The successor to Sony’s PlayStation 3 has been announced, and with it marks the end of the 3rd PlayStation generation, and likely the end of a few titles announced to be in development exclusively for the PS3.
With the PS4 due out this holiday season, Default Prime editor Mike Patuleia decided to take a look back at a few of the announced exclusives that never were and tries to predict their fates for the next generation. Number 1 with a bullet in his mind...
Sony has recently published a new patent that wants to dynamically handle the games' difficulty and gameplay based on the player's emotions.
This is something I might use. Sometimes I play some good games but they don’t have difficulty option and are a little too easy.
Here are the games that will be leaving the Extra and Premium tiers of the PS Plus subscription service in the month of May, 2024.
Absolver Downfall
Abzu
Adrift
Ashen
Elex
Final Fantasy VII
Final Fantasy VIII Remastered
Final Fantasy IX
Final Fantasy X | X-2
Final Fantasy XII The Zodiac Age
Final Fantasy XV Royal Edition
How To Survive 2
I Am Dead
Jotun
Last Stop
Minit
Moster Jam Steel Titans 2
My Friend Pedro
Observation
Sundered Eldritch Edition
The Artful Escape
The Messenger
This Is The Police
This Is The Police 2
World of Final Fantasy
Sony has recruited Bungie's head of revenue Jaremy Rich to head up its live-service gaming division, Rich has announced on social media.
Please do not put Destiny’s monetization into Sony’s first party games. The monetization is what’s driving players away from Destiny.
I mean, this person made some pretty bad decisions at Bungie. I hope they've learned from them because I definitely don't see those type of ideas as good for PlaySation in general.
Ps5 gamers in 2023 seemed to play more live service types of games, so regardless to how people feel about them, numbers don’t lie and Sony is going where the money is. I mean look at the excitement around Helldivers2, people are showing that they want live service games.
How do you kill a franchise that already been killed?
Destiny’s grind, cash-in-on-playbass-cha-Ching, and pop-culture-insertion mainstream-me-too bs totally killed any rep Bungie had. Sony/Bungie, if you are doing this to ward-off players, it’s already working.
Agent, Versus 13 and The Last Guardian all have potential to be on PS4 and I hope they all are.
As for Yakuza 5... I am pretty sure it will get a release on the PS3 (alongside Tales of Xillia 2) with a next gen Yakuza being made for PS4 sometime.
What I would like to see is a ps3 to ps4 cross buy program.
Granted, not all games will be made for ps3 and ps4. I have no question the very newest/best games will be made exclusive to ps4/720 with full developer focus on newest engines, etc.
But during the transition many games will be made for both ps3 and ps4. Watch dogs, call of duty, destiny, etc. The largest games made by big publishers will be made for both generations of system due to low install base of the new ones.
So why not put both ps3/4 games on one disc? This minimizes the impact of no backward compatibility for purchasers of at least newest ps3 games and prevents games from getting lost in the generational shift by combining the install base for ps3/4 game sales.
As a consumer it would be great because we could still get ps3 games without feeling like were wasting money on last gen stuff that isn't playable on our new systems we want. And until you get your ps4 we could be building up a library of games which you could experience in ps4 mode once you upgraded. This adds a special incentive for us to buy a ps4 and also to still keep buying ps3 games until we do.
So what do you think of this?
Timeslitters.
Maybe agent was too ambitious for the ps3
I remember Wardevil (not exclusive, but would have been cool if it had been released) looked great, but was cancelled.