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@DeathlySW gotta remember the attackers only need to find one way in. The people being attacked need to secure against every possibility and protect against it. It's not as easy as it sounds.

GTA 5 - 1330 hours
Rocket league - 808 hours
GT7 - 523 hours

@iDreamwalker 60 doesn't have the same value as 20 year ago you are correct however, with scale the profit margin increases overall with more subscribers.

Think why supermarkets can outprice corner shops or car companies can drop or keep prices low when they are buying and selling in bulk.

The problem with tech companies is they want the same profit margin per user if they have 1m subscribers or 100m.

They've spent the last decade digitising their marketplace so they can start gouging in to your wallet.

They want all the money. All the time and it's only going to get worse.

Never good to hear of folk losing their job. Hope they find something quickly.

COVID really gave Sony and Microsoft a taste for increased profit margins.

Chickens are coming home to roost now.

My PS Plus Premium sub is getting binned when its due for renewal then.

Back to the standard PS plus it is.

Honestly, its not even "live service" games that are like that.

A large proportion of games these days are unfinished on release thanks to digital marketplaces largely replacing dvd/blu ray.

Just wait till subscriptions are the dominant way of getting games. You'll get titles that are broken in to chapters and released based on performance KPI's being met. Doesnt meet consumer engagement? Then chapter 1-3 is all you'll get and the rest is shelved.

Please Quake 3 next!!!

Might somehow prompt Epic to look at Unreal Tournament again.

@sanderson72 I'm £40 a month for a gigabit line here.. I'd hardly say that's very expensive. Was around £30 for a FTTC line.

It's just waiting on availability that's the problem imo.

Either way. 40mb or 400mb. Latency is the killer for game streaming

I'm sure I paid less for the original game. That's crazy.

Can see why they've not bothered with the Xbox version - back compat probably does a better job.

With the level of effort expected here its a £20 game at a push and I'm being generous with that.

@The_ghostmen The money side of it really isn't that bad. Completely optional and there's no real need to spend anything.

The only problem is the lack of actual races for certain tracks.

Some tracks have 3 or 4 races when you can easily do much more expansive track/car combos so can be a bit of a big grind for cash if you want to keep it fresh outside of the weekly time trials which are usually easy enough to get £1m coins.

@KilloWertz " but it was a great game once the PS5 version came out a year later"

Really?! It was more stable than the ps4 pro release i'll give you that, but still crashed multiple times through my PS5 playthrough in November 2022 nearly 8 months after the PS5 release. Its inexcusable to crash that often that late after release.

And that's just the quality control side. That's before we even start with the whole pointless story starting paths that really do very little.

Its a hodgepodge of ideas built on a cool visual presentation. I really wanted to like it but its by far one of the most disappointing games in a while. The soundtrack is good, its visually pleasing but the story is fairly poor after the first few hours, the cars handle like crap and the bugs are far too prevalent for a AAA game)

Its very reminiscent of most GTA clones. (to clarify im not saying its a GTA clone before anyone jumps on that) They do some cool things but ultimately lack in most important ones.

Set motion blur to 2. Seems a much better balance now.

@JustPlainLoco For a reasonable price? You cant. SE decided to sell a limited amount of copies which were snapped up within minutes.

I'll try and not watch it as i've had it pre ordered since it was first available.

Can see this being a GOTY contender.

Those of you moaning about MM not making a game catered to the masses are the opposite reason why Sony are in the position they are today.

Dreams has likely inspired young game developers in the same way Net Yaroze did back on PS1.

Stifling creativity isn't the way to push this medium forward and I'm glad MM and Sony went down the route. My only gripe is that Sony didn't stick it on ps plus at the earliest opportunity.

Dreams was a gamble, and they've clearly had some decent ideas given Epic is about to do similar within Fortnite.

@Robbirtles given the games can be purchased individually then should be separate platinums.

@DrGonzo Good games are always good games and for many this will be the first time they've had the chance to play these titles.

What's the problem?

Yoshi P runs a tight ship. Not a sh*te tip.

Excellent to see.

Companies patent things ALL the time they've no plan in using. Just ensures that if someone tries the idea they have to cough up to use it.

I wouldn't worry too much.

It'll be Actua Soccer completely untouched from the 90's with a FIFA 25 logo slapped on it and recent player names.

Guaranteed to be absolute dirt.

Sounds kinda like the player bases you can invade in MGS V right?

@nyXhc420 Its for people who have purchased a disc game.

Then, months down the line either got the game via PS plus or buy a digital version and it then means they don't need to delete the disk version and download the digital one for absolutely no reason.

Not the other way around.

Its happened to me more times than I would like and has been a waste of time deleting then redownloading the exact same content.

@The_Pixel_King correct.

Seems a lot in here don't quite grasp the simple idea.

@daveofduncan I played it to death when it first came out and played it again before Christmas thank you very much.

Out of the 4 or 5 times I played over the Christmas period the lobbies barely ever filled up.

A rather odd post from you getting all salty when it's obvious that player numbers are dwindling enough to make this change in the first place. Hence the jibe about being ever popular when it's clearly on the slide.

That's no criticism for the game and as noted other games die quicker. It's always going to happen.

An update on the full release date for the Final Fantasy remasters would be nice.

So in layman's terms they've reduced the player count from 60 to 40 due to dwindling player numbers?

Hardly "ever-popular" then right?

@rjejr are you seriously suggesting the switch isn't popular in the UK?

Good grief. Clearly, you don't live here. The switch was the best selling console in 2022.

Any chance someone can just get the HD MGS remasters re-released?

They've been pulled for the best part of a year now.

Decent game but for me it was a bit of a dud.

Story choices didn't mean much, the open world was fairly barren (sure it looked nice but little to do) and even the PS5 release was still buggy as of November 2022 when I re-played it to completion after giving up on the PS4 pro version which was a shambles.

Celebrity appearances do not make a good game.

@InternetUser there's a reason why similar specced headsets sell for 000's more. To make profit.

Maybe.. just maybe Sony could sell a PC version and charge appropriately. Otherwise it's a pointless moan.

@InternetUser

I know your post is bait but why would Sony release a VR headset that probably just about breaks even to then sell it on an ecosystem they wont make any money on?

You do realise regardless, if you want to use PSVR 2 on PC along with having lots of choices for headsets already on PC, someone will reverse engineer it anyway and create software that makes it compatible.

They really need to get the HD collection back out for sale and on a current gen system. Itching to play it.

@thefourfoldroot1 No, the laziest are ones that pretty much autopop after a half hour "game"

Nothing wrong with adding trophies when you complete a level on a PS1 game through to completion. If anything it'll drive people to play it and hopefully that leads to more classics being added.

If this runs through the USBC port then what happens if you have a PSVR2 disc based game?

Assuming there will be some multi adaptor port but will bandwidth allow both that and the vr headset?

Ohh and in answer to the question, no I just want the all in one unit that can play discs.

@KaijuKaiser his statement means little in reality. Him saying it's nice isn't going to get people buying it lets be honest other than the hardcore which will already know well about it.

It's the casuals that will make PSVR2 live or die.

It's also worthwhile highlighting the leaning of his and his family members views (see his sister married in to a lunatic) that are abhorrent.

The reason it's often brought up with conservatives rather than liberals or as I am, centerists is because their views are usually the ones causing harm, pulling up the ladder behind them and convincing the general public to eat crap and it's some easy targets fault to blame.

Its a pity Palmer Luckey is an abhorrent goblin with some terrible political views.

Will be watching it but I'll sure has heck not be giving my money to Sly.

@mariomaster96 It would make sense for 13 to get some kind of treatment since it'll be the only one not on current gen consoles by the middle of the year.

2023 whatever happens is going to be a bit of a banger.

FF16. The pixel remasters of 1 to 6 and potentially 7 remake pt2.

The victory fanfare is going to be a constant sound in my house.

@thefourfoldroot1 Games released on PSN have to have trophies so if they're being also sold separately then all 6 will have trophies.

Hopefully they fix the god awful font from the pc and mobile versions.

@HunterRose there's a huge difference from buying insomniac and Microsoft buying a whole publisher. Let's not conflate the two as equal.

Insomniac also didn't have the Spiderman licence it's also worth noting which I'm sure you know about both points.

Worth saying I'm not for all the studios being bought up by both Sony and Microsoft but your points are scraping the barrel.

After playing the PS4 pro version for about 10 or so hours and giving up because of the performance I played it again a few months back and finished it off on PS5.

Much better performance (still crashed a few times tbf) but it's still far from a GOTY.

The world is largely dead when you open your eyes a bit, game choices don't mean much to the story in all honesty and the driving side of the game is pretty poor.

Graphics and decent voice acting don't make a GOTY. The game largely falls on its ass as soon as Jackie's portion of the game is done.

Even though the game is in a much better place now you can really tell the game went through development hell.

Lots of decent idea's lost in a sea of mediocre.

That and Death Stranding pt 2.

Should be a decent show

Road Atlanta is an awesome track. Not many racers seem to include it. Excellent addition.

Looking forward to also driving the Cossie. Gonna be some brilliant classic liveries for that.

@jrt87 I didnt realise PS5 saves couldnt be backed up. Thats silly. Suppose thats to stop modding but yea, thats not ideal.

Nintendo dont do cloud saves either though unless you pay for their sub IIRC

@trev666 It has to be paid for somehow.

The margins on the consoles themselves are slim.

There's nothing stopping folk backing up saves to a USB pen so it shouldn't matter.

@AaronBayne

Nice review but its a "Force Feedback" wheel rather than "Haptic Feedback".

There's a subtle difference in the two things.

In the same way a Dual Shock 1/2/3/4 isn't/wasn't advertised as haptic feedback. Its much less nuanced.

@Shstrick It'll be RT shadows only I suspect. Just like in Cyberpunk.

Complete waste of time to half the framerate for just RT shadows.