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It looks and sounds fantastic. This almost makes me want to dust off my crappy psp to play patapon again. For some reason I never finished it.

So Sony basically paid a lot of money so people who are already playing the game won't have any major update for 12 month? What kind of ugly move is that? This is one of the worst exclusive agreement I've seen

Regardless of the reason, an indie dev should focus on the most recent hardware to make the best game possible.

I really don't like this console generations where most developers refuse to move on and drop 9yo hardware. If this continues, they will release cross-gen games on PS4/5/6

At least it wasn't held back to be compatible with old hardware, like HFW which has fog that magically appears only to hide all the details as soon as you are 10m above the ground so it could run on a PS4.

And if the sales aren't good, they'll blame the west and pat themselves on the back for not releasing a physical version. Why would they even bother with logic?

"OP, will probably need a nerf". Are they planing a battle pass?

Meanwhile, Bobby Kotick is laughing at all the poor people who don't make 200 million dollars per year and consider the battle pass too expensive.

It can't be worse than what you can make in Pokémon Scarlet/violet.

Big developers always wait until after the reviews to release a patch that makes the game worse and push players into macro-transactions (not a typo).

I wish reviewers would update the score when something like this happens to reflect the actual state of the game

@get2sammyb Knowing Sony's greed, I don't see why they would sell is cheaper than their overpriced Elite controller. I'd say the minimum price will be 250$, or 300+€.

The good news is, I won't be tempted until sony gets it together and has enough stock to sort the scalpers problem... So, probably mid 2026. By this time we'll be talking about ps6 shortages coming up

I'm pretty sure they will keep trying to make live services for the next 100 years as long as one in a hundred makes money to cover other losses. In the end, all the studio's which failed will be acquired by Microsoft, EA, or another evil giant

@themightyant This is pretty much what I do with most games. They are way too often released as overpriced mess and get better and cheaper overtime. There are too many good games I haven't played to justify paying 70+€ for a broken game.

This reminds me of How I met your mother, when they get high on huge sandwiches.

If physical copies disappear completely, I'll start jailbraking my consoles and wear an eye patch. If you can't own anymore games and have to download them anyway, you might as well stop paying for it.

Wait, what??? No greed from Ubichiotte?

I'm still worried they are focussing way too much on recapturing nostalgia, and not enough on creating a good game. But at least they are trying something instead of filling a map with too many icons and adding more crappy light RPG elements.

Play has no calorie limit

If it ever succeeds, chapter 2 of this BS will be Antitrust filed against Microsoft.

I'd love for them to go through that whole 69 billion dollars ordeal, just to have the parent company being dismantled under Antitrust law.

They should have been nominated for best random thing when Joel picks up a gun AND looks for ammo on a corpse in the last episode. This happens so rarely in a film of TV series, they deserve an award for this.

Also the best giraffe nomination is missing

So much for the game being so perfect, it would never need a post launch patch.

Nintendo forgot to whine about TotK not selling as expected. It didn't even have an attachment rate of over 100% like BotW.

It feels like developers don't even know how to fully exploit modern hardware and most games are still cross-gen. I really don't see why they would want a revised version at this point. They would have to optimise it on 4 different different playstation consoles, when many devs struggle to make a decent release even on a single platform.

@BlaizeV He would have been sentenced to prison for life if this crime was taken into account.

{sarcasm:on} They should further increase the retail price and add NFTs. I'm sure it would sell a lot more {sacrasm:off}

I lost interest years ago when they dropped platinum games as a co-developer. Cygames is a mobile game developer and they don't have experience with a game this size on console. Hopefully they will prove me wrong

You guys are really desperate to keep talking about FF16 for no reason (except the advertising contract you definitely have with Sony or Squeenix). It's not like it's the first game that falls victim to rule 34.

Nintendo Life would go bankrupt considering they puke Sega article as if it was a Nintendo brand.

I would have probably bought it if they weren't so greedy with their 80€ games. Instead of buying it at a normal launch price, I'll wait for it to drop below 40€

I played version 1.5 on PS5 and it kept crashing every few hours. Considering it was supposed to be a huge improvement compared to the release day, I can only imagine how broken it was

@sanderson72
Next: being the first one after the present one or after the one just mentioned (from Cambridge dictionary).

"next-gen" is a marketing BS, regardless of the old gen still being around. It's like talking about today as "next Tuesday". It would sound incredibly dumb. The day a new gen is released, it should be considered current gen.

The only reason it was called next gen is because Sony and Microsoft wanted to have a much more powerful generation and invented that dumb term so stupid people would think it was revolutionary. Today (which still isn't called "next Tuesday" btw), it has no meaning whatsoever. Also a PC should be called "gen-after-next" if you still want to call your ps5 "next-gen".

A game that will get PS6 features on PS5? You probably meant "current-gen", not that stupid marketing BS that has been around since the PS3 era. I thought we went over this.

We already had our daily dose of Xbox BS. Maybe make it a weekly summary instead before everyone gets bored. Take your time figuring it out. I'll block all ads on your website until then.

I'm so glad we got our daily dose of Xbox BS. Can you make it into a weekly complication of all Xbox/FTC/whatever crap instead of vomiting 135 articles a day about this?

Is there an activision-free RSS feed for Push Square? It's hard to see useful articles drowned between this and FF16.

I didn't see Nintendo buy 69 billion dollars worth of developers in the GameCube or WiiU era. Maybe the FTC should limit Sony and Microsoft's acquisition to what Nintendo spends on acquisition. That would shut them up once and for all.

48h is way too short for a beta test. They won't have time to patch it on other platforms before release.

I'll wait for Spider-Man 2 under-40€-edition. I'm not paying 80€ for a game that will most likely get a 30+€ season pass, so 110€ in total.
I still have plenty to play, so I can wait for a proper discount on a fully patched game that includes all DLC.

Next-gen = PS6. Screw that marketing nonsense.
And thanks for talking normally at Push Square.

Anything prior to 1.5 would be considered a beta version, something like v0.4. So your v3.0 is laughable.

Those practices suck.
But you do something similar when you only report playstation releases and never mention other platforms when a game is announced. I guess the whole industry works the same way.

Another articles that highlights the sad state of gaming. A game that isn't fully broken at launch or doesn't include microtransactions is rare enough to warrant a news.

@mariomaster96
Video game iconic duos from the top of my head:
EA/micro transactions
Activision/Lootboxes
Nintendo/DMCA
Bethesda/Broken games that are never patched
Sony/Awful firmware at launch (at least for TV and consoles)
Preorder/disappointment

I completely forgot about this game. It's too bad Disney broke the EA exclusivity to get French EA (aka Ubisoft) to make a game probably filled with macro-transactions and DLCs.

Hopefully it won't be yet another generic Ubisoft openworld with a Star wars theme. After Elden ring and TotK, I don't want to go back to openworld maps filled with a trillion icons you need to clear like a boring checklist.

I bet everyone is looking forward to Bubsy 3D Remake.

I was beginning to wonder if they would keep this stupid trend until they make cross gen PS4-5-6 games

Why is it still called "micro" transactions? They are rarely micro and sometimes over a hundred €/$/£. These should be called macro-transactions. Or theft in the case of a full price game that also happens to include another type of theft, aka battle pass.

Why would you put 2 games you rated 6/10 and one 5/10 on that list? At least give us a list of games you rated highly.

I'm surprised EA doesn't sell bug fixes in lootboxes.