RainbowGazelle

The poll is too simplistic. It depends on genre, and how skilled I am at it. For example, I know I'd be awful at, and get frustrated by, FtomSoftware games, but I absolutely love Hollow Knight. It's a deliberately difficult game, however I'm much better at 2D Metroidvanias than parrying and blocking in 3D environments. So I can't really answer your poll.

That seems to be Sony's thing this generation. Make lots of hardware, but no software to support it.

I didn't realise this is coming to PS4 too. Thanks for the heads up!

I'll just not buy it.

Not putting it on PS4 is a scummy move, if the Switch can run it.

Sounds like a good thing I was asleep. I appreciate checking the headlines on Push Square though. The Lego Hotizon game looks neat.

I love that poster! The comic strip also doubles as instructions telling the player what buttons to press to play!

Will the teasing for Ape Escape 4 ever endddd?!

@ED_209 Okay, fair. Sony simply aren't making games that interest me anymore, I guess. I loved those more experimental titles.

Aside from Astro Bot, Sony simply aren't making unique, interesting games anymore. They closed down all the studios that did that.

Astro Bot looks great!

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That's it. So, "poor", I guess.

Finally a great exclusive for PS5! Rescue Mission was wonderful. If I ever get a PS5, this is top of my to buy list.

Yep, firing employees, closing down studios, and jacking up prices will do that. I'm so happy for those shareholders.

A good time to stop buying games, if this is the way things are heading.

@nomither6 It doesn't need to be a substitute for a console, because it is a console. A handheld one, granted. And you're right, without my PS4 I wouldn't enjoy gaming as much on just the Switch. Shame about the current boxes from Sony and Microsoft though.

@nomither6 Exactly. Doesn't compare in what, though? Power? Obviously. I thought the conversation was about sales?

Wow, these are the "sale" prices?

@nomither6 A handheld what? That's right, a handheld console.

PS2 again, at last!!! Now please Ape Escape 3!!!

I'm happy we've now got the entire main series on PS4! 9 mainline games, plus Isshin and the Judgment games. And 3 Shenmue games too! Incredible!

Let me know if they ever release this game properly, instead of this battle pass, live-service crap.

Thanks for reporting on this properly and mentioning all the various physical editions, not just the Limited Run ones, unlike Nintendo Life. Much more helpful for us readers to have the full news and not just bits cherry picked by the writer.

I'm sorry but this is the main reason I've lost interest in PlayStation this gen. They've closed down all their experimental studios. If it's not a big budget, movie-like, then Sony aren't interested. Another great studio gone that will be missed, just like Japan Studio. I won't be surprised if Media Molecule and Astro Studio follow soon.

C'mon, Ape Escape 3, so I can have the whole trilogy on my PS4!!!

No gameplay. Pointless. Nothing to see here until they show us the actual game.

Sony making more profits! Better fire more employees.

Well I still haven't seen a single reason to buy a PS5, so it's been godawful as far as I'm concerned.

@pharos_haven Was the hitching only in multiplayer? The article implies it was for the whole game.

@GamingFan4Lyf @NEStalgia I'm wondering the exact same thing.

Absolutely disgusting. The scumbags at the top ruining other people's lives because literally billions of dollars somehow still isn't enough for these pigs.

So how does a fix work without a patch? Does this game have an always online requirement?

$130 for a game that requires online. This'll go the same way as The Crew sooner or later. I've got better things to waste my money on, than games with planned obsolescence.

And people think full games still "only" cost $70. That was just another prices increase on top of multiple other price increases for worse quality.

And yet, they fired over 900 employees, and have no games.

@SuntannedDuck2 Yeah, I totally agree with what you're saying. I appreciate retro and new games, but a lot of the newest trends just aren't for me. I'm 29, by the way, but sometimes I feel older! 😅

I must be getting old. I haven't seen a single must-have exclusive game on the PS5 or Xbox Series. PlayStation has got rid of absolutely everything I loved about it. There's no Japan Studio or the like anymore. So I'm perfectly happy with my PS4. Games are getting more and more broken, expensive, scummy, and repetitive. Gamers just seem to argue about framerates and graphics, not quality of actual fun gameplay. There's nothing new. There's nothing interesting. And consoles are more expensive, and charge extra just to play online with friends. Honestly, I only see any point to buying occasional indies on PC, because consoles are offering nothing these days. Like I said, I must be getting old.

"Jakks Pacific Toys is making this one, so you can be pretty confident in its quality."

Yep. I'm a huge Streets of Rage fan, and was actually recently just wishing that someone would make good figures, but this ain't it. The sculpt looks pretty awful. If they did a full set then maybe I'd get them, but this Axel on his own looks very cheap, and not really like the character at all.

Good old PS4. No reason to move on to PS5. I've got games to play for years.

I just feel glad I've never played a Persona game before. The way Atlus are treated their fans is outright disgusting.

That's still less than my current pay as an assistant English teacher in Japan.

Hahahaha. Who could have seen this coming??

It's because
1. Gamers expect everything to be in 8K at 10000000fps, which is totally unnecessary, and
2. CEOs and shareholders are leeches, only interested in stealing as much money from the industry as possible.

It's heartbreaking reading the quote from one of the London Studios developers in that tweet. Forced to make live service crap due to misguided idiots at the top, but of course the lowly employees get axed when management realise they've f-ed up. Disgusting from Sony. They're slowly closing down every creative studio they had. Everything I loved about PlayStation is completely dead. And there's really no reason to stick around...

The final nail in the coffin. Sony really have become the villain this gen.

"controls — which encourage sending out the yo-yo with the right stick and jumping with R1"

Cool! Sounds like Ape Escape. I'll read a few more reviews before deciding whether to buy. These mini ones are never terribly helpful.

It' seems pretty ridiculous to me that a preamble was thought to be required. I honestly can't believe that someone's first reaction would be, "Wah, the graphics suck!" before even knowing anything about the game. Like, does it even look all that bad? Have I been playing on Switch for too long? If that's the immediate reaction, then no wonder the high-end gaming market is in the state that it's in. Game looks fun, or at least interesting. I couldn't give a crap about muh gafiks!!!!

@EliteSlayer I got it for Christmas and played through the whole game as Christmas Sonic. Was fun!

I thought it looked great in the trailer. Very Resident Evil. What were people expecting it to look like?!

I'm going to quote something from Reggie Fils-Aimé's autobiography that I feel is particularly relevant here. This was Nintendo's line of thought as they were researching business literature when designing the Wii:

"The first book we agreed to use was The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen. Christensen wrote that businesses need to constantly reevaluate whether to continue along their existing path that caters to current consumer needs or adopt new approaches that meet future and maybe unarticulated needs. This fit well with the gaming industry as both PlayStation and Xbox were pushing on traditional vectors: more realistic visuals supported by increased processing power. Nintendo believed this was a dead end. More realistic visuals by themselves did not result in a better game. And more processing power would lead to higher costs and higher consumer prices, which would limit the potential market, versus expanding it."

I'm of course not saying Sony and Microsoft have brought nothing of value to gaming; that would be complete and utter rubbish. However, Nintendo were right about the general trajectory of gaming, all those years ago. Big games now take too long to make. They cost too much to make. Apart from shinier graphics, most games aren't innovative. They aren't new. They aren't fun. And they're becoming more and more about squeezing extra cash out of consumers, rather than delighting customers. We've essentially gone full circle back to arcade games, which were designed to harvest as much money as possible. The number of remakes coming out just seems to emphasise how out of ideas modern big games are. What happened to Sony's incredible, totally off the wall library of varied franchises? Big and small? The studios that made them are closed down. Sony seem capable of only making huge expensive games now, in the same franchises, because if they don't, people complain that the graphics suck, or they won't take the risk on new IP that costs $70. And it's a corner they (and the gaming industry) have backed themselves into. But it just isn't sustainable, or else we get mass layoffs and huge droughts, like we're experiencing now.

Just my genuine, honest thoughts as someone who's owned and loved every previous PlayStation, but sees no reason to buy a PS5.

Bizarre from Capcom, considering they usually give physicals to every region except Europe. It's nice to have it the other way around for a change. Is this releasing physically only on PS5, or PS4 too?

It feels like the PS3 era to me: lots of drab colours and depressing realism. Lots of technically amazing games for those who are into them, but this has just reaffirmed that PS5 doesn't really have any games that I'm interested in. Silent Hill 2 did look very like Resident Evil though. That'll hopefully be good.