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I genuinely believe PS5 (maybe Switch 2) will be the last consoles to reach the 100 million plus mark as I just don't see how they keep the PS6 in affordable territory, whilst Helix looks to be even more expensive and largely a PC. This plus the rise of PC handhelds will see games being developed for PS5 long or even all the way through the PS6 lifespan, making it even less essential an upgrade.

For a while it's looked like gaming is heading for a pivotal moment of change because of hardware and development cost increases, the length of time to develop games and other factors such as cloud gaming or the younger generation playing on Roblox above all else

Exclusives are the only meaningful difference between Xbox and PS5 these days and as at the moment at least, Xbox put their games on PS5, that makes it the only logical choice.

Overall though, Nintendo are the only platform holder whose console I'll buy primarily to play their own games

This whole game has been Blacklisted

You know what, I've been a big advocate for hardware and physical games for a very long time but cloud gaming is only becoming more attractive. I've tried Geforce Now this month out of curiosity and its worked flawlessly for me, Doom The Dark Ages looked better than on my PS5 and had no noticable input latency

I'm in the camp of it looks really good and I would like to play it but I just don't have time to play these big games anymore

@Darude84 it's effectively both, Grace is very much the RE7 type of horror with Leons sections leaning into the action to create a nice contrast with one another

The best new entry since RE4 and the care home stands amongst the mansion and RPD as one of the all time great locations and thoroughly deserved success

@Questionable_Duck that could well be the case and that's the funny thing about Xbox over the last decade or so, there is no real long term plan and they just do things almost at random with no clear idea as to where they want to be.

Perhaps Asha will truly bring some order and direction, or maybe she'll just go down the same path of saying what fanboys such as Colt and Parris want to hear whilst flip flopping almost immediately afterwards

@Questionable_Duck 30 I don't think for a second they would stop selling on PC, especially as Helix is seemingly a PC itself. It's no secret that when they say exclusive, they only mean not on PlayStation but they clearly had a need to put their games on PlayStation in the first place, which tells you all you need to know about their market on their own console and PC

And sell them to who instead? Their ever decreasing console user base? One that next gen with Helix will shrink even more.

I'd love to see a truly competitive Xbox again but those days were 20 years ago with the 360.

At the end of the day, exclusives or not, I'll be buying that Neo Geo long before I ever consider another Xbox

Fair play, this looks like a really good remaster/remake and I'm glad they've kept the action gameplay and not adapt the RPG style of later games. I've never been a big Assassin's Creed fan but Black Flag was primarily a pirate game to me and I loved it and I'm looking forward to this

I played the demo last night and I'm stunned, this is a good game, possibly great. Bubsy is a joy to control in 3D and that is a sentence I never thought I'd write. I need a lie down now

I do feel Premium is a bit too much, certainly for me as it's main selling point was meant to be their retro offerings but they have been too few and far between

I hope it's a new 2D pixel art game and that it comes to the Neo Geo as well as modern platforms

I have such games on my PS5, Switch and Arcade 1up but this product is for many my age, who back in the early 90's in the days of Mega Drives and Super Nintendo's and had seen Neo Geo games in the arcade and heard about this almost mythical home console that could play these games at home but was too expensive to buy.

This is the first realistic opportunity we have had to own this console and those huge cartridges. Does it make financial sense? Absolutely not but it will certainly make that 10 year old me very happy come November

So I have to prove I'm 18 to send a message on an account they've happily sold me 18 rated content for years? My account itself is probably 18 years old, so surely they could simply assume I'm already old enough.

I had the same rubbish with Xbox, I had to prove I was over 18 on an account that was about 25 years old 😂😂 you couldn't make this nonsense up.

I might just buy that Neo Geo and forget the modern online world exists

One of the single dumbest decisions in Playstation history. They had an absolutely golden period of games throughout the PS4 generation and here we are 6 years into PS5 with them still trying to course correct from the disastrous decisions since

I'm playing Mouse P.I. For Hire, originally I bought it on Switch 2 but the performance is pretty poor so I bought it again for PS5. The game looks fantastic, sounds great and is my type of first person shooter

This does look good and it'll be on the Pro when I get round to it but unfortunately its joining a queue behind Mouse PI and Pragmata from this month

Woohoo, yay, erm great. I've got to be honest, Meag Man was the last dlc character I was interested in and nothing else announced interests me. Hopefully at some point they'll add some old school Sega stuff

@themightyant @Flaming_Kaiser oh absolutely, I've long since stopped buying games in sales etc for the sake of it, or because of the belief I'll play it later.

So far this year I think I've bought just 2 games for myself so far. I do want to play both Pragmata and Mouse P.I. but even those will have to wait otherwise I'd probably never play Crimson Desert again 😅

I think the amount of money the Mario movie has made, shows how little the critics are valued by the wider audience

I actually tried GTA online for the first time in years and I'm pretty surprised how popular it is as the initial startup of a new character is a god awful experience, I certainly won't be going back to it.

I will be playing GTA 6 though, purely for the single player

I wouldn't say unfinished, many of its core systems were (many still are) poorly implemented. It's good to see them being responsive to the community but they're only able to make such differences because of their own poor design choices.

Having played at launch and with the improvements, I'd probably still just give it the same score today, somewhere between a 7 and an 8. As whilst they are nice improvements, none of them are game changing, its story and characters are still rubbish and many quests are downright boring, it's menu's are still convoluted. But on the flip side, the world is vast, there's plenty to do, it's engaging to explore and combat can be really fun

That ship has sailed, they simply don't not have the user base anymore and Helix will not be(and probably isn't intended to be) a big seller, so I don't see them having anywhere near the numbers required to make that a viable business plan

Slightly off topic but it's funny how YouTube works sometimes. I'm on there daily and looking at gaming content, yet this is the first time I've ever seen that person's name, despite him clearly having a very large following

I hate this trend in modern UI design and Netflix is awful to navigate. My TV is huge so I don't need to have just 2 or 3 icons taking up the full screen and I don't need trailers auto playing either. I'd much rather have easy navigation, useful filters and searches with more game tiles on one page

It just works

To the surprise of nobody, especially when you can still spoof Gamepass Ultimate to an extent. Gamepass needed significant growth years ago to be sustainable but instead of generating genuine subs, they rebranded Gold to fudge the numbers

I've never heard of it, so just watched some gameplay and it looks atrocious, albeit not intended as a GTA like game by the looks of it. Mission design seems to be drive to place and beat up x amount of thugs, rinse and repeat and all with the UI of a Steam early access game

Coming into this year, this was second to only Resident Evil Requiem in my most anticipated games for 2026. I love the art style and the gameplay is right up my street

As someone who's been playing this since day one on PC, from a 3070ti all the way up to a 4080 Super, I've seen the full range of RT effects in this game. Whilst path tracing is obviously a leap beyond this, I can say the effects chosen will still be a significant boost over all the other console versions and that 40fps mode should be good to play. The only shame being how limited the reflections are

I don't think its much different to be honest, the only real benefit is being a bit quicker to get to your library.

I'd much rather have proper themes and have the option to disable every game putting its own background and random music on, oh and just let me organise my games however I want on the home screen

I did enjoy Black Flag but my least favourite part was been taken out of the pirate game to walk around some offices

I've already played through it on PC and I enjoyed it but I won't be double dipping on PS5

That is fantastic support but I won't be jumping back in. I've played through the game a few times and am currently playing Crimson Desert and Metroid Prime 4 amongst others, so it'll be a while before I'd even have time

I'm probably in the minority but I didn't like it. First and foremost, the gameplay is a bit rubbish and don't even talk to me about the story. The thing for me is that the whole premise was Final Fantasy meets Disney but you spend most of your time fighting random nonsense and only briefly interacting with said Disney and FF characters.

Sorry everyone but I just don't like it

@shiny-enzo come on now, the Pro not supporting VRR on PS4 games is a non issue. Nobody is buying a PS5 Pro just to play a PS4 launch title and its virtually locked to 60 on it anyway

"corporate sabotage", what did someone break in to their offices and make a crap game when they weren't looking?

This guy is an idiot. Him and his team made a very poor game and nobody liked it. It's that simple

I'm enjoying the game and if I were to score it, it'd probably be somewhere between a 7 and an 8. It does sorta feel like they threw everything at it to see what sticks and kinda feels like a Jack of all trades but master of none. On the plus side, the world is huge and interesting to explore, combat can be really fun against multiple grunts, if not particularly challenging and there's a lot of it, if thats your thing

I played Starfield at launch back on PC amd thoroughly enjoyed it. Much of what made those other Bethesda games great is still here, though its a bit more disjointed. But there are some genuinely great quests and locations and the updates since, including those upcoming look smart and will only make it better.

It's a shame that PSVR2 and seemingly VR in general is in decline as over these last few years, some of my all time favourite gaming experiences have been in VR.

On PSVR1 Astro Bot, I Expect You To Die, Battlezone, Resident Evil 7 Blood and Truth and even a couple of the experiences on VR Worlds were fantastic. Then moving to PSVR2 and GT7, RE8 and 4, Subside, Tetris Effect and Rez were amazing

I'm certainly not expecting a disc drive to be included but it would be nice if they made it compatible with the existing detachable PS5 disc drives. As for storage, I guess we'll have to wait and see if such new techniques truly make a dramatic difference to game sizes but the issue would still remain with backwards compatible games

Really enjoyed the demo and Capcom rarely let me down so this is a day one purchase for me

@Ellie-Moo it's still there in the majority of the game but there is one section where its removed. I think its because large parts of that section have dark or indirectly lit interiors which the denoiser has trouble with, resulting in that sparkly look. Performance was never an issue from my personal experience and hopefully at some point they'll add it back in or at least give users the option but thankfully, save files don't care which version you're using

Could be or it could just be about his own personal journey. I'm not sure we'll see another in the series or that there's any real story to tell after 2. Had the game stopped at it's natural conclusion instead of the unnecessary Santa Barbara section, then I feel it would have still had a story to tell but that last bit somewhat spoiled that

@McDosy what? Every single console generation has seen the cost of said console decrease significantly throughout the generation until this one. The factors causing it this time have been abnormal

I’m shocked. Shocked! Well, not that shocked.

@wildcat_kickz sorry, I was meant to be replying to that Kong person, I must have somehow added you by accident

@Ambassador_Kong whilst this can be true, a lot of games have very playable versions on disc and occasionally with features that have since being patched out. Take Resident Evil Requiem for example, Capcom have removed the RT from a big portion of Raccoon City but I'm playing the on disc version to have it restored