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It will start nice and cosy until the grind for currency/resources kicks in, it's the same with any gacha game.

This is a strange one, this game was in development for 3-4 years so obviously they would have asked square enix during the beginning. Which at that point they would gladly work with Sony, during that development time we've had Final Fantasy 16, Forspoken, Final Fantasy 7 ReBirth and Foamstars as exclusives, but they couldn't give Astro Bot some cameos? 🤔

Seems to me they wanted a lot of money for that and Sony said no we've given you enough.

I don't understand how this censorship works but I'm currently playing the Fairy Tail game and there's a LOT on show and it has the same age rating as DQ3HD, so was it really necessary to make those changes?

Same goes from Atelier Ryza 3 and Trails Through Daybreak two games I've recently played and there's a few characters that have a lot on show, plus all these games have swimsuits but they are all age rating 12+.

Absolutely loved both the Horizon games and their DLCs, so an online game which will obviously be PVE is very welcomed.

Yes £700 is a lot of money but for some it's nothing, people spend the same as that (if not more) on a new mobile phone every two years. Then there's the fact you don't have to pay that money upfront, with Klarna, Clearpay and PayPal you can spread payments monthly. So I don't see the price having an big impact on its sales.

Was he playing Indiana Jones?

I was originally excited for this game as I was expecting a survival horror game, then I saw the gameplay and lost all interest. I might give it a go when it eventually joins playstation plus.

It's only a matter of time before they are acquired, Microsoft won't be allowed and Sony won't have the funds. Which means it's likely going to be Amazon or Tencent, but I think it needs to happen for the best.

Ebay won't care about taking them down either, especially when they get 12.5% of every sale.

Ghost of Yotei, Monster Hunter Wilds and Lego Horizon Adventures for me.

Just wait until Monster Hunter Wilds and Persona 6 launch, PS5 sales should increase then.... If only for a few weeks.

Other than that though Japan is fully fixated on Nintendo and handheld/mobile gaming, so the Switch ticks both boxes and is why it's so popular and why Nintendo can't ever risk going back to a TV console only device.

@Chupa_loyzer I read his comment and I can see where he's coming from but at the same time the ratio of male protagonist to female is still very high, as much as it's always been. The reason people are noticing female protagonists more now is because they are getting more lead roles in the bigger more popular games/IP's. If Ghost of Tsushima was an indie game with not many sales, this wouldn't have been an issue.

@Chupa_loyzer Whats being "forced" on them?

Female Protagonists have been around since the beginning of gaming and some are even gaming icons. You have to be truly sexist to have a problem with that.

This BS of screaming "Woke" at any game that has a female lead has to stop. Games with female leads have been around for years and years with Tomb Raider, Parasite Eve, Metroid, Beyond Good and Evil, FF13, Perfect Dark, WET, Golden Axe, Heavenly Sword, Hellblade, Fatal Frame, Mirrors Edge, Dishonoured spin off, Dino Crisis and many more.

But for some reason over the last few years certain people seem to have a problem with female protagonists like they shouldn't exist.

@naruball I agree with you there, I doubt Nier Automata, Tomb Raider, Stellar Blade or Bayonetta would be as popular if the main characters weren't "Voluptuous".

@Maubari This is a strange take, the PlayStation store has thousands of games, many of those that aren't on the Switch as well like the latest big third party releases like Alan Wake 2, Baldurs Gate, Final Fantasy, Call of Duty, Elden Ring, Dragons Dogma 2 etc, and the Switch store is absolutely chock full of shovelware. Of course the switch has many more first party releases but for overall games the PlayStation has way more bigger games and even the most popular live service games some of which are not on Switch like Genshin Impact, Call of Duty, GTA online and soon to be the latest Monster Hunter.

On the topic of the PS5 PRO I can agree that it's not a great investment, not at £700. You can get a standard PS5 and a Switch for that price which to me is a solid investment as you get access to so many more great games.

Who's going to tell him women help make the games he plays.......

@Nei No jinxes today haha, it's now available in Europe and downloading it as we speak.

@PuppetMaster Good to know it's coming to playstation as well, as I was expecting it to be a Xbox exclusive demo.

@Fiendish-Beaver Haha old me definitely but I try not to talk about them much anymore apart from a dig here and there, and I've fully stopped going to purexbox, think my last comment was well over a year ago.

Made using Dreams....

@Fiendish-Beaver I didn't mean just this state of play though, I mean certain people (not many) who are constantly negative no matter what Sony show or do.

For £9.99 I'm deffo giving it another playthrough.

@TripleKing333 it's obvious some of them are just here to troll every time, no matter what Sony show it will end up being rubbish to them.

Excellent State of Play and probably their best yet. So many games shown I'm interested in but that Lunar Remaster, Ghost of Yotei and Monster Hunter Wilds made it easily a 9/10.

You can see the PlayStation Plus yellow coloring on the TLOU, Alan Wake 2 and Shredder games which means they are possibly coming to Playstation Plus soon, if so then il be looking forward to their additions.

Stellar Blade DLC would be massive and hopefully a nice update on Astro Bot with some free levels or even announce some DLC. Then give us release dates for Lego Horizon and Monster Hunter Wilds.

Also really pleased that Fantasian is making it to Playstation, Square really have dropped their exclusive stance, bring over Bravely Default and Dragon Quest Spin offs next.

I just think Level 5 are way too in over their heads, they are trying to develop so many games at once with Decapolice, Professor Layton, Fantasy Life, two Inazuma Eleven games, Megaton Musashi and a new rpg that got announced today called Ghost Craft.

Just focus on one or two and get them released instead of delaying pretty much every game, even Fantasy Life which is pretty simple and basic in design has now been delayed AGAIN, from 2023 to 2024 and now to April 2025.

Hopefully Sony move quickly and put a stop to these mods.

@LuXifer Level 5 have two new games to announce tomorrow, one of them is rumoured to be a new Yo Kai Watch game, but for the other I'd happily take Rogue Galaxy 2, Dark Cloud Remake or Ni No Kuni 3.

It's going to be Asian catered in line with TGS, so expect a lot of Japanese/Korean/Chinese games. They will probably announce one of the rumoured remasters but I wouldn't expect them to reveal any new first party games.

Personally I'm not too bothered if they don't show first party games as I'm primarily a JRPG/Japanese games player anyway, so I'm quite looking forward to seeing what they show tomorrow from Japanese studio's.

I'm hoping to see some Monster Hunter Wilds, Pragmata, Resident Evil 9, Persona 6, Decapolice, New Tales of, Freedom Wars Remastered, Ni No Kuni 3, SYNDUALITY Echo of Ada, Death Stranding 2 and New Wipeout from Sega.

These PC gamers are truly pathetic, they have no problem doing this for other games yet as always they seem to have an issue with Sony. I would just stop the PC ports and put that money and effort into other areas of playstation.

Does this include games on sales as well? If so then I'm not surprised, I'm more interested to see the split for brand new releases in launch week.

Sold my Switch Lite and Original Playstation Portal over the weekend so I can get the 30th Anniversary Dualsense and Portal.

Adding an handheld with weaker specs that plays the same games as the PS6 would just hold back that generation for playstation like the Series S is doing for Xbox, unless they can make an handheld that has the exact same specs as the main console withot compromise.

@Decoy_Snake Have you tried going back to the main menu to the continue with save page and clicking square, you can reload an earlier save point. But for me my latest save point is chapter 5 although I got to chapter 8, 4 hours of progress just gone.

On PS5 i WAS playing the Plucky Squire but I've encountered a major bug, last night I finished on chapter 8 and turned off my game, went back to it this morning and my save says chapter 5 which was 3 days ago, so yeah it quickly got deleted.

Instead il be focussing on the Sword Art Online Fractured Daydream Beta and Visions of Mana

On Switch I will be playing Tokyo Mirage Sessions and some Splatoon 3.

@Fiendish-Beaver That's the thing though, in the podcast Colin says that the 400m doesn't include the price they paid for the developer.

@OldGamer999 If Switch 2 could run the latest games then I'd say go fully Nintendo, vote with your wallet as they say. For me personally il stick with Playstation and Nintendo going forward, even get to play Xbox games with that duo lol. But hopefully once the PlayStation heavy hitters start releasing you will change your stance.

@Rich33 I think maybe HellDivers already being an IP people loved helped it gain a positive reception. Plus as you say there's a big market for PVE especially if it's dumb fun like HD2 is, Destiny is also primarily PVE and has done very will over the many years it's been out, another example would be the Monster Hunter games which also rely heavily on PVE.

So yeah going forward I think Sony should concentrate more on PVE live service games instead of PvP, so basically it's not looking good for Fairgame$.

@OldGamer999 If it's true then someone is definitely getting sacked, that's a lot of money to waste and then there's the money spent on years of development on TLOU Factions. I think after Fairgames and the Horizon Multiplayer game Sony will abandon the Live Service push and focus on single player games (apart from Bungie)

I think a better strategy would be to get third party developers making online games and then acquiring them if it becomes a hit, like Arrowhead for example. They should give someone the Killzone, Resistance or Motorstorm IP to make a live service game.

@Rich33 So why didn't HellDivers 2 fail?

For comparison GTA 5 cost $265 million to develop and market. That includes music licensing, Mo cap, tonne of voice actors, the online mode and that was for 5 years of development.

@FatalBubbles Honestly never heard of him before especially as I don't really follow podcasts or X posts etc. Just find it hard to believe this game cost in the same region as Sony's two most expensive games combined, which both also had bigger marketing as well.

@get2sammyb That's the thing, would Sony ever report how much h they spent on this game? And if not then anyone can go round throwing absurd figures without anyway to prove them wrong. Also if it is true then wouldn't this be the most expensive game made to date outside of GTA?

I prefer solid facts over "I heard it from" statements from some bloke on a podcast or X post.

I for one don't believe this game cost near the same as TLOU Part 2 and Horizon Forbidden West combined ($220 million each).

Nice to see Sony back a TGS and with a strong line up of Japanese games.

Sony just announced their TGS line up and it's looking pretty good, should hopefully help shift more consoles in Japan

https://www.gematsu.com/2024/09/sony-interactive-entertainment-announces-full-tgs-2024-lineup-schedule

@Tecinthebrain PS3 Remasters definitely make more sense, we have PS1 and PS2 ports coming via Playstation Plus and we can play any PS4 game, but the PS5 can't do PS3 emulation so we aren't getting them ported over any time soon. So Remasters are the only way.

@OldGamer999 Well I think it could happen if they give the IP's to a third party to work on.

And no, it's too much money to spend right before Christmas, I have a big family with my partners included as well so I will be spending £600+ on presents, maybe next year just in time for GTA 6.

@OldGamer999 poor sales unfortunately, it's either make a Killzone or Resistance that sold less than 3 million each or make Spider-Man and Horizon Zero Dawn which both sold close to 20 million.

A lot of users on here want these older games to be revisited but the actual majority of gamers don't, Unfortunately Sony don't just cater to us users on this site, as we are the minority. But man if they did gaming would be at its best.