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It's official: Persona 5 is joining the PlayStation Hits lineup!

The Chinese poster for Endgame is awesome Bit of a shame that we had to learn about the fates of some of the characters that survived/got dusted by The Snap through this poster and the character posters that released the other day, but oh well! I imagine tickets will go on sale next week. Probably on Tuesday, if I had to guess, based on the precedent set by other films waving that Disney flag for Lord Mickey

Well, like I mentioned before, it's more along the lines of a poster which will have elements utilised in commercial packaging (such as you boxes, advent calendars, etc.). The closest thing that comes to mind is a similar poster for The Last Jedi used only in merchandise and packaging, which is nowhere near the greatness of the teaser poster for The Last Jedi. Because it's a cluttered mess of a poster: So yeah, in terms of Star Wars posters, the one for IX floating around right now is probably a 5 at best -- but it's probably not fair to compare it to the teaser/final posters we've had for prior films. It's best features are easily the assets which raise and answer questions plenty of questions about the film, but other than that...yeah. And even though this promo poster got leaked, which is a sign that someone isn't doing their job right, thank the Force that the poster's designers were and left the title out (assuming that they even know it yet?), because that would have been nigh on impossible to avoid if it had been included.

@bob, I'd stick that in a spoiler tag I can imagine that there might be some here who would rather learn about these things in an official trailer/poster as opposed to in a leaked promotional poster mock-up Also, I'd imagine that the dedicated Episode IX thread would be a more suitable destination for this (spoiler tagged?) image

The film might be a colossal 182 minutes long...

Hmm. And here I was, planning on finally picking up a Switch next month -- a Mini model wouldn't have delayed that purchase, but the talk of a second console releasing this year too make me guess that I'm putting that on hold for now and diving back into my PS4 and 3DS hopefully they say something sooner rather than later if there really are plans to release two consoles this year, because I don't know how much longer I'll be able to hold out...

Glad to see that they're still strongly supporting PSVR, but beyond that, I think it would be an understatement to say that it was underwhelming. That being said, I agree 100% that copying the Direct format is much better than going along the Inside Xbox line of things, like @Hero-of-Time mentioned. Even a poorly done Nintendo Direct can often be saved, to some extent, by the "But wait, we have one more thing!"; that they had nothing along those lines to share (and by that, I mean even just release dates for the big games that they've already revealed), especially with it now being over nine months since last E3, indicates to me that we can expect a whole lot of nothing from State of Play moving forward. After that, I can't help but wonder: what is the point in not turning up at E3 this year? Because based on what we just saw, I don't think I'd be wrong to assume that theure just going to save all of their big news until that period anyways?

So, uh, Persona 5 R: The Royal? It's so unclear as to what it is. I'm guessing she's a first year student from her uniform, and apparently she says that she's not really a fan of the Phantom Thieves or their methods of helping people. Is it DLC? A new game/sequel? An enhanced version with the option of a female protagonist, kind of like Persona 3 Portable? I kind of doubt that last one, but who knows just throw us a bone, Atlus! More information coming on April 24th.

According to Play-Asia, Persona 5 will be getting a PlayStation Hits edition, which is set to be released next month (April 2019). This would seem to suggest, at least to me, that Persona 5 R/the Persona 5 R projects will not be/include an enhanced edition of Persona 5, a la Persona 4 Golden, as it would most likely result in both confusion and cannabilised sales in conjunction with this PlayStation Hits release. I think this gives credence to the possibility that we'll see a sequel of some sorts, whether it be its own game or, much more likely, some story DLC for Persona 5. Not long until we find out, either way!

No new footage, but a really strong TV Spot nonetheless:

Starring Ichiban Kasuga, who was revealed to be part of the New Yakuza project in August 2017, the game has just been confirmed to be coming to PS4. From Gematsu:

Cool, it's launching this year. Let's wait and see. With Microsoft heading in a similar direction, it'll be interesting to see how their approach is different to Google's.

So we have Stadia Games & Entertainment as Google's first party development studio, which is great...but can we please see something? Even just a tease?

Seriously. They actually even paid more for Marvel and Pixar individually than they did Star Wars!

State Share is a cool concept. Having your guy explaining it come along and say "I can't talk about the game that I just mentioned, you'll see it later this year" is a totally non-plus point.

No worries, it's my bad: I've just got back from work and I'm a bit tired, which might be why I initially perceived it that way They're showing a lot of "proofs of concepts". If they actually have some exclusives of any kind to show today, this is a terrible way to build up to it. It feels like they're still selling the concept to developers -- and if that's the case, even if at GDC, I don't think it's a great idea to be going public yet.

Yeah, I'm more than aware. It was clear to some extent that that would be the case prior to the announcement, but the start of this conference straight up confirmed it. Despite that, there's still a reason why myself, others here, and much of the press were expecting to see a console. Regardless, I don't need see your need to put your point across to me in all caps; it might not have been your intent, but it comes across as aggressive and quite condescending. Anyway, hope they start showing some more games soon...

The Stadia Controller is the least interesting name possible

This is pretty incredible. Gutted we haven't seen a console (so far?), but this is seriously impressive, even in a closed system on a stage.

They've actually invited quite a lot of gaming journalists to their announcement this year.

Sundar Pichai opening with "I don't really play games other than FIFA 19" and "cricket is like baseball, but better" is the most middling way possible to open this

Google's Gaming Announcement starts in just over half an hour: Should be an interesting one! Wonder if they could end up taking PlayStation's place at E3 this year...

Gaming Announcement at GDC starts in just over half an hour...

At 05:02 GMT tomorrow morning, Disney's acquisition of 21st Century Fox will finally be complete, in a move which will cost The Mouse $71.3 billion -- this has been inflated from the $52.4 billion originally reported in December 2017, due to a rival bid by Comcast during this period.