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There is a 1st party Sony game coming. The press keep misunderstanding a comment about them not having AAA games this year I'm a little surprised Sony didn't rush together some dlc or a spin off to fill the gap for this winter, but Insomniac are swamped. We could have had something God Of War I suppose, but the rogue like dlc tied off that story I suppose

New trailer for season 4 So they’re making a change to the loot system where you can more easily get the attributes you want on a weapon by finding attribute recipes. Not fully understanding but looks like they’re changing the rune system as well? This is actually really good. When I played through season 1 there was a point where I didn’t use any new gear for about 12 hours because all the perks on my shit made me unkillable. But the game got boring as obviously loot is the main driver and at a point the damage numbers on the new stuff surpassed mine by so much I said fuck it and swapped. If they’re changing it so you can carry weapon attributes/stats forward easier than great. I found that to be a big problem when I played it

There was some Playstation financial reporting today which is why there’s all this news. The hardware stuff I’m not really certain about. I saw one thing earlier that said hardware sales were down 29% y-o-y, I saw another that said PS5 is basically on pace with PS4, this is from Gamesindustry.biz article https://www.gamesindustry.biz/playstation-full-year-revenues-rise-to-275-billion-but-narrowly-misses-ps5-sales-target Hardware revenue was also up. But maybe that’s because PS5 isn’t being discounted as far as I know and they had that PS Portal that despite looking useless I think sold great I think overall PS5 is doing well, and with a PS5 Pro almost definitely on the way, they’ll be a boost there, too* So PC ports might come faster, but for non-multiplayer games I think they’ll still put the console version out first. It looks like it still works for them. But maybe reduce the wait time from a year to 6 months or something on PC? *According to that GIbiz article there are no 1st party PS games coming until next April…makes me think the PS5 Pro will also come out next year. I don’t think they can launch even a premium version of an existing console without a new game

Looks good, but I'm not paying £80 for a physical version to back it

Sony's PC releases sell really poorly, except for Helldivers. Maybe there's some exceptions but they aren't super impressive last I heard, a lot of that is down to how delayed they are I think. AAA games, Sony ones especially, it's like there's this hype bubble where all the sales momentum occurs. A release 18 months down the line, people have moved on. I wonder how Ghost of Tsushima will do. It's an OW game so you'd imagine pretty well, but I bet it will have this same issue. They need get releases faster on PC, especially as they're apparently not hitting hardware sales targets anymore, people ain't buying as many PS5s and I reckon it's not just cause of what exclusives it has so no point being all Square Enix about it. Sony games aren't the kinda things you double dip on, especially as near all of them are third person narrative heavy games which are tedious to replay. How will GoW Ragnarok do, pretty poorly I'm going to bet.

I won't be at all surprised to see earlier and earlier release dates for PC in regards to Sony first party games... whether they'll ever reach day and date releases is anyone's guess. I'd imagine they've noticed that extra dollar rolling in though.

Oh, yeah I’m not saying they won’t do more online focused GaaS stuff. Just in response to @Nag that it’s all going way of PC. I don’t think Playstation going anywhere. But more GaaS stuff. Sony already said for online games PC will be there day 1 with console like Helldivers so that’s expected. PC will get bigger for these companies but it’s not all going that way. I didn’t know Sony owned Helldivers I thought they just published it. But I googled it and you’re right

But Helldivers likely confirmed their push towards GAAS, when it might have been a bit of a wobbly stance just a few months ago due to Destiny underperforming and the multiplayer spin-off of Last of Us being canned. If Concorde reaches similar numbers, then that's their path forward. And it's reasonable to assume Sony covered the entire development cost of Helldivers considering it's their IP and it will likely never release on anything but PS and PC. 'Publishing' is just paying the bills and having control over marketing and deadlines.

The only company that might go away is Xbox. Playstation are having a great year. So they’ll be more Playstation. As long as there’s more PlayStation that’s where they’ll want people to spend first. Helldivers is unique being a multiplayer title, and as far as I’m aware is only Playstation published. When it comes to Playstation developed, I think it’s unlikely they’ll want to give Steam 30% of the first run of sales.

New 'J'RPG from a French indie studio, with music from Motoi Sakuraba, ALZARA Radiant Echoes. Looks cute I think, and I like how they cite Golden Sun as an influence and talk about elemental puzzles, which to this day no other JRPG has even attempted (I'l try not to think too much about Lost Odyssey being perceived as a classic already though). https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/studiocamelia/seed-a-vibrant-tribute-to-jrpg-classics

New teen slasher horror game from Supermassive Games (Until Dawn, The Quarry) based on Dead by Daylight I know nothing about Dead by Daylight. But I really enjoy Supermassive’s stuff and this trailer looks like another fun one of those.

Yeah... PC.😂

You can tell this is one of those games where they put a lot of work and effort into making it look 'cheap'. Looks really interesting and the Steam reviews are glowing. If it ever hops on a console I'll check it out.

Combined with the recent news that Helldivers 2 sold a staggering 12 million units so far, I think it's easy to see where things are headed.

Here’s a really interesting quote about how PS values success right now https://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2024/05/14/playstation-focus-ps5-games-sales-play-time/ Not to make everything about Xbox this week, because I think there are 2-3 really interesting bits in here. But if this is the trends the top business people are looking at and measuring then Gamepass makes more sense and why sales on 1st party games aren’t as important. Sony are thinking the same and calculating success in a similar way, but they’re popular enough to not have to put their games on a subscription service to achieve it Fortnite/Minecraft might end up being the most influential game of all time for the worst reasons

Suppose this is worth adding Good swaps imo

Figures....

I drive a 18 wheeler

Well I drive a hatchback not an SUV so I'm all good.👍

I've always assumed it was well understood that the bigger and louder one's material possessions the deeper the insecurity Don't look at my graphics card, look at my small TV please

Doesn't bother me in terms of film... I kind've expect it, for games it's just a reminder of the bad old days... I'll have all of my screen used thank you very much, that's why I paid for it.😂

I appreciate the honesty, really brave of you to come out and admit that.

It means cinematic, or something like that, often used ironically but I'm being genuine wrt Hellblade, I think it could be a cool look having it framed like that. Our TVs are so big anyway, mine is smaller than everyone else's here but I don't get the issue with borders really. The image will still be huge. I played some of Death Stranding like this and the framing of those environments looked super cool imo

I fucking hate modern language...

21:9 is kino, give me those black borders