nikki having it's 1 year anniversary update early December. Just hope there's liitle to no souls games shown/announced.

For first party I would expect to see Marvel Tokon and possibly Astro Bot (still praying for some DLC).

I've been using the Portal a lot this year purely for cloud streaming and it's been flawless (130mb Internet). I bought Arc Raiders on Friday and been playing it on Portal all weekend and it's been great, been playing TLOU 2 Remastered as well and so far I've had no problems.

@lazymike You're right, as per data in early 2025 Nintendo had 41% physical games sales compared to Sony's 17%.

Just shows that Game Key Cards are a non issue and overblown by the minority. The sales don't surprise me either as Japan is crazy on Nintendo and handhelds.

@Rich33 The Switch 2 may be the only negative in a way, because if they want their games to run off that hardware then there's going to be some limitations which hold the game back, especially when we reach gen 6. But I think this will mainly be effecting the Japanese games rather than western ones.

@TrollOfWar I own both a PS5 and a Switch 2 but I would always pick the PS5 version because of performance and visuals and I would suppose it would be the same with most people who have that combination of consoles. Although if anything further down line I'd double dip and get the Switch 2 version as well but yeah I can't see Square Enix going multiplatform cost Sony in sales. Their games being on more platforms may in return create a bigger buzz (if the games good) on the Internet and socials which would maybe make more PS5 players buy the game in return.

There recent round of lay offs, shift away from their smaller games and commitment to AI has put me off buying their games day one anyway. Doubt we will ever see an Mana or Star Ocean game again, it will just be FF, Dragon Quest and Kingdom Hearts galore from here on out.

Why do people get so worked up and overreact over a delay 😅, the game is still coming and you will still get to play it but you just have to behave like an adult and have some patience, maybe play the many other hundreds of games releasing next year whilst you wait.

Get ready for the influx of games releasing before then.

@species I will challenge you on that lol and say they will pick Clair Obscura.

I wouldn't be surprised to see the Portal out sell the new Xbox Rog Ally consoles, which would be hilarious to see an accessory do better than an actual console.

Also these £600+ handheld PCs that's the Portal is somehow getting compared to can't even play every game natively, and most that are native have to play on low settings and still get under two hours of battery and high fan noise. With the Portal I can now play games like Dragon Age Veilguard, Alan Wake 2 and Clair Obscura at 1080p with steady fps with no noticeable drops or low textures with 4 hours of gameplay before I need to charge, an experience I won't get using a Rog Ally/Steam Deck.

Just read some of the reviews on steam and it's much more than just it being made for consoles, it seems like it's full of bugs and they've made no improvements even with a year gap. Even going far as to remove national teams, they need to fix this ASAP otherwise this series won't be around much longer.

A few big games missing like Diablo 4 and Arc Raiders which is a surprise, maybe more will get added over time.

I wonder what more they can do with the Portal now, only thing left is PS4 and PS3 games to stream.

Seems like the "just for you" discounts you also find on Xbox and Steam. Unfortunately for me I haven't received any, well not that I know of.

But it seems playstation have been doing the just for you discounts for a while now so that pretty much sums up whats happening here.

https://www.reddit.com/r/playstation/comments/186y0l6/discounted_for_you_gimmick_or_legit/

Probably one of the top 3 developers around, always know you're getting a quality AAA experience with these guys.

After today's update I'd say yes, I will be playing on mine a lot more from now on. My only concern is the joy sticks, when my controllers get stuck drift I don't mind spending £65 on a new controller but for the Portal I don't want to be spending £200 every couple do years. Hopefully we get a revised version with hall effect sticks.

@ElectricWizard Why doesn't it? You can buy and stream games on it without ever owning a ps5 making it a standalone device if you want.

Its pretty much a logitech g cloud but dedicated to playstation games.

The thing is Digital costs less in labour, manufacturing, shipping, and less omissions yet why does it cost more to us consumers than buying physical?

I'm sure physical would have been dead by last gen if digital games cost £15-£20 less than physical.

They need to advertise the hell out of this update, this will lead to an increase in Portal sales and premium tier subs.

@Linaphor This turns the Portal into its own standalone console. Aslong as you have a playstation account and premium membership you don't even need to own a PS5 to play PS5 games. Just buy a game from the store using your phone and then play it on your portal via cloud streaming.

This is huge, this may tempt me to start purchasing more digital games.

@Oram77 Those complaining on those articles are just butt hurt xbox fans trying to defend their console, but then have no problem bashing on playstation and bringing up Xbox in Xbox unrelated articles.

@Northern_munkey It's not just the prove of the upgrades either that's off putting, it's the amount of settings and loopholes you need to go through to get most games running well, you pretty much have to do the optimisation yourself. I'm tempted to buy a steam deck oled soon and been watching a lot of videos on YouTube on how games run and which games are playable and almost all of them you have to do some tweaking to get them acceptable. The majority of casual console gamers do not want to got through that every game and will have no idea what some of the terminology of the options even mean. People just love the simplicity of consoles and that will never change enough for consoles to become obsolete.

If every month in Essential and Extra were bangers then we wouldn't have time for new games, so a "crap" month once in a while isn't a bad thing.

My vote goes to Digimon Story Time Stranger, a great game and personally the best digimon game to date.

Remakes are great when they are needed to re introduce the game to a new generation of gamers. Remakes and Remasters of games 10 years old are pointless whereas games like Trails in the Sky and FF7 getting Remakes makes sense.

Also just because people spend more on remakes doesn't mean they are more profitable, as remakes cost way more to develop than remasters.

Haven't completed Yotei yet so I won't vote for it, so out of that list the only other games I've played (and completed) are Silent Hill F and Donkey Kong Bananza. So my vote goes to Donkey Kong, such an amazing fun game.

So from what I've read on here and elsewhere online it seems like some games struggle and some games shine on the Pro using PSSR. So that just tells me it's down to poor optimisation, devs should not really launch games until they are running well on all launch day available platforms.

The fact he's getting away with it doesn't surprise me, Japan is one of the most misogynistic countries. If he did what he did in the West he would have served some jail time and deservably so, forceably removing a woman's bra and assaulting her is disgusting, and to think there was others in attendance egging him on.

@SeaDaVie Yeah I agree, Extraction shooters gaining a surge in popularity just before Marathon releases may just be what it needs. But it needs constant support to keep people invested, and I don't know if Bunjie is capable of supporting two big live services games at the same time, they struggle sometimes with Destiny alone.

Also the Switch 2 is Sony's main competition and Nintendo charge for online multiplayer (with less multiplayer games available) so I don't see Sony changing it because of Xbox.

Plus PC has offered free online since the beginning, if any console players cared that much about free online then they would have moved to PC years ago.

@Shepherd_Tallon Yeah, having access to hundreds of games, and 36 games to keep (as long as your subbed) per year is worth £10.99. Cloud saves and online multiplayer are just a bonus.

I don't really pay for Playstation Plus for the multiplayer, I pay for the three free games per month and the Extra/Premium catalog.

But if the PS6 is costing £600 and the next Xbox costs £1200 you could buy the PS6 and 10 years of Playstation Plus Essential for the same price, but you would also get 360 free games during those 10 years.

So it's either Xbox for £1200 with free online multiplayer but no free games or the next playstation for £600, £600 for 10 years of online but with 360 free games. I know what I'd rather have.

@Questionable_Duck She's from an Anime called "A Certain Scientific Railgun" but also in a spin off called "A Certain Magical Index".

Next year could be massive for Sony if they can get these four games out,

Saros
Wolverine
Marvel Tokon
Intergalactic

Plus the massive amount of consoles they will shift once GTA releases.

If Tencent somehow win this case then Sony should 100% block this game from releasing on the PlayStation store.