Metacritic is a metric and the numbers are what they are, so good for PS+ and it's subscribers.
Here's my metric, that I have not measured, but it feels like it's getting worse for the constant increase in price.
PS5 is 5 years old this month. In those 5 years how many PS5 exclusives - not PS4 or PS3 games - have been on PS+ Essential vs how many PS4 exclusives - not PS3 or PS2 games - were on PS+?
I know there haven't been a ton of PS5 exclusives but how many of those have been on PS+? What % of PS4 exclusives were on PS+ by the time the PS4 was 5 years old? I just feel like PS4 was getting PS4 games, that why I subscribed, and PS5 has not been getting a lot of PS5 games, which is why I don't.
Metacritic scores are good, but not if it's for a game I've never even heard of. I'm still trying to get over "It Takes Two" winning GotY. Like, did that really happen? 🤷♂️
Have they announced if Astrobot is done yet? I've been holding out getting it as they keep adding dlc to the base game. Has there been enough content for them to do a GotY Complete Edition for the holidays? I'm pretty sure it won some awards.
I like it better than how PS+ is celebrating the 5 year PS5 anniversary, w/ PS4 game Stray and a couple of other games I can't recall their names. So they have that going for them. 👍
Not that it matters too much, but Fortnite isn't a FPS First Person Shooter it's 3rd person. If it ever goes 1st person I'll quit, been playing about 4 years. Also not really that fast paced, I'm 60 and I win 33% of my matches.
@get2sammyb Don't worry Sammy, maybe you'll have better replies promoting Infinity Nikki 2.0 at the end of the month.😁
I never really appreciated the Game Profile box below here before now. You guys at PS ever think about putting it ABOVE the comments so people might read it before commenting? It has a lot of useful information people might ask about, like the price and where else it can be played.
One other bit of info a game like this can use - do I need to pay for PS+ to play it? Probably yes, but some online games don't.
Players: 1 makes it look like you can play it solo offline w/ NPCs but I'm guessing that's not the case.
Maybe I'll just keep playing Wii games on my Wii U. Simpler times.😁
They just had some K-Pop Demon Hunters mode - 3 people building houses and doing not much else - that let you have cute little flying sidekicks buzzing about your head. Only 1 at a time but they had a couple of dozen to choose from.
@Dogbreath I like surprise. I'd also accept success. Mild success. Successful. Heck I'd even accept enormous success if they quoted and linked it, perhaps mockingly from Phil Spencer. Enormous is just weird. I'm not sure I could even use it seriously, it's a funny word. Like, Did you see the size of that woman's button in the green lycra spandex? It was ENORMOUS. 😂
"Tech like this is unable to generate wholly original ideas because it's relying on banks of old, pre-existing media and information."
I'm pretty sure that is actually how the human brain works. And if you don't think it does then we can all be raised by wolves and then create great things. There's a reason people go to school, or get home schooled. To teach them how to do things.
The fact that some people are more creative than AI is less a jab at AI than it is at humans. Sure, everything AI makes now sucks, but that's b/c the things we like are made by smart well trained humans. If you just let any human make a game, maybe half of the population, or 10%, choose your own %, then the AI may be better.
Who knows, maybe Concorde would have been better if Sony let AI make it?😂
Anyway, it's not that AI sucks more than humans, it's that AI sucks more than the humans we pay to do particular jobs. The jobs the humans learned to do. Just like AI has to learn. It's just not very smart right now. Probably b/c it's learning from all humans. Most of which are stupid. 😩
@ShogunRok "PS+ Extra Celebrating the 5 Year Anniversary of the PS5 Launch in Style Next Month by Bringing Out the Heavy Hitters" should have been the title of this article w/ that Pic as the whole article.🤣
@Dogbreath I know you weren't replying to me you were replying to @Exerion76 but since they were replying to me I'm replying to you to. And them.
The only people who know if it was really a success or not are Sony, b/c the only success that really matters was meeting their expectations. And who knows, maybe Sony thinks 5% of the PS5 install base for a $199 one trick pony is "enormous". But if that's the case I'd really like to see what their hyperlatives would have been if it were 10%, 15%, 20% well you get the idea. Stupendous. Humungous. What else is bigger than enormous?
For comparison the $250 Wii sold 150mil and the $100 1 trick pony Wii Balance Board sold 32mil. That's 20% of the install base. For a plastic board that was 40% of the consoles price. Similar to PS5 and Portal pricing.
@Shepherd_Tallon Thanks for that real world stuff. As someone who talks to Alexa every day to ask the weather, sports score, set a timer, etc, I have no interest in anything calling itself AI, and I'm certainly not paying for it.
Though I suppose it's good people do, should help make it better in the future. Kind of like how No Man's Sky was a bit if a bust or letdown at launch but after multiple years of updates people seem to like it more now. AI is alpha stage NMS, beta testers beware.
@themightyant Games journalism amirite? At least they didn't blame Biden. 😂
In their defense I still haven't found the number,linking to a paywalled Bloomberg article wasn't helping. I unfortunately care about this stuff b/c 3 years ago my kid graduated from college w/ a BS in Game Design & Development (can't blame the kid, I picked the school and the major) so this all affects me. And I'm a stock market news junky. That's on me too.😝
Looked around and nothing new on the Games division layoff number. I did find out about an "AI powered" Snoop Dog game. Which I'm pretty sure in a few days I'm just going to think I imagined
My kid went to see it this weekend and said it was good. I may have gone but after watching the first few episodes I took a break, then came back and didn't know what was going on, then my kid told me that was b/c I skipped an episode, so I never went back. 😩
Maybe if when this comes to Crunchy roll I'll start over. 🤷♂️
@themightyant No one knows the game number, 14k seems to be all of AI, AWS, etc,part of a larger corporate 30k. Some are just employees they fired b/c thry wouldn't, or couldn't, "return to the office".
@nessisonett Would involve a "functioning government", which we no longer have. Also I think WARN notices only come into affect when about 10% of a company is laid-iff, and Amazon has 1.5mil employees so the 14k, or 30k number also announced, probably isn't large enough. 🤷♂️
Also, this is the worst comment section I've ever read, and I've been annoying people here for 15 years. This is a very international site though, so it's possible AI looking comments could just be translation issues, so it might be difficult to tell what's AI and what's Google Translate of a broken mind. Banning Americans could be a way to go though.🤣
@nessisonett I had to look up the title, I thought it was called Awakening. 😝 I own every GoW game, except that one. No wait I traded in 2018, just kept the box. 😁
I still think it's weird no one mentioned the previous GoW multi-player game while talking about the canceled new one. 🤷♂️
The only people who I've ever seen argue that this power saving mode was in preparation of the handhelds launch was PS writers. 😂
I do appreciate that those same PS writers have talked about the PS5 power consumption. I try to always turn it off rather than put it in rest mode now, and I never use it for streaming or DVDs, though I will throw in the occasional Blu-ray, don't think I've ever held a 4k disc in my hands, so I know the PS5 is a power hog, and I try to mitigate my energy usage, but I never saw this energy saving mode as handheld related. 🤷♂️
When people lament about lack of new PS5 games 5 years after launch I think we should hold up PS+ as a measuring stick of that. Compare PS+ on PS3, PS4 and PS5 and after 5 years on the market how many PS+ games on PS3 were PS3 exclusives, then exclusives on PS4, then exclusives on PS5?
I don't have the numbers in front of me but my faulty recall has me believing we got a lot of PS3 games on PS3 and PS4 games on PS4 but also PS4 games on PS5 b/c as people like to lament, there are no new games on PS5.
Now, I know there are new games on PS5, I've played them, but I bet not as many on PS+. Which was maybe fine in years 1, 2 and 3 but at this point I'm pretty sure PS+ was getting some PS4 games on PS4.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I certainly don't miss subscribing to PS+ since I've owned a PS5.
Edit: Oh, in case anyone is wondering why the off topic rant, Stray is a PS4 game, next month is a 5 full years since PS5 launched, November 2020. That's how PS+ is celebrating the 5 year anniversary of PS5 launching, w/ PS4 game Stray.
An entire article and 8 comments about GoW and no mention of Ascension?
They already had a multi-player GoW component and it wasn't really well liked so I don't know why they would try again, or why the article wouldn't mention it?
@nomither6 Are you seriously defending this trash port by making fun of... we'll I'm not exactly sure what you're making fun of actually b/c Kirby Air Riders is an upcoming Switch 2 game, the game on GameCube was Kirby Air Ride - no rs - so are you mocking an old GameCube game or a new Switch 2 game?🤪
Seems an odd follow up to Scooby Doo but I guess I'm just old and nostalgia for most people now and Simpsons is still relevant. I'll play it regardless, I'm addicted, but not excited. It is something I guess.
@Flaming_Kaiser The only thing the US is a prime example of right now is 1930's Germany, which isn't a good thing. 😩
Phones were supposed to be the death of consoles pre-Switch and PS4, Napster or the death of music sales (I'm old), but nobody told Taylor Swift, digital was the death of albums, again no one told TS, free-to-play should be the death of $70-to-start but people keep playing CoD and FIFA.
Something is always killing something else. Almost everything has both its good and bad side. Except Ouya that was all bad.🤑 I'd just prefer a little fairness and balance, not, if we do it it's great but if the other side does the same thing it sucks. 😝
Subscription services are fine for little indie games on Netflix and Apple Arcade, or years old games. I agree w/ Sony on most of that. But now that Gamepass has 3 tiers, similar to PS+, and new games are only available on the highest paid tier, I think things are more even than not, and journalism should acknowledge that, not just promote console wars amongst the fans. 🤷♂️
@DreadfulDragon I liked DQ11, a lot, very bright and colorful. Don't recall it being dark or mature but I haven't played it since the 1st time it released. And I'm pretty jaded so it would probably take a lot for me to think of a video game as dark and mature. I played FF7 in 1998 and half the story is based around the murder of a sweet and innocent main character and the good guys basically lose in the end. And they're terrorists to begin with. Can't get much more dark and mature than FF7. Glad the remake trilogy doesn't look like this. Can you imagine the response?🤣
@DarianStarfrog And I hope you get the help you need.
Are you aware in the year that you've been here about half your comments are just nasty replies to other people? Maybe think about that before the next time you reply to anyone again.
I think I've played all of the Katamari games, and "Wonderful End of the World" on PC which I liked better, but pretty sure I've never spent more than $10 on any of them b/c that's all they are to me, little fun indie games. I'd probably pay $20 these days b/c inflation but that's about it. So whenever it gets there. Or maybe just a rental, really no reason to own this.
@DreadfulDragon May be true, doesn't mean it's not jarring. 🤷♂️
Isn't Toriyama mostly famous for 2D animation, stuff like the old DQ, DragonBall and Sand Land, not this 3D computer graphics Pixar looking stuff? This is so far removed from what I'm guessing most people think of with him they probably could have gone a little further darker, like the newer FF games, also from Squenix, if they really wanted dark and mature. If they really wanted Toriyama they could have stuck w/ more of a Sand Land look, still 3D, but kind of cell shared looking. 🤷♂️
After 4 of 5 years on the market you'd think Sony could bundle something a little more Sony with the PS5 like the Spiderman trilogy. For the price of the console they should be able to include those 2 1/2 old games.
I play a lot of Fortnite, probably too much like it's an addiction, but I still don't like bubdling an expensive console w/ a FTP game. Makes no sense as in its not much of a savings for the consumer. Not for a BF sale anyway.🤑
@Questionable_Duck Yeah, it could work. It's just a weird choice w/ the guy saying "It's 2025 so we thought it was time to remake this dark and mature story, and do it in the most kid friendly graphics possible." 😁
@SweetSummerShunv The FF7 Retrilogy will end with Cloud in the shower and Tifa waking up in bed saying "Cloud, I just had the weirdest dream." And then Advent Children will be fine. 😂
So this is the graphical design they decided to go with for their dark mature game? 🤣
I like a dark mature story, occasionally, and I like these graphics, but not together. Since they were rebuilding it from the ground up they probably should have gone with something a little less cartoon kid friendly if they wanted to convey dark and mature.
I'm all for gimmicks over graphics, I just replayed Mario Galaxy (Wii version on my Wii U) and I forgot how much use Nintendo got out of the motion and the pointing with that game, AND it still looks great on myn75" 4k TV. But the Wii was only $250 new, the PS5 is closer to $500. For that much more money I need the graphics as well as the gimmicks. If they just want to make gimmick Astrobot games sell me a $300 system.
Wouldn't surprise me if it's 1 of those short in-between seasons, this 1 has been really long. They've kept it going w/ Scooby Doo and Fortnitemares but w/ another 10 days left I'm ready to move on. And a short season before the Christmas season would be welcome.
@get2sammyb If you'd like to edit your article with some useful content (unless you're saving it for another article 😉) the new dlc From the Ashes - releases Dec 5th, same day as the new movie, for $24.99, or you can buy the complete game and dlc for $39.99 on that date as well. I can't tell if this includes the original 2 dlc though. 🤷♂️
@cainhurst94 That's certainly a part of it. Can't be easy making PS5 games look like the ugliest of PS3 games, Vaseline on gray, but it's more than that. I've posted dozens of Elden Ring pics on Twitter, I wouldn't have taken these, much less post them anywhere. There's nothing of interest to see. 🤷♂️
Oh well. Maybe I'll play it some weekend to see for myself if I can come across it cheap, no need to own it.
There are 7 pictures of the game in this article and I can't tell what is in any of them. Mostly too dark, 1 too bright, and the others just whatever. Like, it's hard to tell if this is even a 3D or 2D game. I'm not blaming PS, I'm sure it's just what the game looks like, but how can there not be 1 decent picture of the game?
People should make the games they want to make, are capable of making, and can afford to make. Company heads at Sony shouldn't be making these decisions. Look at Concorde and several other of their not doing so well live service games.
It took those guys 7 years to make A - AA game Silksong, maybe they should try making AAA games in 5 years instead?
I liked the Gilgamesh storyline and the character, but hated their tower defense game to do it, it was the absolute worst. It was horrible in the original game in 1997 as well but it's the 2020s, let's make it good now.
Queens Blood was great. Don't think it needs an entire new storyline though, just keep in the game matches, that plot has concluded.
Sneaking around the bushes to get the chocobo was so lame and time consuming. Can we just feed them some gyshal greens and be done with it please?
That vacuuming minigame was always garbage, shouldn't have been in there to begin with.
So yeah, they don't need nearly as much side content as 2 had, and some stuff should go. But it's a JRPG, people expect some side stuff, would be weird without it.
Personally I want the game soon and functioning, so probably the less the better. But don't take it all out, just make it very optional.
I thought the new faeture was the date the sale ended. I really like that, gives me time to think about it. Lowest price last 30 days seems like a law ready-made for a work around, just don't put things on sale within 30 days, wait for day 31 to put it on sale again. Typical government pretending to be doing stuff that's doing nothing at all.
There are 365 days in a year, and computers track everything these days. Listing the lowest price over the past 365 days might actually be useful. 🤷♂️
The hobby of video game playing is becoming very wrestling like, it's almost more about the stories and the back stories and the company narratives than watching the matches or playing games.
@Northern_munkey Thanks. Congrats to you as well. You missed out on the big "We HAVE to get married in 2020" craze by just 9 months. 😉 We didn't do it on purpose. My wife was 29 and 11 months old when we got married, she didn't want to still be single at 30. 😂. Does make it easy to remember our anniversary though, 10/15/20. It's like that School House Rock song. And whatever year it is, that's what anniversary it is. 😁
@EVIL-C And if anyone on the internet had bothered to check, the Galaxy games were $20 USD each back in 2011 & 2016 respectively when Nintendo released them in their own "Nintendo Selects" line so that was a total of $40 for the 2 games new from Nintendo. 🤷♂️
Infinity Nikki, which I play every day, added a new multi-player area a few updates back and a new home area recently, any I barely touch either, they just aren't for me.
I haven't played Genshin Impact for more than an hour, the sidekicks voice was a tad too much cringe, but if I ever did this sounds interesting.
Though I also lay Fortnite and rarely do any of the creator levels, just battle Royale, so maybe not.
@darkswabber I don't keep track of those large scale Fortnite numbers but I have been playing regularly for a few years now, almost exclusively battle Royale, and that player count over almost all of that time has been around 250k, but recently it has been only around 90k. It was up to 190k yesterday, probably for Fortnitemares, but I don't see it coming back.
To be fair some of that is probably split up within Fortnite between Lego, Ranked, no build, reload, etc, but those have been around for awhile now, the drop from 250k to 90k is recent.
So yeah Simpsons probably isn't bringing anyone back. The game may be closer to the end than the beginning. But what isn't these days? 🤷♂️
$60 is a nice price for 2 fairly recent games all on disc in 1 box. Nintendo is currently charging $70 for 2 Wii games (which I'm playing the originals now just because).
If these don't sell out and drop to $30 next year I may even pick it up to play before part 3.
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Re: Think PS Plus Essential's Monthly Games Are Getting Worse? The Data Shows You're Wrong
Metacritic is a metric and the numbers are what they are, so good for PS+ and it's subscribers.
Here's my metric, that I have not measured, but it feels like it's getting worse for the constant increase in price.
PS5 is 5 years old this month. In those 5 years how many PS5 exclusives - not PS4 or PS3 games - have been on PS+ Essential vs how many PS4 exclusives - not PS3 or PS2 games - were on PS+?
I know there haven't been a ton of PS5 exclusives but how many of those have been on PS+? What % of PS4 exclusives were on PS+ by the time the PS4 was 5 years old? I just feel like PS4 was getting PS4 games, that why I subscribed, and PS5 has not been getting a lot of PS5 games, which is why I don't.
Metacritic scores are good, but not if it's for a game I've never even heard of. I'm still trying to get over "It Takes Two" winning GotY. Like, did that really happen? 🤷♂️
Re: Exclusive: Your First Look at Astro Bot in Lumines Arise, and How the Crossover Happened
Have they announced if Astrobot is done yet? I've been holding out getting it as they keep adding dlc to the base game. Has there been enough content for them to do a GotY Complete Edition for the holidays? I'm pretty sure it won some awards.
Re: 'It Happens on PS5': New PlayStation Adverts Mark Five Years of PS5
I like it better than how PS+ is celebrating the 5 year PS5 anniversary, w/ PS4 game Stray and a couple of other games I can't recall their names. So they have that going for them. 👍
Re: If You've Never Played Fortnite, This Is the Season to Try on PS5, PS4
@Chris250MY " fast paced FPS games"
Not that it matters too much, but Fortnite isn't a FPS First Person Shooter it's 3rd person. If it ever goes 1st person I'll quit, been playing about 4 years. Also not really that fast paced, I'm 60 and I win 33% of my matches.
@get2sammyb Don't worry Sammy, maybe you'll have better replies promoting Infinity Nikki 2.0 at the end of the month.😁
Re: ARC Raiders (PS5) - A Triumph in Multiplayer Immersion
I never really appreciated the Game Profile box below here before now. You guys at PS ever think about putting it ABOVE the comments so people might read it before commenting? It has a lot of useful information people might ask about, like the price and where else it can be played.
One other bit of info a game like this can use - do I need to pay for PS+ to play it? Probably yes, but some online games don't.
Players: 1 makes it look like you can play it solo offline w/ NPCs but I'm guessing that's not the case.
Maybe I'll just keep playing Wii games on my Wii U. Simpler times.😁
Re: Fortnite Introduces Sidekicks, Pet Pals That Join You Throughout the Game on PS5, PS4
They just had some K-Pop Demon Hunters mode - 3 people building houses and doing not much else - that let you have cute little flying sidekicks buzzing about your head. Only 1 at a time but they had a couple of dozen to choose from.
Re: Talking Point: Is PS5 Really in Competition with TikTok?
My biggest threat to lack of PS5 game time is lack of PS5 games I want to play,
Yes, I know PS5 is still getting games, but compare it to the PS1 or PS2 days where games series got like 3 games in 5 or 6 years. Now we get 1.
I do still play on my PS5 a lot but it's time wasting games, not stuff I really want to play.
Social media cuts in to my Pushsquare time, but I've never TikTok'd. I can barely navigate Instagram.
Re: Rumour: PS Portal Could Be About to Get Even More Compelling
@Dogbreath I like surprise. I'd also accept success. Mild success. Successful. Heck I'd even accept enormous success if they quoted and linked it, perhaps mockingly from Phil Spencer. Enormous is just weird. I'm not sure I could even use it seriously, it's a funny word. Like, Did you see the size of that woman's button in the green lycra spandex? It was ENORMOUS. 😂
Re: Generative AI Won't Be Creating the Next GTA, Says Take-Two Boss
"Tech like this is unable to generate wholly original ideas because it's relying on banks of old, pre-existing media and information."
I'm pretty sure that is actually how the human brain works. And if you don't think it does then we can all be raised by wolves and then create great things. There's a reason people go to school, or get home schooled. To teach them how to do things.
The fact that some people are more creative than AI is less a jab at AI than it is at humans. Sure, everything AI makes now sucks, but that's b/c the things we like are made by smart well trained humans. If you just let any human make a game, maybe half of the population, or 10%, choose your own %, then the AI may be better.
Who knows, maybe Concorde would have been better if Sony let AI make it?😂
Anyway, it's not that AI sucks more than humans, it's that AI sucks more than the humans we pay to do particular jobs. The jobs the humans learned to do. Just like AI has to learn. It's just not very smart right now. Probably b/c it's learning from all humans. Most of which are stupid. 😩
Re: PS Plus Essential Games for November 2025 Announced
@ShogunRok "PS+ Extra Celebrating the 5 Year Anniversary of the PS5 Launch in Style Next Month by Bringing Out the Heavy Hitters" should have been the title of this article w/ that Pic as the whole article.🤣
Re: Rumour: PS Portal Could Be About to Get Even More Compelling
@Dogbreath I know you weren't replying to me you were replying to @Exerion76 but since they were replying to me I'm replying to you to. And them.
The only people who know if it was really a success or not are Sony, b/c the only success that really matters was meeting their expectations. And who knows, maybe Sony thinks 5% of the PS5 install base for a $199 one trick pony is "enormous". But if that's the case I'd really like to see what their hyperlatives would have been if it were 10%, 15%, 20% well you get the idea. Stupendous. Humungous. What else is bigger than enormous?
For comparison the $250 Wii sold 150mil and the $100 1 trick pony Wii Balance Board sold 32mil. That's 20% of the install base. For a plastic board that was 40% of the consoles price. Similar to PS5 and Portal pricing.
https://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/28953/wii-balance-board-breaks-record
I think Portal is a success for what you got at the price. But enormous? When's the last time anyone ever said 5% of anything was enormous?🤷♂️
Phew, made it through the whole post w/o a "That's what she said" joke. It was tough.🤣
Re: 'Significant' Layoffs Are Set to Hit Amazon Game Studios
@Shepherd_Tallon Thanks for that real world stuff. As someone who talks to Alexa every day to ask the weather, sports score, set a timer, etc, I have no interest in anything calling itself AI, and I'm certainly not paying for it.
Though I suppose it's good people do, should help make it better in the future. Kind of like how No Man's Sky was a bit if a bust or letdown at launch but after multiple years of updates people seem to like it more now. AI is alpha stage NMS, beta testers beware.
Re: 'Significant' Layoffs Are Set to Hit Amazon Game Studios
@themightyant Games journalism amirite? At least they didn't blame Biden. 😂
In their defense I still haven't found the number,linking to a paywalled Bloomberg article wasn't helping. I unfortunately care about this stuff b/c 3 years ago my kid graduated from college w/ a BS in Game Design & Development (can't blame the kid, I picked the school and the major) so this all affects me. And I'm a stock market news junky. That's on me too.😝
Looked around and nothing new on the Games division layoff number. I did find out about an "AI powered" Snoop Dog game. Which I'm pretty sure in a few days I'm just going to think I imagined
https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/amazon-games-is-making-major-layoffs-as-it-shifts-focus-away-from-mmos-to-its-luna-cloud-gaming-platform-we-have-made-the-difficult-decision-to-halt-a-significant-amount-of-our-first-party-aaa-game-development/
Re: Rumour: PS Portal Could Be About to Get Even More Compelling
"enormous success"
5% of the install base
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Re: Sony's Brave Bet on Anime Is Looking Like a Masterstroke
My kid went to see it this weekend and said it was good. I may have gone but after watching the first few episodes I took a break, then came back and didn't know what was going on, then my kid told me that was b/c I skipped an episode, so I never went back. 😩
Maybe if when this comes to Crunchy roll I'll start over. 🤷♂️
Re: 'Significant' Layoffs Are Set to Hit Amazon Game Studios
@themightyant No one knows the game number, 14k seems to be all of AI, AWS, etc,part of a larger corporate 30k. Some are just employees they fired b/c thry wouldn't, or couldn't, "return to the office".
https://deadline.com/2025/10/amazon-job-cuts-hit-video-games-division-1236600254/
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/amazon-lay-off-about-14000-roles-2025-10-28/
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/amazon-targets-many-30000-corporate-job-cuts-sources-say-2025-10-27/
https://deadline.com/2025/10/amazon-job-cuts-hit-video-games-division-1236600254/
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/28/amazon-layoffs-corporate-workers-ai.html
@nessisonett Would involve a "functioning government", which we no longer have. Also I think WARN notices only come into affect when about 10% of a company is laid-iff, and Amazon has 1.5mil employees so the 14k, or 30k number also announced, probably isn't large enough. 🤷♂️
Also, this is the worst comment section I've ever read, and I've been annoying people here for 15 years. This is a very international site though, so it's possible AI looking comments could just be translation issues, so it might be difficult to tell what's AI and what's Google Translate of a broken mind. Banning Americans could be a way to go though.🤣
Re: First PS Plus Essential Game for November 2025 Leaked
@Dragoon1994 That's what I said, PS4 game, not a PS5 exclusive.
Re: Cancelled God of War PS5 Game Leaks in Screenshots
@nessisonett I had to look up the title, I thought it was called Awakening. 😝 I own every GoW game, except that one. No wait I traded in 2018, just kept the box. 😁
I still think it's weird no one mentioned the previous GoW multi-player game while talking about the canceled new one. 🤷♂️
Re: PS5's Power Saver Probably Isn't Tied to a Next-Gen Handheld, But It's Intriguing All the Same
The only people who I've ever seen argue that this power saving mode was in preparation of the handhelds launch was PS writers. 😂
I do appreciate that those same PS writers have talked about the PS5 power consumption. I try to always turn it off rather than put it in rest mode now, and I never use it for streaming or DVDs, though I will throw in the occasional Blu-ray, don't think I've ever held a 4k disc in my hands, so I know the PS5 is a power hog, and I try to mitigate my energy usage, but I never saw this energy saving mode as handheld related. 🤷♂️
Re: First PS Plus Essential Game for November 2025 Leaked
When people lament about lack of new PS5 games 5 years after launch I think we should hold up PS+ as a measuring stick of that. Compare PS+ on PS3, PS4 and PS5 and after 5 years on the market how many PS+ games on PS3 were PS3 exclusives, then exclusives on PS4, then exclusives on PS5?
I don't have the numbers in front of me but my faulty recall has me believing we got a lot of PS3 games on PS3 and PS4 games on PS4 but also PS4 games on PS5 b/c as people like to lament, there are no new games on PS5.
Now, I know there are new games on PS5, I've played them, but I bet not as many on PS+. Which was maybe fine in years 1, 2 and 3 but at this point I'm pretty sure PS+ was getting some PS4 games on PS4.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I certainly don't miss subscribing to PS+ since I've owned a PS5.
Edit: Oh, in case anyone is wondering why the off topic rant, Stray is a PS4 game, next month is a 5 full years since PS5 launched, November 2020. That's how PS+ is celebrating the 5 year anniversary of PS5 launching, w/ PS4 game Stray.
Re: Cancelled God of War PS5 Game Leaks in Screenshots
An entire article and 8 comments about GoW and no mention of Ascension?
They already had a multi-player GoW component and it wasn't really well liked so I don't know why they would try again, or why the article wouldn't mention it?
Re: Mini Review: Fast & Furious: Arcade Edition (PS5) - An Overpriced Racer That Loses Its Grip
@nomither6 Are you seriously defending this trash port by making fun of... we'll I'm not exactly sure what you're making fun of actually b/c Kirby Air Riders is an upcoming Switch 2 game, the game on GameCube was Kirby Air Ride - no rs - so are you mocking an old GameCube game or a new Switch 2 game?🤪
Re: Mini Review: Fast & Furious: Arcade Edition (PS5) - An Overpriced Racer That Loses Its Grip
Gonna keep playing Disney Speedstorm until someone makes something I like better. Kirby Air Riders has a chance. 🤷♂️
Re: Fortnite's Highly Anticipated The Simpsons Season Starts to Leak
Seems an odd follow up to Scooby Doo but I guess I'm just old and nostalgia for most people now and Simpsons is still relevant. I'll play it regardless, I'm addicted, but not excited. It is something I guess.
Re: 'It Saved the Game': Sword of the Sea Dev Praises Sony, Explains PS Plus Deal
@Flaming_Kaiser The only thing the US is a prime example of right now is 1930's Germany, which isn't a good thing. 😩
Phones were supposed to be the death of consoles pre-Switch and PS4, Napster or the death of music sales (I'm old), but nobody told Taylor Swift, digital was the death of albums, again no one told TS, free-to-play should be the death of $70-to-start but people keep playing CoD and FIFA.
Something is always killing something else. Almost everything has both its good and bad side. Except Ouya that was all bad.🤑 I'd just prefer a little fairness and balance, not, if we do it it's great but if the other side does the same thing it sucks. 😝
Subscription services are fine for little indie games on Netflix and Apple Arcade, or years old games. I agree w/ Sony on most of that. But now that Gamepass has 3 tiers, similar to PS+, and new games are only available on the highest paid tier, I think things are more even than not, and journalism should acknowledge that, not just promote console wars amongst the fans. 🤷♂️
Re: Battlefield 6's Battle Royale Mode Set to Shadow Drop on PS5 Next Week
Just commenting so no one else is wondering why you closed the comments on this one.😂
Is that the Brooklyn Bridge? Is the dlc Trump invading NYC after Zohran gets elected mayor? 😉
Re: 'Players Are More Accustomed to Darker Stories': Dragon Quest 7 Dev Says the PS5 Remake Will Hit Harder
@DreadfulDragon I liked DQ11, a lot, very bright and colorful. Don't recall it being dark or mature but I haven't played it since the 1st time it released. And I'm pretty jaded so it would probably take a lot for me to think of a video game as dark and mature. I played FF7 in 1998 and half the story is based around the murder of a sweet and innocent main character and the good guys basically lose in the end. And they're terrorists to begin with. Can't get much more dark and mature than FF7. Glad the remake trilogy doesn't look like this. Can you imagine the response?🤣
Re: PS5 Has Been 'Special' Thanks to SSD, DualSense Features Rather Than Visuals
@DarianStarfrog And I hope you get the help you need.
Are you aware in the year that you've been here about half your comments are just nasty replies to other people? Maybe think about that before the next time you reply to anyone again.
Re: Round Up: Once Upon a Katamari PS5 Reviews Roll Up Some Big Scores
I think I've played all of the Katamari games, and "Wonderful End of the World" on PC which I liked better, but pretty sure I've never spent more than $10 on any of them b/c that's all they are to me, little fun indie games. I'd probably pay $20 these days b/c inflation but that's about it. So whenever it gets there. Or maybe just a rental, really no reason to own this.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/15500/The_Wonderful_End_of_the_World/
Re: 'Players Are More Accustomed to Darker Stories': Dragon Quest 7 Dev Says the PS5 Remake Will Hit Harder
@DreadfulDragon May be true, doesn't mean it's not jarring. 🤷♂️
Isn't Toriyama mostly famous for 2D animation, stuff like the old DQ, DragonBall and Sand Land, not this 3D computer graphics Pixar looking stuff? This is so far removed from what I'm guessing most people think of with him they probably could have gone a little further darker, like the newer FF games, also from Squenix, if they really wanted dark and mature. If they really wanted Toriyama they could have stuck w/ more of a Sand Land look, still 3D, but kind of cell shared looking. 🤷♂️
Re: PS5 Black Friday Bundle Will Knock $100 Off the Price
After 4 of 5 years on the market you'd think Sony could bundle something a little more Sony with the PS5 like the Spiderman trilogy. For the price of the console they should be able to include those 2 1/2 old games.
I play a lot of Fortnite, probably too much like it's an addiction, but I still don't like bubdling an expensive console w/ a FTP game. Makes no sense as in its not much of a savings for the consumer. Not for a BF sale anyway.🤑
Re: 'Players Are More Accustomed to Darker Stories': Dragon Quest 7 Dev Says the PS5 Remake Will Hit Harder
@Questionable_Duck Yeah, it could work. It's just a weird choice w/ the guy saying "It's 2025 so we thought it was time to remake this dark and mature story, and do it in the most kid friendly graphics possible." 😁
Re: Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Was to Get DLC at One Point, Scrapped for the Third Game
@SweetSummerShunv The FF7 Retrilogy will end with Cloud in the shower and Tifa waking up in bed saying "Cloud, I just had the weirdest dream." And then Advent Children will be fine. 😂
Re: 'Players Are More Accustomed to Darker Stories': Dragon Quest 7 Dev Says the PS5 Remake Will Hit Harder
So this is the graphical design they decided to go with for their dark mature game? 🤣
I like a dark mature story, occasionally, and I like these graphics, but not together. Since they were rebuilding it from the ground up they probably should have gone with something a little less cartoon kid friendly if they wanted to convey dark and mature.
Re: PS5 Has Been 'Special' Thanks to SSD, DualSense Features Rather Than Visuals
I'm all for gimmicks over graphics, I just replayed Mario Galaxy (Wii version on my Wii U) and I forgot how much use Nintendo got out of the motion and the pointing with that game, AND it still looks great on myn75" 4k TV. But the Wii was only $250 new, the PS5 is closer to $500. For that much more money I need the graphics as well as the gimmicks. If they just want to make gimmick Astrobot games sell me a $300 system.
Re: The Simpsons' Long Rumoured Mini-Season Includes Springfield Takeover, According to Leaks
Wouldn't surprise me if it's 1 of those short in-between seasons, this 1 has been really long. They've kept it going w/ Scooby Doo and Fortnitemares but w/ another 10 days left I'm ready to move on. And a short season before the Christmas season would be welcome.
Re: Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora's Third-Person Update Practically Makes It a New PS5 Game
@get2sammyb If you'd like to edit your article with some useful content (unless you're saving it for another article 😉) the new dlc From the Ashes - releases Dec 5th, same day as the new movie, for $24.99, or you can buy the complete game and dlc for $39.99 on that date as well. I can't tell if this includes the original 2 dlc though. 🤷♂️
https://www.bestbuy.com/product/avatar-frontiers-of-pandora-from-the-ashes-edition-playstation-5/J3ZY37H9YQ/sku/6646001
Re: Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Was to Get DLC at One Point, Scrapped for the Third Game
There's already an FF7 Part 4, it's called FF7: Advent Children.
Re: Ninja Gaiden 4 (PS5) - A Bloodthirsty Action Game Ripped Straight from the PS3 Era
@cainhurst94 That's certainly a part of it. Can't be easy making PS5 games look like the ugliest of PS3 games, Vaseline on gray, but it's more than that. I've posted dozens of Elden Ring pics on Twitter, I wouldn't have taken these, much less post them anywhere. There's nothing of interest to see. 🤷♂️
Oh well. Maybe I'll play it some weekend to see for myself if I can come across it cheap, no need to own it.
Re: Ninja Gaiden 4 (PS5) - A Bloodthirsty Action Game Ripped Straight from the PS3 Era
There are 7 pictures of the game in this article and I can't tell what is in any of them. Mostly too dark, 1 too bright, and the others just whatever. Like, it's hard to tell if this is even a 3D or 2D game. I'm not blaming PS, I'm sure it's just what the game looks like, but how can there not be 1 decent picture of the game?
Re: Former God of War Dev Says Major Studios Should Make Smaller Games to Complement the Big Ones
People should make the games they want to make, are capable of making, and can afford to make. Company heads at Sony shouldn't be making these decisions. Look at Concorde and several other of their not doing so well live service games.
It took those guys 7 years to make A - AA game Silksong, maybe they should try making AAA games in 5 years instead?
Re: Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 Will Be 'A Bit More Concise' Following Feedback on Rebirth's Filler
I liked the Gilgamesh storyline and the character, but hated their tower defense game to do it, it was the absolute worst. It was horrible in the original game in 1997 as well but it's the 2020s, let's make it good now.
Queens Blood was great. Don't think it needs an entire new storyline though, just keep in the game matches, that plot has concluded.
Sneaking around the bushes to get the chocobo was so lame and time consuming. Can we just feed them some gyshal greens and be done with it please?
That vacuuming minigame was always garbage, shouldn't have been in there to begin with.
So yeah, they don't need nearly as much side content as 2 had, and some stuff should go. But it's a JRPG, people expect some side stuff, would be weird without it.
Personally I want the game soon and functioning, so probably the less the better. But don't take it all out, just make it very optional.
Re: PS Store Quietly Adds Crucial New Feature for PS5, PS4 Deals
I thought the new faeture was the date the sale ended. I really like that, gives me time to think about it. Lowest price last 30 days seems like a law ready-made for a work around, just don't put things on sale within 30 days, wait for day 31 to put it on sale again. Typical government pretending to be doing stuff that's doing nothing at all.
There are 365 days in a year, and computers track everything these days. Listing the lowest price over the past 365 days might actually be useful. 🤷♂️
Re: Stay Tuned for the Announcement of a New Dragon Ball Game in January
"Announcements of announcements? Are we still doing those?
Apparently so, as the official X (or Twitter)"
Are we still doing X/Twitter? 😝
Re: Sony Travelled to China to Discuss Mobile Adaptation of The Last of Us with Tencent
The hobby of video game playing is becoming very wrestling like, it's almost more about the stories and the back stories and the company narratives than watching the matches or playing games.
Maybe I should just get off the internet.😝
Re: Black Ops 6 Trial Will Let You Play the Full Single Player Story for Free on PS5, PS4
@Northern_munkey Thanks. Congrats to you as well. You missed out on the big "We HAVE to get married in 2020" craze by just 9 months. 😉 We didn't do it on purpose. My wife was 29 and 11 months old when we got married, she didn't want to still be single at 30. 😂. Does make it easy to remember our anniversary though, 10/15/20. It's like that School House Rock song. And whatever year it is, that's what anniversary it is. 😁
https://youtu.be/4POZmGWQoqY?si=tzFrL7ZIRpqzqA3W
Re: Final Fantasy 7 Remake, Rebirth Get a Physical PS5 Double Pack on 3 Discs
@EVIL-C And if anyone on the internet had bothered to check, the Galaxy games were $20 USD each back in 2011 & 2016 respectively when Nintendo released them in their own "Nintendo Selects" line so that was a total of $40 for the 2 games new from Nintendo. 🤷♂️
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2016/02/nintendo_of_america_confirms_new_wii_u_3ds_and_wii_nintendo_selects_titles_for_11th_march
Re: Genshin Impact Wants to Be the Only Game You Ever Play on PS5
Infinity Nikki, which I play every day, added a new multi-player area a few updates back and a new home area recently, any I barely touch either, they just aren't for me.
I haven't played Genshin Impact for more than an hour, the sidekicks voice was a tad too much cringe, but if I ever did this sounds interesting.
Though I also lay Fortnite and rarely do any of the creator levels, just battle Royale, so maybe not.
Re: Fortnite's Long Anticipated The Simpsons Mini-Season Could Be One of Its Best
@darkswabber I don't keep track of those large scale Fortnite numbers but I have been playing regularly for a few years now, almost exclusively battle Royale, and that player count over almost all of that time has been around 250k, but recently it has been only around 90k. It was up to 190k yesterday, probably for Fortnitemares, but I don't see it coming back.
To be fair some of that is probably split up within Fortnite between Lego, Ranked, no build, reload, etc, but those have been around for awhile now, the drop from 250k to 90k is recent.
So yeah Simpsons probably isn't bringing anyone back. The game may be closer to the end than the beginning. But what isn't these days? 🤷♂️
Re: Final Fantasy 7 Remake, Rebirth Get a Physical PS5 Double Pack on 3 Discs
$60 is a nice price for 2 fairly recent games all on disc in 1 box. Nintendo is currently charging $70 for 2 Wii games (which I'm playing the originals now just because).
If these don't sell out and drop to $30 next year I may even pick it up to play before part 3.