Sony’s press conference, held next Monday at the LA Sports Arena (like last year) will play host to a good chunk of new gaming, from demos of titles we know about and at least two we haven’t.
In addition, an ambitious streaming setup will showcase between 25 and 30 new game demos over the four day E3 week, according to a new post on the US PlayStation Blog.
Mass Damage & Consumer Foundation in the Netherlands has filed a class action against Sony for inflating PlayStation Store prices.
My personal opinion:
Manufacturers and publishers have indeed inflated the industry.
From $700 million development costs for games like Call of Duty, to digital (store) prices for games and DLCs, online multiplayer fees on consoles (why can you play Helldivers 2 online for free on PC but not consoles?) or still preventing sell/lend digitally purchased games.
Sometime in the future, this bubble will collapse.
They should know better, but they just can't help themselves and suck even the last penny out of our wallets.
They should be suing the individual publishers increasing the prices to $80 instead of suing the store. There are plenty of publishers still selling game for like $50 with much success (like E33). But this proves that the publishers are the ones setting the prices.... so again nothing changes because they aren't even going after the main offender. How is suing Sony going to make Microsoft not charge $80 for the next COD? Sony being the number one store in the market doesn't mean that publisher have to charge us an arm and a leg. Again the industry is laughing at us because consumers never get real representation. Just these fake platitudes that are meaningless.
About time. There is zero fair reason why digitally distributed products that you cannot recoup any value when you want to dispose of them, should be priced higher than that of physical copies that entail all of the costs and the benefits of owning.
Sony CEO Hiroki Totoki and CFO Lin Tao talked about the state of the PlayStation business and the strategy and targets going forward, including how they're responding to the tariffs.
Sony announced its financial results for the fiscal year 2024, and things are certainly looking up, despite a decline in PS5 sales.
If their profits fall next quarter, we'll probably see more price hikes. I can't imagine having to pay £20 a month for PlayStation Plus.
Decline in hardware sales.
Behind on lifetime sales and decline in first party sales.
Third party content and PSN came through to save the day.
Things will improve starting with the next Ghost game.
Hopefully a steady flow of first party content by end of '25
Sounds like Sony is poised to be the best at this year's E3. Though I can't count Nintendo out, will definitely have to see what they're offering. Microsoft I'm on edge with, I'm not even sure if it'll be worth watching if their main focus is going to be on Live instead of games. Anyway, regardless of who does best, it's sounding like an exciting E3, and I'm hoping it will be after the last 2-3 years kind of sucked.
God of War Ascension Single Player Campaign Demo, I am looking forward for this game .
Oh W8, The Last of Us, This Game is Gonna be Awesome !
Sony could win e3 ms has no chance and well Nintendo are really set to. Be par with this gen really
Would that be the craziest thing if Sony would show about all of these 25-30 demos and announce the PS4. That would blow my mind!
Please show The last of Us!