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@Member_the_game Exactly! Happened to me, actually. My PSN from PS3 days was registered in an EU country. When I moved to another place with a different currency, there was no way to change my address and wallet currency, so I had to set up a new profile for PS5.

Posted this in the previous article: 112m MAU is just 1m higher than Q3’21 figure of 111m. Given 30m PS5s sold, I hoped their total customer base would increase, but it looks like Sony’s gamer base might have peaked. Would be interesting to revisit this prediction in 2024)

Gratz to Sony, very well done! Agree with some comments above: how can one reasonably say their competitive position is threatened by MS+ABK.

Some interesting other info: the number of PS+ subscribers increased by about 0.7mln to 46+, and the revenue from subscription services is more or less flat. This might indicate that they did not manage to move many people from “old” PS+ (now Essentials) to higher tiers.
The number of monthly players seems to be at all-time high - 112m. 1m higher than Q3’21, and much higher than Q1-Q2’22, which were slightly over 100m. Again, good news that Sony broke the trend of declining user numbers. But to me it seems that majority of all those PS5’s are people upgrading from PS4, not new gamers.
Some alternative takes, maybe?

Oh EA, why do you miss an opportunity to release it on May the 4th?)

Fine, fine. I hope events do not unfold in a way that’ll give me an opportunity to revisit this argument.

@Colour I agree with you that maybe they are due some benefit of the doubt. But maybe they should somehow dissociate themselves from the things they supposedly don’t support? They seem to try hard to conceal their Russian origins. In the “About Us” section, Mundfish is described as a studio HQ’ed in Cyprus with professionals from over 10 countries (RU of course is not mentioned). But a largely symbolic gesture of unambiguously condemning the war is somehow above them.

@dark_knightmare2 It’s not only because of them being from Russia - I gave the whole package of reasons.

@WCB nice try mate.

This game is developed by Russians, the studio has ties to the government (via funding, employees and publisher in RU), exploits Soviet aesthtetics, the main character is a member of RU’s security forces. The release day is also 3 days apart from the 1st anniversary of the full-scale war. The only anti-war message they posted was toothless “we condemn violence”. I hope this is at least considered in the review, so people can make an informed buying decision.

I checked the previous game from these developers - turns out it was Final Fantasy XV. 81 critics, 7.7 users. I don’t know how people could reasonably expect 9 or so game after that. For Hogwarts Legacy fan club - you might want to check MC scores for their oeuvre so far:)

“Do you watch wrestling?” 😂🤣

@themightyant good question! Judging by their share price, investors are starting to ask it too.
To me, their business model in the past couple of years looked like “buy all you can reach, milk IPs”.

Glad for their success, but was somewhat disappointed by the game itself. It’s fun, but does not move the series forward at all. Hope that happens it AC8.

@Tiael status of acquisition of these studios given as Pending in the latest statements of Embracer, and they are excluded from 23-24 forecasts - probably that’s why they are missing.

@Quintumply thanks! That’s a shame. I think this really limits the appeal to newcomers…

How is the tutorial here? I tried ‘20 and ‘21 and was disappointed that they don’t bother to properly introduce a newcomer to F1. All they have is text manuals (or at least I could not found anything else). ‘12 (my previous game) had an excellent intro, styled as a series of tasks to get f1 license. It explained how to do turns properly (finding apex, braking accelerating), drs, kers, other important concepts on track, not via text.

Siding with sceptics here. True, there are many players who have not experienced it yet - but PS4 remaster is at their disposal. I would understand it if there was no backwards compatibility, as in PS3/4, but not at the current generation. GoW PS5 remaster when, anyone?

A very enjoyable review, especially the first paragraph. Well done!

Picked DMC after 3rd part, and played everyone since. Was quite disappointed with this one: felt very similar to DMC4, with minimum of impactful new ideas. DmC (by Ninja Theory) was much more bold and refreshing, even if not all ideas worked.

After watching, inspired to play AC Unity again!)

Don’t quite understand complaints about the campaign length here, after almost everyone moaned about DL2’s 500 hours. 8hrs is within the duration range (4-8hrs) for a standard modern shooter campaign (See recent CoDs, BFs, Battlefront 2, Titanfall 2).

This happened before. Injustice 2 was removed in November, although it did not have an expiration date. Ironically, it is still shown on a promo picture on All PSNow Games page.

Got an email from currys today, offering 15% discount for HFW - code ALOY15 at checkout, if anyone’s interested.

MK11 is a PS4 version, but it is Ultimate edition - nice!
Also, i can still play my installed TLOU2, although it left the service today - is it always like that with PSNow/PSPlus games? I thought it’s like free weekends on steam - even if you have the game installed, once the free period is over, you can’t launch it.