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I’d love to buy SW Jedi Survivor but apparently I’m not allowed to whilst it’s still on PS+ 🤷‍♂️

Decent month - looking forward to Spider-Man, Sword of the Sea and will give MK1 a go. Unicorn Overlord not for me but obviously a good game for those that like that genre.

This is an absolute s h1 t show….

Before the update I had CoD HQ installed (XSX) with BO6 and MWII campaigns installed - total 165GB + 25GB reserved space (190GB);

Now to have the same content installed I need 136.8GB on the COD app for BO6 + 25GB reserved, PLUS another 110.2GB just for MWII campaign (and no doubt it will want to reserve another 25GB the minute I’ve downloaded the game and load my save).

So prior to the update the same installed content was 190GB, now it is a minimum of 272GB and likely more when MWII reserves space once it is fired up.

You literally couldn’t make this s##t up!

Cyberpunk 2077 on Pro - third time I’ve started this game and I’m now loving it. More AstroBot & Horizon ZD remastered too. On Series X - Call of Duty MWII, AoE4 & aiming to try out Wheel World too. Have a good weekend folks.

I guess they looked at the actual data from games like MLB The Show, Death Stranding and Helldivers 2 pre orders and found that Xbox owners do occasionally buy the odd game or two (despite what the forums say!)…..enough to make it worth their while porting games over anyways. And Switch is too big of a market to simply ignore.

More games everywhere is good news - I’ve never understood the juvenile fascination of being in love with a particular plastic box.

I’m from the PS1 generation (and before) but really can’t see the attraction of a Grey-Station. The cost of that slim digital PS5 is eyewatering….£469.99 vs £339.99 (current offer price on the Sony website now).

888 points forever in limbo-land

@Quintumply - lol Stephen - “88 Games You Should Buy”

…If only money grew on trees…

AstroBot and Horizon ZD Remastered on PS5, AoE4 and Forza Motorsport on Series X. Have a great weekend everyone.

I’m still confused when the PS Store refuses to take my money….insisting that I’ve already ‘purchased’ a game that I’ve simply downloaded on PS Plus (but want to buy and keep). Very odd!

Didn’t a Government Select Committee just shed doubt on the future of LISA’s?

@Quintumply - just a minor thing Stephen (and more widely Push Square for similar articles) - can you please change the headline from “You Should Buy” to “You Should Consider Buying”….sadly not many of us have bottomless resources. Thank you.

Pretty limp compared to Gamepass but I’ve still found PSPlus Premium worth it as a good way to play/sample a large number of titles from the back catalogue. I also like the way you can also keep the games added to Essential without wondering if they will disappear at short notice. I’ve recently extended my sub for an extra 12m.

PS5Pro is my first PlayStation for c10 years so £10pm to access the Premium library is a no brainer for me - don’t get me wrong it is rubbish compared to Gamepass Ultimate, but still worth it to me as someone who’s ‘new’ to the PlayStation ecosystem. After a year or two I might reconsider, but for now it is a brilliant way to play some gems from the back catalogue and access others that otherwise I might be tempted to waste a fortune on.

Another £10 I’ve flushed down the toilet.

I reluctantly paid £50 for AstroBot (worth it) but I rarely pay more than £20 for a game nowadays - certainly not paying £70 as my backlog is pretty ridiculous. I’ll play this Day 1 on Gamepass, which has cost me precisely nothing so far this year (Reward Points).

Glad to hear it is fixed but tbh I couldn’t detect it, not even once - and that’s despite being a framerate snob! PS5Pro & Sony A80J OLED.

Finally got around to buying Astro Bot - what a gem of a game. On Series X - Age of Empires 4 and some more Call Of Duty MW2.
Have a good one everyone.

@RiverGenie - thanks mate, look forward to giving it a try.

@Shigurui - thanks. I read the other 3 are coming next Tuesday but that Destiny Final Shape was coming yesterday (28th May). Maybe it has been delayed.

Slightly off topic and I’m sure it’s me just being dim, but - Destiny 2 The Final Shape…I thought that should be now available free to PS Plus subscribers…..it still shows as £41.99 in the store…?

Hoping for some decent software discounts on AstroBot, TLOU P2, Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered and a few others.

The smart money is on this being excellent.

I was thinking of double dipping and buying this on Pro but the Digital Foundry coverage has persuaded me to stick with playing on Gamepass on XSX as that has the best performance on console. Performance over resolution any day of the week for me, particularly in a fast action game like this. Looking forward to getting stuck into Doom TDA next week.

Unreal engine 5 remasters being polished ready for release on all consoles for sure. Gears has now paved the way for single game releases (not collections) to maximise revenue; so a MC Collection on PS may still be some way off.

To this day, The Silent Cartographer level from the original Halo remains one of the best moments in gaming…and it won’t be long before this is on PlayStation.

I have a Pro but won’t be double dipping for this - happy to play the remastered remaster on XSX Gamepass.

Lighting/colour aside I’m genuinely struggling to see any difference/improvement.

No problem with a healthy turnover but why remove first party games? Seems daft and doesn’t happen on Gamepass except if a title is delisted (and with FH4 they even gave the game away if you’d bought extra content). That grumble aside, I’m still happy with the service for £10pm.

Great game but this sort of ‘logic’ is par for the course from Microsoft- on Series X the original install was 131.7GB but the game required 263.1GB of free space in order to install!

Odyssey then Origins for me. Valhalla still sitting in my backlog and Shadows in the wishlist…too many games, not enough time!

Good month with Hogwarts and Blue Prince, looking forward to both. Played lots of PGA Tour on Series X - a slow burner as it takes time to up your skills but it’s a decent game.

@Fiendish-Beaver - well said. I’m on exactly the same page.

@JB_Whiting - that’s one way of looking at it and I respect your opinion. However, it may not be worse and change/progress doesn’t necessarily diminish what we already have. I agree individual talent, skill and intellectual property should have proper protections- but that’s not to say that AI can’t work alongside or improve upon certain processes in the future. For example - today’s world frequently has news of gaming studios closing or struggling because of the amount of man hours needed to turn out modern games on modern systems. If AI can do some of the heavy lifting in the future then that would likely save jobs in the industry as well as creating new opportunities and innovative solutions to studio’s existing challenges. All I’m saying is that there are potential upsides to this, and the “easy” first look opinion that “this is bad” or “this is rubbish” is not necessarily the only way to look at this topic.

@JB_Whiting - but who’s to say that in the future techniques like these won’t save energy and resources? Neither of us knows what the future holds in this regard. It’s an easy (and lazy) argument to look at this in isolation and say “it’s crap” but remember back in the day it would have been easy to scoff at the idea that man might fly, or one day fly to the moon, we simply do not know where this innovation will lead and for that reason alone I think it shouldn’t be dismissed.

What an incredibly short sighted article. Who are we to know what the future holds in this regard or the rate at which this kind of technology will develop? Obviously the current output doesn’t represent what modern consoles can produce, but that’s not today’s objective.

Without a vision of the future there would be no future progress - you could laugh at Sinclair’s C5 back in the day but today’s modern electric vehicles are a million times more advanced, likewise 70’s graphics and game physics don’t hold a candle to those of the current generation - but it took us on a journey to where we are now.

@Psnfanboy79 - no idea! (I’ve only recently bought a PlayStation) - maybe it’s Uncharted 4 1/2 (anyway, it’s The Lost Legacy bit I’m referring to) 😄

PlayStation 5Pro - completed Uncharted 5 last night, not as good as 4 but it warmed up after the halfway point. Next up R&C Rift Apart, more God of War and Wipeout Omega Collection. Also need to check out RoboCop on PS Plus.

XSX - looking forward to South of Midnight next week but until then F1 2024, AoE4, and Forza Horizon 4 (just realised that’s quite a few 4s)

Have a good one everyone.

Uncharted 5 on PS5Pro. Not as good as 4 but hopefully it will pick up (I’m about a third of the way through).

Atomfall, Dishonored Death of the Outsider and the Shady Part of Me on XSX.

Really looking forward to RoboCop on PS Plus next week.

Have a great weekend all.

Still plugged in and sits proudly underneath my TV. Rarely used for gaming these days but occasionally for a bit of Pixel Junk Monsters (streaming a bit inconsistent on my PS5). Still using the PS3 for pics and music - would love some of these features and playlists brought over to PS5.

I’m happy with PS5 & Series X but new hardware is always exciting so I’m curious to see how this pans out.

Yet more of my addiction to AoE4 on Series X.

Jedi Survivor and maybe some God of War on Pro.

Have a good one all.

Looks about the right price- maybe the Deluxe option is pricey but that’s an optional extravagance that’s easy to avoid by buying the Standard version and getting the extra content on offer down the line. Interested to see what the Pro enhancements will be.

@liathach - that’s appreciated, thanks for the advice 👍

@LifeGirl - thanks. I need to be more focused and just play 1-2 games at a time.

I’m fairly new to PS Plus and have a huge backlog. It doesn’t help that I’m a slow gamer and losing what gaming reflexes I once had…

…Just wondering if there’s a fairly typical time period games tend to stay on the service?…six months, a year, longer? And do first party games (God of War, etc) tend to stay on the service longer/for good or do Sony rotate them off the service as well?Thanks.

PS5Pro - GT7, slowly starting to enjoy it after c10hrs but not as good as I was expecting. More God of War, which is weirdly much better than I was expecting 😃 & likely some Wipeout Omega Collection
Series X - itching to play Avowed on Gamepass, but for now it’s more Indy, AoE4 & Far Cry New Dawn
iPad - Kingdom Rush
PS3 - Pixeljunk Monsters Encore

@LiamCroft - do you think we’ll lose Days Gone soon? (now there’s a remaster on the way) It is still in my backlog (I completely missed the PS4/Xbox One generation so I’ve got lots of catching up to do).

When did it become the norm to treat existing customers worse than new/returning customers? Why not reward loyalty? It sucks that Sony don’t offer this to existing subscribers.

God of War and WRC Generations on PS5
Age of Empires 4 and Sniper Elite Resistance on Series X

Great news. One of the best racers out there, FH4 is better but this is a close second. Enjoy!