Then I guess we’ll see. That said, I seem to recall that Square-Enix, Capcom, Namco-Bandai, Sega - basically all the major Japanese third-party publishers - were on that master list of protected businesses alongside the likes of Sony and Mitsubishi. Maybe it means nothing. Though, again, I still have my doubts that…

First of all, I never said that I wanted Sony to buy Square-Enix. My stated hope was for them to remain independent, with a Sony acquisition as an implied fourth place. You’re projecting a bit.

Truly, if you value your sanity, don’t try to make any sense of Japan’s fraught history with adult entertainment. Hell, I lived there, knew at least one working hostess, and it still eludes me.

Sony has something like 40+ billion dollars in cash available - and that number is likely to increase after their earnings report this month. They can afford to buy Square-Enix if the desire is there. The bigger issue is that Sony has been largely ignoring SIE where M&A is concerned, focusing primarily on their music…

This only serves to remind me how much I’d love to see an installment Ace Combat which also features tanks and battleships. Hell, maybe even some on-foot segments. Basically, a more grounded Warhawk with all the polish and anime cheese of an Ace Combat.

It’s not quite Gamecube Purple, but in that range for sure. Which is a relief for me as the Donkey Kong Yellow Switch Lite I purchased a month ago was about to seem pale and shabby by comparison.

People shocked at the existence of a Last of Us remake need to remember the HBO series will be dropping next year barring any delays. By which point the original goods will be nearly ten years old. Sony likely wants to put its best foot forward with anyone who will be discovering the game due to the TV show. The…

Obligatory fuck Harmony Gold. Over twenty years on, and I’m still salty about Macross VF-X 2’s release being canned in the States. And the amazing looking AM-2 game never even being given a chance.

Does this mean we’ll finally get a digital release of Advent Children Complete as well?

Eh. Depends on the JRPG. Most SRPGs and grindier JRPGs, sure. But a game like Final Fantasy VII - in either original or Remake flavors - really gains nothing by being on a handheld. (Not that I’ve minded having it on my PSP, Vita, and now Switch Lite respectively, but the game along with countless others belongs on a…

Because I prefer playing most games on my PlayStation 4 and now 5?

Fantasian, Various Daylife, and a handful of other titles are wasted on Apple Arcade. And I say this as someone who owns (and is quite satisfied with) a 2020 iPad Pro. iOS was actually an exciting platform from roughly 2011 through 2013, too. But the tide of ninety-nine cent and free-to-play apps coupled with years of…

This feels like monumentally bad optics on Sony’s part, since I’m assuming actual PlayStation owners will still be expected to pay full MSRP at launch, but...okay...whatever. I suppose it could launch as a PlayStation Plus title, though.

Who knows? I mean, I definitely recall the rumors about the PlayStation 5 offering a premium model that would be some kind of BC enabled mega beast. But there was ultimately so much FUD surrounding the console’s launch that I gave up trying to parse rumors and chose to focus soley on confirmed information instead.

You are extrapolating a hell of a lot from a poorly worded or poorly researched line on an article.

I disagree. How often or not people actually play older games is largely immaterial. The fact that, as I said, many are still unaware that the PlayStation 3 never dropped PlayStation 1 support, or ignore that the Vita played most digital PSP releases and that the PlayStation 5 has excellent out-of-the-box eigth-gen…

An additional thought:

Later PS3 models removed even that, completely eliminating backward compatibility.

Xbox as a platform is clearly the end goal. And towards that end, continuing to produce hardware is going to hold them back.

That was my plan, but a brand new PlayStation 4 Pro at standard MSRP is all but impossible to find nowadays. On the other hand, if I wanted to cough up, oh, $800 to some Amazon reseller, then I’d be set. At this point, it’s likely both easier and cheaper to just get a PlayStation 5.