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All you had to say was Housemarque(ish)!

Such a great game! I enjoyed this so much.

At the outset, one of the drivers for releasing older PS Studios games on PCs must have been a hope that people who bought and loved those games would choose to buy a PS5 to play the sequels rather than pick them up on Steam… It’d be interesting to know if Sony’s sales goals for the sequels were lower than the originals.

GTA at fourth in Europe (in 2025!) is wild.

Could it be for a PS5 native version and a streaming version - linked to the PS Portal update?

@ErrantRob I’m also on Cronos and loving it! I think I’m in the second half of the game now. Halloween might be gone, but I’m keeping the pumpkin costume.

Returnal is the best game on PS5 - can’t wait to see what Housemarque are cooking!

I don’t know what this Fatal Frame you speak of is, but I’m a big Project ZERO fan (and clearly old)!

Dire. Utterly dire.

I mean this with love: LSA is the best PS3 game I have played in years!

I’m quite enjoying this so far (and having a chuckle at some of the jank along the way). I never thought I’d get to play Final Fantasy XIII Versus - but the time has finally come!

Thanks for this! My copy should arrive tomorrow and these impressions have left me even more curious!

I’ll answer my own question - TPR is scheduled for 2028, so it’s got a way to go before trailers and bigger marketing efforts.

It’s a bit disappointing that there aren’t even video trailers for most of these on the PS Blog. Is it that they’re really early in development? I’d really like to see what The Perfect Run looks like.

For the sake of the people who have worked there for a few years now, I hope it’s good. And if it is coming together, I’d not be surprised if released across PS5, PC and Xbox simultaneously. That status alone could give it some impact! And why not - is anyone realistically going to buy a PS5 solely for this game if it is an exclusive?

@ThroughTheIris56 Breath of the Wild at 240FPS on PS7 is gonna look amazing!

It was relentlessly miserable and dour. I finished it because it played very well but I was glad when it was over. If a Part 3 ever emerges, I hope there’s some more optimism in it.

Looks like it’s being published by KT this time, and not SIE. Maybe it’ll be on Switch 2!

@DiscoI76 - I agree, a bit of that first-party magic would be great to see! Killzone Tactics VR, please! Or a top-down Sly Raccoon infiltration game!

The list of games I want to play on my PS VR2 just keeps growing!

I’d love a dramatic climbing game like this on PS5. Climbing parts of Horizon were the best!

Folklore! MediEvil!

Did we ever find out whether the reporting that BM had been acquired by Sony was accurate?

Is Brendan M the chap who worked on The Getaway?

But can the rice cooker play Doom?

It’s not worth £700…but the performance bump on FFXVI (unpatched, too!) really is superb. It has changed the game for me.

Returnal is the best game on PS5 so the stream at least ended on a promising note!

Judas, please! Replayed Infinite on my Portal recently and I really enjoyed it, so something new from Ken would be fun! And….something, anything…for PSVR2?

I feel really sad for the developers at London, Pixelopus and elsewhere that could have created single-player games that probably wouldn’t have cost the world to make and generated more revenue than these cancelled projects will clearly ever do. But I am hopeful that recent noises about looking at older IP are a sign that this type of internal analysis has already been underway. Maybe, just maybe, we’ll start to see some smaller, maybe innovative, titles that diversify Sony’s output. All of this might also explain why there have been so few showcases State of Play presentations - maybe there is just little for them to show that’s even close to releasing.

Argos had them in the UK a few days ago too - though I think they quickly sold out!

Sony, please just take my money and give this game to me now. Stoked!

Does anyone know if a disc drive purchased in Europe will be compatible with a PS5 Pro purchased in the UK?

And Neon Koi! Did they ever release a game?

Just picked up a copy of this issue as a souvenir before my trip to Japan ends - can’t wait to play SH2 now! Roll on Tuesday!

This looks intriguing. Sign me up to play on PS VR2!

As a PS VR2 owner, I wonder how many smaller VR games London Studio could have made with the money it cost to make Concord!

It’s not even on the front of the PS Store on PS5. It’s bizarre.

My hopes of playing Final Fantasy XVI at a consistent 60fps using my disc copy might are fading… Maybe there’ll be a disc attachment..?

@Shepherd_Tallon You’re right, it is. It’s great quality and I really like using it. I don’t think I’ve had £530-worth of use out of it, but maybe you and @dschons are right and we’ll see some Sony stuff come through in time!

Wow, they are truly chucking in the towel, aren’t they? I’d really love to see what PS Studios developers could have done with PS VR2 - but it doesn’t seem we’re ever going to find out!

I’m going to say that Amazon’s Prime Day had a big impact on this chart!

@TommyNL If I ever get a 3D printer, maybe this’ll be my first project!

Don’t tease us, Sony! The boomerang controller is that piece of gaming neverware that I most wish I could get my hands on!

I really hope for a Returnal sequel (whenever it’s revealed). What a phenomenal game.

I really enjoy using my PS VR2. It feels great and there really isn’t any shortage of games to play on it. But the reason so many people come to PlayStation, if we’re honest, is for the first party games. And in that respect it is clearly not up to scratch.

PC compatibility is all well and good but again it’s likely only to benefit players who own a PS5 and a very good PC. That change isn’t going to add value for PS5 players who don’t fall into that bracket.

Let’s hope there is support in the Sony pipeline that just hasn’t been revealed yet.

I quite enjoyed it!

Thanks for all of your great coverage this year. Merry Christmas, everyone!

Have Sony/Insomniac/Marvel actually said that Wolverine is a PlayStation exclusive? Insomniac’s website just says it ‘is currently in development for the PS5 console’.