All the cancels and then for Concord it’s: Released (and cancelled)

Brutal

At least helldivers 2 was good I guess

Tbh there's no way they expected to maintain all of these games at the same time, idk why they would cancel their safest bets like Factions 2 tho

Are we finally almost past this live service bullshit?

My dpad seems to not be responding to inputs and is completely stuck. Is my controller finished or is this fixable?

Braindead company, it’ll probably be close to a decade of both bluepoint and bend’s time wasted when they release their next games.

They should’ve never started the live service push in the first place. 100% deserve all the s*** they’re eating

• Haven’t turned on my PS5 in months
• Pro looks useless until GTA VI
• No release dates for any of their big upcoming games
• VR was taken out back and shot
• Biggest entertainment loss ever with Concord
• Live service games are being cancelled left and right
  

I would just take it apart and see what’s going on, there might be some debris around that area

Took it apart, Cleaned it thoroughly and it was working well for hours. Now it’s doing it again. Just gonna get another one I guess

maybe try using electronic contact cleaner when you take it apart, had a similar issue with my square button

I understand the need for a cash cow live service game, especially since making AAA story driven games is so expensive & time consuming. (Hence why they are continuously pc porting and making remasters -> they bring in sales, extra cash flow)

And I also get why they (Sony higher ups) would want an established franchise like GoW or TLOU to have a live service variant. If done well, it would sell like hot cakes. At a surface level you could perceive it as less risky, right?

I don't get however why you would occupy almost the entirety of your high performing, single player driven studios to do a f***ing 180 in development and start farming the possibility one of them s***s out a decent multiplayer game. And you would do it right at the start of your new console's precious life cycle. Mind you we were in and/or at the tail end of covid. It is a total betrayal of their own DNA. I think they've wasted the current gen with this move. Should've spread the risk and not blindly thrown the GAAS seeds without checking the soil.

If you look at this chart they showed for their quarterly earnings a few years back, it doesn't look like they were allocating resources away from traditional single player games, but significantly investing in live service on top of their single player. So hopefully that means there are still more single player games to come even with the live service games being cancelled

Man I don't know if to blame Sony, the electronics shops in Denmark or both for this huge mess... But it looks like the stock for the DualSense Edge (Midnight Black) might be limited and if I want the Elite Pulse (Midnight Black) headset so will I've to import it via a seller on Ebay from Japan, USA etc. or a shop in Australia, USA etc. that ships to Denmark which could mean me paying more than what it would cost if it came officially to Denmark and there's no PS Direct in Denmark so yeah... Man I hate this type of thing smh as it really makes me not wanna do it at all. But I'll see what I can do to get them during Q1-Q2 2025 hopefully

Also check this out guys...

Please release one that looks like it but without no text/words on it... I think they might do it for PS2's anniversary or something soon as its anniversary is 3/4/2000 so in less than 2 months if they don't make us wait until its 30th anniversary which then would be 3/4/2030 so in like 5 years. So yeah I would get this one and whatever version of the PS6 is out by then or well I would prefer it been the PS6 Pro or well as long as it's the controller itself so will that be enough for me.

Anyway... Thoughts guys?

Have they ever done anything for the PS2 anniversary before?

Not as far as I know... So yeah I hope this happens just like the recent one they did which is the PS1 anniversary. But I don't hope it has to be 30 years because then so will we have to wait until like February-March 2030 before this happens which would suck so I hope it'll be a 25th anniversary one so we can get this controller this year hopefully!

This model is not sustainable. Idk what the solution is exactly, but development costs too much and continues to rise. How many different ways can they milk the consumer before the margin becomes too much.

On the other hand smaller studios and indie games continue to do better. At a certain point these triple A devs gotta cut costs and I don’t think cutting the actual devs and people that do the actual work is the answer.

This is honestly a massive blow to the ps5 generation Jesus Christ imagine they didn’t blow their money on creating these s*** GaaS and focused on good games again, could’ve been a great era. Who knows what new hit IPs they could’ve made.

PS6 gotta recapture the magic

Why? Marvel rivals hype af

PC>>

I haven’t paid for PS Plus since the Helldivers 2 launch

U don't need ps plus to play marvel rivals or any free games I'm pretty sure

you're right, I just meant in general

Its time for a new font/logo, instead of the one they've been using since late PS3/PS4. But I can definitely see them going with a silver/chrome aesthetic for the console tbh

I won't mind that tbh. And well I hope it's not like the color the PS5/PS5 Slim/PS5 Pro comes with... But I've a feeling that it'll be white/black again though

Necessarily don't hate the white matte color scheme on the PS5, but I disliked the color scheme on the controller from day one. I use a black controller for my PS5.