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@Americansamurai1 It'll be from those disengenuous Xbox sites that gave Starfield a 10 out 10 for the fact that it's an Xbox exclusive.

I hope this leads to a new game.

@Americansamurai1 Predicting 9s across the board and a metacritic score between 88 and 91.

Well deserved Insomniac. Can't wait for this one. I hope everyone at Insomniac gets a well deserved break after October 20.

Well, I guess I can understand why Sony doesn't want to put new games on PS Plus day 1. But, if MS wants to throw money down the drain, I guess go ahead.

Xbots still going to try and claim MS is not trying to build a monopoly? They need to be stopped.

Keeping my expectations very low for this, so I won't be disappointed.

This is great news (hopefully). HFW is one of my favorite games of the generation and Burning Shores is a great expansion that is one of the best looking games ever. It's good that PC gamers will get to experience this soon.

@BeerIsAwesome That was one of the dumbest review bombings ever.

Definitely gonna pick this one up. Final Fantasy XVI is my favorite game this year, wonder if this will dethrone it. From the sounds of it, Baldur's Gate 3 may end up being the new Witcher 3.

Sweet! I'm down for this. Powerwash Simulator is just a relaxing game, I can't get enough of it.

@Swirly That would be pretty freaking awesome. But imagine having to clean the Death Star....

I think I'm going to end my Premium tier subscription. I barely use it and Sony has been very slow in adding classic games to the service. I'll go back to extra for free games and online, but that's all.

Yep, Xbox did it and now Sony follows suit. This is the darkside to these subscription services. Notice, Xbox removed their free trails a week before Starfield releases. I'm sure that is just a coincidence....

This should have been the norm from the beginning. The S was never going to be able to achieve true parity with the X and it appears that the S has series issues with split screen, Halo Infinite, Baldur's Gate 3, and Forza all have dropped the feature, with 2 of those games coming from Xbox first party studios. The problem is, now MS appears to have lied when they said the S would have feature parity with the X. This is the right decision to get Baldur's Gate 3 to more gamers, but it's a very bad look for MS.

@Americansamurai1 Exactly why the ABK deal should have been blocked. Again, I blame MS and their greed.

@Americansamurai1 One could argue it's already there.

@Americansamurai1 Money talks as we saw with the judge in CA who's son works for MS. I'm sure Japanese companies would sell if the offer were high enough. But I hate that we've gotten to the point where this is what we are debating and I fully blame MS for starting this for buying a company solely to keep 1 game away from PS5.

@4kgk2 Xbox dudes don't buy games period. They've been conditioned to only play games on Game Pass. Remember Rise of the Tomb Raider's infamous exclusivity? The game nearly bombed and only became a success when it launched on PS4, which it should have done originally. And that was before Game Pass.

@Americansamurai1 Touche. I, honestly, don't want to see any publishers getting acquired. I don't think Sony, MS, or Nintendo should be in that business. But I would support Sony buying them if it would block MS from acquiring them and blocking the games from Playstation. We've seen that MS is completely of the mind that they will pettily buy up publishers just to keep one game off of Playstation. Could you imagine a scenario where Final Fantasy is exclusive to Xbox? The series would die off immediately.

Honestly, with how little attention Sony had been giving this game, I wasn't expecting much. Might check it out on a sale, or on PS Plus if it's there.

@PixelDragon I didn't mind the rogue-like nature of Returnal. It's only real problem was it's absolutely unforgiving RNG. It's nice that Housemarque did add the suspend ability, but the RNG could make the game feel very tedious.

This game really looks like fun. I'm certainly excited for it.

Ugh, just acquire Square Enix already.

Been waiting 13 years, only 2 more months....

Surprisingly not bad for what it is. It's disappointing that it's a stream only device, but at $200 it's far more robust that the $100 backbone. I might consider picking one up.

@bighal Are you just trolling right now? Uncharted hasn't had a new release since 2017. GoW Ragnarok was in the top 10 until this most recent report. GT7 is a year and half old, Spider-Man has sold over 33 million copies (across 2 games) in 5 years. FFXVI is a more niche title that has still sold very well. Just wait until Baldur's Gate 3 comes out on PS5 and Spider-Man 2 releases.

Seriously, who doesn't already have like 4 copies of GTAV?!

This sounds interesting actually. I hope it's similar to the underrated Sherlock Holmes games from Frogwares.

@Porco It wasn't just pushsquare. Everyone ran with that story instead of waiting for an official announcement. Of course, the Switch version is going to run at a lower resolution and frame rate than PS4/5. No one has any patience, anymore.

@Nepp67 Alan Wake is one of my favorite games of all-time (basically the only reason I kept my 360), but I get that it's not for everyone.

@Nepp67 Mine too. Though, my money is currently on Baldur's Gate 3. Don't forget, we still have Alan Wake II and Spider-Man 2 to go.

@naruball Yep, that was based off of one Forbes editorial from someone is decidedly anti-Sony. People who were looking for any negative story about PS5 ran with it and then it disappeared when the story was debunked.

Final Fantasy XVI still in the top 5. But I thought the game was a failure. Surely, all of those Xbox trolls weren't lying....

@XboxTheBestBox Peace Walker has already been leaked to be in the Vol 2 collection. Are you just here to troll?

@Jaz007 Don't respond to that guy. He's just here trolling.

@Tharsman DF reported that RDR1 actually runs better on PS4/5 and Switch than the BC Xbox version.

@XboxTheBestBox That version only has MGS2/MGS3 and Peace Walker. MGS1 isn't included.

@Netret0120 PS2 was supported all the way up to 2013 with the final game being PES 2014, which released on PS2, PS3, and PS4. PS4 will need another 3 years to catch up. The last PS3 game released in 2020, 14 years after the PS3 launched.

Final Fantasy XIV as I just started Shadowbringers and it already seems more interesting than Stormblood, which was a slog to get through. I'm also working my way through Crisis Core FF7 Reunion. I hadn't played it since 2007 on PSP and it's nice to go back to while waiting for Rebirth.

It's a good move to delay Alan Wake II out of Spider-Man 2's week, but a delay to November would probably be better. Though, they can link it to Halloween, good time for horror games.

While it isn't a full remake a la Resident Evil 2/3/4 or even a true remaster, there is more to the port than previously indicated. I don't think it's worth $50, but at least it's playable on modern consoles (the lack of a PC port is weird, though). Now we just need a GTAIV re-release (and Max Payne 3).

Is it the ultimate Final Fantasy? I'm not sure. Final Fantasy VII is still the benchmark, I think. But XVI is so good and easily the best entry in nearly 2 decades.

@naruball Yeah, that was an op-ed from a writer who often takes anti-Sony positions. The game has done just fine.

@Ludacritz That's semantics. Sony is the publisher for Returnal and Housemarque is now a first party studio.

@Oz_Momotaro Uncharted 5 is likely being handled by an external studio with Naughty Dog supervising like they did with Uncharted: Golden Abyss (my money is on Bluepoint). Druckmann is likely working on The Last of Us Part III, whilst ND's second studio is working on a new IP.

@KingPev I haven't played MW2, but as of summer 2022, you could not install MW (2019) without Warzone 1.0. Well technically you can, but you couldn't play the campaign without Warzone installed.

@Powerplay94 Who cares about pre-orders? Most games are bought digitally now completely usurping the need for pre-orders. My fear is that launching 3 days before Spider-Man 2 will hurt Remedy (though that isn't Remedy's fault).

My guess is that Neil Druckmann's game is The Last of Us Part III. Sony is likely going all in on The Last of Us. Naughty Dog does have a new IP in the works that is rumored to be an open-world (sci-fi?) RPG. I just hope they release something before 2026.

@PlayStationGamer3919 Returnal?