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@mattitudemf I will be buying a PS6 disc drive then before I get a PS6 otherwise the console will have little use to me outside of PS+ monthly games.

@PuppetMaster I wish it would happen but the reality is how does that financially benefit them and not make the console overly complex? It is basically slim to none at this point. I believe they will need to add another 2-3 lasers for those discs in the drive. As well even if they did the drive itself will become more expensive.

Played about 7 hours and it feels samey but slightly better than Tsushima. The weapons are better but the parrying and group fights still only feel okay/good sometimes. The sword drop throw insta-kills are funny/nice to get the fights over with. I still feel like the combat needs a big overhaul but it's okay enough to play in 1v1 and 1v2 battles. I'd give probably a 7.5, maybe 8.5 if the combat and skill tree gets better over the next 10-20 hours but I doubt it. It's a perfectly fine/good 1st party game that is worth your time but not ground breaking. Absolutely glad I rented this game, definitely will be play to finish then never ever touch again types of games just like Tsushima.

Whenever Best Buy drops off my PS5 copy sometime today. But seems to not matter as multiplayer is gonna be a queue-fest.

I submitted okay as what was leaked was there and it was almost blatantly propped up the whole show from SAROS and Wolverine.

Yes a few other games looks okay or pretty good too but either was too early or has a terrible release date.

I'll play 3-5 hours of the PS5 version from Gamefly then the disc is going back in the mail.

I just want to see if the gameplay truly changed. The performance sounds absolutely dreadful so we will see if I make it past hour 1 or 2 even before ejecting the disc.

Silent Hill f is within 10 days anyways and is priority 1 of 2025 then just a week after that Yōtei also.

No I was buying an N64. I tried to rent one from Blockbuster with Warhawk & Doom but they were so hard to come by when that was happening.Though I did play my friends PS1 a few times. Destruction Derby was so crazy back then.

@UnlimitedSevens they came from the 360 to the PS4 which fueled this list.

So T2, Microsoft, and Marvel. No wonder Jimmy flipped his wig when Microsoft was buying Activision.

@Icey664 doesn't seem like they trust PS5 players to own the game either. No word about a physical release either.

Nothing slow about this, it's abrupt. In about 15 hours this is the first time I've heard a day/time.

I'd imagine FH6 will be day one or within 1-2 months later for PS5. Just too much money left on the table now for Microsoft. Hopefully FH6 gets a disc release even if it requires download. Some kind of ownership.

Except literally 6 months after my nephew got a PS5 for Christmas he was asking me when a PS6 is coming out. Because he already wants it. He's 9. Sooo

As someone in the PS, Nintendo, Xbox & PC ecosystems for a long time it's funny to think people are being so naive about Sony blocking their games. I'd imagine it will happen, not because they hate Xbox or anything. This just really comes down to business for them. If they wanted to make more money on Helldivers 2 for example they would have put the game on Series consoles by now.

I'd expect if Sony does end up putting games on Xbox consoles it would be 2-3 years after the start of a generation. That time has passed for this gen of consoles. Maybe in 2030 or so it might be a possibility after they get PS6 a few years & exclusives out the door.

Times definitely are changing but it seems like it will be a slow crawl before Sony does end up giving in, fully. My guess is 2031 after we are halfway through next gen.

PlayStation 6 will be the last "traditional console".
If Xbox is PC/console hybrid & handheld and Nintendo Switch 2 is for sure Handheld/docked console then that's it.

PS6 will be the only option now.
In my opinion: whatever they decided this themselves and/or by console/handheld/PC purchases. I know they [Microsoft] will regret it because they are not Nintendo.

9 for gameplay
6 for graphics/performance

7.5 overall, Capcom had a win but they screwed up the performance. REX engine can't come soon enough to hopefully fix furure open world games.

Great, but I own all the games except Sonic Colors. Glad for everyone that all these are new for. Great month overall.

Could have at least sold off Monolith to another company before destroying yourself WB.

Monolith was an absolute great developer, very few even just okay games. Most of their library was good or excellent.

...it still looks like a vaseline smear versus a midrange PC.

Very grainy and horrible FSR1 on all consoles.
It's better with RT and PSSR here but not by much. Pretty unfortunate sadly.

@Orpheus79V I'm primarily Xbox (well have been until this generation now more PS5) and I think it's extremely early/alpha and borderline useless unless they can port old games without source code to say a new game engine on current generation hardware.

It might be a good tool for something for games but it is way too overblown. I.e. should be a blog post at most in its current state.

Being someone that was normally on the Xbox and Nintendo sister sites more than here for years unfortunately I think the same process is happening to PlayStation.

A few 1st party games get cancelled or not shown for almost a year or more and people start to panic and cannot find any other 1st party games to look forward to release in the short-term and become disenfranchised with the brand, the company, the platform and the "box".

I for one have been in this process with Xbox but primarily due to lack/weak physical games support and lack of mass adoption of Play Anywhere while enforcing digital games primarily for their platform.

Take some time away sites/forums, research games your are really interested in, or play an old favorite while time passes. PlayStation seems still focused on new IP and old IP but new AAA entries take 4-7 years to happen. It just is how this industry is now. Something we all have to deal with.

Battlefield, Apex/Titanfall, Medal of Honor could be a strong get for a live service game. But traditional RPGs don't have to be shoehorned into that to be successful. Just make a solid game ffs.

It failed because it was a mediocre RPG and not great writing for majority of the game. It's more having "Disney-fied" conversions which just the structure of them gets old fast. I've heard the ending is good though but myself haven't made it that far.

The gameplay is fun, really fun. It's one of few bigger budget games that didn't have technical issues on any console or even PC, which is extremely rare.

Also people didn't buy it in some capacity because the art style didn't match what they expected or wanted it to have.

It just sounds like poor management and creative decisions on the core of writing and visuals, that's it. Otherwise it was a success.

@Hyena_socks PS5 is over 4 years old no matter what has or hasn't released nor how long people waited or had to wait to get one. I have ~40 disc PS5 already and we will get a PS6 in 2.5 years from now.

Too be honest me personally the PS5 is already loosing its luster and I'm ready for next gen this fall or early next year. So I'll lean on my PC more until PS6 is here.

@AlexPorto meh, the writing even if it was cinematic and interesting (sometimes and in bits here and there) if it was a movie script it would have fallen flat and probably never made or straight to Netflix. The character development and gameplay is what kept me involved in ME3 and the main reason it succeeded when it did.

They freaking made a new ending after launch, if that doesn't tell you how the story landed overall for the masses then your fooling yourself even if YOU like it.

@Korgon same, in wrapping and all still. Hopefully others did the same to keep them afloat and we end up with a new ME in the next 2-3 years.

Looking like Microsoft might fill in the gaps making console gaming even more confusing for us.

By next generation it won't be "just buy all consoles" it will be "pick a handheld and console so you can play all games available. Still didn't see Sony dropping the ball with so many games live service or not, yes even some of the single players games have been very lacking (Xbox and Nintendo did too to be fair).

Now we will have studios for PlayStation that might release ZERO games from start of PlayStation 5 to before PlayStation 6 is available. Not even Microsoft will likely fail to do that even if they release next generation consoles first. Truly bizarre times.

Powerful as PS5? No
More powerful than PS4? Yes
Sell more than PS5? Yes
Have more exclusives than PS5? Yes

They can be complement devices too.
Nothing else matters.

@Bamila It was ALWAYS going to be sub DLSS4 and sub FSR4 in quality and features. How? PS5 Pro is only RDNA3.5. Mostly RDNA3 with some RDNA4 features. It was up to PlayStation to get their AI upscaled up to snuff in a very short time. Maybe PSSR2 will be in the realm of the current versions of DLSS/FSR when the PS6 comes out.

Not saying Stanley Parable is bad or that Need for Speed sucks.. but this month is "a big ol pile of poopie" for me.

I think that's what we all assumed quite some time ago.

It was never advertised like Silent Hill 2 or the Final Fantasy 7 games for PS with a tiny text of exclusive time-frames.

Just simply they didn't target Series S but PS5 as default and having trouble getting it running in a good state. Hell PS5 cannot get it running anywhere close to 60fps.

It's Stellar Blade, nothing was close besides Space Marine 2. But it's a 3rd person shooter.

@PuppetMaster for the price of those games you could buy a mid to high end PC lol.

@Callmegil This is a problem for almost all big AAA & AA games currently. Only Indies usually care to innovate gameplay much anymore.

@PuppetMaster PS2 was a great console nothing with collecting the PS2 in 2024/2025!

@Luigia PS5 has been pushed in wrong ways (Unreal 5 chasing PC AI or higher core count features). We will have to wait until Naughty Dog's, Santa Monica's, Kojima's, or Insomniac's games to comes out on an internal PlayStation engine to see if PlayStation 5 can be optimized to suit its strengths. Otherwise this gen of PS5 hardware was a bit too weak and was a rushed pre-COVID machine to have PS4 games run at ~1440p~60fps and/or (I'm afraid to say likely) PS6 games running at 900p~30fps.

Uhhhhh what. I might wait til this is cheap.

The one thing not talking about that actually matters: gameplay.
Most of NDs newer games have semi-impactful melee on the grisly side but is grounded.
The main character running and jumping off a rock for a more cinematic attack isn't normally in their wheelhouse.

This is likely to play a bit more "float-y' and exaggerated due to being sci-fi, not completely set in realism and Earth based physics/rules.

I think people are jumping to conclusions what exactly this game is going to end up being. Let's wait until more than 2-3 seconds of in engine potential gameplay shows up.

Well everyone forced me to vote for DLC since there is nothing else to vote for.

Great job for being lame.

Deathstroke is good

Not currently free so no.

Paid $40 for PC EA years and years ago. Kind of feel miffed I don't just get PoE 2 EA for free.

@UntilRespawn mostly always are. I'd love for digital to be cheaper/exactly same as disc but well PS Support sucks anyways and their return on digital is non-existent.

One of the best years imo in a very long for disc game sales for $20-$25 and $35-$50 ranges. I could easily make it until 2026 on just the pickups for PS5.

You got that right, even on a beefy PC it's not ideal but still much much better. Until next generation will it be a good experience.

@TechaNinja this right here, an actual CPU upgrade with lots more hardware power and features especially version 2 of PSSR.

BUT as of now if you live in US we will have more tariffs on goods. So I'm expecting $700 for PS6 when it could have been $500-$600. Sad times ahead.

@Waitinonpsvr2 it's the launch day of the console, why wouldn't there is an overload of articles for the people that bought in? Those of us that are waiting for PS6 with a gigantic CPU uplift, more RAM, and PSSR2 will get the same amount of articles (if not more when PS6 launches). And will all people that don't buy into PS6 just not care about this site for PS5 games news? A bit silly.

@ErrantRob yep this is type of game to purchase and support if you are here for unique experiences in video games. Not the same old same old gameplay even from the "best/highest rated" games.
It's still day 1 for me physical edition.

Very good gameplay improvements over World.
Very poor textures/performance regression over World.

Looking forward to it even though it's been a disaster. Same for Beyond Good & Evil 2 as they seem like both will be releasing still at some point.

I love stories like this, and Suda51 will never not be funny. Who knows maybe someone here is Wario64.

Both 120hz modes are pretty good.
Both non 120hz modes suck hard.

Tested all 4 of them, I think Quality 120hz doesn't feel horrible but could be better. Framerate 120hz looks super aliased but isn't too distracting with excess shimmering so far in motion and feels very good to play.