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The comments sections feel like I'm on Twitter lol.

Those upcoming DualSense controllers were 100% going to be for Marathon, but after the recent conreversies, they smartly pivoted the product away from Marathon lol.

LogicStrikesAgain This is Push Square, not Pure Xbox. The deflection of failing against Switch is obvious, but we won't agree, so let's leave it there.

Feels like this has been delayed a couple of times - hopefully it ends up as a decent finished product and does not get swallowed by the late May releases of 007 First Light and Legacy of the Dark Knight.

They should take as much time as they need to get the remake right. If they need a few months my backlog won't mind.

@GamingGod SIE's global head office is in the US.

People are going in on Xbox sales numbers, which, of course, were never going to be good when the price cut/significantly more powerful PS5 is barely outselling the almost 9-year-old Switch, lol.

That's the true levels of fanboy delusion/defection right there.

This is what happens when you close all your Japanese studios and move your head office to the US. SIE is no longer a "Japanese giant" like Push Square always claimed; it's an "American giant" now.

If it doesn't have an English dub like most AA jrpg jank then it won't get far outside Japan.

I'll be checking this out on game pass day one and might grab it on PS5 if I get a PS5 pro this year. I would expect the PS5 version will be available in 3-12 months.

Maybe Playground only have a certain amount of PS5 dev kits and prioritised Fable for a simultaneous release before they launched Forza 5 and saw the sales success.

I enjoyed this one a lot last year and glad that others get to enjoy it

Seen a lot of discourse about Sony (and Microsoft) getting out of the console business and moving over to PC. It will happen eventually (for MS quicker). Sony has razor-thin profit margins (only 9% profit so far across this gen), which is one reason Jim Ryan lost his job. An over-reliance on a loss leader like the base PS5 meant they were not maximizing software and live service profits.

Eventually, Sony will not accept loss-making consoles, affecting their bread and butter of entertainment software and services. When hardware eats too much into their net profits, they will drop hardware like a brick. It's what shareholding businesses do.

@Brundleflies21 Game Pass is a huge money spinner for Forza Games, so they will want it on that service day one.

Hermen Hulst needs to leave SIE as a top priority so that the PS6 generation is not spoiled by lengthy development times and significant live service failures. Without Insomniac, he would be gone by now.

For PS5 - either a price increase of the 2TB variant to £750, or a 1TB reduction for PS5 Pro at £699, or just below.

GTA 6 will break sales records, and Geoff Keighley will name it Indie Game of the Year

Another price increase for the PS5 Slim Digital to £450 and £499 for the disc (same as the Xbox UK prices).

A newer, revised PS5 slim with cheaper materials to further reduce weight for manufacturing and shipping costs

PS5 to hit 110 million consoles sold if GTA 6 launches on Nov 19th.

But my prediction is that GTA 6 gets delayed to March 2027, Wolverine gets pushed to November 2026, and they sell 100 million with the rest being sold in Q2 2027 when GTA 6 does launch.

PS Plus prices to go up by £1.50 - £2, so Premium up from £13.49 per month to £14.99.

No Sony showcase until the next console is revealed - but Intergalaic gets shown off in May ahead of a 2027 launch. The 2.5D God of War game gets shown off in the state of play before that.

Death Stranding was sold at a discount when it came to Xbox. It's pretty normal for games to go down in price especially after a year.

I would love to see a sequel for this one

I would expect this to come out a bit after the Xbox/PC version, like with the Forza Horizon 6 game. Seems like they are porting games between 6- 12 months after the release. It might be intentional, as they need a value proposition for those AAA games on Game Pass, but it also might be that they are juggling PS5 dev kits too. With the amount of studios they have and priority with COD and other multiplayer games like Forza Horizon 6, they might not have enough for every single game right away.

Either way, more players getting to play these great games is only a good thing.

The plates do look nice, but honestly, I never really look at my PS5, and I would rather get 2 of the controllers or a controller and a new game than the controller and those expensive plates.

I get that the Slim has probably sold around half of the 85+ million consoles sold, but the PS5 Pro is where the big spenders of the brand are.

I myself am looking at getting the PS5 Pro ahead of games like Crimson Desert, Wolverine, and GTA 6 before the price goes up again this year for all consoles (Plus the expected PS6 delay to 2028).

I would not be surprised if the game slips into 2027. I can see Wolverine being given an early October date, similar to Yotei. Still, maybe they will wait longer to announce the date until they know if GTA 6 will meet its November release date or get delayed, allowing Wolverine to take the November slot alongside the Halo remake.

@LogicStrikesAgain And MS get 70% off every sale.. so yes they do make a lot of money off Sony's platform.

One thing I have learned is that most viewers have zero patience for anything beyond a 30-second trailer lol

@Brundleflies21 I would expect it's more to do with getting the PS5 dev kits later and needing more time to develop it.

Xbox has the best showcases. I plan to play these games on Game Pass.

@DennisReynolds Woah Woah get that logical and empathic opinion out of here lol.

@Reyzore Sony needs to leverage it's exclusivity by taking its games off of Steam and putting them on it's own PC launcher after say 6 months of PS6. It drives PC players into the ecosystem, and if Sony plans well, they can money-hat exclusives off of Steam.

If the next Xbox does have Steam, it's not going to be a great look for Sony, as their exclusive games will be played on what will still be deemed as competitor consoles (Even though it won't be, but it's psychological now).

@nomither6 The 60GB variant was $600 in 2006, that $964 in today's money, so yeah, it was very expensive - they messed up and had to back track hard because Xbox 360 did so well. That won't happen in the PS6 gen, sadly, as Xbox won't keep them accountable or be any kind of price anchor.

I expect nothing but merch from atlus lol

Consoles are an antiquated business model with razor-thin margins that MS is exiting now, rather than doing it later when Gen Z and Gen Alpha have greater purchasing power and move to PC's/Handhelds, and turn their backs on traditional consoles.

If Sony is smart, it will create a PC launcher sharpish and put their games there rather than Steam.

Sadly, with Xbox out of the console market, all we have to look forward to with Sony is PS3 era levels of price hikes and anti-consumer practices like removing rewards programs and decreasing the value of PS+ while barely shipping 1-2 AAA games per year.

It would be a travesty if GTA 6 beat Wolverine on a PS fan site haha

I have a gut feeling that 007 First Light is going to be a bit of a let-down. Every time they announce a new celebrity for the game, I get more wary of Amazon's involvement and less interested in the game.

The gameplay looks fun, but I think that the story might rub some Bond fans the wrong way.

Lots of games I am looking forward to:

GTA 6
Forza Horzion 6
Fable - If it makes it into 2026
Gear of War E-Day
DQ7 Reimgined
Pragmata
007 First Light
Lego Batman
Monster Hunter Stories 3
Coffee Talk Tokyo
Yakuza Kiwami 3
Fire Emblem: Fortunes Weave (On Switch 2)
Wolverine
Blood of Dawnwalker
Star Wars Zero Company
Clive Bakers Hellraiser
DecaPolice - If it makes 2026

Other sim games, such as BusBound, Road Kings, and ETS2, which I hope will arrive in 2026.

I'd better get stuck into my backlog right now.

A mid AA game that will be overhyped and inaccurately labeled until the end of time.

I wouldn't mind a Switch 2 port of P5R.

Marvelous have popped in a few timed exclusives for Nintendo which typically last between 6-9 months. They did the same thing with the latest Rune Factory. I would expect this may be the case for some of their other upcoming games too whilst others come to PS and Xbox the same date like Daemon X Machina.

I think with the addition of the Switch 2 port, they need more time to get everything running well.

I'm only interested in the game, not the office drama being thrown around like a political rugby ball.

Granblue looks like a decent addition I might check out.

They don't seem to be too bothered about that gaming division yet I don't expect them to sell off the billion dollar harry potter gaming IP.

As long as it's not an online MMO and a single player game, I might be interested

SIE would be in trouble without the European market propping them up revenue-wise. Ironically, they have Jim Ryan to thank for the massive EU market growth during the PS4 era.

This probably would have been one of the better projects that SIE put out if they hadn't shut down yet another UK studio.

@Slayer25c I don't think warning people about a dev team with a very dodgy track record in quality is unreasonable. It's a mere heads-up rather than a call to action.

I really enjoyed Avowed when it came out, and I think it could find a decent audience if it comes to PS5.

@CutchuSlow You aren't the only person to speak to a lot of people lol. I would suggest avoiding a career in marketing.

@CutchuSlow My sister knows nothing about games, but she tends to see ads for games on YouTube and social media. Today, she was asking me about Metroid Prime 4.

I really enjoyed this game on the Switch 2, and it was my favorite game just behind KCD 2 for me.

Nintendo is doing a Sony to Sony with these timed exclusives, haha—Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar is another great game missing from PS5.

Moving the Like a Dragon series to a hybrid turn-based system and adding English dubbing (for those who want to understand the story better) was the best choice they have made. The turn-based system is pretty incredible and some of the most fun I have ever had with any kind of gameplay. I am glad that they are sticking to what makes the games so fun and unique. We love them because they are inherently Japanese.

I expect Stranger than Heaven to take on the action mantle, and having options for both game styles is great.

It's a free upgrade, and tbh this is more for Switch 2 as that's where the biggest upgrades are felt.

It's going to be a great new multiplayer MMO nobody has ever heard of haha

It does come across as a little lazy if they couldn't even do a small selection of avatars without resorting to an AI tool. It's a multi Billion dollar company, they have enough resources to throw together something half decent looking at a low cost.

I understand gen AI for labour intensive tasks like coding, repetitive manual tasks and things like that but artwork should be designed with the aid of a computer using a human mind not from the computer.

If companies feel that they can get away with these so called small things now, they will progressively move into things such as larger artistic components which reduce cost but also quality.

As for the articles, you could say they are designed for engagement because of course the business is run off of ads and memberships so it needs to get our ever dwindling attention spans.

I know the knee jerk reaction is to try to defend Sony on a PlayStation site but stuff like this should not be encouraged by any large corporation.

@CutchuSlow Anyone who watches YouTube, or via social media which is most people. Ubisoft do paid adverts which have a wide reach.

@SeaDaVie Europe does effectively prop up SIE I do agree but I do think Switch 2 will take more market share before PS6 arrives. Obviously it won't be competing in Asia or North America where Nintendo gets the best sales ratios.