Sounds very, very good.

@ButteredCrumpet Very interesting! I assume it will release, but based on a high price, the sales numbers will be comparatively small.

Many developers will never include the Power Saver Mode into their (existing) games, or any other kind of adaptation for this handheld. Do you have any information that it will standard PS5 software, too?

@ButteredCrumpet Now I‘m curious what this handheld is called internally at Sony. Do you know it? Canis seems to be the codename for the AMD APU, but I couldn’t find the codename of the whole system.

@wildcat_kickz No reliable source has ever used the term „PS6 handheld“. It was always a „PS handheld“.

I think that we could see the reiteration of the former PS handhelds (IF this new handheld ever sees the light):

• PSP was the companion of the PS3 and played almost-PS2-level games.
• Vita was the companion of the PS4 and played almost-PS3-level games.

That would mean:

• New handheld will be the companion of the PS6 and will play almost-PS5-level games.

@2here2there You know the difference of „in recent years“ and „will“.

@Oram77 I think so, and I can almost here the complaints „RE10 isn’t using the full potential of PS6, it is held back by the Switch 2“.

If mobile PC gaming will further grow in popularity (and PS6 will cost four digits), targeting Switch 2 will make even more sense.

PlayStation will become almost irrelevant for the Japanese market, and many Japanese developers and publishers will choose Switch as their target platform, following Capcom in this regard.

I don’t like the negativity in this article. People like some PS3 games, publisher makes barebones ports for PS5, people like them and buy them.

Where is the problem?

@dschons If the multiple storefronts were from competing providers, I would appreciate that model! It would basically be the PC model, but with the right to resell (and bequest). The EU forced Apple to permit storefronts from other providers, and with some minor adjustments, this could also be applied to videogame platform holders.

But I would still prefer physical media. But even that is not enough: It must be guaranteed that the consoles will accept all physical games also in future. I‘m afraid that one day, via a small software update, my PS5 won’t accept playing GT7 anymore, because Sony’s rights for the car models expired, and Sony revokes my licence for GT7, even if I own the disc.

@dschons It‘s not the unpacking or the look in the shelf or othet nerdy things. It’s the fact that you hold something in your hands you paid for, which you can sell, and which lasts.

And why should I care that other people prefer digital?

These games are what I bought PSVR2 day-one for over 500 euros for.

„Two of PS5‘s Biggest…“

See thumbnail.

Aha.

„None of them, to be honest“

Looks like a game with a wit that even the most clueless 12-years old will understand. The opposite of subtlety.

But the Insomniac formula seems to sell, and I‘m not the target audience. That’s fine.

With the end of physical games in general and these special editions in particular, gaming will lose so much of its soul.

PlayStation is becoming a soulless product. Because soul is something you can’t measure and put as a value into a spreadsheet.

Definitively one of the most interesting releases this year. I assume it’s not the next Witcher 3, but you never know.

Play The Talos Principle 2!
Play The Talos Principle 2!

Now I hope that Xbox (or XBOX) takes the chance to bring discs to the upcoming console. And makes short clips how to lend and sell Xbox games.

My digital PS library is small, my games are mainly on discs. And most of these games run great on PS5, with no need to play them on PS6. And with the exceptions of Astro Bot, Returnal and Saros, the PS Studios output for PS5 was pretty dire so far.

Maybe, should I really switch to Team Green? I have never had an Xbox controller in my hands.

And I still say: Keep the price out of the score. Prices change, and everyone has a different budget and willingness to pay.

I‘d pay 80 euros for a Bloodborne with 60 fps in the blink of an eye, even if it’s only 1080p.

@GraniteFraggle Yes, it seems that these discs have an individual ID.

And, if the rumour is true, the most ironical aspect: These IDs were supposedly added for the infamous online-only restriction for Xbox One, which was originally announced by Don Mattrick and later taken back.

These are all speculations by tech people. But if true, it’s interesting that Xbox still printed these IDs onto the discs, despite not needed for the original purpose any more.

Stupid people! They didn’t read the review here, so they didn’t know that they can’t have enough fun in relation to the price.

These games look like boosted PS3 games; it’s a wonder how the gamers back then could have fun at all playing these games on PS3.

Price shouldn’t be taken into account for the score:

While a game usually remains mostly unchanged for the majority of its lifetime, the price can drastically change over time and often does. This lets reviews like this here age like fine milk.

@Boxmonkey What you say is cynical, and I think it has more truth in it than most people would admit. But I think that firing some people won’t help, the whole mentality in this studio seems to be not suited for smaller, more modern games. Splitting up the studio into two smaller ones could help: one „Bethesda classic studio“ with all the „blades of grass aficionados“, and another studio with people with a more modern mindset, using Unreal Engine for games which take „only“ five years to make.

This is bad management. If you prioritise and even close studios (which is a viable solution btw), the prioritiesed studios must feel stronger and better prepared for the future. We see the opposite here.

Microsoft is profoundly damaging the core parts of the whole Xbox division.

With fewer options to obtain games legally, non-legal options become more and more attractive.

@11001100110zero Sony knows what the fans want and ignore it. We are not representing the „modern gaming of tomorrow“. Sony cares what thr Roblox players want, they are the future - for Sony.

This is the cheapest poll I‘ve ever seen on this website.

@themightyant You mean like the demo for DQ11, which contained some six (or more?) hours of gameplay, with the option to transfer the save state to the full game? No paid subscription needed!

Demos are back, and I love it. But paying for getting access to a demo is a very Sony thing.

@8th_Observer No, I say that these people are no heartless monsters but humans, and some of them even with a conscience. But that shouldn’t stop anyone from living with an ‚them up there, us down here’s mentality.

@NerdyPaul Nice prejudices! Do you really think that all of these people in charge are without empathy? I know people who had to lay off in masses, and they still suffer from this pressure. And they knew: If I am not the one who signs the decision, another is doing it, but I will have a hard time finding a new job.

@UltimateOtaku91 Can you also see that prople are moving away from PlayStation? Unlike Microsoft, Sony closed studios. Finito!

@get2sammyb I disagree. Many Xbox and Xbox 360 discs work perfectly fine in an Xbox Series X. Try this with your PS2 and PS3 discs!

This is beta (alpha?) PC footage. We don’t know anything about the final PS5 graphics.

@PlayNation5 I want good physical media. With a great version to play without required downloads: no HD texture packs, no patches, nothing.

Because I want the easiest preparation before a long journey (e.g. a long train ride for a business trip). I grap my Switch Lite and a cartridge: Metroid Dread? Ori? Super Mario 3D World? Dark Souls? Skyward Sword HD? And it just works!

It is possible for newer games as well. I bet that Wolverine, GoW Laufey and the upcoming Ocarina of Time for Switch 2 will deliver exactly that.

Crap like Crimson Desert, which will NEVER be in a great state, even after a hundred patches, doesn’t need discs, because these discs are hardly more than a Game Key Disc.

Sony got humour!

@nessisonett There are more shareholders in the world (and probably in your neighbourhood) than you think.

(I have only property loans…)

Every gamer (even those with all-digital libraries) hates Sony‘s move towards an „adorably all-digital future“.

And we all know that Sony will get away with it, hence the rise in the stock price.

@NerdyPaul Problem with the DMA is that these platforms won‘t reach the high numbers for EU-wide revenue (7.5b euros per year) or alternatively market value (75b euros), 45m monthly end users and ten thousand affected commercial users. DMA aims for the very big platforms like Apple AppStore; console gaming is just too small.

PlayStation is NOT at rock bottom. Hermen can still close some studios which didn’t release a new game for a while or never.

Bend?
Haven?
Media Molecule?
Nixxes?

So many opportunities. Choose one!

Naugh…

I hope that the EU will force Sony to open its ecosystem for third-party stores, as Brussels did with Apple.

@get2sammyb I hoped that with Hideaki Nishino, SIE will get on track again. But no: PlayStation doesn’t care about its fans anymore. Compared to the huge number of standard customers (who like their COD, Fortnite, Roblox, Gatcha), the PS fanbase is very small, and fans often have an irrationally positive stance towards their object of fanatism.

Sony just can afford it to ignore us!

The concept of physical game media was already diluted when the day-one patch became the norm and people got used to it.

The version on the disc is often a poor experience, and that‘s what you get when there is no internet connection or, after many years, no server for updates left.

Thankfully, there are publishers with a good track record of stable, performant and complete versions on the disc/cartridge. Let’s celebrate the old Sony!

@get2sammyb „this backlash is going to last a long, long time“

People are good in forgiving and forgetting when the price to pay (digital-only) is small enough compared to the outcome (lovely, lovely games). And SIE’s marketing department knows that, they probably analysed all these failed boycott attempts over a span of several decades now.

Sony really spoils us today!

@get2sammyb „but it’s also important to […] understand why this is happening as well.“

It’s about to get rid of the retailers and the second-hand market. Sony can set all conditions in PS Store.

You must be in a great position to act arrogantly. And PlayStation definitively is!

„Don’t worry, dear PS6 customers, you will be able to download your favourite games… Until when? Well, let yourselves be surprised!“

@Lanmanna The business model for GameStop can‘t be selling plushies and other gaming kitsch. There’s a reason why they want to swallow eBay. Retailers for games apart from electronics markets will vanish, easy as that.

Sony seems very confident with the release of the PS6, these steps indicate.