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@Blackmagehobbit Steam gives you 2 hours to play every single game on their platform and you can request a refund and they have more games than Playstation. If you think this is going to impact games on the platform you're delusional.

Why would these publishers get paid for what's basically a refund of a game? Steam does the same thing and developers dont seem to care.

What cringe. When your company spends billions to keep chips away from your competitors and on top of that spends $80 billion to buy out 3rd party publishers because you're terrible at making games on your own, is that really something to brag about? Its like a rich kid gloating about having friends when he just buys them all. This is the generation the industry falls apart and you can thank garbage MS for it.

@sanderson72 Demos are dead because no developer is spending the time to make them anymore, not because of Sony. Also this doesn't stop them from making actual demos.
@alexbolton2 This is just giving people 2 hours to play a game before buying it so it's not like taking resources to make a specific demo for a game.

@IonMagi You have to understand that Ps5 is literally the first non Windows console to have VRR. Xbox just uses a custom version of Windows which has had VRR for years. It's not a simple thing to bring to an entirely new architecture.

There's no mistake here. They've already said the live service games will not impact their single player games. They're not stupid. Push Square being drama queens like usual.

@DnBSkillz Thank you! It's impossible to make any sense with that clown. Dude is going to say that OC'ing and variable frequency are the same and doesn't even understand the reason why Sony can't say "full" RDNA2 even though it has all the features it needs. He's going to sit here and say he's not some Xbox troll yet he's saying dumb fanboy school yard ***** like they overclocked the Ps5 at the last second and apparently this new one where they are throwing away "boards" because they can't handle the overclock heat lol..

@Rural-Bandit You clearly list hyperbolic nonsense as if its fact. You realize when DF compares games they take particle effects, ambient occlusion, AA, and every other visual effect into context right? If the dev kits were the issue out the gate then why is Ps5 still out performing Series X in some games? The whole dev kit thing is grasping at this point. Valhalla won head to head after the patch? They had to LOWER the resolution for Series X in the patch for it to match the Ps5 version FPS. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1HbGf2R7yk&t=1s You can list games that run better for Series X and I can keep listing games that run better on Ps5, like I said before that's common but the reality is both run 90% of games identical. Not much better for Series X like you claimed.

-"why did they at the last min overclock the GPU to take a 9TFLOP machine to 10.2 TFLOPS and run the system with a larger heat sink?"
-"Which the overclock runs the processors so hot for sony that its a issue for getting more supply, cause lots of boards have to be throw away cause they can’t handle the overclock heat"

Ok now you're just showing how much of a Xbox fanboy you are. Both of these are complete fanboy nonsense with zero truth behind them. Also that list of 120 FPS game is of course going to be much higher on Series X because Xbox's backwards compatibility is better and can boost framerates without a patch where as Ps5 the developers have to go and spend time making a patch. Also for someone claiming to know so much about tech you think you would know the difference between overclocking and variable frequencies with boost, they're not the same thing at all like you're trying to portray it as a negative last ditch way to get more power.

@Rural-Bandit What you're saying is completely false and no Series X doesn't have much more games that run better. I've watched numerous DF videos and PSU even has a list of all games that run better on Ps5 than Series X, though its list is old. You bring up Hitman 3 which conveniently is one game that runs better on Series X. Even newer games like Elden ring, FF Strangers of Paradise, The Show, etc. have been coming out running better on Ps5 so the theory that it's the "dev kits" fault is really grasping. Probably the biggest difference is VRR for those who have displays that support it and Ps5 will have VRR within the next few months. As Mark Cerny said you can't just take TFLOPS into account when it comes to consoles, especially when they have custom tech like Ps5's I/O complex that can make a huge difference. The reality is most games run nearly identical on both platforms with some running slightly better on one than the other. At the end of the day there isn't much that's going to change that.

@Ralizah The only game from them Xbox platforms got that wasn't on a Playstation was The Witcher 2. The reason it wasn't released on Ps3 is because it would have taken way too long to port because of Ps3's wonky architecture, it took an entire year to port to 360 so we can only imagine how long it would have taken for Ps3. Regardless CD Projekt is printing money and has no reason to be purchased. They may end up becoming a major 3rd party publisher which would be great for the industry.

Meh, I'm so tired of every action RPG just being a bland Souls like clone.

@Martsmall It's a good thing it was free to keep as part of PS Plus over a year ago so everyone on PS can get this free update.

FF9 is probably a little bit bigger than 7 so there's 0 chance it's going to be a full fledged remake. If they can't do 7 in one game there's no way they'll spend the resources and do 9 in one and I can't see them breaking up the game like they did 7. It'll be another HD "upgrade", which honestly isn't a bad thing as the game is still incredibly enjoyable today.

I think the reality is Sony needs to get more Ps5's on shelves. The fact that you still can't walk into a store and buy one really hurts their sales.

Idk if I even want a sequel to this franchise. Trigger is near flawless and Cross tied up the loose ends from it so the series ended perfectly IMO. Plus the story is so convoluted from all the stuff Cross introduced so good luck making a sequel from that.

@Micky-717 Awesome! Hopefully patches will sort out the frame rate issues, otherwise sounds like the CC I know and love.

So can we clarify is this the original soundtrack just enhanced or is it rearranged? Your review makes it sound like its the original soundtrack yet last week Square said it wouldn't include the original.

@Fiendish-Beaver You are a master at writing a ton of useless text and saying absolutely nothing of significance. First of all I said MS started this by buying PUBLISHERS, not developers. You can list all the developers Sony purchased over the years and it just shows that they purchased developers over a long period of time, they only turned on the floodgates recently when MS bought 10+ studios and then 2 massive PUBLISHERS. How you blindly try to compare that to Sony buying numerous studios over the 3 decades they've been in gaming is idiotic. Also for the timed exclusivity stuff guess what? MS started that too. Remember the 360 generation when they were the ones buying CoD DLC exclusivity and paid $50 million for GTA4's DLC exclusivity? Everything you blame Sony for MS did first and did it worse. I'm not saying Sony is a saint, but I'd take waiting a year to play a game rather than never being able to play a game at all.

I could pick apart every thing you say but it's Saturday and I have better things to do. Catch up lol? You really think MS that is worth a trillion ***** dollars is playing catch up to Sony? Stop being so dense.

@Fiendish-Beaver What are you even talking about? In two years MS just spent $80 billion dollars buying up publishers and now are basically making the same amount of revenue as Playstation who has never purchased a single publisher before and has nowhere near the money MS does. MS just bought the 5th biggest publisher in the world like it was nothing. If you don't think this is all on MS you're insane. They started this trend. We went 40+ years without a single publisher being purchased and they now gobbled up two in two years. This is only the start. Buying up publishers to take IP's off other platforms is the worst trend in the industry so far and only MS is doing it.

Even though it's not good for the industry can you blame them? MS has ruined the industry using their conglomerate money so Sony has to either adapt or die. There's no way they can compete on their own without growing.

One of the best JRPG's I've ever played and playing this gave me feelings of the old Ps1/Ps2 days when great JRPG's were releasing every month. God I miss the days when Japan actually cared about console gaming.

Konami or Square Enix would be perfect. When you think of the games made by both of these publishers Playstation is the brand that comes to mind first and the majority of the games made by them are already purchased mostly by Playstation owners so it wouldn't really be leaving many Xbox and Nintendo gamers out. Both publishers really need better management for their IP's too. From Software and Kojima Productions would be incredibly smart dev pickups for similar reasons. Keep the games made by them initially for PS consoles and then port them to PC later on for extra profit.

I'm thinking it may be Kojima seeing as how he's moving to a new location as well... If MS purchases their studio I'll ***** riot.

This is legitimately a deal breaker for me. The original soundtrack is arguably the greatest OST in gaming and from what I've heard of the new tracks there's no comparison. If Trials Of Mana and plenty of other remakes/remasters gave you the option to switch then theres no reason why this one can't. Just goes to show how lazy of a remaster this is.

People need to stop saying this is their Gamepass competitor because it's not and it never was going to be. This is just adding value to PSnow and combining their already existing services. Microsoft is bleeding billions of dollars now so maybe in the future there will be hundreds of millions of people subbing to GP and it will make them a profit. I just don't see it, most casual gamers aren't going to pay $15 a month for games they're not going to play.

@Rural-Bandit Keep changing the subject. When did Sony buy a ***** publisher? SF5 they helped fund, Final Fantasy they're paying for timed exclusivity, Spiderman they develop themselves and don't own the IP as there have been other Marvel games with Spiderman in it. The timed exclusivity stuff is whack but MS does the exact same thing just with lesser mainstream titles. Also MS started the timed exclusivity wars during the 360 gen with GTA4's DLC and many other titles. Sony does their fair share of negative ***** as well as Nintendo, but NOTHING compared to spending billions to buy up existing IP's to keep multiplatform titles off other platforms. They just bought both publishers and one isn't even cleared yet so of course we haven't seen many titles be exclusive, but what do you think they spent $80 billion for? I'm not crying about anything shill, I'm pointing out how its completely assbackwards for an industry.

@mvhess Oh he gets it, he's just such an MS shill it doesn't matter to him. He somehow thinks MS is the good guy and Sony is the evil greedy corporation when they're both the same and just want your money. MS is just in all in mode to try and get as many subscribers as possible and doesn't care if they destroy the industry as long as they take control of it. It just makes me laugh how people like him think they're saving Bethesda and Activison even though it seems like every week we have a story about their first party studios having terrible management and people leaving. There's a reason why Xbox doesn't lead the industry and has to use billions of conglomerate money to buy out the competition. These clowns just don't seem to care that consolidation is going to ruin the industry. What makes me laugh is how they always bring up Tencent as if they're evil and would be worse off with them buying out the publishers. At least Tencent would keep the games multiplatform.

@Rural-Bandit Oh I'm so salty for pointing out reality!
I never said piracy didn't keep games away from PC as it absolutely did. I said it wasn't a major factor of killing physical PC games. Physical PC sales were already dead by the mid-late 2000's when piracy became rampant with torrents and p2p programs.

@Shigurui You realize MS pays the developers regardless if a game does well or not right? They're not going to disband any studios even if games do poorly either way because GP needs constant games and its cheaper to make games than sign 3rd party ones to GP. Either way I'm partially joking just to be a dick, aside from Bethesda games and Age of Empires I don't even see a single MS first party game on my Steam library so I don't even play most of their games.

Also I never condemned FH5 for their microtransactions, I was replying to someone who tried to say FH5 had little microtransactions which clearly isn't true. At least you can get GT7's cars without having to pay any real money at all if you play the game. Not every car is massively overpriced and I'm sure things will be adjusted. Every live service game goes through these things. Still I'd take a system where you can grind to get something over absolutely having to pay money.

@Rural-Bandit Funny thing is I haven't pirated a game in over a decade, always a good time to start with MS games though! I didn't realize pirating a game or two from a trillion dollar conglomerate is going to ruin the industry. Also the PC was never "killed off" in the early 2000s and piracy didn't stop stores from carrying physical PC games. Console gaming was just far more popular and PC didn't get many big name console ports so it made more sense for those games to take up shelve space. Piracy became FAR more prevalent when digital distribution started and Direct 2 Drive and Steam completely killed physical PC game sales. You would know that since you know everything about the industry right?

Bethesda made ONE more game for Xbox that wasn't on Playstation. They've always been pro PC, not Xbox. Of course Todd Howard is going to say anything to praise the company that just made him personally $150 million richer. Money talks and Howard will say anything as we know from the past. It's ok to be biased and believe whatever you want though.

@Rural-Bandit So somehow in your brain creating IP's from scratch with your own studios is the same as buying up giant 3rd party publishers for already created IP's? Also you're just making up complete nonsense saying Bethesda was always going to sell to MS. Morrowind is the ONE game they made that was on an Xbox platform and not a Playstation platform, mostly because the Ps2 was way too weak. That must mean they were the bestest of buddies right?

I'm not mad about anything, I just point out the facts. I'm a PC gamer so I have access to everything I'll ever need, but I still care about the industry because what MS is doing is going to have major ramifications within the next couple years. I'll absolutely steal if it means less money to a company that's forcing its way into complete control of an industry. It's funny how you bring up fanboy a lot when you're so blatantly one of them. At the end of the day NO ONE benefits when MS or any console maker buys out a multiplatform publisher to make those games now exclusive to their platform. Sorry but telling people to just buy out the other consoles is just beyond stupid and shows how ignorant you are to what's going on.

@Rural-Bandit Sony didn't buy out 3rd party publishers to force their way into being the market leader like MS is doing. MS paid %50 over the value of the stock to buy them, pretty sure no one else could even approach that amount. There is 0 benefit to Activision or Bethesda being bought by MS. Their games could have gone to GP without being bought out, the entire purpose is to force people who want to continue playing these IP's to buy into Xbox. Starfield, ES, and Redfall are all games that were going to be multiplatform and now aren't, how does having games release for less platforms benefit anyone? The same will eventually happen with Activision if allowed. I care about the industry and this consolidation is not a good trend. There had never been a single publisher bought by a console maker for decades of gaming, now MS has bought two in two years. I'll happily pirate every game I was going to buy from those publishers from now on though. Keep shilling for MS even though all we hear about is how terrible they manage their studios.

No wonder why they have to spend $80 billion to compete.

@Rural-Bandit I know right spending $80 billion of your conglomerate money to gatekeep historically 3rd party IP's is just such a great thing that Xbox has done for the industry. I hope Amazon and Google follow suit and buy up major IP's and lock them to their platforms so all the dumb people who praise what MS has been doing can eat crow.

@bozz Where did I say people couldn't be disappointed or show their displeasure? I just said acting like the game is ruined forever is straight up idiotic. Also the patch is FAR from catastrophic. 16 races had their rewards lowered (most of them reduced 20-40%) and 2 increased massively by 1400%. Really the only race that had it's reward reduced by a major amount is Clubman Cup Plus: Goodwood which went from 35k to 12k. Most people playing the game seem to not have a major issue with credits, its those that just want to grind and unlock everything insanely quick are complaining. That and people who don't even have the game. There will be adjustments made, it's not the end of the world.

@Yaycandy Seriously, people act like these things can't be changed and that won't be adjusted. This is a game that's going to be supported for years and people are talking like everything is set in stone.

@SJBUK You're the only one telling the real story.. They just lowered the payouts for some of the fastest races and massively increased the payouts for other longer races. Most people don't even know they actually increased rewards on races and are just jumping on the bandwagon. It's only people who haven't even played the game or those that want to own everything instantly that are blowing this out of proportion.

It's basically the same thing as Assassin's Creed microtransactions where they're there for those that just want to bull rush the game, but if you play the game normally there's no shortage of resources. Plus most people would rather have in game currency used to buy all cars rather than most car games where new cars are 100% locked behind paid DLC.

@JJ2 This. Just look at how pathetically negative the community is. It's a new studio working on a brand new IP with a staff of industry veterans. You dont need to be massively hyped since we haven't seen anything yet, but if you spin this negatively in any way you're just a sad cynical person.

The insane is they barely even touched the game and its getting all this backlash. A few of the fastest races got their credit rewards reduced and some of the longer races got theirs increased yet this is somehow the end of the world? If you play the game normally you won't have any problems with credits. It's the same thing as the Assassin's Creed games that offer microtransactions for the people that just want to bull rush the game, but if you play the game normally and do the sidequests there is absolutely no need to spend your money. You're not meant to unlock the rarest cars in the first hours of playing the game, if you want to be an idiot and spend real money to rush it that's on you. I'm not a fan of always online, but let's be real every device you own is online all the time already. This is so overblown.

@Ggroot Do you even know what you're talking about? They changed the rewards on handful of races, some they even INCREASED the rewards for. Unless you were someone that just endlessly grinded the two races that they nerfed around 50% then this barely affected you. Either way that's hardly kneecapping.

It's sad we lost Marvel Heroes and got this crap. Even though it was a f2p game it was still fun and had just about every character you wanted.

@Ggroot Because it's not a bait and switch. You clearly don't know what's going on here.

@BAMozzy So how long should it take to get the rarest, most expensive cars? There are games where it takes longer than 17 hours to get a lousy weapon skin. If you want to spend money and rush everything then the opportunity is there, otherwise you don't have to spend an extra dime. It's like the people who complain about Assassin's Creed and their MT's. I've played every single game since they've added them and never spent any money on them because I played the game like normal and didn't need to. Same thing can be said here. At least you can buy every car with in game currency instead of them being locked behind DLC.

The idiotic thing is people are review bombing the game without even having played it or knowing what the changes are.

@BAMozzy They adjusted a handful of race payouts for the fastest races in the game once they noticed people were just grinding them over and over. Also what no one else seem to mention is that they actually buffed a number of the payouts for races too. The game didn't change THAT much from two races having their payouts nerfed by 50%.

@lolwhatno No it's not really THAT bad. It's people whining about the cost of the few rarest, most expensive cars in the game because they want them right away. One route someone did the math for said it would take about 13 hours if you just wanted to straight up grind for one of these cars. Is that too much? Probably, but the game just came out and these things are going to be adjusted over time. At least you can buy these cars with in game currency without having to pay an extra cent if you just play the game.

Sony really needs to just buy his studio and let him do whatever he wants before MS buys him up and the rest of the industry.

This sounds absolutely terrible and has nothing to do with the source material aside from names. The casting is such a joke too. You can just tell this started out as an original script and Netflix figured they'd buy the rights to RE to add more interest in it since it's such a massive franchise.

@sajoey It's so cringey people act like an extra $10 is some exorbitant price difference. We were paying $50-$70+ during the SNES-N64 gens on games that were not even 2 hours long, now we have games that we play for dozens if not hundreds of hours and $70 is too much. It's just whining. Inflation is a thing.

@get2sammyb I don't agree at all. People expect these things to be E3 level every time which is just idiotic. They literally tell you what to expect and people still don't listen. They're the same thing as Nintendo's Directs. They're not meant for major reveals.

@RevGaming I hope you're sarcastic otherwise man you're such cringe with a statement like that.

All the people on this site whine about Sony not supporting Japanese games then when they do they still complain the games aren't good enough.

Evo was massively popular well before any Smash games came to it. Street Fighter has carried it for years and will continue to do so. Even without the Smash nerds it's still going to be the most popular fighting game tournament by a landslide.