"PlayStation 3's new 4000 model to follow the curse Microsoft once followed, Grand Theft Auto V emerges among the darkness, Battlefield 4 is officially announced along with beta details, ZombiU to possibly take advantage of Microsoft's SmartGlass feature, and much more gaming news and nonsense that listeners have come to expect with Unscripted Access."
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O'Dell Harmon Jr. writes: "Before we say goodbye to 2025, let’s take a look back and see what were the most downloaded games of the year. It was a great time for sports, shooters, and some new PlayStation VR2 games. Sports favorites topped the charts in US/Canada and EU, with NBA 2K26 and EA Sports FC26, respectively.
Juggernaut GTA V found a home in the top three for both regions, with new 2025 release Battlefield 6 claiming second place in the US. Fortnite took top place for free-to-play games, and Beat Saber continues its PS VR2 success."
I think it shows how shortsighted it was for Sony to let go of Evolution and not get them to make some sort of competitor (open world Driveclub?) 10 years ago.
After Driveclub's reception, hard to say it would have done well enough to compete. It's easy to dream of such a thing, but to make it happen? It's taken how long for CoD to be dethroned? And it was dethroned by Hogwart's Legacy and has gained it right back just the next year.
It’s funny to watch the only games EU and USA agree on was Minecraft and back ops 7 both regions on 6 and 7 spot respectively other than that FIFA rules EU
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I would like to see a list that has both free to play and paid games together, but at least we have this.
To this day GTA5 is a top downloaded game and it makes me wonder if the industry is really ready for GTA6. I imagine almost nothing else will sell during that game's release window.
Another night of Fortnite with the boys then?
I’ve never played Fortnite GTAV or CoD BO7 but I do own GTAV for PS4/5 because I got them cheap.
What exactly are we not getting?
Did we not just have a 2025 filled with nice games like...
Silksong, Doom TDA, Expedition 33, Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, Ghost of Yotei, Dispatch, Split Fiction, Hades 2, DK Bananza, and so many more?
Agree that all you just posted are great games. Expedition 33 is one of my favorites. Spent a large chunk of time on BG3 in 2023. Another for my all-time list.
My point though not well articulated in the OG post is that we would get more of the games of the quality you mentioned if so many valuable resources were not allocated to FTP slop and/or heavy monetization schemes. Some of what used to be my favorite franchises have been ruined by them.
To sum it up, I would like to see games like 33 outperform the profits made by games like Fortnite so more resources are allocated to great games. When heavily monetized FTP games are at the top of the list, we end up being stuck with a significant chunk of games that are not good. Or worst case scenario games that spend years in development, but get cancelled due to industry trend chasing.
Popsicle, I actually think we're getting more great games because of the slop. Developers are seeing that people aren't happy and taking advantage of big AAA studios not delivering for people.
Revolution Team, the modding team behind GTA Vice City NextGen Edition, has announced GTA: San Andreas NextGen Edition.
I'm surprised modders haven't taken GTA 3, Vice City and San Andreas and connected them as one big game. I remember GTA 3, you had to complete so much of the game to open up the other part of the city, which was connected by a bridge, although there was a flying car cheat.
'The Gamer Access is back again with more details on the new PS3 model and we discuss why the new model may take Sony down the path that once cursed Microsoft.'
Okay, so have I entered the twilight zone here? I watch conspiracy theories with great interest, particularly those that come with verifiable proof from legitimate sources and the one thing that always strikes me is the constant promotion of 'myth' and 'misinformation'. It's almost as if they foresee historians as their future apologists.
Well, here we are again (on something that's not quite as serious as 911 for arguments sake) and myths are being written right under our noses. First we had the ignoring of the obvious Kinect/PSEYe similarity and the press concentrated on the Wii, recently we had the 'smartglass' threat to WiiU which seems to overlook the obvious PS3/Vita combo as the real threat, and now this.
To suggest that Sony could make the same mistake as MS by going down the 'slim' route, is totally discarding history... a history, I might add, that was written by Sony themselves. We had a PS1 slim, a PS2 slim and now a PS3 superslim. I think if this IS a mistake then Sony can legitimately claim that they succeeded or failed on their OWN strategy and that MS were never in the reckoning.
So can we stop this? Can we open our eyes to what the press is trying to do here? History is there to be seen providing we look at it now and don't wait for the press to offer a somewhat manipulated version
i would buy this super slim, think about how cool my systen would run without that big drive in thier im sure can get about %20 or more less heat and noise.
anybody want a 320g slim ps3 3.55??
These people sound like xbox fanboys/girls. The fact they don't even know how easy it is to buy 500gb hdd for a ps3 and for cheap unlike xbox speaks volumes. Also that 16gb model could be ssd for faster downloads or installs you never know.
Theyre not gonna top the looks of the PS3 slim. The new super slim is fugly compared to the fat boy and the regular slim.