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@Serpenterror Twisted Metal is rumored to be getting a revival on PS5 and LittleBigPlanet got Sackboy on launch which is just focused on platforming now. None of those series you mentioned are terrible but I highly doubt most of them would get many people going "oh now I need a PS5" outside of Jak and Daxter. Legend of Dragoon though I don't know why that never got more than one entry.
When it comes to IPs if you're not God of War or Gran Turismo you usually get games for one-two consoles at most before the developers move onto new IPs. Sony seems to like making new IPs a lot of the time than making games from their older ones. It'd be nice to see them come back now and again, I'd love for a Sly Cooper game on PS5.

These look stunning. July 29th can't come soon enough

@moodycat Azure Moon had the most consistent route with the best lord arc and actually doing a good job with Edelgard.

@iLikeUrAttitude Yeah when the regular Xbox Series is selling under 4000 units while the regular PS5 is hitting 46,000 I don't think they're going to be that alarmed. Xbox doesn't have much of a physical presence in Japan anyway so I see it more likely the S is going to be doing more sales than the X

Trust me guys they're gonna show Silksong in this showcase
My birthday is tomorrow so this is a nice little gift, hope it will have some solid titles

Finished Xenoblade Chronicles 2 Torna middle of the week which left me depressed not just because of the ending but that's me down with Xenoblade until July. Gonna play Triangle Strategy this weekend which I recently got.

Jeff Grubb's name appears way too often
But both games as a package together? lol nah pretty sure Nintendo would rather release both separate for full price

Gonna be swapping between Kirby and The Forgotten Land and Xenoblade Chronicles 2 Torna this weekend.

I've never bought a console at launch, unless it had something really amazing I couldn't play anywhere else which is usually very unlikely nowadays for a console launch. Normally I wait around a year to pick a console up and I find that's a good time. I bought my Switch and PS5 just after a year of release and both consoles had enough releases to satisfy me. Had I got them on day one I definitely would have had different opinions (outside of Astro's Playroom still being one of the biggest joys for me in gaming). I did get the Switch OLED day 1 but well that's a upgraded model of an existing console so that doesn't count.

Can't wait for Twitter users to cry about this game because it shows some skin

@the_beaver Awesome game indeed. Don't worry I have Torna and plan to play it soon! Just intend to have a brief break from Xenoblade and play Kirby before playing Torna.

Finishing Xenoblade Chronicles 2 this weekend, on the final chapter and having my mind blown away by the twists that are slowly being revealed to me.

Nice to see this finally get a release date. But the same day as Xenoblade 3? Sorry but Xenoblade gets priority.

To the expert analysts in this comment section, 1 million might not seem like a lot but for a series like this which has been pretty niche for many years, this is good. This is the first Shin Megami Tensei game to break 1 million and usually these games sell a respectable amount. I doubt Atlus is disappointed with these sales, if anything they are surprised and impressed on how well this has performed in this time period. Compare it to SMT IV which sold 600K in 2 years. From what this series is and the expectations the developers have, it's exceeding those and doing just fine.

Another weekend, more Xenoblade 2. 55 hours in and still a long way to go.

So excited for this, roll on September.

I still need to finish TGAA, I was really enjoying the first game but I just need to be in the right mood to play these games as the cases get long.

@Rpg-lover Sounds like Triangle Strategy will be up my street. I'll be sure to pick it up soon.

@Rpg-lover I got Kirby from Currys for £34.99 and it was suppose to be my game until Xenoblade took over, I'll most likely play it after I'm finished with that as a shorter experience. How is Triangle Strategy? Been debating on picking that up around my birthday next month and this is from someone who is a FE fan (as you can tell with me having a FE pfp).

@Rpg-lover 11 hours in having just finished Chapter 2 and it is a joy to play. The game looks wonderful, music is incredible and the dialogue is entertaining. Think I'm gonna be invested in this for the long run trying to see everything. I feel like that with games like 13 Sentinels where I could play through it again for the first time again. September can't come fast enough for Xenoblade 3.

After beating Xenoblade Chronicles DE last weekend, this weekend I'll be getting lost in Xenoblade Chronicles 2. Getting ready for Xenoblade Chronicles 3 by playing all the games.

Still unsure about Three Hopes overall. I wasn't the biggest fan of FE Warriors and I worry about the game running smoothly if Age of Calamity is anything to take note of, and the fact this is pretty much a golden route of Three Houses so the story could be a mess. I'm hoping on the gameplay proving me wrong, having excellent remixes of Three Houses tracks and good character interactions (especially ones we've not seen before) will sell the game for me.

I bought and played this game at the start of 2021 on PS4, I absolutely recommend this game to everyone. It handles managing 13 protagonists so well and has one of the best stories I've seen in a video game. 13 Sentinels is one of a kind that should be played by as many people as possible, whether on PS4 and Switch and I'm glad to see more people get the chance to play it. I'll be double dipping on the Switch version. The game was originally meant to release on Vita before being cancelled so this will be the chance to experience the game in handheld with an OLED screen.

A shame this is somewhat underwhelming considering it's the first time Europe is getting Chrono Cross.

I got my copy last week which I will be starting once I finish Xenoblade Chronicles which I'm nearly done with. Amazing how Kirby has held the spot for 2 weeks here, if you told me that 5 years ago the UK charts would be like this I'd have laughed

@RainbowGazelle Anyone who is saying that now is ridiculous when SEGA releases a Yakuza game pretty much yearly now and have Atlus pumping out their games. Definitely was true a couple years back but SEGA relies on these a lot more now.

Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition. Been really getting into it. Trying to finish the games before Xenoblade Chronicles 3 comes out in September.

@JohnnyC Hope you enjoy GT7, I have been playing a few hours per day and loving it. My brother has the Online Expansion Pack so I'll be playing the new courses with him. Great time for people who like racing games.

I got my first Switch model back in November 2018 and upgraded to the Switch OLED in October 2021. My original Switch held out quite well aside from a few issues with the joycons where they drifted for a day and then acted like nothing happened. After upgrading to the OLED I can't go back. The longer battery life, kickstand and the much better looking screen enhance the experience for me so much I can't imagine playing any other way.

Was planning to pick this game up later in the year but after playing the demo, enjoying playing the levels and being left with the desire for more after Nintendo teased me with various Mouthful Mode options I rushed to base.com to pre-order this.

I was honestly fine with no Pokemon game until next year, we just got BDSP which were rather average remakes and Legends Arceus which was a brilliant new take. I thought we'd have a gap between them but no sooner are we getting Gen 9 thrown at us. I'm kind of worried about the quality of this one with how soon it is releasing after Arceus. I'd like to be proven wrong but you just don't know with Game Freak.

The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles on Switch

This game did not benefit from Square Enix releasing Marvel's Avengers the year before, that really hurt this game from the go as getting another one so soon after a bad one put people off. But even then I don't know if SE is reliable when they say a game underperformed, they say it about every game. I remember when the first Tomb Raider reboot came out, they sold 3.4 million copies in a month and said the sales were below expectations.

With how dominant the Switch is in Japan you just know it is always going to outsell everything every week and maybe the PS4 will have the odd title in the charts. The PS4 selling 4 consoles... wow. And the PS5 just selling over 300 more than the Xbox Series, that's crazy. For a console that's sold over 1 million in Japan the PS5 feels non existent in Japan, I haven't even seen any games for it in the charts in months, RE Village is the only to come to mind. Sony must be focusing on getting as many of their PS5 consoles to America and Europe than Japan, which tbf is probably better for them because we know Japan prefers their handhelds and mobile games over console at this point,

Interesting to see Push Square give this a 4/10 while Nintendo Life goes for a 7/10.

I don't know what to make of this. I wanted a new FE but not a Warriors game. I've seen more than enough of them lately and as someone who played FE Warriors and didn't like it, I'm not feeling too confident about it. But at the same time it looks like an AU or Golden Route or something for 3H which is interesting. One I'm going to have to watch for.

Got my PS5 last month and have spent about the last month playing on that but I'm waiting on some big PS5 releases in late February and the middle of March so I've decided to jump back to the Switch and finally give Legends Arceus a go and two hours in I'm really impressed so far. This has to be the most I've enjoyed a Pokemon game since B2W2. And alongside it I think I'll playing a small portion of The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles when I need a break. I was intending to play Arceus eventually but Kate's article on both of these really helped me make that decision now rather than later.

@Not_Soos I believe R&C got a lot of hype around release as it was one of the few full next gen PS5 games coming out and the graphics were stunning. However I think after a few months the hype died down because while it looked impressive visually it was just another Ratchet and Clank game, it didn't do anything too crazy. It's probably not a bad game but hardly GOTY material.

Cool to see them revive WarioWare, Pokemon Snap and Metroid this year and 3D World is a good game but it's a port. I wouldn't say Nintendo's line up was bad, just not a lot there that wows me. Metroid Dread is the only first party game I bought this year. I felt like third parties provided more exciting games this year, Monster Hunter Rise, The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles and Shin Megami Tensei V being examples.

My top three games were Fire Emblem Three Houses (432 hours and the most active player apparently), Dragon Quest XI Echoes of an Elusive Age (94 hours) and Hades (92 hours), however I feel that's somewhat inaccurate. My Switch says 3H is only 385, Hades is 80 and DQ is 75. I also played SMT V for 105 hours before this so I feel that should be ahead of Dragon Quest and Hades. Still scares me how much I've played my Switch this year compared to 2018, 2019 and 2020, my interest just suddenly revived on the system this year and the OLED coming out has only caused that to grow further.

I beat this on PS4 and got the Platinum, absolutely amazing game I highly recommend it to everyone. Such an incredible story and characters, it's truly an unique experience you can only go through once. I wish I could erase my memory of playing the game so I could relive it all again. Will gladly pick this up again on Switch to support it and see how great the game looks on the OLED.

Platinum, HGSS and B2W2 were the peak of Pokemon in my opinion. I still loved BW1 but the other three had so much going for them with plenty of content and improving on their previous versions and after B2W2 we've never gotten anything similar to those days.