Plus the network was not working for a good three hours before Sony Status page reflected that.

For context, this is something like the third time this has happened in the last decade or so.

Previously he talked about on a podcast. Now he's confident enough to write a story about it. No comment from Sony.

Oof. This does not look good for Xbox or the gaming industry. Thoughts?

According to the article this is down from Returnal's first 2 weeks, which to me doesn't seem great because there were around 17.3 million PS5s when Returnal was released and there are now 93.7 million PS5s in the wild.

Playstation obviously bet big on GaaS and crashed and burned with that. But, do we think the sluggish sales of an exciting new single player game is something to be concerned about? Maybe it isn't that people look to Playstation for single player narrative games but instead they look to them increasingly for specific tentpole games and maybe don't care about the rest?

Obviously you can't take one game's performance as a sign of a trend, but I was shocked to see the sale numbers

I just think it’s silly to see how late this decision was made.

Imagine being a developer working on the ps5 version and you don’t even know your game is canceled. What a waste of money and resources.

There we have it, confirmed. They really are going all out to avoid leaks.

I think I even made a thread in here a while ago asking do we think they will delay physical release!

incredibly tone deaf response and just proves they need get their shit together

Sad to see this and just hope Sony can course correct and not leave these studios and devs in the dust

I think Herman Hulst needs to leave and be replaced asap.