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Yeah personally I'd prefer they focused on Wolverine and that Venom game if it's actually happening.

@Deoxyr1bose Would you have preferred if they waited 2 more days before they announced it? It'll have been 15 months by the time it releases on PC anyway and honestly I'm surprised this one didn't come sooner because of that leaked build from the insomniac hack.

@LowDefAl Then I guess you'll be happy to hear physical copies sold out in loads of countries really fast and now there's long wait times for a physical copy while retailers are waiting for new stock.

It's a disgusting practice that I'll never support but if a fool wants to waste his money then that's their business so whatever.

I'm willing to give this a try. I have already added it to my library because I thought it looks interesting enough.

@NEStalgia You're Wii U comparison is r*t*rd*d. One is a console and the other is just an accessory also that 3% is not the global adoption rate and even if it was it wouldn't matter seeing as it's just basically a controller that's sold separately.

@Oz_Who_Dat_Dare Yeah but those Westerns still have an Eastern influence and I understand not wanting it to be like one of those old movies but that's arguably why these games are so popular. They appeal to fans of both genres.

@Oz_Who_Dat_Dare Except Clint Eastwood's spaghetti westerns are inspired by Kurasowa movies and sucker punch's ghost games are inspired by Kurasowa movies so it isn't fair to say they are using western trappings because any similarities are because of that.

@PloverNutter Yeah but you lost me on the only weapon is a bow.

There's a few different types of weapons in Horizon with alternate ammo types and effects. Like spears and slingshots and tripcasters and a rapid fire crossbow that sort of fires like a gun and saw blades that are like boomerangs also turrets that are like miniguns etc.

Horizon online definitely seems like it has potential but I feel like Monster Hunter Wilds will dampen people's enthusiasm for it.

Don't they already state you're buying a licence to use the game in the fine print or something?

Still £15 for a new copy of the complete edition at Amazon and that's why physical copies are important.

Well I ended up watching it and I'm glad I did. There was a couple of games there that interested me and a couple I'm excited for.

Yeah this is legit. The Stellar Blade soundtrack just dropped on Apple Music as well.

I'm interested in Hell is us and some Astro and Stellar DLC but I'm already shattered so I'm not sure if I'll still be awake for this and it doesn't look like it's worth staying up for anyway. Unless ofc when they say over 20 there's like 24 games or something so there's room for a couple of surprises.

@johnedwin Yep, I'm not surprised and the fact they choose to just ignore Sweet Baby's involvement in Deadlock because it was made by Valve just further proves they are also bunch of petty hypocrites.

@johnedwin You mean just like Deadlock? But they are suddenly fine with it because Valve made it.

Not looking forward to the mad scramble to get one but if I do manage to get at least something I want then I'll be happy.

@naruball True but if Sony puts Denuvo in it'll just give them something else to cry about.

PC players are a bunch of drama queens and always have been. There's a thread on the Steam community forum or whatever the F it is called where they were all trying to convince people to buy the game just to review bomb it for the PSN requirement.

Part of the reason why Ragnarok's player count is also lower is because of FF16. Some of the people who would've bought Ragnarok are playing FF16 at the moment.

@CallMeDuraSouka Yeah and it's massively skewed by PC which should be counted separately.

@bestuardo If you listen to that Colin guy he claims Sony put $200 million in it in the first quarter of 2023 so he's basically saying it cost them $200 million for about a years worth of development.

He's talking out his ass.

Yeah this sounds like a load of bull.
Sony didn't even get involved until 2021 so unless Probably Monsters and its investors spent $200 million on it before Sony got involved then I think I think it's a load of crap.

$200 million for those 3 years Sony was involved would be more believable.

Yeah I have no problem with remasters I just don't think they are remastering the right games.

Still though I'm actually okay with the ones they are doing if they offer a £10 upgrade path and hopefully some additional content like No Return.

@Ypmud Nope Sony owns the Heavenly Sword IP and I'd love to see it return in a remake or at least a remaster. If they don't want to do it themselves hopefully they let someone license the IP like they just did with Freedom Wars.

Free upgrade or £10 upgrade path or I'm definitely not interested.

I realise this was probably because of the Netflix show that fell through, they were most likely almost done with the remaster before that happened but without the show it makes this remaster even more pointless than it already was.

@UltimateOtaku91 Yeah licencing the old IP'S they weren't going to return to themselves is a good idea, much better than the horizon remaster anyway.

I mean I like horizon but it definitely feels unnecessary.

This is great news and about 10 months ago someone on Resetera said they heard Bandai and Sega were working on Sony IP.

So if Namco did this then I wonder what Sega is working on.

@colonelkilgore Free upgrade for anyone that already owns it.

Really glad the sales seem to be decent.
@UltimateOtaku91 The UK analyst Christopher Dring added a bit more context in a follow up tweet about how well it's currently doing in the UK.

According to him Astro Bot is the fastest-selling original platformer IP outside of Mario in the last decade, beating the likes of iconic names like Sonic, Kirby, Crash Bandicoot, at least in the UK.

PC players could have set the record straight but they seem to be feigning ignorance.

When a PC player says I'm 1440p with dlss they are actually 960p upscaled to 1440p. Balanced though what Nvidia recommends is actually only 835p so pssr does the rest similar to dlss.

@HonestHick True, there's plenty of people saying they want these kind of games but then they don't actually buy them. It's still at #2 on UK Amazon just behind Space Marine and #3 on UK PSN though.

Dring thinks it will have a longer tail and Christmas is coming up. Hopefully lifetime sales will be okay for this type of game in the end.

@HonestHick Definitely didn't set the sales charts alight but it was Dring who compared it to Ratchet. Now he's comparing it to Crash Bandicoot 4 and Sonic Frontiers, he's saying it had better 1st week sales then both of them and they are are cross gen and multiplatform games.

It's a 10 and anyone who thinks otherwise needs a kick up the ass.

Didn't do that well in Japan but the 1st week sales for Astro are 21% higher than Rift Apart in the UK according to Christopher Dring.

So after all the crying the disc drive is currently outselling the Series S and X. Well at least on Amazon US.

Well the 1tb SteamDeck is £600 and that's garbage in comparison to the Pro so I'm probably still buying but I'll admit it's a bit steep.

If I needed one I would just wait for black Friday and from a supposed leak, a new improved dualsense is launching alongside the Pro.

Whether it's true or not I guess we'll just have to wait and see.

Well I guess I'll tune in for some secret sauce.

Then they should improve the whip combat because it looks terrible.

Nothing wrong with wanting to grow your IP portfolio but they should have been remaking and remastering the games people actually wanted instead of the games they've been doing.

Gamers do love to contradict themselves though. One minute they are like...

• WE JUST WANT NEW IP'S!

And the next

• JUST REMASTER YOUR OLD GAMES!

@Deadlyblack Yeah but you said it's the second highest rated game of the year when it isn't.

It's the highest rated game of the year so far because Erdtree is just an expansion. Nevermind though, it's an easy mistake to make.

@Deadlyblack So I guess we're pretending Erdtree isn't a DLC now also if you look at Opencritic.

• Astrobot 95
• Shadow of Erdtree 94

@UltimateOtaku91 Yeah I love Rebirth and Helldivers as well but I've never played Balatro.

Digital Foundry just dropped their Astrobot video, I haven't had a chance to watch yet but I think the title says it all.

Still sitting at 94 from 100 reviews on metacritic and I suppose this guarantees it a game of the year nomination.

That means Sony will have had a nominee for 10 years straight. Every year for the last decade is quite an achievement.

It looks like a steaming pile of 💩 but it probably will be massive because people just have bad taste these days.

Most people are probably long past caring at this point, that's if they even cared in the first place, I know I didn't.

I just see this as some snowflake journalists trying to direct some hate Game Science's way and Xbox trying to capitalize on by using it as an excuse to pretend it isn't the Potato S's fault again.

Ofc there's plenty of tinfoil hat wearing Xbox fans that will lap this stuff up though.

Well its main competition is probably Payday 3 so hopefully it's a lot better than that.

Redesign the characters, get rid of the useless pronouns and make some tweaks to improve the game then throw it on PSN and maybe change the name to FreeGunners or something.

Or better yet, if they can still use it as a tax write off somehow then just do that.

Probably don't have another game lined up to work on straight away so they are downsizing. This actually happens a lot but it definitely seems like a really ***** industry to be in, especially at the moment.

Well I've seen people say that was the Pro dev kit but I haven't seen anyone say it was the actual PS5 Pro but then again if that is the PS5 Pro Dev kit then isn't he still essentially teasing the PS5 Pro?