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"or lean all the way in to appreciate the finer details of your scouts, cities, arm-" tumbles over

"Resistance: Burning Skies (PS Vita) - 2%"

There are dozens of us! Do- okay, more like one dozen so far, but still! Seriously, though, one of my fondest Vita memories even despite neglecting the console's gyro functionality and the reason I'm in the market for more of the series these days to begin with.

It's more surprising to see no Switch version in sight, but then again, the generally hybrid-prolific publisher has yet to get around to porting a few of their other titles like Dark Rose Valkyrie or Omega Quintet as well. Worst case scenario, this will be one for the Deck, but hope springs eternal.

A shift more understandable (if still unpleasant) in case of PS3 and Vita, but with a fully backward compatible pastgen? Forget PS+, PS4 games still arguably remain a key incentive of PlayStation 5 itself. Which might need all the incentives it can afford once you're able to get a whole Gen 10 hybrid for its price.

Then again, the shakeup is still almost a year away, and there should still be a fair share of crossgens to fill the lineups with. I also dare assume the first-party Premium segment will remain because it would be kind of disingenuous to "retire" Gen 8 classics from the same subservice you're offering Gens 5-7 on. Time will tell.

@Koverby if I had a dollar for every thing you first world consumers are tired of, I could probably splurge out on a PS5 just for the whim of it, the everpresent dust-collecting risks of a home console in my household be damned.

Funny how the article elaborates on Payday 3 and Pac-Man World but skips High On Life, a rare metroidvania experience still not on Switch. Chances are this is what I'll be downloading first and foremost once I resub next month.

We're at the point where a video game unable to run on anything below a hypothetical "PS6" had better boast NerveGear tier VR worlds or do taxes and make waffles. There are only so many extra pixels and frames to hunger for playing all the already achievable video game experiences at.

@Lup one of, to be exact - the genre has only bloomed stronger yet over the last couple generations. But it also qualifies as a grand return to form for the series rooted among the arguable progenitors and pioneers of metroidvanias as such.

I have yet to get down to anything GoW, but perhaps I'll give Ragnarok a stream or two just to hear the music. Beating Xenoblade 3 OST at its respective award category does tempt to dare expect something of a similar caliber, after all.😃

Unless Horizon series is part of the school curriculum and exams now, any allegation of it being "forced" upon anyone is but a routine example of addiction-imposed consumerist stupidity. Not the first and sadly not the last.

I don't have enough popcorn for all the pseudocritical comments triggered into barking at Infinite again. And that's before they hear that B2 remains damn worthwhile across the board, too.

@Balaam_ art direction is already how game visuals hold up and stand out. And while only Infinite came out close to the approximate time of 3DCG graphics reaching their evolution peak, the first two games are a far cry from the submedium's Gen 5 infancy and look great in their own right. The only compromises stem from budget/time shortage (like Tennenbaum's limited onscreen appearances in B1 which just used a female splicer model), but YMMV if these instances alone warrant a full remake where the potential of more useful features like gyro aiming didn't.

Knowing only one anatomical destination to redirect fandom rants to, I could have well given Suicide Squad a roll if not for the apparent Gen 9 exclusivity. The other two are on Switch and I even have HP10 long beaten there, although it's still neat to see more Need for Speed in the IGC lineup overall (too bad that Unbound inclusion would be of no use to me either😅). Still a worthwhile selection for a PS5 owner whose backlogs aren't steered by complete strangers' tastes.

A Nintendo fan here, and I'm anything but. Besides, Steam Deck has already shown the approximate capabilities of newer mobile chips (never mind Switch's own abundant PS4/PS5 ports from various devs for whom "optimization" doesn't mean something edible), and it's an AMD-based Linux PC with all the consequent fine print thereof.

@Thatguyoverthere Penguin Land, Steep and I Am Setsuna: 😎

Until the Switch release, my Genshin activity and acquaintance remains very limited, but we're talking Ufotable here.

The header phrasing briefly sent my mind towards Choo Choo Charles instead.😅

I poked around JC4 here once again (after first trying it as an IGC item on main account way back when), but I knew this wouldn't last. Still bummed I missed the EGS giveaway before 2022; I wishlisted the game instead but that obviously became useless as with all other Squeenix releases on PC. Chances are it'll end up my only black flag vessel in the series once there's room enough on Deck for it - although Switch and/or its successor might yet alter that probability.

"NIKKE: Goddess of Victory is, in essence, a visual novel, with short cover-based shooter segments interspersed throughout"

A cover-based shooter is already more descriptive of the game in itself since the visual novel format is how pretty much anything mobile delivers the story content. Exceptions like Guardian Tales (available on Switch but originally mobile as well) are quite rare.

@sanderson72 Lite's sales count towards Switch's just like PSTV's did towards Vita's. As for PS2, it hosted a multitude of legendary games but I'm challenged to see anything legendary about the console itself. It was no milestone concept like Game Boy, NDS, Wii or Switch, just a followup expanding on its predecessor's appeal and hitting the jackpot with its own extras.

Videos can be watched during hands-full activities like meals (healthcare advice against the practice be as heeded as plenty of other healthcare advice in our lives😅), and, if you don't [have a sufficiently portable backlog to] practice commute gaming, in public transport as well. Not exactly shocking to find it so commonplace. That said, I personally find myself reading stuff about games and related news tangibly (if not a good few times) more than watching it.

@Ralizah just like nothing evidently stops many people from jumping through hoops to connect a Switch Lite to a TV.😄

Nice, but everyone and their Zelda amiibo will still celebrate Switch as the new all-time bestseller once it hits 155+ million. Official data are one thing but the official data no longer publicly tracked for over a decade with an update that just so happens to coincide with another newer console finally breathing down the previous (and already ever so marginal) champion's neck are just that much harder to take at face value. Or do they want Microsoft to take note of this exploit?😆 And to reiterate my comment on Ryan's claims earlier, I don't even have a reason to doubt PS2 kept selling past 2013... but how many customers past 2013 would be seeking out a retail iteration of an officially discontinued console versus a second hand unit with blackjack and hard drives and sometimes even maintenance like renewed thermal paste?

The only part defying goalpost movement suspicions is that they're still phrasing this new plank as "one of the best-selling consoles of all time", which sounds like they still deem the trophy pass inevitable.

@father_noo from what I recall, Lite might be challenged by select stuff in one of the Mario Party titles (that required lining up the interacting consoles just so) and more obviously by the Labo lineup, but 1, 2, Switch ironically checks out - the game focuses on detached joycons and Lite retains the ability to connect separate ones. In fact, that's basically what keeps its family name justified - between the connectivity and the option to prop the thing against a vertical surface in lieu of a native stand, it still technically has a tabletop mode besides the emphasized handheld one.

The Switch successor is pretty much the only new gaming machine it still makes sense for me to pursue in the visible future; a proper Vita successor would become a footnote to that claim. It doesn't even need to compete with anything - just roll out a legacy device embracing what can easily be at least four (PS1/PS2/PSP/PSV) or even five/six pastgen libraries, give it a proper Remote Play with adjustable/adaptive stream resolutions for Gen 9/10 stuff, throw in even just occasional new kids on the block like classic franchise revisits a la Ratchet & Clank and manageable indies developed under SIE patronage - and the result might well reprise PSP's sales or even reach PS4's. Vita itself wasn't even hampered by lack of first party support (what was there of the latter still includes some of the best games in entire PlayStation history) nearly as much as by proprietary storage prices, a stunt I don't expect even Sony to try and pull again. And of course, a hybrid format would also be Sony catching up with the times for once (especially since they already had some disjointed experience putting one's partial Vita library on TV screens via separate hardware), but their focus on living room boxes doesn't leave me holding my breath for such a development - at best, we'd probably get some crossbuys like back in Gen 8.

@thedevilsjester Sega Nomad (basically portable Mega Drive in all but name and peripheral support) could be optionally connected to a TV a good decade before PSP, but nobody discusses it as a hybrid either. It really took Switch to properly conceptualize and embody the latter concept.

My premium just ran out but I don't expect to manage even 111 bucks before discount deadline (unless 12/2 in the app means literal December 2 circa 6 p.m. but even then the odds are slim), and the shorter periods aren't on sale. With November "essentials" already redeemed, perhaps I'll really just have it all lapse for a month and then see if I can invest some of the holiday budget in a quarter's resub at the usual price.

@nessisonett so "infamous" I had to look it up now... and none of the info/footage is cueing me on where to be aghast. If anything, my interest has been somewhat piqued, although the game apparently canned its PC plans, and I'm not holding my breath for such stuff to be a manageable RPCS3 gig yet. Seemingly nowhere in PS+ Catalogue either. Anyhoo, sounds like the umpteenth fandom "don't hyperbolize your boredom over a fiction piece to apocalyptic proportions" challenge (impossible). ¯(ツ)/¯

Sure seems like a while since they last updated the PS3 lineup! I've been curious for more of the Resistance series after beating Burning Skies, and while Fall of Man seems playable on Deck, I might as well dip my toes here first. Ditto with Dying Light 2 which is only available as a "cloud version" on Switch.

6/10. Wrong answers include the number of PS4 USB ports which goes to show how often I even have it out and connected.😅

Death Note sure looks intriguing although I'm still not much of an OM guy, all the less so on a platform I still whip out on a [bi]weekly basis at best. Ghostwire Tokyo would have been THE offer but it's on PS5. And Hot Wheels is on Switch so it can also feel counterproductive to play it on PS4 beyond a possible toe-dip on the quest for 50 more points.😆 So my personal hype is limited again, although the lineup would certainly be a doozy in a universe where I stick to PlayStation home consoles and have plenty of time for them.

Not improbably because a fair share of PlayStation's core audience forgot what can qualify as one.🙄 Hopefully Astro Bot's success can influence the landscape a bit, but at this point seeing is believing.

"Ridiculously good upgrade"

"Voxel cloud rendering"

confused millennial noises

More NPCs and more atmospheric actions for them does sound tangibly neat, though.

@Vivisapprentice wait, "lose all your platinums"? Wouldn't a spare account in another region just bereave your main of future trophy lists in the games you access there? That's been my experience, at least. And if the game is found in both regions, you can normally still play it on your main acc as long as the console is set as primary for both.

@Beetlebum91 very few people emulate violence for the violence itself. Why do kids play with water guns or stick swords or have snowball fights and king-of-the-hill dogpiles? We grow up mimicking armed conflicts for the high stakes, consequently big challenges and consequently proportional sense of adventure and required guts/heroics our minds perceive there before the grimmer facets sink in. Video games are but an extension of this trend, if appreciably among plentiful and not necessarily violence-associated others.

Taken of on the 31st with a friendly heads-up on the 8th. Et tu, Sony?🙄 $20 may not be much in general, but the deadline only covers the very payday I was gearing up to pay $50 for PS+ renewal, and I'm frankly not fond of such short notices in general. Or does everyone involved really just decide it overnight?

Speaking of PS+, I do ironically have the game long redeemed on my main acc as an IGC item, but if maintaining the regional sub was still commercially viable, I wouldn't have been using a US account for almost two years now.😆

@Gunnerzaurus Disney Infinity: "first time?"😏

It took the industry this long to arrive at an animesque driving open-worlder with a cockpit camera... and it's a freemium with no TGS mention of the one console that truly prints money in Japan. Oh well, at least it will be a must check on Deck unless the publisher pulls a region lock or some Linux-allergic anticheats out of their sleeve.

@Nei I always chuckle at the memory of Ubisoft's Immortals being accused of "cloning BotW" while many ongoing playthroughs like my own were still busy climbing Sheikah towers to unlock more of the map.

@DennisReynolds and Legends is getting a followup now.

Wrestling is a comparatively low priority for me and DDLC is on Switch, but I might just try Dead Spa- never mind.

What do modern games like this even have to challenge a machine with PS4 specs? Light No Fire level maps? Aincrad/Alfheim level NPCs? Or bloated pixel counts, rampant VFX and the production crunch on an optimization diet?

@Intr1n5ic

Sony, a TV manufacturer first and a console maker second:

Must be a fluke - can PS5 even process files as small as 382 Mb?😏

He certainly has a point there. Relative simplicity of access as compared to PCs has always been among the innate perks of console gaming. When I got my desktop back in 2006, I had naively different priorities (even having my trusty Mega Drive traded in at the time, although in its case, the already discovered emulation did boast reasonably more efficiency), but the following years, both the student days and the eventual partial return to PC games in the late New Tens, would come to bust that misconception in varied ways. The current situation where my most robust PC gaming hardware is pretty much a Linux machine doesn't help either.😅 On the other hand, that machine does grant me portable access to the existing PlayStation branchouts, so I'd be a hypocrite to say I didn't welcome more of those possibly happening. coughgravityrush2cough

With all respect... the price of almost two Steam Decks and literally two Switch OLEDs without adding a Portal investment? For advanced ray tracing and AI-driven upscaling? And that's in the very wake of releasing an awesome and popular game that doesn't look like it needs a tenth of this stuff.

Sony realized they needed to drum up some hype for their mid-G9 before everyone's eyes are on the hybrid dawn of G10.😜

Quite a hole to make in the catalogue's RPG lineup, but incidentally, 13 Sentinels is 75% off on Switch as we speak, and I already have enough Stars points to convert into Star Ocean IaF next time it goes on sale (which I can't even track in the official app as of late after the system cemented my Extra license as having "purchased" the game - I have admittedly found myself wondering how much spaghetti code might it take to at least rephrase the latter part's text🤔😅). From what I've looked up, it's the only SO entry absent on Switch AND inaccessible on Deck (PS3 version, similarly to the original Tales of Graces, never left Japan).

All the more reason to hope for more Project X Zone where you can meet pretty much all of them.

All of this stuff is on Switch, but either of Skywalker Saga and Ender Lilies could generally make a month on their own.

That's still access to a limited selection of games/modes at the price of Switch OLED, but cheers for the sales boost anyway, I suppose.

@Kienda Japanese fiction has likewise channeled a myriad of western settings, history and culture with a myriad of twists, tweaks, mishmashes and reimaginings. That's how these these things work. I personally hail from a country that barely shows up on foreign attention radars unless something explodes in it (or launches out of it to explode elsewhere😓), and I've appreciated seeing even Hetalia's amicably hyperbolic take on it. Some others here might not - but this sums up to represent a variety of personal resonance statistics as opposed to an issue of intercultural propriety like the one some ACS detractors try to insinuate.

A month with Borderlands 3 is "a crap selection" and these results were even "expected"? That's it, one Life of Black Tiger for August, please. Alongside... checks notes of past fandom rants ...Gollum, perhaps?

Borderlands 3 would be the headturner if not already on Switch alongside Among Us. But I might end up playing some NHL - while there are a few alternatives in hybrid format, the sport gives me a general impression of being a comparatively rarer guest on consoles in general, so it's always neat to be offered more of it.

@PuppetMaster didn't they more or less evolve into spectacle fighters like Bayonetta over time? The latter have enough of their own features (or they wouldn't have earned a subgenre name) but the DNA of navigating through brawl-segmented stages and racking up hit combos is arguably recognizable.

@Kanji-Tatsumi we live in a world where Animal Crossing itself has a mobile gacha entry.

Horizon is one of my fave PlayStation franchises overall, so why wouldn't I look forward to its first entry to go properly portable out of the blue? The Switch port announcement is definitely among this year's most appreciable whams in the gaming news. But more Astro is more Astro as well - any remnant trace of Japan Studio spirit is welcome, all the moreso after Sony snuffed out Pixelopus that briefly looked like it might [help] pick up the torch.