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Is the NFS Underground remaster that expensive to make? Really? Saudi petroleum diamonds needed for that? Now that's gonna be a massive banger then...right?....right?

@Flaming_Kaiser My friend, trust me, I've dipped my feet in the collector waters for many different platforms...to what avail? Selling out my collections over the years because of various life reasons. I'm not yet another generic gamer youtuber, who monetizes his gameroom tour videos so I don't really plan on expanding my house (or moving to a larger one just because of that) because I'm out of shelf-space. For nostalgia reasons, to me, it makes more sense to spend the buck on previous gen HW maintenance so I can enjoy the hand-picket pieces that truly trigger my retro itch. Just my personal view on the whole matter, nobody needs to live by it, I just don't see a rational reason for this to spark such flames.

I know, I'll be fine with all-digital, not having to waste money on shipping (god forbid, shipping from overseas and/or toll-charges).
All them haters forgot to specify in their immature online rants, what type of physical media they so eagerly want to preserve:
a) discs with full game playable offline on day one without any patches needed (actually that's the only option making sense, yet vast part of developers/publishers have long abandoned such work approach - not really SONY's fault)
b) discs with partial game builds requiring immediate update/patch (no guarantee a game patch stays available for the next 10 years on them servers, right?)
c) discs that contain merely a few MBs of activation data for the digital download to start

Consumers want physical discs to "save" money buying scratched used copies with damaged covers/cases on the cheap...but then suddenly the native PS5 variant of Witcher 3 gets listed for 4,99 on the Store, suddenly everyone is so happy buying digital stuff. People can become super-greedy cynical hypocrites at times.
I don't understand why nobody complained when horses were superseded by cars and/or aircrafts...seriously, people, snap out of it and grow up!

Having an all-time bestie, a proper gaming-budd for life? What makes you think you can't sign in over at their console to share the whole digital library of yours? Lock the payment behind a password or just share the costs and life gets peachy all of a sudden, right?

There should've been a free upgrade for the owners of the PS4 original. Like it was with Uncharted...would've made complete sense.

I'm by no means a digital fan-boy, have a solid collection for the sake of nostalgia myself, yet certain arguments just keep coming to my mind with this topic eating up the internet nowadays...

1. gaming-wise, disc-based games have started to become obsolete ever since some PS3 releases required installation on the internal HDD. It was a small portion of them but it was there.
2. physical games truly make sense if the game is being read off-disc completely, a disc serving as a license holder is by no means better than a printed download key.
3. from the business perspective, every business man wants their product to reach the customer as fast as possible with as little middle-men as possible. Hence committing a build for the store listing is the way to do that - achieve the revenue asap. Buying a used game is no revenue for SONY. Buying a digital release is just the opposite.
4. the technological advancement of mankind contributes as well - gigabit home internet, bigger/faster storage...all that enhances the convenience / gaming experience these days, hence the global trend towards digital. Sorry to say, but the collectors community is considered a minority, it is what it is.

A very unpopular opinion just from the top of my head real quick:...People who grew up with physical game media (PS1-PS3 era) have now kids on their own, hence constant disc-swapping is no more a thing in such households, I know I'm one of those cases...sadly but true :-/

So instead of showing off shelves bending under thousands of gamecases, youtubers and "collectors" will now be showing off photos of TV screens with their cursor on the "Pre-download/Pre-order" button in the PS gui...human evolution is inevitable

The outrage comes mainly from the fact that physical games cost as much on day one as their digital / store variant. People have it in their nature - to judge things base on the very first impression..."I'm forced to go digital, yet the prices stay the same - why on earth??" ... if a day one release goes fore 39,99 in PSN, why not? The Disc can keep it's 69,99 tag, but digital should be cheaper imho...that's one logical first impression I know I would accept.

I know it'll sell like hot cakes, no matter the price tag...but just imagine, if it flopped in the first month...like big time...I mean Concord-level flopped. There can be hardly any justification for a base game retailing at 89.- ... that's just pure cheeky.

Still rockin' my trusty blue DaysOfPlay limited edition. Ages like fine wine if you ask me

I wonder why this physical VS digital dispute is still a thing in mid-2026. Ever since the mid-life of PS3 there were games that weren't much of a help as they required installation onto the HDD, thus contradicting the whole game-on-bluray concept. With PS3's 50Mbit LAN speeds, games on disc did still make SOME sense. But with PS5 Gigabit LAN there aren't really that many arguments in favor of physical discs over digital. From that point onward, disc games have been becoming more and more obsolete...that's not my opinion, that's a cruel fact.

They could've gone with the level design for ex. of genshin impact or an Unreal engine 5 design. From the video it seems they're keeping pretty much the same as in the PS4 trilogy, which is like a mobile game to me...with so many empty / non-accessible level space. An open-world flying Spyro RPG would be a banger, but not with that baby-graphics...ps5 is not a nintendo-like kids console....ya know what I mean

I wonder if/how this affects those "legal backups" of PS3 games downloaded via the pkgi app...who dares to try?

Whoa, a team of devs putting their best into the project for 3 years just to press ctrl alt del in the end...even if they got paid properly along the way...must still have depressive effect on a dev mind. 3 years of their lives wasted with pointless assignment...imagine what else they could've accomplished in the meantime...

And I've always thought this was a family-friendly tabloid...yet here we are...

I've filtered out the offer just to show "full games"...I ended up with 102 pages....It's pretty much a shovelware showdown, after like 10 pages or so... oh well

A futuristic/concept-like racer in the art of GT Concept would be nice...something like Wipeout but more realistic / down-to-earth

There goes one Gen-Z crybaby melting all over X. I'd suggest he mans up and enjoys a GoW for what all previous GoW games were - single player story driven crusades. The local co-op is there nontheless, he can enjoy it with whomever he wants after the main story. What is more, he can leverage his pre-multiplayer experience with the game so that his companion won't regret jumping onto the game (maybe not a frequent gamer?). Or sharing the gamepad level after level? I mean, there are options, right? People just need to stop being an a$$ just because they can.

they should bring this exposition on a world tour

IMHO, if you really need to milk a franchise, the best way is either a Smashbros clone or a kart racer.

A NES game...on a 4K bluray disc...really? I guess "waste" is getting a whole new dictionary meaning with this.

That Toyota AE86 cameo at 0:20 ^_^

I'm never giving up on my trusty limited edition blue PS4 Slim Days-of-play variant. No PS5 comes even close to that (Temu faceplates don't count lol)

Turns out I've bought a 500EUR worth chatStation

I remember playing the lot out off a PSmagazine demodisc...to my 14year-old self it was like a FFIX-from-Temu experience, but I loved it nevertheless.

DOOM Eternal & Painkiller look promissing

I can totally see, why it's not a prio for the devs - it's far from worth it since there's only like a handful of games that didn't get some sort of an HD remake/remaster up to this day, so why even bother, right?

So I'm paying for all those OS translations I will never use? Is that the point here? Oh what if, just WHAT IF it ran on Android with AI translations happening on a per-request basis?

how many screens fit into a 1,3Gig file ?

Looks like a very-alpha tech demo for the PS3. Back in the day I checked out the Reckless Driving (PS4) when recommended by MetalJeasus on YT and I dare say that looked way more mature than this set of screenshots.

Back in my days, Crash would be called an ambassador of the Playstation brand...hard to believe, he's technically an M$ character now, who knew?

But what about the BadWordsList? oh wait...different website, sorry

I was googling "upcoming movie flops" and it got me here of all places, how odd is that?
Would've make much more sense to cast Jack Black as Chun-Li ... he would've nailed the role, no doubt there

Graphically, it's one of the better games out there. A small trick for modern TVs there...eventhough you select the Quality mode (4k30fps), you can trick your eyes to 4k30+ when you switch from Game settings to "User" settings on your TVs Image settings page...hopefully it's a widely applicable workaround, not just a feature of my 50" SHARP qled

Gameplay-wise...well...that linearity really pulls the potential of the game downwards...you hardly even get a chance to spend those in-game coins for all those perks/weapons/skins in the Shop. Looking for those "secret" collectibles gets just so frustrating when your exploration is awarded with the annoying "Get back to the mission area in 14..13..12.." message. Don't know if it's just me, but I think the missions in Mafia 1 & 2 were far more mafia-like...here, it's just the same pattern of a scene where you hide behind obstacles and wait for the auto-aim to kick in.

Story-wise...well, SPOILER ALERT, but come on...what was the point of building up that romantic relationship idea when the ending turned out to be like it did? I mean, finishing a game should give you some sort of accomplishment feels, right? The script could at least produce a tie-in with the Mafia 1 story where for ex. Isabella's son would grow up to become Tommy Angelo or something in that sort. In this way, this sad drama simply failed to deliver ... like at all.

This game better get a hefty DLC in due time, otherwise it's hardly recommendable to anyone...even to Mafia fanboys.

The last semi-1080p samurai with physical games that actually played off the disc. Hope it lives for a few years more before the fully digital gaming age hits us hard.

It’s kinda funny to observe how Sony pretends it cares by releasing these silly updates, yet they have been gradually stripping functionalities from their consoles over time…Ps1 lost the AV cinch, PS2 lost firewire, Ps3 lost the dual boot, ps2 back compatibility & card slots, Ps4 lost rear side USBs, Ps5 lost the optical drive…HOWEVER, many other past gen features are still valid today (PsOne LCD addon, PS2 game streaming over SMB, Ps3 video DVD upscaler, Ps4 - PsVita/PsTV remote play). Some shine more on modded systems, others get rediscovered either by accident or during nostalgia rush on a rainy evening.

@PerpetualBoredom Initial D (2005)

Impulsively viewed, this is undoubtedly weird, yet if we look back on the PS2-ish era, what do we do with modded consoles and "legaly" owned games? ... Exactly, they get dumped & installed on some sort of storage (internal/external) and played that way...yet for current gen games, people brag about the inevitability of all-digital future? Some highly educated comments are expected, however, to my primitive neural system, this trend is "somewhat" contradictory...

In 10 years, going for the complete set of coaster-games (useless physical releases) will probably be a thing... you know...the likes of Concord, Doom etc.

I wonder, how strong a fans-initiated backlash would it take to make them re-release a proper physical version...that would set a massive precedence...

Preservation should not even be a topic here…practices like this should be forgotten by history completely. On the other hand, I don’t see how not releasing a physical version is a showstopper for preservation…Many games or prototypes have been preserved from digital sources (store rips, devkit HDDs, kiosks etc.)

If they "fixed" someting that was previously "hot" and it isn't the case anymore, is it still called a "hot fix"?

GTA V being labeled as a "PS4 era title" really made my day

Well, at least they don't just update the swear words list like Nintendoes

...in an alternative reality, the DriveClub servers went back online

oh damn, now my YT history and "recommendations" are all messed up

Nice little Mario odyssey touch with the 2D stone wall there

I was hoping for an HD texture treatment like the Tomb Raider trilogies ... oh well ... gonna spend my 19,99 in a different way then.

Christmas comes early for all those pervy no-life pc modders

I'm kinda lucky to have plenty of gaming distortions at hand, should anything like that happen at any time...you know...family, real life & stuff...