PS5 Showcase - Wednesday Sept 16

[DonFerrari]

sales2099 said:

DonFerrari said:

Sony haven`t been commenting on anything either for the positive or negative of Playstation, so not sure what you want. Putting what some part of the fanbase have been saying to prove Sony said or mean anything doesn`t work. The quote from Jim have nothing in that direction. Again, it is like Ludicrous trying to say Sony have been coasting and attacking MS on X1 being weaker than PS4 when Sony never said a thing and only at reveal they put the power of the console without any mention of Xbox. Totally ridiculous.

Yes super misleading to not say it is exclusive to PS5 in the trailer and in the blog say it is crossgen. Someone on this thread have posted that Spider-Man was announced crossgen on the first show further news, also that HFW was know to be in release on PS4 long ago. Just read the comments on this thread.

HFW looks better than Hellblade 2 so not sure what you are talking when you think it will be the closest thing it will look like to the demo. And we will have much more games that will look better than that Demo. And well I know you were sad by all the positive media Sony got from that demo and the SSD ones.

Sony should be a little more active in community responsiveness for a start. Saying “it’s just how they do things” is not a excuse. Twitter is a thing and they should try to be transparent if they have people employed in community positions. 

HFW has a rumor that development started on PS4. People assumed it was scrapped and made PS5 exclusive. I was reported and warned by CGI for suggesting it was cross gen so it wasn’t popular belief at the time. And I meant the closest game using UE5. Hellblade 2 is the nearest 1st party game that will use that engine and Horizon isn’t using that to my knowledge hence the irony and misleading advertising. 

Point being I believe Sony 100% meant to be misleading up until now. They were totally down coasting on good PR for months as word of mouth spread. This PR mistep only registers to people like us. The misinformation has all ready spread for some time. 

Should they? Perhaps. Will they? That is their strategic positioning, if it is working for them they are the ones to know. And sorry MS even being on twitter all the time isn`t really transparent. Wasn`t X1 not holding Halo back per MS twitter? Companies use social media not to be more transparent, but more likely to manipulate the narrative themselves instead of allowing gamers and publications run with whatever they want.

You probably weren`t reported by CGI, your report was analyzed by him and then you got a warning. And I would bet you got reported and warned not because you suggested it could be crossgen but by something else. There is no misleading there. UE5 demo was running real time in PS5 so whatever was showing on screen was real so it can`t be said to be misleading. Sony also didn`t say a single thing about it being exclusive to PS5. The only thing mentioned was by Epic that the version being run would only work on PS5 because it was built to it. MS couldn`t accept a positive new to PS5 then gone to say they also use UE5 (with Windows Central saying it would look much better on Series X, they had to delete because were proven wrong), even though from what we know UE5 isn`t out for devs yet, talk about misleading.

Sony wasn`t coasting in good PR unless you are rewritting history. On this very forum Sony was heavily criticized for talking so little about PS5, not hyping it, by the GDC video being to technical, etc. It is again just you being pissed that MS for all the talk they done when they had to show they failed.