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7/10

"Live in your world, play in ours" was a pretty kickass slogan, particularly with the way it incorporated the face button symbols. I used to love seeing it in commercials for PS2 games.

Cringey ad, but I actually did just pick up a PS5 slim during that $50 off sale earlier this month.

3/10. One of my worst.

Oh, gee, who could've predicted this? Certainly not Jimbo, hyuck!!!

Frankly, it's still mind-boggling to me that Sony went ahead with the live service push, years after it was established that only few will ever find success, the rest ending up in the garbage bin after just a year or two.

In any case, this is why Jim Ryan needs to get gone already. The damage he's done to this brand is immeasurable.

Well, in light of this news, I'd just like to thank Jim Ryan for making me lose every last ounce of faith I had in a brand I've loved for over 20 years.

Good riddance.

Damn. I'm pretty sure he was the only one left who'd been with ND since the Crash Bandicoot days.

Hardly doubt anyone who's been following Sony's trajectory the last few years could be surprised by this. We're just going to have to get used not being Sony's favorite anymore, and waiting that much longer for games as they continue to divert their resources away from PS5. I mean, I hardly doubt it's a coincidence that it's been ages since they've announced ANYTHING new for this damn console.

@truerbluer Hermen's narrative has shifted drastically every single year since they started doing this in 2020. I'm fully expecting this to be the year where he says all first-party games will come to PC day and date.

Sony's strategy is absolutely destined for failure. We've known from the beginning that they're trying to rush a whole bunch of stuff out the door to see what ends up attracting people, and they'll happily demolish anything that doesn't.

That said, I still expect Ryan to full steam ahead anyway, out-of-touch numbskull that he is.

I’ve said before that Sony only sees its existing fanbase within PlayStation as easy marks who can be nickeled and dimed to no end while they sweeten the deal for the PC folks that they’re trying to entice.

It’s only becoming more true with time.

7/15. Choked hard.

Push Square....and Space Bar.

9/15. One of my worst.

12/15. Missed the Soul Caliber, mobile, and original title questions.

12/15. Was totally smoking it until those last few questions. Ugh!

Push Space Bar

It's kinda funny how you'd be cynical towards Platinum for continuing to chase live services and not towards Sony when they're doing the same, exact same stupid thing.

After all, they've already got one failure under their belt in Destruction All-Stars. And there'll probably be plenty more to follow.

"Just a few games, years down the line."

So basically, once again, Sony's narrative on PC has changed in 2022 from what it was in 2021, which itself had changed from what it was in 2020, which had changed from what it was in 2019 (before they had decided to start courting PC gamers). Where last year, Hulst assured us that PlayStation would always receive the best version of Sony's games at launch, now he's admitting that actually won't be the case after all. That there WILL be day-and-date PC releases, as I've been continuously saying was all but inevitable, and that we PS owners will be getting the short end of the stick on top of paying extra for Sony's online paywall. And am I really expected to believe that this narrative isn't just going to change again, after it's already changed so radically so quickly? For crying out loud, we started this whole thing with Hulst stating that Horizon Zero Dawn just seemed like a perfect fit for PC. THAT WAS IT!!!!!! That's what got this whole ball rolling!!!! And look at where we are now! Just look how at how much escalation there's been in just two short years, because Sony took the complacency of those saying "just a few games, years down the line" as a green light to continue chasing the PC market with more and more desperation, practically forgetting that we (the PS community) exist in the process!

Well, in any case, let's all tune in next year, when Hulst admits that some (or hell, maybe even all) single-player games will be releasing on PC day-and-date as well!

11/15 again. Still no perfect score.

Sammy moves ever closer to admitting that Jim Ryan is a terrible leader for PlayStation…

Maybe one day this generation, Sony will get around to making some new software for the PS5. Who knows?

General reminder that this game was announced in 2017.

Eh, good luck with that. I still feel like E3 2019 (featuring "Breathtaking" Keanu and Internet waifu Ikumi Nakamura) ought to be considered the event's swan song.

Gotta say, I honestly thought Sony would be focusing more on porting PS4 games over, but looks like interests have shifted and they're now fully committed to ensuring the PS5 does not build up an exclusive library of its own (not that Sackboy was PS5 exclusive, but it was nevertheless touted as a high-profile game for it)

That just tells me that the window is just gonna keep shrinking until it eventually becomes non-existent.

10/15. What the literal hell is that second question, though?!

Wow, Sony remembered that Toro exists!

I’m not seeing why Jim Ryan thinks MS owes him something. I mean, yeah, Sony is giving them MLB: The Show now, but they were apparently forced into that. And I guess they’ll also get future Bungie games too, but those will still be few and far between, unlike CoD. Even still, absolutely none of this obligates MS to keep CoD on PlayStation.

12/15. Would have been 13 but I choked on that New Vegas question. Ugh!

How very fitting that this would happen in a year in which Sony hasn’t announced A SINGLE first-party PS5 game outside of The Last of Us Re-remastered.

9/15. You guys had better keep on doing these until I get a perfect score, damn it!

Keep in mind, of course, that ol' Jimbo has been saying lately that he's taking PlayStation "multiplatform." After all, Bungie isn't going to be making PS exclusive games despite their Sony ownership. So the idea of having PS games on rival services isn't too farfetched at this point. All the while, of course, Sony tells us that Gamepass isn't sustainable and we existing PS users are stuck paying full price for MLB: The Show, among what could be other things...

So maybe this wasn't so much a case of Sony negotiating a bad deal as it was Sony being more blatant in their waning interest towards the existing PS userbase.

Day and date, here we come...

This man deserves to be the head of PlayStation way more than Jim Ryan.

10/15.

The Gambit system was a great battle system. Fight me.

This is exactly the sort of out-of-touch crap I'd expect from Jim "Why Would Anyone Play This" Ryan.

Almost feels like this just should’ve been made for PC to begin with. Who needs a PS5?

I’ll keep on saying it: As Sony brings PS5 exclusives to PC (which, lo and behold, is happening way sooner than the “years down the line” folks said it would), never forget that they forced you into using a DualSense for these games on PS5 because, so they claimed, you wouldn’t be getting the full experience without it. And yet this is a restriction that PC players inevitably won’t have.

13/15. Just missed the Tekken 7 and Sonic questions.

7/15. One of my worst.

Wait, 2074 as the year that civilization fell? That's ten years later than it is in the game's lore, which is 2064-2065.

9/15

And I knew Captain Basch fon Ronsenburg!!!!

I don’t think Jim Ryan really cares if we have anything to look forward to or not.

@Vix Pretty much. Remember last year how Elden Ring and Horizon Forbidden West, coupled with BOTW 2, God of War Ragnarok, and Starfield were going to make 2022 the best year for gaming ever?

lol

If on the off chance someone did buy it at that price, would Sony be legally obligated to refund them?

Digital is the future!!!

And what a terrible future it is...

11/15. My most common score, once again.

Props to the Simpsons: Hit and Run question. Loved that game.

@get2sammyb

“Later” in this case likely means less than six months. They probably wouldn’t be announcing this for PC right now otherwise.

Day-and-date on PC is coming soon. This is just yet another stepping stone towards it.

I'd kill for them to make a new Syphon Filter. I'd even settle for a remake of the original trilogy.

@thefourfoldroot1 Why not? We're just as important to Sony as their PC customers. Maybe even less so...