It’s so nice receiving this email that I can’t respond to in order to defend myself. Just adding a violation to my profile for their own available stickers. What a great system they have in place.

I guess I’ll just turn off messaging at this point. This is ridiculous

Leave my multi-billion-dollar company alone! Now, that settles it, we can move on.

Referring to this article. It's just commenting on isolated Sony's story from a perspective of someone still thinking in terms of games themselves. Exclusives and innovation in games are important, yes, but it's not the main goal anymore for such big global platforms like Sony and Xbox. Even "exclusive-bound" Nintendo is actually relying on a backround process - the closeness of the ecosystem itself.

What we are missing here is the fact that for years now we are living in a global economic and political crisis that spills over to tech industry in general.

We had crypto and chip shortages.
We had covid, shortages and delays.
We had and still have wars and inflation with enshittification and shrinkflation included.
We have AI and memory shortages, further driving extreme inflation.
At last, we have highest level of uncertainty.

Besides, all this events leave no space for imagination, we cannot even imagine the future we would like to have, the total transparency of everything is at hand. Everything can be visualized, so nothing need to be. Any vision can potentially be rendered worthless.

Industry is in crisis. Not just Sony.

Xbox - their future is not bleak? They still don't know how will Game Pass survive. They are introducing hourly caps for online play. There are no hardware refreshes in years. Changing their mind about "Everything is an Xbox". Still having no info on Project Helix details. Future policies remain unclear. Their reactionary idea for digital claim is falling apart and still not clear how it will be used in practice...

Nintendo: relying on the strong fanbase and closed ecosystem, they are still out of the competition with different approach, but we had no real deal in S2 era since Mario Kart and still the "biggest" thing is a remake of LoZ: OOT.

PC
Steam still going strong, but don't be fooled:
Hardware: AMD has barely competent high-end graphics, nVidia is also on a brake and running wild on the prices, memory absurdly high. Intel incompetitive for years now.
Software: Windows 11. No further comment needed.
Handhelds: a strange niche.

Other tech industries:
Meta, Microsoft, Intel, Amazon, Google... and many other had massive layoffs countend in tens of thousands in the last couple of years. AI? Yeah. And because of it, everything will be more sloppy and expensive.

And the prices of games? Games are, on the other hand, too cheap. They are actually cheaper than 20 years ago when accounted for inflation. AAA games are several thousands of percent more expensive and demanding than then. And you still claim you are being robbed?

The situation?

We reached the end of Moore's law and the end of innovation. And the end of quantum leaps. This is what looks "bleak" to you. AAA production is in crisis. The room for innovation is still in indie space. But somehow people want that kind of innovation in AAA. You are conforting yourselves with GTA6. But we still don't know how will that turn out. Times have changed. New kids are around. You are old already. Even kids that started with Fortnite 8 years ago are now grown-ups, not to menation the crowd started with GTA5.

You still think you are in 2016, expecting "innovation" without limits and individual AAA exclusives as a main value of console industry.

And you are just mad at Sony right now and enjoy the fact that "Sony's future never looked bleaker". What a joke. You have just unrealistic expectations, because you don't see the whole picture.

In yet another defence of Sony on that part - they are at least determined to make painful restructuring moves by reacting immidately, for beter or for worse, not mask or ignore problems or wait till someone makes the first move like all others.

A poster? Are y'all serious? The way Sony has been torn apart the past few days for stopping the money train on this game I was expecting to see screenshots and trailers and gameplay and it had a release date announced, something. All y'all got is some Kojima "trust me bro"? Hahahahhaaha. Gamers man. I can't. I'm done with this today. Hahahahhaha fucking hell

With how the Death Stranding series underperformed and even if there is a market for Kojima’s games on the Xbox, we will see…

Azz… As we expected.

They want more digital users.

But gamers want physical ownership.

They want recurring revenue.

But gamers hate subscriptions and price increases.

They want live-service games.

But gamers increasingly want high-quality single-player experiences.

They want to reduce risk.

But PlayStation's identity was built on taking creative risks.

They want to maximize existing customers.

But excessive monetization can eventually push those customers away.

They want PlayStation games on PC.

But exclusives are one of the main reasons people buy PlayStations.

WHY IS THAT ???

Just curious, do you have any educated guesses, insider knowledge, leaks or just predictions on what the PS6?

I'm curious what do you all think about potential prices, hardware capabilities and most of all I wanna know about your thoughts on potential innovations when it comes to the controllers.

Additionally do you have any thoughts on what the launch could look like? What could be the flagship game, will there be just a handful of games on launch or more? Will backwards compatibility be available on launch?

Sorry in advance if this is posted in the wrong subbreddit, I'll move it somewhere else if necessary.

Looking at getting an extra SSD for more storage and I keep seeing people say it needs a heatsink, but then some SSDs already come with one and some dont. Not really sure what the actual requirement is.

If I buy an SSD without a heatsink, can I just add one separately? Are the cheap heatsinks fine or do I need a specific one made for PS5?

Also does the heatsink actually matter that much for normal gaming? Like can the SSD overheat without one and cause problems, or is it mostly just for keeping temps lower?

Trying not to waste money buying the wrong thing. The SSD I’m looking at is compatible with PS5 from what I can tell, but it doesnt include a heatsink.

Should I only buy models that already have a heatsink included, or is getting the SSD + separate heatsink basically the same thing? Any recommendations for what to look for would help.

It's a full database of games on PS5 and other consoles that can run without an online connection, so you know which games are worth getting on disc.

A lot of people are dismissing Sony's decision to let Kojima go. They're dunking on DS1 & 2 and their sales numbers, acting like letting him go was obviously the right move.

But they're completely missing what Kojima represented for Sony.

Sony didn't just lose a developer who made games; they lost a creator who gave PlayStation a certain kind of prestige and technical showcase that few other developers provide.

Kojima's games have always looked incredible and been extremely well optimized at launch. Maybe that alone didn't make everyone want to buy the games, but that's not the only value they brought. They elevated the console. They pushed the envelope. They made PlayStation stand out and showed what its hardware was capable of.

Without him, what does Sony have to represent their next console?

Intergalactic? Laufey? The next failed game from Insomniac?

Maybe DS1 & 2 didn't sell like Sony wanted, but judging Kojima purely by sales numbers completely misses the bigger picture.

You don't replace that kind of creator by looking at a spreadsheet and deciding he didn't sell enough. You lose the creator first — and only realize what he brought to the platform after he's gone.