It's Final Fantasy Resonance for me. What a fantastic game.

Capcom counts Nintendo's Game Key Cards as digital sales even though many people buy them thinking they have a physical game and a lot of the games they sell in Europe like the Mega Man Legacy Collection games and Kunitsu-Gami are digital only here.

So that 8% isn't as "people prefer digital" as that number seems to show.

At least we will get the classic costume, which is what I will be using.

Ape Escape from the vault.

SONY should give us the option to disable trophies. Would fix a lot of problems with them.

As a Sonic fan, I'm sure this guy's would deliver if it's true. Hopefully the new Ape Escape delivers if it gets released.

@PuppetMaster Yes, but releasing Merch during release is one thing, but getting merch way after release and getting more and more is another. I even see a lot Astro Bot merch advertised on YouTube, something that never happened with Ratchet, Sly, Jak and Sackboy to me.

@PuppetMaster 1.5 is pretty good for a game that most likely had a fraction of God of War's and Spider-Man 2's budget and where the protagonist was supposed to simply be featured in tech demos to showcase the consoles.

1.5 million copies sold means Astro Bot sold well and if it didn't, Astro Bot wouldn't get merch.

Until now I see many people buying Astro Bot stuff.

@Carnage Thanks for the info, I didnt know that. That's a shame that Omega Boost 2 was never made. Such a fantastic game.

@PuppetMaster Yes, Sony called Astro Bot a mega hit when they said it sold 1.5 million copies and it is said now it is close to selling 5 million copies. Seems like a success to me.

@DoubleDip Astro Bot sold well.

The games I would like to return. If at least 3 of those came back I would be lucky, because I'm sure Gravity Rush and Freedom Wars will return:

Freedom Wars

The Legend of Dragoon

Wild Arms

Gravity Rush

Alundra

Rogue Galaxy

Arc the Lad

Forbidden Siren

Omega Boost

Destiny of Spirits

Extermination

Ape Escape

Omega Boost will never return because Sony doesn't allow Polyphony Digital to do anything that isn't Gran Turismo.

Would love Destiny of Spirits to return as a full game instead of a mobile gacha game, similar to Shin Megami Tensei and the Digimon Story games.

Crazy that the guy who spends a lot of his time in Japan isn't popular there.

Now SONY can pick it up to turn it into Wild Arms 6.

Now seriously, it's a shame, I was waiting for this game and was gonna buy it day one. But this doesn't surprise me, we didn't get much information for too long so cancellation was to be expected.

I wonder what will happen with the Kickstarter money. Or we will be lucky and another publisher will publish it.

"Then there's Slitterhead, which is sort of what Sony Japan Studio would have made if it ventured into the horror genre when it was still around."

Completely ignoring the existence of Project Siren.

@Questionable_Duck I see, I was wondering why XBox wouldn't have a physical version but that would explain it since XBox isn't very popular in Japan.

@ShadowRJ We only found out about it last month and I believe SEGA would know about the ceasing of physical media months before us.

@ShadowRJ SEGA already confirmed that the PS5 version of Persona 6 is the only version that will have a physical release, so it will come out next year.

@ShadowRJ True, Vyse's personality is amazing, he is my favourite RPG character.

SEGA explaining why they didn't became LI-SEGA yet.

Anyway this was the right move. Most people who play Live-Service games don't care for SEGA, KONAMI or even Capcom and the majority who do want single player games, so I hope they will give us more games like Golden Axe and Streets of Rage, and bring back Skies of Arcadia SEGA.

Give me more Breath of Fire, Ace Attorney and Devil May Cry.

Another game I'm interested and will most likely buy. KONAMI alongside Capcom is on a roll.

Already pre-ordered, people who fear micro transactions in this game need to get better informed, this game was made for those who don't like to play on mobile and gacha mechanics.

Definitely one of the games I'm most excited about. I hope it gets released next year so I can get it on disc. I at least expect a physical release.

I will definitely play the demo, but I will not carry over my save file. I want to play the game from the beginning again once I get the full game.

You forgot Where the Seeds Fall.

Meh to ok. Seeing more of Final Fantasy Resonance and Rev.Noir was great for me and Rhapsody in Scarlet appealed to me. I also liked to see more of Gundam Rogue Orbit also looks fantastic. Where the Seeds Fall also looked interesting.

Besides that nothing else captured my interest.

Besides that, nothing else interested me

I'm so happy that I'm not interested in this Retrilogy.

What's the point of the disc if the game isn't fully there?

Square Enix has no excuse for this, they should have released the game with two discs like the others.

@belmont They started the Japanese one in December last year. This will be the second State of Play Japan.

More interested in the Japan one. Don't know if I will watch the other one.

WatchStation.

@ShadowRJ Yeah, Soleana is beautiful and Mephiles is fantastic. Plus obviously the music is amazing.

@ShadowRJ I think Mega Man fans thought Pragmata was a more realistic reboot of the Mega Man franchise, something like... well what Sonic 06 was supposed to be.

I wish SEGA and PlatinumGames would do something similar with Vanquish and give Sam a Sonic costume.

You could say the optimized version of Marvel Tōkon Fighting Souls is exclusively on PlayStation 5.

Two things I want to point out here.

First she says that they're going to cautiously move this forward, the word cautiously implies to me that they are not certain if ceasing physical media was the right decision.

Second, she said the reason they are ceasing physical media is because digitalisation is progressing. Didn't they say before the reason they are stopping making physical discs is because costumer preferences have changed? Now they changed the reason.

Nonsense, this is just an excuse Yoshida is using to sell more games of what should have been one. They want to do what Nintendo did with Golden Sun in that, instead of selling the whole game they divide one game in multiple games to profit more.

Dragon Quest 7 is bigger than any Final Fantasy and they remade it as one game and even with the content that was cut from the original it's still bigger, so this Final Fantasy Remake games need to be divided to multiple games to be made is just greed.

Many who were PlayStation fans since the PS1 days went to PC not because Sony's Blockbuster games were released to the platform but because those games didn't appeal to them.

Xenoblade 2 only sold 1 million copies in its first month, which doesn't come close to what Mario, Zelda, Animal Crossing and Pokémon sell in the same timespan, four games that sell more than any Sony game, yet Nintendo allowed Monolith Soft to co-work on Zelda Tears of the Kingdom.

If Metroid was owned by Sony, the franchise would be long dead.

Also shutting down Japan Studio was a short sighted decision, because it did not take into account that many fans would be fed up with those cinematic games, and want something else in the future which seems more and more to be the case now and Japan Studio would be that alternative. People tastes in games change with the times.

Plus Japan Studio games were cheap to make, extremely cheap compared to what Sony's biggest games cost. Not to mention Sony now struggles to release a first party game every year now and games like Intergalactic and Wolverine take years to make. Japan Studio games could have been easily released in the years Sony didn't release a first party game.

Japan Studio was called Sony Computer Entertainment when it existed before being renamed, so Japan Studio making a game was like Sony making a game themselves. Japan Studio was Sony's identity as a video game company.

Next time I would like to see data from only consoles. Including data from PC is bogus.

Mat Piscatella showing data without contextualising again and this time showing 11 days data to prove a point even though 11 days isn't enough time to prove anything.

This is also the US market only which is one of the least profitable markets for physical media. In the European Union and Japan the physical market is still strong.

I will leave this info here.

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It's easy to say that 85% of the sales are digital when you also include digital games that don't have a physical version and the majority of digital games don't have a physical version.

How can we players buy a physical version when whe don't have the choice to do so?

@DennisReynolds You will see, you aren't thinking as logically as you think you are.

@DennisReynolds "If people aren't buying a PS6 its because of the price"

It will be because of both, and companies can make mistakes even with data.

Also those players you mentioned play where their friends are and aren't as loyal as the ones that know about this news.

Again you are heavily underestimating how important SONY's most enthusiastic audience are.

@DennisReynolds You might cave in, but I guarantee you, the number of people who will not buy a PS6 will be significant.

And you are not using logic, it's not true that only 15% of physical games are sold, the split is closer.

This backlash will not go away anytime soon.

A lot of people here are underestimating how much gamers still want physical media. Especially you @DennisReynolds

Another one who makes his decisions based on the spreadsheets.

Even if we were the minority, the backlash is so great that politicians will interfere.

Plus a lot of digital only players are against this as well, they aren't only the "this doesn't affect me" crowd.

Also if Project Helix will have a disc drive as it is rumoured now, SONY will reverse its decision.

Doesn't SONY know, that with great power comes great responsibility?

They really screwed up.

Happy to see Astro Bot doing great, well deserved.

@tselliot Funny that you say that, because in the first Persona, you fight the first enemies in a hospital.

And a lot of people will feel uncomfortable dating minors again.