Tbh if anyone is still hungry for vr then get a Quest.
Other than GT7 and that walk in the wild forest tech demo there’s nothing that betters it on PS and its whole lot more supported in the Quest.
I’m no fan of Meta but they’ve done more for vr than any other tech outfit.

@Northern_munkey The article states its to your bank account

@wildcat_kickz So what is? You've just negated 2 of them and given this is 4 I'm assuming that only leaves 2 to choose from. Genuine question should I ever wish to give it a whirl.

@GirlVersusGame Same initial leadership, Ian Bell, and thus many of the same tales of woe. He's since departed in a blaze of 'insert opposite of glory'.

@Dogbreath Nope - not what I'd call a career with quality.

Still they are putting the effort in, but its a long way from being the next No Man's Sky redemption story, such a long way to go.

@16BitHero Rogue AI? You been watching too much Blade Runner?

Whilst I agree it’s a nuisance does anyone actually go to the store to discover content. Surely we all go to buy the content we’ve already decided to buy. Thus all you need to do is search for the item rather than wade through the trash?

@XenonKnight Agreed, its amazing that AMD cards are 50% cheaper for 90% of the performance.

The 9070XT is an absolute steal for anyone looking for the £1400 5080 performance (90% of it) at half that price. Steal.

Given the cost of building a PC has increased by circa £500 (due to memory and storage of course, but NOT as some will think, due to GPU as AMD cards, the type PS and Xbox use have not increased in price), its fair and to be expected.

Just so long as they focus on performance and get it close to a £1200 PC then it would be worth it.

@Vince_Virtua my view is different. The issue for me with vr is the hassle. A lead is just a hassle too far. I used the Quest 2 a couple years back but even wirelessly the faff of having half a brick strapped to your face was too much.
Sony must have seen this and tbh I can’t believe they greenlit it and literally backed away the minute it was released. Surely better for all just not to bother.
It’s like the HD drive for the Xbox back in the day, dead on arrival and bizarre ever released.

Having worked for 36 years in (business) IT, I find it particularly sad to see others lose their jobs in the world of technology.
Wishing them well in all that they do going forward.

@8th_Observer Its what makes you buy in to a platform. Why on earth would you buy an xbox if there's nothing on it you can't get elsewhere.

Such a shame for all those impacted - wishing you all well.
We can only hope that those responsible have learned their lesson and those observing likewise. The nonsense that was the Xbox spending spree following their complete lack of investment in first party and exclusives had only one outcome - obvious well before hindsight got to say "told you so".

Does it have a left handed control scheme?
I know 90% of the population are right handed but try playing with the thumsticks swapped - hard isn't it? Thats how lefties feel when games dont bother - the games are simply unplayable.

Please can we have a simple accessibility box around the review that says if certain basic options are available.
A first person game without left handed scheme toggles is simply unplayable for 10% of the community.
[and yes you can globally change sticks at the system level but then you have to change back for non first person games).

I clicked the video and it was identical to the original. Perhaps I did something wrong?

Either way I hate to be the hated and I understand it impacts the 5% that still collect physical media.
The world of PC has done just fine with only digital media for 15 years, I am sure Playstation will live on too.

@JustBusiness Can you confirm you HAD TO pay for them before you could play them as is the case here?

I’m no writer but that’s a very disjointed piece of text.
I think you are saying that because the title is already behind plan, forecast to be over budget and comes from the same studio as two relatively underachieving games it’s been dropped by Sony. However Microsoft are prepared to accept these risks and have agreed to fund the development through Xbox?

Really sad and wish all the best for their futures.

Most of these announcements are about the big boys and somehow it hits home this one.

If you mean the modern trilogy then I wouldn’t call it dour. In fact this and most other media raved about each of the three. I agree they leaned too far into the RPG world of skills and upgrades. But the adventuring, puzzles and mobility were good fit for Lara. The emphasis on gunplay and upgrades were though less impressive.

@trev666 Sorry Trev but Sony are a company whose single purpose in life is to raise the value of the company through profitable growth.
They are not your friend, they are not trying to be.
Sony, Apple. Msoft, Nvidia....and every other company are identical. They aren't after a facebook like from you mate.

@Boxmonkey No mate, if you read this thread its the most common view.

@NessunDorma tbh never found GTA appealing but that butt certainly is. Crikey I just said that about a video game character.

Is that an oven glove?

Nope. Back in the day I was encouraged by the media to try Vice City, I did. I found its two pillars of (a) shooting and (b) driving, to be woeful. The sprinkles around those might be playful but the core of the game was weak.
And now 25 years later I'm not convinced those pillars are where they need to be. Its shooting and movement still looks off compared to a modern 3rd person action/shooter and its driving still appears clunky - not close to even the most basic of simcade racers.

I'd also hate to play as someone shooting cops. That may sound ridiculous but I just couldn't shoot cops and innocents, not even in a video game.

@MichaelNau Horses for courses mate. One genre might have a '10' for some peeps but if it aint your genre then no matter what it will be a '4' for you.
Dont waste your time on things that aren't you, there's so much out there that will be.

hmmm, I honestly hate to start a scores on the doors point, but for me a 7 is a 'play it now if its in your park' whereas 8s and 9s are 'play it whatever'. I loved the first one [so its in my park], and it scores a 7 [so its a play it now], but the words in the review and other reviews are anything but that.
Doesn't happen often but I was genuinely surprised I didn't see a 5 or 6 when I got to the bottom of the page.
And playing at 30FPS, come on it isn't the 90s.

In my limited research I don’t think there’s been a console launch that’s even half the performance of the then gaming PC. Thus is you want PS7 performance just go get an X3D CPU and a 5080 or 9070 GPU. Job done.
Costs double a PlayStation but you literally jump 2 generations.

Of course this doesn’t bring forward the games that developers might be holding back for those generations but at least you get tomorrows performance today and get to play the games of the now and next two years at max beauty and speed.

I say this as an ex console gamer who had no idea how far ahead PC specs were when I switched 5 years ago. I expect there’s a decent percentage of players in that position that would consider PC if they only knew.

@dodgykebaab you do know that resolution has nothing to do with frequency? I very much doubt that most PS5 players are on 1080p TVs, you haven’t even been able to buy a 1080p tv larger than 32” for about 5 years. Can you back up your claim with any facts?

I’d be very surprised if the base resolution is even 720p.

Showing my age but did a professional writer just use the word ‘sick’ as an adjective or am I reading that wrong?

I think you’re a little kind to say these prices are out of Xbox’s hands. Who do you think is leading and positively fuelling the AI bubble? Who is literally buying all the memory for its AI efforts thus to make RAM so scarce and expensive for domestic use.
Msoft is as culpable as anyone for these prices.

@Th3solution Unless they've massively changed tack on this cousin, Control was as linear a '90s-like' game as you could get. I really hope they haven't gone for the more-more-more (needless fluff) just to pad it out.

@Dalamar tbh I only ever played the first one (twice, once on launch day 25 years ago-ish) and most of the second one.
As always these stories drive me to re-download all of them on Steam and at least think about finishing 2 and pressing on with the less favoured sequels beyond that. Never quite get passed that think about stage though.....

@BaronLaw Jeez really, I expect such nonsense was commissioned 2 or 3 years ago when that liberal brain-junk still got airtime in the days of '(s)he who shouts loudest is (s)he who gets heard the most'.

@AdamNovice of course there is.
If they off load they sell it. Money comes in.
They close it then they have redundancy to pay for every single employee.

Always better to sell an asset than just write it off as a loss especially when you have to pay for that write off.

tbh there will always be those that can't afford/justify a PC and even at $1000 the PS6 will be cheaper than a PC that provides the same (low) level of performance.
As for digital only, let me guess that 90% of the whiners haven't bought a physical game in 5 years - just saying.

What I think many don’t realise, and I say this to help people, is that consoles are released at a point they are comparable to a low to mid spec PC at that time. Thus 6 years on the PS5 is barely a low spec PC.
So why wait for PS6 performance when you could have it 3 years ago on a high spec PC or today on a mid spec PC.
Stop waiting and start enjoying today.
A handful of exclusives doesn’t make up for the massive performance gap. IMHO.

Really? Whatever next, gold resellers predict gold is the next RAM crisis? fgs.

I’m sure it’s been said a million times already but wtf preorders a digital item? Those bits and bytes going to sell out?
Jeez, grandma wasn’t joking when she said the world has gone mad.

If this guy thinks Fortnite wannabes is the way to go he should have a look through the epic fails these last couple of years. I’m afraid that model also appears to have its risks.

More action? I thought GOW was nothing but action? Did I miss the 2 minutes of not action in any of the games?

What a strange statement to quote in the article ""mere formality at this stage". It looks like people are losing their jobs, thats no trivial formality. Pasted in by mistake or did you mean its a formality which wont impact on the studio still being closed?
Peculiar use of language.

Nope. Original was typical ubi nonsense and this won’t be any different.
I’m all for remakes when it’s a classic, eg Resi games or Dead Space, but since when has AC been remake worthy fgs.

@DennisReynolds i think you miss the point. A simple difficulty option is just that, simple - 95% of games do it yet others choose not to for the benefit of no one and many peoples loss. And yes there are sport variants for those not physically typical. Many of us dont have the time to "get good" but would still love to enjoy most of the content.

IMHO it was pants back in the day and progress in the years will only mean more attempts to screw the player for more money.

Never understood why it got the attention it did; each to their own.

@EfYI You contradict yourself. You say the industry has and then you say it hasn’t been held back. Make your mind up pal. No wonder you think you predicted something correctly, you probably predicted against yourself to cover your bets.

@StitchJones it is quaint you call it an Xbone, like a ten year old who’s heard a new word at school.

You’ll hear all about bras next. You wait.

I’m sure the wokey crowd will tell us its all a bit uncalled for and there’s no place for silliness in this day and age.

@LifeGirl Spot on. They also forget it's the opinion of the reviewer. Its not a science, no 'score' is the right answer; its just the current view of the reviewer.