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@PuppetMaster I don't think they need to break even. Just to help the brand. To give ps gamers the sense that they're getting many first party/exclusive games, even if they're not interested in every single one. A strong brand (from the ps3 and mostly ps4 days) is what carried ps5.

As long as they make something for everyone, I think people should realize no company will cater to them 100%

@Markatron84 Correct. That is the only possible explanation.

@Dyd87xz sorry, buddy, but if you don't realize how ridiculous the comparison it, it's definitely a you problem.

As I said, if PC gamers weren't interested in Sony games, they'd simply ignore them eveywhere. Piracy suggests that some may have been successful enough for Sony to keep porting them, if people were indeed purchasing them.

@Dyd87xz yes, let's compare all sales of steam games, dlc, MTX with pirated downloads of Sony games. That makes sense.

@nessisonett what was the alternative? Denying it and escalating the situation in an effort to convince the internet mob that they were wrong?

@Dyd87xz sites that offer them for... "free" beg to differ. The sheer number of downloads suggests otherwise.

@Nakatomi_Uk exactly. It's inexcusable.

@Zeke68 well, technically, it didn't kill it, so

@Dalamar gotta love people making assumptions about others.

@themightyant plenty! What kind of genres are you mostly interested in experiencing?

Halls of Torment. This game will be the death of me...

Going for the platinum and it's taking forever

Edit: Almost forgot! Also playing Spider-man Remastered. I beat the main game again just so that I can experience the DLC and I finally get the criticism it received of being more of the same. Having said that, I found the second DLC much darker than the main game and quite impactful. Haven't started the third DLC yet, but I'm really looking forward to it.

I wonder if anyone else enjoyed the DLC.

@StitchJones "WdaFuq" are you talking about. It has won several awards, making it an award winning game. Jesus.

@Ambassador_Kong yeah, it's really not that simple. It's not like Bungie has a policy that requires its employees to steal art. When some of the people that work for them do so, it hurts their brand. It's much more cost effective to hire someone to create the art. If they were a tiny company that one had heard of, your argument would hold some water.

@IOI "out of every digital platform holder Sony’s is by far the most expensive and abusive."

Not sure if this is true. I've bought a Nintendo game since 3ds, but if memory serves their first party games hardly ever receive any notable discounts.

@Nakatomi_Uk I've lost count how many ps top up cards I bought from CDKEYS but I've recently found shopto far better.

It should simply be illegal.

Oh noes. Not a slow rollout of skins. I'm livid.

@BentIeyma that's how meaningless user votes are.

@Fyz306903 what a lot of people don't realize is that exclusives are made mostly to promote the console. If they also sell well, that's just cherry on top. Sony makes most of its revenue from Microtransactions, dlc, etc from the third party games.

@Krlozgod "This article really show the fanboyism in this site. All these arguments also contradict themselves, one one hand you are saying the PC ports are driving people away from Play Station but on the other hand you are saying that porting games doesn’t make sense because these games don’t sale well on PC which by that logic should not drive away people from PS5."

There is no contradiction here if you take into account how prevalent piracy still is on PC. Plenty of people hate Sony for all sorts of reasons and feel like they're entitled to play their games for free because they don't agree with psn requirement for example or for Sony charging too much for x game or for being "greedy".

@AverageGamer it’s been proven time and time again that even if there is no competition, there is no guarantee something will sell well.

@Oram77 wait. “We’re healing everyone”? Including the terrorists?

@Shinnok789 that’s not a fact, though. It’s completely relative

@Bizzy "Maybe because the stores like Walmart have taken the ability to buy physical away from the consumer, rather than the consumer turning their backs on physical."

Pretty sure it's the other way around.

@MKD88 Sony has excellent digital sales. Especially for older games. If you also get codes from cdkeys (I think it's called loaded now) or Shopto, you save even more. Not sure if that's also the case with Steam, though.

Makes sense. I thought it'd be silly to buy the digital edition of the ps5, because of all the physical copies of ps4 games I have and I ended up not playing any of them. When ps6 comes out, I'm skipping physical all together.

@LogicStrikesAgain I have to agree. But keep in mind a lot of it is coming from unhappy people who love to see things fail because it makes them feel a little better about the state of their own life.

@Balaam_ "These two things might actually be mutually exclusive, but imagine being the type of person to think ‘Highguard looks good I will play that’ and also being a trophy hunter. Better grind out that platinum immediately or the devs will have screwed you forever because that platinum will be impossible to obtain after the 12th. There should be laws against this sort of thing."

Laws, dude? Seriously? Over... trophies?

@themightyant does he have a job outside hating on GoW for clicks?

@PuppetMaster Good point. I also vividly remember the mob's comments on Henry Cavill when Netflix released his first picture as The Witcher. Then they fell in love with him. The 180 they did was simply hilarious.

Quite frankly, this doesn't look great to me, but neither did the Last of Us and I found that incredible, so I'm anxiously waiting to see how it turns out.

Out of all characters… Oh, well. We’ll see

@Balaam_ their writers were excellent. As a Professor of Latin who has been studying ancient Greek and Latin texts for decades I can tell you that there was nothing wrong with the dialogue. This is how people spoke and wrote depending on the genre based on the evidence we have.

@Supern0va my thoughts exactly. Stopped reading right after that part.

Multiplayer games and games like Dreams are fine. Everything else hurts the brand. Simple as that, imo.

@RoomWithaMoose I get what you’re saying. That’s why I said option number 2 is much more accurate. Had they not added it, I’d agree that calling it dead is figuratively true.

@LogicStrikesAgain yup. Plus it’s getting sales all the time. You don’t do that when it’s dead

Gotta love internet exaggeration where everything is either black or white. It’s still getting new games, so obviously it’s not dead. But its support is so minimal that it’s obviously dying.

Psp, Gamecube and the like are dead. PSVR2 isn’t… yet.

If there was any time to be outraged, this is it!

@guacguacboo sold!

@LifeGirl "Quality speaks for itself."

Indeed. That's why Roblox is such a hit. Quality.

@Axelay71 what spin? Again, do you understand how extra works?

@Axelay71 um, what? Extra is a rental service. If they'd give physical copies, you'd still have to return them. Essential you can keep as long as you have plus. It's by no means a "downloads" issue.

What's the point of a ps6 coming out any time soon? Games looking and playing slightly better? They already look and play great, imo.

Now, if that includes a handheld, I'd buy that tomorrow. But a slightly better ps5 doesn't seem worth it to me.

All I know is that if it's God of War, I'll love it.

@Northern_munkey that was one of the greatest recommendations. The most addictive game I played in a really long time. I platinumed it in 2-3 weeks, I think, which is a record for me lately, since I have little time for gaming these days. I then moved on to Halls of Torment, which I beat a few days ago, but I don't see myself completing everything any time soon.

@Northern_munkey hope you feel better soon, man.

So many games, so little time to play them. I need to beat Spider-man Remaster and the DLC that I never got to play, before playing the sequel, but I'm also interested in Neva, Venba, the two monster hunter games Echoes of the End.

That's like half my wishlist right there!

@LifeGirl is this your first time (carefully) reading a pushsquare article? They use "we" (as in push square staff) **all** the time.

@Max_the_German an acquisition is not just one game.