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@Darth_Stofi Hotter exhaust not always good. As an example take a system, slow down fan speed a bit and you'll get a hotter enclosure with higher temp exhaust.

@Loftimus Most likely copper replaced with aluminium

@Iroha You are exactly right. Mobile games market is by far the biggest money maker. Like it or not, it will have impact on game design on all platforms. For now Sony seems to follow the path of offering something exclusive, which you cannot have in a form of a mobile game. That, plus allowing for experiments (like Death Stranding, Returnal) makes for much better strategy than relying on wide audience AAA heavy hitters. Those will come from third party publishers anyway, and Sony is poised to make more unique games.

@Bad-MuthaAdebisi Not to rain on your reasonable expectations, but do you understand that the massive free-to-play industry with season passes and endless grind for cosmetics exists because of the prevalence of opinions like yours among the gamers?

If a game or a DLC or an upgrade is priced too high for you, that's fine. But many others will gladly pay the same for things they want. Games aren't made for one person. They are made for the whole market. And by paying for good games we create that market.

@ShogunRok Is there a new platinum trophy that includes stuff you have to do on Iki Island?

This result flies in the face of Outriders, which had 3.5 million unique players but didn't recoup the cost as of yet.

Played it on launch and platinumed it. Going to relive the experience with director's cut. And there will be cats! Or at least one cat. Foxes are cute, but they don't hold candle to cats

@__jamiie Because different systems have different storefronts. On PlayStation it is very easy and convenient to buy games digitally, and especially desirable during large sales. Nintendo on the other hand is known for quite high prices on their online store, which pushes customers into retail.

The only way you can compare sales is by using total number of games sold.

As time passes, retail-only game sales charts become increasingly meaningless.

I doubt Sony has any regrets. Just look at their quarter results.

I played it twice just to platinum it (because I skipped a rune). Very enjoyable experience, the one that resonated with some experiences from my life. Wouldn't play it again though; the game isn't really designed to be replayable.

I'm going to wait for the sequel, and if it won't be a timed exclusive (which I think is a possibility once Microsoft start searching for the ways to recoup money they were giving away previous years to get Gamepass off the ground) then maybe I will pay $15 for one month just to play it. Depends on how good it will be, of course.

@MaccaMUFC Exclusives end where money begins. If sales of Death Loop will be good on PlayStation, meaning if it would become the #1 money making platform for the game, then its supposed sequel will have high chance to not be exclusive.

The game looks fun. But its release sandwiched between Tsushima and Death Stranding director's cuts. So, I'll wait for review here.

Personally I'm waiting for Sony to support gameplay recording in H.265. If it is possible at all, as hardware encoding capability is required.

@Divergent95 That is the unsubstantiated rumour I was talking about. That it is below Sony's expectation.

5 millions is absolutely incredible for a niche game. Comparing it to the games designed for mass audience is bollocks.

@Divergent95 It was an unsubstantiated rumour. What's funny, people disregarded the official statement that said that the studio is pleased with sales.

I will buy it if there are no microtransactions. If there are, then EA haven't learned the lesson why the series died.

Have no idea about the game, but it will be a 'live service'

@Discol76 People buy it to play core Nintendo games, regardless of portability

Many of the problems outlined in the article are not exclusive to indie developers. Promotion through Sony's YouTube channel, developer portals, documentation — that's for everyone.

The rest of grievances doesn't strike me as platform specific; but rather indie specific. You don't get a lot of face to face with managers if you are small. Yow will be featured way less on the most lucrative storefront pages. You will miss out on many of grand sales, which are promotions too.

Honestly, I don't get why it is framed as Sony's problem with Indies. Seems more like Sony's problem with devs in general.

@Nepp67
Unlike sucker punch they didn't give us new content.

"which is another unfortunate example of Sony nickel-and-diming its loyal fans"

Don't be cheap. DLCs cost money. It isn't a simple PS5 upgrade.

Weird. It's a Mac keyboard with a numerical keypad. Granted, it can work with any computer, but I wonder what Kojima-san is rocking

"If Platform X doesn't like your game, no fanfare no feature no love. There is nothing you can do to fix this."

As a customer I love this. I don't want to open PlayStation Store to be greeted with games that payed their way to be featured, rather than earned it with product quality.

Stay the course, Sony.

Do yourself a favour and turn on Russian VoiceOver. It does add to world authenticity.

Would take "super FPS" over "super resolution" any day. When TV pixels are squeezed to the size of being indistinguishable, resolution becomes an empty word. Dynamics (FPS) and world details is what matters

Give me haptics. Let me feel every step I make. So I could play with eyes closed

@LiamCroft You know, working remotely you don't have to leave the bed to write.

@BrainHacker That's a misconception that we won't be able to play future Bethesda games. We aren't married to the console. And Microsoft makes games easily accessible via GamePass.

My disappointment is that there won't be a PS5 optimised version. With haptics and instant loading. But of course I will be able to play it. Through XCloud on GamePass, if nothing else 😊 However, the desire to play future Bethesda games did decrease.

Isn't it a known fact that retail software sales constitute especially large proportion for Nintendo? Given that the comparison is meaningless.

@Ogbert It doesn't actually matter, why. People do pay full price, as is evident from quarterly reports. Microsoft has yet to prove that putting a game which costs north of $100m to make on GamePass will pay off.

People will still be buying PS5 games (that is, I expect the platform to maintain top revenue among consoles) and additionally they will be getting MS exclusives for cheap. It is Xbox as a console that has to worry, as their revenue stream will be cut, at least in the first few years.

Unlike music and video, games as a subscription service has yet to prove its profitability.

@Total_Weirdo Sony explicitly said they don't believe subscription would pay off developing big AAA titles. That's the difference.

@nessisonett Trailer ends with announcement that it will be available on game pass, day one. And it can be played via XCloud, internet speed permitting

I think those are videos from internal bug reports which were stolen when CDPR's network was breached.

@Mellors86x
That's not how pricing works. People got used to buying games around £60, so it stays there, regardless of media. Obviously, publishers are trying to nudge it higher, hence £70 is becoming the new norm. The only way prices are going to fall is gamers stopping buying games priced at £70. It doesn't seem to be happening.

@OmegaStriver Waiting is good, as there are still numerous bugs to be sorted out.

The game is rather good. Power fantasy done right, through the whole campaign.

However, the end game turned out to be anything but. Even disregarding the bugs, you are a weakling, grinding endlessly for the gear that will allow you to kill trash mobs a bit faster. Until you max up your build, the combat becomes a slog. And you won't be able to play the way you want, as there are few viable builds with viable abilities, the rest is being useless. In short, not fun at all.

Looks like Ubisoft's future is EA's past

That's the thing about reviews: they aren't popularity contest. Your score may not be widely accepted, but it must be right.

So far, I'm on board with the scores Push Square is assigning. Thank you!

Been a PC gamer for life myself, until I bought a PS4 in 2014. And I got hooked with hassle-free gaming. I can just turn on the console and start playing. Not spend hours in game configs and graphics drivers settings to fix a frame drop in a single area of the game. So, I dropped PC gaming altogether.

TL;DR: it's not just exclusives

Prediction: Sony will win.

I see from the comments that for many it is hard to understand why disks in retail may cost less than digital copies which aren't physically produced.

First, nothing is priced at the cost. Everything is priced at the market rate, and you drop the price down to move more copies.
Second, retail stores have more immediate competition from second hand games market. They have to drop prices. But PSN is affected by that as well. That's why older games are offered for less there.

Looks cool! Too bad I can't force myself to play any game in BR genre.

Is up to game developers to patch the game, not Sony. What Sony can do is to follow Microsoft's lead in allowing for FPS boost in compatible games, that requires no patching. I'm strongly against doing fake HDR though, because it is guaranteed to break original artistic vision.

The policy it seems is aimed at free to play games. And Epic has no choice but to play by the rules set by Sony, because PSN is their biggest moneymaker.

@Don Savvy Chinese gamers will most likely use a foreign account to buy games without the government restrictions.

I bought it because I liked Automata, and because I think Yoko Taro is a genius. There will be no negative surprises for me as I spent hours of watching the original gameplay, so I'm happy with the purchase.

But I wonder why won't PushSquare buy themselves a copy? Is it a policy to only play publisher-provided games?

@TrueAssassin86x What you call supporting is a huge amount of work. Unless the game was designed from inception to be very portable, moving it from PS3 to PS4 will cost a lot of money.

Back in the day I purchased the complete edition, but never got to play it. Now I have PS5 and stopping myself from playing it in hopes that remaster, or a simple frame rate unlock, isn't far off.