The general rule of thumb is a 30% buy fee on a company to buy it out.

EA is not going to Sony that's for sure.

@Stoffinator because Sony, to buy EA would need to do a leveraged buy out which is inherently dangerous.

Sonys free cash flow is around 20bn I believe so they'd need to effectively mortgage themselves.

Its a much bigger risk when Microsoft has piles of money to burn.

Square or Sega is more affordable.

Cant say I am, haven't bought an Activision game in years however CoD is year for year the biggest seller or atleast in top 3 so its gonna hurt Sony's bottom end.

My big worry is a follow up buy either S.E or Sega. That'll probably be the turning point for me.

Would be nice if it were out this year but im firmly in the camp of when its ready is good enough.

Rather it comes out polished than rushed.

@uptownsoul Its completely free up to level 40 or so as you said.. however if you tried the beta from years ago you'll be locked out of it as I am. Which is really annoying as the original version of the game is completely different to how it is now so i'll never get the chance to really play it.

Further to that, its a monthly subscription which is around 8 quid a month I believe.

You know a game is that popular when they have to stop selling it to keep up with demand.

GG Square-Enix. Thats some turnaround from the sorry state it was originally in.

CDPR.. take note.

The "journalist" and I use that term loosely on twitter who is claiming credit for breaking this "story" is a bit of an embarrassment and should have a read before posting nonsense. You'd think folk who post this stuff for a living would actually read what stories they share.

Its clearly the PS4 - PS5 downclock.

@Shepherd_Tallon @get2sammyb To me anyway, and im absolutely no expert on patents just to be clear.

That reads like its the patent on how PS5 handles PS4 games - dropping PS5's CPU, GPU speed and memory allocation to mimic PS4.

Not mimicking older, completely different, architectures such as PS1, PS2 and PS3.

The "journalist" that started this, he sure as hell cant read.

I seriously don't understand why some are miffed that Sony are continuing to make PS4's. Not everyone can afford a PS5, there's not enough around and believe it or not, theres still plenty of PS4 releases on the horizon.

As said above 1 million is not a lot and personally i'd be expecting PS4's to be manufactured till the tail end of 2023 to be perfectly honest.

Its the same set of mouth breathers that moan about old PS4 games going to PC.

Cretins with nothing to do but get angry on the internet.

@Texan_Survivor Agreed. Its only a bunch of wet wipes who complain about a 4 year old game being ported.

PUBG was pretty good on the PC when it released.

A more "grown up" BR game. However, from what I remember the PS4 version was really poor and unoptimized.

I wonder if thats changed? Any chance of a retrospective look now its went F2P @Quintumply

Its a difficult one to answer in all honesty and depends totally on the game.

Some 40 hour + games that have an engrossing story are great and you almost wish they don't end.

Some run out of interesting things to say and outstay their welcome after 10-20 hours and try to keep things going with needless padding.

Got Death Stranding Directors Cut during the week.

I love a bit of Kojima mentalness but he's went on a bit of an acid trip with this one.

Still.. intriguing game so far so will keep cracking on with it. The baby crying via the controller speaker is rather unsettling.

@get2sammyb I'm fully aware it's not likely to happen and have made peace with it. If it were Microsoft I genuinely think they'd find a solution.

I often feel like Sony don't really care about that kinda thing.

In terms of tracking why couldn't they track the controller? The headset has multiple cameras supposedly for tracking the new vr2 controllers.

They can use that along with gyro and accelerometer data to track the dual sense along with the light bar on the touchpad? Its literally the same way the original works and I'm sure there's a reason for keeping light bar other than it being a player identifier.

I dont see how it wont work with the new controllers vs the move controllers

easier said than done but surely to god they can create an API that converts the PSVR2 move controller inputs to mimic the move controllers API.

I seen those tweets @get2sammyb if its the ones I was thinking about.

Mentioning 5m PSVR sales were rubbish etc. For a gaming journalist you'd think he'd be more excited about innovation.

Kinda funny how someone pointed out he was excited about some xbox crossover with some crappy non gaming related company.

Really depends on how much there is.

If the game sporadically leaves notes for a bit of world building, such as TLOU then i'll read them or if they leave clues for loot which you'd otherwise miss.

If they're all over the shop and they're clearly added as filler as they commonly are on open-world games that are already filled with nonsense collectibles and such then I wont bother as they're usually just padding to simply make the game longer and add little if anything to the narrative.

For open-world games I think I prefer tape collectibles as you can listen while you explore.

@Milktastrophe Other than the odd rare occasion such as playing non mixed PS4/PS5 MP modes why would you want to? Not many games that perform worse surely?

@Marquez if they implement it properly that's exactly how it'll work.

Although I fear with all the NSFW channels on Discord then it'll be a gated, heavily moderated system.

I guess I'm in the minority here and while I really enjoyed the first one, for some reason I just don't feel excited about this.

I've got a bad feeling it'll be like the Killzone series as it went on. Solid but nothing really special.

@Royalblues dunno I've put around 60 hours in to it over the last 2 years and I've had plenty of wins (both alone or with randoms) without a hint of building.

Absolute trash.

@GoodGame that's a shame.. should be more than playable.

Wonder what's causing that. Like I said, for me on WiFi it's fine unless it's a really fast paced game like sonic.

Have you tried when it's just you using the internet?

@GoodGame WiFi connected? What's the signal strength like? BB speeds etc?

@GoodGame I would have agreed with you maybe 3 years ago or so but disagree there now. Unless its something really fast like Sonic.

Since Covid hit and home working, I've been playing PS3 and PS4 games on my laptop while "working" in the spare room and have rare issues - usually caused if my Mrs is off and watching Netflix, and thats off a 30/10MB line so its understandable.

When was the last time you tried? Its much improved over the last few years. My only gripe is the 10 min auto kick when im actually doing some work

@QBGaming12

Considering the game is being removed from PS Now in Jan then I suspect it wont be getting 'fixed' by then.

@Martsmall Eesh.

Thats a bad look for Sony if GTA3 comes and goes between SA being on Game Pass. Really poor offering.

How long is SA on gamepass?

@nessisonett Before I seen your comment I was thinking the same thing.

The mindset from some folk is staggering.

@get2sammyb Yea, I think I'm at around 150 hours on FIFA 22 already and I cant even say I'm actually enjoying it for the right reasons.

I spend most of my time raging at inhuman keepers saving everything and then my defenders splitting like Moses has arrived.

Its the carrot dangling in FUT thats got me and its not healthy. Can see why poor saps end up throwing money at it trying to 'chase the losses'

Have to say out of that list there's only really Returnal and Rift Apart that I've really enjoyed this year. Returnal I didn't even bother finishing either because the runs can be so much of a time sink.

Kena, for as nice as it can be was somewhat of a letdown.

Also worth mentioning that for the first time in a long time I'm struggling to say I've played more than 5 of them.

Think its time to stop spending valuable gaming time with 'live service' games like GTA and Rocket League.

2021 hasn't been the best year for gaming for quite some time. Thank god for backwards compatibility.

@TheRedComet yep.. sadly it seems that if a game doesn't sell skins and emotes then folk just aren't interested.

Hoping this is a real showcase for Unreal Engine 5 - looking forward to seeing what's possible.

Pity there's no new Unreal Tournament to show it off.

Damn you Fortnite

@nofriendo It'll have bonnet, in-car, roof cam and 3rd person cam.

I tend to use the roof cam in GT Sport since it gives a decent view of the track and close infront while keeping you connected to the car.

I would use the in-car cam but without VR, a lot of the dash and pillars block quite a lot of the view.

If this is true I hope my stacked PS plus and now subscriptions carry over fairly.

It would be nice if they added DualSense support for both the remote play and PS Now app on PC.

Annoying having to keep my PS4 controller which struggles with the cable popping out all the time with the port being in poor shape after all those years.

@Alpine021 and the frame rate is highly unstable.

Knowing the Devs were the clowns who messed the mobile ports, no proper gameplay trailer and no review copies send out before release it was clear this was going to be a shambles.

Duly proven right.

Surprised the review here wasn't more scathing as a 20 year old game with horrific frame rate and frame pacing issues, messed up models, geometry issues, rain that's completely broken and AI upscaled textures which are broken simply shouldnt happen.

This is a rush job so that it doesn't clash with the re release of GTA V next year.

This is up there with Cyberpunk and realistically is worse given CP was a new game and this is a re-release.

@BuGGy2DaB it shouldn't thankfully because it's Rockstar who are doing the next gen version... They've let a useless studio who messed up the mobile port 10 years ago port and "upgrade" this nonsense again. That's the problem.

Yea, this sounds like a disaster waiting to happen for folk's controllers.

Just shows you when a bunch of guys at home can do a game better justice than a "professional" outfit.

Rockstar should be ashamed they allowed the clowns that made a mess of the mobile ports do the remasters.

Think i'll stick to my PS2 copies.

Yikes, would have thought they would have fleshed out the car/ped draw distances.

2021 and they appear out of thin air from about what? 8 cars length.. thank god I held out for this.

One of the reasons I'm waiting for reviews to go out.

Part of me thinks it'll be a bit of a let down.

@Martsmall they pay top dollar for teams to point out exploits.

It's easier to an extent to poke around for vulnerabilities than it is to make the thing secure in the first place believe it or not.

@flaming_kaiser streaming/subscriptions were always going to be the endpoint.. nothing to do with crackers and all about the money.

It's kinda funny reading the comments slating folk that do this kinda thing when it's the very same kind of people who help keep products secure and generally push the tech scene further along and help make sure software is preserved.

As an example, the PS1 classic used a forked home brew emulator which wouldn't have been possible as easily without work from teams like this.

I know you are meant to quote source links but do you really need to post a link to The S*n website?

That scumrag doesn't deserve anyone's clicks. @liamcroft @get2sammyb

It's a difficult one but if I only had 1 choice it'd be 5 and throw in a monumental online mode (forget about the gta$) which realised a good chunk of my favourite parts of PC online mods (SA:MP and the earlier one which name eludes me now which started on vice city) and you are on to a winner.

The trilogy also is up there and it's honestly difficult to separate any of them.

3 for the utter shock launching it up and being a crisp 3d world, memorable cast and it gets an extra point purely for the fact it lay down the groundwork for the following 2.

Vice city for building on this with a nostalgic trip of a setting, characters and a killer soundtrack.

Finally, San Andreas.. this time a great 90s soundtrack and a vast open playground.

All 4 are practically inseparable in terms of relative quality.

@BRUTALSAM Thanks for that captain obvious but that is only if you have a top range pc.

That's well out of range for most gamers, including those who themselves play on PC.

I'm sure you've seen the stats for the average PC gamers rig.

The only reason they've done this is for accounting reasons. Makes it much easier to see and show investors how well that side of the business is doing

What kind of cretin uses O to shoot?