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@VeganH .. Yeah I can see what your saying... but then @naruball also makes a good point that it's not just about the apple.. It's about how much more they could be making from you once they've sold the Apple to you

@MARl0

I do understand the point you make, but surely if sales fall completely off the cliff their (Sony & Nintendo) making less profit now than before

I'm no expert and I'm sure someone much smarter than me can explain it properly, but I just don't understand the logic in making a product so expensive that it completely kills your sales.

It's a silly analogy I know, but let's say if I was selling Apples for £3 each and then suddenly I decided I needed to sell them for £5

I'd rather sell 20 apples at £3 a go (making £60) than just selling 2 for £5 each (making only £10) because hardly anyone is willing to pay the increased price

Before anyone points it out I'm aware that £3 is still a ridiculously expensive apple, as I say it was just a simple silly analogy 😂

@Knave21

I'm glad to hear that

Trophy hunters will have their pitch forks out

Believe it or not this was the highlight of the night for me.

As soon as I saw that Delorean I think I had a tiny orgasm. BTTF is my favourite film franchise of all time

I loved the old Stunt Man games and this was so unexpected, it's nice to see something that hadn't previously been leaked for a change

@Intr1n5ic

I'm not massively into Survival type games so I guess that's why I've instantly dismissed it.

I do however like the Honey I shrunk the kids vibes that it gives off though so maybe I'll give it a try.

It's free at the end of the day so nothing lost if I try it and don't like it

I always try to look on the brighter side and I never pick the "it's a crap selection" option .

This month however I'm willing to make an exception

I really like the sound of these for my gaming room, I currently just have a cheap sound bar the I bought of Amazon which serves it's purpose.

They sound like they will be fairly expensive though so we'll have to wait and see.

Sounds pretty cool, also reasonably priced as well.

I paid about £800 for my Samsung Odyssey gaming monitor

I don't like to use the word terrible so let's just say there's nothing for me this month

I'd never heard of it either but consider me interested

@AverageGamer

Clearly you're well off if you can afford an $800 console, so now you just sound insensitive.

Not especially well off no, I'm just sensible / careful with my money.

I bought the Pro for £639 when it was on sale (before the price hike) from a shop called Argos, they have an account system that allows me to pay for it over 12 months interest free.

After selling my OG PS5 for £300 that means in reality the Pro cost me £339.

£339 spread over a 12 month period is just over £28 per month.

The only reason I did it was because it was interest free, if there was any interest rates involved I wouldn't have bothered because I'll never pay more for anything than I need too.

Same with PS plus Extra/Premium..... I've never once paid full price for it, I always buy it when it's on sale and if necessary I'll let my subscription expire and wait for the next sale.

Nice of you to make those assumptions about me though because I agonised for months over upgrading to a Pro, it was just the imminent price hike that gave me the Push I needed 👍

@AverageGamer

£300 is about the going rate for a 2nd hand one on Facebook marketplace where I live... Admittedly it's a gamble unless you know who you're buying from. At least if you buy a pre owned one from a shop you'll have some kind of warranty to fall back on.

I've just sold my OG PS5 to my Brother in law because I upgraded to A PS5 Pro as soon as the price hike was announced

@AverageGamer

That's where the 2nd hand market comes in to play

@DestructionAllstars

I moved on in November 2020 when the PS5 launched..... never looked back since.

Good!!!! anyone still playing on PS4 in 2026 is a massive scruff... Just buy a PS5

Before anyone gets their knickers in a twist I'd like to point out that I'm just joking about being a massive scruff but it is time to move on

@TheArt @GamingGod @AverageGamer

I remember when Gran Turismo 7 came out... I had a physical pre order from my local Smyths store... I'd booked the day off work (a Friday) specifically to play it.

I picked up my order at 9am when the store opens, I was home for 9:15am, popped the disc straight inside the console.

No exaggeration it was about 11am on Saturday morning before it was fully playable 😂

Total waste of a day's annual leave lol

Don't be afraid to let your subscription expire, then just renew it next time there's a sale on.

Your collection of PS plus essential games that you've acquired will all still be there waiting for you once you re-sub

They generally have these sales at least 2 - 3 times a year. Black Friday will likely be the next one, if your subscription expires before November just let it run out and renew at the cheaper prices.

Why pay full price for something when you don't have to.... it's just madness

It might have been due out today but it would probably be Friday at the earliest by the time it downloads / installs 😂

Will probably give Nickelodeon Allstar brawl a go

Zero interest in the other 2 unfortunately

Assuming it meets the 19th November release date it'll be 13 years since the last one.

when do you think we'll see GTA 7?

I always subscribe annually rather than monthly but I've never been afraid to let it expire and wait for a sale.

I've never paid more than around £80 for a year's subscription of PS Plus Premium

@trev666

In 2023 it went up by 20% in the UK and 33% in the US

So my point is that whilst any form of price rise is frustrating, it could be a lot worse

Price rises aren't good obviously but unfortunately they were to be expected.

As price rises go though, (assuming you pay monthly) an extra £1 a month is hardly going to break the bank I wouldn't have thought, So at least they aren't the astronomical rises that we experienced a few years ago.

Personally I always pay for 12 months in full rather than monthly

As much as I do love GTA 3, there's a small part of me that will always prefer the original Top down GTA. It's not just rose tinted nostalgia either, I still fire the first game up from time to time and get just as much enjoyment out of it.

I'll still be buying the new one of course, but for me they started to loose a bit of charm in San Andreas when you had to eat to keep your health up, oh and go for a haircut and buy clothes.

Some people may like that level of realism but it's not for me... I don't mind if it's optional but when it's part of the survival of the game it starts getting to complicated for my liking.

I just want to drive around completing missions and going off on the occasional killing frenzy seeing how long I can out run the police for without worrying if I've had enough to eat lol.

I don't know if its true but I have heard rumours that in GTA 6 you may have to stop at fuel stations and toll booths.

It's be great for those that want that sort of thing but it's just over kill for me.

Make it look great but keep the game play relatively simple

Make that 730,001

I've just bought it

Excited yes.

But happy to wait, no need to dash out and buy an Xbox just to play it

£70 is probably my limit

That said I don't think I've ever actually paid that for a game.

I can't speak for the entire world but in the UK the likes of Smyth's and Currys very often give a slight discount when you pre order the game.

The RRP maybe £70 but £62 - £64.99 is probably more realistic

Unless of course you buy it digitally in which case there will be no discounts (certainly not day 1 anyway)

So basically a refurbished console now costs the same as a New console did at launch back in 2020

Edit: actually it costs more... I paid £449.99 for my launch day PS5 back on 19/11/2020

@Bez87

I buy it most years but with FC26 I decided to show my Switch 2 some love and bought it on there instead... I regretted it almost instantly.

I've no interest in handheld play, I only play on TV or gaming monitor and unfortunately the Switch 2 version just doesn't cut it, it feels slow and looks awful in comparison to the PS5 version so I've hardly bothered to play it.

It's not quite every year it gets given away for free, 22 and 24 were the most recent ones so with this new announcement, every other year seems to be the pattern

Very nearly bought FC26 a few weeks ago as it was on sale for around £20... Glad I held off now

I would just like to personally thank you for using both £££ and & $$$ pricing in the article.

Quite a rare thing these days

@nomither6

I actually agree with everything you said about the PS3, all perfectly valid points and nothing to disagree with at all.

Despite all of that though, for whatever reason it's still my least favourite Playstation lol

I enjoyed The crew Motorfest when it first came out.

Unfortunately once Forza Horizon arrived on Playstation it became surplus to requirements (at least for me it did)

If you haven't played either though and you happen to like racing games it's well worth your time

Sound good, hoping they do something similar for PS Plus Extra and Premium games.

Unless you're looking for something specific, in which case you can obviously search for the game you're looking for, just generally browsing the games is a bit of a minefield.

Could definitely do with a bit of an overhaul

PS5 Pro enhanced and haptic feedback support

May have to wait slightly longer but PS is the best place to play Xbox Flagship games

Why am I not the slightest bit surprised that Game were first in on the action when it comes to price increases

Yesterday I went into Smyth's to pick up a Disc drive for my Pro on click and collect... there were 3 people in the queue before me all picking up PS5's before the price hike..... reminded me of the start of the COVID lockdown when everyone was stocking up on Pasta, Beers and toilet rolls

Will give Tomb Raider a try but I've zero interest in the other 2 as I hate RPG games in any shape or form

I wish the headline would read "Some PS5 fans"

The way it currently reads implies that we're all desperate for it which isn't the case.

@Vyse_the_Legend

I agree that the faster loading times make a difference but if I'm spending all that money to upgrade from PS4 to PS5 I would prefer to have exclusive some games to justify my purchase.

@Vyse_the_Legend

I'm aware of that but my point was that in the past if you wanted to be able to play the latest games you had to buy the latest console.

As an example Super Mario World for the SNES wasn't available on the NES, you had to buy a SNES if you wanted to play it

There are probably a few exceptions to the rule but to my knowledge the transition from PS4 to PS5 was the first time virtually everything was still available to buy on both gens of consoles so (faster loading times aside) there wasn't that same FOMO or exclusively of owning a PS5

It took the PS5 a good 3-4 years to get into it's stride by which time there was a PS5 Pro on the market.

Having just invested in a Pro PS5 I've decided that will see me through to the inevitable PS6 Pro

I bought my OG PS5 day one but with hindsight I realise now that I didn't need to, pretty much every game I wanted to play was available as cross gen on PS4

I'm confident the PS5 will be supported in a similar way if and when we do see a PS6

@twitchtvpat

Using dollars as well is completely fine, it's when they just use dollar and nothing else that I have an issue with.

Let's just hypothetically flip the scenarios.

Let's say push Square was based in the US instead of the UK

It would be a bit weird if they were constantly posting articles quoting prices in £££ without quoting the $$$ equivalent at the same time don't you think??

Don't get me wrong they do often quote both prices as well as the Euro but being a UK site they should be posting prices in £££ as their primary objective

@LifeGirl

No that's not what I'm saying at all, that was just one simple example that was fresh in my mind of the constant use of dollers on this site.

Don't take everything I say so literally

My gripe is just the fact that this is a UK based website and they very rarely quote prices in £££

@Rich33

It not just this specific article or the PS5 Pro though, I feel like it happens all the time.

For example yesterday there was an article about the PS6 potentially costing upwards of $1000... not a single mention anywhere of the price in £££.

I know it shouldn't bother me but it really does grind my gears haha... silly I know 😂

They are a UK based website so I'll never understand why prioritize the dollar price over the pound. I'm not saying don't use the dollar price, obviously it's still relevant, but at the very least they should quote both prices.

As I say my theory is because it sounds more sensational to use the dollar price.

For Context.... according to a conversation chart which I've just checked... $1000 is roughly around the £750 mark.

£750 whilst still very expensive doesn't sound anywhere near as dramatic as $1000 when creating a headline

@SMJ

Whilst that probably is true about the large US readership.

Push Square is and always has been a UK based website so they really should be quoting prices in Pounds and pence as a priority.

Or as the bare minimum, they should be giving the prices in £££, €€€ & $$$.

I do kind of agree with @1970sGamer that by only quoting the much higher dollar price it makes for a more sensational headline

@Rich33 @Kidfunkadelic83

I've been playing Spiderman man 2 with the PSSR turned and it looks absolutely amazing.

Cards on the table I've never played it on the basic PS5 before so I've no basis for comparison but it looks head an shoulders above anything else I've ever played on the OG PS5.

Very very impressive.

I mainly wanted a Pro for the additional storage space because I was fed up of constantly having to delete games every time I wanted to play something new but this new PSSR really does seem like a game changer

@Kidfunkadelic83

To be truthful I haven't really had chance to test it properly yet.

I set it up last night and selected about 4 different "PS5 Pro enhanced" games to download, so it's all good to go when I get chance (probably tonight)

It will first probably be a case of having to watch a few YouTube videos to make sure I've got both the Pro and my gaming monitor set to the best possible settings to make the most of it 😊

If that were to happen that would be me tapping out.

Thankfully I've already got a Switch 2 and I picked up a PS5 Pro yesterday so they will both keep me going for the foreseeable future.

A 4 figure priced PS6 though????

Naa not for me