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Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 593

psmr

Made a start on Resident Evil: Revelations on Wednesday, so looking to get further into that. It feels a little sluggish and janky but… I quite like it tbh. Reminds me of Dead Space for some reason (although nowhere near as good). Looking forward to trying the co-op too!

Re: Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2 Enhanced (PS5) - Cinematic Spectacle Offers Little Else

psmr

I’ll probably play it eventually as I quite liked the original. It’s disappointing that the actual gameplay was scaled back from the original if anything though… you’d think with the extra capital that would’ve been made available after being purchased by MS, that the gameplay would’ve been the area targeted for expansion. Weird choice šŸ¤”

Re: We're Not Entirely Sold on Sony Funded PS5 Shooter EXILEDGE Yet

psmr

Hadn’t heard of this one before but I’m quite interested in what I see. I’m a sucker for third-person shooters and I liked the Bloodborne-esque dodging too. What with the disappointing news that Outriders 2 got cancelled, with a bit of luck this could possibly fill that void.

Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 592

psmr

Right at the end of my 100% playthrough of Assassins Creed: Rogue with only the cheat trophies left… well those and the Dedicated Employee trophy which is notoriously glitchy and unfortunately glitched for me too. So once I get the 4 remaining cheat trophies, it’s back to starting a new playthrough from scratch to redo 35 Abstergo Challenges.

Re: Rumour: Sony to Put More First-Party PS5 Games on Xbox

psmr

@TrollOfWar well I wouldn’t personally say no to $15.5 million but I might if I was Sony. As I said in my original post, it’s a decision between potential earning vs potential damage to the brand. And don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying it isn’t happening, just that I personally wouldn’t be traversing this route if I made the decisions for Sony.

Re: Rumour: Sony to Put More First-Party PS5 Games on Xbox

psmr

@TrollOfWar it’s not just profit though, it’s the potential percentage of profit (the risk/reward dynamic). For instance, hypothetically let’s say porting Horizon: Zero Dawn to Xbox would cost x… and the subsequent sales would amount to revenue of x+Ā£1 (or Ā£1 profit… as I know you guys seem to have an issue differentiating between revenue and profit), it simply wouldn’t be worth it. Now obviously I don’t think that the example shown would only make Ā£1 profit but it paints the picture that profit alone is not enough, the potential profit percentage has to be acceptable.

And the only people who know what that acceptable percentage would be is the Sony board. All I was trying to do was to show that Microsoft porting games to PlayStation is a completely different prospect to Sony porting games to Xbox. As you said PlayStation has over double the user base and there is a far higher propensity for those users to make purchases. On the other hand Xbox has under half the user base and the likelihood of that smaller user base actually making purchases is demonstrably impacted negatively by Gamepass. I didn’t think I needed to break it down that far if I’m honest… but obviously I did.

Re: Rumour: Sony to Put More First-Party PS5 Games on Xbox

psmr

If there was the potential for massive sales I’d get it but with the buying habits of the general Xbox populous being what they are post-Gamepass, I really don’t think the juice is worth the squeeze at the expense of the brand but that’s just me šŸ¤·ā€ā™‚ļø

Re: Reaction: PS Plus Essential Deserves Much More Credit for Its Free PS5, PS4 Games in 2025

psmr

Yeah a good year for Essential no doubt. I see some people negatively comparing this to Gamepass… and moaning that Gamepass had LoP at release yaddayadda. Essential is not the comparison for GP, that would be Premium or Extra… and then fair play GP has been considerably better than those in 2025 but keep it real… it’s disingenuous to compare it to Essential to spin your narrative!

Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 590

psmr

Assassins Creed: Rogue… and what a pleasant surprise it has been. I’ve been slowly chipping away at the series since 2019 and while the series has some highs… I’ve found just as many of the games to be a bit of a slog. This is one of the high points for me though and I had no idea that would be the case. It’s basically Black Flag but in the North Atlantic rather than the Caribbean.

Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 589

psmr

Busy weekend this one but will hopefully get an hour or two to crack on with Mass Effect 2 at some point. Just have a few loyalty quests left before crossing the point-of-no-return and finishing the main campaign.

Hoping to have the plat wrapped by Wednesday, so I can make a start on Assassins Creed: Rogue on my day off šŸ¤ž