PlayStation has added a whopping 56 games to its PlayStation Cloud Gaming catalogue.
There are some big titles in the list, including Forza Horizon 5.
Battle Engine Aquila joins PlayStation Plus Premium.
Another meh month and only 1 single classic wtf Sony. I was hoping after the price hikes for PSN we might get a good month spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down and all that
Sandland looks right up my alley and I'm excited to give it a shot. I honestly missed this game somehow, never heard about it until now.
Maybe I’ll go check out battlefield 5 again.
Maybe this will give a little boost
Some of the best psvr 2 titles leaving, nothing coming, way to support your psvr 2 owners. Still, I don't mind the games coming personally.
Yeah I upped to premium when they started adding psvr2 with the expectation that they would keep coming. now when my sub ends I'll be scaling back
It’s time to see which PS5, PS4, PS VR2, and free-to-play games topped the PlayStation Store download charts last month.
April saw a lot of action among the top spots. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered and Forza Horizon 5 broke into the top three for the U.S. and EU PS5 charts, while Wanderer: The Fragments of Fate dominated the PS VR2 charts across the board.
Xbox reigns supreme at Playstation!
I wonder what was the reaction from Sony´s first party investors to those numbers and what they plan to do next.
Yeah I'm pretty sure Sony investors are just as concerned as when Sega started releasing games on the PS2...pretty sure the sentiment is "Another one bites the dust".
This dude is having a full melt down since the whole gears announcement lmao.
You think tears rolled down his eyes when he writes this lol
I’m honestly impress how Xbox fanboys can always spin shit. I guess they had alot of practice lol
"Yeah I'm pretty sure Sony investors are just as concerned as when Sega started releasing games on the PS2...pretty sure the sentiment is "Another one bites the dust"."
With their new games legging behind Xbox games in their own territory? Playstation gamers turned into "Xbox gamers" while Satya Nadella beats his chest on how they now have 500 Million MAU?
No, I don´t think so.
No dude, I don´t think they´re happy at all!
"With their new games legging behind Xbox games in their own territory?"
Forza got outsold by minecraft and Indiana jones got outsold by DMCV on the list so those numbers are weak.
Oblivion is number 1 for the month but i doubt it even had a better launch on PS5 than astro bot.
There is no lagging behind xbox games until they start selling 3 to 5 million on PS5 like ghost, spider man, GOW, etc...
LOL! Most of those games are 3rd party games that were already on PS consoles except Forza.
I know expedition 33 is up there but it honestly deserves to be #1 on all platform. Game is fantastic
The top 3 games are Microsoft published titles. Looks like they had a good month. I don't follow Minecraft but how can that game be selling so well for over a decade?
some games just keep selling and some other games keep getting lots of MAU and some others keep making money. it's just how things are in gaming.
I need to check out Wanderer for PSVR2. how come there's almost no marketing for this game?
Days Gone did pretty well considering it only came out on the 25th or 26th of April.
Could PlayStation games and consoles see a price increase in the near future?
When PS5Pro released it was only $100 more expensive than the xbox series x. Now xbox series x is actually more expensive than the PS5Pro lol 😆
So yes the Pro will be getting a price increase imminently.
I think it’s pretty much inevitable. I don’t see Sony keeping the same prices while everyone else is raising theirs. The industry has been testing the waters for a while now with these other forms of increases such as ‘early access’ and ‘special editions’ of games. I always wait for games to go on sale so they’re not getting full price out of me.
Well there were articles on how Sony stock pilled PS5s in the states so i think they will go one holiday season without raising the prices in the US.
And death stranding 2 and Ghost of yotei(coming out in Oct) have announced prices of 70 so i think they are going to see what happens when they are the cheapest option this holiday.
Yeah, and i think the US gov also gave tariff exemptions for electronics. Although there’s still inflation to deal with, and logistics cost probably up significantly.
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I don't like paying a lot for games, but frankly, this needs to happen if the industry is going to improve.
Back in 2005, brand new releases of PS2 games usually cost £39.99 in the UK, with some going up to £45. Adjusting for inflation, that's between £70 and £80 today.
Then consider that in 2005, many games were being developed by teams of around 40. Nowadays, for games of the same 'tier', you're looking at 500+.
In addition, game development in 2005 tended to take around a year. Many of the big development teams were producing annual releases, or at least one game every 2 years. Average development time now is 3-4 years.
Working all that through, you can estimate that a single game as I've described above 'should' cost FAR more than £70. A quick bit of rough maths:
£40 × 10 (increase in employees) × 3 (development years) = £1200.
Obviously, that's unrealistic, as basic economics tells you that market demand is one of the greatest driving forces behind pricing products. But it still makes you think...
Thank GOODNESS we're not paying more than £80 any time soon...
No thanks. More people are switching to PC gaming since it's more affordable. Graphics aren’t the main concern anymore. Affordable motherboards, RAM, and CPUs can last for years, and upgrading the GPU each generation makes it a worthwhile investment. There are no limitations with PC gaming.
Plus, PC games are cheaper, especially when bought from 3rd party key sellers, and there's no need to rely on monthly or yearly subscriptions
Your argument is fundamentally flawed. Inflation alone doesn’t dictate game prices. Development efficiency has improved, with outsourcing, AI tools, and modular design offsetting increased team sizes and longer development cycles. The idea that prices should scale linearly with employee count and years spent is absurd—games don’t cost 30 times more just because they take three times as long to develop. Your math ignores the actual economic forces at play, like mass market appeal, competition, and diversified revenue streams. Pricing is dictated by demand, not a raw cost equation, and companies balance expenses through digital sales, DLCs, and microtransactions. If games were priced at £1200, the industry wouldn’t improve—it would collapse. The £70–£80 range isn’t some act of generosity; it’s the optimal price point to maximize profits while keeping consumers engaged. Your conclusion misses the actual mechanics of the market entirely.
I agree, and suggesred as much. But I was approaching it from the perspective of the employees, of whom there are now many more, working more years for the same release.
Thankfully, gaming has become more mainstream, which is what has kept the cost low for such a long time. Games now sell in far greater numbers, which keeps the cost low. But as this growth slows (as is inevitable), we should expect to see the cost rise.
Back then, there was Play.com, games going for well under £20. Best to sit back and let games age and pick them up cheaper, but some used games can sell for more. That also pays off waiting for complete editions. It's probably the oldest debate in gaming, the price of games. PS4 games rising to £60 was a shocker. There's definitely a gaming crash coming, yet Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft don't seem to be bothered. They only see £ and $ signs then wonder how it all went wrong.
This is nice! But It will be nicer if you drop the price of premium subs.
And this is right after they removed Resistance 1 & 2! Does anyone realize this?
(I tried to add it as a posting, but it was old news by the time I realized it)
Playstation cloud gaming? Wasn’t that PS Now until it merged with PS plus….
Can someone tell me what’s going on?
So can I get forza on my portal?
I don’t understand cloud gaming. I’ve tried them all. Ps5, Portal, ROG Ally, XB cloud and no matter what I do I just can’t play the games because of the lag and artifacting that breaks immersion.
I have 1gb fiber that was freshly installed as well.
Local remote play works pretty good from PS and XB but strictly streaming the whole game from the cloud has been a mediocre experience for me and definitely not worth the higher cost sub.