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Re: Poll: What Did You Think of Sony's State of Play for February 2025?

IOI

@Loamy Don’t you remember where Ghost of Yotei was announced? At State of Play.
Where did Sony debut gameplay for God of War Ragnarok, Helldivers 2 and even Concord? At State of Play.

In 2020-2021 the distinction existed but it’s been a long time since first-party games do show up more often than not in State of Play, plus we haven’t got a good showcase since freaking 2021! Stop excusing this embarrassment.

Re: Rumour: God of War Is Taking a 'Younger' Kratos Back to Greece

IOI

I don’t think there’s still much left to do in the Greek mythology, it already showed in Ascension they were running out of things to do and story to tell, I’d honestly prefer having remasters for the Greek saga (with PSP games please) and set the new entry for a new direction entirely.

Re: Halo PS5 Rumours Intensify in Aftermath of Forza Horizon 5 Reveal

IOI

Again, stop using Jez Corden as a source, a year ago he literally said “no, xbox isn't porting it's console exclusives to playstation. its just hard hopium from fanboys.”

Also, at this point everyone expects every Microsoft title to be on PS5 (and Switch 2), in fact I fully expect at least Starfield and Gears to also make the jump this year, feel free to use this comment as source, it has more credibility than Jez Corden lmao

Re: Could Wolverine PS5 Launch in 2025? Insomniac Avoids the Question

IOI

@Sacrosanctus Couldn’t agree more with you, and since that 2021 showcase we haven’t had a good show like that, it’s been beyond disappointing this generation and it’s all because most if not all PS studios were making live service BS that got cancelled, effectively losing 5 years of development time and money, a disaster, just like Push Square out it a few days ago.

Re: Could Wolverine PS5 Launch in 2025? Insomniac Avoids the Question

IOI

@themightyant Yeah pushing forward development doesn’t seem to be a thing so I’m still expecting it 2026-2027, for the Venom game I really don’t know what’s going on, if it comes out this year they need to reveal it ASAP, if the next SoP goes by and it isn’t mentioned then my guess would be that it’s delayed or cancelled.

Re: Horizon's MMO Appears to Have Been Cancelled

IOI

@get2sammyb At this point there’s more games cancelled for PS5 than exclusives released to it, you really think fans shouldn’t complain about that?

The problem isn’t that Sony is venturing into new types of games, is that they did a massive shift overnight where they decided that their studios renowned for making some of the best single-player games in the industry were suddenly given instructions to pump out a live service product, with no experience to do so, they thought buying out Bungie as a “consultant” for live-service games would solve it but they had their own disaster going on internally, plus buying studios exclusively for live-service development has somehow turned out to be even worse, look at Firewalk and I feel the next studio getting the axe is Haven.

It really feels that everything that could go wrong with that live service strategy did go wrong, and many of us called it out the moment it was announced Sony was pumping out 12 live service games in such a short time, I repeated time and time again that no matter what their PR response said those same resources could be used to make more single-player games and here we are with absolutely nothing but time and money wasted across most PS Studios.

I’m a fan of PlayStation but being so complacent with the brand only gets us this BS and €799 consoles, so I’m sorry if our complaining annoys you but we’re going to continue to do so, complaining got Sony to deliver an outstanding PS3 generation after a disastrous launch, they absolutely can do better.

Re: Would You Pay $100 for GTA 6?

IOI

I’ve been waiting for this game almost 12 years and I wouldn’t get it at launch at $100 even with the money in hand as it’d just be too much greed, but we all know if someone can get away with it that’s Rockstar, good luck to any other publisher that attempts it tho.

Re: Shuhei Yoshida on PSVR2: 'I'm Sorry'

IOI

I had the first PS VR and realized it’s just not for me, I pushed trough Astro Bot VR (the OG!) but I always ended up dizzy or even sick having to throw up, I had to use it with a fan on for 1 hour at the very max and still ended up very dizzy.

Re: Lists of Sony’s Cancelled Live Service PS5 Games Paint a Worrying Picture

IOI

Just think that most of these could’ve been single-player games already released and the PS5 gen would look substantially different.

I don’t get why people get mad for calling out Sony to stop this stupid push for live service, they absolutely need to be called out, the people responsible for bleeding this much money for absolutely nothing should be gone and until that happens I’m gonna keep complaining and I applaud Push Square for doing it too because we all know Sony can do better instead of being a complacent fanboys who disregards all critics as “doom and gloom”.

Re: Sony Cancels Bluepoint, Bend Studio PS5 Games, One Being a Live-Service God of War Title

IOI

This stings as both studios just lost around 5 years of time and money for absolutely nothing, same as Naughty Dog with TLOU factions and I bet there’s more we still don’t know about, Bend in particular were done dirty as Sony cancelled Days Gone 2 for live service BS only for that to be cancelled too, but now is there still a chance for Days Gone 2?

This f***ing obsession with live services needs to stop, it wasted this entire generation and I keep saying Hermen Hulst is a big part of the problem if not the root, he shouldn’t be CEO with so many cancellations and massive failures under HIS watch.

Re: Poll: Will the Switch 2 Compete with PS5?

IOI

I do think it’s not Nintendo’s goal to eat up at PlayStation market share but it will end up being competition one way or another, if the price is lower than the digital PS5 you can expect the Switch 2 to outsell the PS5 from launch onwards (until GTA 6 launches).

Plus if it does get major third-party support as rumored it might convince more casuals to only buy a Switch 2 as they do like handhelds a lot, and honestly this is all a good thing, with Xbox dying we need more competition in the console market and it really can’t get better than a strong Nintendo against a strong PlayStation.

Re: Rumour: Halo: The Master Chief Collection Coming to PS5 This Year

IOI

@Toot1st Lmao sure, in PC everyone uses Steam, their Cloud Gaming still sucks and 90% of their GP subscribers are from console. Microsoft can tell themselves all they want, the fact is that the bulk of their audience is/was on consoles and they’re effectively nuking it.

They’re about to become completely dependent on Sony and Nintendo just to be able to sell games, which is both pathetic and ironic, great for Sony and Nintendo tho.