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It's all great and all but every game mentioned.
Are from legendary developers whi have been majority of their existence been multiplatform companies.

I'm still always going to say it Xbox still have no games.
Apart from Forza which has exceeded expectations. They still haven't produced anything internal of any merit.

Halo not as good as it once was.
Gears not as good as it once was.
Fable don't even know where that's gone.

If you really look at it Microsoft has not produced any original or new franchises since the beginning.

The only way they've made money if they are even making any money is by buying out the biggest companies in the gaming world.

My guess just comes from it being a bit of a nostalgia trip. I enjoyed oblivion alot more than Skyrim.

But considering all the bugs and stuttering within the remaster. I think I'll wait until it's all patched and smoothed out and then wait for a sale.

Can't believe some of the hate.

The game turned out to be a pretty great solid open world game.

A little rushed as you can definitely see the potential of where they was going with it.

I'd of loved for them to give a sequel ago.

It's great the 10 upgrade.

But the problem is for me, I bought the physical special collectors edition when it first launched.

I got the game digitally by ps plus.

I've now upgraded to the ps5 pro,

So PlayStation decide not to allow the ps plus version to count towards the upgrade price.

Yet they sell a premium console with no disc drive and now I'm not eligible for the upgrade.

It's a bit of a kick in the teeth really and I'm not willing to spend 45, to buy a ps5 upgrade of a ps4 game.

No matter how much I enjoyed the original.

I'll buy in a sale.

But they truly did this to themselves really.

I think they should allow disc users the upgrade but maybe link it to your own ps account

@Northern_munkey I actually preferred and loved Oblivion.
Skyrim to me was the weaker of the 2. Could not get into Skyrim at all.

I'm just so confused about this game.

How does a developer who creates a pretty rock solid kung fu puzzle game, in which makes you feel like a absolute badass when you pull off a continuous combo which could of done with a sequel to just smooth out some of its flaws and the genre is pretty popular.

To a janky doesn't look that good online multiplayer game which is probably not going to sell much because your audience isn't really looking for that.

It just baffles me and this game is probably going to make them close or st the very least have to cut staff because of the low sales of the game.

I understand people cry about cuts within the gaming industry but when companies are making decisions, where your going from a kung fu masterclass in gaming to janky online football, I start to wonder is it really any wonder this sort of thing happens within the gaming world.

It truly hasn't even grabbed my interest at all and normally if its a developer I like id at least give it ago, but this game just isn't it.

Edit;
I've just read the first line of the article, as I commented on just the trailer.
What actual planet are you on that the trailer looks remotely promising?
The animations look awful, the gameplay looks janky and the whole concept and visuals look more generic than anything I've ever seen.

You have also put "unlike ea sports fc" rematch has you playing as a single player. I dont know if you know this but ea sports fc has a single player mode where you control 1 character within the team with npcs as team mates and online also has a mode in which you can play as 1 player within a team of 11.
So yes its very much like a watered down version of ea sports fc but only this time its strictly online only.
Where in all what is factual does any of this seem promising?

@Haruki_NLI that's all true. But the fact remains we are getting games now which are worse than some early access games selling at 70.

With Nintendo now going to sell games at 80 this is going to just open the flood gates.

Yes everyone has a right to pay what they want.

But I think this may destroy the gaming landscape and alot of companies are going to go under, due to greed and then we will probably end up with the generic trio of games over and over again.

In this climate right now games are expensive enough.

more games and companies are falling to the way side due to people not having the money to buy multiple games.

Upping the price widens that gap immensely.
But like I've said many times about Nintendo, I'm just not surprised it was them who pulled the trigger. Their games have been more expensive than others and they hardly ever go on sale.

So people are still sold on this even though the price is rumoured to be near enough ps5 level and the games are going to increase the price of gaming.

Wow no wonder the world is having price hikes all over the world because people will just moan but pay anyway.

Crazy to think it was 4 years ago and this is all the gave Nintendo for the announcement.

I love hitman but my God their time, which is fine but don't announce it until you have something to show.

Nintendo, best console sales, best software sales. Out performs all, marketed towards children.

The only company never to shock me in price rises and selling games which are advertised as a tutorial game, to the masses.

Who actually is going to buy the game which is basically the manual?

I'm just never shocked at Nintendo logic.

Nothing really stood out to me in that conference either. Not really. Seemed more like remasters and a new bigger Mario kart game.

Why did you even make an article like this.

You have 0 knowledge and I've just read the entire article and still non of the wiser of how it stacks up against the other consoles. Hahaha come on! Slow week even when a new console is announced hahaha.

Also shouldn't we consider it to be comparable to the ps portal on the screen tech rather than the big boy consoles.

I can't say that I am shocked that it's Nintendo putting up the prices.

There games always stay full.proce way longer than they should.

Crazy to think Nintendo the company who just dominates sales all the time have chosen to raise prices.

The problem with raising prices is the fact games aren't really getting much better and alot of games just aren't worth the price tag even now. So it just opens the door for poorly optimised and generic games to be sold at a higher price.

9/10 times though Nintendo games are normally pretty polished they have that.

But honestly I don't really pay full price for the newest games now let alone at a higher price.

Are they even on this planet.

Most of us are struggling financially and things are just getting worse. Esp here in the UK and parts of Europe. How is upping the price going to help people.

For me it's just greed.

The worst part of this upgrade is i bought a ps5 pro. I have days gone on disk. So even though, I purchased it and would love to have it. I'm not willing to purchase either full price.

And its Sony who decided that the pro wouldn't come with a disc drive. Shame on them really

RoboCop is one of those games where most people will just fob it off.

Yet the game is actually just incredibly fun to play, not to long not to short and just brilliant.

It maybe the first game in years where I finished it and just started a new game plus straight away. I actually don't mind it being on ps plus, the developers deserve the money. Looking forward to whats next for them with the rise in sales.

@MrRhysReviews No you don't technically need a nearly finished game.

The censorship board do not play the game nor even see the game really.

I believe the developer sends a detailed description of what's within the game and the board basically has a check list and then they give the rating.

That's a very basic description but that's how they rate games. Boards just expect the respect to give a true description of what's in the game and they'll go with it.

I believe it can result in fines if the description isn't true and they pass the game and the description wasn't accurate.

@ErrantRob I'd love this level of detail and a full game and open world story game of the attitude era.

It's the dream. The best they produced was a few years back when they had a mode for it.

I mean the story lines and actual acting and fueds felt alot more natural than today.

Great times. Never watched wrestling since.

Really enjoyed this war of mine.
Had a great time with frostpunk.

Really didn't like frostpunk 2 though with its change in direction of not placing the actual buildings, it just isn't me.

This looks like a great cross between their first 2 games I mentioned.

Looking forward to it

@Andy22385 @HonestHick

Yes your both correct it is different and it is separate grom fsr for the ps5 pro.

But the basis of pssr was developed from AMDs fsr to work with AMDs chip set and components within the ps5 pro as its all AMD based.

There is a reason Sony and AMD have become partners and not rivals in this market.

They've both worked together in making the specific engine.

I expect them to work together on both fsr and future pssr versions.

Pssr will be console focused and fsr is more PC market.

They actually collaborated to make the pssr as its a dedicated software for console and not PC.

Why do you AMD and

@Deljo also not a huge role but human traffic was a great film for it's time and Danny plays his character well.

He also played a pretty good role in the not to bad Mean Machine, with Vinnie Jones and Jason Statham.

Can't hate on Danny Dyer, he came from nothing and he just grafted until he made it.

@Andy22385 @HonestHick

Just to make sure you are aware.

PSSR is just FSR, with slight custom tweaks.

Playstation isn't walking away from anything.

They are collaborating with AMD.

On a Sony console its still going to be called PSSR. It's just marketing to sell the console.

FSR 4 will literally just be PSSR on ps6. Or it will be 2.0.

All PSSR is. Is a custom version of FSR. Win win for everyone.

I don't even think it matters. 360 had success but ps3 still out sold it in the end anyway.

If ps5 pro is anything to go by in today's market, to have a next generation console is going to cost a hell of a lot. If a minimal upgrade like the pro was nearly double the price.

Xbox series X is a pretty beefy console and still hasn't moved the market.

The best thing Xbox could do is integrate steam and have PC games on top of console, to even compete

Days Gone remaster would of been brilliant.

But of course they are skipping the ps plus version we all got.

Problem is, I have days gone physically. But I've now got a pro which has no disc drive and all I've got is the ps plus version.

I ain't paying 49.99 for it and I'm not buying a disc drive. So they've lost a sale from me

I'm truly not that interested and how can anyone be. We got a cgi trailer which basically showed nothing of interest or what the game was going to be.

We keep hearing about revolutionary this game is and blah blah blah.

Yet nothing shown of actual interest.

Playstation have completely destroyed some good studios for the search of riches with live service games

It's worth a download from ps plus but it ain't worth its price tag.

Honestly don't mind interactive movies but this game is basically what the order 1886 was a great concept with little to no gameplay and 0 replayability.

I actually can't believe it took as long as it did to come out.

Yes graphically a power house but so was the order.

You actually can't believe it's less interactive than the firdt game.

Not really into the racing games but I respect how good the forza series has become esp horizon.

But like someone else said Sony needs to bring back its old non sim racers.

I miss motorstorm.

The only xbox ones I would care for are the old halo and gears games.

There ain't much else xbox has ever done and even now halo and gears have fallen pretty far in their quality.

Quite a strange article. That you debate what the head liner is yet you pick only 2 out of the 3?

When high on life out of those 3 is the better game.

I noticed that like a dragon; The Man Who Erased His Name was on ps plus so downloaded it and I'm happy it's the normal yakuza game with proper combat. So I'm now digging away at that on ps5 pro.

Got invited by some devs to playtest a new hotel tycoon game, so many hours of playing and trying to destroy it for the next few days.

I still can't believe they disband this studio.

Literally the only studio under ubisoft with any real talent, and just look how bad ubisoft are doing.

Need to get rid of ubi now.

@rusty82 code Veronica is a great game. More inline with the slower pace of 1 than the more action of 2.

Nemesis definitely feels more like a spin off of 2 than a true sequel.

I always questioned it when it came out.

Until I read an article or maybe even a indepth video of resident evil history decades ago it feels like now.

Someone quoted myself and gave an even more indepth view of it and a link to a great article about it.

@PuppetMaster what i read was years ago. I believe around the time of resi 4 and was a history of resident evil.

I do believe that it was also PlayStation truly pushing capcom for a sequel quicker aswel due to the success they had with both resi 1 and 2.

Spin off sounds right though for nemesis it's such a short game.

Code Veronica is a pretty substantial full game.

But thankyou for a detailed article from them. Good find.

I will see if I can find the article I read all those years ago regarding it.

@Max_the_German You actually aren't wrong though.

What alot of people today don't realise is Code Veronica was ment to be the 3rd entry in the series!!

But due to the success of Resident Evil 2. PlayStation was quite forceful on capcom to deliver another game in quick succession.
With Code Veronica not ready and some cutting board stories which were short enough to get it done with resi 2 graphics.

They switched it up and made resi 3 Nemsis. Which as you know is kinda of thr shortest resi game they have made. That's due to it not being a full game.

But this sort of made Code Veronica fall by the way side as a spin off, when in fact that was the actual sequel to resi 2.

Claire Redfield was the more liked character in 2 so she was going first and then 4 was always going to be Leon.

Just PlayStation was so eager they couldn't wait.

Playstation gone the way of xbox it seems.

Snapping up developers and then destroying them.

Blue Point was a can do no wrong developer and they was making a live service game. Bloody stupid. Just let them do what they are good at.

Live service is just not worth this

Bend well its bend. Thats what they've been doing for years, I expect them to be gone soon enough.

I've put yes but more for the fact it's Nintendo, the switch was amazing at the beginning.

I have no doubts about how good the switch 2 will be.

Honestly probably the best secondary console, there is.

There are just to many subscriptions.
That's just tv and movie platforms.

Let alone adding in a gaming subscription.

It's actually now become more expensive than a cable bill if you want to watch everything.

At least when it was just cable. It was 1 price every month and you just needed to remember what day and what time your film or programme was on.

Now it's Google searches to figure out which sub, the movie or series is going to be on and then, it's either thank the lord you already sub to it or it's a decision whether you spend that extra money and pay for another sub. But at least with say Netflix and prime, your always getting the latest new releases and original content.

GamePass which is trying to be the Netflix of game subscriptions, don't really get brand new releases and it's normally either new indie games or from their first party. Then you have got the problem of a game can take 10 hours to 100+ hours to complete with a 100s of games to choose from, which then also get taken off the service so you could end up not finishing said game.

Biggest problem with this is. Gaming isn't everyone favourite passed time, so most will only have time for 1 or 2 hours to game a night if that.

But everyone from kids to the elderly, from men to women will all sit down together and watch a series or a movie, gaming really isn't a social event, apart from the dedicated games, they are very much a singular interactive experience.

For the majority it's more cost effective to just buy a game 1 time, a few times a year than pay a monthly fee that you probably may never play all the way through 99% of the games and then the game you actually want may not even be on the sub and would have to buy it anyway.

It's probably why ps extra may end up being more successful because it's sort of tied into the sub we all have to pay to go online anyway, rather than a stand alone purchase, like GamePass

And this is why I will never sign up for premium.

I understand extra giving me a load of games which roll in and out.

But I expect premium to be just a huge catalogue of classic games which are permanent.

Not switch in and out. I'm still baffled at exactly is premium about it.

The problem we have got now though is that this game was so much of a disaster that the core people who made rocksteady.... Rocksteady

So what is left? Can they really come back with a quality single player game when the ones we trusted have all left?

Literally the only decent AC game ever made and it was barely a AC game.

Thank you

Gears Of War and Halo. Flight sim maybe sale.

HellBlade 2 I'm good. Dont care if the graphics are amazing there is no game to it and the story is meh.

So do you play these games with a special light gun or with a controller?

I don't know how it would work without a light gun.

It sort of takes away everything what made these games special.

The amount of time I spent perfecting thr Time crisis game with a light gun and thesr games were what made up arcades.

How can these games be played any other way without taking away what was special about them.

Reading the comments and just sitting back and reviewing Rocksteadys downfall

And this awful attempt at a game. This game was worse than concord. Yes no one cared for concord but the actual game play was solid.

Everything about Suicide Squad screams cash grab live service with a dc comic skin over the top.

But truly this is probably the greatest and saddest game dev story I've ever witnessed.

Just think RockSteady were the legends the one studio who could do no wrong.

We got 3 amazing single batman games. Which seemed like they was made with love and complex detail to the lore.

We even got a spin off top rated vr experience from them which I enjoyed.

We also was given a side developer making spin off batman game, which maybe was rough around the sledges but the game and story was really good.

It was to the point that even with RockSteady being super quiet everyone and anyone would of said in RockSteady we trust.

We even talked about rumours and what we would love to see from them. Maybe moving on from batman. Teenage mutant ninja turtles was even rumoured.

Like we didn't care, whatever they was going to make we didn't even question it.

Ans then the reveals.

Both studios, both games, both live service.

Like both games were god awful.

I would just love to see what actually happened and insight on how a true legend of the comic book triple A gaming market powerhouse RockSteady ended up making a pretty bland third person shooter within a live service environment.

It just doesn't make sense.

Hopefully one day someone will talk and we will know what really happened.

@GamingFan4Lyf @twitchtvpat you cant actually use that debate really with the whole steam console thing.

That was a very strange time.

Valve didn't technically release a console they sort of handed their idea over to pc makers of whom completely fumbled it.

What people don't seem to understand or realise.

Is the steam deck is a great example of what valve could and can do.

If ps5 pro pricing is any indication to the price of entry into ps6, then yes pc gaming will servely impact consoles but only if valve have something to do with it.

All it will take is valve to make a better version of the steam deck, which comes with a dedicated dock which has extra power to transfer it to the tv for the same price.

And right there you have a true competitor to sonys dedicated home console.

I mean right now the steam deck is a complete marvel to behold. Your complete steam library from old to new all playable on a device, steam game prices being lower, 0 monthly payments for online gaming.

All it would take is a jump up in performance and a dock similar to switch and you have a pc rivaling playstation.

So technically you could buy let's say steam deck 2, have the full force of variety of games in the steam library with the Sony exclusives all in 1 console and cheaper in the long run.

With tech getting better year on year and valve firmly in a great place and understanding.
.it could change by the ps6

@riceNpea I don't know if he had a bit of mental breakdown.

I kean the guy praised kick ass 1 and wanted to be in kick ass 2. .

So he knew what he was letting himself in for with that type of movie.

Something really snapped inside.

It was very strange.

@OldGamer999 I honestly think it is a safe bet.

Just look at every ps5 game.
We have
quality mode
Performance mode
At the very bare minimum.

So why wouldn't gta 6 have at least those 2 options.

Let alone we now have games on the probl using pssr and reaching 4k 60fps.

Rockstars are the masters of optimisation.

We do have gta 5 60fps on ps5.

We have to remember that gta 5 literally came out on the ps3. Like we haven't seen rockstar at full swing on a gta since then.

We have a good idea due to rdr2 but even they abandoned that pretty quickly after release.

Plus games basically were all 30fps on ps3 and ps4, it wasn't until the ps4 pro came out 60fps became a main stay on home consoles.

So for me it's certain that we will get a quality mode and a performance mode at the very least. Let alone other options like many games have done.

@OldGamer999 I mean why won't it be in 60fps.

They have said nothing about gta 6 and frame rate.

All we have had is digital foundry put their 2 cents in and a load of YouTubers saying 30fps.

We have had no official word that gta 6 will be 30 or 60.

And like digital foundry have said if anyone can pull it off its rockstar.

@Cutmastavictory that's exactly what i was trying to get at. Loot and gear which up'd your level. They should of done a true co op single player game.

Instead of what ever that online part was

I'm not sure what reason there was to type the last paragraph?

This game was from the start advertised as a live service multi player game.

You know exactly what your getting with marvel rivals and that's why it is a success.

The 2 games you mentioned were full priced games which had single player parts to the game and shoe horned in live service elements.

Avengers, a very short but great single player game, which was advertised that way, but then the live service part was so lack luster and shoe horned in elements which just don't belong in that type of game, by armour and shields and have to level up your hero?
Just no and thr missions were so boring and repetitive.

Suicide Squad full priced game, coming from the legends of single player super hero games, to then throw you into a multi player world where you just shoot purple blobs, with lack luster boss fights.

Both games advertised single player elements so both games were deceiving it's core audiences.

Marvel rivals a free to play live service fight each other as your favourite heroes or villains.
It's exactly what it says it is.

Not developed by developers who are primarily work on great single player games to begin with.

Sorry but there are more than five on that list. I can't wait for.

2025 could be one of the biggest years in gaming for myself.

I voted for intergalactic, only because finally Naughty Dog are doing something fresh it's been 2 whole consoles since they did something different, on top of all the remasters.

Still wouldn't say no to an uncharted. Hahaha fingers crossed.

But intergalactic looks like it's going to be a nice cross between uncharted comedy and last of us serious tone.

Looking forward to it.

@JustCameHereToSay @cburg

10 to 1 quite simple, maybe more to be honest.

Forces.com as of Sept 2024

PS5 61.7m

Xbox series X/S 28.3m

Many other websites giving out the same numbers,

Let's put that into perspective.

PS5 OG, PS5 SLIM, same exact console.
Sales figures are all the same

Xbox Series X (Flagship Console)
Xbox Series S (inferior troubled Console for developers)
Sales figures are Combined making it harder to determine individual figures.

It means that even at half each it's only 14m and what's to say that many who bought an Xbox for Maybe there child, just bought a series s which could suggest that the series S is Xbox best selling console out of the 2. We just don't actually know.

Which paints a very dire picture of the Xbox brand right now.

All this is just from September, let alone the pro launching and with the ps5 sale, that number could be alot bigger and faster growing.

Let alone with Christmas just a week away.

So with those figures and then splitting the figures, would it even be worth spending excess money to port the game to not only Series X but having to figure it all out to get it on Series S?

@yazzika To be fair to concord, the actual trailer gave off a great vibe and felt like a welcome addition to a playstation exclusive which was a little different to the father son/daughter vibes we've gotten for along time, less serious, more fun.

What killed it for Concord was that it was a pretty standard 5v5 hero shooter with nice cut scenes.

Concord would of blown up, if it was a third person action adventure because that's exactly what the trailers made you feel.

The marketing for that game was just awful for the game we actually got.

At least with Naughty Dog we know it's going to be a third person action adventure, we know they are great story tellers and we know finally we have something different than a ground dead serious grounded game.

It's refreshing to see something new.

Naught Dog have literally spent 2/3 consoles doing the same 2 IPs.

It's been a long time coming.