There was a time when I might have said Ys: Books I and II. But considering Falcom’s output over the past generation or so, I’d be too worried they’d take one of the most unique adventure games of both the third and fourth generations and turn it into Generic Anime-with-a-capital-A ARPG #508.

The only scalper related article I can recall Kotaku posting recently was the one about how a group of (I think) UK-based resellers were objecting to their portrayal as opportunistic bottom-feeders. There may very well be others, but that’s the one I remember seeing.

Like I said to a couple of other posters, I have no idea how invites are handled for direct purchasing, only that Sony does indeed do it. I received invites to two separate rounds of sales, others have seen none extended to them.

That’s entirely possible. Could just be bad luck, too. I received an invite to both rounds of sales and decided to bite on the second.

You need to be an existing Sony customer to receive an invite. So, if you have a PlayStation 4 already, subscribe to PlayStation Plus. If you don’t, get onto Sony’s website and create a PlayStation Store account. (It’s been a while, but after you’ve done one of the above, I seem to recall there being a mailing list…

Honest question, do you or anyone else think that scalpers are just sitting on the units they buy? PlayStation 5 isn’t a limited release item like, say, the NES Classic. There will be more produced. And, what’s more, the MSRP will come down over time. The longer any reseller sits on their stock, the less over retail…

Limited software compared to what? The Xbox won’t see a single significant first or third-party exclusive release for its entire first year on the market. Possibly longer.

Superyacht sounds like the title of a 1977 disaster movie.

I don’t see why, though. The original Xbox had a helluva lot going on under the hood, was the company’s first foray into console gaming, only moved around twenty-five million units, and was only on the market for four years. That’s like a perfect storm of zero profit.

That’s not actually true. Most PlayStation hardware starts turning a profit roughly a year or two into any given generation. The PlayStation 3 may be the only exception. I think Sony even managed to make a little off the Vita, though I’m equally ready to eat crow on that claim specifically. 

At the outset of a generation, sure. But, I believe with the exception of the PlayStation 3, Sony was making a profit on every console sold within a year or two. Xbox is genuinely unique in that, of the three full hardware cycles it’s been a presence, roughly two and a half of those saw the devision squarely in the…

Final Fantasy VII ain’t nobody’s Final Fantasy but PlayStation’s. It’s good that Square and Sony remind everyone of that fact every now and then.

I’m definitely not joking when I say we were all mostly better off when the PlayStation 2 was dominating the console space while the Gameboy Advance had the portable sphere on lockdown.

Fair, but how many of those same people are actually paying attention to this trial? I’d imagine the majority of people who care even a little bit about Epic Vs. Apple have some knowledge of the industry.

I’m not sure why anybody would be surprised that the Xbox doesn’t draw a profit. The entire division has been a massive money pit for Microsoft since practically the word go. And even as the brand has pivoted away from its disastrous eighth gen, it’s still looking at subsidizing Game Pass for likely quite some time…

This is pretty much the outcome I expected, at least for the next couple of installments in each series. As I don’t see Yakuza necessarily remaining turn-based beyond 9. Similarly, I expect Judgment to be a limited series - likely a trilogy.

PC releases are largely the purview of Sega Europe, and it’s starting to feel ever-so-slightly like a bit if the old Genesis-era divides are creeping back into the mix between Sega’s various and international divisions. Ditto Square. (Though, at least in Square’s case, I’d imagine the reason is due entirely to their…

Will be there day one on PlayStation. The way god intended.

Yeah, Returnal has been approximately as opaque as your typical From title.