They should really get Arby's on anime/game promotion and catering again the way they have Chipotle ready at EVO. Both of them clearly have a great relationship with Bandai Namco, and Arby's was even at EVO before Sony owned it. And I genuinely miss those creative tweets.
They could probably do giveaways too. I'm just Saiyan.
I love having stuff far in the future to look forward to as it adds up and secures a library for later... but there are some games you should ABSOLUTELY forget about.
Like any major Kingdom Hearts sequel-- or character for that matter. They don't remember anything. Kojima would have had a field day making KH memory card shenanigans.
Sounds like they have big plans if they're raising the minimum entry and willing to make so many players to migrate. But I'd imagine dealing with a loud PS4 is already a pain enough and you can probably transfer accounts. It also just makes sense because all of Hoyo's other games are on PS5-- if not a great deal of announced gachas out there. I even saw that they're raising the requirements for mobile.
The PS4 version DEFINITELY deserves credit for helping it's start though. I mean people were livid at Sony and literally destroyed their PS4s over this game before launch...
Get the money for next gen hardware and unannounced projects, follow the rule of delays and simultaneous release for multiplayer. Seems fine to me although I would DEFINITELY make whatever grand return or sequel that happens after these ports exclusive a bit longer as leverage to get people on at least the next platform.
Make no mistake, they need to take their next gen attempt very seriously-- especially on the handheld end. Absolutely gonna need exclusives. It's very much the reason why people got a PS5 in the first place, even with the later developments of confirmed timed exclusives. They're really going to need to show off their value so hopefully things wont overlap too much. I don't expect the rate to be anything too crazy and the games ported to make sense as they have so far.
Ah, so this is only the -released- stuff. No Lost Souls Aside, Intergalactic, Saros, Ghost of Yotei, Marvel Tokon, etc quite yet.
I haven't really been picky about the rate of first party exclusives with Sony for ages since they've nearly always been in the perfect position to have so many 3rd party games to fill in any gaps. I'm not exactly sure what changed so much this gen to not have as much of an appreciation for securing 3rd parties, but I've seen what their competition looks like without it before and it can feel like a drought. You don't have to hope for ports nearly as much on this platform.
That State of Play was really strong too. I think a lot of people ended up going to the trailers separately after though-- like the the Tokon one. As a result, some don't even know how much Sony played a part in stuff like that.
But no real bad news here. Promotion for everything. Hope the sales for Yotei get even crazier in Japan than Tsushima.
Normally, I would guess something like Zappa & Jam... and maybe a Blazblue or Persona character for hinting at a revival...
But if it's for GGST -specifically- and they're stressing it this much, I have NO idea. They already randomly blew our mind with a whole Marvel fighting game. Heck, the whole industry has been so crossover crazy right now that there's just no predicting it. Could be someone from freakin' Chainsaw man.
This almost feels charitable after how wild yesterday was.
This game lost a TON of anything Sony had planned for it day one thanks to the Helldivers 2 devs just letting people skip everything at launch. With all that ruined and readjusted, as well as other Sony's other live-service games not doing so hot, this is an absolutely no-brainer. In fact, it's probably the smartest thing they could do.
I think it's legitimately the type of game that audience would actually play-- dare I say pay too. Heck, it's not even a full priced game.
You can actually find random periods where the headsets go on sale with up to $200 off, so as low as $350-400.
And I keep saying it, but PS Home would ultimately do it. They need a VRChat-like. That plus all the mini games they could throw in would demo it for free. From experiences made specifically for it, to levels from existing VR games. You gotta have the ability to give people a level of fomo with your product. I'm just a bit annoyed that they could have taken this route to cover their first party live service urges. Not only that, but there's so much cross promotion potential and it could really help their sales with so many other things across the board. All of that not including how far we've come since their PS3 attempt. Fast loading is practically a selling point for the PS5. A lot of tedium from before would be gone.
Also, I would bite the bullet to make Astro Bot Rescue mission work on this thing. Whatever it needs, it gets. Already earned it's valor on the last headset and now it's practically a no brain--
Story wise, everything zig-zags so much plot wise that it's really hard to say if it's good or bad. I'm sure that's point on the morality end, but I do feel like it's a game with some serious sharp turns. Practically U-turns really lol
I think they absolutely nailed the atmosphere! The weather adds so much! Rain and forests feel perfect and being able to go prone to hide under cars or through grass in these conditions or zones made things tense. Same for the zones with excellent lighting-- even from just your flashlight and seeing the spores. Being able to do so much on the run adds even more tension too. This is the most memorable stuff about the game to me.
I really think they should have added Factions to lighten the hate and take full advantage of the extremely good gameplay. It would have been smarter to make that a priority to patch in instead of adding bonus mode back on PS4. And that feeling doesn't get any better after the rereleases(even part 1's) not having it. I totally get why people feel robbed of it. Was free and in packed into their games before-- even with Uncharted. It's hard not to feel a bit owed in that regard. I do appreciate that there's was a cheap upgrade to Part 2 though.
I think when it matters most, Sony has been extremely quick on refunding games like this. No Man's Sky, Cyberpunk 2077, Concord... games with those types of receptions on release.
I'm not going to say Roblox is groundbreaking or anything but it's free/cheap, has co-op, and is easy to access with customization similar to something like a LBP game. I say LBP not because of quality but in terms of how the community works to replicate or parody things with level and character creation. It's far more understandable from that angle.
I'm not really trying to sell anyone on this... just give a bit of perspective. Trust me, I know how easy it is to look at these thick as hell smiley mega bloks and ask "why," but it makes sense. Games with farming already do quite well and here you have a level in an already popular game that you can pretty much open in any browser if you wanted to. Add the fact that everything grows while you're offline and all the other extra's features mentioned in the article and it makes sense why everyone keeps checking back. That'll do it.
@Areus I wanted them to do this so bad, but it looks like Light of Motiram might beat them to the punch.
I think they still have something multiplayer in development, but Sony has been canceling live service stuff left and right... and outright canceled the Horizon MMO. A lot of uncertainty lately, but I definitely share the wish.
I wish I could have tried WKC2 too! Really enjoyed the first game!
@PuppetMaster Absolutely! Long running event with pools and several things going into overtime... gotta spare no expense or strategy to keep things cool.
I was wondering about the lighting! Wasn't sure if it'd be too silly to account for, but damn... I guess everyone was truly cooked from all angles. Had this been during summer...
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The thumbnail shows a PS5 Pro, but were they -actually- using them? Everyone just words it as PS5s.
The Pro is designed to run cooler. -Please- tell me they were at least using digital versions of the game. Digital games run cooler while disc drives heat things up.
If they really weren't using ANY of these things, this situation might be the easiest argument in favor of the Pro yet. Upgrade for the event and have a smarter plan for rotating consoles as well. This has been going on at random since 2023.
This actually just reminded me-- isn't there supposed to be some kind of PS5 Pro update in 2026? I'm cool with it now, but the timing sort of lines up.
This is way too picky and dramatic. Besides the fact that this gen started with a Sackboy game and people know or SHOULD know WHY LBP3 had to end... It's for a freakin' horror movie lol
Don't get me wrong... they could absolutely use Astrobot and Sackboy to come up with some super creative intros tailored around every first party game or movie experience out there. They already emote and wear costumes and it would be cute. But we don't have that for either right now. Just a production logo that already changes all the time. Maybe one day.
Heck, Danganronpa S & Rain Code came over and that was Spike. Not only that, but they were swearing up and down that Rain Code wasn't going to be ported.
It's amazing how not knowing the time frame that a game is exclusive changes how people think. I wonder why Sony decided to tell people theirs this gen.
Not budging would be an amazing power move and put a lot of things in their favor despite already having price adjustments over the years. Heck, bonus points if GTA6 really does end up being expensive and they make a bundle to mitigate that. The latter would a bit similar to the MKW situation, but it's 3rd party and the demand game-wise is even crazier.
Of course I still wouldn't be happy about GTA6 being more in the first place. Speculation of it being $100 before even $80 already seemed crazy... now we're already here on other platforms.
And you know this has GOT to be extremely tempting to Sony because everyone constantly talks about how much money goes into their games it's not like the system isn't selling either. Guess we'll see what happens.
As silly as it sounds, I think this kind of stuff is absolutely diabolical.
Look... if no one wants to hear out the folks complaining about a line, I get it-- sounds super banal. But the issue I immediately have is when this happens to gacha games. We all know the entire point is to sell the characters based on different appeals. You're already in fanservice city as the main bait. If whatever you see there is how the character is represented when you spend god KNOWS how much money, then it should stay that way. Any actual improvements are fine(new attack, animations, etc), but it's not like these characters are going to move faster without the wedgie lol
I just think it makes more sense to reward people for spending that kind of money. Playing the morality game now seems 4 steps too late.
I don't play any gacha games but there's a few on the horizon that definitely caught my eye. I highly doubt it'll be underwear related but I know there's a level of change that would make me pretty upset if I started to invest in those.
For starters, they actually address the public on serious issues. Doesn't mean every issue gets fixed perfectly, but they at least try with several.
"Want us to keep the older digital stores up? Alright. Horizon 2 was supposed to be crossbuy? Say less. PC players hate the mandatory PSN in Helldivers 2... Well, we tried to warn you and that's more on the devs for letting you all in, but fine, we'll work on that for the next year-- wait, ALL ports!? Also we won't shut down your tournaments. In fact, we own EVO now and we'll even have some scheduled online tournaments of our own. Here's some free DLC, avatars, oh, and some free games during Covid. Will the $10 upgrade path work for that copy of Horizon we gave you for free? Absolutely! PSN was down because of us? Here's some compensation. (Previously)Hacked terribly on our watch? Here's even crazier compensations and multiple public apologies"
"Oh yeah, we may have nudged some devs out there into bringing back or localizing some highly requested series previously found on our platform. ...what do you mean our -own- classics? Fine... we'll get someone on it."
Also VERY important:
If you've owned some of those digital PS classics WAY in the past(like PS3 era), you just flat out get them for free now. That's MAJOR. Had Nintendo kept their stores up, they could have done the same. Would they? Hell no.
I'd imagine Sony wouldn't just give their IPs out for 1:1 completely unchanged ports to begin with. Improvements should be expected, especially when going multi-platform.
They said this game was going to be aggressive but they've been rewarding it way too hard on the offense side.
They should have done the opposite and added Chicken(reversal of an attack reversal) to the game again. That and actually let players parry heat moves.
I get that they're trying to give us more leeway to sidestep spontaneous heat attacks after blocking with some of these other changes... but ultimately, we're just -playing- chicken with absurdly fast and high damaging auto combo at point blank. It makes far more sense to be able to parry some of it like we could with rage drives in T7. Has the potential to look incredibly fancy too.
I have absolutely no concerns with remakes or remasters happening when it comes to Playstation. Far more of an eventually than an "if" and a game gets checked off every time it happens.
Speaking of which, Bloodborne's anniversary is in 3 days... I would joke that we need to prepare for the outrage but it feels like that every day.
@zhoont I said it in the last article and I'm going to say it again.
If this game needs any warnings before playing, it's definitely going to be for trypophobia. None of us have played it but the signs are completely there. Just plants growing out of everything and you have ryukishi07 who is good at the vibe of getting underneath someone's skin.
They listed mostly very standard stuff for the series... and body horror has always been a thing... But this game already has some INSANE trypophobia going on.
Like I would genuinely warn someone about it.
They're -literally- trying to get under our skin with this one. Ryukishi07 can't freakin' help himself lol
@Matroska In response to others selling their PS5 for the PS5 Pro, I covered about 55% of my cost that way. You do not include what you originally spent for your first PS5 in that math because you are replacing your hardware. Only whats left as you'd pay nothing had it covered it all.
You're grossly undervaluing PS+ by only seeing it from the online angle and not mentioning the benefits. The service gives you monthly games, a library of other games to pick from that go across all 5 generations of Playstation, cloud streaming, and other features like cloud saving, startshare/shareplay, etc. Yeah, you're paying for the online but you're also getting access to bunch of games too. You also don't have to take the plunge into every new game day one. Wait for sales as it practically only takes up to a month these days with the flash sales. Also, they have discounts on plus renewals every now and then allowing you to loop years for cheaper than normal.
Also, just being real... I absolutely hate troubleshooting to play a game and people go through it all the time on PC. Making sure their controller works, g-sync, audio issues, you name it-- even with all that power. I love the idea of mods and what they add to games, but sometimes even getting those to work can take some tries. Heck, these days, mods are practically game fixes to brand NEW PC ports rather than old games and that shouldn't be the case. You shouldn't have to deal with problems on your end, the end the developer was supposed to handle, and sometimes even the service you're downloading from. Then there's the illegality of everything... which, while nothing new, leads to more troubleshooting with emulation somewhere down the line and it doesn't support the developers that are still around, especially pirating new games-- I could go all day and I think that's the point. It's a lot of reappearing hoops to jump through just to simply say:
"yeah, nearly everything is better*"
*when it works
Well it's more expensive than the PS4 Pro and most people are waiting for a newer, more taxing game to justify the purchase more. For me, I just like more power and I try to future proof potential issues as much as possible in the moment so it was simple... but overall, sticking with a regular PS5 is fine.
I don't even know why people keep saying $700 over and over for something optional when others go above and beyond for a potentially pricier graphics card like it's not optional. Especially now!
I have to say though, given how freaking LOUD the PS4 Pro was, I never wanted to upgrade faster. I didn't need to hear about a single freakin' game. The second they said it was backwards compatible and ran quieter, I was SOLD. Anyone putting up with that thing is a masochist. I even tried replacing my PS4 Pro with a brand new one rumored to be better and it made the same noise during it's first few minutes of Monster Hunter World & Nier: Automata. I'll never take quieter hardware for granted.
Been stressing the sales point forever now... but what pisses me off more than anything was how twisted the story of Sony's promotion over Gravity Rush was. Everyone says it wasn't enough when they went absolutely crazy with it!
Accolades/launch day trailer
They remastered the first game-- so TWO chances
2 part free animation(OVA) a month before release
Made an award winning commercial for Japan w/ a single
Crossover collab outfits later that year(Like Nier and PSO2)
E3 & TGS uploaded trailer with 2 special on-stage ads at TGS
On stage announcement at the last PSX a month before release
All of that not even counting how much money that probably went into making a giant sequel to a Vita game on consoles... And no one ever talks about Puppeteer. I'm amazed it was even mentioned here!
Nah, this actually makes sense. Horizon was a special case since they genuinely gave it to everyone for free.
Lets not get carried away here. They're simply avoiding double charging people who actually supported the game specifically at a higher price. Nothing shady about that at all.
I don't know why people don't think of the possibility of these remasters appearing on one of tiers of plus later too. Happened with the director cuts and TLOU.
We need to have a serious talk about how people were capitalizing on this by lying about the reason why it went down, claiming there was no way to play single player games offline, and screaming bloody murder once it was done.
There have been stuff such as DDoS attacks in this industry that have lasted longer and quite frankly, we moved on. Of course the issue this time is different and more on Sony but it's far from their worst situation. That would be when they got hacked in 2011. It was so bad that their compensation was something like: 3-6 months PS plus, 2 out of 13 or so games for free, a free theme, some service extensions if you could prove it was inaccessible for you, up to $2500 in reimbursement if your data was stolen, and you could even cancel your account and get your PSN wallet balance refunded if you didn't trust them after the incident. All that not including the public apology which happened at E3 and for the presses. I even heard they had food trucks and were giving out drinks for the people at E3.
This isn't nearly as crazy as that though. None of your personal data leaked, no outage for nearly a month... so some extra days of online service which was down makes sense.
Furthermore, the hypocrisy over the false claims that these guys have no games or absolutely everyone prefers single player games over multiplayer were exposed pretty badly. It didn't even take a quarter of a day before people were complaining and uploading videos like it was the worst thing on earth with instant assumptions... and had they actually preferred single player experiences, they would have them for scenarios like this. Its so bad that Gamestop is roasting them and even then you should have the loophole playing single player games you downloaded digitally. So many people got caught lacking. Even I'm curious to know how much physical game sales improved yesterday.
Controversies aside, I can respect the disappointment for those with big organized multiplayer plans, people who genuinely don't have a lot of time, just got in, etc... I know I'm ranting but you don't deserve to have your plans ruined.
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Re: Sony Likens Its Fledgling Anime Business to the PS1 Era
They should really get Arby's on anime/game promotion and catering again the way they have Chipotle ready at EVO. Both of them clearly have a great relationship with Bandai Namco, and Arby's was even at EVO before Sony owned it. And I genuinely miss those creative tweets.
They could probably do giveaways too. I'm just Saiyan.
Re: Hideo Kojima Alone Is Currently Working on PlayStation Exclusive Physint
I love having stuff far in the future to look forward to as it adds up and secures a library for later... but there are some games you should ABSOLUTELY forget about.
Like any major Kingdom Hearts sequel-- or character for that matter. They don't remember anything. Kojima would have had a field day making KH memory card shenanigans.
Re: Tekken Boss Wanted 'Muscular' Pac-Man as a Character, But the Idea Was Brutally Shot Down
Instead of Jack-8 you get 8-Pac-Man
Re: Holy Sh*t! 90s Hack 'n' Cast Classics Heretic and Hexen Launch on PS5, PS4 Today
I'm quite impressed with the shadowdrops this year
Re: GTA 6 Might Require Age Verification, as GTA Online Checks Leak
@Czar_Khastik Please use this exact profile picture and let us know if it works.
Re: Free-to-Play Juggernaut Genshin Impact Is Delisting and Shutting Down PS4 Version
Sounds like they have big plans if they're raising the minimum entry and willing to make so many players to migrate. But I'd imagine dealing with a loud PS4 is already a pain enough and you can probably transfer accounts. It also just makes sense because all of Hoyo's other games are on PS5-- if not a great deal of announced gachas out there. I even saw that they're raising the requirements for mobile.
The PS4 version DEFINITELY deserves credit for helping it's start though. I mean people were livid at Sony and literally destroyed their PS4s over this game before launch...
which means they had a head start lol
Re: PS5 Fans Getting 'Really Carried Away' with Job Listing Which Implied More Exclusives Could Be Ported to Xbox, Switch
Pretty sure he didn't say PS5 fans in the actual quote. Whats up with that?
Re: Sony Job Listing Implies More PS5 Exclusives Will Be Ported to Xbox, Switch
Get the money for next gen hardware and unannounced projects, follow the rule of delays and simultaneous release for multiplayer. Seems fine to me although I would DEFINITELY make whatever grand return or sequel that happens after these ports exclusive a bit longer as leverage to get people on at least the next platform.
Make no mistake, they need to take their next gen attempt very seriously-- especially on the handheld end. Absolutely gonna need exclusives. It's very much the reason why people got a PS5 in the first place, even with the later developments of confirmed timed exclusives. They're really going to need to show off their value so hopefully things wont overlap too much. I don't expect the rate to be anything too crazy and the games ported to make sense as they have so far.
Re: All PS5 First-Party Exclusives
Ah, so this is only the -released- stuff. No Lost Souls Aside, Intergalactic, Saros, Ghost of Yotei, Marvel Tokon, etc quite yet.
I haven't really been picky about the rate of first party exclusives with Sony for ages since they've nearly always been in the perfect position to have so many 3rd party games to fill in any gaps. I'm not exactly sure what changed so much this gen to not have as much of an appreciation for securing 3rd parties, but I've seen what their competition looks like without it before and it can feel like a drought. You don't have to hope for ports nearly as much on this platform.
Re: Ghost of Yotei's State of Play Has Been Watched More Than Sony's Summer Showcase
That State of Play was really strong too. I think a lot of people ended up going to the trailers separately after though-- like the the Tokon one. As a result, some don't even know how much Sony played a part in stuff like that.
But no real bad news here. Promotion for everything. Hope the sales for Yotei get even crazier in Japan than Tsushima.
Re: Rumour: Sony Engineers Allegedly Helping Rockstar Achieve 60fps in GTA 6 on PS5 Pro
We already expected Sony to be gearing up for a bigger push with the Pro in 2026. No confirmation needed at all.
Re: PS5, PS4 Retro Shooter Neon Inferno Really Doesn't Need to Look This Awesome
@SuperSilverback With this music, it really might as well be.
Re: 'Big' Plans Teased for Guilty Gear Strive After Season 4 and Cyberpunk Edgerunners' Lucy
Normally, I would guess something like Zappa & Jam... and maybe a Blazblue or Persona character for hinting at a revival...
But if it's for GGST -specifically- and they're stressing it this much, I have NO idea. They already randomly blew our mind with a whole Marvel fighting game. Heck, the whole industry has been so crossover crazy right now that there's just no predicting it. Could be someone from freakin' Chainsaw man.
Re: Ghost of Yotei Goes Above and Beyond with New Director Modes, Even Has Lo-Fi Beats
The two newest modes are more than enough to get me excited.
Re: The House in Fate Morgana Developer Confirms Next Game for PS5
DEFINITELY keep an eye on this one!
Re: Reaction: Helldivers 2 on Xbox Signals Another Unexpected But Not Overly Surprising Shift in Strategy from Sony
This almost feels charitable after how wild yesterday was.
This game lost a TON of anything Sony had planned for it day one thanks to the Helldivers 2 devs just letting people skip everything at launch. With all that ruined and readjusted, as well as other Sony's other live-service games not doing so hot, this is an absolutely no-brainer. In fact, it's probably the smartest thing they could do.
I think it's legitimately the type of game that audience would actually play-- dare I say pay too. Heck, it's not even a full priced game.
Re: Talking Point: Is It Officially Game Over for PSVR2?
You can actually find random periods where the headsets go on sale with up to $200 off, so as low as $350-400.
And I keep saying it, but PS Home would ultimately do it. They need a VRChat-like. That plus all the mini games they could throw in would demo it for free. From experiences made specifically for it, to levels from existing VR games. You gotta have the ability to give people a level of fomo with your product. I'm just a bit annoyed that they could have taken this route to cover their first party live service urges. Not only that, but there's so much cross promotion potential and it could really help their sales with so many other things across the board. All of that not including how far we've come since their PS3 attempt. Fast loading is practically a selling point for the PS5. A lot of tedium from before would be gone.
Also, I would bite the bullet to make Astro Bot Rescue mission work on this thing. Whatever it needs, it gets. Already earned it's valor on the last headset and now it's practically a no brain--
Hold up. Isn't there a special controller?
Re: Poll: How Do You Feel About The Last of Us Part 2, 5 Years Later?
Story wise, everything zig-zags so much plot wise that it's really hard to say if it's good or bad. I'm sure that's point on the morality end, but I do feel like it's a game with some serious sharp turns. Practically U-turns really lol
I think they absolutely nailed the atmosphere! The weather adds so much! Rain and forests feel perfect and being able to go prone to hide under cars or through grass in these conditions or zones made things tense. Same for the zones with excellent lighting-- even from just your flashlight and seeing the spores. Being able to do so much on the run adds even more tension too. This is the most memorable stuff about the game to me.
I really think they should have added Factions to lighten the hate and take full advantage of the extremely good gameplay. It would have been smarter to make that a priority to patch in instead of adding bonus mode back on PS4. And that feeling doesn't get any better after the rereleases(even part 1's) not having it. I totally get why people feel robbed of it. Was free and in packed into their games before-- even with Uncharted. It's hard not to feel a bit owed in that regard. I do appreciate that there's was a cheap upgrade to Part 2 though.
Re: Sony Approves MindsEye PS5 Refunds as Dev Issues 'Sincere Apology'
I think when it matters most, Sony has been extremely quick on refunding games like this. No Man's Sky, Cyberpunk 2077, Concord... games with those types of receptions on release.
Re: One of PS5's Most Popular Games Will Blow Your Mind
I'm not going to say Roblox is groundbreaking or anything but it's free/cheap, has co-op, and is easy to access with customization similar to something like a LBP game. I say LBP not because of quality but in terms of how the community works to replicate or parody things with level and character creation. It's far more understandable from that angle.
I'm not really trying to sell anyone on this... just give a bit of perspective. Trust me, I know how easy it is to look at these thick as hell smiley mega bloks and ask "why," but it makes sense. Games with farming already do quite well and here you have a level in an already popular game that you can pretty much open in any browser if you wanted to. Add the fact that everything grows while you're offline and all the other extra's features mentioned in the article and it makes sense why everyone keeps checking back. That'll do it.
Re: These 6+ New PS5, PS4 Games Are Coming Out Next Week (2nd-8th June)
Wait... what about Deltarune chapter 3 & 4? That's a pretty major(if not affordable) release on most platforms next week.
Re: PS5, PC Live Service Fairgames Is a 'Super Clunky' Cross Between Fortnite and The Division
Not that I'm greatly interested in this one, but wouldn't a pre-alpha build likely be the roughest in the first place?
Re: We Were Oh So Close to Getting Soul Sacrifice 2 from Sony
@Areus I wanted them to do this so bad, but it looks like Light of Motiram might beat them to the punch.
I think they still have something multiplayer in development, but Sony has been canceling live service stuff left and right... and outright canceled the Horizon MMO. A lot of uncertainty lately, but I definitely share the wish.
I wish I could have tried WKC2 too! Really enjoyed the first game!
Re: Hot PS5s Cause Havoc at Sony's EVO Japan Grand Final
@PuppetMaster Absolutely! Long running event with pools and several things going into overtime... gotta spare no expense or strategy to keep things cool.
I was wondering about the lighting! Wasn't sure if it'd be too silly to account for, but damn... I guess everyone was truly cooked from all angles. Had this been during summer...
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Re: Hot PS5s Cause Havoc at Sony's EVO Japan Grand Final
The thumbnail shows a PS5 Pro, but were they -actually- using them? Everyone just words it as PS5s.
The Pro is designed to run cooler. -Please- tell me they were at least using digital versions of the game. Digital games run cooler while disc drives heat things up.
If they really weren't using ANY of these things, this situation might be the easiest argument in favor of the Pro yet. Upgrade for the event and have a smarter plan for rotating consoles as well. This has been going on at random since 2023.
Re: The Hundred Line Creator Clarifies Odds of PS5 Port Are 'Very Slim' As Studio Is on the Brink of Bankruptcy
I'm sure it'll get here eventually
Re: GTA 6 Publisher Supports Rockstar in 2026 Delay, Commits to 'Excellence'
This actually just reminded me-- isn't there supposed to be some kind of PS5 Pro update in 2026? I'm cool with it now, but the timing sort of lines up.
Re: LittleBigPlanet Erasure Continues as Sackboy Removed from PlayStation Productions Logo
This is way too picky and dramatic. Besides the fact that this gen started with a Sackboy game and people know or SHOULD know WHY LBP3 had to end... It's for a freakin' horror movie lol
Don't get me wrong... they could absolutely use Astrobot and Sackboy to come up with some super creative intros tailored around every first party game or movie experience out there. They already emote and wear costumes and it would be cute. But we don't have that for either right now. Just a production logo that already changes all the time. Maybe one day.
Re: Rumour: Chrono Trigger Remake Leaked by Dragon Quest Creator
No time travel to take that back
Re: PS5 Fans Are Begging Sony Subsidiary ANIPLEX to Port The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy
It's pretty damn guaranteed so rest easy.
Heck, Danganronpa S & Rain Code came over and that was Spike. Not only that, but they were swearing up and down that Rain Code wasn't going to be ported.
It's amazing how not knowing the time frame that a game is exclusive changes how people think. I wonder why Sony decided to tell people theirs this gen.
Re: Xbox Now Selling PS5 Games for $80, Joins Switch 2 in Price Increase
Not budging would be an amazing power move and put a lot of things in their favor despite already having price adjustments over the years. Heck, bonus points if GTA6 really does end up being expensive and they make a bundle to mitigate that. The latter would a bit similar to the MKW situation, but it's 3rd party and the demand game-wise is even crazier.
Of course I still wouldn't be happy about GTA6 being more in the first place. Speculation of it being $100 before even $80 already seemed crazy... now we're already here on other platforms.
And you know this has GOT to be extremely tempting to Sony because everyone constantly talks about how much money goes into their games it's not like the system isn't selling either. Guess we'll see what happens.
Re: Sony's Long Anticipated Lost Soul Aside Has Been Delayed Again on PS5, PC
I'm extremely glad they got away from Nightreign the Switch 2 launch! I respect the call regardless of the reason.
Re: Expedition 33's Sublime Success Sparks Chatter About Final Fantasy's Future
I feel like we should be discussing this with 19th century fashion and have a monocle on every profile.
Re: Massive PS Plus Clearout Announced for May, 22 Games Leaving
I highly doubt we've seen the last of a lot of these but it sure would be nice if there was proper PS3 emulation when they return.
Other than that, I'm usually more interested in what gets added next... But next month is looking way too freakin' busy to even care.
Re: Wuthering Waves Fanbase in Flames After Dev Makes Some Undies Edits
As silly as it sounds, I think this kind of stuff is absolutely diabolical.
Look... if no one wants to hear out the folks complaining about a line, I get it-- sounds super banal. But the issue I immediately have is when this happens to gacha games. We all know the entire point is to sell the characters based on different appeals. You're already in fanservice city as the main bait. If whatever you see there is how the character is represented when you spend god KNOWS how much money, then it should stay that way. Any actual improvements are fine(new attack, animations, etc), but it's not like these characters are going to move faster without the wedgie lol
I just think it makes more sense to reward people for spending that kind of money. Playing the morality game now seems 4 steps too late.
I don't play any gacha games but there's a few on the horizon that definitely caught my eye. I highly doubt it'll be underwear related but I know there's a level of change that would make me pretty upset if I started to invest in those.
Re: Final Fantasy 9 Remake 'Tease' Has Fans Losing Their Minds
@ShogunRok What a tease
Re: Feature: PS5's Not Perfect, But Here Are 5 Ways It's More Consumer Friendly Than Switch 2
For starters, they actually address the public on serious issues. Doesn't mean every issue gets fixed perfectly, but they at least try with several.
"Want us to keep the older digital stores up? Alright. Horizon 2 was supposed to be crossbuy? Say less. PC players hate the mandatory PSN in Helldivers 2... Well, we tried to warn you and that's more on the devs for letting you all in, but fine, we'll work on that for the next year-- wait, ALL ports!? Also we won't shut down your tournaments. In fact, we own EVO now and we'll even have some scheduled online tournaments of our own. Here's some free DLC, avatars, oh, and some free games during Covid. Will the $10 upgrade path work for that copy of Horizon we gave you for free? Absolutely! PSN was down because of us? Here's some compensation. (Previously)Hacked terribly on our watch? Here's even crazier compensations and multiple public apologies"
"Oh yeah, we may have nudged some devs out there into bringing back or localizing some highly requested series previously found on our platform. ...what do you mean our -own- classics? Fine... we'll get someone on it."
Also VERY important:
If you've owned some of those digital PS classics WAY in the past(like PS3 era), you just flat out get them for free now. That's MAJOR. Had Nintendo kept their stores up, they could have done the same. Would they? Hell no.
Re: Bandai Namco's PS5 Patapon Remasters Will Fix Issues Sony Didn't Bother to on PS4
I'd imagine Sony wouldn't just give their IPs out for 1:1 completely unchanged ports to begin with. Improvements should be expected, especially when going multi-platform.
Re: Tekken 8 Walks Back Baffling Season 2 System Change After Player Protests
They said this game was going to be aggressive but they've been rewarding it way too hard on the offense side.
They should have done the opposite and added Chicken(reversal of an attack reversal) to the game again. That and actually let players parry heat moves.
I get that they're trying to give us more leeway to sidestep spontaneous heat attacks after blocking with some of these other changes... but ultimately, we're just -playing- chicken with absurdly fast and high damaging auto combo at point blank. It makes far more sense to be able to parry some of it like we could with rage drives in T7. Has the potential to look incredibly fancy too.
Re: God of War Fans Gutted with Free 20th Anniversary Goodies
I have absolutely no concerns with remakes or remasters happening when it comes to Playstation. Far more of an eventually than an "if" and a game gets checked off every time it happens.
Speaking of which, Bloodborne's anniversary is in 3 days... I would joke that we need to prepare for the outrage but it feels like that every day.
Re: Even Silent Hill F's PS5 Steelbook Is Horrible to Look At
@zhoont I said it in the last article and I'm going to say it again.
If this game needs any warnings before playing, it's definitely going to be for trypophobia. None of us have played it but the signs are completely there. Just plants growing out of everything and you have ryukishi07 who is good at the vibe of getting underneath someone's skin.
Re: Silent Hill F's Content Warning Demands a Strong Stomach
You know what's funny?
They listed mostly very standard stuff for the series... and body horror has always been a thing... But this game already has some INSANE trypophobia going on.
Like I would genuinely warn someone about it.
They're -literally- trying to get under our skin with this one. Ryukishi07 can't freakin' help himself lol
Re: Free PS Plus Compensation for Recent PSN Downtime Is Being Issued Now
@Czar_Khastik 20+ steps ahead! Now that's a reason to smile lol
Re: Sony's Pricey PS5 Pro Is Now Being Outpaced by PS4 Pro Launch Aligned in the US
@Matroska In response to others selling their PS5 for the PS5 Pro, I covered about 55% of my cost that way. You do not include what you originally spent for your first PS5 in that math because you are replacing your hardware. Only whats left as you'd pay nothing had it covered it all.
You're grossly undervaluing PS+ by only seeing it from the online angle and not mentioning the benefits. The service gives you monthly games, a library of other games to pick from that go across all 5 generations of Playstation, cloud streaming, and other features like cloud saving, startshare/shareplay, etc. Yeah, you're paying for the online but you're also getting access to bunch of games too. You also don't have to take the plunge into every new game day one. Wait for sales as it practically only takes up to a month these days with the flash sales. Also, they have discounts on plus renewals every now and then allowing you to loop years for cheaper than normal.
Also, just being real... I absolutely hate troubleshooting to play a game and people go through it all the time on PC. Making sure their controller works, g-sync, audio issues, you name it-- even with all that power. I love the idea of mods and what they add to games, but sometimes even getting those to work can take some tries. Heck, these days, mods are practically game fixes to brand NEW PC ports rather than old games and that shouldn't be the case. You shouldn't have to deal with problems on your end, the end the developer was supposed to handle, and sometimes even the service you're downloading from. Then there's the illegality of everything... which, while nothing new, leads to more troubleshooting with emulation somewhere down the line and it doesn't support the developers that are still around, especially pirating new games-- I could go all day and I think that's the point. It's a lot of reappearing hoops to jump through just to simply say:
"yeah, nearly everything is better*"
*when it works
Re: Sony's Pricey PS5 Pro Is Now Being Outpaced by PS4 Pro Launch Aligned in the US
Well it's more expensive than the PS4 Pro and most people are waiting for a newer, more taxing game to justify the purchase more. For me, I just like more power and I try to future proof potential issues as much as possible in the moment so it was simple... but overall, sticking with a regular PS5 is fine.
I don't even know why people keep saying $700 over and over for something optional when others go above and beyond for a potentially pricier graphics card like it's not optional. Especially now!
I have to say though, given how freaking LOUD the PS4 Pro was, I never wanted to upgrade faster. I didn't need to hear about a single freakin' game. The second they said it was backwards compatible and ran quieter, I was SOLD. Anyone putting up with that thing is a masochist. I even tried replacing my PS4 Pro with a brand new one rumored to be better and it made the same noise during it's first few minutes of Monster Hunter World & Nier: Automata. I'll never take quieter hardware for granted.
Re: Sony Japan Studio Closed Because AA Market 'Disappeared', Says Shu Yoshida
Been stressing the sales point forever now... but what pisses me off more than anything was how twisted the story of Sony's promotion over Gravity Rush was. Everyone says it wasn't enough when they went absolutely crazy with it!
All of that not even counting how much money that probably went into making a giant sequel to a Vita game on consoles... And no one ever talks about Puppeteer. I'm amazed it was even mentioned here!
Re: PS Plus Copies of Days Gone Won't Offer Cheap $10 Upgrade to New PS5 Version
Nah, this actually makes sense. Horizon was a special case since they genuinely gave it to everyone for free.
Lets not get carried away here. They're simply avoiding double charging people who actually supported the game specifically at a higher price. Nothing shady about that at all.
I don't know why people don't think of the possibility of these remasters appearing on one of tiers of plus later too. Happened with the director cuts and TLOU.
Re: Poll: Did the PSN Outage Ruin Your Gaming Plans Over the Weekend?
We need to have a serious talk about how people were capitalizing on this by lying about the reason why it went down, claiming there was no way to play single player games offline, and screaming bloody murder once it was done.
There have been stuff such as DDoS attacks in this industry that have lasted longer and quite frankly, we moved on. Of course the issue this time is different and more on Sony but it's far from their worst situation. That would be when they got hacked in 2011. It was so bad that their compensation was something like: 3-6 months PS plus, 2 out of 13 or so games for free, a free theme, some service extensions if you could prove it was inaccessible for you, up to $2500 in reimbursement if your data was stolen, and you could even cancel your account and get your PSN wallet balance refunded if you didn't trust them after the incident. All that not including the public apology which happened at E3 and for the presses. I even heard they had food trucks and were giving out drinks for the people at E3.
This isn't nearly as crazy as that though. None of your personal data leaked, no outage for nearly a month... so some extra days of online service which was down makes sense.
Furthermore, the hypocrisy over the false claims that these guys have no games or absolutely everyone prefers single player games over multiplayer were exposed pretty badly. It didn't even take a quarter of a day before people were complaining and uploading videos like it was the worst thing on earth with instant assumptions... and had they actually preferred single player experiences, they would have them for scenarios like this. Its so bad that Gamestop is roasting them and even then you should have the loophole playing single player games you downloaded digitally. So many people got caught lacking. Even I'm curious to know how much physical game sales improved yesterday.
Controversies aside, I can respect the disappointment for those with big organized multiplayer plans, people who genuinely don't have a lot of time, just got in, etc... I know I'm ranting but you don't deserve to have your plans ruined.
Re: You'd Better Believe The Last of Us 2 Demands a PSN Account on PC
Imagine the intensity of this when a Bloodborne port happens
Re: It's Been 1,000 Days Since We Had Word of Kingdom Hearts 4
Ironically, the best way to cope with this franchise's wait time is to forget about it.
Might as well do that for Project Awakening, Pragmata, Deep Down, and maybe Project Robot to be safe too. It's worth the surprise later.