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@CutchuSlow Yeah there's anime on Amazon prime and Netflix as well.

@Sifi Gamepass doesn't change the fact it flopped worse than Redfall on Steam.

Hilarious that people are even comparing this game to the The Order because at least that game had some decent gameplay.

Hellblade 2 is just some pretentious tripe that seems to have flopped badly on PC as well with even less of a peak concurrent than Hi-fi and even Redfall lol.

Apparently Shinobi602 said that big changes are coming when people were talking about a price increase and tier change so hopefully this move kills gamepass and makes cod less relevant.

Nice and according to Jez Corden's latest article over on windows central or the insider gaming article, everything is coming to playstation, even Halo infinite.

Lol, the haters, mainly Xbox fans are trying too hard to spin this into something bad and it seems I ruffled some feathers with my comments from yesterday so how about I ruffle a few more. Xbox only managed about 800k on their last quarter lmao at this rate I doubt they even crack 40 million by the end of the generation. It's Xbone all over again, actually it's worse so no amount of Phil's begging is going to stop Satya from scrapping the hardware this time.

@UltimateOtaku91 Yeah it is no surprise Christopher Dring said that developers are already questioning whether it is worth it to port to Xbox. PC & Nintendo are big markets though and at least they buy games.

Well Bandai Namco just released the platform split for Tekken 8 and it was -

• 53.18% PC
• 39.35% Playstation
• 7.47% Xbox

So as you can see Xbox is inconsequential at this point.

They'll benefit from PC and Nintendo though.

Well it's Sony's choice. You may not like it but they get to pick and choose which markets they do business in so the PC Pirate Race aren't actually entitled to anything.

Europe making sure Xbox ports all their games lol.

Well it isn't a Japanese game so that's actually pretty decent and it was 10 days of sales not 2 weeks, Push. 👍

@Stickleman You need to read between the lines. Game budgets are increasing but subscription numbers are not and that is basically Xbox's only model these days.

Phil's special interview with IGN that's scheduled after the showcase is going to be interesting. He's either going to announce more games going to the competition or say cod isn't going into gamepass day one or maybe he will say cod is going in but he'll announce a price increase along with it.

They are trying to put more 1st party content into it but without a subscription number bump it means less profit. If Hellblade fails to make an impact on subs then Ninja Theory will probably be closed next as well.

Tango Gameworks was a good studio and deserved better than this. Hopefully Shinji hires some of them at his new studio and it's a shame he doesn't own the Evil Within IP. As others have said Ninja Theory will probably be next on the chopping block after Hellblade fails to make an impact.

Actually Xbox can suck it they've done nothing but make the industry worse.

@LordAinsley It was at Amazon for a couple of days but it just ended. It was called the Today's deals discount, Sonic Superstars was only £12.50 but I'm not sure how much Cyberpunk was because I already own it. It was definitely cheaper than £29 though because that's the price it went back up to

@Neither_scene Really? I never saw that in the leaks I remember someone saying one of their games cost 30 million are you sure you're not thinking of Ratchet selling 2.7 million copies by February 22?

Edit: Nevermind I found it and you were correct but that's only for Ratchet and probably has something to do with the cartoon graphics.

@get2sammyb Yeah Sony should have just ignored them. The mob was actually beginning to turn on each other over on Reddit. The real Helldivers fans were starting to get annoyed by the ones who just wanted to destroy the game and Arrowhead just for being affiliated with Sony.

The melodramatics and infantile outrage over this is hilarious. No wonder some people still think gaming is just for kids.

@FullMetalWesker Basically all the big publishers expect you to create an account with them these days, it isn't something new and most of the people complaining just want something to complain about.

@UltimateOtaku91 Yep there's probably so few players in those countries that this was an easy decision to make and as long as Sony offers the people in those countries a refund if they want one then I don't see the problem.

It also means anyone who is still crying about it in the countries where PSN is supported can't pretend they're angry on their behalf anymore and will embarrass themselves even further if they keep having a temper tantrum over it.

Looking at that list of countries I doubt there's actually many people playing Helldivers in any of them. Anyone from those countries should be able to get a refund if they want one, or if they've already made a PSN with a different region already they can just keep playing if they want but the Karen's who are complaining about creating a PSN in the countries it is actually supported in, need to get a grip.

I'm happy with Ghostrunner 2 and I'll give Tunic a shot.

@wiiware When was the last time PSN got hacked? I think people are confusing the hacks on Sony's other divisions like Sony pictures and even the recent insomniac hack was just the studio and had nothing to do with PSN.

Forgive me if I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure the last PSN hack was back in 2011 so 13 years ago back when PSN was actually free so the PSN security and infrastructure was cheaply run back then.

This whole thing has been blown out of proportion, the only people who have a legitimate reason to be annoyed are the ones who are in a country where PSN isn't available and even then Sony may come up with a workaround. The rest of the people who are just angry because they have to make another account are clutching their pearls, especially when all the major publishers already require one, Rockstar, EA, Microsoft, Ubisoft, Blizzard and Epic etc and some of them even need launchers but somehow now that Sony wants to join the list it warrants a meltdown online from a bunch of drama queens.

@NEStalgia Haven't you learnt anything yet? History is written by the winners, seriously though I doubt barely anyone cared who was in charge before the PS4 era, I know I didn't, actually I still don't but I'm thinking yeah he'll still probably be credited by the blue bloods as you put it with getting Halo on playstation, that's if it actually happens this gen even if nothing he did actually caused it.

@NEStalgia It doesn't matter how it went down, when people look back Jim will get the credit for it even if it is undeserved. Selective memory will play its part.

@Nepp67 Were fans asking them not to port anything else because of the success of the show or something? Because I'm not surprised that didn't work if that's the case.

@NEStalgia Nevermind Jim will still be remembered as a hero. Well that's if Jez Corden's latest tweets and comments are correct about everything coming to playstation, even Forza and Halo, lol.

Jason Schreier said that the twisted metal game was never in development. According to him it never made it past the planning phase because Sony wouldn't give Firesprite the greenlight to start work on it and Firesprite's next game is rumoured to be a horror game.

Like many people here I'm waiting for a physical release and if it doesn't get one I'll just wait for a bargain bin digital sale price.

For some reason I was considerably less interested in the sequel from the get go so the wait is easy.

Yeah I remember reading an article around the time everyone was saying Foamstars wasn't doing well where Square said going forward they are going to start focusing more on Quality than Quantity.

People forget taste is subjective these days, sure BG3 is objectively the better game apparently, but to me it is still a load of crap. Given the choice I'd much rather play Stellar Blade then it and on my personal ratings scale I'd score it higher as well.

@RBRTMNZ Then I guess you also looked at the reviews that gave it zero's because they are complaining about censorship or the zero's from people who say the game is bad because it is sexualised.

Personally I would give this game a 6/10 and the same goes for the TV show which I finished watching last night.

The last episode was also pretty bad and made me regret even watching it in the first place.

@Sifi Sorry if the facts hurt you but it can't be helped. 🤷‍♂️

@Kidfunkadelic83 "so what happens when you start getting story and gameplay elements censored for you?"

Sorry to be the one to tell you this but games have been getting censored since the 80's and there's lists of them online but a lot more get censored behind the scenes in order to get rated you just don't usually find out about them.

Censorship definitely sucks and deserves some pushback but it is also needed to a certain degree so no matter what it'll never stop, it will just continue behind the scenes as usual. The studios will just be more careful next time to make sure people don't find out about it.

@Nowings Nope Crystal Dynamics own it now and according to what they've said Lara won't actually raid any tomb's anymore.

@Jey887 Xbox smart delivery still sucks because they only put the Xbone version of the game on the disc even if you're buying it for the Series X, well that's if Xbox even bothered to try and put the game on the disc at all.

I guess we can take this as confirmation they'll bring more games over and Xbox consoles will somehow become even more irrelevant than they already are.

@boostsensei It is a choice, one that fromsoftware makes all the time. For example Elden Ring has more input delay than Stellar Blade.

@Lup Don't worry people tried to crucify them for it but the fact that Elden Ring has more input delay means they didn't have a leg to stand on. It makes me wonder how many people here who are claiming to have an issue with it also love Elden Ring.

I'm also definitely against censorship as well but I'm not stupid enough to ignore the fact ratings boards exist. Porn is actually illegal in South Korea so it stands to reason that their ratings board are probably a little stricter about this sort of thing and the same goes for gore in Japan. Did people with short attention spans already forgot the EA guy complaining just the other day about Dead Space Remake being banned in Japan.

@TruestoryYep He's probably talking about that tweet that 2 feminists at the studio apparently got fired for trying to interfere with the game, which was never proven by the way and the tweet and the random account was conveniently deleted a couple of hours later. This was at a time when certain people were doing their best to try and make everyone turn against the game because of the character design, so make of that what you will, also he seems a bit annoyed by that 8/10 lol, I wonder why.

@Gamer83 Resident Evil is censored in Japan. When you shoot zombies in the head their heads never explode and in RE7 when Mia cuts his hand off with the chainsaw the screen fades to black and you don't actually see it.

@Balie3000 Yeah it was definitely the different levels of gore. There's a video on YouTube called Dead Space Remake 4 minutes of gore or something like that and it showcases all the MC's gory death animations.

That EA guy is just acting like a spoilt drama queen because he didn't get his way.

@JalapenoSpiceLife "because modern gaming is this in a nutshell, grindy open worlds over and over lol."

And that's because a lot of idiotic gamers think that if a game is "linear" then isn't worth buying.

@Cikajovazmaj Switch 2 probably.

@DETfaninATL Yeah you're not wrong to see Bayonetta similarities because he actually said Nier Automata, Bayonetta and Sekiro were his inspirations for Stellar Blade.

I bought a physical copy of this for £1 from Cex years ago and gave up after an hour. I liked 3 and New Vegas at the time but honestly Bethesda games just bore me now.

@LikelySatan Yeah it is on the playstation blog now. They hired someone famous from Korean cinema to design the monsters for them out of clay and then scanned them in.

He's worked on some Korean movies like The Host. I've never seen it but I checked rotten tomatoes and it has a 93% score from critics.

Yeah imo those are some cool looking monster designs and apparently they were made out of clay first and then scanned into the game.

That says peak daily active users not sales. Do people look at steam concurrent and say that's how many copies it sold? That's just the peak DAU it got. The sales will obviously be higher than that but how much higher is impossible to know unless square gives a number but after the way the journalist's reacted after squares ff16 comments I don't blame them for not saying anything.

@UltimateOtaku91 I got it from HMV it is £62.99 free delivery of course.