Short answer: no
Long answer: nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooo

I used to buy games day 1 all the time if they were ones I particularly wanted when I lived with ym folks and payed low rent, nowadays I have bills to pay and mostly refuse to pay more than £20, £25 if it's something I really want badly. Just can't justify spending that kind of money on every game I like the look of any more, there's about 3 games coming out this year I'd be prepared to pay full price for (Portal 2, Mass Effect 3, Elder Scrolls 5), and that's only because I know I'll get a lot of bang for my buck (admittedly less so in Portal 2's case but i'm a sucker for great co-op games!), everything else just has to wait

My Portal 2 pre-order is ;)

If I want a game day 1 I usually just buy from a supermarket, they have much better prices - Crysis 2 for £30.

Just wait for them to come down in price instead of being such a geek and getting games day 1.

I used to pre-order or Day 1 purchase every game I was even vaguely interested in.

But as production values get higher I actually find most games now lack depth, and unless they have multiplayer there's little replay value.

So now I am much more choosey about where I spend my money. And for games where I know there's only a short single player campaign, I've started renting them much more.

The issues I see, is that game companies do not value early adopters, only late ones.

Prices go down.
GOTY editions
extra content with later version of the game.

and your devoted fans who payed the money for the pre-order doesn't reap any of those benefits.

I feel like the model needs to change , to where companies throw in more perks with early adoptions with DLC.

MMORPGS yes everything else not really.

"Is your pre order really worth £40?"
no

I think if you have enough love for a game, price is not an issue. You'll pay what ever they want. The problem is there's so much choice now and they all want your money. Its up to you to decide what's worth paying the premium for.

I cant see the £40 being justified. It's more of a trend, as people still pay it, clearly, so why lower profits to take the moral high ground.

And it's not the devs that lower the prices, it's the stores.

The dev sells a game for pennies to stores, who slap ATLEAST £20-30 ontop of it. NOw I have nothing to back that up with, other than sales; no company in their right minds would ever sell a product for less than they paid for it. WHich is why my blood boils when a sale hits and something sells for £70 when it was originally £200 (like a jacket or something).

And its the consumer in us all. I want it, and I want it AS SOON AS POSSIBLE! I WANT IT NOW! So we pay to have the day it's released. You play the game, finish it. 2 months later, it's dropped £10-15.

And DLC or unlocks aren't worth shouting about, as a GOTY edition or something similar will come out later for the same price, with all the DLC bundled in, instead of you shelling out £7.99 (WTF!) on the likes of CoD DLC. You paid HOW MUCH for a DLC!?!? God you're pathetic you CoD people.

I must contradict myself though, as I will admit to paying £90 for the Assassin's Creed 2 Black Edition with the figurine etc, only because I was overseas and had no expenses, so I thought why not. It was my first ever limited edition...wont be doing it again as I couldnt keep hold of it for some reason.

Now that Jim Ryan is gone just need to remove Herman Hulst from his position! And maybe give Shuhei the position he deserved.

This gen hasn't been the best for games, last gen consoles are still out there and now there's been talk of the PS6 and Xbox Two for a year or so. Many games this gen will be ported to next gen and the cycle will continue. The re-release of the Neo Geo AES+, games on cartridge for £70 ($95), gaming is going back in time. Gaming has gone pricing mad with the high cost of games, consoles and controllers. The men and women at the top are clueless.

It’s always interesting to hear behind-the-scenes stories like this, especially involving veterans like Shuhei Yoshida and leadership figures like Jim Ryan. That said, there are usually multiple sides to decisions at that level. It could be less about not “listening” and more about differences in long-term vision for PlayStation. Yoshida played a huge role in shaping the brand, so whatever the reason, his impact is undeniable.

If true, and I'm inclined to believe it is, it goes to show that Sony lost their way when they became more western/didn't respect the PlayStation origin story. Andrew House and Jack Tretton did great work, but they also didn't try to fundamentally change the PlayStation DNA. Ryan oversaw the death of Japan Studio and a live service direction.

I already figured this, good lord imagine if Shuhei took over instead, would've been a platinum era 😩

I miss the first three generations of PlayStation. The way they turned PS3 around, we knew they meant business. We were all worried for a bit there around launch. Eventually from 2008 they started shifting slowly. But since Yoshida was fired, it's never been the same. Still enjoy my PS5 daily. I got a backlog dating back to PS2 lol So I'm fine but new games aren't as appealing anymore.

It seems like we were thrown on to the worst timeline possible where everything is too expensive and the wrong people were put in positions that makes the world a shitty place. We could have had Shu as the head of PS but we got the shitty alternative. Same goes for everyone in power around the world. Doesn’t matter the company or country the majority of us got the shitty picks and the world is declining like never before. I do think PS can come out of this because of their studios, talent and IP but they need someone more in touch with gamers leading things like Shu was. They’re still the best place for console gaming imo but it could be much better than it is especially without the massive live service failures. The rest of the world I have a lot less hope for right now. Hopefully the pendulum swings back towards the good ole days but I’m preparing for the worst.

There goes illuminati distraction story

So now there's certifiable proof that Ryan was in fact "fired", as opposed to when it was first announced that he "retired", in order to save face.

There's another guy who recently "retired" as CEO of another large gaming company, after doing a dismantling job as lead for well over a decade.

seems legit, the business man, fires the one who has ideas to move the business forward.

Jim Ryan is the reason why we are entering year 6 since the PS5 launch and many of us don't feel like the PS5 has gotten started as yet.

I hope going forward, we will see a return to form.