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You’d think a team of vets who all contributed to previous Wipeout games would remember that it is a game best played with the tap-tap-tap adjustment of a d-pad. What sort of masochist plays it with analog controls?!?

The only Wipeout with decent analog controls was Wipeout 64, in part due to the N64 controller.

If Sony keeps doing what it does best it will be fine. The Xbox showcase was a constant 7/10 the whole way through: nice looking games but nothing earth-shattering.

Sony is the one making blockbuster narrative titles. Microsoft's games are designed to keep people paying for Gamepass and whilst devoid of IAP mechanics, they still work by way of seasons and services.

Sony should seek to compete in this area but not at the expense of the very reasons the PS4 sold so well.

Let's be honest: for the majority of gamers it was the press conferences that brought the most excitement, not the show floor writeups.

Starting with the State of Play last Thursday we will have had that, WWDC, Summer Games Fest, GW Skulls, The Xbox event, Netflix games event and the most recent Fortnite event. On top of that it is likely Nintendo will drop a Direct in the next week.

I'd call that a pretty packed week for announcements and trailers.

So Sony plans on releasing 10 games that are all as grindy, unkind to newcomers, has spongy bosses, have 10 different currencies for random quest givers and just chop off bits of the story for a laugh as Destiny?

@wiiware They either need to fully embrace the idea of a Star Wars Metroid or, if the title is anything to go by build a Star Wars Breath of the Wild set completely on one non-desert planet.

@BartoxTharglod This could be any number of outputs. The backlash to WipEout Rush has probably put the brakes on that business model.

Mobile could mean Gamepass-style streaming of full titles but it could also mean Sony adopting the Square Enix business model of premium mobile versions of existing games. I'm not sure how many copies of FF SE sell at £18 a pop but it doesn't seem to stop them bringing new titles like Legend of Mana out for the same price. I'd expect FFX before the end of the year.

Sony could just dump some old PSP titles like Locoroco on mobile for free with a £10 IAP for the full game and probably make some decent cash.

Ashly Burch is brilliant in Mythic Quest and already does the voice of Aloy; why not cast her as well?

Kratos? Alexander Dreymon from The Last Kingdom would be a great fit.

Remove the sports licences though and what is EA worth? These games are of consistent quality but are never really the best the genres have to offer. Have EA ever made a FIFA anywhere near as good as SWOS or ISS Pro Evolution?

A large part might be EA's back catalog that goes back decades. Wouldn't mind an HD updated Strike anthology.

I think the sub will be useful for people wanting to catch up on missed titles and will save them some serious money. The appeal of classic PS3 titles is limited somewhat by the potential lack of servers for games like Motorstorm Apocalypse.

I'm just glad Sony are bringing legacy PSP and PS1 purchases back for PSN users. This is a long-since needed move in the face of Microsoft's backwards compatible library which has let users use old disks from day 1, even expired licences like Lego LOTR and War for Cybertron.

TL;DR: Yes.

Long version: The E3 organisers need to rethink the whole idea and a strong one is taking it all online permanently. The actual event was always something to look forward to and to see it go from a defined time of the year is frankly like cancelling christmas because people have a birthday.

The ESA should rent a swathe of stadia server space from Google and get all the games that would normally have show floor demos hosted on there. Gamers could then pay a fee, say $20 for a 4-day ticket to play as much as they wanted via a browser once the major conferences were over.

Cut out the press jolly and go straight to the community. Because the games are stored server-side there would be no data mining of suprises and whilst companies could host their own games, doing so only advertises to the converted.

Some fans might disagree but he's right.

If you look at the big 1st party titles on Gamepass like Sea of Thieves, Forza Horizon and Halo Infinite, they all might have a single player component (and are all great games) but they are clearly designed with service-level engagement at their core, if nothing else but to continue Gamepass subs.

Compare this to Sony and its massive single player titles and their design specs would change to suit the ongoing sub rather than the day one sale.

@sanderson72 What Microsoft have is scale. The Xbox One supports game streaming of all next-gen only titles so with a good enough internet connection and game pass you don’t even need a new console or can at least plug the gap.

They will release some sort of Chromecast type bundled with a controller for maybe £99 including a few months of game pass ultimate for people who just want to stream. This will massively expand their user base and device install.

What Sony should do instead of trying to beat Microsoft at their own game is what Sony does best: concentrate on making compelling hardware and quality software you can’t get anywhere else. They also need to rediscover that ‘weird’ magic that gave birth to the likes of Locoroco and Gravity Rush. There is room on the market for strange, artsy titles and they add to the brand.

As my son suggested, Sony missed a beat in not renaming PS+ ‘Station Pass’.

The easy mode sounds wonderful as the player still needs to learn how to play the game.

I always cite Viewtiful Joe as a terrible example of difficulty modes where the main mode I found too hard but the kids mode almost patronising.

RR2 but not RR1 implies Sony have just ported over every existing PSN title that was available for those consoles. The original launch title was never made available digitally but the sequel was.

I would therefore assume that every PS1 title currently available to buy digitally for the PS3 will make it in.

Microsoft have a console hat costs less than $250 and is readily available from most retailers.

I am sure Sony's engineers are beavering away on their own 'Playstation 5 S' model as we speak.

@Apfelschteiner Or let us run our own servers from our consoles.

I just want to be able to play the games!

I think it depends on how hard the original is to access. A Crash remake? Try a little harder. Skies of Arcadia? Shut up and take my money.

Horizon fell down because of Elden Ring and it’s pretty steep price. Once Sony put it in a few sales it will start to approach the numbers of its predecessor.

Slightly annoyed this isn’t an IT worker simulator.

Wipeout 1-3.

That’s it.

Sony need to pull out their chequebook and get those music tracks relicenced.

I could see them buying Square Enix. FFXIV is massive and l fits in with Sony’s service plans. XVI is already a PS5 exclusive. Sony can keep releasing games like Tomb Raider on other platforms but keep all the JRPGs for themselves.

So many negative tweets. What E3 gave us was a definitive few days on the calendar when we knew for definite something exciting would be announced.

As it currently stands a Nintendo Direct etc can pop up with only a days notice. I liked having that week in May/June with all the press conferences.

It’s the ‘game freak have the Pokémon models’ all over again.

PS3 emulation might be theoretically possible on the PS5 but that Cell architecture is a *****. Maybe the boffins at Sony already tried and decided against it? They got PS2 emulation running which is just as difficult.

Honestly streaming isn’t a big deal. You already have your PS hooked up to the internet and PS3 games require significantly less bandwidth than 4 or 5 titles.

It’s worth mentioning that Clap Hanz Golf on Apple Arcade is AMAZING.

It would be fantastic if Sony have pulled their finger out for music licencing and brought WipEout 2097/Wip3out/Rollcage Stage 2 back from the grave

@Snake_V5 Its the rear touch panel and all that gubbins.

Realistically the Vita didn't have any big exclusives that weren't available on PS3 or a sequel to some other franchise. WipEout 2048 is playable within Omega Collection and AC Liberation is available on PS4. That leaves, what Golden Abyss?

I could agree with the result if it didn't beat out the Dualshock 2 in the final,and that beat the Xbox One Elite controller in the previous round!

Your top 5 for most gamers is probably:

1. DualSense
2. Xbox 360 Controller
3. Wavebird
4. SNES Pad
5. Wii Remote

The first time I saw WipEout Pure running on that screen my jaw hit the floor. The post-game support via the DLC system (something entirely new for console games at that point) was outstanding, particularly the Omega pack we got in the UK as an apology for the late launch.

Greatest racing game of all time.

What Sony should do:

Make it so that every users’ PS1-3 digital back catalog is playable over streaming at no additional cost to Essential users. It’s not $10 to play games you already own but rather to rent a server to play them from.

Wait 10 minutes…..

Play for a bit

Wait 10 minutes……

Play for a bit.

Sounds fun.

Honestly though: is an online multiplayer version of a fictional sport with a deus ex machina built into it so that the main character can be the hero despite spending the entire match chasing a flying egg really going to be any fun?

The only way it would be any good is if there was a Sensible World of Quidditch.

The solutions are obvious: make it playable offline, give out better rewards for races and make the IAP less obvious.

@Stocksy And because you can use any car for any event you only ever use 2-3 anyway. I did the whole 4th game in a Mini Cooper. Every other car was wasted on me.

Whilst I can accuse Forza Horizon of having just as many F2P mechanics as GT7 at the very least I can put the disk in my Xbox and play without having any internet connection at all.

@SoulChimera I wish more games used the golden trail from Fable 2. That never even had a map! You could just tell it where to lead you and it didnt matter if you wandered off because you could always just follow the trail back.

Rather than an expensive live-action series Amazon could have made an adult animated version along the lines of Legend of Vox Machina. They could be as fantastical, sex-ridden, violent as they like and still keep the budget down.

This would also allow them to get TC Carson as the younger Kratos and Christopher Judge as the older.

I’d be amazed if Sony weren’t beavering away on a slim PS5.

It doesn’t have Feeder though

Whilst I am sure it is an excellent title my faith in review scores was shaken somewhat by the love for Outer Wilds, one of the worst videogames I have ever played.

More proof of it were needed that Web 2.0 was an unmitigated disaster and that asking the general populace to contribute to the internet in any way instigated the actual downfall of western society.

@Gigawatt-Kapow It was almost souls-like: spawn on death world with acid atmosphere eating your armour. Die. Repeat. Die. Get bearings. Die. Find Ship. Sit inside and make a plan. Etc etc.

A beautiful start to the game because the first time you take off through the atmosphere 😳 and you’re so glad to leave that horrible death world behind.

@Gloamin I quite like games like this. Metroid is an obvious banner example of the solitude genre but the majority of Zero Dawn has a similar feel.

I hope that Aloy isn’t joined by her friends too much in Forbidden West as solo exploring the ruins of the old ones is spine tingling. Having to babysit others whilst doing it, not so much.

The updates are great but part of me still misses the lonely astronaut, 1.0 version.

Then end of the trailer seems to imply that you can fly on the backs of the pterodactyl

As I said weeks ago, this was a protectionist move. By being responsible for key gaming franchises like Call of Duty it puts Microsoft in a position of caretaker.

More importantly it keeps them out of the hands of Google, Amazon or some Chinese or Saudi conglomerate wanting to buy in to the industry.

Microsoft want to maintain the status quo because it benefits them. I imagine if someone was insane enough to make an offer for a company like Nintendo Microsoft would outbid them just to scare them off.

A big city classic assassins creed instead of the open world nonsense?

Sign me up!

Fingers crossed for a rerelease of Aloy for Fortnite as well.

It’s always nice to see Nintendo doing well, regardless of whether you are a fan or not.

But who the heck is STILL buying GTAV?!?