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I'd buy the GameCube version of mgs tbf. Would upscale much easier.

Slow news day? This has been known since around the launch when DF originally tried it.

@The_New_Butler I think they've been watching us 🤣

Agreed with @the_new_butler don't get an external ssd.

I got this one

https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B078WST5RK/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_glc_fabc_8PDZ0M8YA1J6WKCADMSH?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

And the sabrent ssd to usb connector.

Works great and as noted already, digital foundry recommended it. So you can be assured it has good performance.

https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B017NIDXF0/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_glc_fabc_7496BJJECAG07XPAJ4QD?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

I have no idea how to deal with accolades.

I don't think it even works with cross gen titles which makes it all that useless just now

Tbf the Unreal Engine powers not only major games but now with it being used in TV and movies it's a decent bet.

Remember playing around with the unreal editor back in the day to make incredibly basic Unreal Tournament maps.

Really impressed me how big they were then and how they've somehow managed to get even bigger. Just wish Fortnite didn't get as big as it has or I would have had another Unreal Tournament.

@agramonte

The only reason Epic is fighting apple and Google is to make a bigger cut for themselves. They're undercutting steam to take their customers away. They're no robin hood here they just want a bigger proportion of the market to themselves.

Sony and Microsoft charges the same 30% cut to publish on their store. The only reason Epic isn't going after them is that it'd be almost suicidal.

@Brydontk yep, but it's better to be honest than pushing a crap experience.

Do you honestly believe that someone on a One S is ever going to have a half decent experience?

I'm sure the developers themselves know it's a task they'll never really manage. The texture streaming issues are fundamental problems that no amount of tweaking will sort and further exacerbated by the base consoles.

Heck.. to alleviate the fps drops a little bit they've lowered texture load in priority.

It's an impossible balancing act sadly and while disappointing for those not on next gen systems by the time they say they can do no more a huge proportion will have moved on anyway.

They really should scrap the release on PS4/Xbox one, refund customers and concentrate on the new systems.

Never going to happen ofcourse.

The reality is that it's never going to play half decent on older gen machines without huge compromises to the experience.

The pro and series x just about work. The base machines however are shambolic, whatever way you look at it.

I hope it fixes the deleted games bug where a greyed out tile stays on the console after you've deleted it.

Have 2 games sitting there I've long deleted that won't shift.

Game preservation is very important.

Regardless of if YOU think it's a non issue there is a large retro gaming scene that likes playing on original hardware.

From time to time I boot up my megadrive and PS1. If this issue were built in to those older consoles then they would be essentially bricked.

Emulation is not perfect (regardless of how good it can be - even the great emulators can't play some games or bring in imperfections that weren't there on the original hardware) and custom firmware should not be needed to use a product purchased in the far future given then Sony have a legal right to try and bring down the websites distributing it.

This isn't a non issue and is anti consumer. Remember when most playstation fans were gloating about Microsoft going down the "always online" route.

With Sony being big headed with the whole game sharing "thanks" video?

Yea, look at how that's aged.

@ATaco that much is obvious. They can't keep buying studios the way they are and release those titles for GP without eventually hiking the price.

It's all about the hook then the squeeze. It's basically the Uber and new tech startupa that haemorrhage money for years model.

And so my post of about 6 months ago holds weight.

Sony are now doing a ubisoft like approach to gaming and are only interested in churning out similar styled games and to hell with everything else.

Why on earth are they remaking a remake. Heck it's not as if the gameplay of 2 changed all that much from 1.

@BamBamBaklava89 in fairness Microsoft's model isn't sustainable.

They're basically doing an Uber and burning through money till the competition ceases to exist then they'll jack the price up and or the quality diminishes.

I actually half expect Microsoft to go the Netflix way in that they'll publish smaller games.. guage interest and continue developing or kill without finishing the product.

My god the entitlement is ridiculous in here.

Whatever way you look at it Sony have made an absolute arse of this.

@NateGoesLive did you seriously think going digital would have made gaming cheaper?

No offence but should have stayed with physical consoles till they pull the plug, otherwise you've absolutely no choice to shop around.

This is EXACTLY the position Sony want..lock you in digital then drip feed sales to appear like steam but keep certain titles max price for as long as they can.

BuT dIGITaL iS ThE FuTUre.!

@Giancarlothomaz I think people forget that the Witcher 3 was also incredibly buggy and badly optimised on release too. It wasnt as bad as CP2077 granted, but it was still very buggy and wasnt ever really in great shape till the first DLC came out.

Im glad they're fixing it.. but im just going to wait till the PS5 version releases before getting back in to it (was only about 15 hours in on the PS4 Pro anyway)

@jorel262 the battery will absolutely die it's as inevitable as night comes after day.

There's just no reports on modern consoles simply because they're in use and keep the charge topped up and healthy but it's the same battery used all the way back to the PS2 and Dreamcast era: CR2032

And trust me.. they die as I've had to replace on both consoles due to being in storage for long periods of time. They're also nasty for the motherboard when they leak and it's a good idea if you keep a console in storage for potentially years to remove the battery.

If I've a choice of 30 all bells and whistles or 60 I'll take 60 every day of the week.

Some games are fine 30 though and I suspect we'll see whatever the next ND game is (forgetting TLoU 2 remaster) go for 30 to preserve the bleeding edge graphics.

I don't see how discord has anything to do with playstation to be honest.

It's a popular app in the pc space for sure and being integrated with Xbox would make sense in a way with the convergence of pc and xbox but it has no impact on on the playstation ecosystem itself.

A huge proportion of the channels on there have nothing to do with gaming with porn channels and general chat about non gaming topics.

If anyone was going to buy it I'd think Amazon/twitch would be a better fit imo due to the large amount of non gaming channels.

How Microsoft police it if they brought it under the Xbox banner would be interesting.

That was one of the biggest reasons why I got rid of mine. The lack of HDR passthrough. Such a faff to disconnect and reconnect.

Yes I could have got the upgraded version but I wasn't spending around another 300 quid on another unit.

Ridiculous that they sold the VR and the pro around the same time and it didn't support of of the big selling points of the pro at the time.

Digital stores are so good for the consumer. Let's all ditch physical releases.

All coming home to roost.

Sony should open up a WRPG studio or acquire one and that's most of the Bethesda threat nullified imo bar ID.

Obviously requires a talented team and quality output which is much easier said than done.

Microsoft's current position is not imo anyway sustainable long term. Atleast at their price point. Those prices for gamepass are going to have to start rising sooner rather than later or the output is going to have to be more frugal with emphasis on microtransactions and paid dlc.

The only problem is that Microsoft can afford to sell at a loss for a long time just as they've always done to snuff out competition.

It seems like they are willing to do the whole Uber and modern tech startups and haemorrhage money till it works.

I honestly can't say I've seen any cheating since the PS4 other than bug exploits which this and any cheat software won't mitigate so the 77 % must be coming from the pc space which as we all know is where the aimbots, wallhacks and file edits are.

I'd be curious to know if there's any such things on PS4 and ps5 due to the firmware locks bricking modded consoles from online on the console space.

Edit. May obviously be useful for crossplay titles.

@Hyperluminal yep the only reason it's so big is because they save having to mess around with putting loads of time in to making sure thermals etc are ok along with using "thrown together" parts to simulate expected end performance.

Slap it in a big ugly case with plenty of fans and extra expansion ports. job done.

Worth keeping in mind the Dev kits go out atleast a year before the consumer design is finalised.

Strauss really is a turbo twerp.

I've a bad feeling given the lengthy wait it's going to be a full priced game for ps5 with MP and a 60fps mode for the single player game being sold as a "remaster" with quips about increased texture detail which will be barely perceptible.

If it's full priced I'm not going to bother.

Kinda surprised Epic have went for it in all honesty.

The hype for fall guys is long gone imo and growth, I'm assuming is now very limited too.

The current upgrade system is a bit of a mess to be honest.

I've got sackboy and use the ps5 version but it insists on downloading the PS4 version and or updates for it and essentially uses double the space.

Really annoying.

@BloodNinja ok, if you're going to skirt around the question I'll answer it for you pal. 7 out of 10 CEOs are white.

4 out of the 500 are black.

I'm done with this thread but that's clearly skewed for a reason. I'll leave that reason up to you to imagine.

@BloodNinja I love how me not having a profile pic is annoying folk today.

I've done plenty research thank you very much and I'm sure if you have also you'll know how many of the fortune 500 companies CEOs are non white?

Work that out as a percentage of population and you'll find it's massively skewed. Care to think why? Or is that just a "generalisation" that doesn't fit your frankly, stupid opinion.

@BloodNinja so because they 2 got high up that means there's no discrimination?

Brilliant logic that.

@TrueAssassin86x I don't have a profile picture? Big deal, it's a site for checking news. Does a profile picture of crash bandicoot make me more legit? I'm afraid a profile pic is way down the list of things I care about.

@Snick27 people were warned if they weren't going to post anything nice then don't bother. That's why I called it out. Especially after a previous ban for god knows what.

@get2sammyb dunno why you just don't perma ban @TrueAssassin86x you gave fair warning on the opening list but he still feels the need to comment bs.

Just to make his point.

After begging to have a previous ban removed.

Beggars belief.

@Keyblade-Dan Umm Polyphony Digital says hello.

Re the article. It's a fair piece.

I think the biggest reason people are gutted is because it leaves Sony with very little studios that don't make 3rd person open worldish adventure games.

PlayStation studios are basically morphing in to ubisoft way of working using a template idea shifted to fit the story.

I've a feeling that's going to bite Sony on the arse long term when gamers eventually get bored of it.

@OthmaneAD don’t get the problem with what they’re doing. Literally, a free ps5 upgrade with some paid dlc? Or if you didn’t buy first time you can buy whole package.

To me that reads. They don't produce narrative based 3rd person action adventure games that sell millions so bye.

Honestly, as much as I love GOW, TLoU and Uncharted I'm beginning to get tired of this kind of game and it's largely all that Sony's studios produce now.

Give them a smaller budget and let their creativity flow... Not everything needs to be "triple A"

Sony is going all Hollywood here in similar way to how all the studios are just interested in superhero movies.

In for the ohh no you can't play with MY toy!

What does it matter if it goes on pc YEARS after release?

Don't particularly care. It's good Sony games see other platforms.

PC doesn't compete with playstation so what's the problem?

Not a bad thing. Especially good for the online portion which will need a good install base to be most successful.

We've got ratchet and clank along with horizon this year. That's not a bad first full year of big first party games.

I wouldn't say bitter. More wanting some kind of quality control.

Finally. Good on em.

Leave MGS as it is. Unless it's a bluepoint remake.

You can't retcon the story just to keep the series going it's perfect* as it is beginning to end. Solid Snake is MGS and it's crapping on Kojimas work to find non existent gaps to continue the series.

*Other than the missing story in 5 it's perfect that is.

Some things should be just left as they are. I'd be all over a re-release though.

RIP codies.

Just wait on EA to riddle their games with pay to win.

@ILikeStake then it would be a remaster not a remake.

The hint is in the title.. its a different game. With leanings on the original story.

@Hyperluminal hahaha!

@Atreus97 surprised to hear that especially with buying from a scalper and still making profit.

In the whole though they're a minority.

Your always gonna have folk sticking new products that are in demand on eBay etc for profit.

Even if they iron out the bugs etc its still a fairly middling game.

NPC's are pretty horrific, the driving is poor. The much hyped player style choices do very little in terms of the storytelling.

Unless they fix the bugs and pretty much re-do most of the game its never gonna be blockbuster release they so hyped.

@Atreus97 Do you know anyone who's bought a scalped PS5?

They're not as numerous as the headlines would suggest.

@Dandan1984 Yea they wouldnt have developed it without talking to the community to see what they would like. Probably sell a few k units. Which isnt bad for the target market.

The pricing may seem high for what it is but with the relatively limited run they'll get out of it then they need to make their development time, associated costs and make some profit in the process.