As a lifelong LOTR fan, I don’t think these games are very good.

And if you do want to play them on your PS5, well, they are. So…

It's a masterpiece, and basically the PS4 generation's equivalent of Final Fantasy 7

@Almost_Ghostly Basic etiquette isn't yours, is it?

@Almost_Ghostly What the hell dude? You don't get to tell others how they should be splitting up their disposable income and what they should be spending it on.

As an example, and speaking for myself, I am fully employed, and earn a very good and healthy amount of money. The cheapest PS Plus costs $110 a year here, which is an outrageous cost that I refuse to pay. It is not about whether or not I can, I absolutely can, but that I will not. I refuse to. I am not spending $110 every 12 months just to get cloud backups, the ability to play multiplayer for the handful of times a year I will want to do that, and for "free" games I never even look at. It's a bullsh*t, overpriced service that offers no value, and therefore I refuse to subscribe to it, even with my financial situation being comfortable. Someone who is financially worse off choosing to not spend their money on PS Plus is entirely understandable. The fix is not for them to spend less money on drinking or parties or whatever the f**k, the fix is for Sony to either drop the price to where people find it palatable to spend money on it, or to improve their offerings, to where the price justifies itself.

I like how Sammy refuses to acknowledge Nintendo even in this poll 🤣

@CutchuSlow yeah, not sure if you’re aware, but they’re already developing for Nintendo. Animal Well was day and date on Switch, and sold best there

I think 2 is my favorite overall, but 4 is very good too, and probably my second favorite. My problem is the severe pacing issues it has, but the gameplay is sublime, and it does pick up in the back half and really hit its stride.

Just kinda wish they had continued the tradition of having a supernatural twist at the end lol. I was waiting for some Pirates of the Caribbean *****, but they played it totally straight

I think this looks really *****, but I can’t get over the hilarity of thinking nvidia has ever given ANY thought whatsoever to PSSR lmao

Yeah, I mean it makes sense. There’s very little market for an experience like this on PS5, and a small, self funded indie team like this needs to pick its battles in term of deciding what to spend their money on.

@Jammer the Switch 2 is fully BC, those games run on it just fine

@LifeGirl It's the other way around. Terminally online nerds have convinced themselves these nitpicks matter, whereas in the real world people are seeing a great device with great games being sold for a justifiable cost, and buying it in droves

I am going to be honest, I am already not paying for PS+, and I haven't for a couple years now. The price increases in Canada ultimately caused the price of even Essential to go up to $80 a year, and I am not comfortable paying that much every year for something that I am mostly only using for cloud saves and very infrequent online play.

This is actually an area where Nintendo comes out ahead; NSO's cheapest tier is absurdly cheap even in the absolute worst possible case (single person paying annually), and options to mitigate the cost like the family groups can bring the cost down even lower. It's incredibly hilarious to me that the only online I am currently paying for is NSO, because the couple dollars I pay for it a year is proportionate to my usage for it (which is cloud backup and intermittent online play).

Game Pass and PS+ both priced me out 🤷

No *****? Why wouldn’t it be?

@Amnesiac Hey, I shared numbers for Atomic Heart too, which did better on the cutting edge PS5 than it did anywhere else.

My point was more that PushSquare often tends to be selective with sales charts reporting when it can make their preferred system look bad, and I feel that's just not a good way to report news. And I extend this criticism to Nintendo Life and Pure Xbox as well, fwiw. I just think news should be consistently reported

@Amnesiac the full charts have a breakdown lol

“ Next up, Octopath Traveler II debuts at number six, which is entirely respectable for what is effectively a very niche RPG franchise from Square Enix. In terms of the sales split, the game comfortably sold the most on Switch at 74%, with the PS5 making up 24%, and the PS4 2%”

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“We've also got Atomic Heart entering the charts at number seven. It's worth noting that the former was a day one release on Game Pass, so Xbox sales only made up 13% of the split.”

I find it fascinating that you happened to not provide platform splits for games like Octopath 🤔

@Fiendish-Beaver Functionally staring at a 55 inch screen from 10 feet away and staring at a 7 inch screen from 3 feet away is more or less the exact same amount of strain on your eyes ¯(ツ)/¯

@uptownsoul I mean you are objectively wrong about Neo sales, but go off

@uptownsoul nope

@Tom-Smo Switch 67%, PS4 33%