jcordeiro

Naughty Dog is one of the highest quality developers in the entire industry. I have complete faith in them

I have a hard time believing Sony would release a new SKU of PSVR2 with the sales struggles of the original unit

Embracer Group is clearly in over their head.

In June they revealed they have over 220 games currently in development, which is insane.

Sadly E3 is a relic of a bygone era, and at this point it feels like it's best to just let it go

There was some good stuff in the showcase, but you can't wait 18 months between showcases and then bring this.

If Sony did these maybe once a month or so, then expectations would be more in check, and we'd know that not every one of these can be jam-packed with stellar announcements.

But, when you go completely silent for months on end and finally decide it's time to get our attention then you need to show up with the goods.

"That’s actually not the case, and the PS5 is actually outperforming the Xbox Series X|S at a ratio greater than the PS4 against the Xbox One at the same point in the previous generation"

I'm incredibly surprised by this given the stock shortages and the Xbox One's disastrous launch.

I'd be very curious to know what the split is between PS4 vs PS5 copies

Each passing acquisition in the gaming industry just makes Sony's $229M purchase of Insomniac an absolute steal.

There's just no real benefit to the larger companies taking part in E3. They've all learned that they can do the Nintendo Direct style shows and command attention whenever they want.

I've always loved E3 and watching all the big press conferences, but sadly it's just a relic of a bygone era.

Days Gone deserved better. Sony did this game no favours sending it out to reviewers without the Day One patch which apparently was a pretty substantial improvement over the base version they reviewed.

A little more expensive than I was hoping for, but I think a good portion of that price is definitely due to the controllers having to be bundled in this time unlike PSVR 1 with the Move controllers.

Between this and the three Star Wars projects Respawn is working on it seems like EA is all-in on making these Disney licensed games.

Do we really need 6 EA games from Disney's IPs? Kind of lame.

Making public statements like this just makes Sony look incredibly petty

Seems very strange an acquisition this big would leak... These sort of things are usually worked on by only the highest level employees on both sides and typically aren't known about until they're done deals.

The demand for PS5 is so high that this won't impact sales at all, and they'll help offset some of the rising production costs due to inflation.

Optically, this may not be the best move, but when they'll continue to sell every PS5 they can make regardless, why would Sony care?

Feels strange that Sony didn't want to ultimately have the rights to publish Death Stranding on PC especially considering how much more they're pushing towards putting their games on PC now.

This is one of the problem with subscription services... people are going to be loath to buy games, especially smaller indie games, at full price.

This looks oddly intriguing

Sony should be embarrassed even allowing some of these games on their store.

I'm very curious what percentage of those downloads were actually a la carte purchases compared to downloads included with PS Plus.

Keeping my expectations pretty low for this. Hope to be pleasantly surprised, but I'm not anticipating much.

Looks great, and you can definitely see a lot of effort went into this remake. Personally though, it's just hard to justify paying full price for The Last of Us when I've already played through it numerous times on both PS3 and PS4, and I have a growing backlog of other games to play. Will pick it up down the line when it's eventually on sale.

This thing is going to sell like crazy on PC

Glad the leak ended up being true. Looks like holding off on playing Final Fantasy VII Remake has paid off!

Whatever they're working on must have Sony pretty impressed...

E3 has the history, and the beloved brand name, but I have a hard time seeing major publishers being convinced it's the right venue for their big announcements.

In the current age of State of Plays and Nintendo Directs it's easy for companies to get their message out there any time of the year.

I'm not feeling optimistic, but as someone who loved watching E3 press conferences growing up I'm definitely hoping they can pull it off.

Also noted in the blog post:

"If you purchase the God of War Ragnarök standard edition for PlayStation 4, you can upgrade to the PlayStation 5 version for $10 USD (or currency equivalent)."

Kind of lame after the PS4 to PS5 upgrade was free for Horizon.

Glad I've held off on playing Resident Evil 2 until now so I can take advantage of the upgrade.

Looking forward to the inevitable Digital Foundry breakdown of these changes.

Sony has to be better about communicating this sort of stuff. When they're quiet on things like this it can't help but remind me of all the info they kept quiet on about the vita like the expensive proprietary memory cards.

Interesting. If they were originally targeting September, I wonder what the original release date planned for The Last of Us Part I was.

It just feels so bizarre to me to remake a game that's only 9 years old, that's also already been remastered.

I love The Last of Us (parts I and II), but it just feels like Sony's first-party resources could have been better utilized.

With all that being said though, I'm sure this will end up selling a ton, especially with the HBO show on the horizon. A full $70 USD price feels a bit steep too. Hopefully the improvements go further than just a graphical overhaul.

This looks great! Definitely want to check this out

Ideally the game ends up being on track to release this year, and 2022 is the final year we see any first party games that are released cross-gen for PS4 and PS5 with everything being PS5 only going forward.

Even though it doesn't really make sense for the industry anymore, I can't help but miss all the excitement of E3. I remember when Sony would actually air their E3 press conferences in movie theatres, and went to one a few years ago and had a great time.

Better to flip-flop now then go down the NFT route and sink a bunch of money into a losing cause.

Hopefully Square Enix takes the money from the sale and invests in some good 2nd party games.

This is a game I never thought we'd see again. A great early PS3 era gem!

I'm so tired of developers and publishers announcing their games ridiculously early

I wonder how well Horizon is actually selling. Sony is usually proud to come out and boast their games have sold X million copies within the first few days, or first few weeks.

I'll never get over companies doing these lacklustre announcements in tweets with nothing to show!

Why not wait a bit until the project is further along and you actually have something to show?

I'm not much of a Harry Potter fan, but I have to say that the presentation impressed me quite a bit and I'm looking forward to this.

Looking forward to this. Keeping expectations in check though.

Still working my way through Horizon Forbidden West

Interesting, I thought Sony had been cozying up with Netflix so I'd assumed this is where the show would go.

Ghostrunner is great, but unfortunately already played it when it was added to PS Now. Sony really needs to work on consolidating the two services soon.

Looks great! I'm worried about how pricy this thing is going to end up being though. From everything Sony's said it sounds like this is a huge leap over the original PS VR.

Hard not to think they overpaid, but in the long-term this seems like a good move.

Big move by Sony. $3.6 billion is a steep price (nearly half of what MS paid for Bethesda), especially considering the commitment to keep Bungie as a multi-platform studio. Whatever Sony has planned, they must be impressed with what Bungie's working on to take this gamble.

I think the reception to giving out the same game again with Borderlands: The Handsome Collection would have been even worse. That being said, I do agree that Sony is dropping the ball here.

Just baffling...