@Friendly I literally said I'm a fan of dynamic pricing and look forward to utilizing it when presented with a good deal. If that equates to crying, okay boss!

@Friendly no, I was born yesterday, I had no idea.

@Juic3B0x dynamic pricing has existed for so long in so many industries. I don't cry when my neighbor gets a coupon for steaks at a dollar cheaper per pound than what I'm getting. If I get a cool deal that applies to me, great. If not, ok. I'll wait for a sale like normal or just buy it full price if I really want it now.

I look forward to the targeted discounts I receive.

I look less forward to Sammy posting articles whining about this, ten times per week.

@get2sammyb your articles reflect the same loss of reality. You've been leading the charge on the anti-Sony, grab-the-pitchforks outrage for months here at Push Square including misleading articles predicting all sorts of doom for Sony.

@AI-Generation right it's like I have a ton of memories of long abandoned PlayStation IPs. If they made another Killzone or Twisted Metal or Resistance or whatever I'd be so thrilled. But a lot of people would be like "what is thing FPS and why is it primarily single player and why is it not COD?"

A huge number of people playing Xbox at the moment have absolutely no attachment to Gears or Halo. I don't know why you'd want to make these bedrock franchises for any reason other than to placate the more mature part of your base that still identifies with these games.

An overwhelming majority of devs will respond that they either support or are neutral on killing off physical media, and then Sony will be very quick to report that feedback. They're asking a question they already know the answer to.

I'm not much of a fan of superhero games to begin with, so at $70 this didn't move me, but if we see a sale I'll absolutely buy it. Other than the idiots on social media who just endlessly crap on this game, everything I've seen and read makes it seem pretty fun. I look forward to playing it down the road.

I haven't been a GTA fan since Vice City. Not because I think it's a bad game or anything, it's just the massive sandbox format doesn't really appeal to me.

Enormous amount of comments on that post are now taking the Stop Killing Games person to task. It's pathetic. That "movement" is just a bunch of whiny babies who constantly need something to lash out about.

Are we not calling it the "Disc Debacle" anymore, as it becomes increasingly apparent it was never that big of a deal?

"Reputation in the gutter"

Maybe among the tiny minorities that live on this site and Reddit.

I feel like there's a generation or two of gamers that have absolutely no attachment to or even knowledge of the series.

I don't know why we equate the people that are part of this virtual lynch mob with Sony's "most loyal players." Rightly or wrongly, none of this is loyalty. I know many people who buy PlayStation products every time they are release and game exclusively on the platform who honestly don't care about any of this, or any other manufactured controversies. I consider them to be the loyal base. They'll support Sony blindly until the end. These people that Sammy obssesses over? They're loyal until they don't like the direction Sony is taking, and then they abandon ship.

It's not a debacle Sammy, no matter how many times you call it that.

@dskatter Yeah and my SNES cartridges work great on my SNES but not my N64. Unless the PS6 is backwards compatible everyone will be beholden to whatever digital constraints Sony implements. Sure, you can keep that PS5, but if you sell it and move onto the next generation like a huge percentage of people do, then yeah...coasters, frisbees, etc.

@CielloArc Talk to me when the PS6 drops and it's sold out for the next nine months.

If the PS6 fails it will be due to prohibitive costs related to components, not a bunch of whiny physical media enthusiasts launching boycotts.

@CielloArc the plan was to ignore the loud, obnoxious minority. Isn't that obvious? They know a purely digital future is more profitable for them. That's part of the plan, too. They don't care if there are a million people out there that boycott the brand moving forward--they'll make it up, and then some. The plan is totally apparent, and you don't have to dig deep to understand it.

@PSXB I didn't say the digital library will fare any better, did I? Of course it won't. I just find it amusing that people are of the belief that if they have a disc, they'll always be able to play it. It's a digital, always online future that we're headed towards and nothing will be permanent.

@Balaam_ cute that you seem think ownership of a disc entitles you to play that disc forever. Just wait, in 20 years all of your discs will be glorified frisbees.

But does it come on a disc

Push Square has absolutely been feeding this kind of toxic discourse since the announcement.

Now the 1% of gamers that can't stop crying about the death of physical media can go be angry at Game Stop as well.

But will it come on a disc? That's the only thing that matters now.

It's not a debacle.

LOL no. As the analyst points out, the amount of people who are all up in arms about this is such an infinitesimally small percentage of Sony's business, it just doesn't matter to them.

This place will be a much better read when all of you whiners pack up and go elsewhere. Oh wait, 90% of you won't, you still be right here.

@TheSingularity bingo. This response wasn't unanticipated. As usual however the group of people that are loud on Twitter and Reddit and whatever other social media platforms represent the incredibly loud, incredibly vocal minority. But the minority is a very small minority, that will have a very minimal impact.

To be clear, I would have been in favor of Sony keeping a physical drive. But--that's in a vacuum. If this helps keep costs down, or Sony really does see 80-85% of sales (and growing) in digital formats, then so be it. It was unrealistic to expect physical media to be around forever, and even then, like half of the physical media that does exist is only a fraction of the game or essentially a game key or whatever.

The internet can cry about it all they want and Sammy can devote the rest of this life to sharing posts about it, but it's a done deal.

Sony is not stupid. We may think they make stupid decisions, but they remain tremendously profitable. I'm sure they have some sophisticated models that demonstrate the people who are actually going to leave the ecosystem barely put a dent into their overall base. I'd wager it pays off in the long run for them financially.

I've also been playing digital-only for years now so for it's a big "whatever."

@Snick27 I'm sure it will take all of 30 seconds to skip through the customization and stick with the default.

I had more issues on 27 than 30, although I didn't complete all challenges on either, just the main ones. I'm not good enough to complete all challenges on probably 50% of the missions.

I played Godfall. For the first 10 or so hours I was like man people got this one wrong, this game is really cool. But then the next 10 hours were literally exactly the same as the first 10 hours except you learned a couple new convoluted combat mechanics and it was like...actually yeah this is incredibly repetitive and boring. Looked really nice and had a lot of potential.

I always thought it was a nice 8/8.5 game with a mostly interesting story and fantastic art design. The gameplay was refreshing initially but did get a little stale, even with the customization options for your build. I genuinely enjoyed the game but it's not one that I think I'll remember much of in 10 years.

I don't like re-reviewing games. I feel like the original score should stand. If something changes substantially, then you can append a note explaining that all of these changes have beenmade and we may have scored the game differently if it launched this way. You can do the same thing for games that launch and are solid and then introduce some sort of terrible monetization scheme or introduce some other features that significantly affect the experience in a negative way. I don't think review scores should be fluid.

I remember playing Ecco on the Game Gear. I probably dumped a few dozen hours into it. Never once did I ever really figure out what the hell was going on, or what I was supposed to be doing. Had a cool vibe, though.

HZD Remastered is phenomenal. I already have it, but if I didn't, I'd be absolutely psyched for it. Such a good game.

I've heard The Crew and Warriors are both fun but haven't tried either. Will grab both now.

The football sim, I love footie but I've never been into the management sims so that's a pass.

Wild Arms 4 sucked in general. I don't know what's different about this version but I am not a fan of the original, though I do like the series as a whole.

All in all I think it's a good batch.

If they make it easier to sort/filter and find content you're actually interested in, then I don't really care too much about the rest of it (the purely aesthetic aspects). What I see in the article seems fine, though. Maybe not how I'd do it, but UI design is not exactly my specialty.

I feel like the only person on the planet that isn't excited for this game and that didn't like Returnal. Don't get me wrong--I acknowledge it was a really good game, just not for me. I grew up playing bullet hell and shmups and was honestly kind of glad when they stopped being a thing, LOL. Anyway, I hope for those that are looking forward to this that it is excellent.

Hiding games from the trophy list I guess would be nice. I have tons in there that are at like 0 or 1 trophies because they're just games I downloaded off PS+ and played for 10 minutes. Otherwise I really don't care about any of the other stuff mentioned.

He has a way of obscuring his points in a layer of hyperbolic nonsense, but after 10 or so hours I'm so far inclined to agree with him on his underlying criticisms (about the actual game, not the "it's an embarrassment" crap).

I'm not a big graphics guy but this looks so similar to the past several years. Everything looks too smooth, especially the infield. I'm not interested in modes outside of franchise, so any improvements to that or to the core gameplay experience will be welcome. It just looks outdated, which is disappointing.

I really enjoyed the game, but for me personally it was more like an 8-8.5/10 and certainly not a game I'd expect to see winning so many awards. So for me it's confounding on two fronts: that this game is so highly regarded, and that there are so many awards now.

Escape from Ever After sounded pretty stupid but actually looks kind of dope. I will monitor that to see what the reviews say.

@Lysterao that's the plan, I tuned out after I posted my comment.

This is boring AF just show me some trailers. 4 bros and some chick BSing on a sofa is not interesting.

Not really feeling the rogue like thing, and the tracks looked more like traditional linear courses. For me the best part of Carmageddon was always just driving around the ridiculous environments wrecking other cars and mowing down as many people (and cows) as possible. I mean I'll give it a chance but this is not sounding like what I'd ask for in a Carmageddon reboot.

I thought the graphics and animations looked pretty "meh." I don't know, could be interesting, I'll keep an eye on it, but the trailer didn't move me.

@Oram77 that game was broken and quite frankly boring, to say nothing of jankiness. Having beaten it, I don't even feel like it would have been worth 30 bucks. I quit early on and only went back to beat it, just to beat it. Sony was stupid to price it as a premium title, but I don't think it would have been received any differently as a budget title.

@Striker21 website is called Push Square, not PS Square. I know reading can be hard.

OG Stellar Blade was coming out for Xbox until it wasn't. Happens all the time now. You don't know for sure what platform a game will release on until it does. If there's an actual next Xbox platform, the sequel likely comes out for it, but we won't know until that's made certain.