Deviation Games, a studio founded by several Treyarch (Call Of Duty) veterans, folded with no game released. While NOT a #Playstation Studios member, it was notoriously backed by Sony with its first unannounced project a PS exclusive. #Gaming #GameNews #YouTubeGaming 🎮 🕹

At their Q3Y25 conference, Sony acknowledged on the gaming business (Playstation), that #PS5 hardware sales decline to the point to update the outlook on 21 million more units to be sold by EOY, down from 25 million. All this despite there were profit of Christmas season sales. Also, mayor Playstation Studios' games launches are not happening before 04/2025 while there are title currrently on development. For that reason and that Playstation 5 is entering its 5th year, that the company considers the current generation in its "latter days" and focus on producing high-quality productions and producing live service games." Back at Summer 2023, during the failed FTC demanding a Preliminary Injunction against Microsoft buying ABK, it was revealed that both Sony and Microsoft considered talking on next-gen and what's next for their respective gaming main product by 2028. #Gaming #GameNews #youtubegaming 🕹🎮

Sony & #KojimaProductions confirmed that the studio will began working on its 3rd original IP after the release of Death Stranding 2. The game will be an original Tactical Stealth Action one, marking the return of the genre of Hideo Kojima. The game will be a hybrid of game/movie using the tech stack of PS5 and from the looks of the announcement, Columbia Pictures & Sony Pictures assets might be used too. Sit tight because this is not coming soon gamers! #Gaming #GameNews #youtubegaming 🕹🎮

And #CDProjektRed is NOT for sale as CEO Adam Kicinski told an outlet that the company is not interested on being bought & while denying talking with Sony, he revealed that Microsoft started a conversation, but CD Projekt decided against continuing. #Gaming #GamingNews

Unfortunately for Sony this week, Rhysida hacker group went on their deadline after only 2% of the stolen data on their hack to #Playstation Studios' Insomniac Games was actually sold and the remaining 98% was released on the Dark Web. The loot is actually more than 1.3 million files totaling 1.67 terabytes and includes much more than anticipated than a swift hacking usually manages to copy. As expected in this kind of big stole, future games, and internal HR documents, budgets, more are in the public yes and as well Insomniac’s future projects, including the upcoming Marvel Wolverine game, a publishing agreement with Marvel that promises future games. Of course, the "promised games" is on the stipulation that Sony and Playstation needs to comply with goals set by both Disney and Marvel and maybe isn't just that Sony has strategically held the movies and videogames rights for Spider-man. Along with Wolverine, seems that Sony is ready to answer EA's take on Marvel Iron Man and now Bethesda/Xbox Game Studios's take on Marvel Blade as Insomniac landed a exclusive X-Men game, pending to be announced. As for more Marvel games, the Venom game is slated for a 2025 release, followed by a 2026 release of Wolverine and early estimate for X-Men is at 2030, which probably might see Iron Man and Blade being in this 7 years interval. Other documents reveals that Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart was not a total financial success despite being the flagship game for the launch of PS5 with a miss of 10% below Return Of Investment or in plain language, the game was not profitable at least in normal sales channel. A follow-up Ratchet & Clank main game is currently in development with a target release year of 2029. Finally and honestly I wasn't expecting anything centralized on the Playstation business and much-less being housed on one of Playstation Studios's servers but, here is the bad luck for Sony. Apparently, Insomniac Games had probably copies of documents that appears to be for Sony Interactive Entertainment to actually hold and there was a report on Steam sales of Playstation games brought to PC. Numbers includes: -Horizon Zero Dawn - 3.3 million units -God of War 2018 - 2.5 million units - Days Gone - 1.7 million units -Marvel Spider-Man Remastered 1.3 million units -Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves 483k units -Marvel Spider-Man: Miles Morales 450k units -Sackboy A big adventure - 62.9k units Surprisingly, there are documents related to the Activision Blizzard acquisition by Microsoft and as excepted, concentrate on the Call Of Duty side of thing including the fear that Microsoft could find ways to differentiate Xbox and Playstation versions of COD. Game Pass subscription and the public perception that Xbox has indeed "lost the console war" as a way to transform the gaming business in one that could have Playstation left behind because their premium sale model and pro hardware model as subs are more feasible for gamers The insistence that the Playstation model is outdated is because Sony feels that Activision Blizzard gives Microsoft strategic value in live service, mobile and PC Storefront and Microsoft can supply, console, PC and subscription services. Reminder, currently the main tasks that Activision Blizzard is working along side Xbox is the new Mobile game app store, reportedly being made from the best of Battle Net & Microsoft Store with King leading the project, which Microsoft has said was the main reason to buy ABK. And with this recap.... BE CAREFUL, Wolverine's leaks apparently are in the wild and there is a PROBABILITY of seeing videos of an early version BOOTABLE of the game as well pics and assets for the game. I am not spoiling anything after this post. #Gaming #GamingNews #Gamestr

Latest noise within #Bungie is that the now Playstation subsidiary is on high alert as Sony can enact a clause on their agreement that the studio's board of directors can be dismissed and Sony take over at all. The possibilities of Bungie being folded within Playstation Studios is now more real than ever and pretty much the underperformance of Destiny 2's sales can pretty much justify Sony to enact the mentioned clause. Currently, Bungie is operating as an independent subsidiary after surprisingly, Sony announced acquiring it under that condition. Since last year, Sony tasked Bungie on assess all GaaS project including the long awaited The Last Of Us multiplayer game and actually, most of them failed the assessment and explains why Sony decided to have Naughty Dog to scale back the game. Recently, Bungie has come under fire after running a surprising layoff process as revenue of sales by Destiny 2 are under target and reportedly management has not been empathic with the people that got fired and doubled-down on improving things regardless the environment. Now it has been rumored that a new layoff run is possible if the next expansion, The Final Shape, needs to be a success, while Bungie has not acknowledged publicly, but Marathon has been internally delayed by 2025. #Gaming #GamingNews

Today, the UK CMA has ruled that Sony is liable & will indeed entering in a £5 billion class action lawsuit over #PlayStation Store prices practices, lawsuit filed originally on August 2022 & since then, Sony has been trying to have the case dismissed. Some context: The lawsuit isn't aimed exclusively on consumer (they are at the end of the chain, but instead, Sony has been accused on leveraging unfairly at his favor the fee charged at developers who cannot deploy Playstation games elsewhere and the cost is passed to consumers. #Gaming #GamingNews

Officially #TheLegendOfZelda will go to theaters as Nintendo confirmed today & surprisingly, the movie will be co-developed along Sony Pictures and Arad Productions Inc. with Shigeru Miyamoto & Avi Arad as producers & Wes Ball directing. Years ago, reportedly Nintendo cancelled an unannounced joint venture with Netflix to bring a The Legend Of Zelda production to the streaming service after Nintendo blamed Netflix on leaking the information on purpose, ignoring that Nintendo isn't a fan of hyping with rumors. Boy, I bet Netflix regretted doing that. After the expected success of The Super Mario Bros. Movie co-developed by Illumination, rumors about a second production focused on the Zelda franchise didn't wait, only to both Nintendo & Illumination to deny reports, but of course, The Minions maker would have love to work. #Gaming #GamingNews

So, Sony expect me to consider now the Playstation 5 Slim with just .2 watts consumption "improvement" & mere microscopic difference of dB off the fan's sound (I don't get & don't want to why this is an issue with nowadays gamers). NO THANKS SONY! Will look for the OG PS5 soon.