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@pyrrhic_victory You fiend! 😭
(Minds blown if it turns out to be Deep Down though)

Yotei NG+ for me.
Having a great time with it again the second time around.

@themightyant Can't argue with much here 🤔
I go back and forth over which is better between VI and VII, but that's it.

@Oram77 Oh they absolutely were.
They talk about it themselves in one of the documentaries about how the teams were begging the engineers to reign it in, but they were of the opinion that the console would be so good that people would buy it anyway.
I would say absolutely deluded with a touch of arrogance for sure.

I think it might be discussed in the "From Bedrooms to Billions" documentary. I can't fully remember though.

But that was a hard learned lesson. I'll be stunned if they make that mistake again. Rising costs of production might force their hand, I can understand that I guess. But the "everyone will want it" line is likely to get people slapped at Sony now.

@Oram77 Agreed on this. I didn't get a PS3 until 2011 because of the price.
It was a crazy launch price for the time. They completely overengineered it. There are people who were at Sony back then who would tell you the same thing.

@Oram77 Given their talk of making next gen more affordable, and the complaints from a few third party publishers about the price of consoles blocking people from buying their games, I'd be surprised if it costs too much more than PS5 did at launch.
I wouldn't be looking to PS5 Pro for an indication of the price either. That's a niche, premium tier product. Not a launch tier intended for the masses price.

They seem to be relying more and more on AI and software solutions for visual performance now too, which I'm imagining will help keep hardware prices lower.
Maybe.

Indie devs who have to plan the timing of their releases carefully to avoid these blockbusters won't thank them for it.

Nothing for me this weekend. I'm on the annual family Christmas brewery/distillery tour today.
I'll be blackout hammered by the time the Ireland V South Africa game starts, and tomorrow I'll be in a teary hungover hoop when I wake up dying and remember SA handed us our own tón.

But Monday I'll be starting Yotei NG+.

I have a little bit of reserved hype for it.

I think if there's a version that comes in at around €600.00 I'd consider getting it with the controller. I only really play old or indie games on PC, so really this could last me 10 - 15 years.
It would be a nice supplementary system to have alongside my PS and Nintendo.

I have the PSVR2 PC adaptor already, so no need to get the new headset.

Yeah it could be nice.

It's a shame if true, but tbh I wasn't making much use of it.

@Almost_Ghostly Excellent 😌

My sub is up on the 28th. I must do this every year too, but I can never remember it.

Does anyone know if we let our subs expire during the discount window, and then resub, would we get the discount?
Technically we'd be "upgrading" from having no sub.
No?

Battlefield 6 and Ball X Pit.
I still need to get the plat in FFVII Rebirth at some point too.

It's very nice and I'm hoping it does well, but I don't feel that it's going to muscle in on PlayStation and Nintendo, nor do I think it's trying to.

For myself, if I wasn't already entrenched in the Nintendo and PlayStation ecosystems I'd absolutely get one of these, but as things stand I don't need it. I have a Steam Deck that is criminally underused too, so definitely no need for me to get this.

I am hoping that the VR headset they're releasing alongside this will raise the bar for whatever Sony are planning for PSVR3 though. (Assuming there is a PSVR3 of course.)

@Korgon True! 😂
One of my friends was saying the same thing earlier!

@Korgon I've had the same thought tbh. I have some experience as to how these decisions are made (although I'm about 10 levels below the actual decision makers), and it's usually along the lines of not wanting to compromise on the experience of the primary market that the game is made and designed for.
And given how Sony have failed to make an impact in mobile before, they would just be going all in on this one.

The solution in my mind would have been to announce this alongside the coop game on PS5, then nobody would be feeling left out, but two different projects staying in sync like that would be difficult to manage too.

All of that being said, I think this is the first mobile game that has genuinely grabbed my attention.

@Korgon I'm guessing it was just a matter of prioritising resources and getting the mobile version finished. They want to capture a chunk of the mobile market in Asia asap.

I imagine there's a lot of pressure at PlayStation re mobile gaming. They of all people have had little to no success on that platform and have come across as having no idea how to approach it in the past.
That must sting for them.

This is their first mobile game that looks genuinely good at first glance (I haven't checked the Ratchet and Clank game yet tbf). I'll give it a go, and hopefully in a year or two the console version will launch and I can just transfer straight over with my save.
Hopefully.

Either way, there's a coop Horizon game coming to PS5 at some point that I assume will be built and optimised for a better console experience anyway.

It looks impressive!
This could be a mobile game that I might actually put more than a few minutes in to.

It's a shame it's not on console (been waiting for a coop Horizon version of MH since the first game), but I guess I'm getting a Backbone now until they port it 🤷

@Rich33 I'm picky by nature and have less and less time to play myself.
I went through a phase years ago of trying to play everything, but I burned out hard.
Being picky makes the games I do play far more enjoyable however.

My resolution this year was to play the crap out of games I love, and just skip anything my gut is uncertain about.
It's worked. Gaming is far more fun for me this way.

@Rich33 Yep! Completely agree with you.
I've been saying since before launch that this gen feels so much like the PS1 days to me.
I'm loving the console and the kind of games I want to play keep on coming.

It's had my attention for a while, but in the last few days I've decided it's a skip for me.
I have BF6 to play right now, the Nightreign expansion is a few weeks off, Mario Kart World coming for Christmas, Resi not long after that, Crimson Desert, No Rest for the Wicked, Phantom Blade Zero, Nioh 3 (maybe), Onimusha, Wolverine... That's just off the top of my head.

I have no room in the next year for something like Where Winds Meet.

The next online fantasy world I get lost in will hopefully be Light no Fire. I'm hoping that one plays like No Man's Sky and just let's me go about things at my own pace.

@gamer153 Just a suggestion on how to roleplay it. It's not a hill I'm going to die on or anything.

Play it however you enjoy it.

@somnambulance Executioners definitely had a version released on PSN. I have it installed on my PS5, but I can't find it in the store now for some reason.

I don't remember hearing about a demo that far back though.

Hopefully. I'm gasping for this game at this point, and a release date reveal feels like a shoo-in for tomorrow.

@HaveTheSauce I think what you get from it is subjective.
I occasionally enjoy a solo run on the base version of the maps and bosses, but I don't touch the more difficult versions solo. I prefer to play them with my regular group, and we always have fun.

Around launch there was a lot of people who would quit and leave you hanging if Day 1 didn't go well, but I don't see that happening as much now, so doing two or three player with strangers is absolutely viable.
Playing with strangers is how I found the best routes actually. They usually know something my regular group doesn't.
If you prefer a solo experience mute your chat etc and pretend they're just really advanced NPCs.

Probably some Nightreign but mostly BF6.
I won't be playing much else between now and Christmas.

Anyone who works for a company please remember — finish work on time and don't come in on your day off out of the goodness of your heart. Nobody in a suit will remember that you worked late out of loyalty to your team or that you finished a report on a Saturday instead of playing Mario Kart with your niece.

That second update especially kills any buzz I had for GTA6.

Amazing. This thing just keeps getting better and better.
Hopefully they keep supporting it through next gen too.

Shadowgate VR has my attention. Could be fun.

An X-Men game from Insomniac would be it for me. Every game after that would be just cherries on top of a cake I've wanted since '92.

If it's legit, it must be something they're doing with Epic and/or Steam and first party games. I can't see Sony going with their own launcher. The hardcore PC crowd would reject it.

I turned cross play off the very first time I turned the game on.
I stink at FPS games, so going up against players with mouse and keyboard and being killed over and over would be far more boring than risking the occasional game populated with bots.

But generally I'm just happy if I can get the tank and see a few things go boom.

Got the plat in Absolum during the week so my slate is clear now with the exception of new Dispatch episodes.
Until Christmas I think I'll just be doing Dark Souls III co-op. A friend told me the other week that she'd never played the expansions so we've been chipping away at them.

Alundra.
Just give me Alundra, you cowards!

Nothing changes for me either way.
The vast majority of my library is on PSN, Zelda and Mario Kart are on Nintendo, and I don't see either platform dropping the fee for online just because the next X-Box is going to be a PC.

@Buckeye4Life2015
@UltimateOtaku91
Same. I mostly pay the sub for the monthly games, catalogue and additional services.

When I was a kid the biggest competitor to my console time was X-Men comics, and the time we'd spend cycling really fast down really steep hills, then cycling back up so we could cycle back down again.

I don't know. Everything competes for our time really. But from Christmas onwards the biggest competitor for my PlayStation time will be the Switch 2.

@rjejr I'm the same. Outside of work Alexa is as much as I have time for. Just a tool to give me an assist during the day.

tbf AI does have great potential to assist people in general, and we use it on our team in work a lot to help us with our day to day tasks too.
The problem is that the companies making AI are selling it like it's the computer on Star Trek, so anyone not familiar with what they're actually dealing with can potentially be exposed to so much misinformation. Also, as you mention it's all still in the testing phase, and we're all the testers.

We encourage our team to use AI to assist them with their tasks. Something to kick-start a process that they can then build on. But if someone was to turn something in that was just AI with no human input I'd flag it so fast.
1 - They'd just be getting the AI to do their job for them.
2 - Whatever they were turning in could potentially be unreliable junk because AI can't do their job.

@Striker21
Forgive my wordy reply:

I do a lot of interviews where I work, and lately a lot of that involves identifying AI submissions.
Mar shampla - “Workforce of 25.00” is the kind of thing we sometimes see on a rushed submission where the candidate didn't take the time to read over what their AI had written for them. It's a formatting hiccup AI sometimes makes when converting text. It should be “25,000.”

Combine that with the corporate tone and the facts without sources and it's kind of a smoke without the fire scenario.

To my original point, I don't see too many facts quoted to me that don't have sources, but up until a few months ago you might have heard of a few political speeches that mentioned studies that didn't exist. I'd bet my bank acc that the person speaking really did believe what they were saying, but their speech writers used AI to do the speech, and AI is crud for anything that requires facts.

I had an AI model a month ago tell me a fact based on a study, but when I asked it to link the study it told me there was no such study. So I asked it why it referenced a non existent study. It told me, I kid you not, that it was simply the direction the conversation was going in and it was the kind of thing people said in those scenarios. Then it went on to explain AI Hallucination to me and told me that unless I tell it to, it won't necessarily provide me with facts, and it's just by chance that sometimes AI in general generates correct statements.

AI is good for bouncing ideas off of or kick starting your creative process for art or fiction, but that's it. It's not intelligent in any sense. It's an overprocessed calculator that gives wrong answers most of the time, and correct answers some of the time.

@Striker21 Please consider AI Hallucination when going over whatever your chosen AI is feeding you.
They don't always come back to you with facts. Very often it's just whatever sounds right based on your preferences and what others have said in similar scenarios. Essentially, it's telling you what you want to hear.

I got the plat in Yotei during the week. If they add a NG+ mode I'll go back for another run or two, and obviously I can't wait for the Legends mode, but for now I've moved on to Absolum and Dispatch.

I think I'm done with the franchise anyway.
I only have so much time so I tend to stick with the stuff I love.
4 was good in parts, but horribly annoying in others. I haven't loved Fallout since 3 and New Vegas. So... 15 years ago?
Yeah, time to leave this one behind.

@RiverGenie To add to what others have said, I've also seen the opposite of your comment several times - Someone stating that the community here loves to hate Sony and that Push Square is too critical of PlayStation.

It makes me chuckle every time I consider Sammy and the team being criticised for being both pro and anti PlayStation.
😂 Damned if you do, damned if you... do?

@ShogunRok Yeah, some of us are going to need a PSA when this is available to order. 🫠

@zebric21 Same re business speech. It always sounds like a pre approved message from a political party and usually reflects whatever excuse they had to give the shareholders to justify the current strategy.
Or, what @SeaDaVie said.

Personally I'll be looking at exclusives from Nintendo and PlayStation to determine how much time I spend on each platform, and I won't complain if or when those games later turn up on other platforms either.

@Oram77 100% agreed.
The worst thing to happen to most things I'd say, especially polite debate.

One group tried boycotting Hogwarts. The other tried the same with Yotei. Neither group realising how similar they sound.
The rest of us all just trying to play some games and get along with each other.
🤷‍♂️

Just saw the trailer for Dispatch today. My first thought was that it will be perfect to play on Portal before bed.

On the one hand I don't like to see Remedy suffer, but on the other It's definitely starting to feel like we're entering the post "everything must be a gaas" period.

Starfield - Now with 5% more game on the disc! 😀

@Nyne11Tyme 😂😂