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@evan23 agreed. I must have hit over 300h on XSX. great to see the game get this support, with more to come. it has so much potential, and I actually have confidence it'll keep getting better. really looking forward to starting agin on PS5

@frankmcma yeah - Barrett died in my first play through and this locked me out of one of the powers... so I'll probably play through it all again. I hope people give this game a change, I genuinely loved my time with it

@frankmcma same - can't find anything on this, but I really hope so. if I cant import my saver I'll wait to replay for another year or more

loved it on XSX. Terran armada looks great, lots more bounties is great. will wait for a sale as already bought it once, but looking forward to replaying it, and the new content.

Great piece, without sounding snarky, a rare, proper piece of journalism, as opposed to the usual reporting on rumours and rehashing reddit posts

loved this game, spent couple of hundred hours. 83 on metacritic. so many sheep hating on this game. it's decent, not a 9/0 but it's a really enjoyable game.

Wish they would add a lamborghini series!

@TheFakulty 100% this... Sony probably made most of the money they are going to make from these older games

not read all the comments, but surely if they are worried, just remove all PS games form Steam. Most people who are going to buy them have done so.

@Scottyy agreed. what do we want from our GAMES? For me, well designed and fun experiences. This is why I have started playing more old games, as having grown up with spectrum games in the 80's, better ray tracing is utterly laughable to me. The emperors new clothes

@RobN I just worry that so much effort, and cost, is put into this at the expense of designing better games

@HRdepartment no idea why nobody else upvoted you. this is all un-necessary fluff. what matters is well designed, original, interesting games, not making a generic, dull game look marginally prettier. I feel like I'm losing my mind in this digital foundry led world.

could not care how well shadows reflect in a puddle in a game. have better art direction.

can count on one hand the ps5 games that look better than red dead 2 did on ps4

who really cares that much about graphics, to this extent. I've had more FUN playing Mario Odyssey and Breath of the Wild than most PS5 games... graphics are not the be all and end all. Channels like Digital Foundry are an absolute con. What matters is how fun the games are.

@Stickleman Great if it excites you, I'm sure some people will be thrilled with this but it's not any interest for me.

I was an xbox and nintendo gamer for several generations, but got a PS5 because of the (console) exclusive PS4 and 5 games I really wanted to play, and couldn't get elsewhere. I have never bought the line from Phil that people won't buy an Xbox if there are enough exclusive quality games on it. Also, you don't have to sell your PS5 to buy an Xbox, it's not one or the other...

Once MS started committing to putting everything on PS, I stopped buying games on the XSX.

If I still only had the XSX and Switch 2, no way would I want the hybrid PC thing they are peddling. I want a simple, under the TV console, no windows updates, don't care about PC store fronts. And the price, for something with NO exclusive games, is likely to be nuts.

xbox has failed to have any visible marketing presence in the UK for so many years. xbox has next to zero store presence in the UK too, compared to huge PS and Nintendo aisles.

I doubt the average, COD / FIFA console buyer will even know this console exists.

I'll buy one when Sony releases something epic that isn't also perfectly playable on PS5... like most of us I have a collection of unplayed games on my PS5 that will take me years to get through. Just started (finally!) Cyberpunk 2077 and graphically it is blowing me away, so I'm good.

Gaming isn't like it was when I was younger, when you picked up a new console because it had 10, 20 or more games that you could only play on that system. Game development is so long and costly now, you simply can't make a raft of shiny new games exclusive to your new system, as most of your install base is happily gaming away on older systems.

Those days will never come back. Whilst it was exciting getting an N64 for Super Mario 64, which blew SNES games out of the water, it wasn't fun being unable to play your old games without having multiple systems under the TV. Cross-gen gaming is here to stay. There are so many people happily gaming on PS4 still, I can see a lot of them bypassing PS5 entirely and getting a PS6, and not losing access to a single game by doing so.

laughably petty article. can't wait to play the game, map looks great.

@trev666 100% thoroughly enjoyed the 250 or so hours I spent with it on my XSX, and will pick it up for PS5 when MS inevitably drops the price after a couple of months.

It's not the best game in the world, but the hate train is just odd.

this looks like The BBC made it. which is about as big a criticism I can give. I mean that tellytubby of a kid is holding the damn arrow on the wrong side of the bow, and his dad has a beer gut. surely this isn't real???

@UK_ exactly the same here, on both counts

A bit dramatic... but I share his view that - thing looks utter rubbish to me, and very overpriced when compared to the competition.

Massive success of the Switch probably impacted sales?

couldn't get on with my portal, as the sort of games I want to play on a small screen, I play on my deck, and the sort of games I have on my PS5 are the games that I prefer on a big TV.

nothing wrong with the tech - just isn't for me. regret the purchase.

@Northern_munkey liked star field. found NMS the most boring, empty, bland game I'd ever played. horses for courses.

as somebody who played FH2-5 on XSX, I really like the fact you have more of a career mode this time, starting as Joe Public, and not immediately having loads of badly written NPC's calling you 'superstar' (looking at you, FH5!)... though I'm sure the awful dialogue remains!!

hoping the Fable team have helped a little with the dialogue though, haha! Looks good, but will wait for the inevitable sale, as 80h into my GT7 journey and still have a loooong way to go!

@darylb24 my company (UK) IT system just updated and dates in outlook are in the American format now. I feel sick haha

@Hyena_socks property purchasing was announced in the direct.

one decision you make can result in a dead giant carcass on the ground, which is said to impact property prices!

@ButterySmooth30FPS sadly so many games announced on recent xbox showcases have been cancelled!

looks good to me. the casting choices so far give me confidence that there are a lot of other British comedy icons to be revealed between now and release date.

and as somebody who hates souls like games, dodge parry, etc, the combat being a bit like Witcher 3 is not a negative for me

looking forward to this a lot.

played this to death when it came out but after 40h or so, maybe more, there is very little pulling me back to ever play it again. gets very samey, and incredibly easy, once you've unlocked everything.

loved my initial hours with it though, and kudos for free updates

wow never seen this game before, haha, mad stuff...

@get2sammyb yes that news once again got my hopes up, but well over a year later, nothing has happened. I just don't think they will ever do it, they have such a weird approach to their arcade portfolio. I imported an Astro City mini from Japan the day they were released... why couldn't they have ported THAT to consoles?

@get2sammyb as a long time (OG master system) SEGA fan, this will never happen, because Sega hates their fans. I have lost all hope that they will ever release a compilation of their arcade games. They only care about Sonic and the mega drive era.

@Athrum by all accounts it's simply that the PS5 port isn't ready yet

@janineking nice! the theme tune is now on repeat in my brain

Probably 6 for me there... no blood of dawn walker, or did I miss it?

Forza Horizon 5 robbed of the Top 20!

@4fold I genuinely think that the steam machine has really pi$$ed on Microsoft's chips here. I jumped from XSX to PS5 a couple of years back but if I hadn't, I'd be seriously considering steam machine over anything else...

@Northern_munkey "think of the PS7... won't somebody think of the PS7!!!"

(Maude Flanders)

not read all the comments but agree with the first bunch that I read, for the first time since gaming on my spectrum in the early 80's, I have no interest in a newer console. it feels like tech has plateaued, to the point you need DF videos to identify differences between versions of games.

the only disappointment, if true, is it means a delay to a handheld that plays PS4 and 5 games natively... I'd love that, I have such a library and backlog, that and my ps5 would probably do me for the rest of my days, haha!!!

@PuppetMaster as somebody who grew up with sega arcade games and all 4 consoles, I've long since given up any hope of sega ever ever doing anything like this. I've moved on, but still annoys me!!

I always preferred sega arcade games, so my astro city mini scratches the itch

genuinely angers me why sega won't just release all their newer arcade games (the yakuza ones!) in a collection

@carlos82 that's how I got my copy, loved that magazine!

I finally picked it up a week ago, after trying my first GT. Absolutely loving it

Muppet lover

still not played it!! but it's next on the list, installed and ready to roll in the new year, and I can't flipping wait!

@Oram77 of course not, but they don't automatically drop a game to a 6/10 for me, that's all. im replaying Skyrim, had a second hard crash to menu today, at a very annoying time. still a 10/10 game for me.

@Oram77 so Skyrim is a 6/10 then yeah?

nothing. same old same old