Not bad looking for a mobile game. Reminds me of some of the modes in Splatoon, not the main one, but that's really but only frame of reference for team games, my 1,000 hours in Fortnite are all solo.
If it released on console I might try it out but I really don't have a lot of interest in team fames or playing on mobile.
I've been waiting impatiently for Wolverine news but I just don't think it will be that big. I should probably look into Intergalactic more but the title and the trailer put me off.
No one has mentioned Spiderman 3 yet, so it could be that, dual release w/ PS6 maybe. Last of Us 3 could be big b/c of the show.
Which reminds me, I don't think any new IP these days can is likely to be that big, which is also why I don't have high hopes for Intergalactic.
I remember the 3D monitor selling for like $500 for lijev6 months then $300 for 3 months then $199 for 2 months then disappearing ofv the face of the Earth.
So I'm guessing something absurd like $799 and it's forgotten in a year.🤑
That's about a 20-25% price cut, maybe 3e% depending on how yoh feel like doing the math, so not bad. I like 55,000 over 72,980 that's for sure. I mean, it can't hurt. Make only a couple of million, hope they sell, then charge for PS+. And it let's them meet the Nintendo home console offer, so they were kind of nixed into a corner.
What you 2 said. PS5 has a 10 year cycle, sharing some of that w/ PS4 and some w/ PS6.
Unless Sony really changes things up by making the PS6 into a Switch like hybrid handheld device then it's really just going to be another continuation of the PS4 anyway.
If the PS6 releases in 2027 there may still be games coming to 3 console generations 4/5/6. Unless I'm wrong and nothing releases on PS4 anymore? I bought Sea of Stars on a PS4 disc for Christmas but that might gave already been years old.
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are basically iPhones at this point. At some point you'll have to get a new one b/c your bank app needs a newer OS but the hardware is fine for your needs.🤷
@Hapless Just 1 more season after this, so it sort of has been.😝
@Drago201 My feeling as well. Season 1 was really good, then 2 was meh and 3 not so good. I'm in no rush to watch season 4. May just wait until they're done w/ season 5.
@themightyant Ooh nice, hadn't thought of it that way actually. So yeah, if you're avPS+ Premium sub every year for whatever reason you might as well pick up the Portal b/c the $200 don't look so bad then. 👍
My Switch 2 never leaves the dock and I don't sub to online services so I was probably good no matter how I thought about it but your point still stands.
I still need to hook my PSVR 1 back up and finish the last half of Astrobot Rescue Mission. Maybe this winter. Then I'll get the new Astrobot. 😁
Not for me but nice to see them adding stuff. The P6 Portable of PS Portal 2, whichever way thry decide to go, should be an actual Switch 2 competitor but maybe even better b/c of the library, depending on what you like to play.
Paying $200 for the console plus $150 every year for the service to use it does seem a tad much though. But what isn't these days.🤑
Game got 1 comment, don't think Rockstar has to worry.😂
I think I'd be down for this, just enough there to hit up for 20 minutes a day like I was doing w/ AC and Hello Kitty. Only on PS5 though. I've tried and I just can't play games on mobile screens. Though PS5 controller support and Apple Air to my TV does help if that's available.
If Wolverine does actually release in Fall 2026, I mean it could happen, won't matter if GTA 6 gets delayed until Spring 2027, which could also happen.
One thing I feel like can't happen, both of these games releasing in Fall 2026. I'm mean sure they could, 9/9/26 looks like a nice date for Wolverine, it's the same in every country so no one gets confused, but I certainly wouldn't bet on any big AAA video fame making a release date a year out. Or even 6 months out.
Maybe if they both haves dates at next year's Not E3 w/ GK. Maybe.
@Megabeenz @Nalim Yeah maybe it isn't enough new or awards to justify a new box. Black Friday sales are a thing though.😎
@Bob_Tempura "added in version updates, not dlc"
Do you know that dlc stands for 'down load content"? Any extra content whether for free, micro transactions, or a season pass is going to be dlc b/c it wasn't in there when the game was released. Patches that fuc stuff don't count b/c thry are just fixing whatever is in the game, but all of the challenges and extra characters that weren't in there at all originally are dlc. I mean you say it yourself, "bonus CONTENT". How can it be both a bonus but not dlc?🤷♂️
@carlos82 We went to Islands if Adventures 1 year in January b/c we were downn there for a wedding. Despite it being Florida it does still get cold in January. My wife bought gloves at the gift shop, we were I'll prepared for 40' F. But we did gave the park basically to ourselves, several rides on the Hulk Coaster, 3D Spiderman ride and the fueling dragons. The new place thry just opened up looks 5, 5 Worlds of Imagination or whatever. Also on the list, but Nintendo 1st. I should really start planning all these trips.😱
@carlos82 @Elfuggingjefe Next time I'm in California, if and when that ever happens, I'm hitting up Nintendo Land, not Disney Land. Though I've read the Nintendo Land in Florida is better than California so that's probably the next big trip. 1 day I really need to get a new passport and take some real trips, mine expired in 2002.
Until then, I waste away my golden retirement years playing Fortnite.😩
This reminds me I've never been to Disneyland. I'm in New York so we're Disney World people.
I was going to ask a lot of questions but I decided to just boot it up as I'm typing this to see what I can find out or myself.
OK I booted up the game but I don't see it. Not even a trailer. So my questions were is there a V-bux pass and when does it end? Maybe I'll see it later. It's too early.
@sanderson72 Had I seen the 157-8 million figure the 160 probably wouldn't have surprised me as much,but as someone who has been looking at numbers for like 20 years the 155 is what's in my head, and pretty much has always been in my head since it was announced.
As for Wki, I think I could go change that right now if I wanted to. As for Sony's site, we'll I suppose Nintendo can say 161 million Switch serial numbers have been assigned and we'll just have to take their word for it. In fact I may go put that figure on Wki right now.😂
@get2sammyb @Fluberuper So I just checked my times, and placing 2nd a couple of times and 3rd my play times were 16, 17, 18 minutes, which is certainly a few less than 22 minutes. Island is shrunk.
I'm 0-10. I've never gone that long w/o winning a match before, even early on I was winning 1 out iof every 6 or 7. So while I like the setting and the look it's a little more like Reload now, or OG, I forget which is which. Itf it's like this next season I may be done. I'll keep going this season, what's 3 more weeks, and I already spent my V-bux. Who knows, maybe I'll win a few next week. I'm going to go play the Nikoderiko demo now for a nice change of pace. Piece.🖖
@sanderson72 So you're saying a huge corporation like Sony sold 160 million consoles, but they have absolutely no record of selling any of those consoles, they just produce them and ship them out and can't be bothered to track if it sells or not? 🤷♂️
I mean, I know you aren't, but that's how it reads. I can say I sold 161 million RJEJR gaming systems, and you'll just have to take my word for it b/c I don't keep track of my sales, that's just how many I "produced" wink wink.
Assigning serial numbers means absolutely nothing to me. Maybe they skipped some. Maybe they assigned 158 million and he's just rounding up? Maybe a whole batch of 150 of them had to trashed b/c the machine was cutting a big gash in the side. Maybe a container fell off a ship w/ 5,000 in it. Maybe a lorry got stolen w/ 250 and they were given away, not sold. Maybe Toys R Us had a pallet they threw out when they went bankrupt.
Sony must have a sales record somewhere of the number sold. How else do they do book keeping. And I bet they haven't "sold" 160m. Well maybe Sony sold the to distributors, who had to eat the cost of any lost or damaged merchandise, but surely Sony would have that shipped number written down somewhere. We wouldn't have had the number jump from 155 to 160 if they had.
Produced? Maybe produced. Has any manufacturing plant ever produced 160,000,000 of anything w/o some of them having to be trashed b/c of either cosmetic imperfections or malfunction? Even if the failure rate was only 1%, just one percent, that would still be 1.6mil they couldn't sell. So only 158.4m that they potentially could. Potentially. 🤷♂️
Sorry, I know you don't work for Sony, I just get carried away some times. I'm going to go play games now.😁
@get2sammyb Thanks anyway. I just checked yesterday and I started in June 2022 and bought my first battle pass in Dec 22. Have pretty much played every work day since. It's too much, but I'm addicted. Kinda wishing they'd go first person view, then I'd quit. 😝 I don't know how you keep up w/ all the Hoyo stuff, just this and Nikki is all I can handle. 🤷♂️
@Fluberuper Last season, and for a few before that, I was winning 33% of my matches, usually top 10 w/ the occasional 99th b/c the game is fun like that.😂 But this season it's been 15, 25, 17 etc. I think I came in 2nd twice. But they also feel fast. I haven't checked the times but my matches are always 22-24 minutes, these have felt short and b/c of the losing I haven't checked.😩 I've tried playing Reload or whatever it's called a few times, always felt they were trash. This isn't that bad, but I can't get into my usual game flow rhythm. Congrats on doing better 👍
@get2sammyb Since the article reads like you've played it, does this season seem "off" to you? I know my placings have dropped precipitously from top 3 to 5-15 b/c the players came back, but it feels like more than that. I don't know if it's smaller or emptier or flatter or what but it almost feels more like those Reloaded levels than the main battle Royale matches I've been playing the past few years. IDK maybe the cell shading is throwing me off but it just doesn't feel quite the same. 🤷♂️
I have Nikoderiko on my Wishlist so it notified this morning. About half price, looks like some fun to play w/ my wife and maybe my kids xan play it together. Has easy, normal, hard and challenge mode so everyone can play. Just gonna go read some reviews first but probably in.
Wait, when did PS5 hit nice big round 160 million, hasn't it been at around 155 million for the last 15 or so years since they stopped selling it? Unless Sony is willing to show me the dates it hit 156m, 157m, 158m and 159m I'm ignoring that 160m numbers. That's ridiculous. 🤪
@Oram77 Oh, good point. I thought it was free free unlockable when the game started. If it's battle pass locked that is different. Been so long since I paid for mine. I should probably go back and edit my post but nah.
As @Stevemalkpus just said, they give you a free one to start, so, don't buy them, they do nothing.
I've been playing Fortnite for 4 years, spent $8 in store credit I had when I began, I currently have about 50 saved sets, and 3,000 V-bux. It's crazy to me how much people spend on stuff that does nothing when $8, maybe it's $10 now, can set you up for years.
I also get the complaining, it's what people do, and those prices are crazy, and the 1 change per pet is obviously forced and stupid as we can change everything else infinitely. So don't buy them, they're worse than useless. Worse. Just burn your money, at least it will be pretty and give off heat. 🔥
Anything electronic can be made smaller, for and at a price. I think there's some laws about that.
I don't like the look of the PS5, gate balancing it on that stupid little stand horizontally, but I don't need it to look like an Xbox or genetic PC either.
Oh well, some say we'll have game news, until then, gotta keep the masses entertained. Gladiator.gif
Metacritic is a metric and the numbers are what they are, so good for PS+ and it's subscribers.
Here's my metric, that I have not measured, but it feels like it's getting worse for the constant increase in price.
PS5 is 5 years old this month. In those 5 years how many PS5 exclusives - not PS4 or PS3 games - have been on PS+ Essential vs how many PS4 exclusives - not PS3 or PS2 games - were on PS+?
I know there haven't been a ton of PS5 exclusives but how many of those have been on PS+? What % of PS4 exclusives were on PS+ by the time the PS4 was 5 years old? I just feel like PS4 was getting PS4 games, that why I subscribed, and PS5 has not been getting a lot of PS5 games, which is why I don't.
Metacritic scores are good, but not if it's for a game I've never even heard of. I'm still trying to get over "It Takes Two" winning GotY. Like, did that really happen? 🤷♂️
Have they announced if Astrobot is done yet? I've been holding out getting it as they keep adding dlc to the base game. Has there been enough content for them to do a GotY Complete Edition for the holidays? I'm pretty sure it won some awards.
I like it better than how PS+ is celebrating the 5 year PS5 anniversary, w/ PS4 game Stray and a couple of other games I can't recall their names. So they have that going for them. 👍
Not that it matters too much, but Fortnite isn't a FPS First Person Shooter it's 3rd person. If it ever goes 1st person I'll quit, been playing about 4 years. Also not really that fast paced, I'm 60 and I win 33% of my matches.
@get2sammyb Don't worry Sammy, maybe you'll have better replies promoting Infinity Nikki 2.0 at the end of the month.😁
I never really appreciated the Game Profile box below here before now. You guys at PS ever think about putting it ABOVE the comments so people might read it before commenting? It has a lot of useful information people might ask about, like the price and where else it can be played.
One other bit of info a game like this can use - do I need to pay for PS+ to play it? Probably yes, but some online games don't.
Players: 1 makes it look like you can play it solo offline w/ NPCs but I'm guessing that's not the case.
Maybe I'll just keep playing Wii games on my Wii U. Simpler times.😁
They just had some K-Pop Demon Hunters mode - 3 people building houses and doing not much else - that let you have cute little flying sidekicks buzzing about your head. Only 1 at a time but they had a couple of dozen to choose from.
@Dogbreath I like surprise. I'd also accept success. Mild success. Successful. Heck I'd even accept enormous success if they quoted and linked it, perhaps mockingly from Phil Spencer. Enormous is just weird. I'm not sure I could even use it seriously, it's a funny word. Like, Did you see the size of that woman's button in the green lycra spandex? It was ENORMOUS. 😂
"Tech like this is unable to generate wholly original ideas because it's relying on banks of old, pre-existing media and information."
I'm pretty sure that is actually how the human brain works. And if you don't think it does then we can all be raised by wolves and then create great things. There's a reason people go to school, or get home schooled. To teach them how to do things.
The fact that some people are more creative than AI is less a jab at AI than it is at humans. Sure, everything AI makes now sucks, but that's b/c the things we like are made by smart well trained humans. If you just let any human make a game, maybe half of the population, or 10%, choose your own %, then the AI may be better.
Who knows, maybe Concorde would have been better if Sony let AI make it?😂
Anyway, it's not that AI sucks more than humans, it's that AI sucks more than the humans we pay to do particular jobs. The jobs the humans learned to do. Just like AI has to learn. It's just not very smart right now. Probably b/c it's learning from all humans. Most of which are stupid. 😩
@ShogunRok "PS+ Extra Celebrating the 5 Year Anniversary of the PS5 Launch in Style Next Month by Bringing Out the Heavy Hitters" should have been the title of this article w/ that Pic as the whole article.🤣
@Dogbreath I know you weren't replying to me you were replying to @Exerion76 but since they were replying to me I'm replying to you to. And them.
The only people who know if it was really a success or not are Sony, b/c the only success that really matters was meeting their expectations. And who knows, maybe Sony thinks 5% of the PS5 install base for a $199 one trick pony is "enormous". But if that's the case I'd really like to see what their hyperlatives would have been if it were 10%, 15%, 20% well you get the idea. Stupendous. Humungous. What else is bigger than enormous?
For comparison the $250 Wii sold 150mil and the $100 1 trick pony Wii Balance Board sold 32mil. That's 20% of the install base. For a plastic board that was 40% of the consoles price. Similar to PS5 and Portal pricing.
@Shepherd_Tallon Thanks for that real world stuff. As someone who talks to Alexa every day to ask the weather, sports score, set a timer, etc, I have no interest in anything calling itself AI, and I'm certainly not paying for it.
Though I suppose it's good people do, should help make it better in the future. Kind of like how No Man's Sky was a bit if a bust or letdown at launch but after multiple years of updates people seem to like it more now. AI is alpha stage NMS, beta testers beware.
@themightyant Games journalism amirite? At least they didn't blame Biden. 😂
In their defense I still haven't found the number,linking to a paywalled Bloomberg article wasn't helping. I unfortunately care about this stuff b/c 3 years ago my kid graduated from college w/ a BS in Game Design & Development (can't blame the kid, I picked the school and the major) so this all affects me. And I'm a stock market news junky. That's on me too.😝
Looked around and nothing new on the Games division layoff number. I did find out about an "AI powered" Snoop Dog game. Which I'm pretty sure in a few days I'm just going to think I imagined
My kid went to see it this weekend and said it was good. I may have gone but after watching the first few episodes I took a break, then came back and didn't know what was going on, then my kid told me that was b/c I skipped an episode, so I never went back. 😩
Maybe if when this comes to Crunchy roll I'll start over. 🤷♂️
@themightyant No one knows the game number, 14k seems to be all of AI, AWS, etc,part of a larger corporate 30k. Some are just employees they fired b/c thry wouldn't, or couldn't, "return to the office".
@nessisonett Would involve a "functioning government", which we no longer have. Also I think WARN notices only come into affect when about 10% of a company is laid-iff, and Amazon has 1.5mil employees so the 14k, or 30k number also announced, probably isn't large enough. 🤷♂️
Also, this is the worst comment section I've ever read, and I've been annoying people here for 15 years. This is a very international site though, so it's possible AI looking comments could just be translation issues, so it might be difficult to tell what's AI and what's Google Translate of a broken mind. Banning Americans could be a way to go though.🤣
@nessisonett I had to look up the title, I thought it was called Awakening. 😝 I own every GoW game, except that one. No wait I traded in 2018, just kept the box. 😁
I still think it's weird no one mentioned the previous GoW multi-player game while talking about the canceled new one. 🤷♂️
The only people who I've ever seen argue that this power saving mode was in preparation of the handhelds launch was PS writers. 😂
I do appreciate that those same PS writers have talked about the PS5 power consumption. I try to always turn it off rather than put it in rest mode now, and I never use it for streaming or DVDs, though I will throw in the occasional Blu-ray, don't think I've ever held a 4k disc in my hands, so I know the PS5 is a power hog, and I try to mitigate my energy usage, but I never saw this energy saving mode as handheld related. 🤷♂️
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Re: New Ratchet & Clank Game Announced, But Not for the Platform You Want
Not bad looking for a mobile game. Reminds me of some of the modes in Splatoon, not the main one, but that's really but only frame of reference for team games, my 1,000 hours in Fortnite are all solo.
If it released on console I might try it out but I really don't have a lot of interest in team fames or playing on mobile.
Re: PS5's Biggest Game Has Not Released Yet, PlayStation Boss Teases
I've been waiting impatiently for Wolverine news but I just don't think it will be that big. I should probably look into Intergalactic more but the title and the trailer put me off.
No one has mentioned Spiderman 3 yet, so it could be that, dual release w/ PS6 maybe. Last of Us 3 could be big b/c of the show.
Which reminds me, I don't think any new IP these days can is likely to be that big, which is also why I don't have high hopes for Intergalactic.
Unless he thinks FF7 Part 3 is the big one? 🤷♂️
Re: PS1 Classics Aquanaut's Holiday, Tail of the Sun Will Be Revived, But Not on PS5
Let the port begging commence.😂
Re: PS5 Is Getting an Official 27" Monitor with DualSense Charging Functionality
I remember the 3D monitor selling for like $500 for lijev6 months then $300 for 3 months then $199 for 2 months then disappearing ofv the face of the Earth.
So I'm guessing something absurd like $799 and it's forgotten in a year.🤑
Re: Sony to Stimulate Japanese PS5 Sales with Cheaper, Region-Locked Model
That's about a 20-25% price cut, maybe 3e% depending on how yoh feel like doing the math, so not bad. I like 55,000 over 72,980 that's for sure. I mean, it can't hurt. Make only a couple of million, hope they sell, then charge for PS+. And it let's them meet the Nintendo home console offer, so they were kind of nixed into a corner.
Re: PS5 'In the Middle' of Its Lifecycle, Claims Sony
@UltimateOtaku91 @themightyant
What you 2 said. PS5 has a 10 year cycle, sharing some of that w/ PS4 and some w/ PS6.
Unless Sony really changes things up by making the PS6 into a Switch like hybrid handheld device then it's really just going to be another continuation of the PS4 anyway.
If the PS6 releases in 2027 there may still be games coming to 3 console generations 4/5/6. Unless I'm wrong and nothing releases on PS4 anymore? I bought Sea of Stars on a PS4 disc for Christmas but that might gave already been years old.
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are basically iPhones at this point. At some point you'll have to get a new one b/c your bank app needs a newer OS but the hardware is fine for your needs.🤷
Re: Key Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 Writer and Designer Joins The Witcher 4 Team
@Hapless Just 1 more season after this, so it sort of has been.😝
@Drago201 My feeling as well. Season 1 was really good, then 2 was meh and 3 not so good. I'm in no rush to watch season 4. May just wait until they're done w/ season 5.
Re: Hands On: PS Portal Is a Whole New Device with Cloud Streaming Update
@themightyant Ooh nice, hadn't thought of it that way actually. So yeah, if you're avPS+ Premium sub every year for whatever reason you might as well pick up the Portal b/c the $200 don't look so bad then. 👍
My Switch 2 never leaves the dock and I don't sub to online services so I was probably good no matter how I thought about it but your point still stands.
I still need to hook my PSVR 1 back up and finish the last half of Astrobot Rescue Mission. Maybe this winter. Then I'll get the new Astrobot. 😁
Re: Hands On: PS Portal Is a Whole New Device with Cloud Streaming Update
Not for me but nice to see them adding stuff. The P6 Portable of PS Portal 2, whichever way thry decide to go, should be an actual Switch 2 competitor but maybe even better b/c of the library, depending on what you like to play.
Paying $200 for the console plus $150 every year for the service to use it does seem a tad much though. But what isn't these days.🤑
Re: You've Still Got Years to Wait Until The Elder Scrolls 6 Is Out
So a toss-up if it releases before GTA 6 or not. 😂
Re: State of Play Announced for 11th November, Focus on Japanese PS5 Games
@SeaDaVie Yeah them.😂
Re: Key Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 Writer and Designer Joins The Witcher 4 Team
Witcher 4 game should be much better than Witcher season 4 judging by the 1 minute clip I saw online.
They do have a problem competing w/ TW3 though, not sure they can top that. And the 2 dlc. People should probably go in w/ lowered expectations.
Re: State of Play Announced for 11th November, Focus on Japanese PS5 Games
Japanese focused games presented in Japanese but it's on at 6AM their time and 5PM in New York.
I think I know who they're catering too.🤷
I'm probably going to pass on this 1 anyway, will catch up w/ trailers later.
Re: Genshin Impact, Honkai: Star Rail Dev Turns to Unreal Engine 5 Realism for Next Project
I can't care about games that are years out, but Petite Planet has addiction potential. I missed that news in September.
Re: Genshin Impact, Honkai: Star Rail Dev Reveals Animal Crossing-Esque Cosy Game
Game got 1 comment, don't think Rockstar has to worry.😂
I think I'd be down for this, just enough there to hit up for 20 minutes a day like I was doing w/ AC and Hello Kitty. Only on PS5 though. I've tried and I just can't play games on mobile screens. Though PS5 controller support and Apple Air to my TV does help if that's available.
Re: After GTA 6 Delay, Wolverine PS5 Doubles Down on Fall 2026 Release Date
If Wolverine does actually release in Fall 2026, I mean it could happen, won't matter if GTA 6 gets delayed until Spring 2027, which could also happen.
One thing I feel like can't happen, both of these games releasing in Fall 2026. I'm mean sure they could, 9/9/26 looks like a nice date for Wolverine, it's the same in every country so no one gets confused, but I certainly wouldn't bet on any big AAA video fame making a release date a year out. Or even 6 months out.
Maybe if they both haves dates at next year's Not E3 w/ GK. Maybe.
Re: Exclusive: Your First Look at Astro Bot in Lumines Arise, and How the Crossover Happened
@Megabeenz @Nalim Yeah maybe it isn't enough new or awards to justify a new box. Black Friday sales are a thing though.😎
@Bob_Tempura "added in version updates, not dlc"
Do you know that dlc stands for 'down load content"? Any extra content whether for free, micro transactions, or a season pass is going to be dlc b/c it wasn't in there when the game was released. Patches that fuc stuff don't count b/c thry are just fixing whatever is in the game, but all of the challenges and extra characters that weren't in there at all originally are dlc. I mean you say it yourself, "bonus CONTENT". How can it be both a bonus but not dlc?🤷♂️
Thanks everyone.
Re: Can't Get to Disneyland This Xmas? Let Fortnite Take You There on PS5, PS4 Instead
@carlos82 We went to Islands if Adventures 1 year in January b/c we were downn there for a wedding. Despite it being Florida it does still get cold in January. My wife bought gloves at the gift shop, we were I'll prepared for 40' F. But we did gave the park basically to ourselves, several rides on the Hulk Coaster, 3D Spiderman ride and the fueling dragons. The new place thry just opened up looks 5, 5 Worlds of Imagination or whatever. Also on the list, but Nintendo 1st. I should really start planning all these trips.😱
Re: Can't Get to Disneyland This Xmas? Let Fortnite Take You There on PS5, PS4 Instead
@carlos82 @Elfuggingjefe Next time I'm in California, if and when that ever happens, I'm hitting up Nintendo Land, not Disney Land. Though I've read the Nintendo Land in Florida is better than California so that's probably the next big trip. 1 day I really need to get a new passport and take some real trips, mine expired in 2002.
Until then, I waste away my golden retirement years playing Fortnite.😩
Re: Can't Get to Disneyland This Xmas? Let Fortnite Take You There on PS5, PS4 Instead
This reminds me I've never been to Disneyland. I'm in New York so we're Disney World people.
I was going to ask a lot of questions but I decided to just boot it up as I'm typing this to see what I can find out or myself.
OK I booted up the game but I don't see it. Not even a trailer. So my questions were is there a V-bux pass and when does it end? Maybe I'll see it later. It's too early.
Re: PS2 Set to Remain King of Consoles as Nintendo Switch Sales Start to Stall
@sanderson72 Had I seen the 157-8 million figure the 160 probably wouldn't have surprised me as much,but as someone who has been looking at numbers for like 20 years the 155 is what's in my head, and pretty much has always been in my head since it was announced.
As for Wki, I think I could go change that right now if I wanted to. As for Sony's site, we'll I suppose Nintendo can say 161 million Switch serial numbers have been assigned and we'll just have to take their word for it. In fact I may go put that figure on Wki right now.😂
Re: Fortnite's Superb The Simpsons Season Breaks Records for Blockbuster Battle Royale
@get2sammyb @Fluberuper So I just checked my times, and placing 2nd a couple of times and 3rd my play times were 16, 17, 18 minutes, which is certainly a few less than 22 minutes. Island is shrunk.
I'm 0-10. I've never gone that long w/o winning a match before, even early on I was winning 1 out iof every 6 or 7. So while I like the setting and the look it's a little more like Reload now, or OG, I forget which is which. Itf it's like this next season I may be done. I'll keep going this season, what's 3 more weeks, and I already spent my V-bux. Who knows, maybe I'll win a few next week. I'm going to go play the Nikoderiko demo now for a nice change of pace. Piece.🖖
Re: PS2 Set to Remain King of Consoles as Nintendo Switch Sales Start to Stall
@sanderson72 So you're saying a huge corporation like Sony sold 160 million consoles, but they have absolutely no record of selling any of those consoles, they just produce them and ship them out and can't be bothered to track if it sells or not? 🤷♂️
I mean, I know you aren't, but that's how it reads. I can say I sold 161 million RJEJR gaming systems, and you'll just have to take my word for it b/c I don't keep track of my sales, that's just how many I "produced" wink wink.
Assigning serial numbers means absolutely nothing to me. Maybe they skipped some. Maybe they assigned 158 million and he's just rounding up? Maybe a whole batch of 150 of them had to trashed b/c the machine was cutting a big gash in the side. Maybe a container fell off a ship w/ 5,000 in it. Maybe a lorry got stolen w/ 250 and they were given away, not sold. Maybe Toys R Us had a pallet they threw out when they went bankrupt.
Sony must have a sales record somewhere of the number sold. How else do they do book keeping. And I bet they haven't "sold" 160m. Well maybe Sony sold the to distributors, who had to eat the cost of any lost or damaged merchandise, but surely Sony would have that shipped number written down somewhere. We wouldn't have had the number jump from 155 to 160 if they had.
Produced? Maybe produced. Has any manufacturing plant ever produced 160,000,000 of anything w/o some of them having to be trashed b/c of either cosmetic imperfections or malfunction? Even if the failure rate was only 1%, just one percent, that would still be 1.6mil they couldn't sell. So only 158.4m that they potentially could. Potentially. 🤷♂️
Sorry, I know you don't work for Sony, I just get carried away some times. I'm going to go play games now.😁
Re: Fortnite's Superb The Simpsons Season Breaks Records for Blockbuster Battle Royale
@get2sammyb Thanks anyway. I just checked yesterday and I started in June 2022 and bought my first battle pass in Dec 22. Have pretty much played every work day since. It's too much, but I'm addicted. Kinda wishing they'd go first person view, then I'd quit. 😝 I don't know how you keep up w/ all the Hoyo stuff, just this and Nikki is all I can handle. 🤷♂️
@Fluberuper Last season, and for a few before that, I was winning 33% of my matches, usually top 10 w/ the occasional 99th b/c the game is fun like that.😂 But this season it's been 15, 25, 17 etc. I think I came in 2nd twice. But they also feel fast. I haven't checked the times but my matches are always 22-24 minutes, these have felt short and b/c of the losing I haven't checked.😩 I've tried playing Reload or whatever it's called a few times, always felt they were trash. This isn't that bad, but I can't get into my usual game flow rhythm. Congrats on doing better 👍
Re: Study Claims Physical PS5 Games Are 100 Times Worse for the Planet Than Digital Downloads
100x worse? Going to need to see the math on that one b/c by my calculations it's only 75x-80x worse. 🙄
Re: Fortnite's Superb The Simpsons Season Breaks Records for Blockbuster Battle Royale
@get2sammyb Since the article reads like you've played it, does this season seem "off" to you? I know my placings have dropped precipitously from top 3 to 5-15 b/c the players came back, but it feels like more than that. I don't know if it's smaller or emptier or flatter or what but it almost feels more like those Reloaded levels than the main battle Royale matches I've been playing the past few years. IDK maybe the cell shading is throwing me off but it just doesn't feel quite the same. 🤷♂️
Re: Prices Plunge on Over 3,500 PS5, PS4 Games Ahead of Busy Black Friday Season
I have Nikoderiko on my Wishlist so it notified this morning. About half price, looks like some fun to play w/ my wife and maybe my kids xan play it together. Has easy, normal, hard and challenge mode so everyone can play. Just gonna go read some reviews first but probably in.
Re: PS2 Set to Remain King of Consoles as Nintendo Switch Sales Start to Stall
Wait, when did PS5 hit nice big round 160 million, hasn't it been at around 155 million for the last 15 or so years since they stopped selling it? Unless Sony is willing to show me the dates it hit 156m, 157m, 158m and 159m I'm ignoring that 160m numbers. That's ridiculous. 🤪
Re: Fortnite's New Sidekicks Are Cute, But Fans Aren't Happy About the High Cost
@Oram77 Oh, good point. I thought it was free free unlockable when the game started. If it's battle pass locked that is different. Been so long since I paid for mine. I should probably go back and edit my post but nah.
Re: Fortnite's New Sidekicks Are Cute, But Fans Aren't Happy About the High Cost
As @Stevemalkpus just said, they give you a free one to start, so, don't buy them, they do nothing.
I've been playing Fortnite for 4 years, spent $8 in store credit I had when I began, I currently have about 50 saved sets, and 3,000 V-bux. It's crazy to me how much people spend on stuff that does nothing when $8, maybe it's $10 now, can set you up for years.
I also get the complaining, it's what people do, and those prices are crazy, and the 1 change per pet is obviously forced and stupid as we can change everything else infinitely. So don't buy them, they're worse than useless. Worse. Just burn your money, at least it will be pretty and give off heat. 🔥
Re: Random: Turns Out the PS5 Can Be a Lot Smaller, and You Can Build One Yourself
Anything electronic can be made smaller, for and at a price. I think there's some laws about that.
I don't like the look of the PS5, gate balancing it on that stupid little stand horizontally, but I don't need it to look like an Xbox or genetic PC either.
Oh well, some say we'll have game news, until then, gotta keep the masses entertained. Gladiator.gif
Re: Think PS Plus Essential's Monthly Games Are Getting Worse? The Data Shows You're Wrong
Metacritic is a metric and the numbers are what they are, so good for PS+ and it's subscribers.
Here's my metric, that I have not measured, but it feels like it's getting worse for the constant increase in price.
PS5 is 5 years old this month. In those 5 years how many PS5 exclusives - not PS4 or PS3 games - have been on PS+ Essential vs how many PS4 exclusives - not PS3 or PS2 games - were on PS+?
I know there haven't been a ton of PS5 exclusives but how many of those have been on PS+? What % of PS4 exclusives were on PS+ by the time the PS4 was 5 years old? I just feel like PS4 was getting PS4 games, that why I subscribed, and PS5 has not been getting a lot of PS5 games, which is why I don't.
Metacritic scores are good, but not if it's for a game I've never even heard of. I'm still trying to get over "It Takes Two" winning GotY. Like, did that really happen? 🤷♂️
Re: Exclusive: Your First Look at Astro Bot in Lumines Arise, and How the Crossover Happened
Have they announced if Astrobot is done yet? I've been holding out getting it as they keep adding dlc to the base game. Has there been enough content for them to do a GotY Complete Edition for the holidays? I'm pretty sure it won some awards.
Re: 'It Happens on PS5': New PlayStation Adverts Mark Five Years of PS5
I like it better than how PS+ is celebrating the 5 year PS5 anniversary, w/ PS4 game Stray and a couple of other games I can't recall their names. So they have that going for them. 👍
Re: If You've Never Played Fortnite, This Is the Season to Try on PS5, PS4
@Chris250MY " fast paced FPS games"
Not that it matters too much, but Fortnite isn't a FPS First Person Shooter it's 3rd person. If it ever goes 1st person I'll quit, been playing about 4 years. Also not really that fast paced, I'm 60 and I win 33% of my matches.
@get2sammyb Don't worry Sammy, maybe you'll have better replies promoting Infinity Nikki 2.0 at the end of the month.😁
Re: ARC Raiders (PS5) - A Triumph in Multiplayer Immersion
I never really appreciated the Game Profile box below here before now. You guys at PS ever think about putting it ABOVE the comments so people might read it before commenting? It has a lot of useful information people might ask about, like the price and where else it can be played.
One other bit of info a game like this can use - do I need to pay for PS+ to play it? Probably yes, but some online games don't.
Players: 1 makes it look like you can play it solo offline w/ NPCs but I'm guessing that's not the case.
Maybe I'll just keep playing Wii games on my Wii U. Simpler times.😁
Re: Fortnite Introduces Sidekicks, Pet Pals That Join You Throughout the Game on PS5, PS4
They just had some K-Pop Demon Hunters mode - 3 people building houses and doing not much else - that let you have cute little flying sidekicks buzzing about your head. Only 1 at a time but they had a couple of dozen to choose from.
Re: Talking Point: Is PS5 Really in Competition with TikTok?
My biggest threat to lack of PS5 game time is lack of PS5 games I want to play,
Yes, I know PS5 is still getting games, but compare it to the PS1 or PS2 days where games series got like 3 games in 5 or 6 years. Now we get 1.
I do still play on my PS5 a lot but it's time wasting games, not stuff I really want to play.
Social media cuts in to my Pushsquare time, but I've never TikTok'd. I can barely navigate Instagram.
Re: Rumour: PS Portal Could Be About to Get Even More Compelling
@Dogbreath I like surprise. I'd also accept success. Mild success. Successful. Heck I'd even accept enormous success if they quoted and linked it, perhaps mockingly from Phil Spencer. Enormous is just weird. I'm not sure I could even use it seriously, it's a funny word. Like, Did you see the size of that woman's button in the green lycra spandex? It was ENORMOUS. 😂
Re: Generative AI Won't Be Creating the Next GTA, Says Take-Two Boss
"Tech like this is unable to generate wholly original ideas because it's relying on banks of old, pre-existing media and information."
I'm pretty sure that is actually how the human brain works. And if you don't think it does then we can all be raised by wolves and then create great things. There's a reason people go to school, or get home schooled. To teach them how to do things.
The fact that some people are more creative than AI is less a jab at AI than it is at humans. Sure, everything AI makes now sucks, but that's b/c the things we like are made by smart well trained humans. If you just let any human make a game, maybe half of the population, or 10%, choose your own %, then the AI may be better.
Who knows, maybe Concorde would have been better if Sony let AI make it?😂
Anyway, it's not that AI sucks more than humans, it's that AI sucks more than the humans we pay to do particular jobs. The jobs the humans learned to do. Just like AI has to learn. It's just not very smart right now. Probably b/c it's learning from all humans. Most of which are stupid. 😩
Re: PS Plus Essential Games for November 2025 Announced
@ShogunRok "PS+ Extra Celebrating the 5 Year Anniversary of the PS5 Launch in Style Next Month by Bringing Out the Heavy Hitters" should have been the title of this article w/ that Pic as the whole article.🤣
Re: Rumour: PS Portal Could Be About to Get Even More Compelling
@Dogbreath I know you weren't replying to me you were replying to @Exerion76 but since they were replying to me I'm replying to you to. And them.
The only people who know if it was really a success or not are Sony, b/c the only success that really matters was meeting their expectations. And who knows, maybe Sony thinks 5% of the PS5 install base for a $199 one trick pony is "enormous". But if that's the case I'd really like to see what their hyperlatives would have been if it were 10%, 15%, 20% well you get the idea. Stupendous. Humungous. What else is bigger than enormous?
For comparison the $250 Wii sold 150mil and the $100 1 trick pony Wii Balance Board sold 32mil. That's 20% of the install base. For a plastic board that was 40% of the consoles price. Similar to PS5 and Portal pricing.
https://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/28953/wii-balance-board-breaks-record
I think Portal is a success for what you got at the price. But enormous? When's the last time anyone ever said 5% of anything was enormous?🤷♂️
Phew, made it through the whole post w/o a "That's what she said" joke. It was tough.🤣
Re: 'Significant' Layoffs Are Set to Hit Amazon Game Studios
@Shepherd_Tallon Thanks for that real world stuff. As someone who talks to Alexa every day to ask the weather, sports score, set a timer, etc, I have no interest in anything calling itself AI, and I'm certainly not paying for it.
Though I suppose it's good people do, should help make it better in the future. Kind of like how No Man's Sky was a bit if a bust or letdown at launch but after multiple years of updates people seem to like it more now. AI is alpha stage NMS, beta testers beware.
Re: 'Significant' Layoffs Are Set to Hit Amazon Game Studios
@themightyant Games journalism amirite? At least they didn't blame Biden. 😂
In their defense I still haven't found the number,linking to a paywalled Bloomberg article wasn't helping. I unfortunately care about this stuff b/c 3 years ago my kid graduated from college w/ a BS in Game Design & Development (can't blame the kid, I picked the school and the major) so this all affects me. And I'm a stock market news junky. That's on me too.😝
Looked around and nothing new on the Games division layoff number. I did find out about an "AI powered" Snoop Dog game. Which I'm pretty sure in a few days I'm just going to think I imagined
https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/amazon-games-is-making-major-layoffs-as-it-shifts-focus-away-from-mmos-to-its-luna-cloud-gaming-platform-we-have-made-the-difficult-decision-to-halt-a-significant-amount-of-our-first-party-aaa-game-development/
Re: Rumour: PS Portal Could Be About to Get Even More Compelling
"enormous success"
5% of the install base
🙄
Re: Sony's Brave Bet on Anime Is Looking Like a Masterstroke
My kid went to see it this weekend and said it was good. I may have gone but after watching the first few episodes I took a break, then came back and didn't know what was going on, then my kid told me that was b/c I skipped an episode, so I never went back. 😩
Maybe if when this comes to Crunchy roll I'll start over. 🤷♂️
Re: 'Significant' Layoffs Are Set to Hit Amazon Game Studios
@themightyant No one knows the game number, 14k seems to be all of AI, AWS, etc,part of a larger corporate 30k. Some are just employees they fired b/c thry wouldn't, or couldn't, "return to the office".
https://deadline.com/2025/10/amazon-job-cuts-hit-video-games-division-1236600254/
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/amazon-lay-off-about-14000-roles-2025-10-28/
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/amazon-targets-many-30000-corporate-job-cuts-sources-say-2025-10-27/
https://deadline.com/2025/10/amazon-job-cuts-hit-video-games-division-1236600254/
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/28/amazon-layoffs-corporate-workers-ai.html
@nessisonett Would involve a "functioning government", which we no longer have. Also I think WARN notices only come into affect when about 10% of a company is laid-iff, and Amazon has 1.5mil employees so the 14k, or 30k number also announced, probably isn't large enough. 🤷♂️
Also, this is the worst comment section I've ever read, and I've been annoying people here for 15 years. This is a very international site though, so it's possible AI looking comments could just be translation issues, so it might be difficult to tell what's AI and what's Google Translate of a broken mind. Banning Americans could be a way to go though.🤣
Re: First PS Plus Essential Game for November 2025 Leaked
@Dragoon1994 That's what I said, PS4 game, not a PS5 exclusive.
Re: Cancelled God of War PS5 Game Leaks in Screenshots
@nessisonett I had to look up the title, I thought it was called Awakening. 😝 I own every GoW game, except that one. No wait I traded in 2018, just kept the box. 😁
I still think it's weird no one mentioned the previous GoW multi-player game while talking about the canceled new one. 🤷♂️
Re: PS5's Power Saver Probably Isn't Tied to a Next-Gen Handheld, But It's Intriguing All the Same
The only people who I've ever seen argue that this power saving mode was in preparation of the handhelds launch was PS writers. 😂
I do appreciate that those same PS writers have talked about the PS5 power consumption. I try to always turn it off rather than put it in rest mode now, and I never use it for streaming or DVDs, though I will throw in the occasional Blu-ray, don't think I've ever held a 4k disc in my hands, so I know the PS5 is a power hog, and I try to mitigate my energy usage, but I never saw this energy saving mode as handheld related. 🤷♂️