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These are the same PS*’s that only seem to exist for some digital collectors mumbo jumbo, right? Or can you exchange them for currency like Nintendo Gold Points?

I think he means that there is a large number of entitled console gamers who think the industry revolves around them. Any game not catering to their tastes and whims is dismissed as ‘casual’. The majority of the games-playing public see it as a feature on another device, not a thing unto itself.

I smell pre-rendered gameplay footage. Why is it randomly switching between first and third person?

Great. Now they’ll make even less.

They could start by just enabling all the old campaigns so you can play the whole Destiny 2 story from start to finish.

Why not just make a classic multiplayer title with death match, team death match and some sort of co-op mode?

Halo Infinite never worked as a live service title but my word it’s still a hell of a lot of fun just jumping into a game of Slayer or Firefight.

A $Billion is a lot of money to stop Microsoft buying them to reboot Halo.

“Did you ever think the sluggish PS Store on PS3 would remain online in 2024 BCE?“

I know Ken’s claims about the Cell were pretty wild but I never knew it could do time travel!

What’s he moaning about? Microsoft had a ton of free marketing this very weekend!

A better option would be to animate it. Get Studio Mir onboard to create the visuals and involve the original creators in writing the scripts. They could do a dual-timeline story fleshing out the world of Sobek and Faro alongside Aloy’s time. It would be a lot cheaper to make.

Beloved is a strong word. It was a comfortable 7/10 at the time but not really memorable.

I really wanted to love Sekiro. The setting and story looked wonderful. But the only way I could even make it past the boss in the prologue was to just leg it.

These games don’t need an easy mode to cater for crap players like myself. They need some cheat codes so we can practice without dying! It wouldn’t hurt to put an invincibility cheat in there would it?

Ignoring the obvious difference in console sales for a second it’s kind of ironic seeing Sony turn to backwards compatibility to fill in a sparse release schedule after Microsoft did the same thing with the Xbox One!

Woah

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Woah.

I will not hear the name of Core Design forgotten in these parts. Outside Tomb Raider they made some great games, many of which are also deserving of a remaster.

An HD update of Herdy Gerdy or Project Eden would be great.

@Neverwild I’m just going by E3.

MIA from Gamescom or the industry at large?

How ironic that Microsoft is filling in Sony’s sparse release schedule!

Section 50A of the UK Copyrights, Designs and Patents Act 1988:

“It is not an infringement of copyright for a lawful user of a copy of a computer program to make any back up copy of it which it is necessary for him to have for the purposes of his lawful use.“

Sony’s EULA isn’t worth the bytes of the .txt file it’s typed on.

The law doesn’t just suddenly change because the software code is written to a server instead of a disc of some sort. If I have paid for software and have the receipts to prove it its mine to pass on as I see fit.

@SuntannedDuck2 Sony just about bodges their way through the PS4 era with lots of PSP ports and remasters in between the main course titles and they were all welcome. They also bankrolled titles like Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture.

The PS5 has since seen studio closures and not half the investment in ‘palate cleanser’ titles. Yeah some indie games have worked out but none of these are first party and if you’re not going to release your own games then gamers may as well buy a PC.

The reason the PS5 is doing so well is because casual gamers (who are still a vital part of the market) just want something to play FIFA, CoD and GTAVI on.

The Switch has decimated all the other platforms because Nintendo are committed to a release schedule of one big title per month. This isn’t necessarily a first party title and it might be a niche title that only interests 5% of players at any one time. However it also shows that no audiences are getting left behind.

Why don’t Sony add trophies to these titles that then feeds back into main PSN accounts?

Fortnite only works because, much like Netflix it met players where they are.

If Sony wants its piece of the Live Service pie it needs to think of those titles as revenue drivers rather than console sellers and bring them to Xbox, PC, Mac, iPad and Switch (2).

The audience hype for Astrobot together with Sony’s time given to Concord tells you everything wrong at PlayStation right now.

My Problems with the PS5:

• It’s too big and won’t fit under my tv
• No games console is worth more than £300
• 80% of its big exclusives are already on PS4
• I find the DualSense to be too heavy
• FFXVI will likely come to Xbox
• Handheld gaming has become way more convenient. I can play most of the games I enjoy on an iPhone with a controller.

@Mythologue The one area PlayStation always pays some attention to is family games. From launching with Sackboy’s Adventure to this, PS5 is a console you can play games alongside your kids on.

One hopes that they lean into the usual Lego games penchant for humour and expand the character roster with some PlayStation favourites. Imagine being able to ignore all the stealth and hunting mechanics and just tear up the machines as a Lego Kratos!

Honestly I’d like a Lego Sunwing to sit next to my Tallneck!

If this is the story of thing that makes videogames players angry then I think they need to go outside for a bit for a walk.

In an age when it should be mandatory for all publishers at a software level we still don’t have things like universal rebinding of buttons for accessibility purposes and not all game soundtracks are available for purchase or streaming. How about the complete lack of any real family centric gaming titles I can play with my kids?

There is a lot in gaming to get irate about but covering up some female body parts ain’t one of them.

Screw the weapons: let us play through the entire campaign from start to finish. There is no good reason they keep it all vaulted away.

Perhaps CERO is ran by teenagers? Dismemberment gets shut down but boobs get a free pass.

Now do the same for mobile and release Locoroco on the iPhone!

How the heck did ScummVM get on the App Store back in December then?

They will have found a buyer before the end of the year.

Paying anything more than £20 for a game that becomes useless the moment the servers are gone is a complete waste of money.

@MFTWrecks I never enjoyed this bit. I like being the lone hero against the evil with no back up. Making it online only just spoils the illusion.

If you can’t play it offline yet by yourself then they need to keep trying until you can

This gen has 2 lost years of the pandemic and cross-gen games. It arguably didn’t get started until 2022 which means we shouldn’t really be getting a PS6 until 2029 at the earliest. I don’t think there is any thirst from gamers for a new gen any time soon, not when they could put resources into developing a new portable or a PS5 that actually fits under my TV.

EDF! EDF! EDF! EDF!

@BeerIsAwesome In Fortnite is all works yet looks so out of place in Destiny.

@Legend_Au Aang is coming in the mini-pass later on.

Sony got lucky with the PS4. They were able to support the expensive single player adventures with HD ports of older quirky portable titles to maintain that unique indie feel the PS3 brought to things.

But the PS5 era has seen Japan Studio shuttered and an over-investment in obviously now-cancelled live service titles that the market never asked for. Hoyo pull in the money by meeting players where they are on the hardware they already own rather than needing a dedicated console and the markets are very different.

In other words Sony need to keep spending the money on the big single player titles, which Nintendo have proven can be evergreen with solid update support. Who knows how much they’ve raked in by supporting Mario Kart 8 with ongoing DLC? But they need smaller, cheaper titles to fill in the gaps and remind us why we love PlayStation in the first place.

There goes the live service investments. Let’s hope they refocus on the single player titles that made the PS4 such a winner.

“We over hired during the pandemic on live service titles which we have since canned after realising players don’t want them.”

@Ooccoo_Jr The PS5 or the VR? The answer to both was Sony investing money in now-cancelled live service titles instead of the single player adventures that kept it on top last gen.

It’s alright: Microsoft are here to fill in the gaps!

So, at the very least give people an option to download and store those purchases.

I reckon this isn’t as innocent as made out. If Microsoft do stop making consoles it means Sony could be claimed to be a monopoly on high-end consoles and the EU might get the platform to open up to 3rd party stores.

Now having the Epic Store or Steam on PS5 would be pretty great but it would also allow Microsoft to bring Game Pass to PlayStation with impunity.

This is the best bit! Arguably Midgar, despite being the most iconic part of VII is actually the worst bit in the game. Finally getting to the world map is up there with Hyrule Field!

Gamers: “We hate the live service business model. Give us everything up front!”

Also Gamers: “Where are our constant updates?!?”

A handheld that could play 100% of your existing digital PS4 library out of the box that was about the same dimensions as the Switch OLED would do gangsters

PSVR2 WipEout.

That is all.

They had one job. Honestly.

Cool cyborg ninja with backwards sword technique vs whiny blonde ring pull and they go with the rug pull.

Come on Epic, nobody wants Raiden in a world Gray Fox exists in.