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@DennisReynolds for that one i will have to just see it in video as i am no Death stranding fan. But i would think it will get some love as Kojima is a master class designer and i don’t think he would waste that much under the hood power.

I will say this to all the people myself included that said for $700 dollars we have to zoom in at 400x to see a difference isn’t a pro model upgrade. Well Assassin’s Creed on PS5 pro looks next gen and the base model looks PS4. It’s that night and day difference from the video that is showing it. Now that is the power you expect from that type of price increase. The Pro just might be starting to cook. I am interested again. Do that to Gears of War and i will happily buy a pro.

@Stevemalkpus it’s everyone don’t buy games but PS gamers. Then they make excuses for why Astro Bot was sitting at 1.5 million and Hell divers sold more on PC. The truth is PC with Steam is starting to flex on console sales. I’m an accountant and as we say even tho it’s cheesy and cliche, numbers don’t lie, people do.

@Haruki_NLI Steam is growing their numbers really fast right now. PC gaming is on a rise like we haven’t seen in a long time if ever. PC is beating console on most game sales the last year or so. If Steam were to launch a nice Steam Deck 2 upgrade and a Steam console i would switch to that and sell my PS and Xbox. It’s a way more gamer focused experience and they hold dev’s accountable in ways consoles would never dare.

@OldGamer999 DF quote.
“Assassin's Creed Shadows delivers one of the most substantial PS5 Pro upgrades we've seen
Ray-traced lighting at 60fps”

And thats with PSSR which isn’t as good as the incoming FSR 4, so pro should really be able to shine in the future. I want to see what a Sony 1st party title will be able to achieve with Pro. Should be amazing.

I like the name, be nice to see in time what they have planned. Maybe this game won’t get cancelled. One can hope.

@Flaming_Kaiser when i did that clearly that gets you in trouble more than it’s worth. I have my stance and going forward i am keeping it to myself.

I played a lot of this on Series X and the achievements take a while to get. Most of them are fun with the few that are just a little annoying. I do wish we could delete games on Xbox and PS that we played and didn’t like that we got 1 trophy or 5G on. I would happily give back the points and bronze to have it off my list so it’s easier to scroll. I know it will likely never happen. But that is a dream feature to achievements and trophies for me.

Resistance would be the one that would excite me the most. Killzone is eh, and Socom is so old i forgot if i really liked it all that much. But it would be a title that has a solid name and would fit the live service model best i think. Exciting news. Hope to learn more about it in the near future.

And to think that movie is old enough to be on version 1 of 3 of the Last of Us.

@RoomWithaMoose Japanese dev’s as of late has done well with older IP for sure. Really excited for some of the Sega titles they have planned. I love me some streets of rage and golden axe. Nintendo is just light years ahead of the industry at this point.

I am not saying it’s a done deal that Ubisoft will sell and if the price is right for either side. That’s for the suites and ties to determine. Often times one side wins that deal over the other. However i stand on it’s smart business to at least call and start to plant that seed if and only if you have a plan to do something with said title.

Assassins Creed isn’t really a mainstream audience game these days. So sure mainstream gamers aren’t following the hate looming the game but they aren’t going to be the ones footing the bill. The ones that are are the ones doing the complaining. So i am just not sold on it doing enough to really help Ubisoft’s pockets all that well. Again time will tell and I’d like to see it do well for them as i don’t wish for games to fail. But i think the game has a slight uphill battle going against it with the core players.

@RoomWithaMoose i agree with most of that. But in MS’s case they have to pick up the phone and ask. If sold for peanuts and they have a creative idea behind it then why not. EA sort of the same. Ubisoft IP’s at large don’t interest me at all and the ones that do like you said are a little more boxed in than mainstream giants. I still think it’s worth a phone for both EA and MS. That’s just smart business.

Capcom has been really great at leveraging their older IP. I want Konami to get there as i love some of their older stuff. But at large most companies have ran from its past or tried to put a live service spin to them. Only to fall on their face as gamers haven’t taken the bait with the once popular IP name behind a much different game or method of pay and play. I will say Ubisoft needs this upcoming AC game to do well. At the very least not lose money and i just don’t see it doing much better than breaking even. To much drama around the title.

@EfYI by the looks for Forza Horizon 5 pre orders i think Push Square has given you your answer already. But don’t take my word for it. Just turn on your PS5 and go to the Pre order section. Bait taken it appears.

@RoomWithaMoose “Microsoft and EA just like to sit on IP until they lose all value”

Who isn’t doing that in the industry right now? Ubisoft did it and thats why they have so many duds. Instead of giving us some of those classic IP’s we got skull and Bones. Sony is sitting on a treasure trove of IP’s we all ask for on this site and we get more Horizon and Spider-man and Last of us and Day’s Gone remasters. The list goes on and on, it’s not a EA or MS problem. It’s an industry problem. As no one wants to sell “smaller” ip’s they all want to try for the heavy hitters over and over.

@EfYI i never did the stack thing. I know many in the beginning did. Such ways has been disable. But at the end of the day the service is wonderful. I pay my $20 and got to play Indiana Jones and Avowed and i am really enjoying them but certainly wouldn’t have bought them day and date. Only to find out i would have missed out cause i really had a great time with them.

@RoomWithaMoose not sure what will happen if anything. I just read the report today. I mean COD is COD and not going anywhere. But I’d love to see MS grab splinter cell and do someting with it. Would be a solid pick up. As for EA who know’s what they would be after. I am sure as time unfolds we will hear more about what’s for sale and what isn’t.

@breakneck for sure, i agree. Just read the story today that MS and EA are actively asking. But i am sure some of their IP will be off loaded. I would assume they will try and keep most of the heavy hitters. But it’s hard to say. Money talks.

Shareholders might be happy to know Microsoft and EA are asking Ubisoft for the sale of certain IP’s. No one will buy the whole company. That would be pointless. But i could see MS paying big for Tom Clancy and EA going after a few others if Ubisoft is willing to accept. The story i think broke today on that.

@KundaliniRising333 the one thing it don’t have written all over it is a remake no one asked for that is hard to tell the difference in graphics. So that will be a nice change eh?

@EfYI so millions of people paying $20 a month on GP is peanuts but you want to pay like what $40 for it or get it on a service and that’s different how? Sorry not trying to be rude, cause it’s your money and i respect that. But Xbox players shouldn’t get it for this but you want it for that. I played it on GP and it was great. MS get’s my $20 every month. It’s beyond a great service and more to come. Just wasn’t sure how you didn’t see the irony in that comment i suppose.

@graymamba i for sure hope it’s great. What a year this would be if that too is a must play. Time will tell. MS did say to watch GP closely for more shadow drops. Could this be the big one? That would be nuts. Tho i think they would prefer to give the game more time to be marketed and known. 😀

@Ilovecoffee there’s only one problem with that. We console players are second class citizens due to the weak CPU in the PS5, PS5 Pro and Series consoles. Graphically the consoles can push fairly decent graphics but the CPU can’t keep up.

This was my first big RPG game i ever played. Got it on Xbox 360 and really enjoyed it. Tho i love FPS games. Playing Avowed now and really enjoying it. This would be really cool to see it get revealed and quickly launched. Will be picking it up as long as they did good work on it.

I hope this is a big game for PS5. As there hasn’t been much outside of Ratchet and Clank and Astro Bot that i have really enjoyed from 1st party, which is all i play on PS consoles. So i want this one to be really great. Time will tell, but i am interested. Now bring on that God of War remaster.

The device will be a Xbox using the windows kernel for it’s Xbox os like we have now. But it will be able to boot up full windows 11 and run Word, Excel and yes even Steam and Epic games store. Most gamers will use the Xbox store cause it will be the console like experience, the normal plug and play we are used too. This device has massive potential. It would be great for some students to have in a dorm. Hook it up to your TV and play COD. Then take it to your room and plug it into your monitor and do your homework. Hence it’s a console/PC hybrid in name and use.

@ChrisDeku i just thought it was funny a game like sea of thieves that was made fun of by PS fans for a few years then comes to PS5 and sell a million copies out the gate. But a game that i seen nothing but hype and excitement for in Astro bot sells 1.5 million out the gate. It’s just so hard to gauge what will and won’t do well these days was my point. I am happy Astro Bot will get to expand to more players being packed into the console now. More players playing that game is a good thing. It’s truly a well made game that is fun.

@mountain_spider the game is pure fun. I only buy PS consoles for their 1st party. Everything else is on Xbox and soon to be PC. This game and ratchet and clank alone made me happy i have a PS5. But neither are tops of the charts and it’s a concern going forward. Even those these games aren’t HUGE budgets they are still time and money. I ain’t saying we won’t see more but it be nice to see them drive a little more sales to ensure their time and risk for dev’s.

@ChrisDeku i don’t need to adjust anything. The game was at 1.5 million in 2 months. Now i am not saying thats awful. But it’s not lighting up the sales charts. Mario sure as hell sells more than that in a few hours of release. But Mario is different. I get it. All i was saying is this game should have came out swinging and it kinda of just threw a jab. Not a failure and to me one of the most fun games I’ve played in a long while. But not huge numbers which is concerning for games like these going forward. Sea of thrives a live service game that was a joke on this site before coming to PS5 sold a million in a short time for your exceptions and food for thought.

This is one way to get the sales numbers up for Astro Bot. I loved the game. Had so much fun with it. But the fact is it didn’t light the sales chart up. That disappointed me cause it was such a great game. More people getting to play Astro bot is a good thing.

@dskatter i mean you certainly have that right. Not to mention you wouldn’t run out of games to play anytime soon 😃

i have been digital only since the start of PS4 and Xbox One. Switch as well. so for me i already made the switch to digital only and i won’t lie there are times i miss the box art and what not of physical media. But not all that much. but i get it for those that still like it. sucks for them as it is dying off. but thats where the money is. same for movies and music. hope they continue to make it a little longer for yall!

@get2sammyb there’s a small market for all games in physical media. The keyword is small. Physical media in games still sell a little but this site often times shows the spilt from physical vs digital and it shows the numbers aren’t on the side of physical for much longer.

@Flaming_Kaiser i am not engaging in politics on here no more. Sorry man. My beliefs are staying to myself on that topic going forward. I will only talk games on here.

@dskatter not sure what choice a physical media collector in today’s world has. It’s shrinking in sales yearly. I ain’t saying it’s a good thing or a bad thing. But it’s the market and so it’s better to enjoy games no matter if they are digital only. No need to miss the fun just cause the data isn’t on a piece of plastic.

All the players saying no physical release. Sorry to say physical sales are down to the lowest numbers ever in the history of gaming and they aren’t going to suddenly claw back up the charts. We will see less and less physical and time goes on. Not saying it don’t suck for those that enjoy it, but get used to it now. It’s not coming back.

theory @Bez87 AMD is killing it right now. I just wish they would compete in the higher end market more to keep the Nvida pricing in line. Let this be an example for all the hardcore PS fanboys that i see on here constantly saying they wish the Xbox would go away. To them i say careful what you wish for. Sony will do what Nvida does and thats name their price. This isn’t a conspiracy theory it’s happen right now in our industry. When everything goes to cloud and PC then it won’t matter as much. But for now we need balance.

As for PSSR, it’s been a up and down thing depending on the game. But the PS5 Pro is a good starting point for it and they can continue to update it going forward. I expect PS6 and the next Xbox to lean into AI a lot. For console it really makes sense. For PC i would like to see more card power and less AI software doing the lifting. I am a console player since Super NES, and a diehard Apple computer user of almost 18 years now and i am thinking about going PC. But the build i want right now is around $5k thats a good amount of money to have AI doing the heavy lifting in my opinion. On console for sure it makes sense cause they have to build them within a budget.

Wait Sony is not doing a remake or remaster? Now that’s a first and of course it’s one that we actually want. Not until dawn and others that don’t need one. Seems to be the days we live in.

@Lindy01 never can tell in today’s tech and video game world. That’s why i check the news 3-4 times a day lol. Just never know what you’ll see. 😀

@mountain_spider Yeah i seen a few people saying Sony would likely be moving on to PSSR 2.0 by the PS6 and that is still likely the case. We don’t know yet. But no one seen FSR 4.0 actually being a DLSS competitor. So that might change some internal thoughts after testing. AMD has to be interested in AI upscaling cause their cards are weak to begin with. They can’t not have it in the PC space with how good Nvidia is. Time will tell. I get excited about next gen hardware, so i like to see the news coming. 😀

@Bez87 PSSR and FSR is different tech. But yes Sony and AMD are working together on chipset’s and AI for PS6.

@Northern_munkey i played a 1000 hours of TitanFall on Xbox One and outside of my Gears of War Multiplayer obsession, and of course early days Halo and COD. I thought it was one of the best online shooters ever made. I had that much fun with TitanFall. I miss it and am really ashamed more players didn’t jump in. But it’s hard to compete now with Fortnite and COD. I am keeping my eye on Battlefield 6 as i would love to dive into it next year.

@Andy22385 PSSR has had its issues but it was a strong showing in its first attempt. FSR 4 seems to be really cooking right now tho. Very high praise at the moment with time to improve it. I think the consoles will likely adopt it as it’s one less cost and time to their teams. Never say never of course. But didn’t mark Cenry say he was working alongside AMD to bring idea’s to FSR? If so that could be Sony’s direction forward. Too early to say for certain tho. 😀

@Northern_munkey @Ultimapunch even with PS6 a few years off, which makes sense as that would be 7 years. PS5 players will still see cross gen games for a few years or longer. So just stay on PS5. Many did that with their PS4’s.

Makes you wonder if there is some truth about people saying Sony will walk away from PSSR for FSR 4 . We know MS is likely to use FSR 4. So devs would save some time and energy with the builds. Wouldn’t mind seeing Sony try and improve PSSR. But if FSR 4 is as legit as it’s supposed to be. Maybe that is the play.

@nomither6 thats a good point and certainly a possibility. We all know it’s all about catching everyone on PS and PC up in story for E-day. E-day is the big game they want to see hold players. But your point is well taken and i can’t wait for all of it. Cause i am a Super GOW fan.

Remember when PS fans used to say Xbox released more limited edition controller than games? Anyone? Anyone remember that. It went like another Xbox controller, they release more controllers than games! Well……………. I could say that here. I won’t. I’ll be nice. But man. PS5 is out here doing the most to be stale. Good thing they sell lot’s of consoles tho right. Thats the counter argument to anything said about them.

Better replace it with something big. Cause that was a big Ip for them. Not so sure yet about intergalactic. We know very little about it. But the only reasons i buy a PS console is for the few exclusive games i wanted to play. This gen they are giving me more and more reasons to just play on PC. Both Sony and MS are multi platform publishers. I will wait a few more years before i switch to PC. But with Sony’s push to live service games and smaller and smaller windows of their games coming to PC. This news is another nail in the coffin for PS consoles for me. Which is sad and exciting all in the same.

@tameshiyaku @trev666 @Dimey @Wazeddie22 @nomither6, as someone with over 2200 hours in Gears 5 multiplayer. I was a little taken back by this but then i read a great idea and wanted to share. Maybe they will turn Gears collection into a hub like COD or Halo. So the campaigns drop in 2025, then E-day drops in it with online multiplayer and they continue to add Horde and older maps into the multiplayer. This would be a really great way to bring gamers back into gears of war hub as it would be constantly expanding over time with modes, maps. Gears of war and Red Dead are my favorite Ip’s in gaming so i will continue to follow every rumor on them i can. In fact a few sites for Gears already said this a few months ago and i didn’t take it to serious but it’s now gaining more traction. The other rumor is there could be a slide mechanic in E-day and multiplayer so maybe they are trying to find ways to bring the slide to the older maps? Time will tell, sorry for the long reply, but again i am as passionate about Gears of War as i am the entire gaming industry. I am happy to see it coming to more platforms to expand it’s reach. I expect it to do well on PS5. But it will really do big numbers being on PC. 😀

@Sarcasmatwork thats awesome. It’s always worth the time to play some RDR. It’s just so good. I am waiting for the update to 60fps. But when and if that happens i will play start to finish all over again.

@Sarcasmatwork HAHHA right! Still my favorite game ever. Too bad Rockstar won’t throw us a 60 fps patch to make us RDR fans happy. Then again GTA 6 will be 30 fps on console and only 60 fps on PC when it releases.

Please please be true, outside of RDR Gears of War is my favorite Ip in gaming. I have waited so long to see this collection in Unreal engine 5. I still play Gears 5 and it looks better than most next gen games. Really hope Xbox and PS gamers get to battle online with PC. The multiplayer isn’t for the faint of heart. It is brutally hard. I have thousands of hours in it and am still not anywhere near as good as I’d like to be. The single player games stand alone as one of the best trilogy’s ever. Really hope this is the year we see this long rumored title. Makes sense as it will give newer players on Xbox and first timers on PS the story before GOW E-Day. Please be true!!

@nomither6 man i was a young kid, but i loved all the Mario games, Mario kart was so much fun. Castlevania, Super Punch-Out. Zelda a link to the past. I mean there are just so many good games on that console. Donkey Kong Country was super fun.