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How dare Sony create a theoretical pro console that Nintendo-stans explain could potentially be bettered by $700 worth of used PC parts that would be better off being taken behind the garden shed and put out of their misery.

How dare Sony pay so many money-hats, that not only is the game made exclusive… but also that the devs are bought and paid for to attack the poor innocent Xbox too. Thankfully we have absolute objectivity from twitter/x commentators with absolutely no history of a Microsoft bias to enlighten with with truth bombs!

Live service? Dead service more like!

Picked it up with all the dlc… really looking forward to finally trying it out.

Considering I’ve only played Astro’s Playroom… and that was a few years back like, I smashed it somehow. Thank the multiple choice gods 🙏

Sad Dads unite! 🥳

@3Above cheers for the recommendation buddy, it might well tip the scales tbh 👍

About 3/4’s of the way through Alpha Protocol’s second playthrough and should 🤞 be able to get the plat done with a partial 3rd playthrough and some specific save and reload management.

Then I have to decide what’s next on the ps3 backlog agenda… at the moment it’s between Star Wars; The Force Unleashed 2, Alice: The Madness Returns and Final Fantasy XIII 🤔.

@Cloud39472 or even Sony’s fault somehow 🤣

I still think that I’ll enjoy this quite a bit tbh… but I’m in no rush. I’ll pick it up on sale in a few months and then god knows when I’ll end up playing it… won’t be any earlier than 2026 sometime, maybe later.

Never go full Ubisoft… and that’s from someone who actually likes their games 😅. Wait a month or two and their games will be half the price and be double the game (well they’ll be patched and work better than at release anyway).

A GaaS title cancelled in favour of a single player game within the same series… what dystopian timeline have I found myself in now?!?! 🤯

Extry… Extry… Sony in first party single player game shocker! Read all about it!

I mean, anything’s possible… but it’s highly unlikely. Trouble is, I can see exactly the same thing happening with Fair Game$ too.

I’d imagine that Marathon will fare a bit better… but I wouldn’t place any money down on that hitting in the same way Destiny did. Factions 2 probably would’ve clicked with the audience but Bungie gonna Bungie I guess 🤷‍♂️

Will deffo give the show a look but each episode should’ve been focussed on an established video game ip or brand… not the new kid on the block who is receiving a perpetual wedgie.

That argument from x-box gamers that Microsoft should be aloud to buy ActiBliz as they would of course ensure the ip they held other than CoD would get greenlit always made me chuckle. 😏

I’ll probably buy it at some point but in no real rush as, while I do love the original Indiana Jones trilogy, as well as the tv show The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles I’m just not overly into a first person perspective.

@NeoC oh I won’t be skipping it, I might even line it up to be a milestone platinum… I just have a backlog the size of the Great Wall of China and am clearing old games at a rate of knots in an attempt to catch up.

After finishing off the platinums on Prince of Persia and Dead Space (both 2008), my PS3 odyssey continues this weekend with Alpha Protocol . As a fan of espionage themed entertainment and also Obsidian, I’m looking forward to it.

@breakneck we all know Sony made a pivot towards GaaS under Jim Ryan… and it’s starting to become clear that Sony are backtracking that pivot somewhat moving forwards.

@get2sammyb so I prefixed Sony being sent a message with “from my perspective”. I as someone who enjoy single player games would rather Sony make single player games. It’s my opinion… Sony can actually do whatever they like but we all have our individual wants and are totally entitled to them.

I hate to say it but the abject failure (so far) of the GaaS Concord happening concurrently as the single player Black Myth Wukong is absolutely killing it, is… from my perspective at least, the best possible message that could be sent to Sony.

@NeoC how would one play any about the game exactly? 🤔

While I do like a good boss fight, as someone who thoroughly enjoys the souls-like genre… it’s not as high up on my list of priorities as exploration and unveiling secrets. I’m sure that I’ll still enjoy Black Myth Wukong but it being a boss rush for all intents and purposes is what I feared.

Dayum… imagine how many it would’ve sold if they could’ve got it running on Xbox too. Like… 🤔 prolly still 10 million 😉

Must’ve been some slimey business practices to keep this off PlayStation this long… ain’t that right Phil? Phil?

I might rent it… y’know just to properly get in the mood.

That’s very annoying. It’s a good job I’m not playing this at launch then tbh… and hopefully it’ll be in better shape by the time I get around to it.

@LastSaneManOnEarth revenue maybe… and that’s a big maybe… but what are they spending to sustain it? There’s the payments made for each third party game on the service and we saw how they were paying well over the odds for them from that leak a year or so ago. Then there’s the wages for each and every employee from all the first party teams they now own. I think they have over 30 dev teams now, some of which are positively gargantuan in size too… and games devs earn a pretty pence to be sure, so all of that would be a monumental outlay each and every month. Then there’s the outlay of around $100 billion for all of these dev teams and publishers they started gobbling up since 2016. A business never just spends money out of the goodness of its heart, it spends it under the assumption that it will actually make that back and then some.

There’s a reason, Microsoft is raising its game pass subscription prices even though they pled under oath that they would not during the actibliz case with the ftc, there’s a reason why Microsoft are releasing its first party games on PlayStation, something that is so outrageous it has prompted some of the most fervent Xbox gamers to leave the ecosystem… and that reason isn’t that Microsoft is generating more money through gamepass than through selling games. The reason is… as many of us have long speculated, they simply aren’t earning enough through it. Gamepass was a hail-mary play from Microsoft due to the failing Xbox one… and it hasn’t worked the way they hoped, which has led us inexorably… here.

But anyway after addressing your point… I thought I’d point out that your reply to me had nothing to do with my original point… which was @get2sammyb mentioning that Sea of Thieves selling many, many millions by now on Xbox. While that maybe true, my retort… a slightly facetious one at that but meant in a joking manner, was why would anyone have bought it on Xbox when every Xbox gamer I ever hear from tells me it’s free on game pass. Now I will add, as you seem a little dense… that I know it isn’t ’free’ on game pass as users pay a subscription, in fact we all know that… the joke is that Xbox players say it’s free when we all know it isn’t.

I’ll leave you with this… from this our first interaction, I’d say no… your not the last sane man on earth… just another member of the insane 7.5 billion unfortunately.

@get2sammyb everybody keeps telling me it’s free on Xbox, so why would it have sold any? 🤢

Aye all of us Phil but of course it is 😆… now go and check how project latitude is coming along in the build up to the PS5 Pro, there’s a good chap 🧐.

@trev666 glad to see that you’ve been to the opticians following our recent chat trev 🤓

That’s how you do good business right there 🤡

Springtime for Hitler and Germany 🎶

@dskatter literally more playable than it is on Xbox 😎

It’ll all come at various times… with Microsoft’s total lack of respect for their console customers, there’s no reason not to.

Always been hot on this… the way I’ve always been hot on Black Myth Wukong (although the genres of each differ). Even if it ends up a 7 (maybe even a 6) with that setting, freedom and verticality, I’m in!

@TheArt yeah I was waiting on a ps4/ps5 port but just bit the bullet and played it on ps3 in the end. Still golden.

Having finally finished all of GTAIV’s online trophies, I’m now working my way through an Impossible run on Dead Space (2008). It’s a great game anyway but the scarcity of ammo and precision needed for this harder difficulty, just improves the game no end. I’m finally starting to get the appeal of Survival Horror.

@Azex simplemente porque.

Would be far more interested in a return to the inFAMOUS series than to Sly… I’ve never been into cutesy platformers though tbh 🤔.

She purdy! 😍 but yeah… game looks pretty jank.

Funny old year 2024… I don’t know much about the Chinese year of various animals but 2024 must be the year of the winged-pig 🤔

Worst From Soft Souls game… still a great game though.

That would be cool actually, as I was considering playing the PS3 version later this year… but would put that on hold for a modern remake.

I’ll wait for it to hit Gamepass - short-sighted gamers

@get2sammyb nice dude 👊

Only got into Doom with 2016 and Eternal so am tempted by this tbh. If they have plats… 🤔 I’m in 😁

🤣 it’s as if Sony are now the owners not Microsoft

@AverageGamer they had no first party games at launch… nuff said