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@MadchesterManc our cloud provider at work charges 24p per month per GB for highly resilient storage (and you can get way cheaper than that). It's crazy that I have to regularly spend valuable time administrating how my 1GB is allocated for this amount of money. If cost is an issue, just give me an option of paying £2 per month more to have 10 GB (or whatever amount is fair based on their costs if they run their own infrastructure). I'd do that just to remove the hassle and know my saves are protected.

There also needs to be an option to only upload game saves, and not all the other crap!

Maybe a bit ahead of its time? I enjoyed messing about in Home, but the PS3/PSN wasn't capable of delivering what was needed to make it amazing. Neither is the PS4.

Maybe the PS5?

@BLPs this is actually an extremely common feature found in most IT industry solutions for network services. A simple green / amber / red light system provides users with the ability to see if this is a general outage for all (in which case, just make a cup of tea. wait for the tech bods to fix it and for the light to turn green), or whether it's a local problem for them and they need to log a call.

I'm quite surprised Sony have only just implemented something like this. But better late than never!

Got one at Christmas. Oh well...

It's a great little device for proper local remote play with a DS4 controller

@robisa666 Make sure you un-tick the "Connect Directly with PS Vita/PS TV" setting (despite what the instructions say). I used mine with a wired connection into the same switch and constantly got disconnections until I unticked this box. Now it works on the wireless upstairs without an issue.

@Dodoo If anything it might help improve environmental impact. At the moment, if something happens, I pause the game and go off to do what I need to do. I switch the TV off, but leave the PS4 on - possibly for an hour or two, because I'm not at a point where I can save the game. Now I'll just be able to put into Rest mode and then resume it when I get back

@Tasuki "No one owes you anything" - exactly, I'm glad someone else has made this point!

@NEOTDS Got to agree with you fella. Still, does seem to be important to some folk. First world problems and all that, I guess...

@Alpha 3D blue-eyed has been available a while now - definitely since way before Christmas.

@MakeLoveNotWar You're absolutely right, they're not free. At £39.99 per year, for PS Plus, those two PS4 games would have cost you just less than £1.67 each (assuming you ignore the two PS Vita games are cross buy, so could also be played on PS4). Shocking isn't it? How dare they insult us so. You should expect a game worth at least £40 for that, right?

@get2sammyb Understood - thanks!

"Some had argued that Microsoft was helping to fund the release, but that doesn't appear to be the case according to the executive. "If you look at Tomb Raider, it's been around for 20 years, so I do think that Tomb Raider would still be around [without Microsoft]," he explained, when asked whether the Redmond firm had enabled the project to exist in the first place."

I don't get how the first statement is inferred from the quote. To me, he just seems to be saying that even if Microsoft didn't fund it, Tomb Raider would still be around - that seems a natural given they could release it on all platforms if there was no incentive to tie it to the Xbox.

The usual melodrama from the usual commenters I see. Ho hum!

@Sevenifity Like the idea of using the Vita as a second player for Co-op. I guess that could only be done for games that would otherwise be splitscreen, and would have to be implemented by the developer though.

Totally unfair to get that much criticism based on a YouTube video (that most people complaining probably haven't even watched, they've just "heard about it").

@get2sammyb

At the time of writing, 38% of people (the majority), have voted "Very, I won’t pay full price for a short game". Interesting.

Hope the developers don't get hold of this sort of statistic or we'll end up with loads of games with ridiculously hard to find collectibles, and very little actual gameplay...

@Godsire- More likely, the current system of pre-ordering would shut down as people wouldn't want to take the risk. Probably a good thing in fact

This game keeps getting better. Along with InFamous Second Son (also currently on offer in the UK), this is one of the best value games out there right now.

Ah, you're lovely

@Godsire- yes, that's my point - you seem to be struggling with it. Comparing chopping down rain forests with buggy games is ridiculous. As is not buying a good video game at less than half the price because "supporting this type of behaviour just sends the wrong message". There yet?

Actually let's not worry about it further as I think it's probably a waste of both our time. There's no doubt double articles that need to be pointed out.

@Gamer83 Fair enough - I follow a few Facebook groups and Twitter discussions, and the feeling has definitely gone back in the main there to Sony going back to <expletive deleted> PS Plus offerings again i.e.indie titles. Funnily enough, many were even crying out that Thief was a PS3 offering, not PS4! It's these kinds of folk my post is directed at, but I realise now it's probably misplaced here and I'm just preaching to the converted

@Godsire- of course principles should come into play when buying. I'm sure you buy everything just as ethically e.g. not buying anything from PepsiCo because of their destructive policies in developing countries etc. etc. But if principles are stopping you from buying a decent racing game for less than half of the full price because of some bugs when it released, then I would argue that's misguided. You may disagree. Fair enough. But it's hardly like these guys are chopping down rain forests or abusing their work force (rolls eyes)

@Godsire- hey, give me back my soapbox! I keep my lunch in it!

@Gamer83 There may be some who only buy indie titles and ignore AAAs, but let's be honest, they're few and far between. Yes they're just as wrong as the people who hate indies - thats clear in my "hating something just because of who published it is irrational" argument. I don't see why this is an idiotic argument given you pretty much agreed with me in your next sentence...

BTW - Injustice was a good fighting game, sure. But would you honestly say it is better than Transistor? If not, then why is it there were so few hand ringers the month it came out, but this month they're all back in their droves? This evidence doesn't really back your position of it being an idiotic argument.

@Godsire- resident reader of all articles to feed back complaints. What a fulfilling life you must have

(and before your dart back the, "read all my comments to complain about me, talk about hypocrisy" argument, I just read three articles today, and this comment was in two of them!).

I bought it at £20 when all the problems were fixed. It's a great game now, especially for that price. Feel free to ignore it out of some misguided attempt at principles, but the phrase "cutting off your nose to spite your face" comes to mind.

Do the people who pre-ordered it have a right to be hacked off? Of course they do. But I would argue that they make a rod for their own backs by pre-ordering. It never used to happen. We all used to wait for a game to come out, read the reviews, then buy the game if it seemed like it fit our tastes. If you're willing to take the risk of pre-ordering, then you have to accept you will get burned on occasion. And if everyone stopped pre-oredering, this problem wouldn't exist.

@Godsire- As long as there are people who bang the "I hate Indies" drum, this discussion will rage. As so many have pointed out, the idea of hating "indie" games is ludicrous. How can the publisher of a game be relevant to its gameplay?

The problem is, there is a majority of people who will always consider the price of something to be the value of it, irrespective of whether it's actually good or not. Hence why when Injustice Gods Among Us was released on PS Plus, there were few complaints. Yet, when arguably a far superior game in the form of Transistor is given away, the masses are out to wring their hands and gnash their teeth at how awful Sony are to give them such crap for the less than £4 PS Plus cost them that month. The reason? One is published independently.

It beggars belief, but many people do seem to be incapable of independent thought. It sounds crazy, but it's the only rational explanation I have!

Really looking forward to this - hope it turns out as good as it promises to!

As a device to allow Remote Play of your PS4, this box is well worth the asking price. Being able to play GTA 5, Driveclub and Alien Isolation, with a proper controller in my office while the wife watches something else on the main TV is excellent. The other stuff it does is just a bonus.

Just remember to turn direct connection to your PS4 off! Before I did that it was laggy as hell and constantly disconnecting. Turing it off made it all just work perfectly!

@thedevilsjester Have to say this has never bothered me in the slightest, but then I don't pay that much attention to trophies personally. Don't your most recent ones get sorted to the top? Mine do - if so, why do you need to scroll through them?

Always give a PS Plus game a try, especially one that's a bit different like this. Looks like one that'll be good for remote play from the Vita in bed

@wittypixel Well, yeah. If you look at Thief and ignore some of the other games (Transistor (https://www.pushsquare.com/reviews/ps4/transistor) and Rogue Legacy (https://www.pushsquare.com/reviews/ps4/rogue_legacy) in particular), you have a strong argument

@wittypixel it's you

Superb couple of games for PS4 and Vita makes me a happy man

@chris730920 @mikey85 There a lot of costs associated with digital distribution - data centres, servers, banks of storage, networking, redundancy and disaster recovery planning and implementation for all of the above + the bandwidth to actually cater for thousands of people all trying to download gigabytes of data without too much slowdown (hence the massive delay when everyone tried to download GTA 5 on release date!).

None of this is cheap (I work in the cloud IT industry), and I wouldn't be surprised if it cost more to keep all this up and running compared with pressing Blu-rays and printing manuals.

@BLPs What a strange comment to make.

Do you go on to other sites for products you don't own / have any interest in and let them know this as well? Must keep you busy!

Not bothered, but it's not a great sign is it? Still we've been relying on indie publishers to bring great games to Vita for a while now, so it's not really that much difference. I guess when Sony remove free titles from the monthly PS Plus lineup, that's when we'll know they've really given up.

Thanks for this - at £19.99 and with 10% off, I decided to buy this. It is a good racer - certainly the best on PS4 at the moment. Am still really waiting for Project Cars, but this will keep me busy till then

I remember spending half term playing the original Tomb Raider on Playstation with my mate. He stayed on a Z-Bed in my room - we woke up, played until lunch time when my Mum would insist we got dressed and had lunch. Then go back to playing till dinner when Mum would force us downstairs again, and finally play into the small hours before falling asleep and repeating the process. I think we completed it by Wednesday, so did it again till Friday!

Want to complete GTA, still need to finish Alien Isolation, and also just got Driveclub. I'd really like to get LittleBigPlanet 3 as well. How do people find the time for all this?!

Definitely not Day One - may be some point if it reviews well.

@get2sammyb Given how cheap Driveclub is at the moment in Europe, and that there's been no news at all on the PS Plus version, I'm wondering whether they're lining up this to be completely free within the next few months.

Not for February I'm sure, but maybe March or April - what do you think? I just bought it, so not holding out for it, but a wild stab in the dark guess!

@SteveButler2210 Really enjoyed Enemy Unknown personally - I was a big fan of the original XCOM games on the Amiga, and these recent ones did hark back to that style.

Didn't think I was going to buy anything, but Never Alone has intrigued me, especially given it's on sale. And what with Driveclub still at £19.99, picked this up as well. Add an extra 10% off and that seems like a good couple of bargains to me

@thedevilsjester Thanks for the tip - but I'll carry on using my jailbroken Apple TV for the mo - has a nicer interface for the TV

Waiting for the free version to turn up - I like their work, but I so rarely use it, I can't justify spending for a Plex Pass. For the moment, it works through my Apple TV well enough.

Yes. Love Media Molecule. Even if they make a game I don't really enjoy (which hasn't happened yet), it's nice to know there's at least one developer who's innovating and won't put out a shooter just because it's guaranteed income.

There's room for both streaming services and ownership - music and TV / movies have shown us that. Streaming services like Spotify, Netflix etc. sit alongside the likes of digital purchases like iTunes and Google Play, which also sit alongside the ability to purchase physical CDs and DVDs / Blu-rays. As time goes on, I suspect more and more purchasing will go through the streaming / digital purchase route (due to its convenience). I'm not saying everyone will do this before 5 people come along and tell me "over their dead body will I be doing this", it's just where the mass market will go (as has happened in the music industry already, and is starting to happen for films and TV shows).

And, at $20 per month to access hundreds of games in a catalogue, this seems like a very good price to me (suspect that will translate around the £14.99 mark). I don't think this is a service Sony are expecting people to pay for all year round - hence no option for a yearly subscription. If you want to play PS3 games all year round, buy a PS3. But to be honest, if you want to do that, you probably already own one, and this service isn't really intended for you.

I really don't get why people think this is such a rip off - I suspect a lot of these very same people pay double / triple that to pay for a satellite / cable TV service, of which they rarely watch anything outside the free-to-air channels.

@Gamer83 @Faruko

Stand by what I said i.e. "bad things happen quite often, and in the grand scheme of the world, not being able to play GTA Online / COD against other people for 4 or 5 days rates pretty low on my levels of "bad"."

Clearly we have different ideas on what "bad" is though. First world problems, eh? Who'd want them?

Am I wrong, but did not everyone subscribing to PS Plus in December get a free copy of Injustice: Gods Among Us and Secret Ponchos, worth more than £40 collectively (not to mention the other games on other platforms if you own them of course). Plus the ability to game online for the other 25 days of the month.

Like others, I'm not defending Sony's inability to communicate what was going on during the fiasco, but bad things happen quite often, and in the grand scheme of the world not being able to play GTA Online / COD against other people for 4 or 5 days rates pretty low on my levels of "bad".

Sony have done the decent thing here and "credited" back the lost days, as well as offering a 10% discount for sales on PSN - good on them. Watch and wait for MS to follow suit now. This is why we need competition folks!

One thing that seems to have taken place post PS3 is top Sony Playstation management learning from past mistakes. This will certainly be on their agenda come the New Year - even if DDoS attacks do bring PSN down again, I'd expect it to be dealt with a lot better on the public PR side. Hopefully we won't have to see if this prediction comes true.