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Once consoles went internet I stopped paying attention to them. They used to be plug n play convenience, buy the game, play the game, and get consistent performance. They've just become really niche PCs, which would be fine at a lower price point but they've been steadily losing the value proposition.
True. Came back to gaming and console after a 20 years break (career, life etc…). Back in 1999, 2000s I had the PS1, just plug and play. In 2021 I got an Xbox and oh my … different world. Constant crappy updates that means I have to wait… and wait… bugs, problems connecting etc… bought an MMO just to discover that despite buying the game I could not play it on my Xbox unless I paid a monthly subscription to unlock Multiplayers mode! 🤯. I will move to PC asap! Done with all this nonsense and money extraction. Especially considering cost of the latest consoles. And as said above, it would give me access to most games. I don’t want to buy any recent games (poor choices and I have a big backlog of older games I want to play) it won’t cost me that much more than a PS5!
The biggest issue is the idea that games not only cost more than ever but that they have to. Sony and other publishers have painted themselves into an insanely expensive corner when the reality is games don’t need to cost anywhere near that much to be hugely successful.
but its nice to have the spectacle when it comes from time to time. I feel like their cinematic tones matches their sony pictures segment. it does well when they mean to do so.
i mean, the actual players are to blame as well, when the around the era of the ps3 and xbox 360 their became a HUGE obsession with graphics and just insane detail, and it went on for years and still is a huge obsession, comapnies see this and assume thats what players want, well to get that kind of shit in todays world it takes years and loads of money to get those amazing graphics players are so obsessed with
Not every game needs to be so expensive. But profits have been higher overall thanks to Digital Sales greatly reducing Resales & Trades, along with Direct Distribution. However, you need a quality game if it's going to be so expensive. Concord was NOT a quality game, because the Highlight is the Characters which were Generic AF, and in an oversaturated Market. What would be smart is bringing back some Old Classics that people love.
@@TheAyanamiRei On top of that, making new IPs that aren't corporate slop (so, no fucking concord.) via game jams is a good idea. Create a "indie" studio within your company under your direct control, hand them a small ass budget and tell em to see what they come up with. Down the line one of them will bound to be widely successful and THEN you can turn that into a multiplayer game with tons of live service. Thats how it used to be done back in the day. You didn't just shovel out a multiplayer game, you built up the fan base THEN you went in on the multiplayer aspect. World of Warcraft used to be just Warcraft. These corporations are so addicted to short term profits that they no longer think they have to built up their customer bases anymore which is a really sick mindset.
I find AA games the best. They have enough budget for polish and fidelity/details, but enough freedom to experiment and actually be fun, instead of having a safe standard formula, agreed on by a non-gamer committee, only data points for them being the spreadsheets with trends. Artistically stylised games with simple graphics and even no voice acting, just text, are still great for me. They can be magical. And they have even more freedom to experiment. Companies should hire more passionate talented smaller teams and give them freedom.
Don't forget if you want it to play your PS5 games you have physical copies for and make it stand up you need to pay an extra 200 dollars. That's a 1000 dollar system
Western is a mistake, so Japan is worthy, just like PS1 and PS2 because both of this system are so iconic when it comes to their beginning and the success sequel.
You mean pc vs Nintendo. After all Ms games will be on PC day. And Sony game will be after 2-4 year. With full dlc and updates. Nintendo is the only one that will stay exclusive and need the hardware for it
100% if a Gen is just 20 exclusives. That will be remastered next gen. The consoles are dead at this point for hardcore gamers. And casual will follow a gen later.
Iwata was right, when he predicted that chasing power would lead to diminishing returns, and fewer games because it's more work per game. That is why the switch still has a games library, and is alone in that.
@@shadeblackwolf1508 I still laugh at how people mocked him for saying 'The NES is just a box people buy to play Mario' like it was the dumbest take ever, when it's 100% true that if there aren't good games people want to play for it, they don't give a crap how fancy your box is.
@shadeblackwolf1508 and practically all of Nintendo's franchises on it have exploded in sales and quite often praise too. Not always praise but we live in a world where Pikmin outdoes Sony’s big new toy (Concord). Imagine telling people that a new Sony IP got slaughtered in profit by Pikmin?
You’re delusional if you think people are going to be buying PS6’s at the same rate as PS5’s. This console generation doesn’t feel like it has really started. Take the I still have a PS4 trend right now and amplify it for the PS6’s first half of its lifecycle.
Better they hold off on ps6 until 2029 or 2030 after the bullsh*t they pulled this Gen to guarantee that people jump to the ps6 in droves unless they want to repeat of having a higher ps5 player base than ps6 forcing them to go back on the "we believe in generations" promise.
Sony seems to forget there is competition in everything. If gamers want their systems stronger they'll go to PC instead, if they want more games, or games that just feel like games they'll switch to nintendo. And I even have a friend who said screw sony and is just refusing to play games going forward cause a PC cost to much for them and they are not big nintendo fans. And the fact that there are long time Play Station fans who would rather have nothing than a PS5, Pro, or PS6 should scare Sony more than anything If they don't fix something soon, and I mean during the PS6 soon, I have a real hunch that it will be the last play station
@@Topbeehler you actually get less games by going to Switch because their platforms are never strong enough to run modern third party games, which means you miss out on 90% of what gaming has to offer and can really only enjoy Nintendo made games, indies, and a few crappy down ports. New consoles have always sold on the idea of getting better looking games. Genesis? SNES? PS1? N64? Dreamcast? PS2? Every generation was an upgrade with crazy good looking new stuff. Playstation is the place for great first party games, great multiplatform games, and a great system with good graphics and performance.
I built my PC after wanting to join the new consoles, I can NOT justify the prices that consoles charge. PC 2.99 for Just Cause 2. $4.99 for triple A game original released for $60. PC and patient game is where it's at if you're poor. Honestly Game Pass is really good value if you just want to play some newer titles than wait for them to go on sale to "own" them or steam/gog.
I bought a ps2 with all cables, 2 controllers including one original and one wireless, 2 memory cards, and 4 games all for $100. Lots of worry-free and FOMO-free, Live service-free fun so far. I recommend others do the same :)
I still have my 20 year old original PS2 and play it regularly. It was the last console I purchased. I've been on PC ever since. There isn't a single game that i've been disappointed about not being able to play. Played quite a bit of $45 (on sale!) Ghost of Tsushima on steam earlier today, lul.
You know the studio that sold Concord to Sony had to have a good laugh after Concord failed so badly. They are rolling in Sony's money while Sony almost literally got nothing.
you know what's so funny? I actually heard that they were shitting themselves because they sold Sony on concord. they were the intermediary between Sony and firewalk - they made the introduction. so now it looks to everyone watching like they scammed Sony, and will likely suffer big time as a result, since matching their smaller studios with bigger buyers is basically their bread and butter money maker in the industry
Concord could've been salvaged if they had a single player or co-op missions like Left 4 Dead that is around 20+ hours. They could've done a co-op heist story mission like shown on the game trailer. But nah.....they had to try to Overwatch when they're not even Overwatch "hot".
"Live Service Games" are the worst thing that has ever happened to gaming. Any title that is "live service" is something I will always avoid like the plague.
1603 was actually the end of the Sengoku era and the beginning of the Edo period, the end of the big wars was in 1600 with the battle of sekigahara, so they actually skipped all the super crazy stuff and went straight to the end.
@@alexanderjohnson6178 yea, this was when Tokugawa became shogunate. And the beginning what you mentioned the edo period which was mostly a 200 year lock out of foreign affairs. But he did get the Ainu part right and could be showing how they starting to show them being oppressed by the southern forces. I’m actually interested they did a great job with Tsushima giving fictional liberties.
@@Hakaishin-225 Because these days they are message pushing mary sue tokens to get dei points. Especially when they replace a man in already established series.
Sony's mistakes: moving to CA, hiring Jim Ryan, censoring Japanese video games, hiring Jim Ryan, trying to move to live service instead of single player games, hiring Jim Ryan and also hiring Jim Ryan. I think there might be a pattern, even though he retired the damage is done.
Steam Deck is where the excitement is at, today. It is a truly transformative console, with customer good will as priority #1. I was a PlayStation ride-or-die, from PS1 through PS4, and it was a fun ride!! But, when PS5 showed up, I kept waiting and waiting for a good reason to buy one, and the best it had was backwards compatibility with PS4 🤷🏻♂️. Then Valve showed the Steam Deck preview and I immediately realized that it was the dream console that I had been waiting for, but never granted, my entire life. Today, I'm gaming more than I have in over a decade, across more eras and genres than ever, with more variety and choice than ever. All on my Steam Deck.. which even plays my massive PlayStation backlog 🙌🏻 I couldn't be happier, and I don't know if I'll ever come back to the console space.
I agree. I skipped on PS5 for the same reason, no games out for the system that weren't on PS4. I also bought a handheld PC. I went with the Legio Go and can't see myself ever going back to console again. Then again, there is no need to go back when PS and Xbox are putting their games on PC.
I think it's foolish to gauge Sony's future by past success. For starters the leadership that made the decision for the amazing PS4 gen isn't there anymore. They've also invested more into live service than single player games (60-40%). You can say a little over half isn't world ending but what was it before? I don't remember Sony releasing any notable live service games for PS4 so the games Sony is known for could have had their funding reduced by half. Follow that up with the CFO demanding layoffs to make the budget tighter. And competitors like MS poaching their talent. One has to ask, can they still produce or are they just hiding behind the brand that others built? Next year is going to be their prove it year. And it doesn't matter how many reviewer glaze their games like how they did Concord. Will their console owners by these games? And honestly IDK.
Most valid opinion here. I liked Sony because of their support of single-player games and their support for their homegrown studios. Those are the things they're killing. Tis a shame
@@billygrant9147 Often these take a single champion to keep going. Family Detective Club got a new gang after 30 years because someone poked the Metroid guy a lot. Whose there to poke for Sly Cooper? Honestly I'm sure Ratchet and Clank are only as regular as they are because an Insomniac person insists on it hard. Like how Fire Emblem Kirby and Xenoblade are consistent for their sales over on Nintendo
@@krspaceT1 I here you but it also depends on what management would greenlight. The Shaun era management seemed more willing to approve smaller projects. Jim Ryan closed or reassigned a lot of those smaller studios that make stuff like astro bot. And frankly what can you say to them. Astrobot isn't selling that well. They need to figure out what the disconnect is between them and the consumer. It took one bad press conference and a dumb statement from the head of Xbox to kill the Xbox one before it even launched. That brand name isn't going to keep buying Sony passes for being tone deaf
I don't understand why you bring gamepass into this? Nobody but Microsoft themselves care that gamepass subs are flat-lining. I will continue to pay for it and play stuff like Jedi Survivor and B06 when it comes out next month. Not a flex or something like that even though I feel like it sounds like I'm flexing. I don't care if microsoft is not getting any more money from gamepass as long as I can play my games. And then they can get games that are big market hitters on gamepass and increase engagement that way. Just think about when the new doom is going to drop on gamepass and bo6. There will be crazy numbers.
@sungjin-woo3894 gamepass hit peak market saturation. Microsoft panicked and did a bunch of dumb shit. Sony crushed this console generation. And have likely hit peak market saturation as well. Now the sales line isn't increasing like it used to. And now we get Sony doing (more) dumb shit.
I don't think that's entirely true. They've hit the saturation cap for the slop they're trying to sell. There's a much bigger market for actually good products.
It hit saturation ages ago. console numbers swap between the manufacturers but total console numbers haven't increased in over a decade. 'number of consoles sold' doesn't mean anything anymore. Xbox just beat playstaion in income. Lowest selling console, no exclusives, biggest earner, putting them second behind tencent. Meanwhile nintendo are 5th with the best selling console and most exclusives. It's not 2006, the market has completely changed.
Really it is a re-remaster as the PS1 one was pretty much a remaster and this is a remaster off the complete version. I still miss some of the combat from the Sega CD game. I have the PS1 one too, but sadly I had borrowed the Sega CD one from a friend back then. I have the Sega Saturn second game, but I hated that one. The save system was godawful and I didn't like the story as much.
@@TrackMediaOnly Part of me loves the old 90's anime jank vibe the PS1 versions brought forth from Working Designs. I'm sure it all nostalgia, but it hit different than the PSP or CD to me. Again pure nostalgia, but I secretly hope this is just a test and perhaps they may revist The IP if it does well. I was not kind to the DS game follow up.
Bro I don't buy anything I can emulate (and I don't feel one bit bad about it). Give me a proper remake of classic games, or a really good remaster with major improvements, or else, no deal. Their Legacy of Kain remaster for instance is absolutely shameless.
Lunar SSSC and Eternal Blue Complete are pretty much tied for my 3rd or 4th favorite game... and I don't have much interest in buying another remaster of them. I am however very interested in the Suikoden 1/2 remaster and really, *really* want a Suikoden 6. I think the main reason why I there is the difference is I don't have much faith in a Lunar 3 ever coming out or being good, while I think Suikoden 6 is a possibility, even if slim.
Every time Sony does bad I celebrate. Because every time they do bad I know the "break glass in case of emergency" box that contains the Bloodborne remaster
There's so many great soulslikes that it wouldn't be as fresh or grand as you think... The iron was hot 5-6 years ago, and Sony never bothered striking it. Now it'd be just another one.
I'm sorry but I do not believe Sony is able to come back. Unless there's a leadership change, nothing will change, they've dug their own grave and the Negative PR hasn't left and will not leave.
Sony can probably survive as is, but they would want to avoid a Concord level flop repeat without a lot of adjustments. A few ASTRO Bot type games could mitigate the risk, but such a shift will take time. Time they might not have
@@railerswim They could, but from what I can remember, they stated that they aren't going to design new ones in a long while. It'd be essentially Valve Time(TM), with Half-life 3.
@@Jei4Del With Xbox out of the picture Sony will be free to price the PS6 and its services however they want. If Steam finds a living room solution for the Deck it could get interesting by the end of the decade
You're on the money with the shift from Japanese roots to the Disneyfied corporate entertainment media style by western management. The problem lies in the fact that the American leadership comes in with the mindset that lets just do with games what we've done with music and movies and we'll make a killing. The flaw in this thinking is that music and movies are passive engagements where the experience is reactive whereas games are active engagements where the experience is proactive. That means you need to provide tools and mechanisms for your consumers to enjoy your product on an individual basis, which means you need to know how that feels. These people don't know how enjoying a game feels. Nintendo is the only console company that still knows how playing video games feels, and if you look at all the games that are still giving us hope in this AAA sh**storm, they are mainly from eastern companies. BMW, anything that From has put out in the last decade, most of Nintendo, Stellar Blade. IGN itself has 7 out of its top 10 games being either from Japanese studios or other Asian studios and publishers. The same corporate American creep that killed SEGA as a console maker and forced them to retreat into being nothing more than a B-rank publisher
Most of Sega's issues around that era were treating the American branch like shit and actively working to undermine them instead of trying to expand its foothold in western audiences.
@@Remilation Sony was good through PS4. I rode with them the whole way, from PS1 onward.. Particularly PS2 and PS4 were outstanding. But PS5?? I cannot bring myself to pick one up. Steam Deck came along and stole my heart away.. Don't know if I'll ever be back..
@@thisguy4505 sonys downfall started woth the ps3. Its was a tank it was not a good system overall. By tje time the ps4 hit and they had a good system they started becoming the underhanded pos we see today. The ps2 was the gplden era of sony of you ask me. Everything since has been so sub par I could no longer bring myself to buy. Xbox has had its ups and downs too dont get me wrong but microsoft i think can see the writing on the wall and it preparing for a shiift in the console gaming and sony is not.
@@Remilation The ps3 was amazing, I don't know what you're talking about. That generation also had the peak of all good games. Sure, the first ps3 design was a bulky, heavy mess. But the difference was back then we were going through actual generational leaps. You saw how overtime they were able to create the slim version with a quarter of the size and legit like 70% less weight.
The various gaming studios need to get a grip on their finances. They spend too much and take too long chasing that mystical “triple a” branding when they should be shooting for AA or B rated games that cost significantly less. It’s like nobody has learned from THQs mistakes. Some adults with “fuck you” levels of clout need to be in control and be read in on their projects. This remake everything crap whumps.
@@kosmosXcannon I think it’s normal fear of losing out, but it’s magnified because they just lean into existing IPs until they’re just desiccated husks. Chasing “live service” games when there’s been arguably one that was slightly successful is a bad move. They disregard the fundamentals and try to spend their way to success and end up with unpolished not fun games with weirdo narratives.
There's room for AAA, but AAA comes with a lot more risk. It requires being a Leader, NOT a Follower like with Concord. Look at what Sony did with FF Remake and God of War. People don't want remakes of old games that still look good, ESPECIALLY PC fans. They should be getting back to their old beloved titles. Focusing on Indie Games & AA games to Diversify.
It makes sense for the platform holder to be the ones releasing AAA games to show what their platforms can do, you should be saying this about third part publishers. Pretty much saying AAA games don't have a place is just daft.
@@Krytern But it also makes sense for the platform holder to fund B budget games with interesting angles to pad out the variety of the roster and focus on individual capabilities of the system.
@@Joe-ti7qdPCs aren't ready for the mass console market. They're more convenient than before but they just aren't there yet, Digital Foundry spoke about this not long ago.
@@Krytern They look ready to me. Look at Steam Deck and how popular they are even among casual gamers. It has all the conveniences of a console plus more.
Xbox lost during the last generation, Nintendo is always in a game of it's own, and Playstation is losing to PC and by extension Microsoft. Console wars seemed to just be a massive waste of time, as the big two consoles both suck once and for all.
I've never seen the appeal for Nintendo games. All the Nintendo games I had enjoyed was back in the day. Nowadays they just put out rubbish. We own a switch (Not mine) and I have tried it, all games are mediocre and the hardware is a joke. Never seen such a laggy system before.
There was a time when a remaster/remake of a seven year old game was very justified. You look at Super Mario All-Stars and the visual and audio improvements over the NES versions are drastic, and that's only a five year gap between SMB3 (1988) and All-Stars (1993). Now, diminishing returns (as magnified recently thanks to the barely noticeable changes between PS5 and Pro) make it very clear that we don't actually need these games remade or remastered all that often any more. PS4 games look absolutely fine, even now. Bloodborne is still a gorgeous game, even when put up against Elden Ring. PS3 era games? Yeah, they can stand to get full on visual remakes these days, as in the case of Demon's Souls, but heck even then SOME of them it's hard to justify.... as in the case of The Last Of Us. Heck, it's hard to say if it's even worth a full graphical remaster of Metal Gear Solid 4 or Final Fantasy XIII. Slap a higher frame rate and some higher res textures in there and that'll be enough.
I'm glad the PC doesn't need a bunch of apologists and TH-cam channels putting out PR for them. Sony sure has a lot of that going on despite how anti consumer they have been and continue to be.
@@joshstephens413PCs are more than a gaming item, like they do have other uses while consoles are gaming specific. Let's not act like they are comparable.
Sony needs to return their gaming HQ to Japan and go back to making both high end games and smaller, filler "indie-style" games like they used to. Go back and revist their rich history of old IPs that were fun from the PS1 and PS2 era and do smaller remakes or remasters of them as well as some long-desired sequels. Not all games have to be big budget, live-service monsters. Some can just be nice little time-wasters that only take a day or two to complete, and some can be a single-player game that just gets new content here and there to basically expand the game over time.
Regarding Ghosts of Yotei, I feel like y'all are sleeping on a potential Ainu vs Matsunae war that could be going on in this title. You still get your samurai warfare stuff but you also get to see how the clans and the shogunate were going to oppress the Ainu. Context: The game is set in Hokkaido in the early days of the Edo period. (1603) The Ainu and Mainland Japan had only limited interactions before this time period and the Shogunate was planning to expand into their territory. The Shogunate, specifically represented the Matsunae clan will be taking the role of the Mongols in the first game (powerful, foreign invaders) while the native Ainu will probably be taking the role of Japan. (the hopelessly outmatched locals who must use subterfuge and asymmetric warfare to win) This is all purely speculative on my end, but it lines up research-wise. Dash, M. (2013, June 20). The octogenarian who took on the shoguns. Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved from Smithsonian Walker, B. L. (2001). The conquest of Ainu lands: Ecology and culture in Japanese expansion, 1590-1800. University of California Press.
@@GraveUypoWell then Sony better hope that the 'Switch 2 > Steam Deck' rumors aren't true. If that thing gets steam like the Switch 1, and can get the third parties that would suggest, then they might have a problem. Of course let's be honest, Nintendo could release an exact duplicate of the PS6 when the PS6 launches, but with their games on it and it could sell just as well, but there would still be barely any 3rd party support.
@@panzer00 the insane ludonarrative dissonance when you’re forced to spare Abbey after you’ve killed hundreds of people to get to her. That moment when you’re forced to play as Abbey against Ellie and you have to win the fight despite a strong portion of the players actively trying to throw the fight
Their push for PSN log in on steam is clearly just to add padding on their psn users to show their share holders that a lot of people are using psn...God of War ragnarok forces you to log in to PSN. As well just to play a single player
For me it's the fact that there remastering games that don't need to be remastered and the games fans want remastered are left to gather dust. Astro bot show that they know they have all these classic IPs that haven't been touched in over 10 years.
Some even killed by Sony's complete disregard for quality look at LittleBigPlanet 3 straight up became a harbinger of death for the series as a whole I'm unsure if there's any games with that similar fate, new game ends up killing the whole series and company don't want to make new games or ports of it out of a fear they themselves created, not the series
One would think that Steam, Switch, and PS would be enough to keep them sharp and competition generating good from all three of them. But for some reason neither Steam or Switch seem to count to Sony
ANGRY SONY FAN HERE. I HAVE COMPLETELY MADE THE SWITCH TO PC AFTER WATCHING THE TELEASE OF CONCORD AND THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE PRO, I REGRET NOTHING, THEY RELEASE THEIR GAMES ON OC EVENTUALLY ANYWAYS, PS5 PRO? NAH MAN, I GOT THE PS5K, THE PRO HAS NO CHANGE IN THE CPU, DO NOT BUY THAT CONSOLE, THERE IS NO INCREASE IN POWER WHATSOEVER, YOUR GAMES WILL NOT RUN ANY BETTER
IP damage is going to be a big factor with games like "The Last of Us", and Sony US is in a seriously bad place by not recognizing the factors causing huge failures like concord or effectively dealing with those factors which are leading to future failures like assassin's creed shadows and dragon age veilguard. it's like they used to say: a hundred "atta-boys" can't erase one "aw crap". goodwill builds slowly and is damaged or destroyed very quickly. blaming their customers for dropping player counts like they allowed their developers to do with outlaws and helldivers and using journos to attack critics instead of quickly and effectively correcting company mistakes didn't help. sony is going to have to replace their US execs (top down), staff, and devs entirely to truly deal with matters (and fast)...
@@mrthewhite2620what you been smoking. Been waiting for new exclusive games since day one. So far it Spider-Man 2. Which is fine. 😒 Just not my cup of tea. And PS4 cross gen stuff. Nothing id is call with buying a PS5 for. It's just everyone sees there nothing is coming to justice the PS5 existing. It's just a PS4.5
@@zid9611 It's pretty much not worth keeping games on console exclusive in terms of selling the most copies for games. That means console makers are going to have to do something with the consoles themselves to make them worthwhile and they'll have to sell the consoles at a level to at least break even now instead of selling them at a loss. They might do some limited exclusivity but it's not really worth the money to do permanent exclusivity deals.
@@mrthewhite2620 Not really, especially with Concord being a massive flop. Both Xbox was more profitable than Playstation but their reputation took a bigger hit this console cycle. Playstation is looking better than Xbox right now in terms of consoles, but they are pretty much minimizing their profit and are struggling to get a good game into the live service game market and have bungled their only success, Helldivers 2.
I was really happy when I heard Until Dawn got a remaster (and for PC too). The game then was 50$£€ I believe. When I heard the price point of 70£$ and 80€!!! I was less stoked, esoecially when you compare with ALL other fantastic Super Massive Games titles we‘ve had in the past. Will I get it most probably, but will I pick it up day 1 most likely NOT. PlayStation turning into greedy Ubi and EA.
I'm boycotting everything Sony along with Ubisoft!!! Only thing I have from Sony is my modded PS1 and haven't touched it since '93. Went PC in '93 and never looked back at garbage consoles.
I'll say this. MS has the better "set top box" experience right now. I'm at a loss as to how Sony dropped the ball there. The optical drive DOES in fact have three laser diodes, one's specifically for CDs, but it has no software ability to play back CDs, one of the easiest things for them to code in support for. Indeed, they don't have any sort of media player for files on a USB stick, such as MP3, FLAC, or various video files. Their DVD and Bluray playback has a rather annoying "playing" icon displayed right in the middle of the screen, which results in a lot of frustration on certain discs formatted to move between multiple "chapters" seamlessly, and there's no built in general purpose web browser, such as a port of Firefox or something. (On that last point, there ARE workaround exploits, but that's the problem, they're just workaround exploits).
@CidGuerreiro1234 The art style was forgettable and generic. Other reactions I saw were that a game themed about "Eat the rich!" Made by a billion $ company is pure cringe and a "How do you do fellow kids" moment. Lol
I got much less annoyed about the Horizon remaster when I saw that upgrading to the new version would only cost 10 dollars. The fact that we’re not being made to pay to rebuy the upgrade is laudable. I didn’t need a remaster, but if I ever go back to replay it, I might pay 10$ for the upgrade.
I think I'm just done with consoles, the PS5 can be my last. Not enough exclusives I care about to justify going this route instead of pivoting into PC
Sony is repeating history. PS2 sold gang busters and then they got cocky with PS3. They were humbled and did super well with PS4, and now they are cocky again with PS5. If they could keep the mentality they had with PS2 and PS4, they would be fine, but they keep making this mistake
in my eyes they turned there dumpster fire into a dumpster volcano with the helldivers 2 ban. you can say what you want about everything that happend but in the end of the day some people don't care and just want to shoot some bugs and robots. and now they can't because somebody wants to have that PSN account more then a happy player base.
My little brother has my old xbox, he brought it with him when he came over for a weekend and I was able to play Ninja Gaiden Black again. All I can say is Damn! The games where so good back then.
@@doctorsilva1345 I pray that’s true. My dream game would be a LBP 4 with a pc port that supports workshop mods, never gonna happen but childhood me can dream
Unless the remastered game is bundled with the latest console, I really don’t see the point, I for example aren’t going to buy a game I’ve already completed for slightly better visuals.
@@Krytern the point is there is no cost to produce them, all they are doing is using the PC textures. And they do it for this reason. They don’t actually sell that well, but they do make money in them. Yes they sell enough to make it worthwhile, but it comes at a cost to the industry. Mainly lack of innovation. Polls are trending against them, so although yes it’s my opinion, I am not alone in thinking this.
@Im_dsr Didn't you pay attention to what I said? You can pretend your opinion is the standard as much as you want but the facts is that remasters sell, so clearly people are buying and selling them. I know plenty of people who've played remasters.
They should double their workforce on anticipated games like Wolverine, X-men, Hogwarts Legacy 2, Horizon Zero Dawn and toss in the bin the stupidity of live services simply because they are soooo greedy that they can't come up with fair, proper and solid balance between content and quality. If they stop being greedy as company and concentrate on gamers and what they want their current situation would have been completely different and way more positive. Consumers are the ones in power, not that hard to understand or comprehend.
imagine, buying a $700 bucks console to play old ps4 games and only one or two true ps5 games... no wonder people buy steamdeck or switch or even more expensive PC's instead...
Certain portions and to be fair it isn't the only one. A lot of other places had these same problems on their own. US gaming just isn't helping matters any and they are certainly trying to infect the Japanese market.
The US developing most of the major games does not mean the US is the problem. Thats like saying Earth game devs are ruining the gaming industry. Take a look at Dustborn, funded by millions of euros of European tax money and it flopped even harder than concord
CEO’s aren’t the only problem. They’re likely unaware that many of the drones they have working beneath them are actively sabotaging companies by pushing their anti-consumer, ideological agenda’s into their products rather than having any real passion for the craft. I think they need to change the payment structure, and have their departments on lower wages before paying bonuses based on the game’s success to create a “customer first” culture.
I mean Trixel Creative (the team that made the one of the best levels back when the lbp3 servers were still alive, Return to Carnevalia.) Is making a spiritual successor in the form of Restitched. So there is going to be something in the future we have to look forward to on PC.
I do have to say, this was an excellent video. Anyone who came to this with little to no idea about Sony’s gaming empire, will leave it with a full and comprehensive understanding of their recent history, where they are now and how they got there. A superbly organised and laid out presentation. Thank you.
The lead actress for ghost of yotei, isnt exactly doing the sony any favors. It really does not look good having your lead actress fighting with and insulting fans. It is insane that they think they can be a representative of a company like that, and be that abrasive. There is the issue of free speech, but there is also such as thing as a brand you create when you are being famous. It is why politicians dont usually run their own social media. That means that sony needs to be careful who they associate their brand with, otherwise a person can tarnish your brand. This is what happened with rachel zegler and snow white, or bree larson and captain marvel.
@scruffynerfherder33 I think if people want to be an activist, they shouldn't pursue a career as a famous person. And if they want to pursue activism as a famous person, like an actor, it should be carefully managed, middle of the road activism that no one will get offended at. Aw! You want to support the pandas!? Stuff like that. Everything you do should be trying to cultivate and nurture your customer base, but too many of these entertainers say dumb things that would directly offend the people they should be trying to convince to see their movie. Bree larson was stupid, because she attacked men, which should've been her target audience for a super hero movie. By doing that she made women her target audience that meant ticket sales would've suffered greatly since women dont go see them. She then became a pariah to superhero films, because she was now labeled anti-male by the male audience and they no longer wanted to watch her. It doesn't help that she is a mediocre to bad actress. Rachel zeglar, messed up because she attacked the nostalgia of the original movie she was supposed to represent. You don't do that when your supposed to be using that nostalgia to sell the movie. The only time you should say bad things about a nostalgia property is when you know that most people would like something fixed, like the second disk for xenogears.
To be clear about Ghost of Yotei, 1603 is the last year of the Sengoku period with its infamous battle of Sekigahara, but Oda Nobunaga and Hattori Hanzo have already been dead for years. But it also is the period were the first japanese people came to Ezo (Hokkaido) which is probably where the story will focus in my opinion.
I'll take a step back and look at the industry as a whole and start laughing. Mainly cause that console war we had when we were kids is completely useless now since all of these companies are screw ups😂 Xbox, Playstation, PC, even the Switch. Just seems like pick which hole you get fucked in
The fuck you talking about Nintendo and the Switch are “screw ups”? It’s the most sold console since the PlayStation 2 and most of their own first-party games have sold incredibly well. If anything, Nintendo are the ones laughing to the bank at Sony and Xbox
@@Marksman3434 @Marksman3434 Bro there's so many games on the Switch that shouldn't be sold on there, the new Lolipop Chainsaw Remaster runs like dogshit on there. I was saying any device you choose to play, you will have your own subset of issues. Switch favors portability over performance, Xbox locks games at 30fps, Sony makes us pay more for the PS5 since they just spent $400 million on Concord. Many PC ports of PS5 games have been shit the past few years, loaded with Denuvo, Playstation account required for certain PC games, etc. Point is, pick your poison and keep bitching online lol
@@Marksman3434sales is not the same as public perception or timelessness of games. Also, just to put things into perspective, Sony's market cap is around 120.1 billion while Nintendo's is 65.56 billion. Nintendo repeatedly shoots itself in the foot holding back their game design. They want to be seen as kid friend instead of family friendly, which limits their IPs, and depth of story telling. Not to mention their hardware was dated when it released and that hinders depth of game play and fidelity. That is also not mentioning their toxic retaliation to their fan base. Of course this video highlights issues with Sony, so they both have their faults. I like both Sony and Nintendo, I have fond memories with both, but if I were ever in a situation to save one over the other Sony would win every time. However, I avoid having to chose by being on PC (well just steam deck for now).
@@PinkgloRadio Depends. Nintendo's lower market cap is offset by the fact that they are also debtless compared to the others. No one's making profits as large as Nintendo does, and that means they are the ones that are in danger the least of the three. Not to mention, you say the dated hardware is their biggest weakness, but I'd argue that it is their biggest strength because the average gamer is more able to afford their products and they make up for this weakness with some serious optimization to hit the required targets for their games. Sony's higher market cap is offset by much higher sunk costs which means flops like Concord hits them harder than such a flop would to Nintendo, hypothetically speaking.
With everyone that's left of the Japan studio who helped to make astrobot I think Dev teams like that size of I think it was 60 people will become the new norm soon because it's easier to make a game with that many people working together then the thousands of people on other studios dev teams in my opinion and I hope that Sony of Japan takes more active role in helping with other Sony properties to in the future because to me they know how to add quality in to their games better than Sony of America right now
I was born in the 80s and got into gaming early with the Nintendo 8bit, i then got to experience each generation afterwards, all the new stuff each console brought that made them unique, graphics getting better and better, it was one hell of a ride seeing and experiencing Playstation graphics for the first time after playing mostly Nintendo, Super Nintendo, Sega Mega Drive etc. Each generation brought something new that made that console stand out, something that made it different compared to the rest. Nowadays however all im seeing is these fancy looking consoles having the same graphics, the same sounds, and most of the time the exact same games. Not to mention as i grew up and got a job i could finally afford decent gaming computers, and these days the majority of console games are also available on PC, so i see no reason to get a console anymore at this point in time, except the Nintendo Switch, i have to applaud Nintendo for still staying "unique" and innovative in this age of stagnant gaming. It is most likely due to the existence of the Switch that Valve went ahead and made the Steam Deck which i have heard lots of people enjoy. I believe the problem with game developers these days are that they focus on money more then making fun games, it has become too much of a money making machine, that and they are trying to "Min-Max" the production of games, and playing it safe rather than taking chances, and lastly, i think a lot of game companies have been getting to "big" for their own good, they have been buying up smaller companies en masse and now we see it bursting at the seams and things start to collapse.
I’m so confused as to how the game that nobody wants has sold over 16 millions copies and the Bloodbprne has only sold 7 over the same amount of time. Could people just be full of shit 🤔. How after elder ring, this game hasn’t gotten more copies sold? It’s weird how that happens.
Yep, sold to all the scalpers that are trying to get a die-hard Sony fan to spend over $1000 for one.... but it does show basically anything they put out. Someone is going to buy it... Just not the right someone..
@@arcadeportal32 why isnt it the right someone? If hasnt bought a console for a while and they have a bit more money to spend but not enough for a high end PC - the PS5P isnt a terrible option
@andrewramirez9727 I mean the scalpers clearly trying to take advantage of the situation and force people to pay more than the list price. $800 is already outrageous enough, imo if you want the whole PS5 Pro package. I'v seen scalpers listing the Pro for as high as $4000 for the one with the PS1 looking case plates.
@@andrewramirez9727 You can buy a pc that competes and beats with the ps5 for about the same price. If you factor in the yearly sub for consoles life span you can easily build a that crushes a ps5p ($700 + yearly sub $80 * average lifespan of console 7 years = $1,260 not including games). The PS5P is an awful option over just getting a pc. You are locked into the sony ecosystem, cant do even half the things a pc can do, you can upgrade any part whenever, you have steam, you have freedom, better game prices, no online sub, you can mod your games, you can play with a controller, and you can play on a tv. PC is just objectively better in every way.
I've been gaming since the late 1970's and I VASTLY prefer the games Microsoft has on offer. They own my favorite studios - Obsidian, Bethesda, Activision/Blizzard, InXile, etc. GamePass for PC is the best deal out there IMO.
I have to agree. I'd never buy skyrim special addition, bards tale remastered, halo infinite, that one space game, etc on their own, but being able to play them as much as i want is fantastic.
12:07 I have yet to see a credible argument for this 'more expensive than ever' claim, if any at all. Just spend less. Not our fault or problem. It would make sense that they are LESS expensive, given how we no longer use cartridges nor even have to use discs. You can just go all digital and forget about all costs associated with a physical release.
Concord was Herman Hulst's baby? What gave it away? The fact that a limited-edition Concord themed PS5 controller was made? The fact that the upcoming gaming-themed TV show Secret Level has an episode dedicated to Concord? The fact that he literally said Concord had the potential to replace Horizon as Sony's "most important franchise"? I have never seen a more egregious example of putting all of one's eggs into one basket.
I gave up on consoles when they started doing a "refresh upgrade" after two years. It useed to be you bought a console and you were done for 5-6 years. Nope, not doing it.
There seems to be alot to talk about and so many dynamics, but it's simple. Make good games and people will come. We have lost MORE in gaming in 20 years then what we have gotten, you got one good triple A company valve the rest are all gunna fall because they watched gaming documentary on Netflix, and think they can turn gaming back into arcades. That's the real goal.
i hate to say this - but horizon zero dawn does need a remaster - for PC.. the pc port is so badly done, audio compression, crashes ect. and on microsoft - get rid of the dumb 18 month cycle for 343 devs - they cant cook if they know they wont be working on it long enough to make a difference.
I feel like I'm taking crazypills hearing people praise Aloy's new look in the remaster, she literally looks worse, skin like she's never even seen the sun and the modeller has never seen skin
You're in the minority there,it's reviews on steam are stellar,i also personally own and it was great. And the mods do more for it than the remaster ever will. You're literally the first person I've ever seen with this opinion which you're entitled to,but it's definitely not the majority,that's for sure.
@@CrispBaker think he was responding to me - in which case id like to point out the audio for npcs, and worst of all Aloy, sounds crunchy as fuck compared to when i played it on console, and on console i didn't need to lock my game to 30fps to prevent it from crashing. nobody should even have to mod a game to make it playable either, that's just sickening and dev's should stop leaving it up to modders to fix their problems.
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@@BellularNews hello shill
@Kelvryn no he is a DEI plant. Take joy in his failure
@@TempoLOOKING What?
If you own Horizon zero dawn it is a $10 upgrade
Once consoles went internet I stopped paying attention to them. They used to be plug n play convenience, buy the game, play the game, and get consistent performance. They've just become really niche PCs, which would be fine at a lower price point but they've been steadily losing the value proposition.
Pretty much this. In hindsight, 6th generation consoles were peak gaming.
True. Came back to gaming and console after a 20 years break (career, life etc…). Back in 1999, 2000s I had the PS1, just plug and play.
In 2021 I got an Xbox and oh my … different world. Constant crappy updates that means I have to wait… and wait… bugs, problems connecting etc… bought an MMO just to discover that despite buying the game I could not play it on my Xbox unless I paid a monthly subscription to unlock Multiplayers mode! 🤯.
I will move to PC asap! Done with all this nonsense and money extraction. Especially considering cost of the latest consoles. And as said above, it would give me access to most games.
I don’t want to buy any recent games (poor choices and I have a big backlog of older games I want to play) it won’t cost me that much more than a PS5!
Sega Megadrive and Super Famicom both had online capabilities. Saturn even had online multiplayer games.
@@iCABALi none of those consoles had broken games that you had to patch before playing
@vytah oh they had broken games (you couldn't patch them tho) but back then there would be like 30 good games for every broken/bad one
The biggest issue is the idea that games not only cost more than ever but that they have to. Sony and other publishers have painted themselves into an insanely expensive corner when the reality is games don’t need to cost anywhere near that much to be hugely successful.
but its nice to have the spectacle when it comes from time to time. I feel like their cinematic tones matches their sony pictures segment. it does well when they mean to do so.
i mean, the actual players are to blame as well, when the around the era of the ps3 and xbox 360 their became a HUGE obsession with graphics and just insane detail, and it went on for years and still is a huge obsession, comapnies see this and assume thats what players want, well to get that kind of shit in todays world it takes years and loads of money to get those amazing graphics players are so obsessed with
Not every game needs to be so expensive. But profits have been higher overall thanks to Digital Sales greatly reducing Resales & Trades, along with Direct Distribution. However, you need a quality game if it's going to be so expensive.
Concord was NOT a quality game, because the Highlight is the Characters which were Generic AF, and in an oversaturated Market.
What would be smart is bringing back some Old Classics that people love.
@@TheAyanamiRei On top of that, making new IPs that aren't corporate slop (so, no fucking concord.) via game jams is a good idea. Create a "indie" studio within your company under your direct control, hand them a small ass budget and tell em to see what they come up with.
Down the line one of them will bound to be widely successful and THEN you can turn that into a multiplayer game with tons of live service. Thats how it used to be done back in the day. You didn't just shovel out a multiplayer game, you built up the fan base THEN you went in on the multiplayer aspect.
World of Warcraft used to be just Warcraft.
These corporations are so addicted to short term profits that they no longer think they have to built up their customer bases anymore which is a really sick mindset.
I find AA games the best. They have enough budget for polish and fidelity/details, but enough freedom to experiment and actually be fun, instead of having a safe standard formula, agreed on by a non-gamer committee, only data points for them being the spreadsheets with trends.
Artistically stylised games with simple graphics and even no voice acting, just text, are still great for me. They can be magical. And they have even more freedom to experiment.
Companies should hire more passionate talented smaller teams and give them freedom.
I'm not about to pay $500 + $199 concord tax for a new console.
not real dude
Hahaha@@johansvensson833
Don't forget if you want it to play your PS5 games you have physical copies for and make it stand up you need to pay an extra 200 dollars. That's a 1000 dollar system
As an Aussie, its launching flat $1198, grab a stand too... yikes.
Or 949 Euro for a "Complete" PS5 Pro stop Huffing your own Farts Herman, you're out of your Mind.
Sony needs to return PS leadership to Japan.
Western is a mistake, so Japan is worthy, just like PS1 and PS2 because both of this system are so iconic when it comes to their beginning and the success sequel.
That or just have a "PlayStation of Asia". Asian studios have proven to be significantly more competent when releasing anything of value.
They are too busy chasing and kissing Marvel/Disney's ass.
I agree.
The console war is now consoles vs pc. Not Sony v xbox
Sure sure. Keep telling yourself that
its playstation and xbox vs pc the switch is just chilling with the mobile gamers
PC always wins. Argument over.
You mean pc vs Nintendo. After all Ms games will be on PC day. And Sony game will be after 2-4 year. With full dlc and updates. Nintendo is the only one that will stay exclusive and need the hardware for it
Pc always inserting themselves in 😂
This console cycle has been an absolute embarrassment from these AAA studios and companies
100% if a Gen is just 20 exclusives. That will be remastered next gen. The consoles are dead at this point for hardcore gamers. And casual will follow a gen later.
Iwata was right, when he predicted that chasing power would lead to diminishing returns, and fewer games because it's more work per game. That is why the switch still has a games library, and is alone in that.
@@shadeblackwolf1508 I still laugh at how people mocked him for saying 'The NES is just a box people buy to play Mario' like it was the dumbest take ever, when it's 100% true that if there aren't good games people want to play for it, they don't give a crap how fancy your box is.
@shadeblackwolf1508 and practically all of Nintendo's franchises on it have exploded in sales and quite often praise too. Not always praise but we live in a world where Pikmin outdoes Sony’s big new toy (Concord).
Imagine telling people that a new Sony IP got slaughtered in profit by Pikmin?
@@krspaceT1 and princess Peach's showtime
You’re delusional if you think people are going to be buying PS6’s at the same rate as PS5’s. This console generation doesn’t feel like it has really started.
Take the I still have a PS4 trend right now and amplify it for the PS6’s first half of its lifecycle.
my friend called the ps5 pro a ps4 pro emulator device. and that's the most accurate description i've ever seen so far
@@GraveUypoThey backported Jedi Survivor for Gods sake thats how close the industry is to collapsing.
Better they hold off on ps6 until 2029 or 2030 after the bullsh*t they pulled this Gen to guarantee that people jump to the ps6 in droves unless they want to repeat of having a higher ps5 player base than ps6 forcing them to go back on the "we believe in generations" promise.
@@eatanotherzio6811It needs to collapse. Back to PS 1/2 era.
@@GraveUypo I'm stealing this lol. Also epic profile pic, respect for Ristar is always nice to see
I play on PC and I am comfortable not playing Sony games.
i tried some, i didn't like any of them. not my cup of tea.
wait, i actually did like ratchet & clank. but that was it.
@@GraveUyporatchet and clank was the last time I used my ps5. I think it's in a box in my garage. I need to sell that paperweight.
Same, have literally thousands of titles without the PSN bullshit attached.
PS4 had great exclusives. PS5 have none that are good. And most come to PC soon anyway.
The last Sony games I've ever played were the ones on the Vita. And ever since they killed it, I moved to PC ever since.
I made a legitimate effort to get a PS5 at launch. Fed up with the scalpers, I got a PC together and haven't looked back since.
Sony seems to forget there is competition in everything. If gamers want their systems stronger they'll go to PC instead, if they want more games, or games that just feel like games they'll switch to nintendo. And I even have a friend who said screw sony and is just refusing to play games going forward cause a PC cost to much for them and they are not big nintendo fans. And the fact that there are long time Play Station fans who would rather have nothing than a PS5, Pro, or PS6 should scare Sony more than anything
If they don't fix something soon, and I mean during the PS6 soon, I have a real hunch that it will be the last play station
GPU scalping was even worse around the time the PS5 and Series X were coming out.
@@Topbeehler you actually get less games by going to Switch because their platforms are never strong enough to run modern third party games, which means you miss out on 90% of what gaming has to offer and can really only enjoy Nintendo made games, indies, and a few crappy down ports. New consoles have always sold on the idea of getting better looking games. Genesis? SNES? PS1? N64? Dreamcast? PS2? Every generation was an upgrade with crazy good looking new stuff.
Playstation is the place for great first party games, great multiplatform games, and a great system with good graphics and performance.
@@SotNist AMD Radeon 6700xt
I built my PC after wanting to join the new consoles, I can NOT justify the prices that consoles charge. PC 2.99 for Just Cause 2. $4.99 for triple A game original released for $60. PC and patient game is where it's at if you're poor. Honestly Game Pass is really good value if you just want to play some newer titles than wait for them to go on sale to "own" them or steam/gog.
I bought a ps2 with all cables, 2 controllers including one original and one wireless, 2 memory cards, and 4 games all for $100. Lots of worry-free and FOMO-free, Live service-free fun so far. I recommend others do the same :)
@@charge416 This sounds like an awesome idea!
Retro gaming is great, there’s a lot of terrific classic games that are easy to track down on the cheap.
Or you could just download an emulator.
I still have my 20 year old original PS2 and play it regularly. It was the last console I purchased. I've been on PC ever since. There isn't a single game that i've been disappointed about not being able to play. Played quite a bit of $45 (on sale!) Ghost of Tsushima on steam earlier today, lul.
pick up ufo 50! plenty of games none of which are live service
You know the studio that sold Concord to Sony had to have a good laugh after Concord failed so badly. They are rolling in Sony's money while Sony almost literally got nothing.
They're not laughing. They're scared shitless Sony will sue for fraud.
Sounds like Sony should be hiring people like them as they understand business. Sony, not so much anymore
Sony got something in that purchase. A black eye.
you know what's so funny? I actually heard that they were shitting themselves because they sold Sony on concord. they were the intermediary between Sony and firewalk - they made the introduction. so now it looks to everyone watching like they scammed Sony, and will likely suffer big time as a result, since matching their smaller studios with bigger buyers is basically their bread and butter money maker in the industry
Concord could've been salvaged if they had a single player or co-op missions like Left 4 Dead that is around 20+ hours. They could've done a co-op heist story mission like shown on the game trailer.
But nah.....they had to try to Overwatch when they're not even Overwatch "hot".
"Live Service Games" are the worst thing that has ever happened to gaming. Any title that is "live service" is something I will always avoid like the plague.
It was Sony who pretty much kicked off Live Service gaming back in 1999 with EverQuest.
Warframe and Path of Exile say hello.
Same
sinbgle player will die gen z does not play them at all
@@khy6330 thank fortnite
1603 was actually the end of the Sengoku era and the beginning of the Edo period, the end of the big wars was in 1600 with the battle of sekigahara, so they actually skipped all the super crazy stuff and went straight to the end.
@@alexanderjohnson6178 yea, this was when Tokugawa became shogunate. And the beginning what you mentioned the edo period which was mostly a 200 year lock out of foreign affairs. But he did get the Ainu part right and could be showing how they starting to show them being oppressed by the southern forces. I’m actually interested they did a great job with Tsushima giving fictional liberties.
But we're there a gay black man who weild katanas?
It doesn't really matter, it will probably suck anyway. We liked Ghost too much so they will hit us with modern audience girl boss.
@@Sicarius888 am I missing something, why do yall hate female game main characters
@@Hakaishin-225 Because these days they are message pushing mary sue tokens to get dei points. Especially when they replace a man in already established series.
Yeah I'm not paying the Concord tax
Sony's mistakes: moving to CA, hiring Jim Ryan, censoring Japanese video games, hiring Jim Ryan, trying to move to live service instead of single player games, hiring Jim Ryan and also hiring Jim Ryan.
I think there might be a pattern, even though he retired the damage is done.
@@toomanyinterests2271 please elaborate. What did this Jim Ryan you speak of?
@@TheTenshi777he messed up PlayStation.
Steam Deck is where the excitement is at, today. It is a truly transformative console, with customer good will as priority #1. I was a PlayStation ride-or-die, from PS1 through PS4, and it was a fun ride!! But, when PS5 showed up, I kept waiting and waiting for a good reason to buy one, and the best it had was backwards compatibility with PS4 🤷🏻♂️. Then Valve showed the Steam Deck preview and I immediately realized that it was the dream console that I had been waiting for, but never granted, my entire life. Today, I'm gaming more than I have in over a decade, across more eras and genres than ever, with more variety and choice than ever. All on my Steam Deck.. which even plays my massive PlayStation backlog 🙌🏻 I couldn't be happier, and I don't know if I'll ever come back to the console space.
Agree. Steam deck is awesome
It's awesome but definitely chugging with a lot of newer stuff. It's definitely amazing for the old backlog though.
I agree. But I did buy the rog ally and now I don't know which to play. The black blacks of oled or the crisp 1080p and higher settings of rpg ally. 😆
Steam Deck and it's competitors. I got an ROG ALLY and it's excellent.
I agree. I skipped on PS5 for the same reason, no games out for the system that weren't on PS4. I also bought a handheld PC. I went with the Legio Go and can't see myself ever going back to console again. Then again, there is no need to go back when PS and Xbox are putting their games on PC.
Sony has massive success, then their ego catches back up with them and they have catastrophic failure.
Every other gen. Like clockwork.
I think it's foolish to gauge Sony's future by past success. For starters the leadership that made the decision for the amazing PS4 gen isn't there anymore. They've also invested more into live service than single player games (60-40%). You can say a little over half isn't world ending but what was it before? I don't remember Sony releasing any notable live service games for PS4 so the games Sony is known for could have had their funding reduced by half.
Follow that up with the CFO demanding layoffs to make the budget tighter. And competitors like MS poaching their talent. One has to ask, can they still produce or are they just hiding behind the brand that others built?
Next year is going to be their prove it year. And it doesn't matter how many reviewer glaze their games like how they did Concord. Will their console owners by these games? And honestly IDK.
Given Sony is barely acknowledging it's past, that's a fair point
Most valid opinion here. I liked Sony because of their support of single-player games and their support for their homegrown studios. Those are the things they're killing. Tis a shame
@@krspaceT1 I still can't believe their CFO said they have a lack of IPs.
@@billygrant9147 Often these take a single champion to keep going. Family Detective Club got a new gang after 30 years because someone poked the Metroid guy a lot. Whose there to poke for Sly Cooper?
Honestly I'm sure Ratchet and Clank are only as regular as they are because an Insomniac person insists on it hard. Like how Fire Emblem Kirby and Xenoblade are consistent for their sales over on Nintendo
@@krspaceT1 I here you but it also depends on what management would greenlight. The Shaun era management seemed more willing to approve smaller projects. Jim Ryan closed or reassigned a lot of those smaller studios that make stuff like astro bot. And frankly what can you say to them. Astrobot isn't selling that well.
They need to figure out what the disconnect is between them and the consumer. It took one bad press conference and a dumb statement from the head of Xbox to kill the Xbox one before it even launched. That brand name isn't going to keep buying Sony passes for being tone deaf
Much like Gamepass, they've likely hit peak market saturation.
Line no go up anymore...
I don't understand why you bring gamepass into this? Nobody but Microsoft themselves care that gamepass subs are flat-lining. I will continue to pay for it and play stuff like Jedi Survivor and B06 when it comes out next month. Not a flex or something like that even though I feel like it sounds like I'm flexing. I don't care if microsoft is not getting any more money from gamepass as long as I can play my games. And then they can get games that are big market hitters on gamepass and increase engagement that way. Just think about when the new doom is going to drop on gamepass and bo6. There will be crazy numbers.
@sungjin-woo3894 gamepass hit peak market saturation. Microsoft panicked and did a bunch of dumb shit.
Sony crushed this console generation. And have likely hit peak market saturation as well. Now the sales line isn't increasing like it used to. And now we get Sony doing (more) dumb shit.
I don't think that's entirely true. They've hit the saturation cap for the slop they're trying to sell. There's a much bigger market for actually good products.
It hit saturation ages ago. console numbers swap between the manufacturers but total console numbers haven't increased in over a decade. 'number of consoles sold' doesn't mean anything anymore. Xbox just beat playstaion in income. Lowest selling console, no exclusives, biggest earner, putting them second behind tencent. Meanwhile nintendo are 5th with the best selling console and most exclusives. It's not 2006, the market has completely changed.
Lunar Remastered was announced. For us fans. All single thousand of us. Though I still have working PS1 copies.
Really it is a re-remaster as the PS1 one was pretty much a remaster and this is a remaster off the complete version. I still miss some of the combat from the Sega CD game. I have the PS1 one too, but sadly I had borrowed the Sega CD one from a friend back then. I have the Sega Saturn second game, but I hated that one. The save system was godawful and I didn't like the story as much.
@@TrackMediaOnly Part of me loves the old 90's anime jank vibe the PS1 versions brought forth from Working Designs. I'm sure it all nostalgia, but it hit different than the PSP or CD to me. Again pure nostalgia, but I secretly hope this is just a test and perhaps they may revist The IP if it does well. I was not kind to the DS game follow up.
a remaster with the exact same sprites and shltty 2D overpixelated background, i didn't see much of a remaster there.
Bro I don't buy anything I can emulate (and I don't feel one bit bad about it). Give me a proper remake of classic games, or a really good remaster with major improvements, or else, no deal. Their Legacy of Kain remaster for instance is absolutely shameless.
Lunar SSSC and Eternal Blue Complete are pretty much tied for my 3rd or 4th favorite game... and I don't have much interest in buying another remaster of them.
I am however very interested in the Suikoden 1/2 remaster and really, *really* want a Suikoden 6. I think the main reason why I there is the difference is I don't have much faith in a Lunar 3 ever coming out or being good, while I think Suikoden 6 is a possibility, even if slim.
Every time Sony does bad I celebrate. Because every time they do bad I know the "break glass in case of emergency" box that contains the Bloodborne remaster
There's so many great soulslikes that it wouldn't be as fresh or grand as you think...
The iron was hot 5-6 years ago, and Sony never bothered striking it. Now it'd be just another one.
@@planescaped not really cause its theme and vibe are completely unique to it imo
I'm sorry but I do not believe Sony is able to come back. Unless there's a leadership change, nothing will change, they've dug their own grave and the Negative PR hasn't left and will not leave.
Sony can probably survive as is, but they would want to avoid a Concord level flop repeat without a lot of adjustments. A few ASTRO Bot type games could mitigate the risk, but such a shift will take time. Time they might not have
if Valve makes a docking station that upgrades steam deck performance to console level, the war will be won.
They can’t, not enough bandwidth to make a difference via that USB port. But they could with a new model.
@@railerswim They could, but from what I can remember, they stated that they aren't going to design new ones in a long while. It'd be essentially Valve Time(TM), with Half-life 3.
@@Xport9
Afaik, there is no 2 in the name, so we good.
The day they release steam deck 2, we know there will never be a 3.
At what price? Only pc players will buy it at their premium prices, it won't beat any console
@@Jei4Del With Xbox out of the picture Sony will be free to price the PS6 and its services however they want. If Steam finds a living room solution for the Deck it could get interesting by the end of the decade
You're on the money with the shift from Japanese roots to the Disneyfied corporate entertainment media style by western management. The problem lies in the fact that the American leadership comes in with the mindset that lets just do with games what we've done with music and movies and we'll make a killing.
The flaw in this thinking is that music and movies are passive engagements where the experience is reactive whereas games are active engagements where the experience is proactive. That means you need to provide tools and mechanisms for your consumers to enjoy your product on an individual basis, which means you need to know how that feels. These people don't know how enjoying a game feels.
Nintendo is the only console company that still knows how playing video games feels, and if you look at all the games that are still giving us hope in this AAA sh**storm, they are mainly from eastern companies. BMW, anything that From has put out in the last decade, most of Nintendo, Stellar Blade. IGN itself has 7 out of its top 10 games being either from Japanese studios or other Asian studios and publishers.
The same corporate American creep that killed SEGA as a console maker and forced them to retreat into being nothing more than a B-rank publisher
Most of Sega's issues around that era were treating the American branch like shit and actively working to undermine them instead of trying to expand its foothold in western audiences.
So sick of sony. They have always been soo anti consumer that i will never support them.
@@Remilation Sony was good through PS4. I rode with them the whole way, from PS1 onward.. Particularly PS2 and PS4 were outstanding. But PS5?? I cannot bring myself to pick one up. Steam Deck came along and stole my heart away.. Don't know if I'll ever be back..
@@thisguy4505 sonys downfall started woth the ps3. Its was a tank it was not a good system overall. By tje time the ps4 hit and they had a good system they started becoming the underhanded pos we see today. The ps2 was the gplden era of sony of you ask me. Everything since has been so sub par I could no longer bring myself to buy. Xbox has had its ups and downs too dont get me wrong but microsoft i think can see the writing on the wall and it preparing for a shiift in the console gaming and sony is not.
@@RemilationBait
@Remilation So who DO you support? Xbox, Nintendo, nVidia, AMD and Intel are all anti consumer
@@Remilation The ps3 was amazing, I don't know what you're talking about. That generation also had the peak of all good games. Sure, the first ps3 design was a bulky, heavy mess. But the difference was back then we were going through actual generational leaps. You saw how overtime they were able to create the slim version with a quarter of the size and legit like 70% less weight.
The various gaming studios need to get a grip on their finances. They spend too much and take too long chasing that mystical “triple a” branding when they should be shooting for AA or B rated games that cost significantly less.
It’s like nobody has learned from THQs mistakes.
Some adults with “fuck you” levels of clout need to be in control and be read in on their projects.
This remake everything crap whumps.
Yeah for corporations not sure why they are going for the more expensive route.
@@kosmosXcannon I think it’s normal fear of losing out, but it’s magnified because they just lean into existing IPs until they’re just desiccated husks.
Chasing “live service” games when there’s been arguably one that was slightly successful is a bad move.
They disregard the fundamentals and try to spend their way to success and end up with unpolished not fun games with weirdo narratives.
There's room for AAA, but AAA comes with a lot more risk. It requires being a Leader, NOT a Follower like with Concord. Look at what Sony did with FF Remake and God of War.
People don't want remakes of old games that still look good, ESPECIALLY PC fans. They should be getting back to their old beloved titles. Focusing on Indie Games & AA games to Diversify.
It makes sense for the platform holder to be the ones releasing AAA games to show what their platforms can do, you should be saying this about third part publishers.
Pretty much saying AAA games don't have a place is just daft.
@@Krytern But it also makes sense for the platform holder to fund B budget games with interesting angles to pad out the variety of the roster and focus on individual capabilities of the system.
Meh, Sony.
Nothing but remaster's, while they keep trying to push PSN.
Trueeeee it's ALL they do. Cash grab after cash grab. They should just make pc games at this point and let consoles die.
@@Joe-ti7qdPCs aren't ready for the mass console market. They're more convenient than before but they just aren't there yet, Digital Foundry spoke about this not long ago.
@@Krytern They look ready to me. Look at Steam Deck and how popular they are even among casual gamers. It has all the conveniences of a console plus more.
Xbox lost during the last generation, Nintendo is always in a game of it's own, and Playstation is losing to PC and by extension Microsoft. Console wars seemed to just be a massive waste of time, as the big two consoles both suck once and for all.
Nintendo being in a game of it's own is why they still exist!!
No as the current PC market sucks even more though.
@@SUCHMISH Nintendo had no competition for a very long time, but with handhelds on the market now,their share of the cake shrinking very fast.
I've never seen the appeal for Nintendo games. All the Nintendo games I had enjoyed was back in the day. Nowadays they just put out rubbish. We own a switch (Not mine) and I have tried it, all games are mediocre and the hardware is a joke. Never seen such a laggy system before.
@@UmbraWeiss doubt it they are on track to beat the ps2 in sales
The PlayStation PR situation is insane
Not as insane as Ubisoft... the company is on fire.
There was a time when a remaster/remake of a seven year old game was very justified. You look at Super Mario All-Stars and the visual and audio improvements over the NES versions are drastic, and that's only a five year gap between SMB3 (1988) and All-Stars (1993). Now, diminishing returns (as magnified recently thanks to the barely noticeable changes between PS5 and Pro) make it very clear that we don't actually need these games remade or remastered all that often any more. PS4 games look absolutely fine, even now. Bloodborne is still a gorgeous game, even when put up against Elden Ring. PS3 era games? Yeah, they can stand to get full on visual remakes these days, as in the case of Demon's Souls, but heck even then SOME of them it's hard to justify.... as in the case of The Last Of Us. Heck, it's hard to say if it's even worth a full graphical remaster of Metal Gear Solid 4 or Final Fantasy XIII. Slap a higher frame rate and some higher res textures in there and that'll be enough.
I'm glad the PC doesn't need a bunch of apologists and TH-cam channels putting out PR for them. Sony sure has a lot of that going on despite how anti consumer they have been and continue to be.
I mean Nvidia, Intel and AMD has been through a ringer. PC might not have that type of drama, but PC parts does.
Eh, PC channels prop up their rigs more than Nintendo channels hype up 1st party games IMO
@@krspaceT1 Funny how PCs do it just for fun and consoles do it because they will die if they don't. PCs are truly the master race.
What a weird statement...
@@joshstephens413PCs are more than a gaming item, like they do have other uses while consoles are gaming specific. Let's not act like they are comparable.
They are no longer console wars. They are PC wars with Nintendo being the only one remaining making anything close to a video game console.
Sony needs to return their gaming HQ to Japan and go back to making both high end games and smaller, filler "indie-style" games like they used to. Go back and revist their rich history of old IPs that were fun from the PS1 and PS2 era and do smaller remakes or remasters of them as well as some long-desired sequels. Not all games have to be big budget, live-service monsters. Some can just be nice little time-wasters that only take a day or two to complete, and some can be a single-player game that just gets new content here and there to basically expand the game over time.
Hulst is cooked, this is all lowkey his fault and he's likely already out the door
Bring Sho back!
Regarding Ghosts of Yotei, I feel like y'all are sleeping on a potential Ainu vs Matsunae war that could be going on in this title. You still get your samurai warfare stuff but you also get to see how the clans and the shogunate were going to oppress the Ainu.
Context: The game is set in Hokkaido in the early days of the Edo period. (1603) The Ainu and Mainland Japan had only limited interactions before this time period and the Shogunate was planning to expand into their territory.
The Shogunate, specifically represented the Matsunae clan will be taking the role of the Mongols in the first game (powerful, foreign invaders) while the native Ainu will probably be taking the role of Japan. (the hopelessly outmatched locals who must use subterfuge and asymmetric warfare to win)
This is all purely speculative on my end, but it lines up research-wise.
Dash, M. (2013, June 20). The octogenarian who took on the shoguns. Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved from Smithsonian
Walker, B. L. (2001). The conquest of Ainu lands: Ecology and culture in Japanese expansion, 1590-1800. University of California Press.
Gaming consoles are a significantly worse value with each new generation, without exception.
One exception: The PS2 was a perfect improvement over the PS1. The only console to ever do that.
@@backyardr.c.6280 It was even backwards compatible.
Just think by this point, the price point had come down every previous gen. Not this one though.
@@backyardr.c.6280 Release PS2s were badly made and broke REALLY easily. Similar to early XBOX 360s
@@uberculex Maybe perfect was too strong of a word, but people knew how to be more gentle with electronics back then.
Classic Sony cycle: Sony earns goodwill. Sony spends goodwill. Repeat.
Honestly if Xbox got their crud together or Nintendo got 3rd parties they'd get smoked
@@krspaceT1 xbox has been kinda shit for 11 years. i don't expect a comeback at this point
@@GraveUypoWell then Sony better hope that the 'Switch 2 > Steam Deck' rumors aren't true. If that thing gets steam like the Switch 1, and can get the third parties that would suggest, then they might have a problem.
Of course let's be honest, Nintendo could release an exact duplicate of the PS6 when the PS6 launches, but with their games on it and it could sell just as well, but there would still be barely any 3rd party support.
People still care about Naughty Dog games? After what they did with LoU2 I am not even remotely interested in #3 lol
Apparently. Though maybe 3 will do a Concord when it debuts and Sony will be in a bit of a pickle
Well people don't just stop caring about a studio after ONE bad release when they usually have a great track record.
TLoU 2 wasnt even bad. My only complaint was that it was too long. Which is a wild complaint tbh.
Do you even know why you hate it?
@@panzer00 This little bit with She Hulk and a five iron
@@panzer00 the insane ludonarrative dissonance when you’re forced to spare Abbey after you’ve killed hundreds of people to get to her. That moment when you’re forced to play as Abbey against Ellie and you have to win the fight despite a strong portion of the players actively trying to throw the fight
Their push for PSN log in on steam is clearly just to add padding on their psn users to show their share holders that a lot of people are using psn...God of War ragnarok forces you to log in to PSN. As well just to play a single player
And when the PSN requirement reaches a suitable number, they'll start charging for online access by mandating a PS+ subscription for PC games.
the Horizon remaster also forces you to log into PSN
Thanks for the warning, I won't waste my money for something I can't play without giving my info for.
For me it's the fact that there remastering games that don't need to be remastered and the games fans want remastered are left to gather dust. Astro bot show that they know they have all these classic IPs that haven't been touched in over 10 years.
Some even killed by Sony's complete disregard for quality
look at LittleBigPlanet 3
straight up became a harbinger of death for the series as a whole
I'm unsure if there's any games with that similar fate, new game ends up killing the whole series and company don't want to make new games or ports of it out of a fear they themselves created, not the series
I wish to return to the PS3/360 days. Hell, even PCs back then were robust and reliable, and all three had their advantages.
One would think that Steam, Switch, and PS would be enough to keep them sharp and competition generating good from all three of them. But for some reason neither Steam or Switch seem to count to Sony
Now pc does everything but better.
Couch gaming? Pc
Mobile gaming? Steam deck
Graphics? Pc
Library? Pc
IDK, PC gaming was not great back then, i think it's better then ever now.
I don't. PC was in a pretty bad place back then.
pcs are still robust and reliable. wtf are you talking about
i was excited about all the Sony games coming to PC but the PSN requirement made me not really care. with so much to play i don't need Sony products
Is the data gained worth all it's bad press and the player numbers lost?
@@krspaceT1it must be since they keep harvesting data.
I feel the same. That is the road block many pc users may feel with this, same with ubi, ea etc.
ironically sony have stated that their push into pc should attract pc players to buy a ps5. they delusional.
@@spazco8669 ...That's the opposite of how that works.
ANGRY SONY FAN HERE. I HAVE COMPLETELY MADE THE SWITCH TO PC AFTER WATCHING THE TELEASE OF CONCORD AND THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE PRO, I REGRET NOTHING, THEY RELEASE THEIR GAMES ON OC EVENTUALLY ANYWAYS, PS5 PRO? NAH MAN, I GOT THE PS5K, THE PRO HAS NO CHANGE IN THE CPU, DO NOT BUY THAT CONSOLE, THERE IS NO INCREASE IN POWER WHATSOEVER, YOUR GAMES WILL NOT RUN ANY BETTER
Welcome to real gaming. About time.
Ps5 controller works great on Steam. Even works in WoW.
@@JackCarsonite What do you use xpadder?
They really forgot about the concept of bottleneck, didn't they?
@@celeswylder748 No, Steam adds support to the PS controller via their virtual Steam controller.
Sony definitely need to revert back to Japanese leadership
IP damage is going to be a big factor with games like "The Last of Us", and Sony US is in a seriously bad place by not recognizing the factors causing huge failures like concord or effectively dealing with those factors which are leading to future failures like assassin's creed shadows and dragon age veilguard. it's like they used to say: a hundred "atta-boys" can't erase one "aw crap". goodwill builds slowly and is damaged or destroyed very quickly. blaming their customers for dropping player counts like they allowed their developers to do with outlaws and helldivers and using journos to attack critics instead of quickly and effectively correcting company mistakes didn't help. sony is going to have to replace their US execs (top down), staff, and devs entirely to truly deal with matters (and fast)...
Playstation? You mean the Last of Us company?
It also has Horizon and God of War and Spider-man. Though pity it doesn't have anything else...even it's executives lament it
I wouldn't get your hopes up for the Wolverine game.
it's wokeified to death too, jean grey looks horrible and wolverine is a shortstack with ridiculous proportions
@@Mewsashi-cz9fo Shortstack Wolverine is canon, though... We're just used to tall Wolverine because of Hugh Jackman.
The gameplay is hilarious, especially when he climbs buildings all day. Hard pass. Oh, and wolverine is supposed to be short
Hey, at least at this rate the console wars will finally be over, cuz both will be trash you don't need
So the ps5 and X generation were completely dead, nintendo thrived, PC did the usual
@Gamefreak2998 ps5 was a huge success for Sony. It's only the last year or so they've had some massive failures with some serious missteps.
@@mrthewhite2620what you been smoking. Been waiting for new exclusive games since day one. So far it Spider-Man 2. Which is fine. 😒 Just not my cup of tea.
And PS4 cross gen stuff. Nothing id is call with buying a PS5 for.
It's just everyone sees there nothing is coming to justice the PS5 existing. It's just a PS4.5
@@mrthewhite2620Honestly ps5 sales have been mediocre compared to switch sales, so I’d say they haven’t done too well.
@@zid9611 It's pretty much not worth keeping games on console exclusive in terms of selling the most copies for games. That means console makers are going to have to do something with the consoles themselves to make them worthwhile and they'll have to sell the consoles at a level to at least break even now instead of selling them at a loss. They might do some limited exclusivity but it's not really worth the money to do permanent exclusivity deals.
@@mrthewhite2620 Not really, especially with Concord being a massive flop. Both Xbox was more profitable than Playstation but their reputation took a bigger hit this console cycle. Playstation is looking better than Xbox right now in terms of consoles, but they are pretty much minimizing their profit and are struggling to get a good game into the live service game market and have bungled their only success, Helldivers 2.
I was really happy when I heard Until Dawn got a remaster (and for PC too). The game then was 50$£€ I believe.
When I heard the price point of 70£$ and 80€!!! I was less stoked, esoecially when you compare with ALL other fantastic Super Massive Games titles we‘ve had in the past.
Will I get it most probably, but will I pick it up day 1 most likely NOT.
PlayStation turning into greedy Ubi and EA.
Nah. I'm no longer angry at Sony. As long as American Sony is steering the ship, I'll stay at port.
Enjoy gaming lite
@@Joe-ti7qd except Sony games have sucked since PS3 era, as long as u have a PC you will always have games to play 🤣
@@Joe-ti7qdtheres no way you just said gaming without ps is “gaming lite”. Hate to be that guy but pc shits on ps.
I'm boycotting everything Sony along with Ubisoft!!! Only thing I have from Sony is my modded PS1 and haven't touched it since '93. Went PC in '93 and never looked back at garbage consoles.
I'll say this. MS has the better "set top box" experience right now. I'm at a loss as to how Sony dropped the ball there. The optical drive DOES in fact have three laser diodes, one's specifically for CDs, but it has no software ability to play back CDs, one of the easiest things for them to code in support for. Indeed, they don't have any sort of media player for files on a USB stick, such as MP3, FLAC, or various video files. Their DVD and Bluray playback has a rather annoying "playing" icon displayed right in the middle of the screen, which results in a lot of frustration on certain discs formatted to move between multiple "chapters" seamlessly, and there's no built in general purpose web browser, such as a port of Firefox or something. (On that last point, there ARE workaround exploits, but that's the problem, they're just workaround exploits).
I'm sorry.. but if you think FAIRGAME$ is gonna do anything but full on flop.. I dunno what to tell ya.
@Ritho26 It's trailer had the exact same reaction from people that they had for concord.Pure Apathy..so yeah. It might be dead in the water.
@@ryokophreak Yep. Haven't seen a single positive comment on it, just like Concord.
@CidGuerreiro1234 The art style was forgettable and generic. Other reactions I saw were that a game themed about "Eat the rich!" Made by a billion $ company is pure cringe and a "How do you do fellow kids" moment. Lol
I got much less annoyed about the Horizon remaster when I saw that upgrading to the new version would only cost 10 dollars. The fact that we’re not being made to pay to rebuy the upgrade is laudable. I didn’t need a remaster, but if I ever go back to replay it, I might pay 10$ for the upgrade.
I can understand that. For me I just don't need it in my life. Played the game, liked the game, and it is good enough.
I hope Nintendo tears Sony a new one. You know your buying quality games with them
You wanna know why Playstation suffered? They hired American devs. Never make that mistake.
Their real mistake, is moving their PlayStation HQ to California.
@pandoranbias1622 wtf are you talking about... most of their successful games are made by American dev... wtf?
Dustborne was made by European devs and Ubisoft is French-Canadian. At this point idk what point you’re making
American devs are fine for the technical but don't let them make stories. lol
I think I'm just done with consoles, the PS5 can be my last. Not enough exclusives I care about to justify going this route instead of pivoting into PC
Sony is repeating history. PS2 sold gang busters and then they got cocky with PS3. They were humbled and did super well with PS4, and now they are cocky again with PS5. If they could keep the mentality they had with PS2 and PS4, they would be fine, but they keep making this mistake
Let's be real if Xbox was on point they would be repeating thjngd
Great channel. Super solid and reliable and concise and generally entertaining 👏
Also, is that the Mass Effect andromeda galaxy map theme? 😂
in my eyes they turned there dumpster fire into a dumpster volcano with the helldivers 2 ban. you can say what you want about everything that happend but in the end of the day some people don't care and just want to shoot some bugs and robots. and now they can't because somebody wants to have that PSN account more then a happy player base.
My little brother has my old xbox, he brought it with him when he came over for a weekend and I was able to play Ninja Gaiden Black again. All I can say is Damn! The games where so good back then.
PlayStation gets everything it deserves after closing down The studios that made Little Big Planet and Motorstorm
I knew this day was coming to bite on their butts
I’m pretty sure media modecule is still around. It was pixel opus that got shut down recently
@@doctorsilva1345 I pray that’s true. My dream game would be a LBP 4 with a pc port that supports workshop mods, never gonna happen but childhood me can dream
Dude you are so well spoken and interesting to listen to. Keep it up! 👏
Unless the remastered game is bundled with the latest console, I really don’t see the point, I for example aren’t going to buy a game I’ve already completed for slightly better visuals.
That's just you, though. Remasters are clearly selling well because they keep making them, so there's clearly a point.
@@Krytern the point is there is no cost to produce them, all they are doing is using the PC textures. And they do it for this reason. They don’t actually sell that well, but they do make money in them. Yes they sell enough to make it worthwhile, but it comes at a cost to the industry. Mainly lack of innovation. Polls are trending against them, so although yes it’s my opinion, I am not alone in thinking this.
@Im_dsr Didn't you pay attention to what I said? You can pretend your opinion is the standard as much as you want but the facts is that remasters sell, so clearly people are buying and selling them. I know plenty of people who've played remasters.
@@Krytern that’s not what the internet says, try 5 minutes of searching before you comment.
@@dave24-73 Like how the tomb raider remaster on steam made $2 million? On the one platform?
Sure thing buddy
Love this channel o.o ... please keep up the great work!
they are so, so lost
They should double their workforce on anticipated games like Wolverine, X-men, Hogwarts Legacy 2, Horizon Zero Dawn and toss in the bin the stupidity of live services simply because they are soooo greedy that they can't come up with fair, proper and solid balance between content and quality. If they stop being greedy as company and concentrate on gamers and what they want their current situation would have been completely different and way more positive. Consumers are the ones in power, not that hard to understand or comprehend.
imagine, buying a $700 bucks console to play old ps4 games and only one or two true ps5 games...
no wonder people buy steamdeck or switch or even more expensive PC's instead...
As long as SIE doesn't go back to Japan, I don't see it getting any better soon
USA is F up the gaming industry🤬
Facts
Certain portions and to be fair it isn't the only one. A lot of other places had these same problems on their own. US gaming just isn't helping matters any and they are certainly trying to infect the Japanese market.
China taking over now.
The US developing most of the major games does not mean the US is the problem. Thats like saying Earth game devs are ruining the gaming industry. Take a look at Dustborn, funded by millions of euros of European tax money and it flopped even harder than concord
MURICA!
CEO’s aren’t the only problem. They’re likely unaware that many of the drones they have working beneath them are actively sabotaging companies by pushing their anti-consumer, ideological agenda’s into their products rather than having any real passion for the craft. I think they need to change the payment structure, and have their departments on lower wages before paying bonuses based on the game’s success to create a “customer first” culture.
I miss Little Big Planet. They need to bring them all to PC
Honestly I wonder if they lost the codes for their old stuff. That happens more often than they should. Even Kingdom Hearts
I mean Trixel Creative (the team that made the one of the best levels back when the lbp3 servers were still alive, Return to Carnevalia.) Is making a spiritual successor in the form of Restitched. So there is going to be something in the future we have to look forward to on PC.
I do have to say, this was an excellent video. Anyone who came to this with little to no idea about Sony’s gaming empire, will leave it with a full and comprehensive understanding of their recent history, where they are now and how they got there. A superbly organised and laid out presentation. Thank you.
The lead actress for ghost of yotei, isnt exactly doing the sony any favors. It really does not look good having your lead actress fighting with and insulting fans. It is insane that they think they can be a representative of a company like that, and be that abrasive.
There is the issue of free speech, but there is also such as thing as a brand you create when you are being famous. It is why politicians dont usually run their own social media. That means that sony needs to be careful who they associate their brand with, otherwise a person can tarnish your brand. This is what happened with rachel zegler and snow white, or bree larson and captain marvel.
Seems to be a pattern here.
Reminds me of bree larson
Of course she’s going to be a bit abrasive if she’s being harassed by a mob of sexist snowflakes
@scruffynerfherder33 I think if people want to be an activist, they shouldn't pursue a career as a famous person. And if they want to pursue activism as a famous person, like an actor, it should be carefully managed, middle of the road activism that no one will get offended at. Aw! You want to support the pandas!? Stuff like that. Everything you do should be trying to cultivate and nurture your customer base, but too many of these entertainers say dumb things that would directly offend the people they should be trying to convince to see their movie.
Bree larson was stupid, because she attacked men, which should've been her target audience for a super hero movie. By doing that she made women her target audience that meant ticket sales would've suffered greatly since women dont go see them. She then became a pariah to superhero films, because she was now labeled anti-male by the male audience and they no longer wanted to watch her. It doesn't help that she is a mediocre to bad actress.
Rachel zeglar, messed up because she attacked the nostalgia of the original movie she was supposed to represent. You don't do that when your supposed to be using that nostalgia to sell the movie. The only time you should say bad things about a nostalgia property is when you know that most people would like something fixed, like the second disk for xenogears.
To be clear about Ghost of Yotei, 1603 is the last year of the Sengoku period with its infamous battle of Sekigahara, but Oda Nobunaga and Hattori Hanzo have already been dead for years.
But it also is the period were the first japanese people came to Ezo (Hokkaido) which is probably where the story will focus in my opinion.
I'll take a step back and look at the industry as a whole and start laughing. Mainly cause that console war we had when we were kids is completely useless now since all of these companies are screw ups😂 Xbox, Playstation, PC, even the Switch. Just seems like pick which hole you get fucked in
The fuck you talking about Nintendo and the Switch are “screw ups”? It’s the most sold console since the PlayStation 2 and most of their own first-party games have sold incredibly well. If anything, Nintendo are the ones laughing to the bank at Sony and Xbox
@@Marksman3434 @Marksman3434 Bro there's so many games on the Switch that shouldn't be sold on there, the new Lolipop Chainsaw Remaster runs like dogshit on there. I was saying any device you choose to play, you will have your own subset of issues. Switch favors portability over performance, Xbox locks games at 30fps, Sony makes us pay more for the PS5 since they just spent $400 million on Concord. Many PC ports of PS5 games have been shit the past few years, loaded with Denuvo, Playstation account required for certain PC games, etc. Point is, pick your poison and keep bitching online lol
Haha, well said 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
@@Marksman3434sales is not the same as public perception or timelessness of games. Also, just to put things into perspective, Sony's market cap is around 120.1 billion while Nintendo's is 65.56 billion. Nintendo repeatedly shoots itself in the foot holding back their game design. They want to be seen as kid friend instead of family friendly, which limits their IPs, and depth of story telling. Not to mention their hardware was dated when it released and that hinders depth of game play and fidelity. That is also not mentioning their toxic retaliation to their fan base. Of course this video highlights issues with Sony, so they both have their faults. I like both Sony and Nintendo, I have fond memories with both, but if I were ever in a situation to save one over the other Sony would win every time. However, I avoid having to chose by being on PC (well just steam deck for now).
@@PinkgloRadio Depends. Nintendo's lower market cap is offset by the fact that they are also debtless compared to the others. No one's making profits as large as Nintendo does, and that means they are the ones that are in danger the least of the three. Not to mention, you say the dated hardware is their biggest weakness, but I'd argue that it is their biggest strength because the average gamer is more able to afford their products and they make up for this weakness with some serious optimization to hit the required targets for their games. Sony's higher market cap is offset by much higher sunk costs which means flops like Concord hits them harder than such a flop would to Nintendo, hypothetically speaking.
With everyone that's left of the Japan studio who helped to make astrobot I think Dev teams like that size of I think it was 60 people will become the new norm soon because it's easier to make a game with that many people working together then the thousands of people on other studios dev teams in my opinion and I hope that Sony of Japan takes more active role in helping with other Sony properties to in the future because to me they know how to add quality in to their games better than Sony of America right now
Remember: Sony's seal of approval brought you Life Of Tiger.
I was born in the 80s and got into gaming early with the Nintendo 8bit, i then got to experience each generation afterwards, all the new stuff each console brought that made them unique, graphics getting better and better, it was one hell of a ride seeing and experiencing Playstation graphics for the first time after playing mostly Nintendo, Super Nintendo, Sega Mega Drive etc.
Each generation brought something new that made that console stand out, something that made it different compared to the rest.
Nowadays however all im seeing is these fancy looking consoles having the same graphics, the same sounds, and most of the time the exact same games.
Not to mention as i grew up and got a job i could finally afford decent gaming computers, and these days the majority of console games are also available on PC, so i see no reason to get a console anymore at this point in time, except the Nintendo Switch, i have to applaud Nintendo for still staying "unique" and innovative in this age of stagnant gaming.
It is most likely due to the existence of the Switch that Valve went ahead and made the Steam Deck which i have heard lots of people enjoy.
I believe the problem with game developers these days are that they focus on money more then making fun games, it has become too much of a money making machine, that and they are trying to "Min-Max" the production of games, and playing it safe rather than taking chances, and lastly, i think a lot of game companies have been getting to "big" for their own good, they have been buying up smaller companies en masse and now we see it bursting at the seams and things start to collapse.
People are upset about the PS5 pro being 700... but I'm looking to spend that for a video card alone...
@psychoreactive atleast that video card will increase your graphics substantially more than the ps5 pro will.
@@scruffynerfherder33 yeah, monster hunter wilds is gonna run 30FPS on PS5 with frame generation... The console is lacking
Only $700?! I'm kidding. Graphics cards are ridiculously expensive.
@@NihongoWakannaithats ridiculous
@@scruffynerfherder33That graphics card might also hold it's value just as well, if not better than the Ps5
Sony should have stayed in Japan.
I’m so confused as to how the game that nobody wants has sold over 16 millions copies and the Bloodbprne has only sold 7 over the same amount of time. Could people just be full of shit 🤔. How after elder ring, this game hasn’t gotten more copies sold? It’s weird how that happens.
the instant that Pedro Pascal is gone from the series, most of the audience will be gone too, regardless of the game
Does it matter? The PS5 Pro and anniversary bundle just sold out completely!
Yep, sold to all the scalpers that are trying to get a die-hard Sony fan to spend over $1000 for one.... but it does show basically anything they put out. Someone is going to buy it... Just not the right someone..
@@arcadeportal32 why isnt it the right someone? If hasnt bought a console for a while and they have a bit more money to spend but not enough for a high end PC - the PS5P isnt a terrible option
how disappointing
@andrewramirez9727 I mean the scalpers clearly trying to take advantage of the situation and force people to pay more than the list price. $800 is already outrageous enough, imo if you want the whole PS5 Pro package. I'v seen scalpers listing the Pro for as high as $4000 for the one with the PS1 looking case plates.
@@andrewramirez9727 You can buy a pc that competes and beats with the ps5 for about the same price. If you factor in the yearly sub for consoles life span you can easily build a that crushes a ps5p ($700 + yearly sub $80 * average lifespan of console 7 years = $1,260 not including games). The PS5P is an awful option over just getting a pc. You are locked into the sony ecosystem, cant do even half the things a pc can do, you can upgrade any part whenever, you have steam, you have freedom, better game prices, no online sub, you can mod your games, you can play with a controller, and you can play on a tv. PC is just objectively better in every way.
Remember they cancelled games and shut down some studios all for concord
Bro gaslight at its best
Thanks for the game industry news!
I've been gaming since the late 1970's and I VASTLY prefer the games Microsoft has on offer. They own my favorite studios - Obsidian, Bethesda, Activision/Blizzard, InXile, etc. GamePass for PC is the best deal out there IMO.
I have to agree. I'd never buy skyrim special addition, bards tale remastered, halo infinite, that one space game, etc on their own, but being able to play them as much as i want is fantastic.
Yeah. Sony is more for kiddies for sure. All my zoomer employees play ps5. When they see my 4090 in action their jaws drop though
Sony looked at Astrobot and said,
"We've learned nothing "
12:07 I have yet to see a credible argument for this 'more expensive than ever' claim, if any at all. Just spend less. Not our fault or problem. It would make sense that they are LESS expensive, given how we no longer use cartridges nor even have to use discs. You can just go all digital and forget about all costs associated with a physical release.
Nintendo be like, "you what now?"
Concord was Herman Hulst's baby? What gave it away? The fact that a limited-edition Concord themed PS5 controller was made? The fact that the upcoming gaming-themed TV show Secret Level has an episode dedicated to Concord? The fact that he literally said Concord had the potential to replace Horizon as Sony's "most important franchise"? I have never seen a more egregious example of putting all of one's eggs into one basket.
Kojima is extremely overrated and he does very bland games without a co creative team that tells him no and reign him in.
I gave up on consoles when they started doing a "refresh upgrade" after two years. It useed to be you bought a console and you were done for 5-6 years. Nope, not doing it.
In the end, PC master race
There seems to be alot to talk about and so many dynamics, but it's simple. Make good games and people will come. We have lost MORE in gaming in 20 years then what we have gotten, you got one good triple A company valve the rest are all gunna fall because they watched gaming documentary on Netflix, and think they can turn gaming back into arcades. That's the real goal.
i hate to say this - but horizon zero dawn does need a remaster - for PC.. the pc port is so badly done, audio compression, crashes ect.
and on microsoft - get rid of the dumb 18 month cycle for 343 devs - they cant cook if they know they wont be working on it long enough to make a difference.
I feel like I'm taking crazypills hearing people praise Aloy's new look in the remaster, she literally looks worse, skin like she's never even seen the sun and the modeller has never seen skin
You're in the minority there,it's reviews on steam are stellar,i also personally own and it was great. And the mods do more for it than the remaster ever will.
You're literally the first person I've ever seen with this opinion which you're entitled to,but it's definitely not the majority,that's for sure.
@@TheGamerGuy1981 ...I'm talking about the H:ZD remaster which isn't even out yet
Pony harder
@@CrispBaker think he was responding to me - in which case id like to point out the audio for npcs, and worst of all Aloy, sounds crunchy as fuck compared to when i played it on console, and on console i didn't need to lock my game to 30fps to prevent it from crashing.
nobody should even have to mod a game to make it playable either, that's just sickening and dev's should stop leaving it up to modders to fix their problems.
get rid of 343 entirely. worst studio ever. not a single ball in. literally ruined the halo franchise.
I actually bought my gaming PC + Monitor + Keyboard + Mouse for $1100.
The pricing of these consoles might actually surpass that one day wow.