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@themightyant You know the ONLY gamers who are obsessed with awards, as though it’s proof something is better then anything else no matter what someone’s opinion or tastes are, are PlayStation fans. I enjoyed the show but I wouldn’t give it any awards personally.

Well with Druckman basically confirming they’ve killed off the franchise now, this is the only way to get your Last Of Us fix, think I’ll reply the original game at some point, but it’s a story that lends itself very very well to a TV adaption.

@Frmknst These days Hollywood crap is exactly that, crap, usually made for the ‘modern audience’ too. I prefer films from the 80’s or 90’s personally. Games these days can be MUCH better.

Disney haven’t made anything decent in years for instance. But they disbanded the studio that made Split Second.

So what about Sonys own up scaling AI tech then? In the PS5 Pro, or are we to now assume that will be scrapped for AMD’s new solution.

God this is truly pathetic, because they stole the story from a game, made 6 films from it, an animation series in fact a few I think? Plus another 1 or 2 films, it’s just flogging that dead horse to try and make cash of its brand name. Just like Jurassic Park.. Heaven forbid Hollywood EVER comes up with something original.

At this Moment I am really not sure if I care at all about next gen consoles. Switch 2 looks interesting, but I also like my Steam Deck OLED, I am going to check out the Legion Go 2 also so may stick with PC handhelds as I've found that area to be interesting. I'll see. I'll wait to see what they offer first but at present I'm not overly interested in the next Xbox. I have a lot more interest for the Switch 2 then that currently.

I can see all next gen consoles including the Switch 2 getting price bumps over last gen, which makes them less attractive to be honest, Sony lost their friggin mids with the PS5 Pro pricing, so I don't have much hope PS6 and next Xbox will be under 550, Switch 2 under 400 UK pounds.

This game was the entire reason I got an Xbox 360 at the time, and stuck with it through 3 of them RROD'ing.. one of my all time favourite game franchises. Definite physical copy buy for me or may put it on my Christmas list. It is the game I miss the most having gone from Xbox to Sony.

I enjoyed this show, will have to sub back to the app it's on in the UK at in the summer. Paramount or whoever it is.

They are going to really drag the pain out then huh? FOUR!!

Wow an actual decent show! It had something for everyone, and showcased third party devs and lesser known Sony studios. A few games piqued my interest for sure, story driven single player games. That last game could be interesting and the Directive 8020 looked good. Tides Of Annihilation also looked interesting.

Intrigued to see what the Metal Gear game is about, not interested in the others. But with 40 minutes hopefully they will have LOTS to show.

I was actually able to play my current game just fine, playing through The Plucky Squire. I’m hooked on it lol. I also played on my Steam Deck a bit.

Glad to hear it seems more like a fault, a hell of a fault they had. They didn’t need to give us 5 free days of PSN either so that’s good, when you break down the cost it is to you for 24 hrs PSN it really isn’t much at all.

@Richy2025 No, servers do NOT ‘overload’, you are wrong, it takes a MAJOR entire network fault for this outage to happen, they also use Microsoft’s Azure network, and they had to block a massive ‘typhon’ attack over Christmas, and it’s very possible the same attackers went after Sony.

Sony also fired an undisclosed number of PlayStation staff in California this month, they didn’t publicised it though, so someone could have taken revenge. http://80.lv/articles/playstation-california-office-fires-an-undisclosed-number-of-employees/

My point is, it takes a major flaw or fault and I mean major to knock out a global network entirely for nearly 24 hours. A hack is at this time just as much a possibility as a major fault.

I agree with what I’ve been seeing elsewhere, you should all change your passwords, with Sonys TOTAL lack of transparency over this outage it may very well have been a hack. Not much can take an entire global network down for nearly 24 hours like that.

@KundaliniRising333 I agree with that, played SpiderMan a bit and it’s just dull to me. Likewise with any of the other super hero games I’ve tried bar Batman which is cool.

They could have rebooted it, given it current gen graphics and made it a PS5 exclusive, it would have sold loads as it would be an exclusive FPS game, but nooo Sony only wanted live service games for this gen..

Ah it’s up now! I’m in the UK.

It’s still not working, and nothing from Sony. I think they’ve been hacked again…

@KoopaTheGamer You’re kidding right? Every single time Sony has been hacked over the years, it took them ‘several’ days before informing anyone. And that included when its own staff personal details were stolen. If they have been hacked again, we will not be informed until mid next week probably. If it’s a technical fault I doubt VERY much Sony will tell anyone anything about it ever officially. That’s Sony.

@Gamer83 Lol after the 2011 hack I purposely removed all my personal data off Sonys servers, they have my email address only used for PSN and that’s it, no home address and I use PayPal for payments, and that has 2 factor authentication by a separate security app.

@QualityGeezer Really… not sure I believe that when I’m in the UK and it’s still down. Everything is still down.

PlayStation, the company that wanted its entire future to be Live Service games…

So the entire PSN goes down, again, globally, for several hours on a weekend, and no one here seems to want to complain? Typical. PSN is by far the most unreliable online service of any console. And it has been running since the PS3.

Oh and naturally instead of the new PlayStation CEO shining and apologising and informing everyone what’s going on, the entire company as per usual keeps its mouth firmly shut, and doesn’t tell one of its millions of paying customers what is happening.

@linkandnavi No Sony won’t let you do that. Good isn’t it? Just another mess up they’ve made.you have to cancel and let it expire before changing to a new one and by that time I expect the offer will be gone.

The one major flaw with Sonys ‘offers’ on PSN is for me to get them, I have to cancel my monthly subscription, wait for it to expire, then try and buy it again with the offer. Crap really.

I may watch this second season, really not bothered, I hated TLOU2 and thought Abby looked stupid with all the muscles, it was utterly pointless and didn’t add a thing to the character, like Drukman did it for the hell of it or his sense of the modern world?

@breakneck I never said it wasn’t a global console, that doesn’t change the fact it being run by Americans has damaged it. And Sony were stupid to put a man as obsessed with live service games as Ryan as joint CEO. Hopefully with a Japanese in charge it’ll change for the better. Nintendo used its strengths and roots and thrived, Sony has tried to change those and suffered.

@nomither6 This! Doesn’t matter if they had a Brit running it again, although Ryan is useless IMO, moving the entire PlayStation operation to America, closing other offices globally, makes it an American company! If people wanted that they’ll buy an Xbox.
I hope this will turn the ship around for them. IMO they should move the PlayStation HQ back to Japan and lay off a load of staff and shrink the American office down. Go back to their routes.

Sony have hit the panic button!
FINALLY they have found some common sense! Herman was as obsessed with the stupid ridiculous company killing live service game idea as Ryan was! They should fire him let alone demote him.

If they don’t take full control in Japan of PlayStation, reverse a LOT of what the American team have done, they are finished. Releasing a 700 dollar console you had to look to see the differences with wasn’t a genius idea, and with games costing so much they need to sell sell sell, not chase in app purchases.
PC and handheld gaming far exceeds Sonys market, and is growing exponentially.

I would laugh and think Sony has lost the plot and Ryan has recked the division with his obsession over live service.

Christ what is this company doing? They have a decent console, good sales, and have totally f****d up their games strategy! Now with next to nothing coming out.. because of their live service obsession. I think it should be taken totally back under Japan's control and hell even move the PS HQ out of America. I won't be getting another PlayStation currently, not until the company sorts itself out.

They have wasted so much time with this crap, and now people will be laid off. All because of Sony themselves. Which means single player games will be pushed back even further. It's what Sony is known for. The studios are the ones thinking people need the most advanced graphics possible and spend 400 million on a game. Meanwhile Nintendo is doing low end graphics and selling millions literally more games and consoles!

Well they didn’t exactly stay in the story in the first series all the time, will be interested to see how they adapt what we IMO one of the worst games stories for the second season.

Not surprising and expected, others will soon follow.

@ChrisDeku I’ll take the word of reporters over a random person on the internet thanks, and no one with any intelligence, apart from most of the media. Pretty sure most of them are smarter than you. And again you’ve not proved anything. And you also cannot prove the impact Helldivers 2 has had over Concords loss on live service games.

@ChrisDeku It is the widely reported figure, http://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2024/09/21/new-report-says-sonys-concord-cost-400-million-to-make/

You've not proven a thing, nothing, nadda, your word is NOT a valid argument against reporters with inside information. A 400 million loss is still a 400 million loss. Stop simping for a corporation.

@ChrisDeku God as I dared to mention the topic we shall not discuss. I’ll repeat. A 400 million dollar loss is NOT an irrelevance. No company would ever think like that, to have that 400 million they need to make 1.2 billion dollars in sales!

You now currently Microsoft are the ones making the single player games I want to play.. it’s only the fact they’ll probably come to PlayStation why I haven’t sold my PS5 for a Series X again yet. Indiana jones is brilliant and clearly shows you don’t need to do yet another third person over the shoulder game to make a great action adventure story.

@CielloArc You do know multi hundred million dollar losses are reported to investors at financial meetings right? It will be in the departmental financial reports.

@ChrisDeku As I said, serious mental gymnastics. Go and tell that to Sony's large share holders, I'm sure they'll see your opinion and how a total 400 million dollar loss, literally money thrown down the drain, isn't really that bad after all.........

The reality is they'll strip you alive, you'll be sacked and your reputation ruined in the industry.

@IOI It's simply fascinating the mental gymnastics someone must do to conclude a 400 million dollar total loss was actually a highly profitable game?

It's like MS screws up and Sony says hold my beer.. they'll just waste millions of dollars again and again. Nobody wants them.

@CallMeDuraSouka That is something the PlayStation community should have done electively years ago, but they refuse to and as such are people who are utterly incapable of accepting differing opinions to theirs, like those who say TLOU2 was rubbish, no they just call those people bigots 🙄

I agree with everything Feng Ji said to be honest, to me 'Game Of The Year' award means absolutely nothing, because of the way it's selected.

@Lavishturtle Yeap, Uncharted had perfect women, not overly sexy or overly plain. But then Neil didn’t have full control of that one. ND has lost its spark for me, I’m cautious about the game but won’t be surprised if it’s generic.

Product placement puts it off to a bad start. And I wonder how the story will play with Neil having so much power and a LOT of talent now having left the studio.

Bet it’ll be the usual third person action game from them. And it’ll be remastered at least five times!

I am…. cautious about this game. At this stage I’d be excited to see a new handheld from Sony with physical media, but I know any handheld they make will be digital only now.

This looks good. One to look out for.

So people want to pay the exact same price as the Steam Deck... for something that will be really locked down.

I think Sony will struggle against the Steam Deck and other PC handhelds and that's not including the Switch 2! Sony is incapable of having two teams with two devices, it proved that with the Vita! A system with so much potential relegated to a PS4 remote control. And they can't exactly done wonders with PS VR either.. another capable device left in the cold, stupidly priced too though.

It'll flop. It won't have the support needed to fight against the Switch 2 or 3, Steam Deck 2 or 3, Lenovo Asus and other make handhelds. And Microsoft as they are releasing their own handheld too.

I would have zero interest in this. None. It would be a total waste of time. I have my OG PSP still and it still works, it was a fantastic device because Sony and devs supported it. Then we got the Vita, and it lasted what 2 years before Sony ditched its support and turned it into a PS4 remote control…

It became obvious then that Sony do NOT have the ability or staff to maintain different dedicated devices, the Portal succeeds because it IS a remote control, and to Sonys shock no doubt is successful.

But even Nintendo discovered it couldn’t handle a home console and handheld console at the same time, hence ditching the formula and combining them into two and merging all their teams together.

Nintendo dominates the handheld the space, then we have the new PC handheld players in town, and let’s be honest Valve is a hell of a lot more consumer focussed then Nintendo or Sony are, but they’ve launched a device that’s thinking outside the box and has gained huge community support and has sold in very good numbers as a result and they are committed to compete in the handheld market going forward.

All Sony will be doing is releasing a handheld that most likely runs PS5 or 6 games natively with poorer graphics, what Microsoft has done with Series S, and as a result it’ll hold back game development too, as Microsoft has done.

It just sounds like a boring edition to Sonys lineup that will sell poorly and no doubt be priced massively for what it offers.
I think Sony and Microsoft will be in for a shock and a hard battle if they launch new devices into the handheld games market. And that’s ignoring the fact any phone or tablet can remotely play or cloud play their games anyway.

I have a Steam Deck OLED, it isn’t perfect, but it’s more than enough to keep me away from a Sony handheld. The only handheld I’d be interested in is a Switch 2, and if Sony charges £600 or more for the standard PS6 it might be my ONLY console too if it gets the third party support…

Nothing there for me, still expensive too at the top of the list.