1 - The art style
First of all, they need to give the franchise a new style. The original's artstyle was quite bland and the realistic + cartoony characters didn't mesh well at all, leaving the aesthetics to be pretty unpleasing at times. To combat this glaring problem, design the game around a 2D cartoony style, like Guilty Gear or Blazblue, or even make it 3D cel shaded, like Street Fighter IV/V, where all the characters stick to one dsitinctive style. I think the former would work well, as characters such as Ellie and Joel, Nate, Kratos etc would look cool in a 2D style, and of course, would blend much better with the already cartoony roaster, which includes the likes of Jak, Ratchet and Parappa.
2 - 1st party franchises
Make more character playable from single IPs. instead of just Sly Cooper, have Bentley and Murray too. Joel and Ellie could work well as a duo set of characters, but the likes of Daxter and Clank, who have had their own spin offs, could work well, separated from their respective partners. Daxter could utilize his gadgets from his PSP game, and Clank could use his Secret agent tools, as well as his time shifting powers from ACIT.
3- Only add relevant 3rd party characters
Remove Raiden, Big Daddy, DMC Dante - these characters are not what come to mind when one thinks of Playstation. Replace them with 3rd party characters that people identify with the Playstation brand. Crash and Spyro are must haves, since their original PS1 titles will always be PS exclusive, and will always be associated with being original mascots for Playstation
4 - Remove the Super System
Make it more like a traditional fighter. The super system got old fast, felt cheap, and overall was fairly unbalanced. The characters should have some sort of health bar, but Supers can be altered to act more like ultra combos from Street fighter, where they are effective, but not mandatory.
I'd love another one of these on PS4. Playstation boasts an awesome roster of characters - it would be a waste not to have another go at this IP in the near future.
Dear team,
Xbox has always been different.
We started with a simple idea. Games should bring people together through shared experiences. That led to the first Xbox in 2001, Xbox Live in 2002, and new ways to connect, from friends lists and achievements to parties and play across devices. Today, Xbox reaches over 500 million players around the world, with some of the most important franchises in entertainment.
re-evaluating exclusivity 💀
PS players will need to go back to pretending to dislike Xbox games
Or meaning since it’s doing so good they might just do everything day 1.
They didnt say re-evaluating their multiplatform approach.
🤣🤣🤣 Xbox is so dead. I know you scared🤣🫵ӿ 97;
Aww you’re hurt that they’re going back to exclusives!
The mask has slipped… we know you PS gamers LOVE Xbox games
Hurt over video games 🤣🤣
Lmao we all grew and got jobs but apparently you stayed home broke 🤣🤣.
Man I love loyal dogs like you. MS kicked Spit and slapped you around but you still come back on all 4s.
Good little boy 🤣🤣
My only question is what games are PlayStation gamers gonna play now? They don’t really come out with new games anymore. I’m looking forward to wolverine, but after that then what?
Lmao
There’s no way after everything it’s going back, the damage is done
What you are seeing now is the new management telling what the core fanbase (aka…you) want to hear so they are pumped full of hope and are more likely to invest in the next Xbox console
When Phil took over after the awful Xbox One reveal he did the same thing, he told people what they wanted to hear for damage control.
It’s crazy people are getting suckered into this again.
And you'll now go back to again thinking exclusives suddenly matter, that multiplatform is no longer the future, or that revenue from multiplatforms doesn't matter, like all you flop flopping xbox grifters lol.
The whole post just sounds like the previous phil corpo slop talk to me, whole thing reads like a nothing burger lol.
“re-evaluating exclusivity”
She also said this.
“The model that got us here won’t be the one that takes us forward.”
There's a bunch just like him but that's what happens when some rely on dreams, hope and wishful thinking. lol
"pretending"? Bro gears hasnt broke 1mil on ps5, and starfield hasn't passed 200k, Hellblade 2 was even stated to be a financial disappointment in sales on its own console, let alone ps5. Im not saying people don't like them, but they certainly aren't setting the community on fire, Forza may be different tho
Xbawx is ''re-evaluating exclusivity''... Translation: After throwing all sort of crap to the wall to see if something sticks but clearly nothing worked, we, including our lord ''in charge'' Phil came to the conclusion that exclusives indeed do matter so please forget if we ever said otherwise.
Yup, I feel it in my gut, next gen belongs to xbox, PS6 is cooked...
If they go back to exclusive games it at least shows that they are finally getting it. They would be turning down immediate money for something that will potentially workout in the long term.
Only issue is they've already opened Pandora's box. A lot of their base has moved to PC or jumped to PS. So will be a long road to get back on track.
We have been saying this from day one exclusives are a must if you are going to be selling hardware look at Nintendo and Sony before Jim Ryan. That's the proven formula. You had some that were deluded and blinded by loyalty accepting that multiplat was the future and that MS was merely getting ahead of where the industry was headed, but at least they can finally see the light and agree with what everyone has been saying for a decade+
True, blame it on the rabid fanboys. MS can do no wrong and spinner this multiplatform move. While the actual fans moved on.
I feel like with the new Xbox coming they are hoping to bring back those old fans and then if it goes well. Bring back exclusives.
If the new console is performing like series x and one. Naw they staying multiplatform.
Funny world where Sony is pro consumer and Xbox is not? At least according to what you loyalists have been saying all this time 🤭
@itveds For how many years have you been doing this sad stuff? For how many years have you been creating fake accounts to troll? For how many years have you always been cl vnn
I think it's too late, xbox sales were diving even before ABK, they got even worse since then even long before the full multiplatform push. I'd be surprised if they even went back to timed exclusivity at this point, Helix is basically a PC and is going to be expensive, they already struggle to sell cheaper xbox consoles, it will be low volume and they'll have a very small 'console' base to sell to, which has already been conditioned to just play via gamepass anyway.
Despite all of that, it's clear that Microsoft's Xbox division is broken beyond repair.
PlayStation is currently draining money on flop after flop. It's Sony that needs to re-evaluate their strategy
It isnt. But I dont think they mean in 'games', rather, footprint.
They own the OS but as far as gaming is concerned, Steam dominate. I imagine the VAST majority of people who use the Xbox app/launcher are PC gamepass subs. No ones buying their 3rd party PC games through Xbox PC.
Insider Gaming writes: "Marathon was one of the best-selling video games in March 2026 in the United States. On Wednesday, Circna released the best-selling games of the month, and it featured six new releases along with two games returning to the top 20 after previously falling out."
Is it April fools day again?
The game is dead.
EDIT: the numbers are fudged. “digital sales on Nintendo and Xbox weren’t included in the data”
well it's not on Switch / Switch 2.. so their number would be zero.
The game had a decent launch however the userbase numbers are dwindling on Steam.
“ Is it April fools day again?
The game is dead.
EDIT: the numbers are fudged. “digital sales on Nintendo and Xbox weren’t included in the data”
Does it hurt you to hear a SONY game was BEST selling ?
You gotta let go of those OBCURED feelings 🤷🏿
I mean the only reason MLB was the best selling title was because it was multi-platform. Likewise with Marathon. Will ring true for MS games. Only Nintendo titles are truly flexing their muscles when they chart as they are only to be found there.
Yeah sure, yet the player count is no where near what they want for a AAA game with so much money behind it
Why people are trying to spin this game like it’s done overly amazing is baffling to me.
It won’t even be a blip on peoples radars by the end of the year .
The release on Steam of the anime-style gacha-less open-world RPG DragonSword: Awakening is facing a legal challenge from its gacha publisher.
I agree with everything to a point. I don't want it to be a traditional fighter. Just full-on copy Smash rather than the 90% they did before.
Just hire Nintendo to do it for them.
The Supers is what killed it for me. Just let me put enough damage into them so I can blast them off the stage.
For a Super there should be a PS logo sphere hovering around and if you get it you get a Super
Make it a 3d brawler unlike anything we've ever seen before. every body gets a 3rd person view make the stages big and ICONIC but multilayered and not just one big open space but ad some verticality to it too. I think theres an incredibly interesting game they could make if they put their mind to it. And they could do it without being a shameless ripoff
I think supers can stay, but only if they find a way to make the basic attacks and specials more useful than just building up the super meter.
The stages IN CONCEPT were amazing in PS: All-Stars, but in the long run a lot of them had nothing going on.
Characters are a bigger problem, honestly.
Crash: From what we know, Crash Bandicoot is stuck in a weird legal hellscape between Sony and Activision where one company owns the first few games but the other owns the IP and characters.
Spyro: I dunno about this one, honestly. It would be great, and he'd be a perfect addition, for sure. But the problem again lies with Activision themselves, and also the fact that the Classic Spyro is basically dead and replaced with the one in the Skylanders universe (That hasn't shown up in two games, actually..)
A lot of the character selection in the first game was questionable to say the least both in terms of Sony characters (Fat Princess might have been the most unappealing character both in terms of gameplay style and how recognizable she was, also did we really need two Coles? Or a character from Starhawk?) and Third Party characters (Totally fine with Raiden and even Dante, but Isaac Clarke and Big Daddy felt less like iconic PS characters and more like iconic characters and designs from that generation of consoles as a whole.)
There are several franchises I'd love to see represented, honestly. Bring back Kat from Gravity Rush, Make a level (or make a character) from War of the Monsters, have someone show up from the Final Fantasy universe (Realistically? It'd probably be Noctis), and bring in some of the cut DLC content that never made it such as Abe from the Oddworld series and Dart from Legend of Dragoon.