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@MrPeanutbutterz are bundled games with Playstation consoles on disc? Do their collectors editions have discs? Can you buy PS5 discs that are just essentially download keys?

Nintendo launched an option for publishers who before either had required downloads or just put a code in a box anyway, so nothing has really changed.

Nintendo put their games complete on cartridges, Playstation put their games complete on disc. It's 3rd party publishers (and Xbox) who choose not to respect physical media and them alone

@PuppetMaster what are Nintendo doing? they release all their games fully on a cartridge and they are the only platform where you can still play games directly from the physical media

@Toot1st well of course revenue is up, if you spend billions on other businesses to include theirs, I'd be stunned if it didn't go up

Xbox are a shambles at the moment under Phil, from collapsing console and game sales, to laying off staff in their thousands all whilst their master plan is simply to put an Xbox sticker on everything to claim its their's. Whilst their only "growth" under Phil has been to spend billions on other publishers to inflate their user numbers and revenue

Edit: Just seen Perfect Dark has been cancelled. What an absolute joke Xbox are

Probably Metal Gear Solid 3 as I've never played the original and I should have finished with Death Stranding 2 and Donkey Kong by then

To me PS Plus is just a forced extra payment for features that are free on Steam, or cloud saves that are free on Xbox.

It baffles me why we still have this pay wall for online gaming when the f2p online games are exempt. So if you pay for a game, you have to pay again to play online but of it was free then playing online is free, how does that make any sense?

Ultimately I can count on one hand the amount of games I've discovered with PS Plus and its main use has been discounts. I'm not currently subscribed and likely won't resub again

I've played for 20 odd hours and my Pro has been quiet as a mouse

@get2sammyb I played these a lot back then on the Dreamcast and I'd love to at least see them get similar treatment to how play Sonic Adventure plays on Steam with mods. As for a full on remake, I'd much rather have a sequel to Frontiers, a game i thoroughly enjoyed. Luckily I still have my Dreamcast and the Sonic Adventure games, so can play them whenever I like

I'm too busy delivering packages and rebuilding roads to care 😅

I'm actually at Oulton Park today taking my son to watch some racing cars and getting lost in a sea of Porsche and Ferrari's whilst we wait for it to start

When I get back it'll be more Death Stranding 2, I loved the first game and the sequel has improved everything including the pacing and with really doubled down on the world being an obstacle with stuff like the flash floods. I'm right at the end of Chapter 3 and don't see myself playing much else until its done

So what? I'm baffled as to why Xbox fans are celebrating that the brand is becoming little more than a glorified desktop shortcut.

Forget Playstation for a second, why as a PC gamer would I ever open the vastly inferior Xbox app to play my Steam games? Its just not going to happen 😂

Amongst my most wanted games for the rest of the year, so much so that I've got the collectors edition preordered on Amazon

Thank God they saw sense. The series has always been at it's best when focusing on smaller well designed areas and survival horror

Erm, just buy a disc drive then or the PS5 model with one included. Sure, Sony are clearly trying to encourage their players to be digital only but you can quite clearly buy every major release physically.

I'm still a mixture of both physical and digital but tens to buy more physical games on the Switch 1/2 as they're the only ones which still play directly from them but I wouldn't say Sony is forcing me to buy digitally

@DonJorginho I'm in a similar position, I've just been climbing down a cliff face to get some old records for the musician and tomorrow I'll head to West Fort Knot

Picked it up on Tuesday and have played about 10 hours now and coming to the end of chapter 3. I got the platinum for the first game and the sequel is everything I could have hoped for and more so far.

I can well see this becoming my favourite game of the generation, so excuse me whilst I go back to walking in the rain listening to "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head"

All this whilst they're planning to have their upcoming hardware having other stores on, thus losing more revenue from their flagging console sales. I feel that Xbox employees are on a rocky road for the foreseeable future sadly

Finally, my profile picture is in the game

Started this yesterday and apart from being an amazing game, it really is a technical showpiece for what the PS5 is really capable of, as well as showing that we really don't need more powerful hardware anytime soon

@themightyant I will say that these days I'm more picky about what I play and don't have the time for many new games, so my worst of, is probably out of about 20 or so games, but for me it was the weakest out of those

Its been useful for my son to have a few more games to play but I couldn't tell you the last game I played on the service, I don't even look at the announcements anymore.

These days I've only really got time to play the games I buy, take now for instance, I've just got the Switch 2 and started Death Stranding 2 yesterday and with Donkey Kong in 3 weeks, that's basically me done for the summer

@get2sammyb it just felt like i wasn't doing anything a lot of the time, with the environments feeling really empty. I don't even mind a walking simulator, as I played Still Wakes The Deep straight after and loved it.

Ironically I felt Hellblade 2 was at its weakest when trying to be a game, the combat feels really scripted to me and the "puzzles" were largely stand in the right place to match up the lights

Tried it on Gamepass and it might be the worst game I've played this generation, it was certainly the worst I played last year

@LordVile just big screen. Xbox don't make VR games

This isn't Microsoft dipping rheir toe into VR, it's just them continuing their push of slapping an Xbox logo on someone elses product and contributing nothing. You've been able to stream Xbox games to the Quest for a while so there is nothing new here and it isn't even cheaper than buying the stuff separately. Of all the uses i have for my Quest, streaming Xbox games via the cloud is at the very bottom of that list

Just means I won't be buying the dlc, im excited for the main game but I'd much rather they just focused on Sonic and their own IP than characters instead of the likes of Spongebob who themselves are well passed their prime

I still think its a brilliant game with a great story for the most part, my only real complaint is that it doesn't know when to end and should have done so with Abby and Lev out exploring together.

Other than that, it looks stunning, has much improved gameplay over the original and I really enjoyed both sides of the story

I'm a light gun lover and its for that reason that im sadly not excited for this release. I played the demo on Steam and it had all the same problems as the first remake, in that it isn't even built as a lightgun game.

I'll stick to my Sinden and the Dreamcast version

Bungie under major pressure now and I do truly worry for this game and them

I own both and whilst with Switch 1, I always bought big 3rd party games on PS5 without hesitation, now with the improved performance on it, I'll certainly be looking at those Switch 2 versions now. I tried the SF6 demo on it and without having the PS5 version side by side to compare, I'd have been more than fine sticking to the Switch port

Its almost like Sony spent years cultivating a large single player orientated fanbase. Online shooters are obviously incredibly popular, or at least a few are but those tyes of gamers aren't typically the ones who hang around in sites such as this checking out many different kinds of games

I'll never understand why this targeted 30fps in the first place, same with the Crash and Spyro games. Nintendo were out there doing 60fps on the Switch with it's 3D platformers and Mario Kart

I don't think XVI is all that appealing and for the most part is quite dull to look at as well. The 2 FFVII re.akes are much better games, even if they themselves are bloated to justify being individual entries, whilst I platinumed XV and had a great time with.

Very few games released on platforms long after release see great success and Xbox isn't really a platform thats going to have huge sales of anything these days

Having players Mario Kart World and a few Switch 2 upgrades, I can confidently say that its more than capable of "great experiences" on the big screen. Making a great looking (and playing) game isn’t just about throwing more tfolps at it, just look at Mindseye.

Sure, Playstation and Nintendo have different targets and as a gamer I adore them both

Sammy has been doing extensive research here 😅

I have to say that a Morrigan mod does sound appealing

Xbox out here treating Playstation gamers better than their own console users

Makes sense, I'll never own another Xbox now since I can just play their games on PC or Playstation and if Sony ever put all their games on PC, then the Playstation would go as well

The standard merry go round of releasing a completely broken game on every platform and then "sincerely" apologising and being heartbroken because THEY chose to release a game and take people's money when they knew full well it wasn't ready or up to an acceptable standard.

They've even been abusing copyright strikes on YouTube to take down videos showing what the game is like installed from the disc

I must see people saying things like I'll wait for it to be on Gamepass and even PS Plus on a regular basis and whilst online talk doesn't necessarily reflect reality, I wouldn't be surprised if many who do sub, will happily wait for games or even just ignore those that aren't on said services, especially smaller titles.

It's a bit like Ubisoft who got into the habit of discounting new releases heavily not long after launch, so taught buyers to simply wait and now they struggle to be successful at launch

But at the end of the day, you can't put your product on a subscription and then complain that people use said subscription to access ot

"and it will allow you to play your Xbox library natively" That simply isn't true, as only 13 out of the 126 digital Xbox games I own will be available for me to play on this.

It's just a handheld PC and not an Xbox at all

This was probably the most exciting announcement for me as I love how they presented that Atari collection, so can only imagine what treasures they have in store for is with this. Not to mention the including all the versions of the games, something that Capcom sadly misses in theirs

That looks insane and if they can help fix UE5's well documented issues then this is a big win even outside of their own game.

And to all those banging on about it looking like 30fps, all the footage on YouTube is from the livestream, they said they'll upload it themselves later today

I've effectively been playing Xbox games without having an Xbox for a few years so I don't even think about stuff like this anymore.

The PS5 Pro version is certainly an excellent version of the game but I don't know why they're making a big deal of "advanced ray tracing while driving" as FH5 probably has the weakest RT implementation of any game

It's been a long time since I played COD and what I do hear about it these days, makes me very happy that I stopped playing it

"due to specific content guidelines and selection criteria"

So yeah, PS5 mod support will be far more limited than elsewhere as usual

I'll wait for the Sonic game thanks 😂

Even better, my PC is also connected to my TV so I'll just play Sonic Racing Transformed for now

Its been years since I played this, I preferred the first one though

@BAMozzy Blast Corps was so much fun, I can only agree with pretty much everything said here. I was initially worried about the combat loop after Eternal but this just feels right and more intuitive

@kyleforrester87 for what it's worth, I platinumed Doom 2016 and never got on with Eternal but I'm really enjoying this

I'm currently on chapter 7 and its somewhere between and 8 or a 9 so far. The core gameplay loop is very satisfying with some great weapons and bonuses for them and it looks and runs amazing. The parry mechanic is surprisingly engaging and encourages you to be even more aggressive. My minor complaints are the mech and dragon sections are weak and those along with bosses overuse the parry mechanic by not letting you damage them without it.

Overall it's the most fun I've had this year and I'm excited to play more