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Not really to be honest, mainly because every big developer is hosting their own showcase.

So it's going to be a empty world with grass fields then. It looks like it can be fun though, but like others have said, if it's a free to play live service then it's a hard pass.

@TrickyDicky99 that's the point I made, they should have released those exclusive on PS5. But they didn't because everyone was complaining on the socials.

@TrickyDicky99 that's because people wanted cross-gen games because they couldn't buy a PS5 and the PS4 players felt left out. I still think they shouldn't release cross-gen in the first place and release those games exclusive for PS5. But if they pulled a Nintendo and stopped support for PS4 immediately people would hated on them for that.

I think you should ignore the majority of people on forums and social media. They always scream the opposite and feed of negativity. This has been going on for generations.

In the past it looked all better, but that's mainly because games got announced years before release. People complained and this is the result, Sony announces close to release these days. Maybe they could release a short compilation trailer with all the first party games coming, it only needs to be a couple of seconds of footage then for each game.

Finally code Veronica gets some love.

@Haruki_NLI yes and no really. There is a bigger user base on PS4 so it will sell alot. However, If they want to sell the new PS5 titles they need to drop support of older consoles so gamers have no other choice then to buy the newer consoles. That way the other PS5 games will also sell more copies.

I'll continue Stellar Blade and do a couple of rounds of the last of us 2 no return mode.

I think the games of Naughty Dog are among the best of the best, so I have faith in them that they can deliver. But statements like this are dangerous in this time as social media will overanalyze, over hype or instantly trash these things.

Hopefully they will show what they are cooking in the next showcase.

Well hopefully I will want to save my money for all the great games that have been shown in the showcase.

@TripleKing333 I was getting excited until I read your comment. Kind of makes the physical version pointless, unless you only want the first one. Guess I'll wait for a big sale on the psn.

I really wanted to buy this collection digital and let my nostalgia for these games take over. But I'm glad I waited. To bad iv and v aren't on the collection. Although they weren't as great as the first 3, it would have made it the complete PSone tomb raider experience.

The end of Call of Duty. It will be even more loaded with Micro transactions like buyable weapons, XP points, skins etc. Making this game a pay to win game.

More season passes. DLC, so we will get a even more unfinished game. Cause they need to make that money somewhere else.

And with this, they are going to expect to make major revenues like film "studios" do.

@Frmknst I think in the past it was more balanced. You knew certain genre games were longer. Rpg's, adventure games, and GTA took you longer to complete. but even with those games it never felled dragged out, just for the sake of being long (off course there might have been some).

Like the example you gave of the last of us 2. The first one is one my favorite games. The pacing of the story was great, it stayed impactful. I remember everything what happened in that game by the end and gave satisfying feeling by finishing it and left you wanting more. With part 2 is was happy to finish it. The story dragged on and on and by the end I forget half if what happened in the middle. It's still a amazing game, but way to long for it's own good. I hope part 3 will be paced like 1.

A new IP is always welcome. Hope they share a first look soon. I do have to say that I would like more shorter lineair experiences with a great story. Almost everything is open world these days, and they are usually to long for their own good.

It's the reason why the uncharted series were so good. They were long enough, packed a good story that didn't drag on, and has great gameplay. Would seem to me that it will also be cheaper to make with the high budgets the games have these days.

Maybe they shouldn't had released miles morales, sackboy, horizon forbidden west, god of war Ragnarok, kena on the PS4. I understand why they did, but it made the PS5 irrelevant from the start, they should have sticked with what they said about believing in generations. It would made the PS5 the console you wanted en needed, instead of the console: but we can also play this game on PS4, so I wait for a price cut console.

It's a normal thing to happen after each generation ends that the new games are only released on the newer console. The graphical differences weren't that different enough yet for buyers to want that next console instead of the one they owned, especially if the same game gets released on both. It really made the PS5 less a must have in the first years.

Here's a tip for all the companies. Not everything needs to be a franchise from the start. Start with one good game. If that is a succes think about a sequel. If the sequel succeeds, then think about a franchise.

Make the PS5 pro backwards compatible with PS2, PSone. I will buy it in a heartbeat.

@Frmknst for comforting reasons. Just to hold it on a rainy night. Shedding a little tear while looking at it, knowing there will never be a next one.

@GamingFan4Lyf @Odium that sounds all good to me. Can't wait to start a playing it. Thanks for sharing your experiences.

I will double dip on this one. Really would like to have it physical. To bad they don't get to make the sequel they wanted. Does MS own the IP?

The pandemic was the worst thing that could have happened for gaming (and the world off course). I know Sony, Nintendo and Xbox had benefits because of it but look at the situation we are in now. They peaked way to hard in a short time.

A lot of people that wouldn't normally buy a game console bought one just to have something to do. Especially Switch and PS4 sold incredibly well back then because they were the most easily available.

I know all the companies will count those sales during that time but a lot of those users might not be users anymore.

@LowDefAl @BIG3 @AndyKazama thanks for clearing that up. Also great they aren't missable, I'm definitely going to give it a go again.

I started NieR, but then I read that there were 26 endings and quit immediately. Maybe I should start it again since everyone is praising it and just stick with the ending I get.

I'm enjoying this game but not because of the revealing outfits. People who complain about this should reconsider why they buy and play games. You don't have to buy a 70$ game to see something, you can find that online for free.

Everything is mostly negative online these days. These days you are daily bombarded with bad negative news, and even with good news they will find a way to bring it in a negative way. Those so called YouTube game specialists are the worse, the bring everything to get the clicks in. I try to avoid it but must admit I fall victim to it sometimes and get thrown in the bad vibes.

Let's see what the new strategy will bring for the future. If Nintendo releases a console that matches the graphical power of PS4 pro or PS5, they will really need to bring it all and hopefully this will bring Sony back to the old days with smaller more experimental games.

Great marketing speech. Nice words. Now show us. I need to see it before I see it. Would be great to see some old IP's making a comeback. Alundra, ape escape, Jak and daxter. Make a new IP, a jrpg with a Japanese studio to rival persona and FF.

Just suprise with all new games and show them already.

There would have been more sales if they didn't do that much cross Gen games. I get they did that because of the shortages and the large install base of the PS4, but it made the PS5 less appealing to get for a lot of buyers.

@Flaming_Kaiser I completely agree. FF7 is my favorite game and one I hold closest to my heart. It is also the game that got me on playstation. All they needed to do was update the graphics, create new FMV's, they might have even keep the turn based style. The budget would be normal, it would be one game, and the profits would be incredible. And fans won't have to wait for years.

I appreciate what they did and rebuild the world from the ground up. I mean it is amazing to see the world in remake and rebirth. But with three 70+ hour games looking like this and development time if years, they are looking at a billion dollar budget, if not more. They can never make that back, no matter on how many platforms it will be released on. XIII and XV destroyed the name of the franchise as a must have rpg. And they completely destroyed the hype of their holy grail project ,FF vii remake,with the trilogy formula.

@MrGawain yeah I agree. Playstation was always the middle ground and that's why it was so successful. Them mentioning the successor and the end of life of the PS5 was the most stupid thing they did. It even made me panic and raising a few eyebrows. It will be probably that it will still be 4-5 years before the PS6 sees the light of day, but those remarks made it seem they are pulling a Wii U thing by releasing a new console after a couple of years. Nobody will spend 500 easily after that, they should have done some damage control after that.

FFVII was the big one. It is also the biggest game that boosted the Playstation beyond believe. The remake was always the holy grale for them. They screwed that up by making it a trilogy and changing the story of that game. The budgets of the remake are ridiculous high and they will never make that back.

Don't get me wrong, I loved both remake and rebirth and consider them to be the best in recent years. But they could have easily made it in one game, two at the max if they sticker to the original story and content. 70% procent of both is extra content. Fans wanted a one on one remake, alot backed out because of the first one.

I used to be optimistic, but it seems like empty promises lately. They've been saying this for years now, and yet they don't show it. I never thought I would say this again but Nintendo is killing it. They generated an incredible amount of hype by just announcing they will share news about a successor this year, while every bit of news about playstation is basically meh or bad.

Go back to your roots and look at what made the PSone and PS2 great.

Considering yesterday's news they are doing a fantastic job already

@fancy_bandage_PSN after the merger with enix it went down. They are good games, but they never reached the peaks of the SNES, PSone and early PS2 days.

@UltimateOtaku91 thank you, finally someone who mentions that. Everyone only see FF XVI and FF7 remake, both wich Sony also funded. There are a lot of other titles that didn't see the light on a Playstation console.

I feel Square -enix will never be happy though. Like others have said if a games goes multiplatform they will most likely want to see double or triple sales from that title. I would like to see that square goes back to also make smaller games like the bouncer or ehrgeiz.

Final Fantasy vii remake will most likely remain locked on Playstation but will also release on PC. Those deals will remain in place. What will be interesting is the rumoured remake of IX.

They always should have released a PC version at the same time. I can see why they want to target switch 2 although it remains to see how powerful that console will be.

Something tells me we will be bombarded with first party games in 2025.

Good to hear Sony is giving talented devs a new opportunity to keep working in the field they love.

I understand why they want people to get a PSN account. The console owners need to pay for online so it also makes sense that the PC owners pay up. But maybe they should have thought it through for once, and not threat is as a afterthought.

And the downfall begins.

If true, I'm expecting some PS studios trailers, Resident Evil 9, kingdom hearts 4, silent hill 2 release date announcement, and some other third party games.

I'm not expecting a PS5 pro announcement, except if they go full steam with first party games.

Changing actor for the main character after a couple of season is the death sentence for every series. It really doesn't matter how great or bad the new actor is. It only works if it's implemented in the story like with doctor who.

Wasn't this pressured mostly by Pushsquare. I don't recall other sites posting about this weekly.

Glad to see the downsides are coming in the news online.

Well, that's Microsoft alright. Sad to see Tango go, loved Hi-Fi Rush. Guess Sony should take notice and get those talents.

I guess it's time to acknowledge that I turned into a dad who only knows songs from the past. I have no idea who they are.

Hopefully the showcase is real. A new parappa the rapper would be a fun announcement.

I feel it's a ending that you can only understand if you played the original and know what's comes next for Cloud and the state he's in. All the events do match up with the original though.

I do think it's a shame they treated the death of Aerith this way. It would have made more impact if they showed it completely and started the weird timeline montages after that moment. I understand that they wanted to show the mental state of Cloud during it but it took away the impact the original had.

I'm looking forward what the last game will be and how it all comes together.

They should have chosen a different location to be honest. Maybe something in south America. Uncharted lost legacy also has India as a location and Chloe is basically a sassy Lara. It might be compared a lot to it.

Looking forward to it though, it will be interesting to see how they move the franchise forward.

Slow news day it seems. Let's hate ff7 again. We know it now, Pushsquare hates square-enix and ff7 and loves everything that's from Atlus.

How many times are we going to read about this, about some YouTube/Twitter Analyst that want some extra cheap clicks. The game sold great for the time and it will sell more in the future. Nothing indicates this game is a failure, the only ones claiming are social media screamers. To bad Pushsquare is doing the same.

Comparing it to remake also doesn't make sense. The PS4 was at it end with alot of consoles sold. PS5 is halfway. It will be the same if Nintendo releases a new Mario on the next console and everyone will be saying it's a failure because it didn't sell as much as the previous in switch.

Wasn't this announced last year that they were going to restructure development on games because they had to many projects going on.

Looking forward to it. Hopefully a more colorful Sonic world this time.