NoCode23

Will there one day be product placement in games and real world products advertised on billboards in games? Will a Borderlands game automatically pause for a Taco Bell advertisement or Tiny Tina talking about some brand of shampoo? Will Plus Premium be needed to play ad free?

I am happy Dying Light 2 is on Essential and not Extra. I passed when DL2 was on Extra because I wanted to play it on a PS5 which I now have.

@Zaczumba
Thanks for the link to a very interesting video. I'll keep my PS5 and PS4 pro updated, but my regular PS4 will stay at 6.02. For unwanted game patches and updates it is easy to just disconnect my PS4 Pro and PS5 slim from the internet.

Will there ever be an update that will allow the option to disable any and all Automatic downloading. If I don't want to update a game it is because I don't want to update that game. Why does Sony intrude and have my PS5 auto downloading an update.

After inserting a game disc into my PS3 If a game has an available update my PS3 will ask me if I want to update. When I declined I would not be asked again as long as that disc remained in the disc drive. There was also no PS4 sneaky background downloading and installing an update that would be announced as completed in an onscren message while I am playing the game. With no option to disable the intrusion I disconnect my PS4 from the internet.

Now I have found the PS5 is intruding and auto downloading an update, it's 25GB so I have time to cancel. This happens everytime I start the game, it's a PS4 disc. I have yet to see if the update will also auto install. So now I just disconnect from the internet when I play that game. A game I want to play the original unpatched version of.

This game looks like silly fun, my kind of game.

If GTA6 can not run at 1080p @ 60fps on A base PS5 then it is actually made for next gen where hopefully a PS6 can play it at least at 60fps and 1080 or 1440p.

GTA6 on base PS5 could have non blurry 1080p graphics that runs at a smooth non motion blurry 60fps. As an option a free texture pack could be offered to download for those that want finer detail at the cost of playing at 30fps. Then with the PS6 R☆ can sell an upgrade of both higher definition and 60 fps.

I'm currently playing Dead Island 2 on my PS5 slim. With my old 1080p tv I'm getting a clear 1080p at a smooth 60fps.

Overall GTA5 was a bargain at $60 0n my PS3. Hundreds of hours of play, almost daily online play for two years before I purchased a PS4. There was no dlc costs as the no extra cost online was the dlc and I never needed shark cards because I had the time to grind, and also no fee to play online. All for only $60, a cost per hour played ratio bargain in deed.

Then I paid $30 for an on sale copy of GTA5 PS4 edition, and purchased Plus for the first time to play it online. Still a bargain for the story replay at better fps, and hundreds of hours of online play from 2016 to 2018, and more hours until about 2022.

That was a decade ago and everything costs more now. Playing GTA6 will cost more, the game, the paywall to play online, and maybe even a one time fee or monthly fee to play online, or maybe major features/ content walled behind a GTA+ sub. However if I play daily and total hundreds of hours of play for a year or two it will likely also feel like a bargain.

The $20 extra for ultimate is the cost of some large dlc in some games so the content should be more than just skins, trinkets, and a weapon we may never use. One question I have is will we be able to purchase that content seperately after purchasing the regular edition?

So it's really a $100 game, not an $80 game. How much more $ for online?

Unless there are technical issues all Plus Games should be available the same day of each month, and in the first week of that month. This month, June, has 3 Plus games released on the 30th, that's just one day shy of July.

Today I voted not interested for three reasons, games, what will the PS6 offer and what will the next Xbox offer. All three are not yet known.

@Pat_trick
I agree, and you're not a debbie downer for pointing out the ugly visuals of this game. Exodus has too dark lighting, too dark interiors, too heavy volumetric lighting/atmospher, low draw distance, low contrast, and low/washed out colors. What's to like about all of that? Also throw in some unwanted depth of field blurring. Will this game have options to disable all of that and make the visuals pretty.

I don't like this often used art style of dark exteriors that has heavy fog, volumetric whatever it is blur, low draw distance, and dark interiors. The game looks interesting but I pass on games that look like this.

I would rather have first person instead of 3rd person like in Dead Island and Dying light games, but this does look like silly fun, and I enjoy silly fun.

How about an update that allows the use of ths DS4 with PS5 games, and announce that the DS4 is going back into production.

Also add a WWW icon to go to the internet.

Is there a reason to not believe that the release date may not be moved again to February or May 2027? When will there be a new trailer with real gameplay on a console, and the release date?

@Th3solution
Good idea, sell what we don't use, or Sony could just drop the Essentials paywall to subscribing to Extra and Premium. That or a least a price drop for those that want and use Extra/Premium, but don't play online or the Essentials games.

@Bez87
When GTA5 released on the PS3 Skyrim had been released only 2 years prior, New Vegas was only 3 years old, and RDR2 will be 8 years old if GTA6 releases in 2026. That giddy feeling I had when GTA5 released in 2013 seems like 30 years ago.

For some reason I now expect blurry photos and blurry videos to be included with articles about rumors and insider leaks about GTA6.

I am currently doing some replays of PS4 games on my PS5 Slim. This weekend it's Dying Light 1, currently farming the Stuffed Turtle to unlock the grappling hook. The upgrade to 60fps compared to 30fps is great in this replay of my favorite zombie game.

@Dogbreath
I'm not a tech designer or engineer. I ask is not possible for Sony to design their controllers for easy user replacement of analog sticks, which seems to be the the most common part to stop functioning properly. Also easy battery changing. For the record I asked those same two questions on the old Playstation Forum about 15 years ago.

An inexpensive way to deal with Dual Nonsense stick drift is a $70 DS4. That is if Sony would return to manufacturing DS4's and if Sony would allow DS4 use on PS5 games. Doing so would also please those, like me, that prefer the DS4 to the DualSence. Those that find the DS4 more comfortable to hold and use, lighter in weight, and don't care about or use the "sense" feature. I always play with everything off including vibration except when vibration is needed like finding stuff in RDR2.

Very interesting video. Now explain how Rockstar fit all of San Andreas onto the same type of dvd and played on the same console as GTA3, also no loading between cities. That was an amazing accomplishment.

Reliable sources have revealed that an official insider is claiming that rumors that the current rumors are absolutely possibly accurate within the range that rumors are often within the ballpark of being true.

I would like a raid mode that is similar to what Revelation 2 has.

Still no quick link to the web browser.
Still no adding of DS4 use on PS5 games.

@Almost_Ghostly
When it's game consoles, tv's, home appliances, and automobiles I'll take plain and boring over deformed, ugly, and weird looking. The PS5 looks deformed, ugly, and weird.

I would really like to see the PS5 designs passed over for what was used.

Doing a replay of Dying Light 1 on my PS5. With 60 fps and shorter load times Its a nice improvement over playing on my PS4 PRO. It's my favorite zombie game.

However my replay has reminded me how much this game needs an fov option. Just a 15° wider view from the narrow default would make a difference and provide some feeling of peripheral vision.

I still haven't the slightest idea why Sony went from the simple functional PS4 ui to the less simple PS5 ui. There is no real need to fix or change what's not broken.

Hopefully this new ui will be more simple and functional like is the current PS4 ui. Now just add the use of DS4 controllers with PS5 games so I can use a controller I find more comfortable to use. I won't miss the Dual Sense features.

@ElectricWizard , the image here on the the right is more than upscaled, the color is different, the woman looks older, wrinkles added, and the soft focus filter is turned off. Who do they think they're try to fool? The image on the left could be just as sharp minus the wrinkly face.

I can do nearly the same side by side screenshot comparison of Borderlands 2 on my PS4 PRO with taking a screenshot of how I have my tv set for viewing, and then using the settings on my tv to lower the color, contrast, and sharpness for the comparison screeshot.

I'll see it when I believe it.

It has the look of a remastered PS2 game, it might be fun to play.

Sometimes I feel like a nut
Sometimes I dont
Almond Joy has nuts
Mounds don't

I'll see it when I believe it with rumors like this. In the meantime could the dlc to those two games please become available on Plus streaming.

Learning video game tips and tricks started with Space Invaders. I leaned how to get 300 points every time I shot the flying saucer. Count the shots you fire, hits or misses, and then hit the saucer with the 23rd shot fired.

That's how my fuzzy memory remembers it, and the video here looks and sounds like what I remember playing many years ago.

That custom housing is a similiar design to what I was hoping for the PS5 and then the slimmer model. The PS5 design used is just ugly, has a flimsy horizontal positioning, having all black is an extra cost, the price went up after release, and the PRO model doesn't appear to make enough difference for the difference in cost.

Still rocking with my PS4 Pro which is a noticeable upgrade over the regular PS4, is a pretty all black rectangle, can do local saves, and I can screenshot anything on the internet to quickly use as a theme.

I'm on PS4, can make local backup saves, and have not played online since 2024 and will not until whenver GTA6 is finally released and I might then purchase a PS5.

The deal is I want Plus Extra but there is a paywall of needing to also pay for Essential which I do not need, including the 'free" games I rarely play.

MS and then Sony may drop the fee for online play, but both will not want to lose such easy money. Both will likely then raise prices elsewhere to maintain that easy income. Cloud backup saving should not carry a fee when local backup saving was removed.

@Cerny
This disc key as opposed to an all digital copy does allow for selling, sharing, and gifting. The big downside is if someone has slow internet where 75GB could take 20 - 40 or more hours to download.

Still doing well with my PS4 Pro. If the slim PS5 had been an all black rectangle design, a ui similar to the PS4, and had a web browser I would have purchased one as soon as possible.

I still have a small backlog, the PS6 is coming, and there is the option of PC with no fees to play online. So I may just skip the PS5 gen.

How about a first tease of next gen, PS6, frame rates.

There is performance then there is everything else. If the performance is poor then the everything else does not matter.

On PS5 hardware a Borderlands game at release should perform like a dream at 60fps, and with an fov slider. Exit and then reenter the game to fix the performance? Has Gearbox forgotten how to make a video game?

An fov slider was added to the first 3 Borderlands games when ported to PS4. Borderlands 3 was released with an fov slider. Wondelands added an fov slider after release. BL4 releasing without an fov slider is puzzling.

As for performance, I have played all previous Borderlands games on my PS4 and have not noticed any change in performance when using a wider than default fov. I like an fov of 90 as 70 or 75 feels narrow and removes the feeling of peripheral vision.

My premium sub ends this month. Right now I'm not too motivated to extend the sub. I will not need online play until GTA6 releases.

The big issue I have is that I had to pay for the online play this past year even though I only wanted the extra and the premium. So even if I still want extra now I see little reason to pay for the online until GTA6 online becomes available and there is a reason to pay for online play.

Let me translate this. Sony has lots of 825GB allready in stock and already paid for, and what they don't have is now probably dirt cheap. So we get that instead of the new larger ITB. Then too that drop will hopefully prompt more purchasing additional storage.

Comparing to PS2, 3, and 4 gens a regular PS5 with disc drive and 1TB drive should now be $400, and the Pro with drive and 1TB $500. Then in 2027 a 2TB slimmer slim with 2 TB for $300. My PS2 slim was $125 new as compared to the original price of $300 for a PS2.

Yes there has been inflation and skrinkflation, but unfortunately hourly pay and salaries have not kept up with rising prices.

There is problem if developers do not regularly read sites like this as well as Reddit and GTA Forums for GTA and Red Dead games. Also comments to youtube videos. All a developer needs is one gamer to sort out the negatives and trolls from the sincere. Almost any reasonable gamer can do so.

When both GTA5 and RDR2 were new the GTA Forum was a treasurer chest full of very usefull information, and still is. The trolls and trouble makers are called out quickly by the community. That one site is probable all R☆ needs for game evaluation.

Reddit has a lot of trolls but also lots of good game intormation. It's just a matter of learning to filter. Often I only need to read the title for a quick passover.

@darylb24
GTA6 will undoubtedly be playable at release on a PS5. However it will also then be playable on a PS6. Fall of 2027 or Fall of 2028 could be when the PS6 releases.

GTA5 released 2 months prior to the PS4 release in 2013. One year later in 2014 GTA5 was released on PS4. The longer GTA6 is delayed the more the possibility of it being released close to or when the PS6 is released.

News from the future: April 2026 R☆ announces GTA6 release date will be moved to Fall of 2027.
What else may be released Fall of 2027 or soon there after?

Nothing for me this month, maybe stream P to get a taste. A 2019 review of DayZ from play on a PS4 Pro received a 2/10 score because of extremely poor/ unplayable performance. Why then include it as s monthly essential game? Has it been fixed?

I have multiple replays of the first game + the dlc. The 'Beast' having similarities to the first game is great news. The trailer definitely gives me a Dying Light 1 vibe, like it could be a dlc of that first game. A month delay for polishing? No problem.

This trailer on a loop may be good for insomnia.

It's a secret? So it must be the addition of the option to have the PS4 UI, folders like the PS4,themes, saves to usb drives, and a proper way to use the web browser like the PS3 and PS4 have. Also an added shape shifting ability to optionally make the PS5 into a pretty matte black rectangle shaped console.