The review titles seem to be the best thing about this game. A couple of my favourites:

It’s probable there'll be a disc option for as long as physical media survives as a medium for film. That's also a part of Sony's business after all. And I think that will stick around for a while because of the enthusiast market. Discs still trump streaming when it comes to quality.

Well at least he’s trying. He manages not to call women “females” in his apology at least. There are contexts where it’s appropriate to use “male” and “female”, typically as an adjective (ie male friends, female friends). But it’s nearly always icky using it as a noun, and using the plural is just extra ick. That he…

I only buy them these days because it's easier to find physical copies on sale. But I have no actual attachment to the physicality of the media.

If that’s your takeaway you’ve thoroughly missed the point they were making. Physical media is not permanent, it does not last forever. You say it lasts longer than digital media but what exactly are you basing this on? I can tell you now that I can’t think of a single digital game I’ve lost access to but I can name a…

I’ve been playing games as long as I can remember. As yet I’ve lost access to more games I’ve owned physically (mostly due to theft sadly) than those I own digitally (I can’t even really think of an example of any digital games I’ve lost). People put far too much stock in the permanence of a small sliver of easily…

PT gets brought up a lot but the reality is you didn’t buy PT. No one did. While it sucks it got removed the reality is they didn’t have any obligation to keep it available for download.

With the case of the PS5 they were no longer selling the disc version at a loss about nine months after release (late 2021). I’m not sure about the digital version but I’d be surprised if they’re still losing money on that. And yes the real money is in the games but they make a lot more money on those games when…

I don’t really think they would get more sales overall. Not very many people waiting for the release on PC are going to decide not to buy it because there’s a delay. Also they don’t want to cannibalise their Playstation sales with PC sales. There’s plenty of people who have a gaming PC and a Playstation, the world…

I think a port is unlikely while there’s still no PS5 patch or remaster.

Even in the PS3/360 era Sony managed to turn around that disastrous launch after a while and eventually overtook the 360 (barely albeit) on lifetime sales. Not to mention they were coming out with more interesting games in the latter half of the generation while Microsoft was pissing around with Kinect. It’s been by…

We’re talking about particular franchises though. My point is that while people may not be that interested in the new God of War games before playing any of them they’re likely to be much more invested in playing Ragnarok after playing GoW2018. Yes you can get other games like God of War on PC. But you aren’t getting…

Aesthetically it’s cool, and the lore is fairly interesting from a zoomed out perspective, and while their tabletop games leave a lot to be desired they’re still a market leader in terms of miniatures.

I think chances of that are slim when they still haven't released any kind of PS5 update for it despite people clamouring for it.

You’re forgetting that for a lot of people these games are really their first taste of what PlayStation first party games have to offer. Yeah they might have been content to wait before getting a chance to play God of War, but if they enjoyed it would they be content to wait afterwards? Especially when they don't even…

It’s not baffling at all. Playstation is still their focus. They don’t want people playing their games on PC, they want them playing them on Playstation. Where they can sell them on other Playstation games and Valve doesn’t get a cut. And their strategy makes perfect sense in that regard. Take games that, for the most…

Considering how many spelling errors are in that initial email from Quackalope I can’t say I’d be interested in working with a content creator who can’t even be bothered to use a spell checker. That said this isn't as insidious as it initially sounds though there is definitely the impression that the potentially…

It’s a very tone deaf apology that ignores the thing that's upset people the most. Which is not PvE being cancelled (or drastically reduced in scope, or whatever you want to call it) but that PvE was the excuse used to justify Overwatch 2. That's the elephant in the room that isn't addressed.

LAN centres were also more popular when online gaming was less developed and there was less access to high speed internet. PC games just aren’t particularly friendly to local gaming anymore either. Especially with so many games having no way to play locally and requiring accounts to play online. With all that it’s…

The meme stock boost gave them a stay of execution that they could have used for something useful. Like pivoting their business model to something relevant in 2023. Instead they decided to just meme themselves by banking on NFTs being the future. Good thing those are doing well... Oh wait.