We've been waiting so long for another decent Sonic racer and it looks like they might have finally delivered. The ones still stuck on the PS3 (why?) are still better than the Italian plumber (there, I said it) so let's hope this new Sonic entry doesn't disappoint.
@rjejr It was decent enough but way too much 'pay to play'.
@nhSnork ModNation Racers was brilliant - shame it's all shut down now. Another Sony travesty, considering San Diego Studios (I think) did ModNation: World Tour for the Vita.
We're all waiting for Sonic Crossworlds anyway (PLEASE be up to the standards of the All-Star Racing titles!)
PS Plus deals only for new/lapsed customers AGAIN.
FFS, Sony. Then again, this is what happens when Sony has no competition; Xbox is coughing up blood in the corner and Nintendo seem to have delusions of grandeur after their success with their PS2, the Switch.
It's expensive for its age - disc drive PS4 Pro was £300 more often than not by this time in it's generation and I had more fun with that console than I've had with the disappointing PS5.
Of course the PS5 would be cheaper if Yankee-Doodle Sony hadn't upped the price of the PS5 by £30 everywhere apart from their home country of the USA a few years ago....
Been a PS+ subscriber since the PS3/Vita days but let it lapse last year. Needed to back up some PS5 game saves and as Fony don't give the option to back up PS5 saves onto USB unlike the PS4, I had to renew - used some better value PS gift cards from ShopTo though.
Main thing, Sammy, is that physical games are often cheaper than the digital releases which should not be the case. Leave a game alone for a month or two, and the disc with packaging, distribution, manufacturing costs are often £10 less than the Store price. Other plus for physical is that some de-listed games (e.g. Driveclub) are still live on the server for all the patches, etc. so while from a digital point of view, the game doesn't exist, a physical disc unlocks the games and any patches or previously bought DLC.
Last game I bought for full price on release day was probably Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance on the PS2 for £40! Otherwise, I'm fine waiting a for a month or two and buy a disc from an online retailer for tens of pounds less than the joke store price.
I'd buy Broforce 2 for full price, if they ever get round to making one, but that also won't be £80. These days, high price does not equate with high quality gameplay.
If Sony did a PS+ for about £40 with online game save backups and online gaming, I think that would be the most popular option by far.
The 'free' games on Essential and Extra recently have been dire, and pretty much will be on sale on the store at the same time. I miss the PS4 days where I can back up my game saves on a USB stick.
Might have been interested in "Gloomhaven Mercenaries Edition (PS5, PS4)" but I renewed on Essential. That said, it's just over a tenner on the PS Store.
Perhaps they should have popped the side panels off and hoovered it out before the event as the PS5 does seem to suck up a lot of fluff that gets stuck inside it and that isn't going to help with cooling.
@Andy22385 Yes, CEX isn't the best example these days.
Admittedly I bought mine in Black Friday prices around Christmas time, but I got a 'very good' condition (turned out to be mint) PS5 disc drive fatty with all the cables and so on for £344 from Music Magpie. Even had a 1TB Seagate Firecuda expansion in it's expansion port that someone couldn't be bothered or forgot to remove.
There are so many used PS5s (and Pros) out there, dunno why anyone is buying a new one.
Save yourself a few hundred quid by getting a used A-grade one from Amazon, eBay, Music Magpie, CEX, Cash Converters, etc, etc.
The original Control was excellent - intriguing and scary in equal amounts.
Got into playing the original on the PS4 Pro and it played smooth as anything and I don't think I encountered any bugs.
Couldn't be bothered to restart on the PS5 as the saves didn't transfer for some still-unexplained reason?
MS will leave the next gen to Wintel based PCs with a set of predefined Xbox specifications. Can't see there's any other way to fight their own incompetence but a baby PC sitting in the corner of the room instead of a dedicated console could be an attractive proposition for some as an alternative to the PS6 (let's hope that looks better than the current eyesore)
Media Molecule's LBP1 & 2 (still stuck on the PS3) are a class above the rather dull A Big Adventure. Shutting down the LBP servers was just a move too far in my opinion. How much does it cost to host all that user created content online?
@The_ghostmen MM didn't do the lacklustre LBP3 - that was Sumo wasn't it?
No point giving Sony any more money - there are shed loads of used very good/mint condition PS5s out there.
Just go to CEX/Cash Converters/Music Magpie and look for a PS5 - I got a mint condition 1216 model disc-drive Fatty (with an extra 1TB storage that someone had forgotten to take out!) from MM for £340 in their Black Friday sale at the end of last year.
Always wait for update 1.4 before plunging into any Bethesda game - that way they've normally fixed all the things that were broken originally or got broken in updates 1.1, 1.2 & 1.3 so everything is a bit more stable.
It's funny that we used to have blockbuster films and they then spawned a game on the home consoles/computers of the time (e.g. Batman on the ZX Spectrum, C64, Amiga) and now we just seem to have films being made of games.
I've still got the original on my PS3 (don't remember it ("ran like sh*t on the PS3")) but perhaps I need to start it up and see if I'm looking through rose-tinted glasses or if it was that bad?
I'm sure a few patches (wouldn't be a Bethesda original without it!) and it'll stabilise a lot.
@belmont Same here - no automatic notification but it was there in the System Update settings.
Now if only Sony would allow us to customise the dreary'"music" on the dashboard.
@Ilyn It's a good point. I mean the PS3/4 can only access ~50GB per disc, the HD Blu-ray on the PS5 can access ~100GB per disc.
If the Switch 2 cartridges can only access ~64GB, then they're potentially going to have to download at least a portion of some games, not including online patches. Of course, as we've seen with the Switch, they allow those strange download code in a retail box so I can see that may be the case going forwards - no cartridge required?
None of those games come close but if we stretch a little further back to the PS3 era and we have both Sonic and All Stars Racing titles and even F1 All Stars by Codemasters in 2012?
Sony became a lot better from the consumer point of view in the PS4 era. PS5 though, and the PS3-eque attitude reared up again. And on simple things as well, such as if PS4 saves can be backed up on a USB stick, why not the PS5 saves? Simple, more money from a PS subscription.
I'd wait for a few weeks and pick up a disc from an online retailer for £10-20 less than the price on the PS Store.
As you say, @RadioHedgeFund, we never asked for game development that cost more than several blockbuster movies.
I mean look at Atomfall. £55 on the store, £45 for a posted disc on Amazon, Game Collection, etc. And that game shows up quite a lot of first party output.
I'm against all these PS4-PS5 remasters ('cos they're pointless) but it's mainly the PS3 era stuff that NEEDS remastering as the PS5 isn't grunty enough to emulate the Cell architecture.
So, we need:
1. Motorstorm
2. Wipeout
3. ModNation Racers
Heck, might as well throw LBP in there too (for 1 & 2 ) as MM aren't working on a new one apparently.
IPs such as MotorStorm, Wipeout and ModNation Racers are as dead as a dodo but would sell well on the newer PlayStations if they were rebooted so why not lease them out?
@Northern_munkey Yep, the PS4 Pro could chuck circa-4K visuals round at 60fps for F1 2021-2024 so I don't think this will be pushing the PS5 to its limits. EA have just made a commercial vs dev time decision. Either that or they need the extra processing power to handle all of Hamilton's bling?
Glad to see one of the iconic franchises coming back.
Still miffed that they killed off the majority of the PS4 edition when they shut down the server but I suppose if it didn't have a lot of players, then the server gets shut down.
Be interesting to see who will be hosting the online servers this time - hopefully NOT Sony.
Might go for the Switch version anyway - bought Easy Come Easy Golf (Clap Hanz) a little while ago but it didn't hold a candle to Everybody's Golf on the PS4, PS Vita or even the PSP versions.
Stop messing about Sony and give us folders and themes. They won't though.
Lets hope for a significant UI and functionality update for the PS6. With luck they'll boot up a PS3 and PS4 and go 'ohh, so THAT'S what everyone keeps asking for!'
With luck, they could add the PS4's download chip back in too.
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Re: Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds Free and Paid DLC Adds Guests from Minecraft, Like a Dragon, More
We've been waiting so long for another decent Sonic racer and it looks like they might have finally delivered.
The ones still stuck on the PS3 (why?) are still better than the Italian plumber (there, I said it) so let's hope this new Sonic entry doesn't disappoint.
Re: Anime Racer Screamer Shows Real Promise in PS5 Gameplay
Looks very good but, as with all racing games, it all depends on the car handling.
Re: Poll: What Were Your Favourite PS5 Games from State of Play? (June 2025)
Great to see Everybody's Golf back - but I find myself being pulled to buy the Switch version? Might just double dip...
Re: PS Plus Premium Gets 2 Classic PS1 Adventure Games, Both Out Now
Got Essential too - think I'm more likely to buy them for £4.39 each, rather than wasting money on the overpriced Premium.
Re: Oblivion Remastered Patch 1.1 Revealed, PS5 Performance to Be Addressed Later
Saved me having to buy it day one so I'm happy waiting - probably if it appears in a sale? Loved the PS3 original.
Re: Round Up: What Was Announced During Sony's State of Play Livestream for June 2025?
@WolfyTn I was looking out for that too.
Rest of it is a bit 'meh'.
Re: Switch 2 Has Mario Kart World, But You'll Soon Have All You Can Drift with Garfield Kart 2 on PS5
@rjejr It was decent enough but way too much 'pay to play'.
@nhSnork ModNation Racers was brilliant - shame it's all shut down now. Another Sony travesty, considering San Diego Studios (I think) did ModNation: World Tour for the Vita.
We're all waiting for Sonic Crossworlds anyway (PLEASE be up to the standards of the All-Star Racing titles!)
Re: New PS5 Firmware Update Out Today in Phased Release
The PS5 will never be as stable as the PS4 - mainly due to that wonky design.
Be interesting to see if a equivalent PS4 patch turns up later...?
Re: Days of Play 2025 - All the Best PS5, PS5 Pro, PS Plus, PS5 Game Deals
PS Plus deals only for new/lapsed customers AGAIN.
FFS, Sony. Then again, this is what happens when Sony has no competition; Xbox is coughing up blood in the corner and Nintendo seem to have delusions of grandeur after their success with their PS2, the Switch.
Re: Reaction: There's Never Been a Better Time to Buy a PS5
It's expensive for its age - disc drive PS4 Pro was £300 more often than not by this time in it's generation and I had more fun with that console than I've had with the disappointing PS5.
Of course the PS5 would be cheaper if Yankee-Doodle Sony hadn't upped the price of the PS5 by £30 everywhere apart from their home country of the USA a few years ago....
Re: PS Plus Subscription Sale Takes 33% Off, But There's a Big Catch
Been a PS+ subscriber since the PS3/Vita days but let it lapse last year. Needed to back up some PS5 game saves and as Fony don't give the option to back up PS5 saves onto USB unlike the PS4, I had to renew - used some better value PS gift cards from ShopTo though.
PS5 - for the payers...
Re: New Warhammer 40k RPG Dark Heresy Revealed for PS5
Wish Games Workshop would licence a Warhammer Fantasy Role-Playing game instead of the 40K universe.
Re: Rockstar Quietly Increases Prices of Red Dead Redemption Games on PS4
Buy it online or a 2nd hand copy from eBay if you want it (and have a disc drive)....
Re: Finally, a Line of Physical PS5 Games Where the Packaging Is Beautiful and the Full Experience Is Actually on the Disc
Main thing, Sammy, is that physical games are often cheaper than the digital releases which should not be the case. Leave a game alone for a month or two, and the disc with packaging, distribution, manufacturing costs are often £10 less than the Store price.
Other plus for physical is that some de-listed games (e.g. Driveclub) are still live on the server for all the patches, etc. so while from a digital point of view, the game doesn't exist, a physical disc unlocks the games and any patches or previously bought DLC.
Re: Beloved Ex-PlayStation Boss Believes $70, $80 Games Are a Steal
Last game I bought for full price on release day was probably Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance on the PS2 for £40!
Otherwise, I'm fine waiting a for a month or two and buy a disc from an online retailer for tens of pounds less than the joke store price.
I'd buy Broforce 2 for full price, if they ever get round to making one, but that also won't be £80. These days, high price does not equate with high quality gameplay.
Re: Just 4% of PS5, PS4 Fans Think PS Plus Premium Represents Good Value for Money
If Sony did a PS+ for about £40 with online game save backups and online gaming, I think that would be the most popular option by far.
The 'free' games on Essential and Extra recently have been dire, and pretty much will be on sale on the store at the same time. I miss the PS4 days where I can back up my game saves on a USB stick.
Re: 10 PS Plus Extra, Premium Games for May 2025 Announced
Might have been interested in "Gloomhaven Mercenaries Edition (PS5, PS4)" but I renewed on Essential. That said, it's just over a tenner on the PS Store.
Re: Even More PS5 Price Increases Being Considered by Sony
Let's not forget, Sony increased the price by £30 everywhere apart from the USA well before Johnny Fartpants got in power for the 2nd time.
Re: Hot PS5s Cause Havoc at Sony's EVO Japan Grand Final
Perhaps they should have popped the side panels off and hoovered it out before the event as the PS5 does seem to suck up a lot of fluff that gets stuck inside it and that isn't going to help with cooling.
Re: PS Plus Premium Sub Is the Highlight of New PS5 Console Bundle
@Andy22385 Yes, CEX isn't the best example these days.
Admittedly I bought mine in Black Friday prices around Christmas time, but I got a 'very good' condition (turned out to be mint) PS5 disc drive fatty with all the cables and so on for £344 from Music Magpie. Even had a 1TB Seagate Firecuda expansion in it's expansion port that someone couldn't be bothered or forgot to remove.
Re: PS Plus Premium Sub Is the Highlight of New PS5 Console Bundle
There are so many used PS5s (and Pros) out there, dunno why anyone is buying a new one.
Save yourself a few hundred quid by getting a used A-grade one from Amazon, eBay, Music Magpie, CEX, Cash Converters, etc, etc.
Re: Fallout TV Show Could Be Around for Another 5 Seasons
@carlos82 That FitBit looks a tad cumbersome but at least you'll be working out while wearing it!
Re: Control 2's Budget Won't Be as Big as Alan Wake 2, But Remedy's Confident It'll Be Excellent
The original Control was excellent - intriguing and scary in equal amounts.
Got into playing the original on the PS4 Pro and it played smooth as anything and I don't think I encountered any bugs.
Couldn't be bothered to restart on the PS5 as the saves didn't transfer for some still-unexplained reason?
Re: The FTC Is Still Fighting Microsoft's Activision Buyout, and It's Not Going Well
MS will leave the next gen to Wintel based PCs with a set of predefined Xbox specifications. Can't see there's any other way to fight their own incompetence but a baby PC sitting in the corner of the room instead of a dedicated console could be an attractive proposition for some as an alternative to the PS6 (let's hope that looks better than the current eyesore)
Re: LittleBigPlanet Erasure Continues as Sackboy Removed from PlayStation Productions Logo
Media Molecule's LBP1 & 2 (still stuck on the PS3) are a class above the rather dull A Big Adventure. Shutting down the LBP servers was just a move too far in my opinion. How much does it cost to host all that user created content online?
@The_ghostmen MM didn't do the lacklustre LBP3 - that was Sumo wasn't it?
Re: Opinion: If You're on the Fence, Consider Buying a PS5 Now Before the Prices Inevitably Rise
No point giving Sony any more money - there are shed loads of used very good/mint condition PS5s out there.
Just go to CEX/Cash Converters/Music Magpie and look for a PS5 - I got a mint condition 1216 model disc-drive Fatty (with an extra 1TB storage that someone had forgotten to take out!) from MM for £340 in their Black Friday sale at the end of last year.
Re: Oblivion Remastered Updates in the Oven, Bethesda Wants Your Feedback for Improvements
Always wait for update 1.4 before plunging into any Bethesda game - that way they've normally fixed all the things that were broken originally or got broken in updates 1.1, 1.2 & 1.3 so everything is a bit more stable.
Re: Sydney Sweeney Reportedly Set to Star in Split Fiction Movie Adaptation
It's funny that we used to have blockbuster films and they then spawned a game on the home consoles/computers of the time (e.g. Batman on the ZX Spectrum, C64, Amiga) and now we just seem to have films being made of games.
Re: Hands On: Oblivion Remastered Is Still Oblivion in All Its Glory, Crap Frame Rate Aside
I've still got the original on my PS3 (don't remember it ("ran like sh*t on the PS3")) but perhaps I need to start it up and see if I'm looking through rose-tinted glasses or if it was that bad?
I'm sure a few patches (wouldn't be a Bethesda original without it!) and it'll stabilise a lot.
Re: Devolver Will Be 'Leaning Further into' Its Existing IPs as Best-Selling Games Revealed
More Broforce please! Best game in ages, that.
Re: Latest PS5 Firmware Update Available Starting Today, Brings Back Classic Console Themes
@belmont Same here - no automatic notification but it was there in the System Update settings.
Now if only Sony would allow us to customise the dreary'"music" on the dashboard.
No sign of the PS1 startup chime either....?
Re: Classic Console Themes Return to PS5 from Tomorrow in Latest Firmware Update
@HUMPERDOO PS3 & PS4 UIs are still light years ahead of the 5.
Re: Oblivion Remastered Out Now on PS5, Price and Download Size Revealed
If this does well, we could end up with ANOTHER version of Skyrim - dear lord, no....
Re: Oblivion PS5 Remake Rumours Are Relentless, Claims of April Shadow Drop
Loved Oblivion - far more than Skyrim, which I just couldn’t get into.
See, these are the remasters/remakes we want - something trapped on the PS3, brought up to date.
Re: Switch Exclusive Disney Illusion Island Appears to Be Coming to PS5
One of the best games on the Switch. Shame if they don't port it to the PS4 as well but I suppose those dev resources have to be put somewhere.
Re: Nintendo Is Displaying Hubris Which Would Make Even PS3 Era Sony Blush
@Ilyn It's a good point. I mean the PS3/4 can only access ~50GB per disc, the HD Blu-ray on the PS5 can access ~100GB per disc.
If the Switch 2 cartridges can only access ~64GB, then they're potentially going to have to download at least a portion of some games, not including online patches. Of course, as we've seen with the Switch, they allow those strange download code in a retail box so I can see that may be the case going forwards - no cartridge required?
Re: Best PS5, PS4 Games Like Mario Kart
None of those games come close but if we stretch a little further back to the PS3 era and we have both Sonic and All Stars Racing titles and even F1 All Stars by Codemasters in 2012?
Re: Nintendo Is Raising the Price of Games with Switch 2
It's simple, wait a few weeks/months and then purchase a physical copy for much less than the store price.
At least Nintendo are attaching a physical drive for the price...
Re: Feature: PS5's Not Perfect, But Here Are 5 Ways It's More Consumer Friendly Than Switch 2
Sony became a lot better from the consumer point of view in the PS4 era.
PS5 though, and the PS3-eque attitude reared up again. And on simple things as well, such as if PS4 saves can be backed up on a USB stick, why not the PS5 saves? Simple, more money from a PS subscription.
Re: Talking Point: What Are Your Thoughts on Potential $80 PS5 Games?
I'd wait for a few weeks and pick up a disc from an online retailer for £10-20 less than the price on the PS Store.
As you say, @RadioHedgeFund, we never asked for game development that cost more than several blockbuster movies.
I mean look at Atomfall. £55 on the store, £45 for a posted disc on Amazon, Game Collection, etc. And that game shows up quite a lot of first party output.
Re: Almost All PS5 Fans Are Against $80 Games
I'd wait for a few weeks and pick up a disc from an online retailer for £20 less than the price on the rip-off PS Store.
No wonder Sony/MS want physical media to die off though weirdly Ninty don't seem to see an end in sight for physical.
Re: Switch 2 Goes for the Kill in Japan By Massively Undercutting PS5's Price
Sony will be fine, but let's not forget that Playstation is now about as Japanese as mom's apple pie these days.
Re: Sony Stealthily Increases the Size of PS5, PS4's Needlessly Restrictive PS Store Wishlist
Wish list should contain "Wish Sony would port the PS4 Store to the PS5". The old stager's store is so much easier to navigate.
Re: Over 70% of PS5 Fans Want Sony to License More of Its Dead Franchises Out
I'm against all these PS4-PS5 remasters ('cos they're pointless) but it's mainly the PS3 era stuff that NEEDS remastering as the PS5 isn't grunty enough to emulate the Cell architecture.
So, we need:
1. Motorstorm
2. Wipeout
3. ModNation Racers
Heck, might as well throw LBP in there too (for 1 & 2 ) as MM aren't working on a new one apparently.
Re: Reaction: Sony's Licensing Strategy May Be the Best Route to Reviving Some of PlayStation's Lost Classics
IPs such as MotorStorm, Wipeout and ModNation Racers are as dead as a dodo but would sell well on the newer PlayStations if they were rebooted so why not lease them out?
Re: Sony Licenses Everybody's Golf to Bandai Namco, Coming to PS5
Let's hope Bandai Namco continue these old IP restarts. I'd buy ModNation Racers and the MotorStorm trilogy if they got the go ahead.
Re: EA Sports F1 25 Ditches Last Gen, Brings Back Braking Point This May on PS5
@Northern_munkey Yep, the PS4 Pro could chuck circa-4K visuals round at 60fps for F1 2021-2024 so I don't think this will be pushing the PS5 to its limits. EA have just made a commercial vs dev time decision. Either that or they need the extra processing power to handle all of Hamilton's bling?
Re: Sony Licenses Everybody's Golf to Bandai Namco, Coming to PS5
Glad to see one of the iconic franchises coming back.
Still miffed that they killed off the majority of the PS4 edition when they shut down the server but I suppose if it didn't have a lot of players, then the server gets shut down.
Be interesting to see who will be hosting the online servers this time - hopefully NOT Sony.
Might go for the Switch version anyway - bought Easy Come Easy Golf (Clap Hanz) a little while ago but it didn't hold a candle to Everybody's Golf on the PS4, PS Vita or even the PSP versions.
Re: PS Plus Essential Games for April 2025 Announced
It's almost as if Sony are trying to wean us off PS4 titles being included by providing us with utter tripe....
Re: New PS5 Firmware Update Available from Today in Phased Launch
Stop messing about Sony and give us folders and themes. They won't though.
Lets hope for a significant UI and functionality update for the PS6. With luck they'll boot up a PS3 and PS4 and go 'ohh, so THAT'S what everyone keeps asking for!'
With luck, they could add the PS4's download chip back in too.