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If it were anything like Just Cause, then yes, it would have been pretty good. Shame it got canned. The cynicism in the comments must be from people who have never played a Just Cause game before.

"You'll need to charge this frequently, Bond."

PS players will love this when it drops on PS5 late 2026/early 2027. I don't think I can wait several months for this though lol.

@AnginaPectoris No way! Everyone gets to choose and in the EU, people chose not to buy a Baseball game.

@lazarus11 The game has been supported with significant content updates for the last 2 and a half years - games that do poorly don't get that level of investment, especially at MS. Again, where's your data to show it did badly? You don't have it.

I loved Starfield when it launched and I can't wait to try the updates! It's great more players get to experience the game.

There are plenty of people who don't like the game and will readily tell you that as if it matters. If you are on the fence, look at all the info, and make up your own mind.

@lazarus11 The game did well on Xbox and PC, I'm not sure what you are getting your data from.

*Best on PC you mean lol

Having your games playable on PS5 and PC with a single purchase is way too consumer-friendly for Sony.

Looks like I will be getting 3rd party stuff on Xbox/PC.

Fire Herman Hulst or continue to lose billions of pounds on live service failures, wasted projects, purchases, and studio closures.

MLB the no-show in Europe, where sainty prevails.

@Hypoman, there will be the same modes just without PSSR.

I loved this game on Xbox and have got this for my recently acquired PS5 Pro.

It is a shame they can't do a 60fps quality mode rather than just increase the resolutions of both modes, but the Pro still has the same CPU limitations as the other consoles, give or take 10%.

The performance mode cuts back on a number of lighting effects and NPC density in case anyone was wondering.

Also don't expect the same level of modding support on here vs Xbox/PC. Sony has mod support locked down.

@Ambassador_Kong Well definitely less buggy lol

@VenomUK They have a lot of games to release! For the second half of 2026, they will have to try and fit Halo, Gears, COD, Fable and Forza 6 into a 6-month window with Wolverine and likely GTA 6 taking up 2 of the months.

@Boxmonkey @Oram77 You might be waiting a while! Xbox Game Studio games have yet to come to PS + from what I can recall - It might be as they want to keep them only on Game Pass.

@BentIeyma Good news: the devs said there are 4 difficulty modes (Story/Normal/Hard/Very Hard) and confirmed it's a single-player action RPG, not a soulslike. They will give you the option to add permadeath to the game if you want an additional challenge. You can activate that across any difficulty level.

I think it's fair to say without GTA6 100% no.

With GTA 6 it will be close.

I do think if Xbox maintains its lower price points particularly in a key region such as the UK, it will definitely eat into PS5 sales where it's up to £90 cheaper for the Series X. The Series S represents an even bigger saving for the budget gamer with a saving of £220 -£230 for the 512GB (Vs the digital model)model and £170-£180 savings on the 1TB model (more storage than the 825gb model).

The overall price difference between the cheapest available series s (£290) and the PS5 disc (£570) is fairly substantial for someone who has a tight budget but really wants to play GTA 6 day one (£280 saving).

I am enjoying the game on PS5 Pro, but yeah, it's clear this game was developed for high-end PCs with consoles as an afterthought.

Very little was done to the game engine to make it scalable to mass market console CPUs. Most AAA games are hitting 60fps on their quality modes on the Pro, while this game can drop to sub-30fps on the performance mode due to the CPU bottlenecking.

Upcoming line-up, from what I have heard from work:

Halo - June

Gears of War - August

Fable - October

COD - Early November

Argos has upped the prices for the base consoles, but not yet the Pro.

Smyths is still selling all consoles at a discount.

It's a 2-minute (plus change) trailer, deep dive is a bit of a stretch lol.

I am very much looking forward to the updated and the new DLC, though.

It's time to unlock Sakura Wars from PS4 jail and let Xbox and Nintendo enjoy this game like Shenmue 3.

You can do it SEGA!

My least favorite gaming genre lol

Try it for yourself lol

I love these simulation games and am looking forward to this one!

@ShadowRJ I have brought all the Persona games on Xbox. There is a growing audience, especially among the Xbox PC crowd in asian markets.

If it is to be shown anywhere outside of Atlus themselves, it will be this year's Xbox Showcase or next year's. I don't expect P6 until the later part of 2027, so summer 2026 might be a little early with Stranger Than Heaven and Persona 4 Revival slated to come out before.

"Reviews were pretty limp"

It got a Metacritic of 83 on Xbox and 85 on PC lol.

This is the same for most 3rd party PS5 games. Better to just get it digital. On Xbox, the PC version of the game you get for free will have the best long-term preservation over discs that can degrade over time. Most players buy digitally these days.

Over 500 pounds/dollars is expensive for a mass market console.

@Sulleymonster They do it for the ad revenue. Sadly it's the only form for monetisation that will keep staff employed. As much as I don't like it myself I've learnt to tolerate it for the sake of jobs. There is an ad free membership but clearly the uptake isn't enough to sustain.

I got one for a discount in January as I had heard from work that the price was due to go up at the start of the financial year. With the current PS5s on a decent discount until Tuesday we have seen a surge in online and in store sales of both base and Pro. We have also seen a decent boost to the Xbox Series consoles with their sale as it went down to near launch prices. Switch 2 has been the slowest seller despite the physical success of Pokopia (they understocked it) I think it was a lot of the pre existing 25 million consoles owners who got the game. I think Fire Emblem with be the real system seller as as far as I can see no price changes before that.

I expect Xbox sakes to pick up too as the Series X digital and physical are going to be between £70-£90 cheaper for more storage in the digital case which is an advantage for GTA 6 sales.

Circling back to PS5 I will say £520 for 825gb of storage is diabolical.

I think Sony was betting on GTA 6 launching in May when they financially planned in this decision and now they will be betting on it and basically praying on November 19th to lift sales to thier expected forecast.

Given that Wolverine is due out in September with Fable from what I am hearing taking October, they may get their wish.

I told you I saw this on my work back-end system yesterday/early this morning and that it was effective after the current sale!

Hopefully, when anyone sees a comment I make about work-related info, they can be assured that the rumour is 100% true!

Btw, this isn't a told you so lol.

Comment is below - looks like PS replaced their old rumour article with this one so here is the OG comment from about 6/7am GMT

Re: Rumour: Dramatic PS5 Price Increases Incoming, Potential Announcement Tomorrow

darylb24 10 hours ago
Just logged into the back-end systems of the company I work for, and yep, the prices are rising.

It's not immediate, though. We have a sale running on PS5s until Tuesday, so the pricing update should be sometime after that.

This was expected before the end of the current financial quarter, so it lines up. GTA 6 in May would have softened the blow, but they will have to take a sales hit and make it back up over the holidays.

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Just logged into the back-end systems of the company I work for, and yep, the prices are rising.

It's not immediate, though. We have a sale running on PS5s until Tuesday, so the pricing update should be sometime after that.

This was expected before the end of the current financial quarter, so it lines up. GTA 6 in May would have softened the blow, but they will have to take a sales hit and make it back up over the holidays.

It's a lot like Cyberpunk 2077. (Not the complete buggy mess), But the fact that the game was undercooked and was missing some big QoL features. Give it a year or 2 and this will be a great game.

I am 50 hours in and enjoying it, but if I am being real, if another AAA game I wanted came along tomorrow, I would drop this and not come back for a long time.

Looks fine, I miss the single-player fully licensed World Cup games though.

This is what happens when you have Herman Hulst obsessing over poor partnerships, milking old IP, forcing live service onto studios that don't want to do that, and neglecting single-player games, which are typically the critically and commercially successful games for SIE. The studios are poorly managed, and if it weren't for Insomicac, they would be in far more trouble.

It should be a wake-up call, but it won't be until the finances are hit hard enough (they already wasted Billions).

The sad thing is the hardware/uscalling tech and even the controller options (Edge), and peripherals (Portal) are better than ever - but my PS5 Pro is used for 3rd party games 95% of the time. If there wasn't a Pro I wouldn't have got a PS5 and just stuck with my Series X and Switch 2.

Wow, that attach rate for Xbox is higher than on PS5.

A 0.4% attach rate on Xbox vs the approximate 35 million consoles sold (Could be less and actually even higher %) vs the 0.2% of the 90 million + PS5 install base. I would have thought the PS5 attach rate would be higher than Xbox, even if not by much, as it's a first-party game.

In layman's terms, it sold better on Xbox with its install base, which is a surprise and maybe a reminder to Sony that maybe their core audience actually prefers their single player games.

You would hope these sales figures and the studio closures would be a wake-up call for Herman, but I doubt it tbh.

Herman Hulst should have gone years ago.

@MidnightDragonDX The company that handles receivership will try to sell off the studios to pay creditors what they owe.

My guess is early 2027. SEGA loves a good February or March release date.

Spring runs from late March to late June, so I expect to see more at the late May/Early June PlayStation showcase. We will probably see more intergeraltic too, so I think this could be a good one.

I would love some DLC for this game! I really enjoyed it at launch and would love to go back for more.

The controls feel more responsive, and some good QoL updates are making the game even better. If they could add some more variety to stop repeating NPC dialogue, that would be another great step. So far, I am about 30 hours into the game on chapter 3, and I am having fun with its systems.

Xbox always has great game showcases, so I will try to tune in.

AI has been used in video games for the last 20 years in some form or another.

Most people are touchy about art-related generative AI, but as long as it is removed in the final product, then there is no issue.

They will remove the minor art assets made by AI, and they won't be adding them again. Other gaming companies will continue to follow suit by being more thorough with removing concept art.

To be fair, though, the majority of gamers who aren't vocal online actually just don't care and want to play fun video games regardless of the source.

The controls are fine - sure, there could be a couple of tweaks here and there, but I would not say they are overtly cumbersome. The chance to remap buttons for those who want it would be nice.

It has some of the worst quest design and controls I've ever experienced in a game, yet I really enjoy the game for some reason lol.

I have never played an MMO, but this gives me that vibe.

It's all about grind, fetch quests, and busy work. I actually quite enjoy those mindless games while multitasking, so it works for me.

I do feel there will be people who bounce hard off this game, though, because on a fundamental level its actually not a particularly good video game. It's just a lot of content that you kind of interact with on a surface level.

This is so future generations will never find out how bad PSN was at times lol.