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Console Wars is a fun read for more Nintendo shinanigans, although Sony and Sega were very busy with their manouves.

Wow, was looking forward to playing this soon. Let me know when it's actually finished, I guess.

Or maybe success shouldn't be measured by who is 'winning'? If PS4 sells 100mill but sells less than Switch, is that disappointing in some way?

The only issue is when lack of market success reduces support for the platform. I love the Wii U, it has amazing games, but it died fast. That will simply not happen to PS4 at this point.

I'm actually surprised to find that I'm really excited for more Mass Effect!

@chadders77 I agree with you 100%. And the result is that I simply don't buy PS4 games at launch. And recent stats seem to indicate that this is becoming quite common behaviour.

They spend millions on creating hype before launch to entice buyers to jump in early, but everything that happens after launch seems to encourage user disappointment and regret.

Rule 1: no origin stories.

@Dodoo sometimes you have to press left as well, or even spot a lever in the dark. But holding right is about 80%

Played Broforce for about an hour when it was on PS+ and found it a bit unbearable. There were good bits, but the bad bits grated my nerves so hard I never went back.

Dying to play this, but will not start it until I finish Xenoblade X! I must!

@get2sammyb I guess I was maybe just expecting more? It had probably been too hyped by thr time I played.

I was definitely expecting more complexity from the narrative and world building. Especially the whole meta narrative of the secret ending, which is pretty played out in video games.

But mainly I did not find the gameplay that engaging. I enjoyed limbo more. The puzzles in Inside seemed much more straightforward, and the only times I got stuck was when I missed a lever or something in the dark monochrome environments.

On the other hand I can see how polished it is. It's very well put together.

I really enjoy hearing other people's perspectives, even if I sometimes fond them puzzling. I'm obviously the odd one out on this, but I found Inside to be very disappointing.

Calling it "next gen" is just so last gen though.

But it would be nice if Sony won more than about 20%, I think.

Ironically I've been wanting to try both of this month's games, so I'm happy for possibly the first time this year

But too little too late. I think I'm cancelling my subscription. Not just because I've found the value very low this year, but because I don't like the way getting 'free' games every month changes my gaming patterns. I spend valuable time playing things I don't really care about just because they're there, and skip on games I actually want to play because they could be free soon. Any day now...

Man I wish I had enough time to play Darksiders again. Such a great game.

There has never been a better time in the history of gaming to stay clear of new releases.

Aah the famous 10 year lifespan! Good old Sony marketing. Not a total lie, but not really true either.

that's nice, but didn't sales plummet recently in anticipation for the slim and pro releases? So they're up on last month, how do they compare to the same time last year, or is that not such a positive headline?

Aah, the internet. Where the Southern hemisphere does not exist.

@wiiware that's a great list! If I was going to jump in now I think my list would be very similar if not identical.

Its not an enormous list though

An enormous number of 1hr tech demos!

It probably won't happen, but I would love it if this had decent retro filters, especially scan lines. Been playing around with retropie lately and the benefits of the right shaders to get a retro feel are are amazing.

The game is done. The game is great. They finally shipped the complete edition.

Absolutely right move

Not sure why any studio would waste resources on this . Will it increase sales? I don't even know if Pro features will increase sales for new games in a significant way, I don't see any benefit to updating old games. The benefit is all for Sony, not the publishers and certainly not for developers.

Decent, pretty good and pleasantly surprised.

Not really amazing reactions in a PR context.

@kyleforrester87 you are quite right about 4ThePlayers just being marketing. Kind of my point. Sony mad use of a situation at the beginning of this gen to create an impression of what they stood for. The goodwill of that time continues to carry them now. How long will that continue?

@sub12 My hope is that when the PS5 eventually appears, Sony will get the smack down they deserve. I certainly will not be buying one at launch.

But it probably won't happen. While many gamers laugh or complain about mobile games, the mobile world has still trained them to accept the iterative upgrades that create such profit for companies.

@kyleforrester87 I think the issue is that this isn't '4 the players', this is '4 the profit'. Sony has made the 40 mil or so PS4 Amateur consoles owned by the faithful early adopters into 2nd class hardware.

I think this is a bad thing, not something to be celebrated.

I'm with @sub12 on this. Sick of this marketing push to try and make me get a new console.

All that it's actually doing is make me feel like I will be playing a sub standard experience on my old ps4 amateur.

I think you mean 'may' launch, or perhaps 'it is now claimed it will launch'

Bonus question:

Will this effect whether or not you buy a PS5 at launch?

Most definitely!

Can anyone define "speedy internet connection" .

What a shame the tagline could not have been "uncanny"

Those candles look like a right fire hazard to me! Very scary stuff!

I'm not sold on this yet, but I generally do not like first person games. I really want more Revelations to tell the truth. I hope they keep going with that series.

Given that it's the same price as a new console, I suspect they rather need to treat the launch as such.

Metal Gear has... changed.

I'm surprised anyone cares at this point

Production was full of accidents, sounded like a very dangerous shoot.

Hyper Light Drifter is truly amazing.

I love short games

That's a great name!

the lady in the header looks like drunk Samus

The only thing I didn't like about Darksiders was that toward the end of the game the combat started to get a little repetitive, with difficulty getting ramped up by having more enemies and longer battles. But I still love it and the sequel. Dying for number 3.

No, but these are pretty great add one, will definitely be getting at some point

Given that I'm still looking forward to Uncharted 4 and the Witcher 3 , I'm in no rush.

Why would you expect it at less than full price? That would make no sense at all. Even if they intend to discount it in a month, they need to be able to say its 51% off or whateverr, plus there's plenty of people who will buy it full price.

I prefer Wii controls to HD graphics, so I'm good.

It will be full price.

This just in: analyst believes sky is blue

While next month is the best in ages, if they dont continue to improve i wont be renewing my subscription. Its just not worth it anymore

Well that's the best month in ages

Do female equals not iconic?