electrolite77

Hmmm. Still looks good, but not as amazing as I was hoping

I would expect them to. Being more powerful certainly helped PS4 though of course they need to be at the same launch price for that to have a real effect. However, are they going to fix their exclusives issue?

Very impressive product but I couldn't get in to it. Maybe I'll try it again one day but I just don't think it's for me.

@TheIronChimp

I think I’m gonna go down that road. Sony seem to be cutting back a bit on what they’re offering with Plus anyway. As someone who isn’t a huge Online player the value is diminishing slightly over time.

@johncalmc

“big games at low prices which, unless you've got stock in the publisher, is obviously a good thing for you.”

This is unsustainable. We don’t know for certain whether the push for DLC and MTX would have happened but if you have a userbase that expects to see games discounted hugely within months of launch and won’t buy at full price publishers are going to look for a way round that. Publishers aren’t going to keep pouring money into games if they don’t make money. They get attracted to the idea of GAAS because of he revenue stream it (theoretically) provides. It’s a tough one to accept because everyone wants cheap games and everyone wants to think that’s fine and has no aftereffects, but it does.

I’m sure it’s been said before but Titanfall 2 is brilliant. It’s £3.99 for the Standard Edition, £4.99 for the Ultimate Edition.

@johncalmc

I’m not sure how the race to the bottom on pricing is good for anyone, if publishers can’t make money off initial sales they look to DLC and Microtransactions. But specific to Nintendo, their main source of revenue is their own games. If they can sell them full price (rather than giving hem to bargain hunters backlogs for a lot less money) they would be crazy not to. They also hold their price which makes it easier to try their games knowing you can trade them in.

@TheIronChimp

It’s not ideal as a workaround but could you set up another Account and buy it on that?

I know I’m in the minority being utterly bored of Online shooters but this always looked unremittingly tedious to me, so no surprise here.

@Jriibz

Yeah that must be it. I can’t thnik of anything else. Strange times we live in.

I don’t think there was much doubt about this. Crackdown 3 really isn’t good, in fact it pales next to the first one IMO.

There’s a huge gap in quality and quantity of first party releases and throwing money at the problem won’t fix it, there needs to be a cultural change at XBox.

It’s a strange hoax, just because it isn’t immediately clear what the hoaxer was trying to achieve

Sweet. Great game with strong marketing sells really well.

It doesn’t always work like that either, but it’s nice when it does.

Not really a surprise. They’ve taken the U.K. market very seriously since entering it in 1995. At that point SEGA were imploding and Nintendo used a third party to distribute their (late, expensive and letterboxed) games in the U.K. Sony didn’t that mistake and their success is well deserved (well Ok, there was letterboxing).

Dual PS4 release/PS5 launch game then?

Might seem these are better suited to a handheld but as long as he controls are right, great games.

Yeah. I’ve got a 4-year-old and a 1-year-old.

I’m not the target market for this 😫 😅

I’d like to see more evidence of this in their behaviour before being totally convinced

@GKO900

Fans of every system ever port beg mate. Just accept it and put down the spade 😋

I’d somehow never heard of We Happy Few. Very interested in that now.

If it was any other Burnout I'd agree. I'd love to see the Arcade racing game make a comeback without all the open-world stuff (which is done far better by Forza Horizon IMHO). Hopefully it sells and opens the door for a Legends port.

@BAMozzy

Thanks for that. Very helpful.

Kind of feels like this should have been in there at the start, but welcome nonetheless.

@PS_Nation

That cash in Street Fighter game on the Switch did bogglingly well too. Good times for Capcom.

@themcnoisy

I don't think they'll do much. Worldwide they're cleaning up and have a ton of great exclusives still to come on PS4 that will drive sales. The next two years are harvest time for Sony.

@Mahe

"Enjoy what you like, but don't try to make it something it isn't."

Ok, you stop trying to make out the Switch is struggling or its software line up is 'garbage' then.

"But when you make excuses for the NS, you are a Nintendo apologist."

Hahaha. Rationality has left the building.

@Derpie1

They're not that badly off. Not even close. 😉

@Derpie1

Sony got it dead right into the UK from the start. They were the first of the platform holders to not treat the UK like an afterthought, putting lots of effort into marketing and courting retail and the press. Nintendo didn't even handle their own distribution until 2002. They don't stand a chance now.

Yeah I saw it. I just ignored it. Crazy, I know.

@jgrangervikings1

It's the UK. As @Mahe points out, even Knack (worldwide sales estimated at 1.87m) managed to outsell Mario 3D World (worldwide sales 5.7 million) in the first week they were out in the UK. Nintendo have always struggled in the UK mainly down to their own mismanagement. Switch seems to be doing a bit better though.

The PS4 selection is improving as the system gets older, naturally enough. Still, given I don't play online much and when I do it seems to be on other systems I'm probably going to let my Plus lapse when it runs out next year. Games are so cheap anyway these days if you wait until a few weeks after launch it isn't worth it.

People can sign the petition and not buy it. It's not an either/or.

The Bikes expansion is superb

@Tasuki

I really hope they don't stop. Why stick your head in the sand? Even though I avoid them like the plague it's still good to know stuff like this is going on.

If you haven't got access to Forza it's worth a buy, if you have it probably isn't.

Thats also if you can put up with the utterly ludicrous requirement to be Online to save your progress. Head-bangingly stupid, that.

Come on, we've had one good Sonic game this year. You're lucky if you get two good ones in a decade, so two in a year isn't going to happen.

Bah. Always been a big fan of the series (the Vita version is perfection) but the balancing issues do sound very off-putting (wahey!) to me.

Some great choices there. Please somebody get Sega to make Outrun 2006 and Monkey Ball to happen on modern tech.

However, sorry, wrong Burnout IMHO. Both 2 and Legends were superior.

Graphics schmaphics. This will be brilliant.

If it was actually a footballer it would be William Prunier. Or Jason Lee

Definitely agree with those saying the second one is better by (input lag notwithstanding) anyone who hasn't played this should have really good fun with it.

Was asking for this from the start so great to see it added and making a difference

They could have tried dropping the prices before binning support for a load of formats

Pleased to see this getting recognition. I gather the MP is nothing special but I don't play multiplayer anyway. It's funny that after being bored of FPS games for a few years I've played 2 this year (Doom and Titanfall 2) that have absolutely captured my attention. Putting aside debates about technical aspects or structure this is the one I've had slightly more fun with. Great game.

@Wesker

I just ignored @waluigifan1 as I assume he's on a wind up trying to get attention.

Great show.

I've never been so pleased to see another bunch of remasters. Wipeout, Crash, Parappa, Loco Roco and Patapon. Party like it's 1997/2007!

Been playing this on a 4K, non-HDR screen and it's fantastic. So are Shadows of Mordor, Rez infinite, Infamous First Light and TLOU. Far better than on the original PS4. Some devs seem to be doing better than others.

@solocapers

Hahaha superb. Fair point, beautifully illustrated.

@solocapers

I understand the logic I just think it's unnecessarily restrictive. Put a warning up that the game may not run properly and loading it up is at users risk, and ask if the user wants to run it using Original or Pro settings. If it doesn't work the user knows to use Original settings next time. Word of unstable games will quickly spread online.

This is supposed to be a Pro system for the high end PS4 user. Trust them to decide, it's better than the current situation where (like on a few other things) Sony users are looking across at Microsoft and thinking 'if they can do it....'

@BAMozzy

"I am also a bit disappointed at Sony's decision to downclock the GPU and presumably the CPU too when playing non-patched games"

Same here. Seems an odd decision to me. Why not give punters the choice, a simple Setting to run PS4 games using Original or Pro settings, with a disclaimer that it may not enhance the gameplay experience (similar to the options and warning they gave users playing PS1 games on PS3). Trust your customers.