June 2025 is packed with new racing video games releases, as the Switch 2 is set to dominate the discussion.
Ridge Racer joins PlayStation Plus Premium.
Sigh.
I just tune in for the classics, and this drip fed release system is killing me. At least more than 1... please?
Also, Ridge Racer? Thanks, I guess.... hope it has trophies at least.
Yeah i know the release system is so terrible, it’s way too slow. I’m not subscribed anymore ever since the price increase and i wont be until there are many more of the classics available.
I might subsribe for a month if Dino Crisis 2 and the Medal of Honor games come to premium in the near future though.
That's the secret: i only upgrade at the end of my yearly Extra for maybe one or two months, to play classics that would interest me or for them easy plats.
Tekken 2 and 3 I'd bought.
Keep in mind that if you bought the ps1 classics back in the day you get the new versions for free. I got dino crisis, re2 and re3 even though I'm not subscribed to anything.
So if you bought Dino Crisis 2 back then check before you subscribe when the new version comes out.
Okay, who is disagreeing and why? Are you content with drip fed classics that are mostly mid to less than mid selections? Some without trophies?
Ape Escape 2 still hasn't been patched to fix the issues it has running on PS5, and while I certainly don't expect ONLY banger releases, when they randomly come out with good ones like SkyGunner and Jeanne D'arc... trophyless Ridge Racer 1 doesn't exactly hit any high notes especially for nostalgia because it's not aged well. Not everyone are playing the classics for trophies, but it certainly does breathe new life into these older titles imo.
It could be better and especially for the price of the tier to receive them "without paying", this is sadly comedic that we only receive 1 title a month typically instead of 2, or even 3 (one for PS1, PS2, and PSP).
Sony's classic catalog is pretty bad. It should be twice its size. At least , probably 3x the size. They are taking the square Enix approach where they wait so long to give their audience what they want that most of their fans are dying/dead. They are chasing failure with this one and there is no one in leadership with the balls to succeed. Thats how I feel about their classics program.
The disagrees come from the fanboys who believe Sony can do no wrong. sigh.
And you're right about the classics, I only play them for the trophies. At this rate, i'd rather downgrade to the Extra tier the next time I resub. Premium my a$$.
You said something less than glowing about someone's favorite box. Does not matter if it's true or not. The tribalism demands pushback.
Didn't disagree but with old games that haven't been popular enough to get real remakes, I mean, won't can't just ignore that they don't own the games. The founder of night dive has talked about how it's a huge pain to figure out who owns some of these games and some of the Japanese companies in particular actually have this bizarre belief that a game should only be available for a limited time on the platform they were meant for. Or they just don't want to engage in negotiations at all because they got the IP in some merger or acquisition and they don't want to waste any time on understanding if it's a good deal to rerelease it at *whatever someone is offering*
There's also the fact that the classics are done in house by the company that does the emulators which are cross platform and they apparently only have so much bandwidth. Not a lot of money in these.
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Great month for me been wanting Like a Dragon and Expeditions for a while, glad I held off on the sales.
Looking forward to Ridge Racer but it's a shame it's not the arcade archives version
Sadly, Ridge Racer is probably the only game I’ll end up playing.
Bring us Ridge Racer 5 up-rendered without the nauseating jaggies of the original PS2 version.
VGChartz's Evan Norris: "Unlike RPG and Action-Adventure, two genres that deliver multiple GotY candidates year after year, Racing is something of a feast or famine situation. Luckily, 2025 was a feast year, due primarily to Nintendo's latest hybrid console. All four games on the shortlist appeared on Switch 2; heck, three of them are exclusives. Shin'en, no stranger to Nintendo hardware, once again punched above its weight class with the slick futuristic racer Fast Fusion. Masahiro Sakurai reconfirmed his auteur status with Kirby Air Riders, an unexpectedly deep and content-rich racer with more than a little fighting game DNA in it. Nintendo EPD made a big splash at the launch of Switch 2 with Mario Kart World, which obliterated the spatial boundaries of the franchise. And Sonic Team raised the stakes with Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds, thanks to an inventive travel ring mechanic."
PlayStation 5 ended the year by dominating the Christmas season, consolidating its position as the best-selling console of the year.
"while Microsoft had another dismal year with the Xbox Series X|S, which only sold 24,000 units throughout 2025 ."
Got damn...💀 we are gonna need an alt in here stat.
What I personally find to be "fascinating" about every Xbox die-hard I ever spotted:
In their rhetoric, Xbox is basically king. While Playstation is utter crap.
Right?
Yet since 2013, Xbox is the only console brand that has lost ~50 million people buying it.
Notice that most of them if not all, brag about how much money momma windows is making instead of how great their games are or the quantity of GOTY games xbox is releasing on a yearly basis. Apparently they're not gamers anymore and don't really care about them but as long as scum MS is making profit they're happy as f. LMAO!
i mean none of the ps fans cared when sony fired 8% of their workforce 2 years ago,everytime ms released a game on ps they only post how great it is that sony is making money, they didnt care when they tried to steal games with helldivers, they don't care that the customers are now paying for the concord, bungie and all their other cancelled live service games, they don't care that ND has very bad overtime/crunch practices so the ignorance is definitely not one sided.
@aloy apparently you're now a gamer if you're into the politics of the industry....right
I mean if not for the Switch 2 releasing in June, clearly it would have sold more. But keep on winning..
@cojoni - I mean let's see if that holds when Mario & Zelda come along. This is with Nintendo releasing only a handful of first party titles and only a couple of notable 3rd party titles releasing.
At the end of the day, I own both though. I don't pledge allegiance to one gaming system. I'm a gamer, so I want to play all the games. Not just ones that only release on my PS5.
Its not like PS5 doesn't release its own bangers. GTA is incoming. Interstellar (my most anticipated personally)
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first you said switch coming out in june and when elda proved you wrong that in last 5 months ps5 still has outsold it now you are talking about mario and zelda. it's almost a 6 year old system going again a console that just came out and is cheaper. You mentioned mario and zelda what about PS5 exclusives that will be coming in 2026 and another small game which will play/run better on PS5 and Pro and won't be coming to switch 2 GTA6
I dislike sony because they have slacked off so much this gen with their live service failures but still what PS5 has done is impressive(i don't even own a PS5 the first sony console in a while at that)
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Excuses and more excuses from the "faSt SeLlInG cOnsOle" fandom LMAO! Keep it up!
" I mean let's see if that holds when Mario & Zelda come along. This is with Nintendo releasing only a handful of first party titles and only a couple of notable 3rd party titles releasing."
I'd say let's see how PS5 GTA 6 Bundle would perform soon. It's easily gonna smoke Nintendo's whatever Zelda and mario game bundle they come up with. LMAO!
@cojoni Switch 2 sales divided by 2? XD
Global sales
June 2025 - NS2 launch(5M+) PS5(916k)
July 2025 - NS2(1,594K) PS5(787k)
August 2025 - NS2(1,127K) PS5(875.8K)
September 2025 - NS2(1,079K) PS5(1,157K)
October 2025 - NS2(1,373K) PS5(1,310K)
November 2025 - NS2(1,816K) PS5(3,591K)
If you included whole month december, Switch 2 is in 15M+ range.
"I mean let's see if that holds when Mario & Zelda come along. This is with Nintendo releasing only a handful of first party titles and only a couple of notable 3rd party titles releasing."
Want to bet? GTA 6 bundle for Playstation will absolutely destroy in sales. There's NOTHING on Nintendo that will come close to GTA sales
You love the Switch 2 just like I like my PS5 Pro. I own a XBSX & a Switch 2 but so far PS5 has not slowed down in sales is all I'm saying. There's no need in denying that fact.
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