people swapping quality for quantity just for the sake of the metrics as points of sales pitch

This looks great!

Outside that, Dragon Age Veilguard is looking VERY good, but I grew suspicious with EA enough to have zero hype for any of their games. Hopefully it comes out as surprisingly good as the industry influencers are recently praising it to be.

And gotta mention, Dynasty Warriors looks like the old fashioned game from the PS2 era that a lot of old gamers enjoyed so much, I'm very interested in checking it out!

I myself am very much excited about Monster Hunter Wilds, it is looking awesome with many new mechanics and quality of life changes that are building hype with the MH community.

With the PS5 price hike the Japan market saw Xbox Series X flying off shelves, was curious to see it in the PS show.

Gotta say Astro bot has been an amazing surprise for a Playstation "new" IP that leverages so many franchises all around. Seeing that it is making waves and numbers is great! Hopefully more games with Astro come in the future!

Game Radar has a good article getting a better picture on it, but looks like Project Rene will be free to everybody to play on launch. Yeah, feels like Inzoi really made EA wake up and try to release **something**

www.gamesradar.com/the-sims-5-r...

Reading a little further on it, actually they'll use The Sims 4 as a base and Project Rene will be an feature for The Sims 4. Knowing that The Sims 4 is infamous for not being that well optimized, this looks like downsizing and a weird decision.

www.ea.com/en-gb/games/...

I would not be surprised if EA start using AI to generate The Sims content and sell it as DLCs in a near future to continue milking that franchise for money.

A fun quote as a "why" on it:
"Kate Gorman told Variety the main reason behind this decision to not publish a fifth edition of the game was the concern that players [...] would have to start all over again after a decade’s worth of gameplay in the existing “Sims 4.” "
variety.com/2024/gaming/...

Meanwhile some fans are afraid Sony will be announcing more remakes/remasters, others are still hoping for Bloodborne remaster or PC versions.

Our bets are: PS VR2 games and Games that might look better on the PS5 Pro, new game in the Horizon franchise, Wolverine and Spider-Man multiplayer spinoff