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@get2sammyb it’s not shenmue if it doesn’t underperform!

(Iirc the original game cost so much to make that it needed to effectively be bought by every Dreamcast owner to make a profit )

@Deadlyblack I would be amazed if this did this now and then decided not to explain it in the dlc.

@Oram77 isn’t Requiem set 28 years after re2 and 13 years after 6? At this point it could be anyone.

@Oram77 Why would that specific day of re2 need to determine their fictional chemistry afterwards? I’ve no skin in this debate I just find the logic odd

@Reeneman not sure if satire, but The Pro literally has designated hardware blocks for running PSSR.

@zebric21 The Pro has additional hardware ML capabilities which are being used by PSSR. The base model can only do so much without them.

@themaladroit I mean most games that aren’t denuvo get cracked very quickly, this really isn’t unusual. Sony don’t do denuvo and steam doesn’t seem that difficult to bypass given how quickly games get cracked.

@KillerIsD34D it’s already running on one 5090 and there will be further optimisation giving it’s not out for 6 months. Plus almost certainly will have different strengths.

I think this will run on the entire 50xx series, with varying results.

@cainhurst94

At the time, Sony had sewn up timed exclusivity on titles like Deathloop and Ghostwire Tokyo, but behind-the-scenes it was trying to lock down Starfield as well.

That motivated the Redmond firm to take action, and it bought the entire publisher, eventually tying auteur Todd Howard’s new title down as a console exclusive.

Is there any evidence for this alleged motivation? The owner was wanting to sell Zenimax for some time, EA were involved at one point. I think the wider catalog was of more interest than simply Starfield, otherwise they could have just bought Bethesda instead of paying much more for the parent company.

@belmont we would then be complaining a Sony published game needed a multi gb mandatory install to play the game

@Jacko11 it means the disc was full

@belmont 92gb on disc, they presumably didn't feel it was worth another disc. Without knowing what that content is its hard to say if they made the right decision or not. Is there any word on how much space this content will take?

21:9 on Ps5. How curious.

@CielloArc It's not out for at least 6 months, I can't see it being 5090 only, they will be doing a lot of optimisation. But it will be 50xx only, and there will probably be "quality" sliders/modes for it and they might be be necessary for it to work on say a 5070.

@TrollOfWar short term, no because AMD are so far behind on stuff like this coupled with the amount of people on older cards. Long term, who knows. It depends on how the tech is used.

Grace is an extreme example, AC Shadows is more subtle and Oblivion is in the middle. It’s hard to say right now which of those styles will gain more traction

@RedRiot193 will 100% be an optional toggle jus like every other dlss feature has been

@RedRiot193 Well devs will be for it because their games instantly look "better" with minimal effort from them.

I suspect the final result will be have more control over elements of it's implementation..

@CielloArc The two 5090s were used for the demo, but Nvidia have apparently already optimised it down to a single 5090 with the expectation it will run on the whole 50 series by its release date which is probably 6 months out..

@dskatter @AdamNovice Certainly on the video they do address the controversial elements of it.

It is technically impressive and it's natural for DF to wax lyrical about the technical impressiveness of it. But it's not as if they ignored the issues either. I'm seeing comments elsewhere about them ignoring artist intentions but they absolutely talked bout that n the video

The Grace shot is particularly damming, but some of the other examples look far more reasonable.

I do however think the video is worse for being recorded like 5 minutes after the demo. Perhaps it would have benefitted from being done the next day. Personally I think it's technically impressive but looks more artificial than natural and the face work needs scaling way back, and realistically will probably have to be just for performance.

@SodaPop6548 Someone from Korea flew to Germany to hand John a PS5 Pro with the non final build on it. Not a joke, but Johns own words (this weeks weekly show went out to patrons a day early this week).

So DF have only showed what they had access to. Why that was the version chosen by the dev is probably because they want to show it at its best.

Why the developers simply couldn’t have put out videos themselves is a mystery. Another mystery is why they only had a non final non-pssr2 build to show this close to launch?

On the other hand they put out a comprehensive breakdown of modes and how they are set which is more than most devs.

It’s all a bit odd really.

Can anyone clarify if this is playable single player? I got the impression from official quotes some of it is but some of it is high end MP only?

To my shame I still haven’t finished it but I’ve effectively done everything to platinum it apart from the point of no return and the ring toss game (which didn’t seem to work properly imo). This might stop me immediately putting it on eBay once that’s done if it has SP content.

@somnambulance

Surely it can’t help them that Capcom and Square are starting to give more support to other platforms at this point. Requiem and Pragmata launching day and date on Switch in particular probably hurts Sony.

Requiem sold 4x more copies on PS5 than Switch 2 in Japan. 38k on Switch 2 doesn't seem that much for a 4.5m install base. It's half the number of Switch 2's sold that week. I don't think it's a big issue for Sony.

Switch 2 getting more big budget and technical games is more down to having a decent hardware spec this time. It's more than good enough to handle these games in portable mode. I think it's fine, some games will just sell more on one or the other but they aren't necessarily fighting over each others meal. DQ VII remastered is pretty much split between the two but other games will sell more on PS5 and others more on Sw2.

I think there is room for market expansion rather than Nintendo necessarily biting too much into Sony's sales.

@datamonkey That'll be the Japan studio making games the Japanese buyers weren't exactly buying in droves? Japan Studio's success dropped off hugely after ps2 and the studio went through several internal reboots. The only really successful Japan Studio games were the ones they produced for outside developers. There is a reason they expanded the Astro Bot team and removed everything else (external producing for Japan is now handled by Xdev, who were already doing Europe and the US)

@datamonkey Less than Nintendo merging their handheld and console operations into one instead of having separate machines. The Switch changed everything in Japan. one machine, more sales, every Nintendo game is on one machine. Everyone wins apart from Sony (Microsoft in Japan are a rounding error)

Let's be clear, Nintendo's handhelds were outselling Sony in Japan well before Sony reorganised their operations ( Sony's wider Japanese operations went through huge restructuring some years ago, which may or may not be part of PlayStation's HQ moving to the US). We should assume Switch sells more units from being portable in Japan than as a tv console.

@Oram77 It does seem to be coming in hot. The DF coverage is based on a pre release build. Which seems very late to not have the release build.

I'll be playing on PC eventually so it won't affect me but I think they could have handled all of this a lot better. It's especially baffling because the game looks amazing and there was/is a danger of it all backfiring a little.

@AinsleyE

FFXIV really is the only thing that makes them happy.

DQ Online too, but that's Japan only.

@Impossibilium Indeed but I suspect this is a longer game plan of getting more players into that content so they can make more money long term.

This is part of the attempt to make more money on v-bucks after some initial hit.

It's a weird set of comparisons.

Firstly, RT is part of Art Direction. Using it or not will dictate how you art your game and light it. A game that only uses RT will free up artists to make actual art instead of wasting time doing multiple passes of light baking. How you light and shadow your game directly affects art direction. If you have a nice looking game but your reflections are really bad SSR, your art direction will suffer/not live up to its potential. Capcom have had really bad SSR over the last few years that destroys the presentation of their games.(RE2 pre RT I’m looking at you)

Also he might be right that RT doesn't add to story or gameplay, but neither does the fps he cares so much about. People want better looking games and that can be achieved through RT.

People used to moan about programmable shaders when they came along. Try playing a game without them now. RT is here and it’s staying. Wether it is for all games or all users is up for debate, but it has its place.

@JDINCINERATOR a rumour that didn’t say it was this month.

Also leaks are rumours until they are confirmed.

TLDR; No.

Setting aside the obvious moral issues, the legal ones will ensure it.

@Porco PlayStation has other facilities and departments in Japan than just developers.Like the Asian headquarters and hardware and research divisions. Example, Cerny designs the hardware technology of the console but Japan turns that into a physical product including final physical design. The ps4 and 5 unboxing were done by the Japanese guy who oversaw the actual physical design iirc.

All of the companies listed have a lot more staff than just development and none of them are strictly console development houses, they all do other things too.

I don’t see anything suggesting this is just people working directly on game development.

@Czar_Khastik 3 days after everyone else confirms it

I’d love this to be true if only because bilbilkun often only “leaks” the day of or the day before the actual announcement so what is the point of bothering. It will amuse me.

However I can believe one or the other of these games but not both at the same time, it seems a bit far fetched.

Edit: oh wait extra. In that case anything goes

As long as it's an actual Dragon Slayer project and not whatever Tokyo Xanadu was meant to be. Because Xanadu it isn't.

As for the 45th anniversary, it's not as a game developer. Not that wikipedia will tell you this for some reason, but Falcom started as a computer shop selling Apple II stuff - Computer Land Tachigawa. In fact they are alleged to be the first licensed Apple retailer in Japan, although I’ve found claims the first Japanese Apple deal was made in the 70s.

This is a figure that has been thrown around for some time. Microsoft simply can’t subsidise it, especially if they are giving up their cut to other game storefronts.

@Max_the_German

I don’t want bloated games like Horison Forbidden West

You know you can ignore the "bloat" if you want and play the game without issue right?

I never have understood this complaint about open world games being full of optional content. Lots of people want to play that content, and the people who don't can ignore it. Everyone wins.

@Lup

Don't let "critics" put a score on the game.

if you want to make a point, at least get your facts right rather than spreading incorrect info. Bungie have requested that people wait for a piece of content before they renew the game, but they are letting reviewers review the game as-is. A very different context.

There is enough ***** stirring based on wrong information or completely made up statements on this website, let's not twist Sammys actual explanation.

It’s A Whole New World of trophies

@2here2there For a lot of people the line between a set spec pc and a console is already quite thin. Steam Machine if it ever launches will be seen as a console as much as a pc, since SteamOS is closer to a console setup than windows for the user.

@illegalmonkey

they already said they are exiting the console market

Every official comment from Microsoft I have seen says that they are not exiting the console market. What they say the are doing is trying different things because they don’t believe the traditional model works (for them)

Project Helix isn’t an exit from the console market in their eyes. They want to redefine what a console is.

@TheArt it’s the exact same problem Phil Spencer attributes to the difficulty in selling Series consoles versus PS5.

So either they haven’t learnt, they think Game Pass makes up for it or they think people will buy old pc games to make up for it or some combination of the three.

It’s highly probably that the only reason Project Helix was announced officially was to boost Sharma’s profile. By saying she will be talking to partners soon she is trying to take on the narrative for what has been a long term project overseen by her predecessors and show she is out there getting on with the job.

And that’s fine and to be expected.

And what was announced was what we already knew besides the code name. A good code name imo but Microsoft’s issue was never with code names but the final name.

Sony don’t need to do anything. They have already effectively confirmed PS6 with Cernys AMD stuff. And they will release it when it makes sense to do so, which will be measured in different metrics (not forgetting costs of components in a fluid market) than polls on websites.

@ShadowofSparta @pukana @TrollOfWar No live service game ever launches everything all at once nor are they expected to. If anything it's usually best practice to have a steady schedule of content or modes once people have had a chance to play the actual main game.

There is a valid debate about when the correct time to review the game and that is arguably once at launch week with what it has then and then follow up on it later. Its rare for online games to be accurate to review before launch day when there isn't a proper player count, but there will always be content later, regardless of who makes the game and what time of the year it is.

FWIW I have no interest in Marathon or other online shooty shoot games one way or another, but the release of content is consistent with every other online game. When the review launches isn't going to change that so I'm don't agree with people holding back reviews for it but that's Push Square's choice since it isn't a binding request

@Voltan Marathon and 4Loop

@Haruki_NLI But the second game is in the middle gameplay wise so I don’t think it’s wrong as such

@Voltan FFXIV is one such game but I believe SE use their own custom driver to support Sony pads and features

However “any game” natively isn’t true. Only games that support Direct Input, older Xinput games require third party tools as the are designed for 360 pads basically. Steam can fix this but not always.

Less of a problem with modern games but might be a nasty surprise if you pix up an old game for pennies

@wildcat_kickz have they still not fixed that HDR bug?

Still not sure this needs a remake but will I play it eventually if it's good, yes absolutely.

@MasterChiefWiggum obviously it depends on where those jobs are, people in California probably aren’t going to move to Japan or Finland if they need to be in-office.

Sometimes you just need to know when to let go and Naughty Dog did that.

If anything they made more Uncharted games than expected.

Besides you just can’t please everyone, for everyone who wants more Uncharted there will be someone else who would rather something new.