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I bet Sony will end up allowing PS Plus copies to get the $10 upgrade like SE eventually did with Final Fantasy VII Remake. Expecting sales, particularly with Oblivion and Clair Obscur the same week, aren’t gonna be great and they’re still going to need to recoup costs.

@FinneasGH If you only own the first game from PS Plus, you won’t be able to get the upgrade. If you did buy it outright, it should come up for you instead of the $50 stand alone listing.

Don’t see a poll but it’s a 9 for me!

I understand the differences with GamePass and PS Plus with Sony not wanting to do much of the day one stuff. But older first party games? Just does not make any sense why these have to leave. A lot of stuff leaves GP too of course, but at least there’s security knowing that all the first party games will remain.

Kind of odd that the game is also #1 in UK game sales. Bandai Namco can’t be too upset with that result.

It’s also the highest rated game of the year across all genres so far. They’ll have lots of console players with it being on both PS Plus Extra and GamePass.

I mean doesn’t mean a lot when the important specs are still undetermined.

It would be extremely petty of Sony to block them. But Sony has been known to be petty so…

@carlos82 They’re selling a paid DLC expansion that happens to also include two days of early access. Not sure why people aren’t looking at that.

@djlard Some people want the DLC expansion. Not just the early access. Nothing stupid about that.

@Max_the_German Well, you are getting a paid DLC expansion with that so it will still cost you more if you wait two days if you want it.

I’d love a side project that went back to the old style of God of War. Still prefer those games to the newer ones.

Animal Well is going to hurt…

Honestly don’t see why it’s a bad idea to have it on a phone. I’d actually love to have it on the go. Games like this usually work really well with a touch interface.

BUT I don’t know why they feel the need to change it. Why ruin a masterpiece? As long as you can save the game when you want, it’ll be great.

Awesome! Definitely looking forward to playing this on GamePass when it launches. Absolutely my favorite Elder Scrolls game.

Odd that Pure Xbox hasn’t covered this yet.

Not sure I understand why the headline says that PS6 may be the only high-end console. Why couldn’t a console that’s closer to Windows also be high-end? And MS is committed to backwards compatibility so it still will be operating as a console as well. It’s not going to be fully PC but it most definitely could and likely will be “high-end” so the headline is odd and misleading at best.

@get2sammyb I’ve definitely heard complaints about it in just about every game that uses it. Weren’t there a lot of negative comments on the Forza Horizon 5 article? And at that time there was a lot people angry that Microsoft was doing it and acting like they were the only company to have it.

Paid early access is ridiculous no matter who does it.

Hardcore mode. Now that’s funny…. (as I get my ass whooped for the 100th time).

@EfYI Because they have almost nothing in common except cars?!?! They’re totally different games. Only thing comparable on PlayStation is The Crew (and the Horizon games are much better than any of those). Your statements show your complete lack of knowledge about the game.

Open world arcade racing vs semi-simulator style racing on tracks. Cars handle nothing like each other - AT ALL.

Looks cool but not sure how I feel about the “no quests” thing. Glad it’s coming to GamePass to at least give it a shot.

How many stories do we need about this? It’s no longer news.

Sounds like it’s made for me then. 😀

This caught my eye as a title coming to GamePass. Looks slick!

I’ll be taking it for a ride! (Sorry that was the best I could do)

Got Pirate Yakuza but am having a blast with Avowed so might end up putting that on the back-burner for now.

Don’t know if it’ll work or not but it’s way too early to judge. Honestly don’t think you can call it “idiotic” or a godsend at this point. Time will tell.

@ATaco My understanding is that the second “tape” will be on PS Extra next month.

Honestly what they could do is just stop doing State of Play presentations and put a blog post with trailers of upcoming games. Then do focused presentations for Sony games when they are ready to be shown (kind of like Microsoft’s Developer Directs).

Trailers of upcoming games still get out there and they’ll be excitement when there are presentations because we’ll know that they WILL be focused on first party games.

Loved this game on Series X/GamePass. Highly recommend it!

Not sure if this has anything to do with it but there’s numerous reports of layoffs at PlayStation today.

What an idiot. Those fires were devastating and he actually impeded rescue efforts to put out them out with his big boy toy. Guessing with that low of a fine that he didn’t cause it to crash? Some people in the world just don’t have the capacity to handle being rich without being an *****.

Another reason it’s 80 percent on PlayStation is that it’s on GamePass so probably made a big dent on Xbox sales.

Having an absolute blast playing this and very, very hard disagree on the score (which I think is the lowest I’ve seen). Easily an 8/10, pushing 9/10.

BTW, there are a bunch of camera settings that can be tweaked. Did the reviewer try any of them?
Have not had a death yet I would blame on the camera.

I don’t understand the point of these stories. It’s like every freaking day for like the last six months. Yes, we know more Xbox games are coming. Do we need a new story for every single rumor? It’s getting ridiculous. Real announcements like FH5, sure, but a million rumors of ports? No thanks. It’s overkill.

Played High on Life on GamePass and think it’s woefully underrated. Fun game if you don’t mind that type of humor. I’d personally say it’s the “high”light of this month. 😀

How many of these stories do we really need?

Love my PS5 and love my Series X. Don’t even care anymore about “exclusives” on Xbox. On Xbox, it’ll continue to be all about GamePass for me the number of big first and third party games coming this year to GP has me hooked.

Will keep going to PS for its great exclusives but Xbox isn’t dead to me as long as they keep doing what they’re doing with GP and keep it affordable (which I suspect selling games multiplatform will help with).

Still room for both for me.

Ninja Gaiden 2 Black on my Series X. And it’s awesome!

@JaBrony123 Even being published by Xbox Studios but obviously exclusivity isn’t their end game now. Will be on GamePass day one though!

@Lavishturtle Yeah, because I’m sure Celeste and Towerfall took no work at all. Great games that just magically appeared.

Nothing much for me other than the Premium games. Already played Ragnarok when it came out and many of the others I played on GamePass when they came out. Still recognize that it’s a good month for many others though.

Have had GoW since launch. Have played bunch of the other games, including The Man Who Erased His Name, on GamePass. Kind of funny that PS Plus is getting the first Citizen Sleeper while the sequel is coming to GP the same month.

Indy and Medievil 2 have me interested though..

Isn’t this the second game in a few weeks where a review criticized the use a lot of proper nouns? LOL.

Give me MotorStorm dammit!!!

I actually liked Oblivion more than Skyrim. Bring it on!

@nessisonett It’s Vegas. Everything on the strip is a colossal eyesore.

Sometimes I wish this site would act more like a news site and not interject opinion in their articles (except reviews of course). It’s off putting and this isn’t even the worst offender.

Gross. As many mistakes Ubisoft has made, they’ve still had some good output. If that gets put in the hands of Tencent, I worry about the future of their big franchises. Don’t think there could be a worse outcome.

@Nem So you go to MetaCritic and sort the 44 Xbox reviews by score. There’s only three out of 44 that gave below an 8. So you’re saying over 90% of the critics are sell outs? I suppose the same must be true for every Sony game that’s ever gotten good reviews?

Some people will really will stretch their imagination just to fit their own agenda.

Yeah, I’m also curious how this compares to the Apple Arcade version. Love what I’ve played of that version but totally agree on the difficulty spikes.

Also really unfair for some to write it off as just a mobile game. It’s a thousand times better than some of the cookie cutter JRPGs available on console. But sure, it’s just a mobile game…

This story aged well…

https://x.com/stephentotilo/status/1864093168716656779?