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If the success of the PS4 was the result of basically giving developers what they asked for, could the same be said of the PS5? I think Cerny mentioned that he designed the PS5 for 30fps but was surprised when the market gravitated towards 60fps.

According to the steam page, no voice acting. Sadge.

Can my heart take another season of falling in love with a new cast of characters but only to watch most of them get slaughtered in the end?

Would be funny if the Switch 2 has frame generation hardware and makes it the only available console to play GTA6 at 60fps.

I would have expected them to release a ton of DLC like they did for The Witcher, but I guess they want to move on?

Predictions:
On PS5: barely runs
On PS5 Pro: runs a little better
On PS6 with PS5 compatibility mode: runs ok
On PS6 version: runs good

Eventually everyone will own a Switch and then new sales will drop to zero, letting any competitor beat time-specific sales total, but not life-time sales total.

Unless:
1) Switch owners decide to own more than one
2) Nintendo releases a new model of Switch

So Nightdive licenses out the rights of the 3rd game to Otherside. And then Otherside sells that license to Tencent? So is the licensing chain now:
Nightdive -> Otherside -> Tencent
or it is:
Nightdive -> Tencent
?

I wonder if Nightdive had any say in the transfer of the license to Tencent. Would be suspicious if not.

The floating teddy bear companion reminds me of another metroidvania: Chronicles of Teddy: Harmony of Exidus

@JB_Whiting Perhaps they need a Custom Difficulty setting to go along with the presets:

• Player death penalty slider
• Player health size slider
• Player attack strength slider
• Enemy health size slider
• Enemy attach strength slider
• Enemy move-set slider
• Boss health size slider
• Boss attach strength slider
• Boss move-set slider

Some games even let you adjust this mid-game so you can get over a particular blocker and then adjust back.

Of course, they could make certain cars TIME LIMITED and super expensive so that unless already have the credits, you have no choice but to use real money to meet the deadline.

I could imagine them releasing an exclusive car/styling for only Christmas and so people use up a lot of credits to get that. But then they release something else for New Year Day and people had already used up their credits on Christmas...

At some point during development, they would need to consult a real-world source to price their cars realistically instead of just making it up. Post-release, I see no problem keeping that information updated with the same source. For a multi-year supported game, this seems important.

As for the micro-transactions in the game, as I see it, they are simply shortcuts for those that don't want to earn the credits with gameplay. If they were a paywall to exclusive content, then that would be a problem.

Maybe there are people that actually follow the pricing of cars and it seems neat that the real-world would have a direct effect in the game. I have no idea what factors affect the prices of cars... maybe when someone hears about some issue with a particular car in the news, they can go check if the car price decreases in game?

Maybe this is why Silent Hill was cancelled. Censored into oblivion.

If we stick with the book analogy of using Chapters, then what would the DLC be? Story-based DLC would be endnotes? Cosmetic DLC would be footnotes?

I read the title and thought Playstation was losing a game feature for whatever reason such as console exclusivity or poor implementation.

How about per-game save states? If storage is a concern, add an option to save that to external storage.

Couldn't Microsoft just offer them insane amounts of money just to keep them from working for/with Sony? Can that be legally challenged?

I'm only here because of Kat. I bought a PS4 because of her. Let's hope she can get me to buy a PS5.

Too bad the ssd in the ps5 is not removable, else it may be cheaper to buy another ps5 and gut the ssd from it, ala shark-fin style.

The need for an app to view a trailer is confusing. The mention of "real-time in-engine" made me think the ps5 has an app to allow it to load the actual game engine to render the trailer. Like a non/limited-interactive demo. Or is this trailer just a streamed video?

If the extra content was planned but not produced by the original release date due to time constraints, then it was cut for time reasons. If Kojima did not have absolute control over the original release date, then one can argue that the original was released before Kojima could get the new content in. If all that, then the new release is a Director's Cut.

I loved this game. The English dub was great, especially the song.

So what is selling well in retail in Japan? Mainly Switch games? I'm curious how is xbox compared to PS5 over there. I don't think the higher game prices affects xbox because that just makes their gamepass option even more attractive. I think mobile is also pretty big over there since they made a mobile-only Nier game.

I'm confused. Does buying a microsoft xbox game automatically grant you free access to the PC version as well? Or is he talking about a subscription to Game Pass Ultimate?

Most likely Sony scared off a playstation version with restrictions on cross-play, a tax on cross-play, and a high percentage cut of in-game purchases.

It must be an exaggeration to compare the character models with the ones used in Bethesda's 1995 version, right?

I'm surprised they were able to release a new patch so quickly. Don't all patches have to be scheduled to be QA tested by Sony first?

@ShogunRok If they tweaked the arrow to look more like a ship from Wipeout, that would be such a sweet throwback.

I wonder if their reviews have a rating? Like, how many Halos is this, with 10 Haloes being reserved for actual Halo games.

@KnightRider1982 It's all on the devs. GTA Online took 6 minutes to start up but someone found inefficiencies in the code and wrote an unofficial patch to speed up the loading to less than 2 minutes.
https://nee.lv/2021/02/28/How-I-cut-GTA-Online-loading-times-by-70/

Made me think of Lemniscate, the fictional talent agency in the game "AI: The Somnium Files." Maybe ShovelForge will released soon.

Did they just cobble together their initials or the initials of their children?

I thought it were an April Fools about Cyberpunk 2077 getting a low-fi mode to help with performance.

@get2sammyb If this video were made 10 years ago, it would involve someone with VR goggles and lots of gestures in the air.

@Olmaz Imagine a story that manages to tie in many of your childhood pop culture references and throws in a few M. Night Shyamalan twists. Basically, Ready Player One but by a good writer.

Sony, hire this person to fix up your web store. Or at least have your dev team read the tutorial.

So maintenance on the servers will fix a local graphical issue? I know this is essentially an online-only game but still interesting.

With the pandemic and people needing to be less mobile, this would seem like the best time for the PS5 to gain marketshare from the Switch. Oh well.

What does this sentence even mean?
"If you are playing the new Xbox Series X|S/PS5 version of Control Ultimate Edition, your save file will NOT carry over. "
If you are already playing the next-gen version of the game, what is there to carry over to if you're already on next-gen? They can't mean back to the prev-gen version because that is not the question.

I'm guess it's a typo and missing simply missing a NOT: If you are NOT playing the new Xbox Series X|S/PS5 version of Control Ultimate Edition, your save file will NOT carry over.

Gunvalkyrie 2: time to break another controller (and your fingers)

So moarrrrrr censorship.

@Kidfunkadelic83 I wonder how many people can't stand the idea of buying a last-gen version when they can have the best experience on new-gen... and so are just waiting for the opportunity to get get a new console or may have even bought the ps5 version just to hold it until that day comes. Or so a friend tells me.

@Tharsman Looked at some reviews and some say that the performance of the game is worse than the previous version. So maybe they need to update their engine at least. Or we can all get a PS5 to run it on.

Isn't the current 2-layer ps4 disks limited to 50GB? If the download is 100GB, you would think the game would come on two disks. It seems like the disk is just a license to download the full game.

I want to see someone try to run the disk version without internet connection to see if it works. The twist after 10 hours: "Thank you for completing the demo."

The PS3 wants its textures back.

Bluepoint now needs to add a dance off option for each boss!

So if the PS5 needs to be replaced, then you need PS+ to transfer your saves to the replacement?

Hopefully this leads to less backlog since people will want to finish their games first before removing them to clear up space... assuming people are not spending all their time replaying PS4 games or working on their PS4 backlog.

@StevieJ_UK1 But expect fanservice to be censored.

So now you have to click each image to see the name, price, and type? Is someone at sony getting paid per-click? Did they just make their store into a point-and-click adventure? The PS5 would need to cache the whole damn store to disguise the fact that it's so slow.