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@Oram77 Exactly. The 'war' is long over and no amount of games going multiplat will change the outcome. It was the digital libraries that fired the deciding shot. As you say, people simply wont leave their's behind, so you may as well sell the games where they are to get something from them.

Back in the day it was silly but at least the consoles back then were different machines with different capabilities. Nowadays its basically the same console in a different skin, so who cares which people choose to play the games on as long as we still get the games to play.

Wild times are indeed afoot.

@dardel locked 1440p on pro in performance mode. Rtx is enabled in quality mode which locks at 40fps. However, The RTX on console is hardly noticeable so not worth the frame rate hit according to Richard at DF.

Its getting to the point were i feel like the kids out of stand by me every time i go to PureXbox. Just making the journey so I can poke a bloated corpse with sticks.

@Reeneman Arrowhead made the game, but Sony own the ip. Its very much a Sony game. As I said above, its what used to be reffered to as a 2nd party title.

Christ, some people are just ridiculous. Its not even a first party game. Its a 2nd party title. A studio producing an ip Sony own and that relies on having people playing it to be a success. I for one will be happy to dive in (pun intended) with xbox players to help them find their feet.

Really nice of them to give people a nice stressful wait to find out if they have a job and the holiday weekend to let any bad news sink in.

Those tough decisions must be really grinding those bigwigs into the floor eh.

Slow seductive horror feels like 90% of my past relationships

Im all over this. Sounds like it could be up there with xenon 2 megablast soundtrack wise (especially the atari st version).

@Kienda again, they literally said at the beginning this presentation contains strong language and violence. If you watch beyond there then thats on you.

You said you had to cover your kids eyes. If you were watching it after you had watched it live, surely you knew what was coming. Again, thats on you.

Im not gonna tell you how to parent or what you should and shouldn't watch as an adult, but when something tells me its gonna have violence in it, im not shocked when it turns up.

Im not trying to have a go or anything, im just baffled how anyone can complain about violence and gore in something that warns you it contains violence and gore.

@Kienda it gave you a warning at the beginning and was aired at 10pm at night (in the uk at least). They pretty much ticked all the boxes they need to. Its kinda on you if you let young kids watch it.

I tend to watch it live and then rewatch the next day with my kid so I can skip anything unsuitable.

I love Dead Nation and have a soft spot for games of this ilk. I shall keep an eye on this.

If Dead Space wasn't number one I'd have spent the next month or two remembering this chart and grumbling to myself about it.

I would desperately love this to be true. I love this game. I know its normal everyone but for the love of God rockstar, just give me this.

@brakeman90 assume makes an ass out of u and me. Dangerous game to assume.

@chrisPatsox in your opinion. You forgot to add in your opinion.

@BleedingDreamer ahhh man, that sucks. Sorry I couldn't be more help.

@KundaliniRising333 mine was purely due to dust blocking the air flow in the heat sinc. We live in a busy house with 3 kids, dog, cat on the edge of a wooded area so we get a lot of air born dust that the fan sucks in, even though we clean and hoover daily.

The PS5 is in a cool, well ventilated space, not in a unit with plenty of air flow. It was simply the dust aucked in by the fan had gathered in the heat since reducing the air flow through it. Once i cleaned it out it ran like new again.

@BleedingDreamer My OG unit did this. Take the side plate off, unscrew the fan and you can clean the heat sinc. It's very easy to do and mine has been working perfect ever since. The amount of dust collected in there was unreal.

@NathanKang understand we all like different things.

@NathanKang fake fanbase? This was my most played game last year in my PS annual review and I wouldn't be surprised if the remaster is up there again this year.

Genuinely one of my favourite games.

Man I'm looking forward to playing days gone again

I need to start AC shadows really but I cannot stop playing Blue Prince. It's becoming a serious problem.

Will trade in Ass shadows against it when I'm done.

@Jrs1 I hear you man. 46 here and 90% of stuff on tv confuses me

@Jrs1 your life is far better for it in this instance my friend.

I cannot stand that speed chap. I just cannot sanction his buffoonery.

@OldGamer999 I think you've hit that point in old age and youre just holding a potatoe shouting at the wall instead of a console 😂

@OldGamer999 At this point I don't think you actually have any consoles. You sold your series x, you returned your ps pro, yet here you are owning all consoles.

@MrPeanutbutterz I'm a big pearl jam fan and it was 160 quid a ticket to see them in the UK last time round. As much as I love them, I just can't bring myself to pay that. To top it off, I believe he was ill at the gig and struggled to sing most of the songs.

I'd rather catch someone in a small venue for 30 quid and feel like I've been to a gig than sit in the back row of a stadium for a small fortune.

Did you see the price of tickets for the sabbath shows at the Aston villa ground? My god.

@GirlVersusGame my kids think my music taste is abysmal but every so often I catch them humming along to a song or tapping away with the beat so i know the seed is planted. I'm just letting it grow at its own pace. Force it and they will lose interest, but its slowly growing.

My middle kid discovered weezer recently and he is all in on the green album. I'm gonna try and get tickets when they next come round to see how he likes it. I'm hoping that bug bites and I can start bringing him to the smaller, more random gigs.

I'm like you though, my greatest memories are from gigs and festivals growing up. I used to love heading into Manchester of a weekend and hitting the box office in virgin megastore to pick some random gig tickets up. Many of my friends were made at places like the academy or the roadhouse and that just doesn't stand a chance today.

@GirlVersusGame really appreciate the response and completley agree with everything you say. I myself was in the music business a while back and the flow of money was very different. The shift to streaming means that unless youre hitting millions of streams, most of an artists revenue is from touring/merch these days. As you highlighted so well, the cost of touring has gone through the roof. Catch 22.

Add folks like ticketmaster into the mix with the wonderful invention of dynamic pricing, and greed kills the hope of seeing your favourite band for many kids.

I miss the days of going to buy tickets. Or hitting redial on the phone and hoping it gets a dial tone. It sounds old fashioned but at least it was fair and there was no 'wait in the lobby' so it creates a false demand and pushes prices up.

Sadly I don't see it changing for the better.

@MrPeanutbutterz some concert tickets these days are absolutely scandalous. I love music and have been going to see bands live since my first on back in 1994, but I find it hard to justify the cost these days. I tend to go watch folks playing in smaller venues. I will still attend the odd bigger gig, but there are many I just back out of simply because I refuse to pay the ticket price.

Music is for everyone. I'm lucky enough to be able to afford to pay for tickets, I just choose not to as I don't like the way they are pricing folks out of going to see it live.

@themightyant @themightyant UK price is being reported everywhere at £74.99 physical, £68.99 (from what I remember) digital.

@Rich33 donkey Kong looks to be £68.99 in the UK on physical, mario kart is £74.99 physical UK (or there abouts from what I remember)

@themightyant it's buried in there. I spotted that Jeff keeley tweeted it out and found the digital price here..

https://www.nintendo.com/us/gaming-systems/switch-2/featured-games/mario-kart-world/

You have to scroll down al lot.

A LOT.

@Rich33 this is correct. Mario kart World is 89.99 on physical. What on earth.

I love this game. I've been looking for an excuse to replay it so the £10 upgrade fee was justified immediately. Really looking forward to diving back in.

This is going to be hideo kojima secretly teasing silent hills again isnt it!

Who's with me?

@TheKurgan that's the one. Appreciated chief.

@OldGamer999 They did it seperate for another recent release but I can't remember what it was. From the glimpses in that article it seems that pro includes Ray traced shadows and reflections while the standard ps5 and x do not.

Just reading the digital foundry review. Seems they really nailed the visuals and performance. 40fps seems to be the way to go if it's available to you (they don't cover the pro yet).

Good review though, always appreciated.

Jesus christ.

I absolutely loved firewater so, at that price, I highly recommend it.

Also for those teetering on robocop, absolutely worth it at the at price. It plays like an old school fps and the physics are so over the top it's hilarious. Nothing like Exploding heads and groin shots in between throwing baddies through windows.

I really loved this game

@themightyant that's a good shout. I'm gonna hold off for the midnight black one and I may well go for an online purchase to try it out

@themightyant the problem i have is one of my kids will no doubt claim it 😂.

I am genuinely considering it though. I suppose my issue at the minute is time as we are lucky to have various consoles dotted round the house but its finding the spare time to use them. Having a device on hand that let's me carry on my play throughs while away from the console will give me more time to enjoy my games. I take my switch with me when I'm away with work and previously, before cloud was available, the portal didn't seem to like linking to a console outside your home.

I am leaning though. I haven't actually tried one myself so that maybe the tipping point for me.

And that midnight black one is very easy on the eye...

I saw absolutely no value when they announced the portal. Just seemed utterly pointless. Happy to hold my hands up on it and say I was wrong. So wrong in fact that, since they added streaming, I am very very tempted to pick one up.

@Loamy it's such a weird mindest isn't it. Avowed isn't really peaking my interest but I can appreciate it's still a decent game. I may try it at some point and still think it's not for me. I may end up loving it. These people must miss out on so much.