Max_the_German

I‘ve never played an AC game, and I‘m tempted by Origins and Odyssey. Both seem to have a good reputation and run well on PS5. But I want to start with one game (they’re long enough) and can’t decide. I want „the better one“.

Origins or Odyssey? And why?

After RE8 with PSVR2, I can digest almost everything.

Sounds great! Enough stuff to fill the porting pipeline for Nightdive, in case there is a drought for new external orders. The revenues from sales of ported games help to keep the Nightdive staff paid and intact.

@get2sammyb Thank you! These prices for add-ons are really special. So it’s no wonder that it’s called Special Edition.

TSW5 is on PS Plus Extra, which I don’t have. Would be great to get a time-limited demo (not PS Plus Premium bound) of TWS6 to find out whether is someone’s cup of tea!

The older I become, the more interested I get about these simulators with trains and trucks (excuse me, lorries). But the most interesting route for me (Mannheim - Kaiserslautern, I used these red trains for several years) is only included in the very pricey Special Edition.

Are there chances for significant discounts in the near future?

Comparing this BS with GTA, AGAIN… I don’t know what to post without getting banned.

If their number is not important, my wish for new live service games is zero.

@Rich33 In my understanding it’s not particularly difficult to bring PSSR to UE5, but its own TSR works so well and is tuned for the UE5 features that other solutions have a hard time to compete.

And that brings us to FSR4 on PS5 Pro: Will that work better on UE5? Nobody knows right now (except engineers from AMD, Sony and Epic).

PSSR seems to be an interim solution, with bad chances for long-term support from Sony. As a game developer, I wouldn‘t use it. FSR 4 is clearly the future.

These constant frame drops seem to stem from poor DRS settings, i.e. the resolution is set too high to maintain 60 fps (while the resolution is already abysmally low).

Compare that to MGS 5. 1080p60 on base PS4:

https://youtu.be/PEbfqaCrs3U?si=Amn9XPFigMe2vaPo

Still weird to see Forza news on a PlayStation website as if would be the most normal thing in the world.

Even the Pro…

Based on the latest price increases, I‘m not surprised by the very high sales numbers for Switch 2. While in the past you could expect a discount a few years after release, now you must expect a price increase.

The best strategy now is to buy hardware day one. And even for software, heavy discounts for popular games aren’t a given anymore.

While watching this trailer, it got clear to me why Mario, Donkey Kong and Astro Bot don’t talk.

„Capcom finally gives us the classics“

I‘m generally interested: Who in fact determines which games become available on PS Plus? Is it the willingness to pay from SIE? Or is (in this example) Capcom holding back their titles due to strategic reasons, now releasing them to building up hype for Requiem?

Either way, getting games into PS Plus looks like a huge permanent negotiation to me.

This is quite confusing for me:

• Michael Pachter: „Fairgame$ canceled“ -> A simple and clear statement, but no proof.
• PlayStation spokesperson: „committed to supporting Haven Studios and excited to continue the journey“ -> Is Fairgame$ still part of this journey? I don’t read it from this statement, and Haven might now be working on something completely different. But maybe the quote is incomplete, and the original quote still includes Fairgame$.
• Sammy Barker: „Don‘t believe Pachter, it sounds like he’s associated Raymond’s departure with the project’s cancellation, which isn’t the case.“ -> Does he know more than Pachter? Or is it just a different interpretation of Sony‘s statement than mine?

Edit: I could open the full article with this spokesperson‘s statement, which is completely cited in the article above (https://archive.is/20250516013448/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-15/playstation-executive-jade-raymond-leaves-studio-she-founded). But I couldn’t find a statement on SIE‘s PR website. Therefore: Still no signs for me that this „journey“ still includes Fairgame$, it could already be cancelled.

@get2sammyb @Fartingale Or they used pictures of the studio head for the AI training:

https://www.xing.com/profile/Ivan_Mirkovikj2

Yes, in hindsight it’s easier to assess a decision.

„We are constantly working on making our products even better.“

This is such a rare and worthwhile corporate statement, and therefore worth an article, of course.

MetaHuman works! These UE5 generated human models make games look much higher quality than they are.

This is MindsEye 2, and everyone knows it.

These guesses are very general and save compared to the ones in the previous years. Come on, please add some more risky ones!

„But it’s clear, whatever Microsoft says, its subscription cannot support the size of its development network anyway“

That is a bold statement. I am interested to see the underlying calculation which justifies the claim that Microsoft is not telling the truth. Additionally, what is Microsoft really saying? And for multi-platform games like CoD, I haven’t ever seen any claim from Microsoft that they should become Xbox exclusives (which could lead to the assumption that Game Pass alone could finance them) - these were ridiculous statements from fanboys and Sony during the ABK acquisition process.

@Damage99 Getting bored is not for free, Premium is premium.

Why only for retro gamers? Every gamer with style will see its qualities.

@Oram77 @get2sammyb Yes, of course having a disc with a flawed version is better than none. But a great Golden Master version is so rare these days!

And while people still begging „Your devs will anyway work another six months on bugfixing, just delay the release by a few months!“, nothing has really changed.

I‘ve got the bad feeling that bugfixing nowadays is connected to the commercial outcome: If people buy the game regardless of its poor technical quality, publishers spend money for bugfixing. If it’s a flop, then publishers are happy not to waste even more good money for the crap.

So if Cronos will be in a great technical shape, forget my comments. If…

Oh, that’s great! So I can still play it in 15 years in full glory when PSN support for PS5 is shut down…

Full glory without all the inevitable upcoming patches which are essential for an enjoyable experience?!

@KundaliniRising333 @Midnyte-Monkey Yes, gimmicky and unfun is what it looks like. As you can see with Donkey Kong Bananza, implementing new gameplay mechanics needs some time, and Capcom took it. But that is no guarantee that it succeeds.

@mohok That‘s a transformation in the post-game, Astro Bananza. But it is silent, because in space, no one can hear to sing.

DayZ and MHOJ2 are almost irrelevant this month, but Sony still pays for them (almost nothing, I hope). I‘d prefer to get only one game per month, but of a similar calibre as Lies of P.

„Beware of Peach and Toads“

If true, it will be interesting to see how a PS6 Portable will play PS5 games while having only a quadcore CPU (PS5 has 8 cores), with a TBP of 15 W. And all of that in two years? I‘m sceptical.

Gran Turismo 7. Come on, Sony, milk the cow!

„No, I don’t want the shoes of influncer XY like everyone else in my class. It’s not because I can’t afford them, no, no. I just prefer gritty realism.“

@Oram77 I know the meaning of the term „probably“.

We will probably know more in 3 hours after today’s Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase.

@PsBoxSwitchOwner I agree, and that’s the real danger of Xbox. In a group like MS, every division has to be profitable in the medium and long term. The respective IRRs may differ, but more profitable divisions get more strategic attention (aka money for investments), and they rise the target IRRs for the less profitable ones.

I don’t know whether a partial IPO of Xbox would be a smart move or not. It would reduce the profit expectations for Microsoft, due to its then lower importance for MS. On the other hand, if Minecraft really becomes the gate to a glorious metaverse future, MS would be very happy to own Xbox alone, so it can easily be integrated into the whole MA ecosystem.

@SeaDaVie Yes, the real numbers are much behind the projections. They were based on a success of Xbox Series X/S which never happened. With our PlayStation glasses on, we focus on the MS releases on PlayStation. But the real music plays on the PC, in China, India, Africa. That’s the future, not console business in the West.

@PsBoxSwitchOwner Despite its relatively small size, MS will remain in the gaming business. Because everyone saw how hard it is the get into it (Google Stadia, Amazon Luna), and gaming seems somehow to be the entry point and cornerstone of the metaverse.

In the past I laughed about this concept, but Fortnite and Roblox show what metaverse really means. That’s the reason why Nintendo is doing this NSO Playtest Programme, and I would bet that Minecraft will be Microsoft‘s steppingstone into this new era of interactive platforms.

I don’t understand the downplay of the 5B annual revenue for Game Pass. For comparison: Netflix had an annual revenue of 39B in 2024, and this is a service a huge number of people has.

With the latest addition of studios and IPs, the steady shift to PC gaming (which is the dominant platform in the growing markets worldwide) and the upcoming console-like PCs, I am not worried about Xbox‘ future.

I came into the PlayStation ecosystem with the PS5, and the PS Plus Collection was a huge deal for me: all these great PS4 games, played with higher framerates on PS5, for only 60 Euros per year. It was clearly Sony‘s answer to Game Pass, and perfect to bring over Xbox One players to PlayStation.

But now? I have more money for games than time to play them. For 80 Euros, I can pick 2-3 discounted games I‘m really interested in! Elden Ring for 30 EUR, RoboCop for 17 EUR, … And they remain in my collection after halting my subscription, even mainly as physical disks.

So no, unless Sony offers me Essential for less than 50 EUR on Black Friday, I‘m out after 5 years. Will I miss it? Probably yes, but not enough to feel bad.

My main takeaway: The 2.5B for Mojang in 2014 and the 7.5B for Zenimax in 2020 were very well invested, the 69B for ABK in 2022 less so.

Finally a game which justifies my subscription!

@Czar_Khastik The best thing about your comment: It is unclear whether you did a joke or not.

My prediction: Tencent will win, the game becomes a huge success on PC, Xbox and Switch, and Sony regrets its decision due to millions of missed in-game purchases.

Relax, everyone! In a few years, AI results will be so good that only experts can say with certainty whether a picture is generated by man or machine. Is this a good development? For artists, creativity and art in general, definitely not. But 99% of all pictures etc. are kitsch, not art.

Thank God for indie games like this! They contain so much soul and passion for video games.

And they also act as a window for the industry, showing an alternative to risk-free AAA sequels which want to please everyone but please nobody.

Very creative indeed! Wouldn’t been surprised to see EA and others to jump onto this train. NFTs are dead, but freely tradable crypto coins may be the way forward for them.

@Oz_Who_Dat_Dare I agree, this game will most likely be CPU limited, and the Pro only got a 10% higher performance here. That means a mode with 60 fps „target“ could also be a thing on the base PS5. And most likely, people will buy it regardless of the existence of a 60 fps mode.

A remaster of Dark Souls 3 is what we need, because the existing version is perfectly fine on PS5.

And I was pleasantly surprised when they released the 60 fps patch for Bloodborne. We already knew before that it was just editing two lines of code, but PlayStation is the gift that keeps on giving!

@djlard Nope

@Oram77 AI voices can be interactive, which is not the worst fit for an interactive medium. I think the future of interactive entertainment won’t be a combination of interactive gaming with prerecorded film-like sequences. It will be much more context sensitive than the cutscenes in Death Stranding, where the only interactivity are the cosmetics of the characters.