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The PS5 Pro has been put through the paces with Days Gone Remastered this Friday and Saturday belongs to KCD II. It has been a while, I must say.

Yeah, I don't believe the ones crying about Denuvo. Nice to have the proof for all the people out there who says otherwise.

They want to pirate the game. People crying are confirmation that the efforts to protect their product is working.

Don't tell me otherwise, I simply don't believe you.

Just got a new PC from work and told them to kit it so I could run games and demanding applications. It can't 😂 I am so glad that Playstation exists. They make so good gaming hardware.

Wow, I am so surprised as in I've been saying this the whole time ever since Jim Ryan took her on like an idiot.

I will bet you everything I own that she fought against an external test to the bitter end 😂

A nice bit of vapour ware...

@Logonogo

Haha! What don't you like about it? I found it to be a chill game, quite nice to look at with a slight horror vibe😅 Not to far in, though.

10/10 game just got better and bigger.

I have yet to see the game in action with my new PS5 Pro.

I am playing Lost Tapes: Bloom and Rage at the moment, but I won't finish as the sub runs out tomorrow and then . . . it is finally back to my game of the year.

They're already at 2. They might evolve on it for years to come, but that only verifies my take. That the next project will be done and then they'll do a third entry. Or not. Sony will only care right now about ample support of the second as it is a hard-earned live service success. They ain't getting many of those.... MAYBE Marathon, but that is it.

I think once their next project are over and done with, they'll be back for Helldivers 3.

They'll be supporting nr. 2 for a while, and can afford to play around with whatever they want to.

Honestly, as someone who lived through all PlayStations and the game's on offer, I have little reason to play games I already played or skipped/didn't know about. Especially with the quality and quantity of games coming out today.

You pay a couple of bucks for Premium and you get movies and extended demos on top of a always available, slightly rotating library that's on top of the generous amount of games in Extra, not to mention the great games on essential which everyone should have a decent built up library. I've actually never subbed to premium, and have been critical in the past, but I now consider it to be an amazing subscription service across all tiers.

Game Pass is unsustainably stupid. It is a free service, if you are doing it right. I have no idea about Nintendo's offerings as I have zero interest in their eco system and games.

@ErrantRob

That is the correct way to think. I will not extend my subscription, I think, but there's so many great games added to the service. Surely, everyone still has something they haven't played yet on the service.

It looks more powerful in this comparison than the online conversation has framed it thus far.

The power of 10 switch 1's? How is that possible?

Very nice! Keep it coming, Warhorse✊

My stint with subscriptions are coming to an end. A lot of great, awesome games on the service. Ragnarok and Legacy in particular. But KCD and BG are calling me.

This gen, I have been purely digital "to save" money on the console I bought at launch. Also, it saves space and makes it so that I don't scratch a bluray or otherwise destroy it.

There aren't many physical stores with physical products in my country. So, you'd have to go online to buy.

I know that buying the game in physical form enables you to sell it and regain some of the cost, or buy a used game, but the reality where I live is that the market is waning and has almost disappeared. Or that I have simply slumped into digital-only to such a degree that I am now oblivious to the inner workings of the physical market of the country I live in.

I am at the mercy of a guaranteed online presence. Sony HAS to honour the preservation of my library, or I will be 'bankrupt' as a gamer.

Ahh yes, the thread that review bombs the review bombing.

Good form!

Starfield! They need another go at it!

Just got a PS5 Pro which made my TV perform better, but I now think of selling my TV for half the cost of an LG C3/4 and then getting the OLED-experience. Selling your stuff before it is ancient and then upgrading your own experience is such a financial life hack.

So, my first week with the Pro is all about finishing up my Hogwarts Legacy-playthrough before my subscription runs out - it becomes gorgeous on the Pro but not fully optimized.

Also, I have tried Last of Us pt. 1 and Returnal. And then .... it is back to KCD2!

@Discol76

Remember I come from a different market - I am constantly converting currencies to explain somewhat my situation. If Playstation raises the price of the console in my country, I could get even more. I am in no rush, I have a 'for sale'-sign and maybe someone will eventually bite, otherwise I lower the price incrementally.

@Frmknst

If only you could read, you'd find out🤑

Thanks for the article and video. It's only been six months? Wild.

I went from hyped about the possibility to laughing off the console as not for me to suddenly last week picking it up in a spur of the moment to now just itching to join the conversation.

The price: I still think it is overpriced, but I am going to sell my PS5 on the used market, and I got the PS5 Pro with an absolute insane discount. Easily the lowest pricepoint I have seen ever for that thing. So, the base PS5 digital edition retail price is £429.99 and I want at least £329.99 for my PS5, so that I'll end up with a PS5 Pro (and overall bill for this generation) for £200. When I sell it, I might even profit overall as I can sell the pro for more than I gave.

About my TV: I found out my budget TV could do 120 Hz and HDR, where I thought it was locked to 60 Hz. Sadly, it is not OLED, VRR, but at the third of the price I can live with it. Until I trade it in trying to roughly get what I paid for it (heavily discounted) to buy an LG C3/4 at a hefty discount as well.

Performance: I think the Pro is worth it, but I don't think a regular gamer need to feel like they NEED it. I bought the Pro to enjoy a bit of extra juice and because I saw an insane deal I had to take. Now, I am free of FOMO and are experiencing the best that console gaming can offer.

@twitchtvpat

Yeah, even having something like PS Plus is detrimental to purchasing games right from the get go. The price deters too. Like, I still need to get Spider-Man 2! I am sure it is a great game, and after playing GOW: Ragnarok on the subscription service I am absolutely BLOWN away.

It is a little surprising that XBOX is selling so much on Playstation, whilst Sony is secretly annoyed with the numbers for GOW, Spidey and Horizon.

You guys are fussing over old games that aren't as exciting as new games.

If you look at Premium there's so many games you won't ever see your family and friends again should you choose to play. Like any subscription service they're cycling through materials, so you won't have the entire history of gaming for free.99. Why should you?

Flow TV made movies and series exciting to watch. Giving the gamer everything, all at once kills the novelty.

With GamePass you can sign up play your games and then CANCEL YOUR SUB AND GET YOUR MONEY BACK as confirmed by Sacred Symbols and their XBOX podcast (with Mr. Matty Plays, I think, only listened to their most recent podcast).

M$ is bankrolling their players for 4-5 years, this entire generation. If you are an XBOX-gamer and you paid more than 100 dollars this gen for your games, you're literally a filantropist for poor, trillion dollar Micro$oft.

So, there ought to be some daily users. But it says a lot about the experience on PS Plus when you literally can't pay most people to go and play GP/XBOX.

In context, nobody's zooming in on a quarter of the screen in pause mode to enjoy the game.

I like that they updated the game, and as I got my hands on an extremely cheap PS5 Pro and had the PS store credits for the upgrade, I chose to buy. As they have little else to do, I'll wait for a patch from Bend or two before I actually start up the game to see their work. I would imagine that their new game mode is an okay experience and I might start the campaign just to cry over the fact that a new game was denied by evil, evil Sony Playstation.

It is a funny name for me as I indeed always were LFG (looking for a group). Even though I was part of clans and group chats and even could play with IRL friends. The itch always had to be scratched in Destiny.

We had one guy with a hilarious PS name. His handle was 'Handicaptoilet'.

@HonestHick

They ARE fun. You are absolutely right. I think I misread your intention here.

@HonestHick

I think you are the only one arguing that the discussion isn't over😂 Microsoft admitted who won a long time ago. The sales ratio alone declared a clear winner. Xbox Series X is obsolete and not being restocked. Xbox Games are now playstation games. But you are still out there, weighing your words.

Kids are going to be begging their parents to buy them this game😂 Those with the game are going to be the kings of their schools for some weeks.

A more dynamic world ties into the sense that side activities could be more fun, unique and avoid the Ubisoft formula of extreme repetition. That would make the story more interesting, and so it is the more varied combat that is more a separate item to wish for. I believe that Sucker Punch can deliver like God of War: Ragnarok was a revolution that built on the original reboot.

I am still interested in pitching Assassin's Creed against Ghost of Yotei, which is ultimately going to be the superior game and why? I can't afford both experiences (time constraints and money is actually an object).

Fantastic treat to have a new trailer drop on the same day I pick up my new PS5 Pro.

GTA V was so amazing when you changed characters and followed their different stories. I wonder how GTA VI will try and top that having a Bonnie & Clyde, Romeo and Juliet-kind of vibe?

Maybe there's a third protagonist, someone crazy and unpredictable. Funny, too. I feel like the game NEEDS something more to compete with last game's trio than what's alluded to in the trailer.

I will soon play my Sony Xbox Pro that I just picked up. What a weird world.

Xbox is migrating to Playstation pretending to be Playstation. Imagine you are Japan and you have been to war with America, and America declares that it lost. Then, all of a sudden all American citizens starts moving to Japan. Their American children that were cheering them on now are like: Invite us in, Japan! Jamarican will be their new identity. And they'll be cheering Japan on. It is almost creepy. They' in our house, and camping in our garden!!😅🤣

You hate to see when enormous trillion dollar entities are awarded for monopolizing and monetizing a once beautiful environment free from war mongering behemoths.

But tell that to a completely amoral society that are conditioned into self-preservation and competition.

Give me a new and brilliant ES6 that teems the creativity of real people that worked in unison to fulfill the creative and technical vision of men and women who were appointed leadership by their peers and I will maybe bend the knee.

Idiotic and cynic management. Would be a shame if someone was to bring them to karmic justice.

I saw the first season on HBO and that certainly wasn't as good as the original game that was masterfully directed by Bruce Straley and the team at Naughty Dog created a AAA gameplay and technical experience back in 2013.

I thought that the show rushed through the story of the first game and was quite a forgetful experience without the masterful direction of the original gamee.

I am quite certain that the show can surpass TLOU2 in many ways, but the real MVPs were those that created the graphics and audio of the game. Truly outstanding work that mirrored the quality of the first game.

It would seem a lot of people are waiting for a juicy discount before they commit to my game of the year.

I haven't made it through one playthrough yet, but I paid for gold, so if I finish before those DLCs land, I'll have to go back for a Hardcore run.

People who say: Buy or upgrade a PC can easily spend between 400-1600 dollars: https://www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/i-panic-bought-a-new-pc-how-tariff-fears-led-me-to-upgrade-now/

Oh wow - I did a thing out of spur of the moment decisions.

In my country a PS5 Pro is about 909 USD. I found a retailer selling a PS5 Pro for 707 USD and I can trade my Original Launch Digital Edition PS5 for 500-530 USD.

So, an upgrade cost me about 200 USD. If everything goes through I can actually just sell the PS5 Pro or my OG PS5 on the market for more after the increase in price should they hit globally.

Am on a buyer's high and haven't got it between my grubby hands, but WHAT an offer!

@CutchuSlow

Sure, that's true. I have even cut down on subscriptions as I found it to be too much. And I didn't have time for it.

PC and console are true competitors in the sense that they offer such different options.

I was at a galla event with the young and beautiful, and was fortunate enough to be able to assemble a crew of good friends to meet up with afterwards to enjoy a full night out on the town and waking up late!

Besides that I am enjoying Hogwarts Legacy which is everything an old Potterhead could ever wish for. The game runs well, plays well and has a good story, and is held back a little bit by old-gen technology. If a new game is made with better graphics it will be crazy good as this game is very accomplished.

Great communication. I believe them based on their achievements in GTA V and RDR 2.

I was a little uncertain yesterday as to the quality of the game, and how will they exceed expectations when so much is expected? I would love to find out more in six months. This game needs to show a little ankle.

I am in the minority of gamers who navigate my purchase choices based on devs willingness to allow their game to be accessed day one on GamePass.

I was very interested in Indiana Jones, Atomfall, Oblivion and Clair Obscure, but I'll simply be waiting for value propositions similar to GP. The logic is that they'll be willing to lower the price or put the game on PS Plus when their tenured run at GamePass come to pass.

@RiverGenie

Many people have stacked subs from old conversions which is a mere pittance. Others have found really good deals on GP. Then there's Xbox points conversions, I have seen a fair share of people on Purexbox saying how they used their points to get free GP. Last but not least there's free trials and offerings that many take.

Sure, SOME are paying full price, but the service is deeply unsustainable.q

@JayJ

I'd love for you to make a list of PC components you need and compare to the price of, say, a PS5 bought as new or even secondhand for a few dollars less.

I'd figure you don't even get the graphics card for the price of a PS5. And if you want a laptop the prices increase and the power shrinks.

Also, most people have a PC given to them from work.

@Porco

You haven't tried God of War: Ragnarok or VR in GT7, I presume? Horizon: Forbidden West is up there too. I have them and haven't even extricated everything from those three games yet - not even close.

I still have to acquire and play Spider-Man 2 and Astro Bot which I think will be very, very good as well.

Third party offerings are there too: KCD II, BG3, and much more that isn't my jam.

It is fair to close ones eyes to current gen, but it is here, and you have to be a gamer full time to exhaust the wealth of gaming on offer.

A trillion dollar company known to deliver critical infrastructure to an alleged genocidal state, extorting its new audiences on Playstation to fund and expand their rental service is exactly why the garden was walled off to begin with.

In other crappy news, Vox Media sold Polygon to a Porn-Kingpin by the name of Hassan Youssef and Polygon lost or laid off key members of staff. Polygon wasn't a site I'd always agree with, but its longform journalism and perspective was appreciated and now it is up in the air what Polygon's future, if any, entails.

By admitting defeat and going all in, coupled with an anemic release of Playstation Studios titles there's room for invasive species to overgrow the once walled-off garden.

The consequences are yet to be felt, nobody is expecting Sony to go on retirement and live off the PS Store tax like Valve is doing, but the reality is that many Playstation First party studios are failing due to a long list of reason I and others have tried their best describing.

The net positive - should you be morally capable of supporting M$ as a company these days - is of course to buy even more games than before from an even wider selection.

I JUST played God of War: Ragnarok and boy, if you haven't that is an absolute transfusion of blood into an otherwise slightly anemic system. The graphics on PS5 alone.... Jesus Christ and kids that's something!

I would have access to those titles for about 3 days... Long enough to claim them for a rainy day.

Obviously, any month with Balatro has to count for a good month. Not sure about ARK. That's like an ancient game, right? And Warhammer looks ancient.

@Max_the_German

Who said the good people of Earth never had legitimate claim, good sir?

@Atreus97

Well, you might say that its sales were robbed by a) phony reviewers and b) being moved out of the way because it was to be published together with the just as polarizing TLOU2 which leftist media took to champion as gospel directly from the mouth of God almighty I might be exaggerating.

Someone else points out the technical issues with reviewer copies, but I distinctly remember NOT buying this game at launch because I bought in to the exaggerated criticism levied at the game at the time, instead I bought TLOU2 heralded as the pinnacle of writing and I SEVERELY disliked the story much to my chagrin.

I just wanted a good game.... and I would have got it had it not been for that damned kid, Neil Druckmann!

Well, I myself have taken the brunt of hate and incredulity for championing this game on this very site, and it is quite vindicating to hear that the efforts to defend and define its greatness were not in vain.

I have already played it once or twice, but I am starting to think that someone, somewhere will make a spiritual successor. If AI continues down its trajectory I will be the one that prompted the sequel in all its glory and the total playerbase will exceed no more than 27 which is myself and my current and future progeny included who shall have no choice.