Gaming Respawn takes a look at the End of an Era following Sony's decision to discontinue the PS3 in New Zealand. Is it the beginning of the end or does the PS3 and Xbox 360 have life yet?
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Agreed, but if I could pick one game to remaster first it would be Killzone 2. If you had to pick one which would it be?
If they announce Kill Zone 2 remake or resistance 2 that multiplayer would be crazy. But Warhawk I would cry like a 2 year old 😂😂😂 give me bloody roar
I love Killzone, but I would prefer a complete reboot of the franchise, using the newest version of the Decima engine, rather than simply a remaster of part 2.
Sony will not do Killzone 2 or any Killzone because they don't have plans for it in the future... No TV shows, no sequel, no Lego game, no multiplayer...
This is dead for Herman... Only Aloy.
And that's sad.
Zero hype for tomorrow.
legacy of kane, resistance, or just something totally new that hasnt been already done
Hopefully zero gaas, will show that they’re starting to reason!!!
And yeah the remaster trend must also stop.
PS5 exclusives or nothing go home
A new Killzone, Uncharted, Tsushima, inFamous, Resistance, Wolverine or something original single player.
I either want something from the infamous franchise or the cheeky answer is being lemmings back as that's now Sony
Killzone 2 I think falls into remake territory.
I'll take a Warhawk remake or even a remaster but that's it, really.
Any remasters for a last generation game on a backwards compatible console is just insulting.
If they do any online only live service stuff, give us MAG or Warhawk, games that actually perfected that formula.
@Kingrizzy90
Wow. And it looks like you are the winner. Completely was not expecting that.
If they don't show something from a couple of their big studios after the absolute disaster they've had with Concord then I'll lose all hope. This generation has been a complete letdown so far and there's very little to look forward to at the moment.
Pretty sure : RE9, Days Gone Remaster, HZD Remaster, 1 last SH2 trailer, Wolverine trailer, Until Dawn trailer
Maybe(s) : GoT 2 announcement, DS2 (but already happening@ TGS), Pragmata, TLOU2 or SpiderMan 2 PC announcement,
Wishlist : Santa Monica & Naughty Dog's new project tease, Marathon gameplay trailer
Don't Want : Any AC Shadows trailer, Any more remasters other than the ones leaked
You really think that other remaster is Days Gone? And my God what happened to Pragmata?!?
It’s 30 minutes, I think you’re being optimistic there, don’t have high expectations, I know mine are the lowest they have ever been since what i have witnessed these past 4 years!
Only 5 remasters. They had to cut back to squeeze in 1 new announcement. They will have another SoP next month to cover the other 12 remasters.
*monkey paw curls*
Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered
Gravity Rush 1 & 2 Remastered
Until Dawn Remastered
In the case of Gravity Rush, a remaster of a remaster that plays on PS5 now would be bizarre. Then again, so does Horizon.
This only makes sense if it means a PC release, but they still closed the studio and releasing this would be very poor taste.
I'm presonally looking forward to a Days Gone one. Would love any excuse to play that game again. I loved it
They could do a lot right by simply announcing a blood-borne remastered so many people have been waiting for it and they should not only bring it to PlayStation 5 but also PC
If they are all intent on doing a lot of remasters, how about doing some of the remasters from the games during the PlayStation 2 and three generation instead of PlayStation 4 games?
Can we get infamous collection? Can we please get Socom from the PlayStation 2 generation? Uncharted trilogy God of war trilogy twisted metal collection, kill zone trilogy, resistance trilogy some of these games they can simply just unlock online multiplayer. They’re only one need to do a lot of work and people would enjoy them
But instead, let’s just remastered the last of us horizon zero down the God of war 2018 this PlayStation Sony executive bosses are some of the most idiotic in the past 10 years
PlayStation has such a long history. They can simply do a lot of fun service and get so much positive PR but they keep making the same mistake again and again and again.
I would honestly prefer remasters/remakes/reboots of games than GaaS they have tried to push.
Lol, but like most I was expecting a 'Playstation showcase' but looking at how brief the Pro reveal was ... I am guessing these short State of Plays á la N.Direct style is how Sony is going to continue.
The next big PS showcase is gonna be the PS6 event. Till then all will be SoPs.
Hopefully there's good games, but we'll see. Going in with low hype, and I hope to be pleasantly surprised.
I've yet (still) to jump into this gen of consoles. Still rocking the last gen ps4 and xbox one x. Let's see if Sony can justify that $780 price tag (no way I'd go without a disc drive).
How much longer do you think you could/would hold out on upgrading? A lot of people still haven't upgraded, which I get.
If I'm not convinced by Christmas this year, I'll probably end up skipping this gen.
@FinalFantasyFanatic
As the true Final Fantasy fan I am, I could never skip the place to play the games at release.
It won't happen, but give me a new Killzone. I'm tired of all the same fucking shit lately.
30th anniversary prices will be as follows: $499.99 Slim, $999.99 Pro, $199.99 Portal, $199.99 Edge, $79.99 DS
Its a logical guess. I figure the controllers will be their regular prices, maybe $5 more due to recent news about them raising those and the Portal will be about the same. Both of which will be more available than the actual systems themselves.
Okay got you. If the Portal is not supply limited then okay. But I would expect at least a $100 premium on the limited supply consoles. $999 for the pro bundle seems like it in the ballpark though.
If you're paying those prices because they're calling it a special edition then you're the exact people they were hoping were out there....mugs!
On the second hand market... no doubt. Sony has not doubled the price of a special edition system. they didnt with the 20th anniversary or the 500 million editions. They were marginally more than the respective standard units at the time.
Gonna have to bring more than Remasters this time though, people are wondering what their bigger developers are doing for almost half a gen yet still nothing new got announced yet.
I'll be watching cautiously.
Games take awhile to make. Minimum 4. 5 years to 6 years+. Not saying Ghost 2 will take 8 years to make but Ghost did take 6 years to make which is fast specifically for a new IP. Ghost 2 could be a 2026 title spring that year or, at the very earliest spring of next year. Which would be 5 years even come next year.
ND New IP could be a 2027-2026 the earliest. Again that's not quite bad specifically for a new IP.
Santa Monica New IP could release and announced sooner than the others. Corey has been working on the new IP since 2018 GoW. Remember Corey's main team didn't make the GoW 2022. Their game could release next year. 2018 to 2025 is 7 years the time has to be near. I don't think it'll show up tomorrow but Vga's is the last stop for SSM New IP and Ghost 2. Considering those are their only 2 games that are I guess "closer" to release.
I'm just talking about the new big IP. Of course Venom could release next year. Venom could very well be that one more thing tomorrow. If not then the Vga's. Have a feeling that games close. Wolverine in 2026 and Sm3 in 27.
Stop defending Sony slacking on the games front. 21 studios and not a game to show apart from 15 hours Astrobot. When you play for like 10 hours each day like I do, that 15 hour game is soon forgotten, how great it is, doesn't really matter in the end of the year. They need to release 2-3 heavy hitters a year, Sony is the platformholder after all!!
@CS7 What should I do, enjoying my backpain staring out the window. Nah, I rather game. And it might take a loong time to enter my simrig, but well inside I rather race for a few hours and my backpain eases up a little.
Edit: My PS Portal is great for some laying on couch-gaming thou ;)
I feel like they have to reveal something big, even if it's just a Logo. Coming off the back of some disappointing announcements of late.
Won't be anything we hope for maybe just one thing, come on sony surprise us like those 2009 ps3 days lol I remember they were heavy delivering gems
No. Always keep your expectations in check so then you actually have the chance to be surprised but if its lack luster you don't walk away too disappointed.
This sucks. I remember 2015 & 2016 when expectations were sky high and Sony still managed to literally blow you away, with FF7 Remake, GOW, Spiderman, Horizon gameplay, Tsushima, DS etc.
This is gaming man, it's supposed to be fun. Now the message is don't get excited and people are upvoting that.
This is the worst gen.
I'm going in expecting bangers, their devs had enough time for something to be shown already, especially Wolverine. The 30 min might seem low, but Nintendo has managed to have some great showings with similar show lengths, all they have to do is show the games, and not do a bunch of talking or extended looks.
Finally, all 1st party games they show have to be PS5 Pro enhanced, and I want to see FF7: Rebirth(PRO) type of jumps or better.
I doubt each Pro game will have FF7 levels of improvement because, especially with Sony 1st party, their games tend to have really good levels of IQ as a base. Still there Quality 30 fps modes still have improvement over performance modes so you would expect their pro performance modes to be excellent. FF7s performance was just so poor on OG PS5 that the Pro version looks like a revelation when they could have put more effort into the OG version.
I have no clue what will come of this. I just pray that in 30 minutes, the remaster trailers are 2 minutes total.
yes valid but if there are multiple remasters it still cannot total more than 2 minutes lol
give me Killzone. imagine it now - most people have fast wifi - no lag, It would be glorious.
Sony Inzone New Monitors: Tuesday: https://youtube.com/watch?v...
• State Of Play: Tuesday: https://youtube.com/live/fV...
• Tokyo Game Show: Thursday
• Death Stranding 2 On The Beach: Thursday
• PlayStation 5 Pro Pre Orders Go Live: Thursday
It's a state of play and not a showcase, so it's already off to a dull start. top that with the fact that they specifically use the word updates and not announcements and im not expecting much out of this.
Very good observation on their choice of words. The words update doesn't give much to hope for.
Sony have stopped trying, they have no competition so why bother? The highlight will be a crappy hzd remaster that no one wants.
If they focus on remasters then they are really don't know what we want, they need at least a couple reveals and one crazy announcement...
didnt they leak the info that its horizon zero dawn remasterd and days gone remastered
PlayStation better deliver..........after all of the overwhelming negativity they've had these last 2 weeks. They will need AAA bangers. NOT remasters.
Sony dont GAF about us on these comment sections, we are a tiny proportion of their audience and impossable to please anyway, why should they care?
TLOU remaster was heavilly criticised and pilloried by many of us, but sold 18 million units. We will be ignored, and quite frankly, we deserve no better.
"State of remasters" lol.
For real, never have I watched an exciting State of Play ever. All of them were either boring or dissappointing. Sony still plays catch up with Nintendo in regards to gaming showcases.
Looking forward to the show but when it comes to remasters the only remasters I want to see is Bloodborne or something from the PS3 era. I don't care about a HZD, Until Dawn or a Days Gone remaster.
I buy 3-4 games a week. Some retro some new. This show is probably going to piss my wife off lol.
Can we get a legit Twisted Metal Reboot? I would get on Day 1. Bring it back along with Killzone.
What need to be said or shown to get you guys hyped for PS5 pro aka PS5 I'm Po edition
won't be surprised if it's a dud..sony's glory days are well behind with mr. hulst in charge
Give the man atleast a year in office before sharpening the pitchforks damn! He's the same person who brought us killzone and horizon. Where was the uproar then?
For a PS5 owner; this generation has basically been about Sony putting their games on PC and calling them remasters at the same time telling console owners they are number 1 whilst charging them more. When more people wake up and realise they have essentially just copied Microsofts strategy in slow motion they'll finally realise they were shafted this generation. Copying Microsoft will just give you the same results and the corporation will come to the same illogical conclusions that the console market is shrinking when it is in fact themselves that are shrinking it deliberately with bad decisions.
"God of War had a all time peak of 73,529 on Steam, GOW Ragnarok's peak is 25,796" I hope it was worth it Sony, These games were downloaded in their millions on pirate flag waving sites.
Been saying this for years, but downvoted to hell. Sony copying MS, and MS copying Sony.
Now MS is releasing Hallo anniversary console... like 30th Sony console. Releasing everything on PC... good luck.
You'll get down voted because most of the people on N4G are PC users who don't like Microsoft but are also glad they don't have to buy a PlayStation to get Sony games anymore and they are only prepared to supplement their PC gaming with whatever Nintendo puts out. That's about the size of it. Sony are fools if they think they can exist as a digital only platform.
Most of people here are console players with a PC for school... and dream of buying a graphic card
Shaz from GL: “Amidst recent concerns surrounding Xbox, Phil and Co. need a win. Unfortunately, I'm not sure if Indiana Jones and the Great Circle will be it.”
When it comes to video game previews I’m of the opinion that journalists should maintain a position of CAUTIOUS OPTIMISM. Yes, note and share concerns about the game with readers but maintain a restrained optimistic stance until actually having reviewed it so that any negativity is based on the game’s quality and not the author’s prejudices.
Here the author writes “ I’m going to continue to keep my cynicisms intact, less so because of my trust in MachineGames and more so due to the dumpster fire that continues to be modern-day Xbox.” This example illustrates the need to follow this guidance.
Not worried about facial animations , but I do hope the gameplay is fun . Most definitely I will purchase this on PS5, if the gameplay is fun .
nice hit piece. I notice the writer didn't mention any of the journalists / creators who had good things to say. From what i hear, it has riddick: escape from butcher bay in its DNA. To me that sounds like something to be Optimistic about rather than pessimistic.
It’s odd to have a first person perspective for an adventure game with stealth and brawling. But’s not without precedent. Wolfenstein: New Order and Wolfenstein: New Colossus had a lot of adventure game elements. They were in the league of the greatest games ever, but they were both fun games. Indy looks fun too.
Yes, Indy looks like Todd Howard. Something feels way too off.
It doesn’t remind me of the Indy games on PS2, nor the cancelled Indy game from 2008, or Tomb Raider, or Uncharted. It looks like Wolfenstein a little too much with the mockery and jokes in the cinematic. That can be a great or not so great thing for the IP
It looks like a half baked cash grab to me. Another generic, FPS that should be a 3rd person game, which will probably take the best aspects of tomb raider, and uncharted then ruin it. Im still interested in it, but am very skeptical.
First time I saw the game I thought the character models looked a little stiff and a little bit of of place against the backdrop.
People doubting this game haven't played a MachineGames game before.
I didn't get into the Indy films but MG's two core Wolfenstein titles were great. And main people behind this game were behind the first Chronicles of Riddick game, previews for Indy say it has a lot of that vibe to it.
Can't wait to play this on PC. Especially it being built with id Tech
Looks fine I would have preferred third person myself but it's what machine games is good at
If Phil Spencer says it is great, then it will be great. Any concerns or doubts are undeniably Sony propaganda efforts.
It looks like the definition of Mid. Why on earth they decided to go 1st person view is beyond me.
It feels like they were given this and didn’t really have much of a choice so they went first person as that’s what they are the most comfortable with
It would have been harder to do a game like this in third person, something brand new when you’ve only ever done first person shooters.
It just seems a weird choice, I’d have rather seen them work on a Quake reboot or something
PlayStation devs did that once.
Killzone to Horizon... oh, wait, that's a horrible example because both franchises have different PoV and are great while this looks... well we really don't know how it will actually look as we only had a short 5-ish minute demo to go off of which ironically was mostly shown in the 3rd person.
This game is supposed to ship on Xbox and PC before this year ends and all we have is some very short clips of gameplay and that one underwhelming demo.
Will be waiting for the game on PS5 myself, but it looks fun. A 1 time playthrough type of game
I think Sweet Baby Inc is consulting on this game. Expect transvestite Nazis with purple hair and Indy to have a boyfriend. Haha. (Not that there is anything wrong with that in the best Seinfield impression i can muster)
I’m not sure yet if it nails the vibe of Indiana Jones, which is crucial. All signs indicate it probably will though.
TSA writes: While the PlayStation 5 has been the runaway winner of the generation, running laps around Xbox for the last few years, it's been a pretty bumpy ride.
I disagree... Sony may make a bad decision now and then, but to say "keep making" implies they are doing it all the time. That is MS who does that. And to be honest, Sony gives every idea a chance, no matter how good or bad the end result turns out. The "bad decisions" are more associated with the teams who come up with them than Sony who just lets them do their thing.
100% agree.
One thing I like about Sony is they at least give it a try. No matter how much some fans disagree, they always take chances.
I mean look at Concord and Astrobot.
Two completely different games.
Concord is the whole point of the article and no one wanted it and no one is playing it.
They should have researched how the fanbase would react to it.
Would the game be better as a f2p model or paid.
100 million or more spent, they could atleast have done that.
I think people forget the original Uncharted opening month only sold 50,000, but, Sony believed in the series and built it up from nothing.
They could have been complacent and said no to TLOU when Uncharted blew up too.
It’s ok to make bad decisions, the important thing is to learn from them and improve from there.. grants you more respect
Jim Ryan steered them off course with the GaaS BS, and once you start up several projects and dump hundreds of millions into them, you have to try to at least make something back off of them. Now that these games are releasing, we can start to move past them, and back to what made Sony so great to begin with.
Concord was made by a studio that Sony bought a year ago. This entire article makes no sense in that context.
Concord wasnt a chance it was a idiotic cash grab that was 5-7 years too late to the hero shooter genre...a chance would be creating a game in a genre that wasn't established
But people blasted Microsoft when they let the redfall devs “do
Their thing” lol
Big difference in waiting a decade for a new AAA ip from Microsoft for it to be redfall vs A game that got hammered non stop from the beginning from Sony.
Huge difference.
Let them do their own thing? Lol Microsoft had them rush it outdoor when clearly they needed more time and according to reports many of the devs left during development because they didn't want to make a multi-player game.
Yeah like how everyone busted Sony for the same thing.
But also Sony didn’t really hype up concord. It was already blasted to hell.
Now MS hyped up redfall fully knowing it was ass.
Also red fall was really bad at launch unlike concord.
The only thing that saved red fall from having the same fate as concord was game pass. If Sony put concord on plus it would have a way more active fan base and be alive still
For me redfall is far worse then concord.
@pwn
Sony didn't hype Concord? Open and closed beta, tons of advertising. They even spent the money to get it featured on that upcoming Amazon tv show - Secret Level. They outright bought the studio.
The hundreds of millions of dollars Sony spent around the Concord IP says otherwise.
Thenamelessone.
I rarely saw any ads for concord, compare to other games like god of war, spider etc. tons of advertising??? Literally just normal advertising for a game they own.
Open and close beta, of course they will do an open beta. It’s a multiplayer game. Has any multiplayer game not have that?? The purpose of it is to work out the kinks that people didn’t like. That is not hyping a game up. Your reaching.
They literally just released how a normal multiplayer game should be. of course they will market a game they own, it’s literally their job to do so, but they did not overhype it to be something more then it was.
Redfall had more advertising then concord and that’s fact.
Ok, Redfall and Concord are totally different problems.
Redfall was rushed by Microsoft so much that the game was completely and obviously unfinishe. You might remember they had to put a sticker on the box because it didn't have the promised 60FPS mode, as well as the game being so broken the games enemy AI didn't work as well as textures that took minutes to fully load and many other problems, the game was barely even a beta build on release.
Concord was a fully finished and highly polished game that consumers simply didn't want. The game was not bad on the technical level at all, it was 100% made to Sony's highest standards.
@pwnmaster3000
I think I only ever saw one or two ads before Concord released, and even then, I saw more from streamers talking about the game, otherwise it's like this game barely existed, or at least the marketing barely existed.
Jim Ryan has been a complete sh*t show from the very start. In fact, this whole Gen has been maybe the weakest I’ve seen since… well, ever for Sony. I thought with Jimbo out things would be brighter, but… well, we’ve got a bunch more GaaS coming our way. Let’s just hope it gets balanced out with their stellar traditional games.
Frankly, we shouldn't really care if they do GaaS. Why not?
The issue, for me, is having the very competent non-GaaS studios work on GaaS. If they want Haven to do Fairgame$, I really don't care. Bungie can make Destiny and Marathon forever. But when you try to get Naughty Dog, Sucker Punch, Insomniac, Guérilla, etc etc on that?
Now we have a problem.
@DarXyde
What is the point of the GaaS business model vs just making a traditional game? I guess the real question is why would you choose to develop GaaS games? I’ll give you a hint, it’s to f*cking continuously milk consumers through recurring revenue on a budget stretched thin over years.
The model is disgusting and quite frankly it’s some Frankenstein’d concept stemmed from the mobile game design model. I don’t care how fun a GaaS game is, it’s a model that is the cancer of this industry and the fact that they keep forcing it after failure after failure is revolting.
Mate, I'm not a fan of GaaS games. I also don't like online multiplayer or first person shooters.
So what do I do?
Avoid all of them. I just pretend they don't exist. And really, I don't care for the studios making them either. Never played a Treyarch, Bungie, or whatever game I couldn't just tune out.
Same deal. Allow them to exist, but don't engage. They can be super scummy pay to win models, but we've got to let the community decide. Sony has already learned the hard way that a great single player studio doesn't mean they're a great GaaS studio.
I think they're learning the lessons quickly, really. Even if they still have some GaaS in the pipeline, we see how quickly they pulled the plug on Concord. They've been letting Insomniac cook, so I tend to believe they're being cautious and not letting their golden geese make those games.
why do I get the impression that no one actually reads the articles anymore.
Read the article.
You don’t keep making bad decision when you just released one of the best games of the generation.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels this. I don't want to even guess what's next. For all I know we could finally divide by zero. And the Mc Flurry machine will work at every Mc Donald's.
I don't even know what's going on anymore, it seems like dumb decisions all around despite clear warning signs, from Microsoft/Sony, from multiple developers, etc... The entire gaming landscape is just baffling at the moment.
The writer's take on PSVR -- totally true. But it's not just PSVR; for whatever reason all the VR companies just don't invest and support the platform like they should. Even the mighty Oculus Quest 2 + 3 have oddly feeble software support. I see mostly the same games and apps on the store now as I did 3 years ago. PSVR is another one of Sony's "abandonware" examples (along with Vita, PS TV, etc. etc.) that are just head scratchers. Like why even develop and release a piece of hardware if you're not going to support it? I don't know.
But the writer isn't correct about the Portal. That one has been a success I think. It works pretty well, and lots of people love it. Now notably, that one doesn't require much ongoing support from Sony -- it has one purpose and it does it fine enough -- so maybe that has helped.
VR companies are appropriately investing in and supporting the platform. VR is still niche, generally uncomfortable to wear, difficult with glasses ,still causes motion sickness, and requires a play space that a lot of people don’t have.
They've definitely fumbled hard in the live service space (buying Bungie, the utter failure of Concord, spending years on Factions 2 just to cancel it), Even Helldivers 2, which was a hit at launch, has lost most of its user-base due to weak post-launch support.
Other than that though, they've been doing well.
Spoiled and arrogant. PSVR failures should have resulted in a house cleaning. The Discord Sony team should be fire...lots of talent on the market.
The Jim Ryan era is over, it'll take some time for things to improve under Herman Hulst, assuming it does, but he comes from a game developer background, so there is hope.
Hulst is worse lmao
He was confident in Concord and was instrumental in the GAAS push.
I hope so, it's painful seeing this happen, especially to Playstation, I think we'll have to wait for the remainder of Jim Ryan's plans to play out first though.
Yeah indeed, plans can't shift in an instant, especially with such long development times these days. We won't see Herman Hulst's 'touch' for awhile longer still. It could take a year or two before we're fully past Ryan's affect on PlayStation.
I think they put so much energy into worrying about the abk deal that they got a little behind as to what people want now. Not one Sony fan wanted the overwatch knock off. They’ll be fine because they have beloved franchises they can default back to. That being said okay Astro for the love of god. It’s so good!
If you're too afraid to try something new because it may fail, then you're doomed to never progress in life.
To be fair, Covid, chip shortages, and worldwide forces have fundamentality changed this generation and how it has played out like we have never seen.
Because they can afford to? Because they don't really have much competition anymore? Because they think they can get away with it? Because they think they just need one cash cow gaas? Because,why not?
I think every company makes bad decisions every now and and then. If we take a look back, those decisions would be:
Telling us they believe in generations then limiting the 1st party exclusives in the first 2 years of the PS5 to be cross gen.
Telling us those upgrades would be free for PS5 owners then turn around and charge $10.
Acquiring Bungie for 3.6B
Investing so much in live service games thus wasting hundreds of millions.
Requiring a PSN account to play PC games on steam essentially locking out half the planet from buying their games.
Significantly increasing the price of their subscription service without doing anything to add more value to the essential tier.
Releasing PSVR 2 without backwards compatibility and PC support. Also not giving it strong support from 1st party.
Those are the mistakes I can remember from this generation but compared to Microsoft that has a scandal every month and Nintendo in the old days where they had significant gaming droughts with no 3rd party support. Sony's mistakes are not as bad so long as they keep their greed in check.
I agree but that 'Telling us they believe in generations' seems to be misconstrued just like the 'get another job' comment that was made. They did not say we believe in backwards compatibility. New generations should be different. Returnal for example.... without the new tech like the ssd that game wouldn't be what it was. Sometimes the old gens tech needs to be left behind or what's the point paying for new hardware. Look at the s and x....the x is clearly being held back buy the s and thats within the same gen like wtf
Keep.......... or occasionally make. They've made more good decisions than dud ones hence the ever growing gappage they acquired against their direct competitor
When you’re supremely successful and a market leader, every little mishap is painted as a “are they doomed?” article.
Jim, that's why he was put out with no fan fair before they even had a replacement ready. I could be wrong but i think they are just following through on what they can from Jim's initiative to recoup some of the money dumped into it. Putting all their eggs into the GAAS basket was a ridiculous decision, and i hope once all the crap he startiruns it's course we get back to what made PlayStation great. Some liver service games is fine, but to put ALL your studios on it?!! Basically threw out their bread and butter for the sake of gambling.
Almost as if someone got paid to release negative articles for Sony on the day of a masterpiece launch. But I must be delusional, has to be a coincidence.
Listen. Not every negative article is a conspiracy theory.
Jesus Christ.
I mean this in the nicest possible way: go outside.
Unless you own stock in Sony or have a family member that works there, it should be of absolute zero importance to you that articles like this exist, or that your gut reaction is "NEGATIVE ARTICLE must mean 2+2=5".
Sony make bad decisions when they listen to noisy activists pushing their ideas or beliefs into games. Making a character with DEI inspiration doesn’t make them interesting or compelling. How the character interacts in the world, the voice actor and dialog is what makes a character interesting. Not many people cared Ellie (TLOU) was girl because her character was interesting, same with Aloy or Miles Morales. Call of Duty has a diverse roster of characters but apart from a select few fan favourites (from the OG MW or Black Ops), none of the others are really remarkable or interesting.
I have been saying since last gen. I have seen them double down this gen. PS3 was the high watermark imo.
Diverse New IP AAA story focused 1st or 2nd party game is what made PS dominant.
After the PS3 gen Sony learned the wrong lesson thinking that online multiplayer game is the way to go with a few new IP in between.
How many new IP AAA story driven PS games this gen? How many remasters of past games?
By this time in the PS3 gen we had Resistance, Motorstom, Heavenly sword, Demon Souls, Valkrie Chonciles, Infamous, Uncharted, LBP, MAG as new AAA IP's. This not including other AAA games like GOW3, Killzone 2, Warhawk, MGS4 etc
Again compare to this PS5 gen?
And the crazy thing is the PS3 was harder to make games on than the PS5
Decisions have been made and Sony following MS is the fastest way for them go down and its seems like they have not learned thier lesson since they keep selling more PS5
If Sony does not change next gen this will be my last PS
It's "Obvious Bad Decisions", and you get paid and are a "professional". Wow! People these days. I don't know how they get jobs. I was taught to proof read anything being submitted that mattered.
Anyway, PlayStation hasn't been perfect, true, and Jade Raymond's studio, for first as a CEO, is about to face the same fire and she's about to head through the ringer unless she steps back, cancels her project, and recognizes she's creating an experience for a PlayStation audience that has been bred from the very beginning to have single player story driven experiences. She's next and it's gonna jam up her reputation and her once chance and having something she owns and is her in a male majority market business. But, hey, what do I know?
Even then, PlayStation pales in comparison to Xbox, Xbox's failures they're trying to erase by convincing consumers consoles don't really have a place anymore. They're going to try and cheapen their value to make them seem obsolete to move on to more subscription type services and then claim they were ahead of the game all along. Problem is, Sega Channel existed in the 90s, then OnLive and Gaikai went at it on the battle of Game Streaming Wars where Gaikai sold their business to PlayStation which became PlayStation Now on the PS3 long before Xbox and is now part of the Top Tier PlayStation Plus. Xbox wasn't first, just like they weren't first with Kinect. EyeToy on PS2 was first it's just..... Xbox fashionably late as usual
this could very well be applied to alot of other companies.
especially a fertain other videogame one.
Shutting down talent like Japan studio really puts a bad taste in my mouth, the damage Jim Ryan left on Playstation is beyond repairable and them saying they don't have enough IP's is just ... ignorant!
Jim Ryan came in, ordered everyone work on live service crap, he got fired, now everybody is back to working on singe player games, but they lost 2 years of progress.
“keep making”
One bad game and Sony is somehow a stumble bum. PS5 is an huge success. PS Portal was a huge success. Astrobot is looking like it will be huge success. Amazingly, all of Sony’s single player games are some of the best games ever. It has not been a bumpy ride.
10 years is a long time for a console.
Very soon the Xbox360 will pass its 10th anniversary and enter its 11th year of production.
It has received very good support considering its age:
TomnRaider
TitanFall
Forza Horizon 2
just to name a few, and all have scored or been reviewed as the top in their respective genres.
A very good run indeed.