Sony Thought We Wouldn't Notice

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00:00 They’ve Reset The Clock
02:14 Shenanigans On PS5
03:56 The PC Shakedown
06:23 PlayStation’s Strategy
10:08 A Lesson from Nintendo

[BellularNews]

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[AlwayzFresh]

I used to buy a few dozen NEW games per year. Not so much anymore, as I now wait for a sale for 99% of my games before even considering a purchase. When a great new game comes out I Wishlist it and move on.

[SirRandallDoesStuff]

GOG isn't selling keys. It's a full-blown game you can download from them, and it even has an offline installer so you make a permanent backup.

[thenecrophymm]

Sony is the next Disney. They will price themselves out of existence with unsustainable production costs.

[superslayerguy]

They need to make up for that half billion they wasted on Concord

[wavecannon]

Here's a tip; Don't bother with the H:ZD remaster if you own the game already.
It looks just fine already.

[SuperChaoticus]

"Must. Maximize. Shareholder. Value." Sorry Sony, but I'm going to have to get used to not owning any of YOUR games.

[brandonn]

As someone who has always been a PS fanboy since the PS1 era, Sony started to lost me back in the mid PS4 era and now, completely lost me in the PS5 era. There is NO reason to have Horizon ZD remastered. The original still looks good for today's standard.

[Fantic]

I mean if nobody is buying it at £10, then they aren't going to pay £40, just because it looks a tiny bit better. The game is 7 years old and worth £10.

[Wizinja]

Sony just doesn't get the pc audience. Hard to mod games, shifty sale practices, required psn accounts. Whats next?

[TheIndulgers]

Sony is a mission to destroy their brand image:

Burns $100+ million on a generic bland hero shooter, removes disc drives and stands from $700 product, inserts psn where it shouldn’t, psn shutdowns, inserts ads on their console homepage, stellar blade controversy, complete inability and indifference to prevent scalpers of 30th anniversary edition, cancel games of beloved IPs, closing studios, abandoning the psvr2, raises prices of hardware and controllers, leaks content of final shape before release, raises price of subscription just for the privilege to play multiplayer, removes games from multiple regions, remasters unnecessary games, raises prices of said remaster game, delists original from steam to force psn on remaster, ignores and holds Bloodborne hostage etc.

That's just this year!

[ValscoreDerpinson]

Fun fact about the PS5 disk drive: You also need to register your console in order to use the drive. Otherwise, it's just a over glorified piece of decoration.

[UltraViolentMoon]

Sony is doing a speedrun on losing respect from the public

[TheGreatGoddessFreya]

"Aggressive pricing". The PS5 Pro price in New Zealand is $1378. No disc drive. No stand. For comparison to the US market, that's approximately double the price/purchasing power per dollar ratio. The cost benefit analysis of games has to include a portion of the console cost, and for Kiwis, Playstation are so far beyond not worth it. Just wait for the game to be on PC. Patience is free.

[TheNefastor]

Lemme guess... Sony is trying to make its clients pay the Concord tax.

[snows]

Honestly, Sony not selling games in my country just tells me that I won't be stealing their games when I pirate them.

[cullain]

Got to love how the consumer gets saddled with the costs of stupidity and mismanagement as well as the vast over-compensation demanded by executives in the industry...

[Bjarkenb]

Meanwhile, Warhorse got ready for the launch of Kingdom come: Deliverance 2 by putting the previous title at a 90% discount sale

[Borrgar-kipu]

And it’s not even a sale it’s a long term rental.

[westernunion]

Taking glamor shots of Aloy by far is the most hilarious thing I've seen in a while.
HINT: watch a longplay.