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@PuppetMaster @breakneck here's a recent interview with the director of Silent Hill and Gravity Rush and according to him the reason he and a lot of his colleagues left was basically Sony wanted them to make a big budget AAA game but they didn't want to so they left and it led to the closure of Japan Studio.

https://gamerant.com/silent-hill-creator-leaving-sony-japan-studio-explanation/

Lol at the people who are falling for Xbox's BS. Xbox are trying to change the game because their hardware failed but consoles will still be around for a very long time.

Obviously not Xbox consoles though because they're on their last legs.

25k is actually more than I thought. I was hoping it would do less than that.

When we saw the little teaser trailer for this I was expecting a cool sci-fi shooter with characters that were closer to the something like the space marines out of Aliens or a John carpenter movie or something.

Yeah it was my own fault for thinking that but I definitely don't like this modern audience slop that it turned out to be.

@DarkTron Yeah and it's starting to look increasingly likely that their source was just someone salty from Xbox, running damage control because it's another BG3 situation lol.

And now Paul Tassi is starting to walk back on his original statement.

IGN & FORBES is an absolute clown show lol.

EDIT: so apparently Tom Warren tweeted and backtracked as well but then he got some grief on his discord about it so he deleted the tweet.

Jeff Grub has chimed in now saying his sources have told him there is no exclusivity deal.

@Rodimusprime1313 When Sony pays studios to make a game for them they do want ownership of the IP if possible. They do that because they lost games they paid for like crash bandicoot to Vivendi who later merged with Activision.

Square still owns everything final fantasy though.

eXtas1s, Lunatic Ignus and Schpeshal Nick from XboxEra are all saying Tassi's source is wrong and there is no exclusivity deal.

It looks similar enough to me that the disc drive they sell now probably still fits so I'd imagine it is just the same as what they do now and you can buy it with or without and can attach one whenever you want.

Honestly it would be stupid if it doesn't.

@Rog-X Just how well do think this game is going to sell? And how much money do you think will be left after you deduct the budget and marketing costs plus Steam, Sony and Disney's cut? Also I won't be covering any Gamepass costs because I won't be buying it seeing as it looks like a VR game.

Erm, how much is it? Asking for a friend. 😅

@BloodyBlact Nobody needs it but it'll probably look really nice with Ray Tracing.

@WhiteRabbit Yeah these price increases definitely suck but this to bring it inline with the prices elsewhere because the Japanese yen is in a terrible state. I'm pretty sure this is the real reason we haven't seen the Switch 2 yet. Nintendo are holding out, hoping it bounces back because they don't want it to be too expensive at launch in Japan.

@cburg That Metaphor: ReFantazio trailer has 3x the amount of views on the playstation channel even though Xbox paid for some marketing rights.

Thanks now I feel better. 👍

@breakneck Yeah it's already over 10k now lol.

They've just dropped a trailer over on Playstations YouTube channel as well.

I actually agree that mechanically this game is a 7 but Sony made a serious error of judgment when they allowed Firewalk free rein on the design choices.

This game has the complete opposite of mass appeal, someone should have realised the game was being fashioned to just suit an absolutely minuscule target demographic and stepped in and made some drastic changes.

Well then I guess I'll forget it exists like Atlus wants then pick it up in a deep sale.

Well that's what happens when you just pander to a tiny target audience instead of the majority of gamers.

What's funny is the people they are pandering to still didn't even come out and support it.

Well then I look forward to seeing what games they come up with.

New reports are saying that the PS5 has sold out in China because of Black Myth Wukong as well.

Well this is most games as long as it isn't a bad port and you have a decent PC.

South Korea is mainly a PC and Mobile market so that makes sense.

@WizzNL Yeah I actually think it looks like a VR game.

It just passed Counterstrike and now has the 3rd highest all time peak players on Steam with 1.9 million peak concurrent.

It's almost as if most gamers just care if a game is good and don't care for the virtue signalling.

The panic over on resetera over the numbers this game is doing was amusing though.

This trailer and the gameplay video sold me on it so I pre-ordered it from Amazon.

It's only £55 because of the £5 off preorder bonus.

Doesn't seem like anyone cared about the controversy that western journalists were trying to stir up because the game just went over 1 million concurrent players on steam lol.

Edit: it surpassed Cyberpunk & Elden Ring and has the highest concurrent peak for a single player game ever on Steam and it is now 4th on the all time peak list.

@awp69 Shinobi602 didn't start the Forza rumour that was eXtas1s.

Shinobi just said a big Xbox game for PS5 will be announced next week.

It being 1st person still puts me off but I guess we'll see if it actually works once it releases.

It'll still be a console exclusive, for the time being at least.

So they've definitely been cooking and I know I shouldn't but I'm getting hyped again so I hope they pull it off because it looks great.

If you don't own it and have never played it before then it is probably worth it but if you have then I would wait for a sale.

Yeah I've been interested in this since I first saw the trailer so I'll definitely check it out.

Well Tom Warren just said Xbox is gearing up to do their second round of playstation ports so whatever they announce next week is just the start of the second batch of games.

@WhiteRabbit @Athrum @dskatter @get2sammyb Well I had never read their press release and just saw this slide so I assumed they had acquired them all.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GUxgwXhWwAAUBVp?format=jpg&name=medium

@Godot25 Yeah I hadn't seen or read their press release. I had just saw that slide talking about acquiring new Ip and the integration of Tango and all 3 IP listed so I they assumed acquired them all.

Krafton just posted their financials and they got Evil Within and GhostWire Tokyo as well.

@Godot25 No, Krafton just posted their financials and they got Evil Within and Ghost Wire Tokyo as well.

@Deoxyr1bose Yeah I wasn't saying they'd have been any better off under Sony but I would've still preferred if Sony had got them back then instead of Meta.

Yeah Reality Labs is currently losing Meta about $8 billion a year and total losses are now at $45 billion but Ready at Dawn were actually a decent studio and I would've liked for them to get a shot at an Order sequel so it was a shame Sony didn't buy them instead.

@Haruki_NLI @NoHope Last year was a record breaking year for console sales for them so it is no suprise they are down compared to that.

@Steel76 Well PS5 has 698 games with a native PS5 version while Xbox Series consoles only have 438 so they are still doing okay in that regard, especially compared to the competition but of course they aren't all exclusives.

@NEStalgia Straight from Wiki -

VirtualLink was a proposed USB-C Alternate Mode that was historically intended to allow the power, video, and data required to power virtual reality headsets to be delivered over a single USB-C cable instead of a set of three different cables as it was in older headsets.[1][2] The standard was supported by Nvidia, AMD, HTC Vive, Oculus VR, Valve, and Microsoft.[3] The VirtualLink Consortium was chaired by Rambo Jacoby representing Nvidia.[citation needed] VirtualLink never launched successfully.

AMD was originally supposed to support it and they were also part of the consortium.

Well it seems to be working for people with Virtual link ports without any need for the adapter so I guess it makes sense, they must have thought that port was going to be on everything going forward but it basically got killed off and for the people saying why didn't they say this from the very beginning, well that wouldn't help them sell PS5's now would it.

Hostile Takeover?

I'm curious what the 3rd game is that's getting spun out into Playstation Studios as well and I wonder when we'll find out the name of this new studio.

@Max_the_German Edit: Nevermind someone else already sourced it.

For anyone who likes no man sky VR, Hello Games just said they were going to do more with PSVR2. I'm not sure if they are actually talking about NMS though, maybe their new survival game, Light No Fire is going to have a VR mode as well.