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Strike one: Allocating more chips to ai data centers than to consumer GPU’s

Strike two: Deep Learning Super Slop 5’s TikTok instagram ai filter

Strike three: TBD

Well, well, well. How the turntables have…

You know what would save this? Some DLSS 5

My faith in the gaming community and in general public opinion is slowly being restored. Thank you, Nvidia. Your disgusting greed and blind lust for profits above all else has unified the collective perspective.

Unfortunate, but I would infinitely prefer no trophies to bad trophies.

I don’t have one of these (it’s worthless to me, why would I ever use this when my 77” 4K 144hz OLED and PS5 Pro are sitting right here), but I thought it was already a 1080p device?

Still no way to permanently erase games with incomplete trophy percentages from our trophy lists.

Still no way to sort trophies alphabetically.

Still no actual wallpapers.

Really shouldn’t be surprised; MediaMolecule inexplicably is still in business after not releasing a game for ages, abruptly shutting down servers for a game instead of fixing the problem, while also forcing people to purchase expensive peripherals (PS Move+ Vita) in order to get 100% trophy completion…while Bluepoint Games gets shut down after releasing one of the best launch games a console ever had.

Anyone looking for a laugh, do a search for ‘botched art restorations’. You’ll see a bunch of renaissance paintings that were rendered utterly unrecognizable, and each and every one of them looks better than what’s shown in this video 😆

Forget Code: Veronica, Nvidia wants to lure you in with Resident Evil: Catfish

Eager to see the Alan Wake 2/Control coverage. AW2 was astonishingly good, and the poor PSSR was a letdown. Fingers crossed the new update makes the raytracing mode viable.

@RoomWithaMoose @Frmknst That’s a narrow minded, shortsighted viewpoint that doesn’t reflect the reality of the situation.

When you lease digital content you don’t own anything. Literally. You acquire a temporary digital license that can be changed, altered or revoked at any time for any reason and without your consent. That is, by definition, not ownership at all. Imagine investing thousands of dollars into a vast library of digital games only to somehow get locked out of your account (whether you deserve it or not). You can kiss everything you thought you ‘owned’ goodbye.

The internet could go down tomorrow, Sony could ban my account this afternoon and I would still be able to play every single one of my physical discs (thanks in part to having a strong aversion to live service slop as well).

That is true Ownership

@Areyouthatdumb Regarding your question, there is very little Sony can do to increase performance out of the base machine. The specs are set, and die shrinks have already happened I believe, so any miniscule improvements related to a smaller node would already be available. PSSR cannot be back ported to the base machine on a technical level, so no hope there. Tweaks and improvements to the system firmware and/or SDK’s are possible, but any real world performance increases would be very minor and hardly noticeable. There are always optimizations developers can make to their own titles but that would be on a game by game basis and Sony has nothing to do with that end of things. Pretty much what you see is what you’ll get at this point regarding base PS5. Hope that helps.

FF16 needs this extremely badly. Doubtful SquareEnix’s incompetent management will make the effort though if they haven’t touched it by now.

Hey, just so long as there’s no ‘Complete x number of waves in wave survival mode’ or ‘Kill x number of players in a single online multiplayer match’ or ‘Complete the game on turbo ultra nightmare hardcore insanity mode without dying in under 3 hours without using a healing item’ bullcrap, I’d wager that’s a pretty good list!

This is a joke along the lines of those gag gifts you find in novelty shops, like a clear lock-box sold with the key already inside of it.

Pretty cool you got an insider’s grand tour. I don’t think I would have been able to restrain myself from asking ‘Why didn’t you just mint two discs if that’s what it takes to release the game physically? They cost pennies and you’re already making the effort to mint one disc that ends up being useless anyway.’ every two seconds.

I appreciate all the work it takes to write a detailed, comprehensive guide. Personally, I really liked the remake, but i was also a fan of the PS1 game. They make you work for the platinum but not unnecessarily so.

There’s nothing worse than when a dev bolts on cheap filler content to pad out a game’s length or induce an artificial challenge—wave survival modes, challenge modes and rogue like elements are the worst offenders. Sony seems intent on butchering their flawless first party masterpieces in this way; TLoU2 and GoW:R both force additional trophies in their low effort roguelike modes, Days Gone added that awful zombie horde crap, Tsushima and Yotei had that wave survival bloat shoehorned in…it never ends. Even Resident Evils aren’t immune. Yeah, I want to run around an area dodging zombies and shooting clocks to extend a timer, that’s real survival horror right there. Ugh.

Medieval asks for a certain commitment, but it’s straightforward and enjoyable without any added filler.

Releasing the game on PlayStation will certainly prove devisive, though not like many might expect. This will separate the grifters and haters from those who voiced legitimate critiques. We’ll get hard numbers detailing just how many people buy it. I won’t be one of them, because the game is a creatively bankrupt, technical mess (yes even in its current multi-patched state).

Barren wasteland of a month for me. P5 has already been in PS+ before, and there’s nothing else here that I find remotely interesting. I’ve looked at that Warhammer game and I just don’t see the draw. Ugly, bulky main character designs and wave after wave of same-y enemies paint a bland picture.

I am 1000% anti-spoilers and leaks, so don’t take my thoughts as though I don’t care about such things. That said, not being able to permanently own something you pay money for when there’s zero legitimate reason this should be the case is the worst form of anti-consumerism out there. These platform holders/publishers/developers want to restrict the end user for no other reason than to maximize profits in one way, shape or form. If you really only wanted to curtail leaks, then clamp down on your choke points: gossipy employees, distribution centers, what internet/social media/email traffic flows in and out of your company etc. There are ways to handle that issue without screwing over people who would otherwise have been interested in buying your game.

Grinding out that Yotei legends slop. Had the full 100%, they took it away, now tediously reclaiming it slogging through this nightmare of repetitive boredom. Sony first party studios are truly the masters of ‘There, it’s perfect. Now let’s drive it into the ground post launch.’

The ceo is a shortsighted, narrow minded, trend chasing fool. NFT’s, ai, foaming at the mouth multiplatform obsession…the dude needs to be given the pink slip and replaced by someone competent.

To this day I cannot get over how ugly all iterations of the PS5 are. It’s a great system, I’m enjoying my time with it this gen but oh dear god the plastic box itself is hideous. It’s huge, it’s cheap and tacky looking, it looks more like a toy than the expensive consumer electronic device it is, and no chintzy cover panels can conceal its unfathomably unappealing contours.

I sincerely hope they replace whoever designed the exterior aesthetics and bring back whoever drew up the launch model PS2 or PS4 when it comes time to finalize the PS6.

The main game had a point. It was a sweeping epic adventure where your actions moved a strong narrative forward.

The co-op story missions are half decent, but this wave survival slop is the most low IQ fodder I’ve ever played. Running around in circles doing the same repetitive things over and over. The mind flags with exhaustion at the sheer tedium of it all. I’m about halfway finished and I can’t wait to shut this off and be done with it once and for all. It was the same with Tsushima; once I knocked the trophies out I never touched that Legends crap again.

The physical copy requires an install and isn’t playable offline out of the box. The game isn’t even out yet and they’re already down by one, so off to a bad start.

Can’t wait to replay. Phenomenal game, now even better.

Well that doesn’t mean much in the grand scheme of things, I suppose. It simply changes ‘instant day one purchase’ to ‘maybe I’ll pick it up a few years down the road when it’s 75% off’. I have ten thousand things in my backlog I’m eagerly looking forward to playing; a publisher that doesn’t cater to my gaming proclivities can kiss my money goodbye.

SquareEnix is at the top of the pile when it comes to gaming related entities that desperately need to have their C-suites fired and replaced immediately. They should save time and just post a gif of sewage spilling out of a drainage pipe the next time the ceo starts talking about multiplatform and NFT’s and ai.

We live in a world where Roblox has more users than PSN and mumble rap is popular. E33 accumulating awards it has no business being associated with doesn’t surprise me.

Any chance of a physical copy? I can’t imagine it takes up that much space.

Why didn’t Kaplan blow the whistle on this the moment he left? Is there some sort of NDA I’m unaware of, like if your CFO is a DBAG and casually uses the livelihood of a thousand people against you like it’s a tool for productivity, you can’t post anything to social media or talk to news outlets about it?

I prefer to own what I pay for, so I’m all physical discs where possible. Those rare instances I do buy from psn, nah nothing’s really changed.

@RZ-Atom @HRdepartment Xbox is one of the biggest publishers on PlayStation. I, for one, would like to know not only what new upcoming Xbox games will become available on this console I prefer to play on, but also what moves the other platform holders are making. It may have a bearing on what I can expect out of my preferred platform. You’re equating collecting/parsing information/rumours/leaks with console warring of some kind.

If only it was its own game, then I wouldn’t have to slog through this tedious chore just to get back my rightful 100%+Platinum. Oh, and I loved the actual Ghost of Yotei. Easily one of the best games this gen. It’s repetitive, multiplayer oriented slop I don’t care for.

As a die hard Sega fan from the Genesis/Saturn/Dreamcast eras, my answer to the article’s question is plain and simple:

•Some games they release have bad trophy lists.

•Sometimes the games don’t ship on physical discs, or the game isn’t actually on the disc when they do.

•Newer Sonic games are the exact polar opposite of everything I want out of a Sonic game. Sonic Mania was (and still is) the only good official new Sonic game to come out of Sega in the past 30 years that wasn’t a compilation or remaster of an older Sonic title. I bought Mania twice; once digitally at launch and again when the physical came out. Make the game I want and I’ll buy it, it doesn’t get any simpler than that.

@Deadhunter same.

“Maidenless behavior” 🤣

Didn’t see a poll option reflecting the position I’m in, so I’ll add one:

•Yes, of course I’m playing it—but only because they forceably attached trophies to the mode and shoehorned it into the main game’s trophy list instead of offering it as a standalone sku out of consideration for those who have less than zero interest in it.

It’s like Sony models their thought process regarding what content to include in their first party output based off the old 1970’s Reese’s peanut butter cup commercials, only they don’t understand why those specific commercials were good marketing. People like chocolate and peanut butter. Combining them makes sense. I don’t think Reese’s would have taken off if it was ‘Hey! You got your dog doo in my peanut butter!’ Sony needs to learn to segregate this multiplayer slop into a standalone entry, or else don’t attach trophies to it and thus screw over those completely uninterested.

When properly implemented, it can overwhelmingly improve a game’s visuals. That will, as with all things, come with a cost. Whether or not that’s worth it to a person is something they have to decide for themselves, but the idea that RT ‘brings little to nothing to the table’ is complete BS.

So far so good. The devs weren’t kidding, these settings are very promising on Pro. Everything will come down to whether it holds these targets or not, but if so…dang.

Imagine Leonardo da Vinci coming back to the Mona Lisa 6 months after he finished it and saying ‘it’s perfect as it is, but I’m going to paint a mustache on her for no reason when it doesn’t need to be there.’ Maybe don’t add anything to something that’s fine as it is.

This is humorous when regarded within the context of that erroneous opinion certain fanboys hold, namely that ‘exclusives don’t sell consoles’. RE9 is not exclusive in the usual sense, but having the best console version running with ray tracing thanks in part to an exclusive upscaling method is in a way some ‘exclusivity’ of a certain kind. Just imagine how many units will sell thanks to having the best version of GTA6 at launch 😎

It’s like there’s two internal ethos’ vying for power within Sony—one wants to make magnificent single player masterpieces with flawless trophy lists while the other wants to make multiplayer slop and make the trophies as tedious and difficult as possible. Since they can’t decide, they combine both thought processes.

I’ll just wait for people to post guides for the fastest route to 100% Legends trophy completion so I can get it out of the way and never play this abysmal crap ever again.

Falcom is like an old growth tree in the middle of a forest. Deforestation, lightning, wildfires took so many studios in the recent years but Falcom stands tall as one of the oldest in the industry and still going strong.

Fantastic. Now if they can only stop injecting more rogue like into my story games.

As long as it works in both directions, I kind of like the idea of dynamic pricing. What’s PS+ Premium now, $160? I wouldn’t mind giving Sony less than what the asking price is. That’s how it works, right?

Really curious how Microsoft will go about addressing all the Xbox users who have acquired tons of physical discs over the past 25 years.

They haven’t mentioned either an internal disc drive or an attachable unit, but I think it’s safe to presume that greedy, power hungry Satya and Amy hate the idea of the end user’s right to own what they pay for. They prefer to bleed their consumer base with recurring subscription fees in exchange for owning nothing. Anyway, I would expect a person’s digital library to transfer over and be accessible no problem—but how in the world will they handle the disc situation? Will they have some sort of digital voucher program? Will there be an actual disc drive, an external thing like the 360’s HD DVD drive? Or will those hardcore users who’ve spent literally thousands upon thousands of dollars across decades be given a big F you?

Modding is cool and all but this would have been more interesting if he was playing a game that we didn’t already have. This is like jail breaking an iPhone just to make it run the safari browser 😆

I too have this Platinum. I found it fun but a bit challenging at spots. I never managed to beat the old Sega cartridges back in the day, so it was nice to see how far I’ve come in that respect. Fun games, slightly frustrating at spots, impossibly good soundtracks (especially Aladdin). A worthy platinum, sir

“There don't appear to be any online-specific Trophies or difficulty-related ones, which is nice.”

I don’t know you Stephen Tailby, but I like the cut of your jib 👍