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@Brawl4002 There's no release date yet for Lego Horizon.

Hopefully Lego Horizon gets a release date, maybe for December. Maybe Decapolice will also get a release date as well.

I think Death Stranding 2 and Monster Hunter Wilds are safe bets to have trailers, and of course yet another Metaphor Re Fantazio one.

@Bentleyma Because this is being made by a Sony Studio whereas HellDivers 2 was made by a third party. For some reason people hate Sony making multiplayer games themselves and think they are entitled to single player games from all their studios.

@NEStalgia I'm not saying VR is really popular, but it's something playstation offer as an extra which gives people more of a reason to engage with their PS5. Like without VR your engagement time with the PS5 would be lower.

At first I wanted one but when it came to the day pre orders went live I changed my mind. I already have four controllers (White/Red/Purple/Baby Blue) and can't justify buying another at that price no matter what it looks like.

I also think PSVR2, Portal and the PlayStation plus Extra/Premium tiers have really helped the PS5 get more engagement time.

I've been putting a load of hours into my PS5, especially more so this year with some lengthy JRPG's like Granblue, FF7 ReBirth, P3R, Unicorn Overlord, Dragons Dogma 2 and Trails Through Daybreak. Even in terms of online games I've put around 200 hours into Apex Legends, 50 into HellDivers 2 and 30 into Monster Hunter Rise.

I think the better the games are coming out then of course the engagement time will go up but ultimately it's down to online games becoming more and more popular.

@PegasusActual93 it seems you've triggered a certain crowd. In terms of revenue I suppose they can't be compared but in terms of being a flop of an acquisition so far they both definitely can be compared. Lay offs, closures and low scoring games/DLC that haven't lived up to the hype.

I think an animated/CGI film would have done better.

@OldGamer999 Yeah I agree, it's strange though why they are. Wing like this with their single player games but have no problem announcing Fairgames which is still atleast a year away now. So if they can show Fairgames a couple of years before it's release then why not their other games?

Same with the third party games they reveal at their showcases, some are years away like Pragmata and Little Devil Inside yet Sony showed them off two years ago. People don't care if the games are a few years away, as long as they know what's coming and can have something to look forward to.

On PS5 i will be playing Fairy Tail and Trails Through Daybreak. Daybreak has been excellent so far, the best Trails game yet for me so far.

On Switch I will be playing Tears of the Kingdom, been using the strategy guide to make sure I do all the caves, wells, shrines and side quests in every area before I do the final sage. I will also be playing Splatoon 3 as its Splatfest weekend.

@OldGamer999 I think GTA 6 will be a showcase of what the PS5 can really do, and games will only get better from there.

To chime in on the Pro conversation, It all depends on what Microsoft are doing. If Microsoft are going to cut this gen short and release their next console in 2026 then it makes sense for Sony to skip the Pro and focus on their next console as well so it competes with Microsoft, they wouldn't want Microsoft getting ahead again like they did with the Xbox 360.

@OldGamer999 Call of Duty and Fifa are not good examples this time, when the PS4 came out the next three Call of Duty titles and Fifa titles still released on the PS3.

Even then there was some bigger single-player games that also still released on the PS3 like Persona 5, MGS 5, Dragon Age Inquisition, Watchdogs, Alien Isolation, Evil Within, Diablo 3, Wolfenstein, Shadow of Mordor etc.

There's always going to be some games that are cross gen as Devs don't want to alienate their player base so much and want to maximize profits. But the faster the new consoles increase their install base the quicker last gen games will disappear, this gen is still seeing last gen games because of the slow console sales during the first two years. 2025 onwards should finally see PS4 releases become rare especially from the AAA/AA devs/publishers.

Well theres many factors why it took PS5 longer. The price being much higher during a time where people are trying to spend less, the supply issues during the first two years and the fact that the majority of games were still releasing on PS4 making the need to get a PS5 less urgent and in some cases (casuals) not necessary, but honestly that goes for the last two gens as well.

Either way Sony will be very pleased as it has the most revenue earnt compared to those other consoles.

Yet more of what made Dragon Age great taken away.

I think the price was a bit too much but overall I don't think it was a mistake as there's obviously talent there and they have an IP that rakes in the money every year. I just think the studio needs some restructuring and to focus on getting Marathon out the door which has the potential to be a huge hit.

The next time PlayStation have a showcase, I want Hulst to walk out to the Champions League Anthem 😂.

Well Monster Hunter World released in January and so did Monster Hunter Rise, so I'd take a guess and say this game is also coming out in January.

Sounds as bad as the Monster Hunter film.

Currently on Chapter 4 of Daybreak and really enjoying this one way more that Cold Steel 1-3, once I've finished it though I will go back to do CS 4 and Reverie. My only negative about the whole series so far is that they try to make every character have some big secret and there's too many plots going on at once in each game.

I would also like a Remake of the Trails in the Sky games, to see what kicked off this whole saga.

@sanderson72 It wasn't at 80 million, if anything they are neck and neck.

https://www.vgchartz.com/article/460060/ps5-vs-ps4-sales-comparison-january-2024/

Surely the parts used to make the PlayStation 5 lose value after so many years? as there's always new upgraded components being made. Just like most things after a few years they lose value, so surely it's costing Sony less now to produce Playstation 5 consoles as it did when it released? Or maybe use cheaper alternative parts in some areas to cut down on cost.

There might not have been many PS5 only first party exclusives yet but Sony sure have made sure there's a lot do third party exclusives to tie us over.

Once GTA 6 and the new Monster Hunter come out next year the PS5 consoles are going to shift a tonne of units.

The comments for every Concord article are so predictable, and it's always the same people saying the same old s**t. You made it clear 10 articles ago that you don't like this game and you hope it fails, there's no reason to keep repeating yourself every week, how low do you have to be to genuinely wish failure on a game.

For those interested there's currently a sale on the game on the PlayStation store, going for £26.99.

For a JRPG anything between 3-5 million is now counted as a success, and that goes for the big games like Dragon Quest, Persona, Yakuza and Final Fantasy.

Currently playing the second one co op with my partner, loving it so far and the co op sets it apart from the first game although still feels they need to add more to keep the game fresh and not too samey. Hopefully the third game does just that.

For this developer and game I'd say they definitely don't need xbox, and that goes for any other Chinese, Korean or Japanese developer. It's a well known fact Asian games don't sell well on Xbox, hence why a lot skip it, and those that do make it to Xbox get overlooked if they are not on gamepass.

On PS5 i will be playing Trails Through Daybreak and Fairy Tail.

On Switch its Pikmin 1 and Tears of the Kingdom

Give me Concord over this any day.

Destiny is their money maker IP, there's no way there won't be a Destiny 3.

They signed the contract which had performance targets, that if not met would mean Sony taking more control.

Quite intrigued in what this new studio will be and what they are working on.

Hopefully the price cuts to the VR2 are still there at the end of August, if so I will pick one up on payday.

Will you be posting another article as soon as the pre orders go live? Don't trust myself to remember the date but I NEED to have this controller.

Are Souls like and Gacha games all Chinese developers can do?

I've played it and don't understand why it's so popular, feels so cheap and not that visually impressive either so I don't know what I'm missing.

Astro Bot, Metaphor Re Fantazio, YS X, Dragon Quest 3 HD and Visions of Mana are what I'm looking forward to the most on PS5.

@OldGamer999 Same at my work, I'm known as the gamer whilst everyone else just wants to talk abouy women, tv shows and football. One guy has a ps5 but no games, just bought it ready for GTA 6 lol. I don't know if gaming is in decline or if it's just youngsters these days just find it too nerdy to talk about, like if they talk about games they are going to get mocked for it or something. It's a shame really and it's a reason why I appreciate sites like this more.

@OldGamer999 Yeah this is the point where the latest consoles will start to get big price cuts, we've seen it with the VR2 today and id wager before Christmas the standard PS5 and the Switch consoles will get a permanent price cut. That will probably help sales pick up a bit but I can't see the PS5 reaching the PS4 figures and i definitely don't see the "Switch 2" doing as well as the Switch.

It was filmed on the Series S?

@OldGamer999 Yes but the WiiU gamepad was also the controller to play normal games with, people weren't interested in playing games with that thing. Playing handheld also wasn't compatible with evey game and also needs the main console unit to be on to play handheld mode. Then there was the awful naming of the console as some people just thought it was another Wii variation.

The WiiU had some great exclusives but still couldn't get many sales, there's no other reason why it failed so hard other than those points I mentioned.

@naruball The reason the Wii sold so well was because it had a unique selling point that people were actaully interested in which was the Family/Party and Exercise focus and peripherals, The switch has a unique selling point in it also being an handheld and has a wii style controller layout for fitness/party games so people were interested in that as well. The Wii U and GameCube offered no unique selling point that people were interested in, Most of Nintendo's console sales don't come from the games selling the system, it's the systems gimmicks that help Nintendo push sales.

If the next Nintendo Console is just a home console that offers no gimmicks then it's sales will be less than half what the Switch has and the casuals won't bother with it.

I will hold off until black friday which it will most likely be going for under £300 and with a game.

@Deoxyr1bose Sony only acquired them 15 months ago so the majority of the game had already been done and funded by then so it won't be too much of a financial hit to Sony's own resources but if the game flops and Sony decide to shut them down then it becomes a huge financial hit as that would be the acquisition price wasted.

I am quite intrigued to find out how much Sony paid for this studio considering it's their first game, unfortunately theres no info online.

Was interested until you said on PS5 and Mobile, we know what that means.

@NEStalgia The battle pass in Splatoon isn't a paid one, it's a free one that gets changed every three months. Also if the game is free and people enjoy playing it as much as they would playing £60 single player games then I don't see the problem with them spending some money every now and then. I've spent £8 in Apex Legends over the last 4 years for one battle pass and that battle pass gave me enough free currency to get the next one and then same again with that one etc and I've put in around 800 hours in that time. Yet you can spend £60 on some single player games and complete them in 10-15 hours, so £60 for 15 hours of enjoyment vs £8 for 800 hours of enjoyment. Obviously it varies on the person as some spend more but play less but it's up to each individual person to put their own value on their enjoyment.

Just watched some gameplay on YouTube and I now agree with the article about it being an Overwatch clone. From the map layouts to how the game plays, if that gameplay was shown to me without me already knowing it's a new marvel game I would have thought it was Overwatch with a Marvel event.

Atleast Concord is trying to do it's on spin on things instead of copy and paste with a change of skins.

Hmm not gonna lie i don't like the idea of not having a battle pass, it's a reason for people to keep playing everyday and it's quite satisfying seeing the pass progress and unlock stuff. I think they could have added a free pass every few months like in Splatoon 3 or even a paid one but with the currency easily earnt in game like with HellDivers 2.

Its not a deal breaker as there are still things to unlock by levelling up the characters but once those characters I play as are maxed out then what?

Well it's going to be free and it's Marvel so it was never a doubt it wasn't going to do huge numbers.