Probably did it for the same reason that Budokai Tenkaichi 3 (2007) and God of War 2 (2007) came out on ps2. The user base was still much larger on ps2 and it was way easier to release a game on a platform that you know the "ins" and "outs" of. It really wasn't until like 2009 with the ps3 slim and marketing switch up that people really started to jump onto the ps3.
@@MegaDrain Also have to consider that Persona 4 has the same level of visuals as Persona 3, so there were most likely concerns that the game wouldn't look "next gen" enough to market as a PS3 title anyway. Making the leap to 7th gen consoles was a huge commitment, and Atlus likely couldn't afford it since they decided to pretty much exclusively stick to handhelds during this time.
Sony removing the mandatory PSN login and not removing the blocked countries is like removing the bullet but not closing the wound. I mean they haven't solved the major issue here.
Regarding the dual CEO strategy Sony recently tried, I can only think of Oscar’s hilarious assessment on The Office. “Look it doesn't take a genius to know that every organization thrives when it has two leaders. Go ahead, name a country that doesn't have two presidents. A boat that sets sail without two captains. Where would Catholicism be, without the popes?”
Honestly I thought the headline was about PS5, because somehow it feels like PS4 is the beast that will live forever whereas PS5 will barely ever come out of the maternity ward.
The PS4 Pro came out almost a decade ago and it still feels so fresh and new in 2025. Sony really futureproofed the hell out of that model. It kinda makes me question my purchase of a PS5 if I'm perfectly happy with the PS4 Pro still
Personally I couldn't be happier that Sony is going forward with a Japanese CEO. Something has to change and Sony has not been making the right decisions this gen. Thank god for 3rd party games.
Remember a little over a year ago MS gave Sony 10 years of CoD saying "10 years is more than enough for them to create their own fps alternatives". Now everything is coming to PS. I feel like that 10 year deal will be extended
@samuelg7673 No one knows. Maybe there won't be traditional consoles as streaming will take their place. But if Sony thinks there is no risk of MS taking away COD and other important games, they are sadly mistaken
@vemprite5698 that's an overreach of a claim. MS likes to dominate whichever market they are in. They need PS this gen but next one will be very different especially if rumours of xbox 2x having a 1 year headstart due to a 2026 launch with gamepass sub included for free turns out true
In reality Nishino replaces Totoki who replaces Yoshida. Because Nishino and Hulst did not have a completely free hand, they had to report to Totoki who was the Chairman of SIE. So now Hulst instead of reporting to Totoki, he reports to Nishino
Wrong Totoki was CEO of SIE for a few months. Hulst and Nishino replaced him as co-CEOs and Totoki was already back in Japan at that time. Totoki was only there to get a direct look at the damage done and see how he could change SIE division when he got back to Japan. I suspect Totoki was already getting his name plates made for Sony CEO before he left to be a temporary CEO at SIE. As for Nishino and Hulst, those two were never under him directly in the way you say. BTW, Hulst is essentially fired. The situation is no different than how Ryan was fired. Ryan was never leaving SIE of his accord to spend time with family. I can't believe so many people fell for that excuse. Meanwhile, Sony can't use another family excuse for Hulst but not mistake Hulst has a similar fade out into the sunset deal. Like Ryan, Hulst is being kept around as to not cause too much damage to Sony's stock value. Hulst will walk away in several months (after the fiscal year) to find new challenges. To seek new challenges is another of the top 3 excuses used for people forced out. The fact is Hulst is responsible as much as Ryan was for the situation SIE is in with the studios and content. He was behind GAAS too. Remember Hulst is the one fully gung-ho beyond Concord, calling it the future of Play Station and saying it was a move for Sony to be as big as Star Wars with plans for movies and tv shows, comics, other additional additional media moves outside gaming for the Concord IP. They aren't putting Hulst truly back in charge of studios. It is just a fake figurehead, no real power, just as was Ryan during the last months he remained CEO of SIE.
@@psykorobot6807 You're really talking nonsense. Hulst and Nishino were well under the control of Totoki who himself was under the control of Yoshida (I advise you to reread the May 2024 press release). Now Hulst is under the control of Nishino who is under the control of Totoki. And for Ryan's story you have no proof. Unlike the official version which is supported by several interviews with Jim Ryan from 2022 and 2023 where he explains that having to work in 3 time zones and far from his family was quite tiring.
Honestly removing PS4 games of PS Plus also sucks as a PS5 user, like, the PS5 is backwards compatible, and feels like I would lose more than benefit from it
I don't think so, it's hindering sony and companies like square enix that release ff16 or something and people don't buy it because they still have the antique ps4 for some reason, it's fantastic they are cancelling ps4 for ps plus
Shuhei Yoshida needing a vistor pass to enter a place he's worked at for so long is both hilarious and surreal, I also think he had a good laugh at that too because I certainly did😆
My Internet went down during the freak snow storm in FL a week ago. I figured I'd use that opportunity to catch up on some single player games, that I bought for full price. I fired up Ragnarok, played a few minutes, and got a notification saying the game was about to be shut down because it couldn't connect to the Internet and verify my license. Same thing happened for Stellar Blade, TLOU PART 1, and 2. I was fckn pissed off. I couldn't even play single player games I've owned for a long time, because my Internet went out. That's absolute bull shit
@rokuterra I have a combination of both. I want to say those are digital , but I made the decision going forward in going to try to purchase more physical to support it. Either way, what if I were to move to a place with no Internet? I wouldn't be able to access my single player games
Sad to hear that. I canceled my ps plus because i got a jailbroken ps4 and there where no ps5 games i wanted to play. So now i have a nice paper that i only use to yes, play stellar blade
I'm gonna keep it real with you chief. The PS4 is my last Sony console. I'm not buying anymore of their stuff. Since I moved to PC 5 years ago, I've had an amazing experience and met a ton of new people. And the games are always half the price of Sony. Plus, I can play any game I want, regardless of platform. I'll continue to collect for the PS4, by buying up all the super rare and hard to find CEs for dirt, but once the plug is pulled, I'm out. It's a real shame man. They just can't get things right anymore.
This is why Ryan is the best. Don't just read a headline and blow things out of proportion. Actually reads the article and dive into what being said and reported. One of the few playstation creators who thinks for himself. Great job mystic.
Sony needs to get rid of all their western leadership and put Japanese ones in their stead. Then move out of Commifornia and back to Japan. Sony was an amazing company when it was led by the Japanese and only started having all these failures once they moved west.
The PS3 was literally their biggest financial Loss up to 2010, on top of when their domestic users at the time were in decline. That's why (then) Sony Computer Entertainment migrated to California and rebranded to Sony Interactive Entertainment.
@@Shadowespeon17yet PS3 games were better and more varied than both PS4 and PS5 games. PS3 started off bad but made a great comeback. PS5 still feel empty and unremarkable.
Sony's first-party developers moved to PS4 soon after 2013, but third-party publishers released many AAA games for PS3 in 2014 and 2015. The last big game for PS3 in the West was Persona 5 in 2017. The PS3 store still remains open.
Nobody cares what Sony says. PS4 still has enormous player base. No major publisher (except Sony itself) will abandon it. The fact that Capcom still releases all new Resident Evil games on PS4 and they are ran pretty well still amazes me. But the biggest things that will carry PS4 for many years in the future is Fortnite and Genshin. As long as this games still supports PS4 - console won't die.
@@Lxx00Jxx00 No one left completely, except Sony. (Maybe CDPR also) Lots of games ignore PS4 due to poor optimisation. They are barely playable even on PS5 like Dragon's Dogma 2 etc. Modern devs are very lazy when it comes to optimisation.
I feel like if Sony really cares they should just extend the generation by up to 7 or 8 years past launch to make up for it. Personally I didn't get a ps5 til really a year ago so ps5 is still pretty new to me and I haven't played enough games on it.
@@joefield5217 2 years from right now would be about holiday 2026. No way in hell the PS6 launches that early, Sony themselves just said recently right after the PS5 Pro launched that “it’s about a 4-year process to develop and launch a new console.” PS6 will likely come out in holiday 2028, MAYBE holiday 2027 but that’s the very earliest.
28:30 for many, it's like the end of an era. The xbox vs ps war is over. For us, gamers, this is not great. PS now basically owns a monopoly, and that is rarely if ever good for consumers.
The worse problem is that consoles are now PCs. So the idea of custom hardware with a reliable stream of exclusives and minimal settings menus is over.
I know. I am from the ps3 vs. Xbox 360 wars. Never in my most wild dreams, I would have guessed Xbox games coming to PS. As a matter of fact, let me go back to the "PS vs. Xbox" videos and rub it on them xbots😂😂
@lolo20adaify I remember when mass effect 2 was announced for the PS3. It was a big deal at the time for the fanboys. Can't imagine something like this. It's like when Germany surrendered in WWII or something 🤣
PS now is a monopoly? 😂 Have you heard of the Xbox Gamepass? Xbox been a monopoly ever since they bought Bethesda. Remember when Xbox promised to release Call of Duty on the Switch years back? There's still no COD on the Switch.
I still have "Beyond Two Souls steelbook collection that actually had the game in it. I love early train scene. I go back play it those training scenes from time to time.
Had my PS4 in 2015 and got a PS4 Pro in 2018 and had so much fun with a lot of great games on PS4. Can't believe it's been 12 years coming up since its release. 😄
I guess I'll be playing "Forza Horizon 5 on "PlayStation 5. Which is great,because I've been playing "Crew Motorfest a lot lately. Just jumping into another racer sounds good 😃👍
There were hints of God of War going to Egypt when Ragnarok launched. This isn't really new news, this is just a rumor resurfacing information we've already speculated on.
Thank you for crediting our little gaming forum, we appreciate it. Also strongly agree with Ryans comments on the management of PlayStation and who would be ideal to run things.
They're going to force Hermen Hulst out of the company, either by slowly demoting him or just directly. Jim Ryan saw the writing on the wall a while ago which promoted him to retire, I wonder if there was any internal push to get that to happen.
Honestly, I’d much rather prefer only 2 games on PS Plus Essential BUT THEY HAVE TO BE GOOODD. 2 good games are better than 3 shitty games. Or 1 good game and 1 niche game. They can also do a voting for 1 of the games. Give people 3 options and they can choose 1 out of those 3. But this will never happen sadly
A members vote is a really good idea. Like a real election they can still restrict the range of choices but people would still feel like they participated.
great and level interpretation of the ceo role adjustments, not much of an adjustment, just more clear roles defined really, even though i agree hermen is likely related to a lot of the errors of late on live service, this isn't really a penalty to him, it's the same as before essentially, hope he learns from his mistakes though in live service, it is not like regular releases, timing is everything and having a game come 5 years late to its ideal timing and the party (concord) is never going to work
Completely disagree. Kratos is too iconic for it to end, and with the change they made to Kratos he can be a lot more than just angry little men killing every random person.
I feel the specter of Concord has hurt Herman's standing a bit and the corporate overlords felt that he needed to be reigned in somewhat. I agree with assessment regarding Titoki, by the way, He is obsessed with margins...
Technology and creativity is what $ony has been missing for the last 5-7 years, remakes and bad hardware is all that happened along with 10 cancelled games and lots of failed other games. $ony has imploded and is rudderless on a stormy sea.
For the GoW rumor, I worry that with old Egypt setting is that there will be way too much empty desert dunes. That's the main problem with AC Origins. I much rather have a setting in Eastern Europe, Asia, South America where there can be way more interesting environments.
My PS plus premium membership automatically renews on February 10 so should I cancel automatic renewal and wait to see if they offer me a discounted price on the 14th?
I absolutely despise the Resident Evil movies. All of them! Yup, even the first one. Here’s hoping someone who actually understands RE makes this new one.
Ryan hey man let’s not give people the wrong idea, it’s very clear phantom blade is not soulslike in any way especially in combat it’s more like DMC than anything.
Same its definitely the better of the two between Forza and Forza Horizon, og Forza has dropped off hard in both quality and popularity the last decade.
Hi Ryan, is there a shortcut to get the your game collection from the Ps5 Home Screen without scrolling all the way right? I feel like R1 should do it but it takes me to the media tab.
Herman green-lit Horizon Lego, Concord and probably the 2 recent cancelled live service games. Then, Japan sees this killstreak, while Xbox ships their 2b dollar games everywhere and destroy hardware sales, only to see Herman doing the exact same thing. I'm not even mentioning his predecessor. The western division is actively trying to sink the ship before Xbox.
Let's be real, PS4 is still going to have a massive player base well into the PS6 years. They will have supported it through the majority of the PS5's life. 5 was the first one to be an upgrade like a smart phone is these days.. Great if you upgrade, but previous models aren't obselete instantly like older times.
Man, finding a way to play GOW 1 and 2 on my PS5 in India is a nightmare! PS Plus Premium isn't here, so I'm stuck buying a used PS3 just to replay them. Their policies are so frustrating, it's totally not cool.
Yeah, I was waiting for you to cover this because everybody was saying he was fired. He was demoted, and when I read it, I was like he still CEO a worldwide studios. He didn’t get demoted. He just has to report to the guy now.
Seems like a lot of double talk to cover up that he was essentially demoted. He may still have the same job and the same title, but when you add another layer of management over his job, you have basically demoted the decision making ability of that job.
@AA-vf9jbthat explains why it sold so well then, as that IP isn't popular but being one of the first 4 Xbox games ported to Playstation and being heavily discounted shortly after explains the decent sales it saw.
Wow. The fact that _TLoU Part II_ and _HZD_ have "remastered" versions at all still speaks volumes about how little Sony have to offer in terms of games this generation. They keep having to repackage the old ones. When the PS5 launched with the genuinely excellent remake of _Demon's Souls_ by Bluepoint I had no idea it was actually setting the tone for the entire generation, which is coasting by on past glories and keeping profit up by raising subs prices, never discounting the hardware and so on. It's kinda mind blowing actually, and not in a good way. The benefit is it makes the PS4 library look even stronger by comparison. Honestly I've gotten more enjoyable use out of my jailbroken PS4 Pro than any PS5 I've owned.
returnal, spider man 2 & miles morales, helldivers 2, god of war ragnarok, horizon forbidden west, ghost of yotei....Okay, sure.... totally living on past glory with these bangers. I guess it's true, you can't make everyone happy.
100% agree. As a business analyst, reviewing earnings statements, the only thing that makes sense is they got greedy and main goal is extracting as much money from the base as possible with minimal effort. This may actually be my last PlayStation for a while to see how PS6 shakes out. PS Plus is going to lapse this year for the first time wince 2011.
I got PS Plus Premium on sale in the UK a week ago. So far I’ve streamed Puppeteer (using my PS3 save), got a bunch of trials installed, currently playing Shadow of the Colossus, and utterly failed to get into Demon’s Souls 😁
Atleast I know I can keep playing my PS5 until the PS7 pro comes out lol it'll save me ALOT of money I won't waste my time with the PS6 if it makes a small upgrade like we got from the PS4 to the PS5 😂
I’m done paying Sony to play online. My steam deck lets me play the online games I want to play. Also the games you download from ps plus only able to play with the Sony psplus active. What happens when Sony stops supporting PS4. Those games are useless. I’m buying physical when I can
Well you can Always play those ps plus games on PS5 but one thing for sure nothing will ever ever Beats physical cause onces the servers are down you basically lost all your spent money but not only that if Sony decides to ban your account you also lost all your games
There's not enough PS5 games to be presented as PS plus offerings, so it's going to be interesting to see where the service goes next year. Maybe MS as a 3rd party publisher is going to help out. :)
If I can't carry the 600 hours of Gran Turismo 7 progress over from PS5 to PC, I don't want it then anyway. If Sony and Polyphony want to milk their bizarre Pay-to-Drive shit then fuck em.
I've got just over double those hours lol but arguably there wouldn't be much to improve upon on PC compared to the PS5 Pro version I use now anyways. Also if you're struggling for cash in the game then just Google some money grinds, I've been using one lately just to buy the last few remaining 20mil cars, i earn 825k per race which takes around 25min so easy i can almost do it with my eyes closed.
@@ddeevviinndduussttrryy even if they did port it to PC and saves transfer over i wouldn't waste my money buying it again because there is little left to improve over Pro.
@@ddeevviinndduussttrryy nahh I've tested 120 vs 60 and can bearly tell the difference honestly, I even tested using the same car on the same track playing solo in a time trial to test if it _actually_ improved my lap times running in 120fps but it didn't 🤷♂️ anything over 60 is a gimmick to me. The resolution is already high and looks pretty crisp too on Playstation plus just recently added ray tracing on track too. Unless they dramatically overhaul it using path tracing on PC then it won't receive any meaningful upgrades over PS5 Pro honestly. Playstation Plus is a positive not a negative, even on its base tier its saved me money with its free monthly games included in the service. In the rare case of not playing many games and/or not playing online games with friends that would be the only case where not paying for base PS+ tier would make any sense honestly.
It'd be interesting to see an Egypt saga for God of War. But I'd like to see a PS5 re-release of God of War 2018 and a remake series of the original God of War saga.
Yea, delisted after six or seven years or something. That is plenty of time to buy it if you really want the game. This is an inevitable issue when you have car licences from real world car companies in your game.
@@unicorntomboy9736 it tends to be 2 back, so when 5 came out 3 got delisted. So when 6 comes out expect 4 will be delisted and FH7, 5 will be delisted They are still playable and online works, just you can't buy them and will not get any extra content
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My question isn’t when PlayStation 4 ends, it’s more of a question of when PlayStation 5 begins.
Forza on a PlayStation? This is like a weird fever dream 🙄
Halo is coming to Switch 2 which is a bigger fever dream
More like a Fever NIGHTMARE!🤦🏾♂️
thank god! Gran Turismo is so boring.. it has such bad “sense of speed”
Microsega? Looks that way. Still, at least they’ve got most of the PC platform sewn up in one way or another.
Need for speed was the other major competitor of the genre and has been trash the past couple years
They made Nishino CEO so that he’s empowered to pull the plug preemptively on disasters like Concord.
i always think about the fact that persona 4 got out exclusively for the PS2 while the ps3 was 3 years on the market already
It almost happened to persona 5 on ps3
Probably did it for the same reason that Budokai Tenkaichi 3 (2007) and God of War 2 (2007) came out on ps2. The user base was still much larger on ps2 and it was way easier to release a game on a platform that you know the "ins" and "outs" of. It really wasn't until like 2009 with the ps3 slim and marketing switch up that people really started to jump onto the ps3.
Persona was mid anyways. I don't think ps3 users were missing much
@@MegaDrain Also have to consider that Persona 4 has the same level of visuals as Persona 3, so there were most likely concerns that the game wouldn't look "next gen" enough to market as a PS3 title anyway. Making the leap to 7th gen consoles was a huge commitment, and Atlus likely couldn't afford it since they decided to pretty much exclusively stick to handhelds during this time.
@@Eh2004E p4 was great but either way ps3 was backwards compatible so they didnt miss it, thats how i played the game
PS4 may be a legacy console, but the cost of gaming has become ridiculous and that's why people are still playing it
Also the fact that we’re almost 5 years into the gen and console prices haven’t gone down like they used to
The ps5 is still like £500, should of dropped down to £349 in my opinion
What do you mean? The disc edition is regularly available below £400. @jenkathefridge3933
Good to see the Japanese taking back control of PlayStation, now, get their SIE HQ out of California and back to Japan ASAP
Nobody that has been running the ship is primarily from SIE in Cali since Layden. You know, when we mostly agreed things were better.
Maybe its just me but the concept of limited time UI is so damn weird lol
It is weird
It is, but apparently they'll bring it back.
extremely weird times we live in lol
so you guys ok with seeing 30th anniversary logo from this year forward? 🤷🏻♂️
@@jinsakai8776 nah, i just want the PSone boot up sequence.
God it brings me back...
Sony removing the mandatory PSN login and not removing the blocked countries is like removing the bullet but not closing the wound. I mean they haven't solved the major issue here.
@@Alcatraz760 France has PSN access, so we are all good
It's because it's optional
@@unicorntomboy9736Who cares about france tho
The biggest markets are north America, Japan and UK so who cares about the rest of the world they are only a small percentage.
@Walamonga1313 Because why not
Id want the option to have the PS1 boot up sequence without the themes
Same thats the best part
Halo on PlayStation is/will continue to be maybe the biggest news story in gaming this quarter century. Historic event honestly.
There's still a huge player count on PS4. It's still got years left in its life
The PS3's online ecosystem is still insanely active, at least for most of the big games.
No, it needs to be put to rest it’s been too long now. Ps5 is suffering because developers keep making ports for ps4
@@HOTD108_so why does it hardly work?
i don't have a single friend that doesn't move to ps5
Ps4 is here to stay
My Xbox 360 nostalgia games are coming to PlayStation 5, what a time being PS gamer 🎮
Thank you, Microsoft ✅️
Why not get a series x / s or on PC? You have so many ways to play those games
A physical copy of the master chief collection on ps5 would be dope
that would be midnight release worthy for me, Id go 😂
Not gonna happen
Regarding the dual CEO strategy Sony recently tried, I can only think of Oscar’s hilarious assessment on The Office.
“Look it doesn't take a genius to know that every organization thrives when it has two leaders. Go ahead, name a country that doesn't have two presidents. A boat that sets sail without two captains. Where would Catholicism be, without the popes?”
also reminds me of their 2 managers in Michael and Jim and how their new owner made a joke about their situation 😅
Honestly I thought the headline was about PS5, because somehow it feels like PS4 is the beast that will live forever whereas PS5 will barely ever come out of the maternity ward.
yeah they should be pushing devs to make old games 60fps on PS5
PS4 is old hardware where the majority of games run at 30fps. It’s the end of PS4 not PS5.
PS4 will probably still get games 5-8 years from now. I think it’s gonna be around for a long time.
PS4’s run is crazy. PS5 feels like it’s only gotten started like a year now
PS5 gen will start when PS6 drops!
The PS4 Pro came out almost a decade ago and it still feels so fresh and new in 2025. Sony really futureproofed the hell out of that model. It kinda makes me question my purchase of a PS5 if I'm perfectly happy with the PS4 Pro still
Yep, my PS4 Pro is still going strong 💪
As someone who’s got both, I’d suggest against getting a PS5. It’s not much better feature wise
Personally I couldn't be happier that Sony is going forward with a Japanese CEO. Something has to change and Sony has not been making the right decisions this gen. Thank god for 3rd party games.
Remember a little over a year ago MS gave Sony 10 years of CoD saying "10 years is more than enough for them to create their own fps alternatives". Now everything is coming to PS. I feel like that 10 year deal will be extended
It is terrible business strategy to have your competitor as your biggest vendor. MS can pull the plug anytime
I doubt there will be a Xbox console in ten years
@samuelg7673 No one knows. Maybe there won't be traditional consoles as streaming will take their place. But if Sony thinks there is no risk of MS taking away COD and other important games, they are sadly mistaken
@AA-vf9jbthey won’t. All the players went to PlayStation, due to MS shooting themselves in the foot since 2010
@vemprite5698 that's an overreach of a claim. MS likes to dominate whichever market they are in. They need PS this gen but next one will be very different especially if rumours of xbox 2x having a 1 year headstart due to a 2026 launch with gamepass sub included for free turns out true
In reality Nishino replaces Totoki who replaces Yoshida. Because Nishino and Hulst did not have a completely free hand, they had to report to Totoki who was the Chairman of SIE. So now Hulst instead of reporting to Totoki, he reports to Nishino
it doesnt change anything.
Wrong Totoki was CEO of SIE for a few months. Hulst and Nishino replaced him as co-CEOs and Totoki was already back in Japan at that time. Totoki was only there to get a direct look at the damage done and see how he could change SIE division when he got back to Japan. I suspect Totoki was already getting his name plates made for Sony CEO before he left to be a temporary CEO at SIE. As for Nishino and Hulst, those two were never under him directly in the way you say. BTW, Hulst is essentially fired. The situation is no different than how Ryan was fired. Ryan was never leaving SIE of his accord to spend time with family. I can't believe so many people fell for that excuse. Meanwhile, Sony can't use another family excuse for Hulst but not mistake Hulst has a similar fade out into the sunset deal. Like Ryan, Hulst is being kept around as to not cause too much damage to Sony's stock value. Hulst will walk away in several months (after the fiscal year) to find new challenges. To seek new challenges is another of the top 3 excuses used for people forced out. The fact is Hulst is responsible as much as Ryan was for the situation SIE is in with the studios and content. He was behind GAAS too. Remember Hulst is the one fully gung-ho beyond Concord, calling it the future of Play Station and saying it was a move for Sony to be as big as Star Wars with plans for movies and tv shows, comics, other additional additional media moves outside gaming for the Concord IP. They aren't putting Hulst truly back in charge of studios. It is just a fake figurehead, no real power, just as was Ryan during the last months he remained CEO of SIE.
@@psykorobot6807 You're really talking nonsense. Hulst and Nishino were well under the control of Totoki who himself was under the control of Yoshida (I advise you to reread the May 2024 press release). Now Hulst is under the control of Nishino who is under the control of Totoki.
And for Ryan's story you have no proof. Unlike the official version which is supported by several interviews with Jim Ryan from 2022 and 2023 where he explains that having to work in 3 time zones and far from his family was quite tiring.
@@psykorobot6807a lot of made up stories with no proof. Conspiracy theory much?
Honestly removing PS4 games of PS Plus also sucks as a PS5 user, like, the PS5 is backwards compatible, and feels like I would lose more than benefit from it
I don't think so, it's hindering sony and companies like square enix that release ff16 or something and people don't buy it because they still have the antique ps4 for some reason, it's fantastic they are cancelling ps4 for ps plus
I care more about that blue eyes ultimate dragon t-shirt than any playstation news 🤣
Shuhei Yoshida needing a vistor pass to enter a place he's worked at for so long is both hilarious and surreal, I also think he had a good laugh at that too because I certainly did😆
My Internet went down during the freak snow storm in FL a week ago. I figured I'd use that opportunity to catch up on some single player games, that I bought for full price. I fired up Ragnarok, played a few minutes, and got a notification saying the game was about to be shut down because it couldn't connect to the Internet and verify my license. Same thing happened for Stellar Blade, TLOU PART 1, and 2. I was fckn pissed off. I couldn't even play single player games I've owned for a long time, because my Internet went out. That's absolute bull shit
Do you have digital games or physical copies?
@rokuterra I have a combination of both. I want to say those are digital , but I made the decision going forward in going to try to purchase more physical to support it.
Either way, what if I were to move to a place with no Internet? I wouldn't be able to access my single player games
@@B-U-T-C-H-E-R Is there anywhere that cannot get internet access these days
Sad to hear that. I canceled my ps plus because i got a jailbroken ps4 and there where no ps5 games i wanted to play. So now i have a nice paper that i only use to yes, play stellar blade
@@unicorntomboy9736
Yeah, I just told you about my situation, did you not read?
I'm gonna keep it real with you chief. The PS4 is my last Sony console. I'm not buying anymore of their stuff. Since I moved to PC 5 years ago, I've had an amazing experience and met a ton of new people. And the games are always half the price of Sony. Plus, I can play any game I want, regardless of platform.
I'll continue to collect for the PS4, by buying up all the super rare and hard to find CEs for dirt, but once the plug is pulled, I'm out. It's a real shame man. They just can't get things right anymore.
I did the same. After getting the PS4 Pro I didn’t feel like it had the same magic as the PS3.
We got Forza Horizon 5 coming to PS5 before GTA 6
The nxt iteration of this meme will be us getting GTA 6 B4 elder scrolls 6
All digital by the way
This is why Ryan is the best. Don't just read a headline and blow things out of proportion. Actually reads the article and dive into what being said and reported. One of the few playstation creators who thinks for himself. Great job mystic.
Yep, I'm still keeping my fingers crossed for the Gears of War series to come to Playstation.
It will. Gears E-Day will be day and date.
@@bryanking1428 Wait what, really? That's great! I just hope we get the old games too. If not all, then at least the original trilogy.^^
@@Ivotas yee
@@Ivotas There's new rumors that popped up today from reputable leakers that claim a Gears trilogy is coming!
@dominicsawicki6943 Damn, that would be amazing if that was true. Thanks for the info.
16:40 finally someone has said it. People are talking about Hermen or Nishino when Heroki is the one who everyone should fear.
Sony needs to get rid of all their western leadership and put Japanese ones in their stead. Then move out of Commifornia and back to Japan. Sony was an amazing company when it was led by the Japanese and only started having all these failures once they moved west.
The PS3 was literally their biggest financial Loss up to 2010, on top of when their domestic users at the time were in decline. That's why (then) Sony Computer Entertainment migrated to California and rebranded to Sony Interactive Entertainment.
@@Shadowespeon17yet PS3 games were better and more varied than both PS4 and PS5 games. PS3 started off bad but made a great comeback. PS5 still feel empty and unremarkable.
you are speaking from a place of fantasy not reality
@@Crimsongz It doesn't matter what you feel like, fact is that the PS3 almost killed Playstation as a whole. Even almost took Sony with it.
I hate how immediately the PS3 was abandoned. As much as I'm envious of PS4 for its posthumous support, I wish it went on longer
I think PS3 support ended in 2016, PS4 was 3 years old on that time
Sony's first-party developers moved to PS4 soon after 2013, but third-party publishers released many AAA games for PS3 in 2014 and 2015. The last big game for PS3 in the West was Persona 5 in 2017. The PS3 store still remains open.
My PS4 Pro is still going strong 💪
fine if you're on ps4 then don't subscribe to ps plus anymore and make online free there then.
I’m still on ps3 and don’t plan on progressing further, consoles are genuinely too greedy now, plain and simple they are, zero defending it anymore
Nobody cares what Sony says. PS4 still has enormous player base. No major publisher (except Sony itself) will abandon it. The fact that Capcom still releases all new Resident Evil games on PS4 and they are ran pretty well still amazes me.
But the biggest things that will carry PS4 for many years in the future is Fortnite and Genshin. As long as this games still supports PS4 - console won't die.
lots of publishers left ps4 already, but i don't know why really. i think that every game that runs on it, should be on it.
@@Lxx00Jxx00 No one left completely, except Sony. (Maybe CDPR also)
Lots of games ignore PS4 due to poor optimisation. They are barely playable even on PS5 like Dragon's Dogma 2 etc. Modern devs are very lazy when it comes to optimisation.
@@NakedSnake1010new games are starting to not come to ps4, it was about time they left this console to focus on the ps5
Genshin is so shit
SEGA also publishes on PS4 still
It's a weird feeling knowing that a game you platinum'd in a weekend is apparently the rarest platinum in your account.
The Last Guardian.
ps5 is more than halfway it's life and we're only now getting the signal that ps4 is near it's end? that's wild
And 2 years later we get the PS6.
Technically, it's past its life. PS4 production halted at least a couple years ago.
I feel like if Sony really cares they should just extend the generation by up to 7 or 8 years past launch to make up for it. Personally I didn't get a ps5 til really a year ago so ps5 is still pretty new to me and I haven't played enough games on it.
@@joefield5217 2 years from right now would be about holiday 2026. No way in hell the PS6 launches that early, Sony themselves just said recently right after the PS5 Pro launched that “it’s about a 4-year process to develop and launch a new console.” PS6 will likely come out in holiday 2028, MAYBE holiday 2027 but that’s the very earliest.
@ Its 2025. So that makes it 2027.
I'm so excited for "Phantom Blade Ø ⚔️
28:30 for many, it's like the end of an era. The xbox vs ps war is over.
For us, gamers, this is not great. PS now basically owns a monopoly, and that is rarely if ever good for consumers.
The worse problem is that consoles are now PCs. So the idea of custom hardware with a reliable stream of exclusives and minimal settings menus is over.
I know. I am from the ps3 vs. Xbox 360 wars. Never in my most wild dreams, I would have guessed Xbox games coming to PS. As a matter of fact, let me go back to the "PS vs. Xbox" videos and rub it on them xbots😂😂
@lolo20adaify I remember when mass effect 2 was announced for the PS3. It was a big deal at the time for the fanboys. Can't imagine something like this. It's like when Germany surrendered in WWII or something 🤣
PS now is a monopoly?
😂
Have you heard of the Xbox Gamepass?
Xbox been a monopoly ever since they bought Bethesda.
Remember when Xbox promised to release Call of Duty on the Switch years back?
There's still no COD on the Switch.
@@NextNate03 at this pace, yes playstation home consoles will be a monopoly.
31:52 The reason some people enjoy the Resident Evil movies is BECAUSE they are bad lol. They have a small fanbase that enjoy the dumb fun action.
I still have "Beyond Two Souls steelbook collection that actually had the game in it. I love early train scene. I go back play it those training scenes from time to time.
Had my PS4 in 2015 and got a PS4 Pro in 2018 and had so much fun with a lot of great games on PS4. Can't believe it's been 12 years coming up since its release. 😄
2017 for me
Big deal. I have all PlayStations. I still use my ps4.
@hollyc5417 Um okay.
@@castawayarmy32 Amazing the PS4 is. 😄
@etherealdreamerart ik is shame no themes like wtf lazy sony n devs waste of gen why bring a new console n go backwards make it make sense looool
I guess I'll be playing "Forza Horizon 5 on "PlayStation 5. Which is great,because I've been playing "Crew Motorfest a lot lately. Just jumping into another racer sounds good 😃👍
For me, it's not the end, ha ha. I just got it two years ago. I love it . And I still use the dvd 📀 and blu ray
I'm watching this video after playing on PS3 . I use the PS4 the most and may just skip the PS5 .
There were hints of God of War going to Egypt when Ragnarok launched. This isn't really new news, this is just a rumor resurfacing information we've already speculated on.
As a MS investor, I’m very happy about seeing Xbox games on PlayStation 🤑💰
I love the ps1 boot up and the legacy themes. Im sad it will be gone, but its cool theyre going to bring it back.
That’s why you always buy physical discs
Thank you for crediting our little gaming forum, we appreciate it.
Also strongly agree with Ryans comments on the management of PlayStation and who would be ideal to run things.
ok, no more PS4 games on Plus must mean no more PS Plus requirement for online gaming on PS4 from then on amirite?
I welcome anyone who hasn’t played Forza horizon… you’ll love it.
Sony is moving away from releasing PS4 games on plus so they can release more PS1 and PS2 games. Makes total sense.
They're moving from PS4 games on essential so they can release more PS5 games on essential. PS1 and PS2 games are part of premium.
How did you come to that conclusion when they're specifically talking about PS Plus Essential
@@wereback3771 they never said that
They should just move away from ps4. It’s been 5 years stop supporting older shit so we can get everything moving already on the new system
@initialfd-3716 I got homies that still play on PS4 though
I always thought the Elliot hated the game, but seeing them be in charge of it, seemingly owning the title??, is so awesome!
If the PS6 doesn’t have a physical disc drive then I’m not getting it. I’ll be happy to play FF7 Remake Part 3 on my PS5 easily.
Next Xbox and Ps6 will be digital with attachable disc drives.
@ if so then I’m not getting it.
part 3 may be ps6 exlusives.
@@KevenLC not according to what Square Enix just said.
What are they doing for several months to bring the themes back that were already there?
They're going to force Hermen Hulst out of the company, either by slowly demoting him or just directly. Jim Ryan saw the writing on the wall a while ago which promoted him to retire, I wonder if there was any internal push to get that to happen.
He wasn't demoted. His title and position is the exact same, just that Nishino got promoted again.
95% of PS5 games is PS4 games anyway
Honestly, I’d much rather prefer only 2 games on PS Plus Essential BUT THEY HAVE TO BE GOOODD. 2 good games are better than 3 shitty games. Or 1 good game and 1 niche game.
They can also do a voting for 1 of the games. Give people 3 options and they can choose 1 out of those 3. But this will never happen sadly
A members vote is a really good idea. Like a real election they can still restrict the range of choices but people would still feel like they participated.
great and level interpretation of the ceo role adjustments, not much of an adjustment, just more clear roles defined really, even though i agree hermen is likely related to a lot of the errors of late on live service, this isn't really a penalty to him, it's the same as before essentially, hope he learns from his mistakes though in live service, it is not like regular releases, timing is everything and having a game come 5 years late to its ideal timing and the party (concord) is never going to work
God of War is becoming a Assassin's Creed game. They should've ended the franchise and made something new.
I agree
3 was the peak
@@Crimsongz 3 is my favorite in the franchise. One of my top 5 games on PS3.
Completely disagree. Kratos is too iconic for it to end, and with the change they made to Kratos he can be a lot more than just angry little men killing every random person.
Thank you for having Timestamp, really helpful to check personal interesting Ps story 😊
I have the PS4 slim and PS4 Pro, It’s my collector items, I will get the PS5 Pro when the price drops no rush.
9:02 anyone who says "well x company requires you to have an account, so it's okay for Sony to do it too" just comes off as a boot licking shill.
God of War lost it's way. Very disappointing.
I feel the specter of Concord has hurt Herman's standing a bit and the corporate overlords felt that he needed to be reigned in somewhat.
I agree with assessment regarding Titoki, by the way, He is obsessed with margins...
Hulst got demoted. There’s no way around that.
Technology and creativity is what $ony has been missing for the last 5-7 years, remakes and bad hardware is all that happened along with 10 cancelled games and lots of failed other games.
$ony has imploded and is rudderless on a stormy sea.
Remakes, remasters, cross-gen and PC ports.
Let the ps4 rest people
My Friday routine isnt complete till I see your upload and click play
For the GoW rumor, I worry that with old Egypt setting is that there will be way too much empty desert dunes. That's the main problem with AC Origins.
I much rather have a setting in Eastern Europe, Asia, South America where there can be way more interesting environments.
God of War games aren't open world though so empty deserts won't be a problem
I like the old school boot up menu for PS one. I just happy with the old school boot up menus.
Can we get a PlayStation store that works well? Can’t believe how bad it is and how LONG it’s been bad
Which version?
@ ps app especially
My PS plus premium membership automatically renews on February 10 so should I cancel automatic renewal and wait to see if they offer me a discounted price on the 14th?
Absolutely.
@ will I be able to resume playing games that are active?
Title kinda misleading,Making it sound like PS4 servers gonna get shutdown soon meanwhile ps3 servers still up and going strong for 17 years.
MAKE ONLINE FREE ON PS4. If Sony is done with the PS4, they should allow it to have free online.
Free to play are free to play online.
Playing online should be free on all platforms.
@NextNate03 PS3 has free online so PS4 should too
I absolutely despise the Resident Evil movies. All of them! Yup, even the first one. Here’s hoping someone who actually understands RE makes this new one.
I wouldn't bet on it
Almost at the ps6 and we still have ps4 support. such a hold back for current gen.
Ryan hey man let’s not give people the wrong idea, it’s very clear phantom blade is not soulslike in any way especially in combat it’s more like DMC than anything.
I love Gran Turismo more than Forza but I'd welcome their main sim series too. Horizon is super fun and I'll definitely be picking that up.
Same its definitely the better of the two between Forza and Forza Horizon, og Forza has dropped off hard in both quality and popularity the last decade.
GOW egypt is an AMAZING idea
Agreed so much potential there
As long as they make the gameplay like the old ones yeah
Hi Ryan, is there a shortcut to get the your game collection from the Ps5 Home Screen without scrolling all the way right? I feel like R1 should do it but it takes me to the media tab.
Herman green-lit Horizon Lego, Concord and probably the 2 recent cancelled live service games. Then, Japan sees this killstreak, while Xbox ships their 2b dollar games everywhere and destroy hardware sales, only to see Herman doing the exact same thing. I'm not even mentioning his predecessor. The western division is actively trying to sink the ship before Xbox.
Let's be real, PS4 is still going to have a massive player base well into the PS6 years. They will have supported it through the majority of the PS5's life. 5 was the first one to be an upgrade like a smart phone is these days.. Great if you upgrade, but previous models aren't obselete instantly like older times.
Man, finding a way to play GOW 1 and 2 on my PS5 in India is a nightmare! PS Plus Premium isn't here, so I'm stuck buying a used PS3 just to replay them. Their policies are so frustrating, it's totally not cool.
Yeah, I was waiting for you to cover this because everybody was saying he was fired. He was demoted, and when I read it, I was like he still CEO a worldwide studios. He didn’t get demoted. He just has to report to the guy now.
Seems like a lot of double talk to cover up that he was essentially demoted. He may still have the same job and the same title, but when you add another layer of management over his job, you have basically demoted the decision making ability of that job.
That is literally the definition of being demoted.
Forza 5 coming to PS5 now JFC just announced halo MCC so I can preorder it Microsoft 😂
I would wait. Sea of thieves was selling for 1/5th the price after a couple of months.
@AA-vf9jbthat explains why it sold so well then, as that IP isn't popular but being one of the first 4 Xbox games ported to Playstation and being heavily discounted shortly after explains the decent sales it saw.
Don't care for most of the classic Xbox exclusives, except for "Gears of War". I will that get in a heartbeat once it comes over.
PS4 support "ending" in 2026. The PS5 support will go well into the PS7 cycle at this point lmao.
Good! My PS4 Pro is still going strong 💪.
No reason to waste money when what I have works 😁
Next up Halo & Gears on PS5. I can’t wait
Wow. The fact that _TLoU Part II_ and _HZD_ have "remastered" versions at all still speaks volumes about how little Sony have to offer in terms of games this generation. They keep having to repackage the old ones. When the PS5 launched with the genuinely excellent remake of _Demon's Souls_ by Bluepoint I had no idea it was actually setting the tone for the entire generation, which is coasting by on past glories and keeping profit up by raising subs prices, never discounting the hardware and so on. It's kinda mind blowing actually, and not in a good way.
The benefit is it makes the PS4 library look even stronger by comparison. Honestly I've gotten more enjoyable use out of my jailbroken PS4 Pro than any PS5 I've owned.
yeah it feels like my PS5 is just a really powerful PS4 still, most of the game on my trophy list are still PS4 titles
Or there's allot of new PS5/Pro owners at there.
returnal, spider man 2 & miles morales, helldivers 2, god of war ragnarok, horizon forbidden west, ghost of yotei....Okay, sure.... totally living on past glory with these bangers. I guess it's true, you can't make everyone happy.
100% agree. As a business analyst, reviewing earnings statements, the only thing that makes sense is they got greedy and main goal is extracting as much money from the base as possible with minimal effort.
This may actually be my last PlayStation for a while to see how PS6 shakes out. PS Plus is going to lapse this year for the first time wince 2011.
@@beautepley8352returnal was ok , Spider-Man 2 ok , all the others ps4 cross gen or pc now returnal and sp2 are pc… this is what he means …
I got PS Plus Premium on sale in the UK a week ago. So far I’ve streamed Puppeteer (using my PS3 save), got a bunch of trials installed, currently playing Shadow of the Colossus, and utterly failed to get into Demon’s Souls 😁
Atleast I know I can keep playing my PS5 until the PS7 pro comes out lol it'll save me ALOT of money I won't waste my time with the PS6 if it makes a small upgrade like we got from the PS4 to the PS5 😂
It won't matter
2038ish would be the approximate year a PS7 Pro releases lol PS5 will 100% not be supported that far into the future i guarantee you.
Ps5 doesn't have themes???? As a lifelong PlayStation fan that doesn't have a ps5 this is really disappointing to hear.
It still dosen’t have folders too 🤣
I’m done paying Sony to play online. My steam deck lets me play the online games I want to play. Also the games you download from ps plus only able to play with the Sony psplus active. What happens when Sony stops supporting PS4. Those games are useless. I’m buying physical when I can
Well you can Always play those ps plus games on PS5 but one thing for sure nothing will ever ever Beats physical cause onces the servers are down you basically lost all your spent money but not only that if Sony decides to ban your account you also lost all your games
@@talion7268if Sony ban your account thats on you, not Sony lol
Hows that FF7 Rebirth game looking on your Steamdeck? 😂
@@craigsampson3386Mods make it more enjoyable than on consoles that’s for sure lool 😂🤣
@@Crimsongz only in GTA, but Rockstar/Take2 have been ruining all the fun taking down mods anyways 🤷♂️😆
There's not enough PS5 games to be presented as PS plus offerings, so it's going to be interesting to see where the service goes next year. Maybe MS as a 3rd party publisher is going to help out. :)
If I can't carry the 600 hours of Gran Turismo 7 progress over from PS5 to PC, I don't want it then anyway.
If Sony and Polyphony want to milk their bizarre Pay-to-Drive shit then fuck em.
I've got just over double those hours lol but arguably there wouldn't be much to improve upon on PC compared to the PS5 Pro version I use now anyways.
Also if you're struggling for cash in the game then just Google some money grinds, I've been using one lately just to buy the last few remaining 20mil cars, i earn 825k per race which takes around 25min so easy i can almost do it with my eyes closed.
@ I have almost all the cars, I’m not grinding all that shit again
@@ddeevviinndduussttrryy even if they did port it to PC and saves transfer over i wouldn't waste my money buying it again because there is little left to improve over Pro.
@@craigsampson3386 high frame rates at 2160p, no PlayStation plus for online races, that’s why I would buy it
@@ddeevviinndduussttrryy nahh I've tested 120 vs 60 and can bearly tell the difference honestly, I even tested using the same car on the same track playing solo in a time trial to test if it _actually_ improved my lap times running in 120fps but it didn't 🤷♂️ anything over 60 is a gimmick to me.
The resolution is already high and looks pretty crisp too on Playstation plus just recently added ray tracing on track too. Unless they dramatically overhaul it using path tracing on PC then it won't receive any meaningful upgrades over PS5 Pro honestly.
Playstation Plus is a positive not a negative, even on its base tier its saved me money with its free monthly games included in the service.
In the rare case of not playing many games and/or not playing online games with friends that would be the only case where not paying for base PS+ tier would make any sense honestly.
I didn't update my PS5 because I feared they might remove the anniversary theme. I really hope they add the PS2 start up when they bring it back.
End of PS4!? 😮 Nooooooooooooooooo!!!! 😳
Are you really surprised at this point?
Breh they can't keep that console (PS4) going for too long.
In 2026, PS4 will be 13 years old. PS+ also stopped offering PS3 games around the same point in that console's timeline.
It'd be interesting to see an Egypt saga for God of War. But I'd like to see a PS5 re-release of God of War 2018 and a remake series of the original God of War saga.
Forza Horizon will be a limited time release since Microsoft delisted Forza Horizon from digital store when the music licensing rights expire.
I mean, this is how it always is with licensing. Driveclub was entirely delisted for this reason: licensed cars.
Yea, delisted after six or seven years or something. That is plenty of time to buy it if you really want the game.
This is an inevitable issue when you have car licences from real world car companies in your game.
You think they didn’t extend those licenses because of the PS5 version releasing?
@@unicorntomboy9736 it tends to be 2 back, so when 5 came out 3 got delisted. So when 6 comes out expect 4 will be delisted and FH7, 5 will be delisted
They are still playable and online works, just you can't buy them and will not get any extra content
Tbh always loved the idea on how Horizon worked, so I'm super excited to get to play it finally
And I on and off play Gran Turismo (got the plat)
Platinum beyond two souls was very easy the only annoying part was that you need to play the full game with 2 controllers one for Judy one for ayden