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@NEStalgia

He's trying to make himself into Phil’
I think your really into your own fantasy there. 😅 like I said it’s more the press that’s trying to present him into an opposite Spencer. Jim is Vader and Phil is obiwan. We get it haha (I tried to explain PS and Xbox have different approach about management as in organised different heads vs a one man all power authority which I think is how it is)

No I’m not being serious saying that in case you have any doubt.
I don’t believe console gamers need a sort of ‘uncle’ figure or something. It’s weird. Anyway if you like looking up to some of those guy that’s fine with me. I don’t believe their job is mainly about PR either. I have no interest for PR and empty statements.
We could go on forever but I’m getting a bit bored talking about those guys.
Have a lovely day 😀

It looks more and more tempting.
I’ll really need to have peoples feeling on how it plays.

I don’t miss E3 marathon really. It lost it’s meaning already many years ago when only the pre E3 presentations were reported and the show floor and side announcements and demos was not only completely ignored but criticised for not being included in a presentation. Useful announcements were criticised because a few minutes before presentation 🤯
The important is the real information and not smoke and mirror in an entertaining tv show where the reporting focuses on the ‘pacing’.
Also lack of sleep for days to keep up wasn’t healthy.
And then all the press was concerned about was ‘who is going to win E3’, ‘who is winning E3’, ‘who won E3’ defining E3 in their own terms (a short presentation) and have so many clickbait to relish.

@NEStalgia
Totally disagree about ‘pony’. The only childish sounding people are the ones saying ‘ponies’ thinking that makes their ‘victims’ childish. Haha. Absolute joke. It’s like throwing a childish ‘insult’ thinking that’s going to land.
I feel bots makes more sense considering reality like twitter bots and such. It’s not chocking to add X in front or PS would do. I’m sure real bots are playing their part in spamming tweeter for instance. (That’s what console warriors do, spamming to promote a platform)

One of the issues with Spencer is he’s everywhere with no real expertise that I know of omnipresent like in the kitchen and on the stage. Only this gen the press has tried to put Jim Ryan in a similar position. But that’s not true. There are many personalities at PlayStation. In Andrew House time who was good at his job I believe, you hardly ever heard about him except for some rare FT interview and short appearance on stage. For that matter who said Jim Ryan doesn’t play games? Because he doesn’t brag about it?why would anyone brag about playing video games? Im very sceptical about that.
Yes you may not have noticed but gaming PR has turned into politician malarkey on many levels these last few years. Heck press reports are more interested in slogans and phrases of theirs and make all the juicy drama. Yes populism is literally about blaming the elite and trying to feel the anger people react to. He said a lot of goofy stuff too. A lot
Leaving the extreme aside Spencer is a PR machine.

@NEStalgia
‘It's the "one of us"
Sounds like populism to me and that’s what he does.
Ridiculous to glorify someone like that. Even Shu is one of the most likeable personality but he’s not glorified because he plays games. That’s not hard to do.
I wonder where ‘pony’ comes from. Sounds like some 10 year old came up with it and the internet picked it up. It’s referring to Sony right? I believe majority of ps gamers dont care about Sony but only about PlayStation.

@NEStalgia
‘ I was full-on pony like you guys’
Speak for yourself. I don’t know why you have to call everyone ‘pony’ albeit laughable expression for people who use it. Weird to hear.
I’m not blaming any fan base at all. The false narratives are from the press representing Spencer as the ‘saviour’. Xb1 had an awful presentation but they backtracked and actually had a very good launch. Spencer became the boss in 2014 and he also was somehow in charge before with many example of him bragging about Kinect. and everyone acting like he had no responsibility during all the years of xb1 gen. There’s undeniably a cult of personality there and the press has had a good part in building it.

It’s funny that people still blame Mattrick and Spencer is untouchable. How the fake narrative is anchored in peoples mind as strong as a cult. Not really their fault mind you.
All is for the best anyway since SM is like at home on PlayStation.

For context.
A month later ‘saviour’ Spencer proudly announced he used $2.5B from Ms pocket to buy Mojang. 😳

@Rural-Bandit
I mean it’s not hard to understand a balance between Sony and Ms is sound but Ms buying everything is NOT. 🙅🏼🤯
Again it’s about platform in particular consoles. I don’t believe the others are competing in the same way in particular for console gamers. You’d have to be very biased not to see it or not care about console gaming I.e. gaming on pc. (Which is fine)
Any way Im not interested in what has become platform and subscription warring nowadays instead of what used to be console wars. I’m just saying what I think and not caring in the least about promoting a company or convincing anyone.
We ll to disagree as usual and move on haha
Have a lovely day.

@Rural-Bandit
I’m not surprised you have this opinion and I don’t see the point discussing it if you can’t see for yourself how bad one platform holder to own such a majority of games development and publishers would be.
It’s only common sense but everyone can have different opinions. I’m not interested in arguing

@RawnDawn
Both Sony and Ms should spend money on creativity and bringing more to gamers. However I saw everyone and the coverage taking for granted that Ms bullying their way into buying everything is sort of ‘normal’ I’d rather the gaming industry be balanced and Sony be as big a player as Ms.
Ideally companies owning the platforms shouldn’t own so many studios but if they try it should at least be balanced. You can’t predict what they will do with them in the future. Keeping the games multiplatform is an excuse to have people swallow the pill. It’s ugly competition.
So what I’m trying to say is Ms buying EA would be really bad. (The worst case scenario)

@Nem
In other news Xbox outsold PlayStation in Japan last Wednesday between 8 AM and 11AM 😅

@RawnDawn
Look I’d rather Sony than Ms. That would balance things out nicely.
Both would be a waste of money but there it is.

What the Puck?

Why is he talking about Silent Hills?
I’m lost 😅

@Nem
Last week :
Switch OLED Model – 101,489 (1,721,151)
Switch – 53,092 (18,268,375)
PlayStation 5 – 46,415 (1,382,888)
Switch Lite – 22,011 (4,710,282)
Xbox Series S – 10,610 (99,288)
Xbox Series X – 3,508 (99,364)
PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – 3,383 (235,257)

This week
6k Xbox SS
Purexbox: ‘It’s been a successful week for Xbox ‘

No comment 🙄

That’s very interesting. Game maybe further into development than we thought. 🤔

Definitely confirms the game is on track. Too bad for fud

The tide is turning in the rising sun set in the sea of momentum because of arrigent Sony 🤓
Haha
(One week with no stock) is a non story honestly.

Venom is the main appeal for me in SM2. I hope it’s a big part of it and one of the main playable character and with a great story telling. (Good gameplay is a given with Insomniacs) I really don’t know but I hope.
PS5 graphics is going to look sensational I feel.
Framerate, loading time etc are great life commodities but how it looks on a big TV screen is the wow factor.

That makes me think of ‘we believe in generation’ and all the clickbaits around it. And what that phrase means for the many voices in people minds 😅. At the time it was obvious that something was odd in the discrepancies of the full interview vs how it was reported but I didn’t want to rain on the parade so to speak.
There isn’t much to say about this tbh. More games are multi plat and Sony bought a few studio already having multiplatform franchises and developing more (probably GaaS) Next Bungie IP is going to be huge (on all platforms) + more new GaaS titles with other studios. With obviously PC ports and streaming also. Nothing new to see in that statement.

Sounds like a lot of words to say what all the rumours have been saying in circle reference for a while.
It’s really big too I guess.

Edit
Forgot the eyes
👀👀👀

It’s almost like stating the obvious one would say. Bungie is multiplatform duh
‘Becoming more multiplatform. ‘ = stating facts anyone can see. Now people (and the press) (and console warriors lol) can bait and speculate on their biases on what it means in their own mind whatever

Not interested in rental services or always online streaming. PS Essential is a big annoying to say so I’ll keep saying PS+.
Games I keep in my library ‘forever’ and it’s necessary to play online all games so that’s that.

It’s all silent talk in every news these days 🦮🤫

@Shepherd_Tallon
I already have a dog. He’s a chihuahua jack russell cross with pointed ears. A lovely little dog. Nearly completely white with a black and brown bandit mask on his eyes and ears. He’s as bright as a button. Funny thing he’s not fond of my PS4 ejecting discs. I need to do it quick. When a puppy he chewed my Knack 2 box and I have to keep my discs out of reach. Fortunately he likes my PS5 better.
I also have a cat 😅

I’m not interested in rental services but it’s funny yet unsurprising It’s only at Push that I see negativity about it. 🧐

@BritneyfR_ee
I agree. Push has a habit of claiming Sony gets ‘bad press’ in a funny way since it’s self referenced 😅
Also I see a lot of negativity and people disrespect one another’s opinion as a result.
I can provide pet stories to cheer up people if necessary 😅🦮🐈👼🏻

‘For the UK, that’s good news – it’s actually gone down from £15.99 to £12.99.’
🤔🤷🏼‍♂️
I mean you say ‘good news’ and you contradict yourself.
Push uk based ‘Oooft! The bad press keeps a-coming,’

Edit
Bad press about what exactly?
I mean as in ‘keep coming’ I’d like to know what other ‘bad press’ is about ?
Or is that about cats and dogs? 😅

@torne
One of Jeff funniest take was ‘SmartShift is worrying’
But he has had a lot of those bad takes haha
Thing is the press instantly makes them seem legit as of an ‘insider’ as if that means anything nowadays. The truth is he makes cool headline clickbait.

@Carl-G
I also predict Jim Ryan will tell stories about his goldfish and the internet will go down in flame as a consequence 👀👀👀

That reminds me of his friend insider (actually we should just call them all influencers because that’s what they are) claiming every month that something will happen next month. At some point they ll get it right no doubt.
I think SoP June and Future of gaming type in September but that could be in any order.

I feel most parents should give their kids a Switch. Great stuff.

The tables are turned upside down and the momentum blah blah. Haha
I know the lyrics some people go on about every so often but need to find the tune to go with it 🎶🤔

@SwittersB
Good point!
It says it doesn’t include hardware revenue either. (In small print)
When a narrative needs to be made ya know 😅

Dusk Golem has really been questionable these last few years. On the other hand even a broken clock can be right as the saying goes so who knows.
He should probably talk about cats and dogs instead though haha 🤣

@Shepherd_Tallon
Good morning.
Oh man the latest ‘news’ about Jim Ryan made me laugh so much I got tears in my eyes and in a very good mood. Such a shame we can’t talk about it
haha

@Apfelschteiner
Well I didn’t necessarily imply malice but inconsistency is just a fact here whatever the reason and it’s only fair to acknowledge it.

@naruball
I agree. Mtx have become some sort of witch hunt these days haha

@VatoLoco47
Actually I think GaaS games might actually be able to be on day 1 PS+ some day unlike traditional Sony AAA single player games.
Different types of games for different gamers. 🤷🏼‍♂️

@Apfelschteiner
I think the issue is the hypocrisy or at least inconsistency when they claim to be concerned about exclusivity now.

So they mention acquisitionS (plural) expected to be completed including Bungie. It would be interesting to list which known acquisition aren’t completed yet if any?
🤔

Common sense and logic.
That s not something dominating gaming talk on the internet though.
🤷🏼‍♂️

Edit
I just had a look on pxbox site and no surprise they again turn a Sony news completely unrelated to Xbox into a bad take to post a console war article 🙄
Don’t get played into console war malarkey for site traffic people 😃

Different company, different games, different approach, different strategy. It’s not comparable at all. Ms want all digital yesterday.

Here we go again. Come on it’s not hard to understand. A state of play is coming to focus on GOW. Then possibly in September the one showcase we have every year for the future.
Memory is short really.

I didn’t vote again because poll doesn’t make sense.

Edit
What I wish for (yea ok a showcase every week and tons of new games in wonderland) doesn’t matter much. I’m just looking at realistic expectation considering how it goes these last few years.

@Shepherd_Tallon
He’s like Kratos with the boy because he doesn’t want to admit he loves him. So he acts like a * towards him instead haha

@Shepherd_Tallon
I like following gaming news on Twitter. People demonise the platform but it’s like everything ; it just depends on how you use it like all modern commodity. Reading news from so many different sources at the same time (and being able to outline the primary source) give better view on the facts rather than focusing on a few opinionated sites.
Just don’t interact with it even with a long pole haha

@Shepherd_Tallon
Morning.
Sorry for coming back to it today but since we were having this conversation I still can’t believe people and the press don’t push against games not being present in the retail box you buy. Imagine buying a PS5 game at retail and then you find out it’s a PS4 disc inside. And you have to download the game you wanted to buy on a disc precisely. It’s incredibly anti consumer I feel. 🤯
On the opposite gaming sites are pushing to buy digital instead. 🙄
Anyway have a lovely day.

I had no idea it’s single player game too apparently 🧐

Yes hopefully supply pick up this year but let’s hear from Intel on the topic. 😅🎤🫢

@AdamNovice
I’m sure a lot of people don’t even understand the difference between a game unfortunately being online only and a system requiring online checking.
Lack of relevant quality news and too many click baits instead.