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@OldGamer999 Adjusted for inflation, how much were the consoles you were playing on back in the day?

@DennisReynolds I'd say it's more a case of they did, but just don't care.

Xbox is dead as a console brand and I'd assume the main reason why you can even still go and buy a Series console is for when your own packs in.

It's seen enough Development Hell to ensure this'll be on my "wait for many reviews and community feedback" list.

Sony’s next-gen console

Launch was five years and two days ago...

That's like what, 40 laps of Sardegna lol

Insert "y'all got any more of those videogames" meme here.

@ATaco Oh I agree. Money is the devil. But unfortunately Greg my baker won't barter for a loaf of bread

@ATaco Funny how people on a gaming site have trouble understanding the fact that game prices have stayed well behind the inflation curve and as unsavoury as the recent bump in prices were, literally everything else you can go out and buy also saw price increases.

Stop calling them Activision. This is Microsoft, and Microsoft have a serous thing for AI.

Never really cared for the franchise, but the blatant enshitification of it continues unabated.

How the mighty have fallen.

@MamaSymphonia

I would like to see a stronger focus on making the next PlayStation either a very unique place to play or a better value place to play than my PC

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The PS5 was great value. The €500 I paid for mine at launch five years ago wouldn't have bought me a PC that can run games like Death Stranding 2 or Horizon Forbidden West.

@RoomWithaMoose Quantity I agree with, but the quality has been stellar.

Of course what sort of games you want to play is subjective, but in technical terms Sony are one of the few publishers I'm okay with buying on day one.

@AdamNovice The leaked roadmap for the studio is Marvel until the 2030s.

We'll be seeing a new, 12 hour R&C game about a decade after the last one.

@Balaam_ I hope they include even more asinine trophies for Plat in a new version 😎😎😎

I'll stick to my €9.99 GotY Edition that I'll never fully experience anyways, thank you very much, Big Todd.

@Hyena_socks I thought it was a pretty colourful game. FO3 is legit brown game.

@LazyDaisy If you own a Nintendo or PC yeah it'll affect their markets. Anyone buying GTA6 (which will be a lot of people) now have less time and money to spend on Nintendo or PC

Pints, burgers, breakfast by the seaside this weekend, so no gaming.

I do have the Death Stranding 2 five hour trial from Premium lined up for post-drudgery on Monday at least!

It was a repeat. Played it all before and have zero desire for a third iteration. Was happy when the credits rolled, and sold the disc to a buddy half hour later.

I did prefer Atsu - she knew what she wanted, and knew how to get it.

@JimmyRiddle Almost none of their audience will care. Even less so once GTA 6 actually launches

@PerpetualBoredom Yep. Also @ your 73, hello fellow scientific background enjoyer.

Yeah I don't drive, travel internationally, or have kids - the the three things that leave by far the biggest carbon footprint.

I'm not particularly worried about my physical media collection.

@get2sammyb And the borderline broken input latency?

@Krlozgod No, they're asking for a refund because it's broken garbage and always has been. It's just a lot less acceptable in 2025.

There's no accounting for taste. I don't get much value from Essential because I've already stumped up cash for a lot of these titles.

@EYEBALL

Not everyone has an up-to-date TV with good response times though especially when a TV is just pal, 50hz only but many people out there don't have a clue when it comes to things like that so they just assume it runs like dung.

There's a delicious irony to saying many people don't have a clue when what you wrote immediately before that is incorrect.

No one has a PAL TV anymore. It's a legacy format that's only included for backward compatibility with legacy media reasons. The last PlayStation you that was connectible to a PAL TV was the PS3, the last one you had to connect to a PAL TV was PS2.

@ozkrmz I hate to be that guy, but I really don't see Sony ditching the most profitable part of the entire PlayStation business model.

Seems like a good place to mention this - if you live in Ireland, Smyth's have the new Fatal Fury for €9.99.

@purple_mouse_gaming That'd be great if it wasn't management and marketing making them release slightly undercooked games.

@djlard So you're basing what games you'll play on a restrictive subscription service based on how they look?

And if you really are "happy to grab" FF, it tanked so can be had on disc already for very little (it's currently €9.99 plus the season pass at my preferred retailer)

Well I paid money for WRC. It's a good game, but you have to like rallying (duh), and not afraid of being punished for your mistakes.

@Dalamar Thank you, I called Stray a walking stimulator recently and that didn't go down too well.

About to wrap up Ghost of Yotei. Really enjoyed it, but kinda glad it's coming to an end (partially my own fault for hammering the side content).

Messing around with Tekken 3 - I do miss this era of the franchise.

BallxPit has piqued my interest so I'll try out the demo of that on Premium (somehow I'm still grandfathered on the half price and would be paying the same for Essential anyways, so I may as well keep it).

@Scarface82G1 Nope, this is the borderline broken, utterly garbage gameplay showing its true colours.

@DennisReynolds You've a very different memory than I do of the 1990s. Bar the original game on SNES with the "sweat" instead of blood, and the same game on Megadrive requiring a cheat code (that was so common knowledge that I'm pretty sure even my Nan knew), care to cite examples of no-gore MK? By all means, the mic is yours on this one...

Even in the tamed versions of it you could still knock people into The Pit, spear them in the chest or turn them to a skeleton with Scorpion.

@DennisReynolds Were those games sold strictly on the wanton gore alone like MK? Absolutely no one bought those early MK games for their gameplay. Nor the knock off Big Trouble in Little China story.

Did people play GTA for the gameplay? Resi Evil? The Last of Us? Or the nasty bits?

To answer your question, yes, Gears and God of War are indeed nasty. Gears has little to redeem it, but those old God of War games were spectacles with tight and engaging gameplay, unlike anything related to MK.

@DennisReynolds None of that changes the fact it's unbalanced rubbish and nasty.

An Almost Flawless Victory for Fighting Game Fans

As a fighting game fan since I first played Street Fighter 2 in the arcades, I'd strongly beg to differ. These games were always little more than nasty gore porn. Unbalanced muck.

@LikelySatan I mean, it's a trophy. You don't generally get trophies in no life for no reason. Bar videogames, apparently.

But my original point is if they're so trivial to obtain, then they're meaningless. I'd much prefer that Sony scrapped them entirely as they add nothing to games, and can sometimes make them even worse (especially online). Like the dude whining in Street Fighter 6's public lobby for people to throw the tournaments because they weren't good enough to get enough wins for the trophy.

@FatalBubbles I enjoy trophies being tests of skill. Not "here's a thing that says you booted it up".

The very definition of "if everyone has it, then no one has it".

I've no idea how anyone enjoys getting trophies for basically booting the thing up and engaging with the content they paid for.

@AdamNovice Came out around the same time as Tekken 5, which was absolutely chock-a-block with content.

Switch 2 not being next gen at that point is semantics. Whenever I walk into my local retailer in 2028 (or whenever), the choice will be Switch 2 or PS6.

@Korgon Ah right, that is indeed how it works. I haven't actually played properly since the end of Season 2.

Been watching a few replays since C. Viper launched but agree 100%, absolutely cannot support this either.

@Jrs1 "Why would I watch the World Cup final when I can kick a ball around myself?".

@Jammer Is it? I don't remember any fail states/being able to miss platformers like in an actual platformer like Mario or Crash Bandicoot.

Wouldn't people be able to look up the replays of whoever is fighting in-game anyways?

Walking simulator with a cat. Pass.

@Slayer25c Because Halo is in the news cycle and ticking SEO boxes, and this is an easy article to write...

@Boxmonkey The first big win from their push is called "Helldivers 2".