Playstation The Official Playstation 5 Thread

[psylockolussus]

Its crazy to think we are just 3 to 4 years away from a ps6 announcement if its announced in 2026 for a 2027 release.

I'm glad that my local store is no longer requiring a pre order to purchase a ps5. I just need these ps5 games to be under $30, so I could start catching up.

 

[Superhero 101]

Welp, that confirms Half-Life: Alyx then.

I was so hoping for that kind of disappointing we didn’t get that

 

[Superhero 101]

Rumour: Sony Saving PS5's Good Stuff for PS Showcase Prior to E3 2023

 

[Iceman]

Rumour: Sony Saving PS5's Good Stuff for PS Showcase Prior to E3 2023

Nice! Could be a ton of great stuff there given how quiet they’ve been on what some of their best studios have been up to.

 

[psylockolussus]

Hopefully some single player third person action adventure games for neXt year. We only know Wolverine so far.

 

[psylockolussus]

PS5 Is Beating Xbox Series X/S Sales By Nearly Double, Claims Analyst - PlayStation LifeStyle

I don't think Ps5 will hit the 100 million sales, if we get ps6 in 4 years from now. Series X in the other hand would be lucky to hit 40 million. Gamepass and their games being available to pc right away aren't doing them favors.

I'm planning to get a ps5 later this year, after I completed my ps4 wish list (I have 3 left). And I saw the prices of the ps5 games... like damn $70 dollars dont look good when converted to pesos. They cost like a pair of Nike shoes. Horizon for eXample is still not discounted and it doesn't have the dlc yet. Like if I catch up to 9 ps5 games that are in my wish list right now, I would probably just buy Miles Morales / Guardians because they are the only ones available for less than $40.

I don't know if I should wait for a ps5 slim later this year, I'm assuming they would cost more than the ps5 bulky?

 

[psylockolussus]

Sony Has About $5B Left for Acquisitions Before 2024, What Should It Buy?

The $5 billion is for the entire Sony Corporation though. I have yet to see a major acquisition from PS Studios that I can see myself as a PS player benefitting from. Like I want something like Capcom, Ubisoft and T2 major acquisition.

 

[Superhero 101]

I heard Sony would try to acquire Take Two Interactive when the Microsoft Activision Blizzard goes through but i think they would need a lot more than 5 Billion

 

[Midnite]

What's the latest rumours on PS5 slim?
The last thing I read two weeks ago was PS5 slim and PS5 Pro.

 

[psylockolussus]

I heard Sony would try to acquire Take Two Interactive when the Microsoft Activision Blizzard goes through but i think they would need a lot more than 5 Billion

Good thing that acquisition could last til 2024, so they might have more budget then.

But yeah Sony needs to be more competitive acquiring companies especially if Microsoft got Call of Duty.

 

[metaphysician]

Sony doesn't need to acquire other companies to be competitive, they already have tons of their own IP. What they need to do is actually *use* the IP they've let languish because they only wanted to do the glamorous megabudget projects rather than maintaining a healthy and diverse library. Instead of spending the money to try to buy Square-Enix, for example, they could and should spend that money on the numerous RPGs they already own and do nothing with: Wild Arms, Legend of Dragoon, Dark Cloud, White Knight Chronicles, Rogue Galaxy. They could spend 100M on reviving each one, have a half dozen new saleable games out the other end, and only use a tiny fraction of the money it would take to try and buy Square-Enix. . . and probably make more net profit, to boot ( given the ludicrously overlong and overbudget development cycle for the big S-E titles ).

However, this would mean actually spending money doing more than just a few of the photorealistic cinematic action-adventure games they love doing for the prestige. . .

 

[Superhero 101]

Sony is in a tough spot. I think Sony does need an acquisition if they want to compete next generation. Microsoft now has a solid line up of FPS/shooters with the acquisition of Bethesda and Activision, not to mention Halo and Gears of War. FPS/Shooters is an area that Sony is definitely lacking. They’ve been focusing so much on third party exclusives and producing story given games that Sony let their guard down and neglected their own FPS/shooters. Sony is in scramble mode to make something as good as COD

After 10 years there might be a good chance Microsoft may no longer support Sony in developing COD for their console. Sony needs to develop their own AAA military shooter in the next few years. With the help of Bungie I believe they can. In the meantime they can use other first party studios they required to bring back Their own less successful franchise shooters ie Killzone,Resistance SOCOM

 

[psylockolussus]

Sony doesn't need to acquire other companies to be competitive, they already have tons of their own IP. What they need to do is actually *use* the IP they've let languish because they only wanted to do the glamorous megabudget projects rather than maintaining a healthy and diverse library. Instead of spending the money to try to buy Square-Enix, for example, they could and should spend that money on the numerous RPGs they already own and do nothing with: Wild Arms, Legend of Dragoon, Dark Cloud, White Knight Chronicles, Rogue Galaxy. They could spend 100M on reviving each one, have a half dozen new saleable games out the other end, and only use a tiny fraction of the money it would take to try and buy Square-Enix. . . and probably make more net profit, to boot ( given the ludicrously overlong and overbudget development cycle for the big S-E titles ).

However, this would mean actually spending money doing more than just a few of the photorealistic cinematic action-adventure games they love doing for the prestige. . .

The thing is their studios can't produce a lot of games at the same time. I'm assuming the limit is 2, since Insomniac is working on 2 games right now, and who knows how many ideas or pitches are canned during development stage. Bend Studio canceled a game in the works last year iirc and had to start from scratch. I'm guessing that game was Days Gone Part II.

Looking at their 2023 slate, out of Sony's dozen studios only Spider-Man 2 and MLB 2023 are confirmed to be released. And I guess a couple of Vr games but thats for a niche market.

 

[metaphysician]

The thing is their studios can't produce a lot of games at the same time. I'm assuming the limit is 2, since Insomniac is working on 2 games right now, and who knows how many ideas or pitches are canned during development stage. Bend Studio canceled a game in the works last year iirc and had to start from scratch. I'm guessing that game was Days Gone Part II.

Looking at their 2023 slate, out of Sony's dozen studios only Spider-Man 2 and MLB 2023 are confirmed to be released. And I guess a couple of Vr games but thats for a niche market.

There are two sides to the coin of my response:

1. "You can only produce a tiny number of games, because you *choose* to only produce the highest budget of AAA titles. Choose differently, you will find you can make many more games per unit time."

2. "You *used* to produce a lot more games. What changed? Oh, you disbanded or fired a ton of your 1st and 2nd party studios. Because they didn't produce megabudget photorealistic blockbusters, and you only wanted to bother making such."

Basically, I have zero sympathy, this is all on Sony for their own prior bad decisions. Spend some money hiring people and building new studios, and tell them "Yes, you actually can make games that don't have 4K nosehair".

 

[psylockolussus]

Late 2023 - original PS5 to start being phased out, ps5 with the detachable disc drive to be released

Late 2024 - Ps5 pro

PS5 Pro Has Entered Production - Report

 

[Superhero 101]

I wish they make it smaller

 

[psylockolussus]

I wish they make it smaller

The one with the detachable diX drive is reported to be the PS5lim.

 

[Iceman]

Given that Uncharted seems finished for now (at least Naughty Dog Uncharted), what is PS’s premiere franchise now? God of War, TLOU (especially after the massive show boost), Spider-Man? I love Horion, especially the second game, but it feels like it’s thought of as a step behind the others.

 

[psylockolussus]

Given that Uncharted seems finished for now (at least Naughty Dog Uncharted), what is PS’s premiere franchise now? God of War, TLOU (especially after the massive show boost), Spider-Man? I love Horion, especially the second game, but it feels like it’s thought of as a step behind the others.

Spider-Man 2018 iirc sold the most copies out of the former ps4 eXclusives.

Anyway we need more of those games, Ghost of Tsushima, Uncharted, Horizon, God of War, Spider-Man, Last of Us, Days Gone, Shadow of the Colossus - not eXactly the same genre, but at least in third person. Returnal/Demons Soul despite being in 3rd person don't appeal to me, and I dont see myself spending a dime on fps/racing/sports games.

 

[Mjolnir Reborn]

I've been a bit disappointed in the last installations of the big PS properties and I don't really feel like it's a big draw for me with the PS platform right now.

Ragnarok was fun to play but very anticlimactic in my view so I don't think they delivered on my expectations. TLOU2 was really good but it had some story issues with logic that hurt some things, including the ending, so it wasn't quite on the level of the first despite being so impressive in many aspects. Spider-Man had a smaller in between game that I wasn't particularly interested in because I don't really want a second Spider-Man character, especially not in a game where he's the only superhero.

The best one for me in the last bunch of years is probably Demon's Souls Remake, and that was just great. Still Elden Ring is clearly better and a cross-platform thing so that part is still not fully in PS' favor. I do think that the proper Spider-Man 2 can be great to, even though they had to put Morales in there, so that might be the strongest franchise right now.

But despite that I haven't enjoyed the exclusives as much as the best cross-platform games on the PS5 I've still enjoyed the console more than the rest just because it's just a great system to play on. Especially the controller stands out, and it's clearly the best one I've ever tried. Exclusives will matter to Sony in order to keep, or even take, market shares but for me I'm still happy as it is.

 

[psylockolussus]

Sony is in a tough spot. I think Sony does need an acquisition if they want to compete next generation. Microsoft now has a solid line up of FPS/shooters with the acquisition of Bethesda and Activision, not to mention Halo and Gears of War. FPS/Shooters is an area that Sony is definitely lacking. They’ve been focusing so much on third party exclusives and producing story given games that Sony let their guard down and neglected their own FPS/shooters. Sony is in scramble mode to make something as good as COD

After 10 years there might be a good chance Microsoft may no longer support Sony in developing COD for their console. Sony needs to develop their own AAA military shooter in the next few years. With the help of Bungie I believe they can. In the meantime they can use other first party studios they required to bring back Their own less successful franchise shooters ie Killzone,Resistance SOCOM

According to reports, their PlayStation studios are working on a fps.

Death Stranding 2 and Sony's New First-Person Shooter Reportedly Launching In 2024.

 

[Iceman]

According to reports, their PlayStation studios are working on a fps.

Death Stranding 2 and Sony's New First-Person Shooter Reportedly Launching In 2024.

Which studio is doing the FPS?

Edit: Oh I see Firewalk. Didn’t realise it was a link as the font was blue above it lol.

 

[psylockolussus]

Which studio is doing the FPS?

Edit: Oh I see Firewalk. Didn’t realise it was a link as the font was blue above it lol.

Blue is the color for PlayStation hence the color of the teXt. Psylockolossus' posts are color-coordinated.

 

[Dave McFly]

love that after 2 years you are finally able to walk into a walmart or similar and buy one no being forced to buy a bundle or pay scalper prices.

 

[metaphysician]

Given that Uncharted seems finished for now (at least Naughty Dog Uncharted), what is PS’s premiere franchise now? God of War, TLOU (especially after the massive show boost), Spider-Man? I love Horion, especially the second game, but it feels like it’s thought of as a step behind the others.

The first game has sold 20M copies, the second somewhere north of 10M. Its *absolutely* a hugely successful series. It just doesn't get the same limelight because of terrible fortune in release windows ( both games managed to release at right about the same time as a once-per-generation masterpiece in the open world game field ).