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It amazes me how some people actually thought this game would release on PS5.

@x3King84 Good question. The Sony fanbase seems to be oddly obsessed with Microsoft, you hear more about what they're doing around here than on actual Xbox sites lol.

Well the dualsense triggers are basically just an evolutionary concept of the pulse triggers Microsoft came up with for the Xbox One, and haptics are far from being a Sony innovation, they borrowed that from mobile devices. Then there's sixaxis, an idea Sony borrowed from Nintendo. Heck even the analog stick is an idea they borrowed from Sega, same deal with analog triggers. The touchpad? Borrowed that from laptops. Speaker? Another idea borrowed from mobile devices.

I stopped buying NBA 2K games because:

A: they have become far too bloated with massive installs
B: hardly any noteworthy improvement is made year to year
C: they have become microtransaction heavy

I feel like they might as well just make these games a live service deal where it constantly gets updated. They are already heavily pushing the microtransactions, but I guess there's still too many people buying these things yearly.

I think 2K19 is the last one I really liked.

@Gryzor That is called "failing up" and sadly it's become too common in big corporations these days.

Hilarious how they are trying to act like the negative reaction was simply everyone being confused and misunderstanding them, shows how the people at the top of this company are completely out of touch and clueless.

What Unity needs is not a revision to this policy, but entirely new leadership. Everyone at the top of the organization needs to be gone.

@SlipperyFish Yeah true, the ease of changing the look of your PS5 console is pretty neat. I changed mine to black back when I installed an M2 expansion drive.

@SlipperyFish Pretty sure they're talking about controllers. Xbox has loads of special editions with fun designs while PS has only had a few with only some basic colors offered. Heck Xbox has design labs which allows you to design your own custom controller, Sony has nothing like that.

@JaegerMeister Sounds about right, the classic play victim while you act as a villain strategy.

Ironic when this new policy is threatening to kill the company and it's employees jobs.

They announced nothing that I cared about.

Huh, well, I like that red more than the old one, but I prefer the light blue. The silver is pretty clean looking, now they need a gold.

They just shadow dropped this on Switch, but apparently the frame rate isn't stable, it aims for 60 but drops consistently. Hopefully the PS5 version will be out soon.

@Jaz007 I don't think they can do that, as removing a product people purchased from being eligable for downloading is not only a violation of service and customer agreements, it's a sales violation as well. If you sold someone something and you take it away, then you technically never actually sold them anything and they have legal grounds to entitlement to a full refund at the very least.

Obviously things are different when it comes to services, but generally speaking that would create a huge problem among consumers and distributers.

That and I am pretty sure a company trying to charge companies like Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo/Apple for each individual download on their platforms would be a violation of their terms of service for publishers on their platforms that would probably result in a massive lawsuit with those companies suing Unity.

To top it off, that would also be a direct violation of laws and legislation regarding digital sales in numerous countries, which would result in those countries taking Unity to court or massive penalties and possibly banishment from any market entitlements.

Well, I'd rather have this than SF6, but that isn't saying much.

Honestly, kind of over most fighting games these days. They've got too much in the way of live services and the multitude of fighter/season passes has become a real turnoff.

Long load times? On a PS5 Bomberman game?

Still, I am definitely getting this on PS5/Series after having the first one on Switch. If loading feels long on these consoles, can't imagine how bad it must be on Switch.

Almost forgot about this game, a definite must-buy for me. I miss games like this.

Only question I have is if there's dualsense trigger support.

Another meh month of uninteresting games.

@NickGerr1986 Yeah I don't like to get caught up on politics but it's impossible to ignore the elephant in the room when it comes to that guy. The fact that he is on the cover is reason alone for me to completely ignore and dismiss this game, that's just how put-off I am by him. It's just a joke how the guy is some glorified sports celebrity when he was always a mediocre at best player who accomplished nothing besides his activism grift that got him sponsors and paychecks.

@Darylb88 Yeah I agree, these special editions are just a glorified covers special with some decals on them. Controllers are similar, for the most part just a standard controller that look like they had some stickers slapped on it.

This spiderman edition, it just looks like some kid took the standard black cover panels and slapped on one of those console skin decals on it.

Sounds like this is finally going to become the game it was hyped up to be.

Well, I guess this is a lesson on what happens when you hate/ignore/dismiss fans of a well established franchise and try to "reboot" it without understanding what made people fans of it in the first place.

I'll play the world's smallest violin for them.

Probably something like a 4, the difficulty ruins the game for me and even if it wasn't too difficult I still find most of the game disappointing.

It's like I wanted to love this game, but it turned out to be a game I don't even want to bother with.

I have a hard time seeing this succeeding. A streaming-only handheld just isn't a particularly appealing concept, especially when everyone already has smartphones that can stream games.

@Czar_Khastik Yup, now a days I just buy everything I want when it goes on sale. For the $160 I would be spending on a year of PS+ Premium, I could buy a ton of games on sale. At $120 I was barely able to justify it as a way to check out a wide variety of games, but with this price increase it's like I can easily just buy whatever games I am truly interested in and forget the rest.

@Netret0120 Not a surprise when the Sony fanbase has become as fanatical as it is. This is what happens when we have too many mega-fanboys who relentlessly praise, defend, and endorse a big corporation no matter what. The last time Sony had a fanbase like this was coming hot off the PS2, and we all know how that went.

@Czar_Khastik Yup, my thinking as well. I hardly play games online anymore, and if they keep making these subscriptions more expensive, they will be too expensive to be worthwhile as I might as well just put that money towards buying/owning games that I really want.

With this price increase I think they might already be there. I don't think I can justify PS+ anymore, I simply don't need it.

Sounds like PS+ Premium is going to be a one year experience for me, while I think it's been nice, it's not $160 nice. At that price I might as well just put the money I would be spending on a subscription towards games I will actually own.

Sounds like I won't bother with PS+ anymore either, I simply don't play games online enough to justify spending $80 on it, and the PS+ catalog, as good as it might be, isn't something I need. I can easily live without it, and these price increases are making me choose the "live without it" option.

@BaldBelper78 Yeah when people talk about all the incredible first party games I usually ask them what exactly those games are. When they start listing off PS4 titles, I think they have lost it.

Face it, these consoles are always having to face the future. I mean everyone supposedly hated the PS3 when it launched and the 360 was heavily out-selling it for the first few years, but by the time that generation ended the PS3 had competitive sales and managed to win over most fans next gen.

Basically, Sony and it's fans shouldn't be getting arrogant and complacent, this is an industry where leadership keeps changing. At one point companies like Atari and Sega were dominating the industry.

@BaldBelper78 I wouldn't worry about the type of things rabid immature fanboys say or claim, they aren't exactly grounded in reality.

@REALAIS Wow, fanboys like you are completely nuts. Blocked!

Very odd when Sony has been so open about it's intentions to introduce a PS5 Pro before long. I sure wouldn't be rushing out to purchase a PS5 anymore, and I think a lot of these recent customers might be regretting their purchase as soon as that becomes available.

Oh well, you know what they say about fools and their money.

@Perturbator Yeah I am sick and tired of these awful companies trying to call every instance of public criticism "review bombing." It's become an excuse for them to brush off legitimate criticisms and dismiss an outraged fanbase.

So they have officially become one of those arrogant and out of touch companies that says things like "no, the people are wrong, we know what everyone should like, not our fans."

Well good luck with that Blizzard.

Kind of on the fence on this one. It's like I love mech games, but I hate how hard most From Soft games tends to be.

Live services is the worst thing to happen to gaming.

I wouldn't even call this a remaster, it's just a port, like they just straight up ported over the PS3/360 version to PS4 with minimal effort.

@Balie3000 I feel like that would have worked for a PS5 version. Like if they did a proper job of making it 60fps with enhanced 4K visuals for the PS5, at $30, I probably would have bought it. How they're selling this right now however, no way. I am not paying $50 for some lazy and already outdated PS4 port.

Not buying it and I think it's a joke. This whole situation makes me happy that I still have an Xbox One X with games like this on it.

Not bad, and this might be one of the few games I might have to buy. I just hope it isn't too hard.

@Smiffy01 Couldn't agree more. I only have so much time for gaming, and arcade gaming seemed to respect my time the most. This era of 100+ hour epics and online live-service games just isn't appealing to me, I simply don't want to put in the time they demand.

@Smiffy01 What I was thinking lol, I would like to remind Sega of all the great arcade games they made that still haven't been released for home consoles. I honestly couldn't care less about whatever this is, it doesn't appeal to me at all.

Nobody really cares about discs anymore, heck I stopped caring last gen when they made the move to turn discs into little more than physical DRM. They still force you to download most of the game data it seems, and it doesn't save you any space at all. I always get better deals on digital sales anyways.

Oh wow, I am so excited I could fall asleep!

@Shinnok789 Yeah I can relate to that as well. I have never been nearly as good at 2D fighters with an arcade stick as I am with a good d-pad. 3D fighters can be a different scenario as they are usually not so dependent upon complex direction inputs.

Every time I use an arcade stick, it's usually just when I am playing retro arcade games to really capture that authentic arcade feel.

Hogwarts Legacy, as it's the only one I actually bought.

@RainbowGazelle That's what I was thinking. They haven't even made much in the way of true PS5 exclusive games that really take advantage of what the existing PS5 is capable of.

So many conflicting reports and takes on everything lol

We need Knuckes Chaotix! It's the lost Sonic game by this point.

That's a whole lot of meh, not much that really grabs my attention.