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@Martsmall
Is it £450? Fair enough (wouldn’t buy a digital only console)

@get2sammyb
Im sure it will sell at the same amount on Xbox.
Maybe you should be congratulating MS instead on finding a way to hemorrhage money in order to suck up subscribers for longer term gain. Criticising normal companies for not having the money to do that is somewhat missing the point.

If it was a game I liked I might buy a £500 console and spend £100 plus a year on a subscription service for it…or I might not.

Annoying that there is nothing about Spartacus, but that could all be made up potentially.
Looking forward to GT7. Hopefully they tell us why it needs to be always online and there is a decent reason.

@Medic_Alert
Indeed. I don’t blame MS for flexing their operating system muscle. This is no different in principle to what has happened before. In practice however, we now have a company involved that could monopolise the whole industry if they wished, and the inability for other companies to compete is concerning.
A couple more big publishers like EA and Take 2 basically destroys Sony as a serious platform for the casual gamers, and thus any competition in the market.

Our only hope then is that Apple or Amazon step up their game, but those are not gaming companies. We’ll then see the horrible future of subscription only Microtransaction riddled rubbish dominate, and MS very happy to go down that road.

@Medic_Alert
I don’t think he was concerned about MSs pockets. More about the industry, in which increasingly publishers are being bought up and consolidated under a monolithic organisation. But more, for players who have had multiplatform franchises they have played for generations torn away from them and imprisoned behind Xbox/Gamepass in order to try to force them to move platforms, and then likely manipulate pricing to “encourage” them into a subscription model in which they own nothing.

@__jamiie
Yep, that it is.

@RevGaming
I’m an adult, I don’t need to get into this “I’m not a fanboy, you’re a fanboy, I own own/don’t own these consoles” conversation.

@RevGaming
This is weird. I labelled this guy a fanboy for spouting fanboy nonsense. It’s quite obvious. This is NOT an employee/company sign. It’s clearly something someone has printed off to “warn” people the PS5 is “inferior” or, more likely, to get a photo on social media.

This is not because a retailer wants to sell more series S (cheaper) consoles as you suggest. The Series S is not selling so badly that the retailer would risk their supplier relationship with Sony in such a way.

If you think that a company, which relies on these manufacturers for stock, would be so publicly biased against one of their suppliers, you don’t know how business works.

Observation biase on your side, clearly.

@RevGaming
Erm, there can be no other reason. Not that I can think of anyway. Would you like to hazard a reason other than the obvious fanboy nonsense we’ve all experienced before? An employee who didn’t care about such things wouldn’t have a reason to do this. The business doesn’t care whether it sells a PS5 or Series console, all the same money to them.

Might give planet coaster a go, and may play the borderlands game coop with the wife but…not anything I’m really excited about. Some JRPGs please!

Lol, Xbots. They are everywhere.

@Rob_230
Yes, I had to cancel my trip to Japan last year for obvious reasons and now I’m sad I’ll not be able to go the a SEGA arcade 😭

Getting generally good reviews. Have quite a few PSVR games in my backlog yet but it does become hard to work up motivation with PSVR2 on the horizon. I’m guessing most games released now will be on both(?). Is this also on PCVR? That’ll mean it’ll be easy to port across as there will be inside out tracking accounted for already.

@nessisonett
Difference between “worthless” and “not as good as PC”.
If a console game being not as good as PC made it worthless then the PC modding community alone would make any console game worthless.
Bit of unnecessary exaggeration there I think! Lol

I’ve not played this on PSVR because I know how frustrating the move controllers would be. I’ll wait for the inevitable PSVR2 version. Good to know the game is still expanding.
Edit: we’ll, seems not as inevitable after all 😕

Nice. Hopefully the cinematic and story tropes will be as enticing as the anime! (Although if it’s a mobile free to play “game” it can go do one).

@GorosBat
Great. Thanks for letting me know! I’ll definitely look into them then.

Wouldn’t mind these games where it not for the time mechanic. That ruins things for me a little. Is that in place here. Only tried a couple of games in the series.

Man, I really want them to release a game like this on PSVR(2). It would be supreme.

@Lincolnwho
There is no justification. Hate auto pop trophies. For me, trophies are there to be a challenge and record gaming history.
Then again, each to their own. Some people like collecting things just to have them (in fact most people I guess).

@mvhess
It’s not really about having a trophy for doing something, it’s about having more things to do (and, yes, I know I could imagine up these challenges for myself and make lists rather than have the developers make them for me, but I’m lazy and unimaginative).

@LIMA
Yeah, hate it when developers set me challenges in a game (sarcasm).

I don’t care about auto pops, in fact I don’t like them, but to only have one plat for the whole collection is terrible and unnecessary. Especially with how long these games are. Still, the plat isn’t a challenge trophy only a collection gong, so given LL still has its own trophies it could have been worse.

@JohnKarnes
“ The problem I see is PS4 owners can not claim the PS5 game for later when they can buy a PS5. ”
Yes, yes they can. As long as they have a smartphone, or know somebody with one. Or have a PC at home or access to one…
Not sure why, after all these years, people are still unclear about this. We’ve always been able to claim these game on the website of app.

Well, I figure the “need” to offer streaming on Now (and so not further confuse and fragment the service), along with restrictions on components needed to stream ps5 games and the lack of PS5 owners is the reason for that decision.
As for Plus, they likely have a budget set based on the cost they sell the service for, and publishers insist on more money to offer both versions of the game. This obviously looks bad in relation to Gamepass, but that service is far more expensive (plus we should really compare, if you feel comparison is necessary, to Games with Gold, and there Sony clearly offer better value).
As a PS5 owner I’d like more PS5 versions given but, honestly, cross gen PS5 games are often little different from the PS4 version, just slightly more stable or with higher resolution.

This is just going to be incredible!

Persona 4 Golden by a mile. Then…Tales of Hearts R?
Other than that Gravity Rush is the only stand out.
Really though, it wasn’t about stand out games, but good smaller budget games to play on the go.
Had a lot of fun with dungeon crawlers for example. Criminal Girls 1&2, Conception…
Then really small games like Riddled Corpses Ex (I think that’s it’s name).

Still having fun with Dirt 5, but have been waiting for Catherine and tales of Berseria for ages!

@AdamNovice
I admit, it was deliberate.

@Lando_
Not by any means an exhaustive list. Check out the one on PSN profiles if you are interested. But best not to derail this topic with another censorship debate. Suffice it to say, doing a count will show that the vast majority of censorship is of the female body and, obviously, with adults (given that the type of content you are alluding to has forever been illegal in most countries and certainly not passed for sale by the platforms).

@AdamNovice
Lol, no.
I mean they did (depending on what country you are in some girls might have been considered underage) but that is the tip of the iceberg in terms of censorship. Barely worth mentioning. The vast bulk has nothing to do with anyone being underage.

Easy enough to research if you actually care about the truth of your comment. There are literally lists and lists online of games censored by Sony that were allowed through unmolested even by Nintendo on the switch, and these with fully grown women.

Omg, Sony allowing cleavage again! When did this happen? Can we get some of these cancelled and censored games fixed?

I’m a little confused about whether this game is canon or not.

Of course. It’s not like there is longer to wait between announcements, it’s just an earlier date and so a bit longer to wait in anticipation of the games.

@Juanalf
Kraken will not be fully utilised in cross gen games. PS4 is currently holding PS5 back in this regard.

Good. I hate multiple endings in a story. I also dislike choices changing routes. I always feel like I’ve missed something (because I have). Instead of having 3 routes, have one route 3 times as long please.

I don’t think 3 months would be enough for me to 100% all 3 mass effects. Unfortunately I just don’t get as much time to play as I used to. I’d encourage anyone with a gaming partner to get this for It Takes Two though. What a game!

Lol. This shows how deaf Sony are to their PS users base desires. Using retro colouring and system numbers is inevitably going to get hopes up.

7/15. Not great considering I’ve been here since (U.K.) day one. Old memory isn’t what it was.

It’s possible. Especially as the retro colours are used. I hope so. I’d get a good few older games if they are cheap and they have additional trophy challenges added. Needs to be priced right though.

In theory? Sure. If Sony wanted to bankrupt themselves by selling loss making / break even hardware and giving MS all of the software profit (minus Microtransaction profits).

A result of being cross gen unfortunately. Once older systems are finally jettisoned these sizes will come down.

If i was Sony I wouldn’t make any big buys. What I would do is set up multiple other devs, each dedicated to a specific genre, then hire people from all the devs MS bought, offering a great salary and complete creative freedom (something MS will not offer given what they have paid for IPs).
Sony need to replace the Bethesda games lost and now COD with new IPs, but it is the developers themselves who have the talent, and whilst the companies can be bought out, the devs are free to go to those offering the best opportunities.
Sony should seek to systematically gut these dev teams MS have acquired. I mean, given what we have heard about the company culture at some of these places, it shouldn’t be impossible.

*and all Sony have to do is allow Gamepass on their system.
(Which would completely destroy their gaming segment of course, but many won’t understand that).

@michaelf
Yes! I was kinda stressed towards the end in case I messed up, lol. Then I tried to claim my theme “prize” and it wanted me to do it again so I turned it off.

@get2sammyb
Pretty sure this isn’t actually time spent on the system, and counts ps4 games on ps5 as being PS4 time. Don’t think I’ve turned on my PS4 this year but it says I have way more played on it than on my ps5 🤷‍♂️

Edit: duh, that’s why it says “title”.

Did anyone else have to answer 20 questions (literally) about a mouse in a maze before they could check? That got tiresome!

1516 hrs with 1% being online (likely the smallest percentage they can do as it said 4 hours). 266 days played

Top 5 games are all Yakuza/Judgment (likely the top 9 if it went that far). Longest was Yakuza 5 at 255hrs.

32 games played with 17 platinum trophies(9 Yakuza/Judgment plats really took my numbers down, but so fun).

@BAMozzy
Shame streaming is so inferior then I guess.
And streaming a game and downloading a patch if a game requires are completely different standards of internet. It doesn’t matter if a patch hitches.

As someone with no interest In social gaming outside of local co-op with the wife, I fundamentally disagree. Still, if he only wants flat games, there are plenty of options for that.