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@Mattock1987 aye well if you don’t already know the ‘reasons’ behind that, well… I ain’t the guy to school you. Let’s just say certain financially-overly comfortable countries/geographical locations want to exorcise their crimes against humanity with huge investment into sport and some want to do it with investment into Gaming. I’ll leave you to guess which locale is applicable to which… and subsequently which is applicable to this conversation.

@Mattock1987 pretty much everything is derivative of something else

🤣 Stellar Blade’s… erm… ‘column’ on the chart looks like it’s tent-poling (horizontally)

@BrettAwesome yes but the industry is way different now… hence all the lay-offs these past two years. The industry really is on a knife-edge atm, with no margin for error. I’m not saying that the Switch 2 won’t be a success… I’m sure that it will. All I was saying was, is that nothing is guaranteed but any perceived negativity (perceived being the operative word as I wasn’t actually being negative) towards Nintendo causes people who struggle to comprehend the written-word to activate.

@BrettAwesome as it currently stands, Ninty is at about $68bil, Sony at about $130bil and MS at $3.3tril

I started the post-game on Suicide Squad Kills the Justice League yesterday… and I’ve heard that this is where the real boring grind begins. 😬

@TruestoryYep reading comprehension seems to be in scant supply these days. As I mentioned I wasn’t attacking Nintendo, only pointing out that we shouldn’t just assume that the Switch 2 will dominate as the Switch has. It might but there is no guarantee.

Then my retort about net worth is in regards to @BrettAwesome stating unequivocally that Nintendo can afford a flop… as if its competitors wouldn’t be able to. Well, I’m not so sure that he… and probably you for that matter understand the full financial picture. The actual picture being that… only Microsoft could really afford a flop in the current industry. A flop would hit both Sony and Nintendo real hard these days!

@BrettAwesome you seem to have taken my observation that absolutely nothing in business is guaranteed to be a success, as me attacking Nintendo… I wasn’t.

As an aside though… you know that Nintendo have the least net worth of all three companies right… I mean everyone knows that though right? 🤷‍♂️

FINALLY… the hero of Kvatch… returns to PlayStation! 🤨

I have to wrap up the plats on Suicide Squad, Yakuza Kiwami 2, Final Fantasy XIII and Deus Ex: Human Revolution. They’re all super grindy and not sure I’ll have the time to finish one of them let alone all four!

@Unit_DTH trouble is, there hasn’t been any competition from Xbox since two-thirds of the way through the seventh generation 🤷‍♂️… almost 15 years ago.

Ain’t saying it’ll happen with the Switch 2 but Nintendo have had disastrous generations after incredibly successful generations before… nothing is written in stone.

I’m completely happy with the current formula tbh… time limits sound ****ing awful! 😡

I’ll play Indy for sure… we’ll see about any others.

@PloverNutter did you get the plat… and if so, is it manageable solo or did you play co-op?

Just started it this morning as I want to get the platinum before the servers close. Real early in the game but pleasantly surprised so far.

@Ultimapunch aye

@J_e_f_f__D so you’re saying the good-users of Push Square shouldn’t be considered gamers? Interesting 🤔

@Jey887 yup mate, female, skinhead, product placement and Concord were the main culprits

After all the vitriol about it online, it’s nice to see actual gamers provide some real perspective on Intergalactic.

With everything I’d heard about the game as well as the trailer (albeit not gameplay) I’m hype. I reckon it’ll be yet another great Naughty Dog game!

@baubergo which devs?

@themightyant you might see that happen next week to be fair, the chart only records sales to the day after it won GotY.

I didn’t sign up to fight for liber-tea at release, as at the time I hadn’t yet played the original Helldivers. Now that I have though, this second explosion in player numbers could be the right time for me to get involved.

@kyleforrester87 I get the anger about the mtx’s and to a much lesser extent about the slant towards action (I say lesser extent as I personally felt it remained far more survival-horror than action anyway) but it still confuses me why people were upset about co-op. I thought that was a positive addition tbh.

Narrative-wise, trilogy-cappers will always have an uphill struggle trying to conclude an epic-three part arc but I thought they did an admirable job all things considered. I get you about the love-triangle though… I think they just wanted a human character that you could get mad about in addition to the Hugh Grant-like mega-corp ceo. While a distraction, it didn’t derail it.

My take is that the game is underrated to the point that many people won’t even consider playing it, even if they loved 1 and 2 (I almost didn’t myself) but is ultimately a worthy instalment in a legendary gaming series.

@kyleforrester87 yeah I really enjoyed Dead Space 3 too, think all the microtransactions triggered the community to the extent that the game was permanently stained in the publics perception.

Slowly but surely inching closer towards that 100% completion on Yakuza Kiwami 2, currently going through the Cabaret Club management mini-game (which is different).

While I personally still wouldn’t consider the series s-tier, I am enjoying the game more than I was anticipating and am starting to understand why so many people are so high on it.

Enjoy your weekend gamers!

Yeah it was good fair play. Excited for a new and modern Onimusha, never played Okami but have always fancied playing it, so a new instalment might just be the kick-up-the-arse I need to give it a go. I also liked the look of the new Turok and have relatively high hopes for Intergalactic too.

Was also happy that Astrobot cleaned-up.

Capcom ****ing killed it tonight… let’s go!!!!

@Danloki news about good PSSR implementation doesn’t get the clicks. So it seems to the layman that it’s a “shipshow”. Pleased to meet you layman 🤝

Much like with Vampire Survivors I’m actually loathe to start this game. With my backlog, the last thing I need is some two-dollar indie to absolutely takeover my life. I’ll probably end up caving (on both) eventually though unfortunately 😅

@KundaliniRising333 “I genuinely wonder now if perhaps a great deal more of what Sony was cooking on the fp front had to be canceled and rebooted as the gamer audience continues to reject like 90% of new live service schemes”

It’s only now that you wonder that… hmm 🤔

@TechaNinja you talkin’ da me? 😉

As someone who hasn’t played it yet, I’m wondering whether all of the trophies will be achievable in offline mode, or if there are some that would require co-op play or something like that.

I know everyone always moans about it but I always quite enjoy the pomp, ceremony… and unbridled advertising I guess.

I’ve been trying to catch up on the big gaming series’ that I’d missed since getting back into gaming a few years back. Yakuza is one of those and while I didn’t fully click with Kiwami when I played that a few years back, I’m starting Kiwami 2 this weekend. Really hoping I connect with it this time 🤞.

I’d forgotten all about this tbh… was a pleasant reminder as I think this could be right up my street.

The first one was surprisingly good tbh… if a little grindy. So pretty interested in the sequel for sure.

Mine was wrapped up under the Christmas tree Xmas ‘95. My folks went out for my old man’s work do and all my mates came over. We used a Stanley knife to carefully open the wrapping and played Wipeout, Fifa 96 and Tekken until around 1am… when we then re-wrapped the PlayStation and games before placing them back under the tree. My folks still don’t know to this day 🤫

Hmm slimey business practices eh Phil? Just a quick reminder that you shouldn’t throw stones from your glass palace 😎

@Frmknst git gud 😉

The more we get from… erm… From… the better! 🙌

#umbassa #praisethesun #oldblood #sweetriceball #arisenowyetarnished

I’m as likely to try this as I was Concord… and I’ve been a fan of Marvel comics since 1982! I’m aware that I’m firmly in the minority on this one and the game will no doubt a be a huge success… life on the fringe eh?

@GeeForce 🤔 don’t think I wasn’t before tbh but whatevs 😏

@GeeForce well if we’re gonna mention what the sparkly series x brings to the table that the pro doesn’t (a disk drive), maybe we should bring up the system architecture of the pro which is beyond the x (which is the actual reason it costs more) 🤷‍♂️

@GeeForce ****ing bargain then! 🤣

@lazarus11 $600

@SlipperyFish it’s coz PlayStation gamers are too busy gaming and Xbox gamers would rather forget about it 😉

@DarthCvrle66 they don’t give you more, they rent you it… the moment you stop paying it’s no longer available to you.

And Microsoft just released a series x with nothing new about it but some sprinkles and a bigger hard drive for only $100 less than a pro… so I wouldnt say that was worth its price.

We get it, you’re on a budget so you went with the inexpensive loan of games rather than own… doesn’t make Sony more evil, just not as suited to your personal needs as a budget gamer 🤷