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@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 😂😂

@Balaam_ He's suuuuuuuch an annoying character. I dread Chadley. I love everything else about those games but I really dread that pest.

Got it at launch. Been looking forward to it since the reveal.
As soon as I get the plat in Yotei I'll go straight on to this.

Woke up early, rolled out of bed and went straight to Ghost of Yotei. Completely hooked on it now.

Most companies have an element of shysterism in their day to day, but Tencent seem to take it as a personal challenge.

Imagine luring a business partner around the world to show them something they already said no to, then after they say no a second time just going ahead with it anyway and having the gall to say it's something else.

Makes me wonder how spiteful they might be after this plays out.

@graymamba Astro Kart. Now we're talking. I'd love to see that.

@1UP-HUSKY Ehrgeiz! Ah you're taking me back. Instant nostalgia hit just reading that comment.

@Lowdefal Was just going to say, are we sure this isn't dev kits?

I'll definitely get one of its available for Christmas 2027, but it still feels to me like 2028 is the year for PS6 launch.

@Czar_Khastik 😂😂😂

@Slidey_Moments I used to do something similar. I'd take the manuals to school with me and read them in class. It was the only thing that helped with sitting in classrooms all day knowing there was a game at home waiting to be played.

I stayed up until the small hours playing the BF6 campaign. I've finished that, so I'll be jumping into the multiplayer for a run this morning before I go back to Absolum and Ghost of Yotei.

I logged in earlier at about 170,000. It took maybe 5 minutes to clear.
What I don't like is that the single player campaign is on the other side of that queue too, not just the multiplayer modes.

Been having a great time since I got in though.

@get2sammyb I get it - I stink against people at the same skill level as me and above in most fps games. So if there's any kind of a chance that I might come up against someone worse than me I'll take it.

Video sounds like wizards talking about the mysteries of the universe.

I played 20 minutes on my lunch break just now and loved it. Been hyped for this since the reveal, and the demo reviews from PC were great too.

Between this, Yotei and BF6, it's going to be a lazy weekend.

@GirlVersusGame
"There's nothing wrong with investing your hard earned money in something you love but it helps to balance your actual life too"

100% this.
I would add that when you're spending your money on FOMO, your gut knows that it's something you don't want and because of that, for me, I'd end up with anxiety rather than excitement.
Always listen to your gut.