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@Northern_munkey it wasn’t advertised properly.

Once finding the £60 version, you had to click the 3 dots and then select the other version. Or at least that’s how I had to go buy it

@Titntin @Titntin crisis core is currently £18 physical in Argos, £20 in the game collection too

Sounds/looks interesting. But…

It’s a super hero game. So why do I want to play as a boring army guy, or what a large majority of gamers hate stealth sections with a spy?!

Plus it will be weird when my army guy can kill the same enemies as a superhero.

Also here to praise that sub header!

It’s decent enough for £25 but in all honesty currently it’s a bit shallow in its mechanics.

And IF this is true….

We now know the exact read Sony has been quiet on first party releases. They will want them
For this.

Think I may bite for PGA.

Been expecting it to come to EAplay. But for £17 seems worth it.

Please remember you are NOT getting $160 worth of plus.

It’s often on sale for far far far less. Making this ‘deal’ even worse.

And I fully agree stuff like this on gaming sites is highly irresponsible. Especially as there will be younger and nieve visitors here.

So the game is £60 + £30 expansion,

Can pretty much pick up a second hand series S and GPU for a month and play it there!

The first one was very buggy. Put me off last years.

But I’m certainly more curious with it including your own team, so I’ll keep my eye out

One of the best, if not the best game of the previous generation. It still holds up fantastic.

Varied weapons that all feel weighty where they should, some excellent monster designs and some good depth in mechanics and most importantly a solid endgame.

So it’s going to drop on pc around the time trailers start dropping for season 2 of the tv show. Start to hype it up again.

9/10 it’s well made, combat is good, all units have good roles and differences.

Personally had no issues with pacing or graphics etc.

Once again ff7 is the only answer.

I own all 3 consoles, so don’t miss out on any. That’s the way it has to be and it’s still a relatively cheap hobby.

But honestly SM2 cost £300m, it’s sold 10m. At an average of probably £55 (if not higher) which is £550m. So it’s making money and it’s making good money. So I personally don’t think big AAA need to go multi plat. For any console.

What should go multi plat is live service and smaller titles. HD2 should have been for instance. Not because it will sell loads more, but as marketing, you show those Xbox players (who only have an Xbox) the quality of titles that you get through Sony, this in turn can bring in more to the ecosystem.

Does it really matter that much?

It’s an outfit, on some pixels on a screen. Some people will like it, some won’t, many won’t care that much.

Surely it’s more about if the game is good?

So it’s 28% lower including PC? Which is probably a couple of million in numbers terms.

And if you then compare ps5 v ps5 figures it would be hugely different.

Bit of sensationalism in this article. Regardless of how good HD2 is doing.

Did any expect much different? Didn’t Ubisoft already say mirage would be like old games and red more like the most recent ones?

So they appeal for both fans.

Personally I enjoyed Valhalla, abit long in the tooth. But honestly if you drop the AC from Valhalla it wouldn’t have been criticised so much.

@bindiana well Spider-Man has had 3 full games since 2018, star ocean has had many full releases in that time frame. As has final fantasy to name a few with as many releases.

@bindiana it’s not 5 entries, it’s 3. Classing expansions as entries pushes it a little. And one of those 3 is on a niche VR platform.

If so then stuff like elder scrolls online, destiny 2, final fantasy, star ocean, GT, Spider-Man to name a few have done more.

Makes sense to keep the horizon game. It’s different than what’s out there already, and would fill a gap in the market.

And we all know it will be to a good standard.

Just use common sense, price it at a good price point and it will sell.

And IMO launch it on Xbox too.

Rebirth. There is no other acceptable answer this weekend

@get2sammyb Gotham knights is/was part of plus at some point, did you not claim it?

Yes started soon as home from work, luckily a pretty quiet weekend ahead!

@silverspeed it’s a driving game?! So yes all you do is drive.

You do your races, get your cash, buy/win new cars, upgrade them and do other races.

@Shepherd_Tallon it can be argued Sony are in a relatively strong position once all is sorted.

They are known for quality products. Games regularly get public and critical praise. Sony have ALOT of talent in their studios and usually during a slump people turn to what they know and trust. Luckily for Sony they have a lot of goodwill.

Whereas look at stuff from Ubisoft for example struggling for sales etc. and compare to helldivers

@get2sammyb yep creative accounting at its finest. Not that you can blame them because all companies do it.

But I’d love to see the full details on it.

@itsfoz at some point that bubble will burst, and in general terms of subscription. Too much fighting for our money. Even Disney are struggling to balance the books.

Something will give and it’s going to be painful for a lot of people.

Push a little in AA/short games.

It would break up those big AAA releases, pad quiet times and bring in revenue to cover running costs.

The cinematic AAA stuff isn’t going anywhere. Hence the push into other forms of media involving them.

Unfortunately employees are an easy cost to cut. No matter what industry. More AI will probably be used also.

As it’s ’across The industry’ I don’t think Sony has to over worry, it just needs to stay strong and let the industry find its new happy medium.

Hopefully some of those laid off across the sector can come together, get a few ideas going and potentially start up themselves!

@Krydle you would imagine that a deal for a game to join day 1 would be made months and months in advance. So yeah it probably would have been close to that amount.

@Matroska majority of day 1 releases turn up early. So yeah alls good.

Just pointing out that it’s made out to be some great deal, when realistically it’s not actually that great imo.

It’s obviously going to be fixed on Xbox.

But a bug?! Come on. Gamers can be stupid but not all are THAT stupid.

Or you can just buy rebirth physical for £55.

So that £70 isn’t such a great deal.

@Splat A lot.

MS believed they would be looking at £5million to add it to GP.

Using that figure.

That’s 100,000 copies at £50 to make that money.

Had it gone on GP you can imagine a couple of million of the 10 that bought it would play there.

So that would be at a guess £100million. So maybe £95million? Using conservative guesses.

Congratulations to them, well deserved success.

@Impossibilium

Like I said above, you can apply that logic to any game. (And the review does)

So why single out this one game for it? Simple answer is because it’s an Xbox studios game. No other reason for it.

We just want consistency across reviews.

@Amnesiac no no.

Everybody’s point is this has as a negative ‘may not be for everyone’ because it’s a slow burner.

Gt7 doesn’t have a negative saying ‘not for everyone’ because you may not like track sim.

Or GoW doesn’t say not for everyone because you may not like over the shoulder 3rd person.

It has happened on an Xbox release game.

If you are going to put it on one game you HAVE to apply the same standard to all reviews.

Xbox/steam etc etc all can use key websites to get them cheaper. So obviously search to see which is the cheapest.

PlayStation can’t. So obviously they will search less. As you can only buy the game from the store, or you go to your trusted retailer directly.

Didn’t this very site at the end of the year show the most played games by region?

Pretty sure it showed Japan as playing mainly gacha games.

Edit https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2023/12/playstation-reveals-most-played-games-of-2023-by-region-is-basically-a-waste-of-time

So they literally do what you are asking for? @get2sammyb

@GuttyYZ @get2sammyb it’s currently £8 at smyths.

@Darude84 you have a month to finish it, plus it’s been on there for months.

You can’t blame subscription for this. It’s how it works, stuff gets added stuff gets removed. Happens across gaming/tv and other subs.

Bit late reporting something that happened a week ago!

Actually having PS games on Xbox does help Sony (not just the financial aspect)

Because player picks up game, sees the quality etc of a ps studio game and then potentially buys into the PS ecosystem to play other exclusives.

(Obviously the same can happen for ms/nintendo)

@Czar_Khastik or it will be 2077

I said it regarding all live service stuff, needs to be on as many platforms as possible. Live service needs players and players who spend.

It would make sense to have it on all platforms.

Several of these are on GP. I wonder if that hurt sales more on other platforms than what they got paid to be on GP.

Outside of that, several of the games turned out to be pretty average or bad (total war) in a year of excellent games, average ones were always going to take a hit.

@BaldBelper78 I’d be very curious what revenue MS bring in in 12months time. Because if everything does keep going day1 ( or because you know early access) and most games become exclusive.

How much is revenue going to drop? Or will it genuinely push it higher?

Everyone forgetting the fact it’s only 30quid or so too certainly helps it

Maybe they are buying EA/Take2 and making EVERYTHING exclusive. Now that would be one way to deny it all. I jest of course.