 Hey there lads and ladies, it is Petrifying Pumpkins here and I'm back with the one year anniversary post from Sony themselves on the PlayStation blog. Just yesterday, of course, I made a video where I detailed my concerns about the future of PS Viewer 2. It seemed appropriate to outline how I was feeling about us at the one year anniversary, so I made that video. I had a feeling that maybe they would do something today, maybe a blog post and they've kind of done exactly that. My big takeaways from yesterday's video was I felt that they needed to lean more heavily into hybrid games and I felt like they needed to do a price because if not today, then like announce something today or do us in the very near future. Now they haven't done either of those things today. They've announced a selection of games, some that we knew about already. Now they've got release dates, some that we didn't know about like Zombie Army, Vior, but they did one interesting move that I didn't see coming. Some people were asking for it for a long time. I didn't think they'd ever do us, but they have pretty much confirmed they're going to be doing us. So let's just read the blog posts really quickly. So coming soon to PS Viewer 2, Zombie Army, Vior, Little Cities, Bigger, Wanderer, The Fragments of Face, The Wizards, Dark Times, Brotherhood and more. So very quickly just going to blaze through this PS Viewer 2 launch one year ago, back by 40 games, blah blah blah blah blah blah. Now following on from recent reveals of Metro Awakening and Legendary Tales, by way of last month's State of Play, we're highlighting a number of games in Sony's PlayStation blog posts. New announcements, release date reveals, DLC debuts and a game launch. Find them below, all introduced by the creators behind the games, there's so much to look forward to. Now here's the key point, the biggest point I think from this whole thing. Also we're pleased to share that we are currently testing the ability for PS Viewer 2 players to access additional games on PC to offer even more game variety in addition to the PS Viewer 2 titles available through PS5. We hope to make this support available in 2024, so stay tuned for more updates. I've seen some people confused already that they think this means that PC games are going to be somehow coming to PS5 and we can play them with a PS2, that's not what that means, what they're saying is if you have a game on PC, if you have a PS Viewer 2 headset, much like the Quest you can now connect the two of them, you can play them your PC, VR games on your PS Viewer 2 and I think it's a fairly good idea, I don't think it's going to sell like some people seem to think this was the key, this is what's going to really get PS Viewer 2 headsets moving, maybe it will, I can see it maybe doubling the sales of what we have now, I don't know if it's going to break it through in any meaningful way, but it is a smart decision I think, certainly PS Viewer 2 is going to become one of the most attractive headsets on the PC space when it comes to virtual reality, they do have nice headsets over there of course, but the price of them is kind of crazy, especially if you're looking for anything with eye tracking, the price of the PS Viewer 2 while we think it's too high in the console sphere, in the PC sphere it's actually quite reasonable and I can see it doing well over there, so that's pretty fascinating and it will buff the amount of PS Viewer 2 units in the wild, however it's not like you know when you buy Half Life Alyx on Steam, Sony are getting a cut of that because it's on PS Viewer 2, so it's not going to make Sony anything in terms of software revenue, which makes me think that they're selling the PS Viewer 2 at a profit, why else would they sell the PS Viewer 2 to PC players because they're not getting software revenues, so they have to be relying solely on the hardware revenues, which also tells me that maybe they could afford to cut the price at least you to some degree, but I mean I wish they went the more the price cut routes rather than trying to expand it to PC and getting money that way personally because now that they're selling it to PC it might rule out as a price cut because that's the only way they're going to make money on it on PC, I don't know, of course there is talks that Sony are going to bring their own storefront to PC so that would change that a lot and then you know maybe we see Horizon call of the mountain go over to PC and all these other PS Viewer 2 exclusives maybe they move over to a PlayStation store on the PC and then the potential of a price cut comes more of a reality, but that's fascinating that's like a very interesting chess move from Sony, I think it's positive, like I said already I don't think it's going to make a huge difference but it's definitely a positive step and I'd love to be wrong, I'd love to see 10 million PS Viewer 2 headsets sold in 2025 on PC alone just to show them that there is a hunger for this and then we can get more AAA, we can maybe stop relying so much on the quest titles, ports from the quest and maybe we can get the proper Half-Life Alyx's back in action and whatnot. So I'm just going to quickly go over the games as well, without further ado then they say the Wizard Darktown's Brotherhood is out today, so the Wizard's Darktown Brotherhood is action, adventure, spell casting game where you become a powerful wizard and thanks to the power of PS War 2 you can cast a variety of spells with your very own hands, so they use the gesture-based spell casting, a staple mechanic of the wizard franchise, so depending on how you move your hands you pull up a spell and you cast it that way. You can also do single player and three player co-op, so that might appeal to a lot of people hopefully and it's out now today so that's going to be interesting to see what the reviews are like when people get their hands on us. Next up then is Wandra, which is a game we've already known about but now we have a release stage, you can see here it's out the 27th of June. Wandra of course, one of the one of the most highly praised ps4 one titles in this game is even though it's a port it's an enhanced port, the visuals are much improved, it's just a it's a game that you you know it's I haven't played it on ps4 one so it's a game I'm like really trying to I'm really hoping I can get my hands on this one because it looks really good and then at the very end they tease wandra or two the seas of fortune so a nice little bonus there at the end this is more like a what I would have wanted I think that should have been the the headline here not a release date for wandra I think you know hey wandra or two it's coming soon maybe even if it's not coming soon just say that you know next up then you got little cities bigger so we're delighted to bring endless cozy crazily playstation of your two little cities bigger so basically it's the game with 18 months of dreamy update content our most substantial slice of relaxing island crafting ever so it's all bundled together into this release then you have zombie army viewer you have a vague recollection of us on flat you know this game was a flat franchise on ps4 I think but looking at it now it just seems like another zombie shoes or another arizona sunshine it's got the world war two theme going on so maybe that differentiates it's a little bit I don't want to be too hard in this because it does look pretty nice visually providing all of this is gameplay certainly some of this is gameplay like that looks 100% like gameplay you know you got some rifle interaction you can put them away with the rifle so you know maybe not the I mean I just find it hard to get excited with this I just do let me read this you know let me read this bring in the much loved zombie army franchise to viewer for the first time zombie army viewer lets you experience the fear thrill and spine chilling tension of the zombie apocalypse through the immersion of your ps4 2 headset complete with online two player co-op so that you know that adds something I think the thrilling campaign sees you reprise the role of a dead hunter as they fight their way across war-torn Europe doing battle with the zombie hordes choose your weapon from an authentic warbird 2 arsenal including snipers machine guns pistols and explosives of your leg waste to the undead and free Europe so because of that I'm actually never played a zombie army viewer or sorry I've never played a zombie army game so I don't actually know if this is just ported to viewer or if this is like a ground up viewer game they say reprise the role I think yeah you reprise the role of a dead hunter so I don't know if that means a port or if it's specifically a spin-off just for viewer but either way while I'm sure this is appealing to many because these type of games do appeal to a lot of people like colleges these zombies and stuff like that's me personally it just looks like an maybe like a genre that's kind of saturated on viewer you know just wave I'm not waveshooter but like just zombie shooters first person zombie shooters they've been done you know I've been negative I'm being unfairly negative of the game I know that but right now I'm just a little bit disappointed really that this is the type of game we're getting rather than the last of us or twisted metal or astro boss or kill zone or resistance or anything from Sony themselves no no no God forbid God forbid they do that themselves next then we have this Arizona sunshine too which gives you a corgi skin for your body the goodest boy just got a free a furry upgrade meet corgi your new fearless companion buddy who's available in-game laser today dive back in face blah blah blah but the important part here is that you guess three new horde maps dropping one each month from march to may and they're all gonna be free so that's nice the final game then is soul covenant which is this kind of anime looking or pg they show off a few screenshots here and get a bit about us today we're happy to reveal new details and screenshots for our upcoming narrows of action jrpg soul covenant that showcases one of its core mechanics turning fallen comrades into weapons bunch of words there about that ass nothing here screams amazing to me obviously it's just screenshots i'd like it if it was a trailer trailer would be nice it's coming 2024 so where is the trailer but i'm not usually a fan of the anime style anyway so that's kind of off-posing to me straight away and then that's kind of this it just abruptly ends you know no talk about a price cut no talk about the hybrid games that we've been dreaming about and uh i think the big takeaway here is the pc situation maybe that's the glimmer of hope for ps4 too in terms of like really boosting the number of units out there the number of people out there who are capable of you know triple a proper triple a experiences that might encourage developers to maybe invest more into triple a experiences not necessarily just the quest mobile ports that we are kind of being drip fed right now but i am interested to know what you think about this is this maybe i'm being way too negative i feel like i'm being too negative especially like zombie army like you know i'm done i don't be shitting on that game but i just it's not doing anything for me honestly to be honest none of these games announced today have done anything for me personally which is the keyword maybe they've done something for you however the pc thing has done something for me it's made me think you know maybe this is the correct route to go i don't know i mean we have to wait and see how it pans out we'll sony do a playstation store on pc which could open up a revenue stream that makes more sense and then brings more money into ps viewer investment and want us and you know snowballs into a briser future for us anyway that is it for this video lads and ladies but before i end this let me thank my youtube members who are the following vincent mcgloyne mr tortoys 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