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@Toot1st it is 2 to 6 hours, IGN got it confirmed.

As for the hardware specs Nvidia has confirmed those here:

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nintendo-switch-2-leveled-up-with-nvidia-ai-powered-dlss-and-4k-gaming/

It's actually pretty potent for what it is, and a HDR VRR 1080P 7.9" 120HZ screen is good too.

Probably the most useless pointless article ever..
Surprise the PS5 is more powerful..

The Switch 2 is about the same as the PS4 Pro handheld, more powerful than the Steam Deck, and just under the power of the Xbox Series S when docked. But how that relates to the games who knows, what's been shown so far looks very good.

1500 people is NOT the entire PS ganging community, it's a fair few tens of millions short to represent that.
But second hand games will save the Switch 2 I think.

Only interesting games are £69 so no thanks. Wait for them to drop in price.

lol like as ex Sony executive will say anything other then the competition is boring.. The system is pretty solid actually and it supported ray tracing and uses DLSS. For the price it’s a good system.
Games are impressive, DK looks brilliant and Metroid Prime 4 looks stunning in 4K 60.

@RoomWithaMoose And all those games in the Direct presentation LOOKED like PS4 games too, you could easily tell they are lower quality versions of the PS5 or PC versions, even PC handhelds run them at higher quality.

I take it you all saw the utterly disgusting game pricing that Nintendo is charging right? It is even charging you for the game they’ve made to demo the system and it’s controls.. Sorry but I refuse, even though I can, to pay THOSE prices for games.

@Lowdefal Imitation PC’s, cute and utterly incorrect. Anyway it is still a fact overall console gaming is in a bit of a mess, PC gaming is growing. I don’t think gen streaming is there yet though that’s for sure.

the landscape IS changing, when you look at the hard stats, PC gaming is growing and being driven by the handheld systems, console gaming is stagnating. And with more and more games coming to PC more and more are thinking why buy a console, they are moving to PC.

Some sanity in the madness at last.

It's Sonys IP, they can do whatever they want with it. Also 'Console Wars', how old are you mentally? 10, I have to say mentally as plenty of adults participate in 'console wars'. I call it consumer choice personally.

I should add owning a PC does not give you the automatic right to play ANY game you like regardless, the IP is not owned by Windows or PC gamers. It's not how it works.

Interested in this one, going to watch some gameplay videos first though.

@themightyant This is the way.

What a stupid idea.. what are you meant to do leave your controller on the window sill and hope the sun comes out? And that it isn’t hot enough to melt your controller… How about they make the damn battery use replaceable! Like XBOX DO!!

@StylesT Lol my thoughts exactly.. what 'generational' leap in performance?

@cuttlefishjones But you cannot really say that can you as 'every studio they've bought' has not released a game yet, and 'some' of what has been shown has looked good. DOOM looks fantastic as an example.

Microsoft changed the console landscape and has the money to do it. I can see them buying Ubisoft let alone its IP's.
Anyway got no time for Ubisoft as they put themselves in this position by following a particular 'modern audience' path with their games.

@themightyant You know the ONLY gamers who are obsessed with awards, as though it’s proof something is better then anything else no matter what someone’s opinion or tastes are, are PlayStation fans. I enjoyed the show but I wouldn’t give it any awards personally.

Well with Druckman basically confirming they’ve killed off the franchise now, this is the only way to get your Last Of Us fix, think I’ll reply the original game at some point, but it’s a story that lends itself very very well to a TV adaption.

@Frmknst These days Hollywood crap is exactly that, crap, usually made for the ‘modern audience’ too. I prefer films from the 80’s or 90’s personally. Games these days can be MUCH better.

Disney haven’t made anything decent in years for instance. But they disbanded the studio that made Split Second.

So what about Sonys own up scaling AI tech then? In the PS5 Pro, or are we to now assume that will be scrapped for AMD’s new solution.

God this is truly pathetic, because they stole the story from a game, made 6 films from it, an animation series in fact a few I think? Plus another 1 or 2 films, it’s just flogging that dead horse to try and make cash of its brand name. Just like Jurassic Park.. Heaven forbid Hollywood EVER comes up with something original.

At this Moment I am really not sure if I care at all about next gen consoles. Switch 2 looks interesting, but I also like my Steam Deck OLED, I am going to check out the Legion Go 2 also so may stick with PC handhelds as I've found that area to be interesting. I'll see. I'll wait to see what they offer first but at present I'm not overly interested in the next Xbox. I have a lot more interest for the Switch 2 then that currently.

I can see all next gen consoles including the Switch 2 getting price bumps over last gen, which makes them less attractive to be honest, Sony lost their friggin mids with the PS5 Pro pricing, so I don't have much hope PS6 and next Xbox will be under 550, Switch 2 under 400 UK pounds.

This game was the entire reason I got an Xbox 360 at the time, and stuck with it through 3 of them RROD'ing.. one of my all time favourite game franchises. Definite physical copy buy for me or may put it on my Christmas list. It is the game I miss the most having gone from Xbox to Sony.

I enjoyed this show, will have to sub back to the app it's on in the UK at in the summer. Paramount or whoever it is.

They are going to really drag the pain out then huh? FOUR!!

Wow an actual decent show! It had something for everyone, and showcased third party devs and lesser known Sony studios. A few games piqued my interest for sure, story driven single player games. That last game could be interesting and the Directive 8020 looked good. Tides Of Annihilation also looked interesting.

Intrigued to see what the Metal Gear game is about, not interested in the others. But with 40 minutes hopefully they will have LOTS to show.

I was actually able to play my current game just fine, playing through The Plucky Squire. I’m hooked on it lol. I also played on my Steam Deck a bit.

Glad to hear it seems more like a fault, a hell of a fault they had. They didn’t need to give us 5 free days of PSN either so that’s good, when you break down the cost it is to you for 24 hrs PSN it really isn’t much at all.

@Richy2025 No, servers do NOT ‘overload’, you are wrong, it takes a MAJOR entire network fault for this outage to happen, they also use Microsoft’s Azure network, and they had to block a massive ‘typhon’ attack over Christmas, and it’s very possible the same attackers went after Sony.

Sony also fired an undisclosed number of PlayStation staff in California this month, they didn’t publicised it though, so someone could have taken revenge. http://80.lv/articles/playstation-california-office-fires-an-undisclosed-number-of-employees/

My point is, it takes a major flaw or fault and I mean major to knock out a global network entirely for nearly 24 hours. A hack is at this time just as much a possibility as a major fault.

I agree with what I’ve been seeing elsewhere, you should all change your passwords, with Sonys TOTAL lack of transparency over this outage it may very well have been a hack. Not much can take an entire global network down for nearly 24 hours like that.

@KundaliniRising333 I agree with that, played SpiderMan a bit and it’s just dull to me. Likewise with any of the other super hero games I’ve tried bar Batman which is cool.

They could have rebooted it, given it current gen graphics and made it a PS5 exclusive, it would have sold loads as it would be an exclusive FPS game, but nooo Sony only wanted live service games for this gen..

Ah it’s up now! I’m in the UK.

It’s still not working, and nothing from Sony. I think they’ve been hacked again…

@KoopaTheGamer You’re kidding right? Every single time Sony has been hacked over the years, it took them ‘several’ days before informing anyone. And that included when its own staff personal details were stolen. If they have been hacked again, we will not be informed until mid next week probably. If it’s a technical fault I doubt VERY much Sony will tell anyone anything about it ever officially. That’s Sony.

@Gamer83 Lol after the 2011 hack I purposely removed all my personal data off Sonys servers, they have my email address only used for PSN and that’s it, no home address and I use PayPal for payments, and that has 2 factor authentication by a separate security app.

@QualityGeezer Really… not sure I believe that when I’m in the UK and it’s still down. Everything is still down.

PlayStation, the company that wanted its entire future to be Live Service games…

So the entire PSN goes down, again, globally, for several hours on a weekend, and no one here seems to want to complain? Typical. PSN is by far the most unreliable online service of any console. And it has been running since the PS3.

Oh and naturally instead of the new PlayStation CEO shining and apologising and informing everyone what’s going on, the entire company as per usual keeps its mouth firmly shut, and doesn’t tell one of its millions of paying customers what is happening.

@linkandnavi No Sony won’t let you do that. Good isn’t it? Just another mess up they’ve made.you have to cancel and let it expire before changing to a new one and by that time I expect the offer will be gone.

The one major flaw with Sonys ‘offers’ on PSN is for me to get them, I have to cancel my monthly subscription, wait for it to expire, then try and buy it again with the offer. Crap really.

I may watch this second season, really not bothered, I hated TLOU2 and thought Abby looked stupid with all the muscles, it was utterly pointless and didn’t add a thing to the character, like Drukman did it for the hell of it or his sense of the modern world?

@breakneck I never said it wasn’t a global console, that doesn’t change the fact it being run by Americans has damaged it. And Sony were stupid to put a man as obsessed with live service games as Ryan as joint CEO. Hopefully with a Japanese in charge it’ll change for the better. Nintendo used its strengths and roots and thrived, Sony has tried to change those and suffered.

@nomither6 This! Doesn’t matter if they had a Brit running it again, although Ryan is useless IMO, moving the entire PlayStation operation to America, closing other offices globally, makes it an American company! If people wanted that they’ll buy an Xbox.
I hope this will turn the ship around for them. IMO they should move the PlayStation HQ back to Japan and lay off a load of staff and shrink the American office down. Go back to their routes.

Sony have hit the panic button!
FINALLY they have found some common sense! Herman was as obsessed with the stupid ridiculous company killing live service game idea as Ryan was! They should fire him let alone demote him.

If they don’t take full control in Japan of PlayStation, reverse a LOT of what the American team have done, they are finished. Releasing a 700 dollar console you had to look to see the differences with wasn’t a genius idea, and with games costing so much they need to sell sell sell, not chase in app purchases.
PC and handheld gaming far exceeds Sonys market, and is growing exponentially.

I would laugh and think Sony has lost the plot and Ryan has recked the division with his obsession over live service.

Christ what is this company doing? They have a decent console, good sales, and have totally f****d up their games strategy! Now with next to nothing coming out.. because of their live service obsession. I think it should be taken totally back under Japan's control and hell even move the PS HQ out of America. I won't be getting another PlayStation currently, not until the company sorts itself out.

They have wasted so much time with this crap, and now people will be laid off. All because of Sony themselves. Which means single player games will be pushed back even further. It's what Sony is known for. The studios are the ones thinking people need the most advanced graphics possible and spend 400 million on a game. Meanwhile Nintendo is doing low end graphics and selling millions literally more games and consoles!

Well they didn’t exactly stay in the story in the first series all the time, will be interested to see how they adapt what we IMO one of the worst games stories for the second season.

Not surprising and expected, others will soon follow.