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Like most here I've had one since day 1. tbh though the main appeal of a console over a PC to me is the exclusives and for PS5 the only one that has grabbed me to date has been GT7. That took 2 of those 3 years to get here.

Many will argue against it, but its fact that you can build a gaming PC for £550 that has a GPU (3060Ti) almost twice the performance of a PS5 and then enjoy non-exclusive games at almost half the price (£40 on release) with greater FPS and more consistently delivered 2k/4k presentation. So thats where 90% of my time now is. On PC games.
If there were the Uncharteds, the TLOU, the Astrobots, etc the new IP to blow you away then great, but its been pretty underwhelming remakes of PS3/4 games with a hint of gloss and nothing new and exclusive to drag me away from my PC. ..... Everyones different so dont flame me for not fancying your favourite.

Love the PS brand and the exclusives, just aren't that many this gen.

tbh the games I've played the most hours of these last 3 years have been BG3 and that I got on PC for £26 (non-UK store) and Lies of P (Game Pass). I should mention Elden Ring as a masterpiece, but again it was £40 on PC with much better performance and visuals (post initial patch) - so there's just not a good reason to not play the better version on PC.

Ridiculous to even suggest this is some sort of 'upgrade' path for current PS5 owners. Its not a Pro and clearly the ambiguous reporting has confused some if you read thru these comments and see a few of the responses.
Its bordering on irresponsible tbh.

@ChrisDeku plus cheap console which is 1/2 the gpu performance of the ps5 you mean.
i can't believe sony don't capitalise on marketing how weak that cheap console is.

@Pranwell
Absolutely, who on earth thought the PS3 slim was aimed at them when they had the OG PS3 (which looked soooo much better). Ditto the PS4 slim which looked like a kids toy compared to the OG PS4.

tbh I think the media have filled a few inches suggesting there is some 'upgrade' path here. There clearly isnt.

Lets see a PS5 Pro though, now thats somthing new and an upgrade grabber.

@DragoonZied
I see many appear to forget the original was critically slammed at worst and faintly praised at best, and having played it recently as many have in anticipation of AW2, it quickly reminds me why. The feel, the story, the world is all great, its just the combat is so so bad. Really bad.
Glad to hear this one is great though and importantly improves in every way on the OG. Will certainly give it a go on PC when the price is right.

@Tsushima so long as much better than original should be ok

I dont think anyone thought an existing PS5 owner would exchange their gen1 for this 'slim'?

As you say its not a 'Pro', its just a mid-gen slim. No one swapped their PS2 for a slim, and the PS4 slim and especially PS3 slim were real ugly tree compared to the originals and no one even spoke of exchanging the OGs for the inferior looking slims.

So if anything, based on past results, very few will change for the sake of change.

Sorry but when a game is 'on sale' and still above £40, it aint a sale I wish to partake in.

See you when you're £19.99 RE4 remake

@Powerplay94 I think they will more than reap the rewards with DLC. It is a simply stunning game as an fyi to any that haven't had the pleasure. Stunning. I think PS underplayed it and tbh I think its was just too 'hard' for the Eurogamer reviewer .

Treat yourself. Give it a whirl. Wonderful experience.

I assume that most development suites have a licensing fee of sorts, I mean Unity's employees need to eat and feed their families just like us all. I assume many are by consumption, i.e. not just on consumption of the tool but also consumption of what the tool produces.
Was the problem that this was an excessive fee?

I think the last point is key.
3 years into a generation (and I expect they had dev kits a year before that), so perhaps 4 years of development and the only progress is a remake of a remake. Jeez.

Whilst not a wokey person myself it does appear the whole concept has failed to land in some elements of gaming promotional activities. Does look a little 80s TOTP.

Whilst I love PS it doesn't read like a hands-on preview and its the handling that makes a racing game imho.

I expect EA wont be able to help themselves from having mtxns throughut, stopping you from even navigating the game freely unless you proactively close the pop-up invites to spend more ala 'free' mobile games.

Hopefully its a belter but EA are EA, as the scorpion said to the frog.

@roe Absolutely. From what I've played to date they put your ergo post death outside the boss arena so that you can pick it up and go farm a little and upgrade before you try again (unlike Souls games that made you go back in to the boss fight to get your dropped souls). Good choice for us less skilled.

Only put about an hour in but 9/10 from me; and I am a fussy bugger. Plays great, looks great and there's been nothing like Bloodborne since, well, Bloodborne. So love it.

BB was my only ever Platinum, so I am kinda inclined that way.

Thats a great line-up. Like many CP was not received well enough to have me buy it standalone; but as an "included-with-sub" game thats a definite play.

@Grumblevolcano Agreed. I think there should be say a 20 minute time played requirement at least. I 'own' many games I never intend to touch and I know would be 1* for me (but thats because they aren't my cup of tea and not because they are awful). Its a little unfair to allow reviews where the user hasn't even tried the product.

Why always online when in single (human) player mode?
Bonkers. No benefit at all to the playing customer (dont tell me the Cloud makes all the magic happen, yeh right).

The only benefit is for the publisher, so that they can harvest your personal data and make more revenue through selling it on.
Their greed gives them what they deserve.

Given his performance in one of the worst films ever released (Netflix earlier this year) I’m afraid he’s now like salt in orange juice for me. Just spoils it.

Anyway it’s great to see a game reinvent itself. Well done to all involved

Dont forget Tomb Raider Anniversary already covered TR1, 15+ years ago and tbh its graphics looked better than in this trailer. But they have 6 months to sort.
Great games though, hope they do modernise the controls and get them to the quality of TR-A, perhaps giving them a quick before and after toggle like with the graphics.

Can you please confirm if your accessibility report includes 'swap sticks' in its Remap-Controls metric?
I suspect it doesn't as on your sister site I see starfield has the Remap-Controls measure ticked but it alas does not have left handed controls.
What other group of folks that account for 10% of those on this planet could be so 'left out'? Not an 'ism' in the scale of others, but I do feel that one day the plight of the lefty will finally make it on the agenda.

In all seriousness it would be good it you could point this out in your reviewes as games are simply unplayable without it for many of us. [swapping sticks in the dashbaord isn't the solution as that makes it a system wide feature and for some games you dont want that].

'Her Story' proves is can be done. Great game and worth every penny.

In this case though, reading the review, makes me wonder how it earned 3/10, reads more like a 1.

Its worth noting that the game is not that GPU heavy on a PC at all, and DF are using the 4+ year old 2060 Super to run the PC version at Ultra at 62 FPS. Its fantastic that the PS5 can match the 2060 Super though.

As with lower spec CPU PCs the game suffers on the PS5 in NPC heavy areas - but hopefully a patch can address that for both the PS5 and such CPU limited PCs.
In contrast

@Savage_Joe this plays locked 4k 60fps on a £550 PC. High settings.
it's not that demanding at all which is one of it's many strengths.
3060 upwards and you are golden at 4k60.

sorry, pedantic time, it's like saying the liverpool vs Newcastle game was free on Sky Sports last weekend. yes it was, if you subscribe to Sky Sports.
sorry but they aren't free.

more importantly it's always sad to hear of folks losing their job. i am sure their talent will take them far.

i suspect EA won't be able to help themselves. Think Project Cars 3. it will stink imho. there'll be micro transactions galore, a gear shop, XP. the last thing it will be is a simulation.

save your £60 and get BG3 instead. you will thank me for it.

i'm not looking to get banned but the author should know that something is either "common" or "sometimes". you can't be common sometimes or sometimes common.
hope it's a lot better than the first which was rightly poorly viewed on release. as one old enough to have enjoyed OG xbox from day 1 i did not get my rose tinted glasses delivered yet.

If this guy is lowering expectations then it must be bad. He does tend to claim the postie at the door as the second coming.

@push, I am no expert but I think this line could have been worded better "due to its very obvious similarities to Naughty Dog’s flagship survival horror series".
The title in question had absolutely no similarities to that ND title you refer to other than the font and picture used on its store page.
Beyond that marketing there is no similarity.
Sorry to be pedantic, but this isn't a close approximation; its just a blatent con.

@LifeGirl PS4 life (from its release to release of PS5) = 7 years, PS5 (from release to date) = 2.5 years
2.5/7 = 35%, and not 50%.

This time next year it will be 50%

But if your point is console cycles are now ridiculously long compared to the 5 year cycles we used to have, then yes I agree.

A good step forward.
One of the key accessibility 'conditions' we have is left handedness. Approx 9% of the population. And yet because the left handed tend to just get on with it, they tend to get forgotten.

Can you believe that in 2023 there are still games released that specifically do not cater for 9% of the population?
Even the Playstation options makes it such a bind (no pun) to get to the accessibility options on the PS5 and turn on left handed mode for the controller thats its as if they'd rather the persky customers not bother.

So good step forward - but I do feel calling out developers for their shocking ignorance is the way to shame them in to action.

As exmaples note that Cypberpunk still doesn't have appropriate left handed options at present and a more recent example, Leyers of Fear (re-release) does not either. Prey does not, tbh its just shocking how what must be a free common API is ignored.

Attracts scorn I know, but what other 9% group of the population could be specifically excluded these days of equity without an outcry?

tbh with such a perfect story I think it would be best to let it be. A true classic not tainted by the attempts to rake in even more fortunes with needless sequals.
They didn't fall foul of that with the game so why do it with the TV series..... oh wait.

Nor added any accessibility controls for left handed users. Not a good look in 2023 that such basic accessibility still gets ignored.

Not for me, nor many racing sim fans I expect. We've had a glut of arcade racers over the years on PS5 (and Xbox) and yet each literally has one SIM, GT7 and FM respectively.

I'd much rather see a dedicated AC2 for PS5/X, or ACC confidently updated (rather than a slap and go approach), or AMS2 converted for PS5/X.

Each to their own, but the the Riiiidge Racer vibe didn't age well (like myself) imho.

@BAMozzy tbh thats a great way to think about it. If this is really intended to be a 'laptop you strap to your face', and it has the performance and features/functionality of a laptop but with the size and 'convenience' of just strapping it over your eyes then the price tag is high, but only Apple high. (assuming the power of a £1500 laptop is replicated).

At present if think the closest competitor is the £299 Quest 2, which isn't there with email/browser support unless you use virtual desktop and that itself has to be on a laptop/PC etc etc - so it quickly moves away from being a one stop device if you have to extend to real laptop functionality.
In summary, imho, if Apple really has put the functionality and performance of a £1500 laptop in a standalone headset then I can understand the price tag.

@naruball Absolutely, all those AAA Xbox exclusives must be weighing the virtual shelves down

With the Q2 at £299 when PSVR2 was announced and the Q3 on its way in 3 months at £499 the PSVR2 just makes no sense at >£500
Surely Sony and its spreadsheet management team can see that.
Games at x2 price and number of games at 1/100th of PCVR its a no brainer to get a Q2.
Yes a PC is itself 2x price of a PS5 but anyone with enough cash to be thinking of forking £530 on a VR headset surely already has a PC.

Games sell hardware, not hardware and there's nothing of note for many on PCVR2.
I've been buying day 1 tech for 30+ years but there's nothing that attracts me to PSVR2.

As they say its impossible to please all of the people all of the time. Its great to see sony cater for some of the people.

As they say, a pig wearing lipstick, is still a pig.

Fair play that they've taken the time to try and redeam themselves and their game, but sometime its better to just mark it down as experience and move on.

Sad, really sad. How is it that pretty much everything EA touches turns to dust.

@TrickyDicky99 - I think you miss the point. If you open up the PC access then you get more sales of the hardware to people who have both a PC and PS5. Those additional sales will bring in additional software sales, both PC and PS5 games. Yes not all will be PS5, but some will.

Surely when developing and delivering a racing simulator and faced with limited budget and two choices there is only one winner in the either / or
a) include the most immersive, realistic and seat of your pants driving experience through the inclusion of VR support OR

b) include the ability to buy a coloured sofa

Surely everyone can see the sofa option is of far more value to your seasoned simracer?

As a big fan of Bloodborne I have no interest in a remake.
It was one of the best playing and looking games of the PS4.

Why on earth would you want to re-skin a game so new?
Have their been any skin jobs of great looking PS4 games?

TLOU doesn't really count as that was a remake of a PS3 game, the PS4 version was little more than make-up applied and thus there was a lot to improve upon from the base PS3 outing.

Really, have their been any PS4 remakes of good looking games that were originated on PS4? This really a thing?

I love this site but £55.99 (Dead Space) as an example isn't imho something to celebrate. Did anyone buy (that masterpiece) at that price when not in a sale? And Forspoken, £45; every commentary on the game has suggested its overpriced at £20.
You PS are the experts, thats why its your job and not mine, but surely the news story here is that publishers are trying to sell games by advertising as sales prices, when in fact they remain overpriced in some cases. I'd be more interested to see the media take a stance against that practice.

Still love the site, please dont ban me for having an opinion

Great change / addition.

Just goes to show how much these devs/publishers care and listen.
Kids will love that update.

Would be interesting to know how other cross-gen titles have been received when of a AAA nature.
I mean if the PS5 and XBX versions have hit the $$$ then imagine what the PS4 could do with such a larger market.

Always great to see talent succeed

@R_Ryder Agreed.
We dont even get 4K@60FPS on non-RT games at present with the PS5 and thus a Pro would be great news to finally get to the 4K target of this generation.

tbh its quite shocking that most games are still 1440P@60 and thats using FSR (so really at 1080P). Not quite the UHD generation we expected!

Quite ironic really when I think of the amount of time I've spent with a contoller over the years when I could have been 'practising' insemination with my partner. I guess the two of them have just cut out the middle man:)

100% agree. I play 3 driving sims, none of which are on GP or equivalent. My son (a 3 hour a day gamer) plays Fortnite and Fifa.
Again neither on GP or equivalent.

GP is good for sampling the odd thing, e.g. a Plague Tale, where you wouldn't otherwise buy it, but not in my cse for 95% of the household gaming.