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Doesn't read as average tbh, it reads as quite poor.
Average and OK means good enough on a wet Sunday afternoon, this reads as a waste of your time.

@The_New_Butler for a games machine that is quite a killer advantage though 👍

@Tharsman Barrier? You ever put batteries in a remote? Nope? OK I see there's a barrier for you.

@commentlife really? Its about as complicated as replacing the batteries in a remote. You take the cover off, slot in the new one, put the cover back on.
Tons of items with battery compartments that have a small screw to help keep them in place. Its as simple as that.

@fR_eeBritney Nah, not for me. Love remakes and hate remasters.

Sony tried the PSP2, it was called the Vita.
It failed, bad. Ended up being nothing more than a retro rom machine, a raspberry pi with built in controller.

Much as peeps liked to say they wanted to play AAA on the go, or on the loo; they didn't. On the go one handed Threes is fine; on the sofa two hands are, well more suited.

@Rjak Agreed.
imho most of the semi-sim racers out there spend 95% of their time in online races and the other 5% doing hot-laps or races against the AI to prepare for online races.

The minute Codies had you out of the car is (again imho) the minute they started wasting valuable resources where they are not needed.

Imagine how good this could be if they just focused on the racing. All that extra time, effort, money and quality in to what you actually do with a racing game, race.

@themightyant Great list and I agree XBGP is good for those that want to sample a lot of variety; what grates is that MS sell it on AAA day 1 exclusives and even in your list I dont see anything other than Forza and Gears 5 that hits that mark. It is provding a vast quantity or cheap stuff but doing a FANTASTIC job of marketing.

For me Sony (what would I know) are failing in two ways:-
1. Not marketing PS Now (twice as many games at half the price of XBGP but they still fail to get the message over). Its an amazing service with so many titles at such a low price - how anyone could rate XBGP above it for Forza 4 and Gears 5 is a mystery.

2. £70 for PS5 first party is ridiculous. I've had a PS5 for 6 months now and I haven't bought a single PS5 title. I have the cash I just dont like to be over-charged.

Good to see MS release all it's AAA titles on both Xbox and PC. All 2 of them, Forza and Halo.
Will take Sony a long time to better that.
Really in that glasshouse MS should be quiet.

@danlk1ng I think thats about right if you go get scalped or mis-match.
You can easily build a Ryzen 5 5600X system, with M2 main drive, 16G ram and a good MB for £700.
I'd suggest that such 5600X build can be suitably paired with a 3060TI or 3070 and yup they can easily be upwards of £700 in these times.
So 50%-60% on GPU about right unless get for MSRP and then I'd say 30-40%. i.e. circa £350 on top of that £700.

@Alan_cartridge_
Sorry for asking but what does that mean? Perhaps a dumb question but do you mean as in PC monitor doesnt work but TV does [at 1440p]?

@Texan_Survivor Same for me but much more recently. When Control was released to PS+ earlier this year I tried 30 and 60FPS mode. Once I had tried 60 I found 30 positively appalling.

The Exodus deal is for the Gold Edition, so even better. I assume that includes the DLC expansions?

@Stoffinator personally I think its looks better. If you look back at say F1 2017 it had realistic levels of colour saturation but the last 2 have looked like the've had a highlighter pen thrown all over them and the saturation turned up to 11. Literally can't play them - makes them look like Lego racing rather than F1.

They are not free. They are part of the services provided by Sony for the subscription you pay them.
Its a like saying "what free programmes would you like Netflix to air in June".

Grrrrr. Pet hate. And yes I will post it every month.

Yup, refuse to call £60 a discount price, it may be discounted, but its not a discount price.

If I could play it and then sell back the licence to Sony for say 50% of the purchase fee (as I can with a physical copy to ebay/others) then great but given I will only ever see a 0% return on that investment its just not appealling enough.

@Wally. To be fair its each to their own. It will never be that all things are loved by all people.

I respect that people who like games of this nature love this particular example, just like people who like american football games like Madden, and peeps who like GTA games liked GTA 4 and 5 etc. But it doesn't mean it will 'convert' people - and nor, imho, should it try.

Its great to have so many genres to choose from - and to not feel any obligation to give a flying figg even for the world's 'best' in many of those genres. Thats the joy of choice.

@thefourfoldroot Agrreed 100%. The physical game is about £20 for all but that rare minority that want to fill their shelf with old games. Buy it - play it - sell it - repeat. £20 a pop.
So why would anyone pay £70? No point.

Digital is very convenient - but not that convenient.

I dont get the maths either, surely 100 sales of a digital thing at £50 is better than 50 sales at £70 (silly numbers I know but the point is valid; the costs are the same but the revenue increases - so it just makes sense).

There must be so much money 'left on the table' because Sony are hanging out for these £70 sales.

@lolwhatno irony?
I am amazed the government hasn't stepped in and insisted this term be banned. It should be 'free to download' or 'free to start'.

Hate the term.

@RBMango Hi there. Can you expand. For those who haven't bought it yet and aren't prepared to gamble £70 it would be good to have your thoughts on what design choices.

@Luigia I agree with you but fyi PS Plus is a competitor to Xbox Live Gold, not their additional subscription service on top of that which is XBGP.

I think Xbox has basically given up on games with Gold, shunting out any old nonsense most months - so yes I agree PS Plus does wipe the floor with its completion, but that is Live Gold and not XBGP.

Seriously has anyone in the U.K. ever used the word sneakers?
Anyone? Ever?

They are not free, they are paid for by the subscription.
Its a little like saying what free shows do you want with your Netflix subscription?

Sorry, love the site, but suggesting a subscription service is 'free' is nonsense.

@S1ayeR74 I don't mean create a unique demo experience I mean simply release a timed version of the game. Surely that '60 minute only' is something Sony could help make a generic slap-on rather than additional coding.

Apologies if mentioned above in which case I repeat..... I can't understand why all games don't have a 60 minute demo. That way if I like it I buy it and if its a middle of the road feeling for me I wait for the sale or PS+.
There's very very few games I'd take a £40 punt on let alone the new ridiculous £70 level.

Simple. There's no way you could lose sales with a demo, surely there aren't that many 'gamblers' out there - so why not?

Glad to see the top of the main dash screen has the 'dead icons' of old games (that you have deleted) now removed.
Made the centre piece of the experience a little ugly previously.

I am assuming the third option in the vote is "Nope, it was a great game but I don't need to buy it again to play it again - its works just fine on BC".

Looking at it now its graphics are ropey, even in the remaster (don't get me started on remasters, con con con) - but I don't think they are ropey enough to merit a RE2 style ground up remake.

So no, best left where it is imho.

Great service. At least twice as many games and half the price of XBGP. Alas, for the masters of marketing, Sony simply haven't won that PR competition and the gaming media are constantly banging on about XBGP and not PSNow. Shame as its so much better.

@PSVR_lover an option. But its good to just have one box to power on and with the great backwards compat of the PS5 many of us have long since put the PS4 in the loft/in the classifieds.

I would leave my PSVR/PS5 hooked up if the HDR issues didn't exist - but HDR is so much of a game change I'm not about to do without it for the odd hour of VR time.

@BranJ0 Because as the author says the orginal PSVR was not HDR pass-thru. Therefore you lose one of the greatest advances in display technology for wanting to use one of the other greatest advances in display technology

Can't say I noticed it last summer. Geoff is famous for trying to build hype around a bunch of adverts. No thanks.