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@dskatter The comment is pointless

I can buy the red plates then get spiderman stickers to make my own Spiderman console.

Really please they decided to make a DLC, I am sure it will do well as it has been highly requested.

Xbox double pack incoming by TGS 2024.

No Rise of Ronin was a disapointment. Looking like it will be internally delayed into mid/late 2024 to balance out the lack of 1st/2nd party games for Sony in 2024.

@dskatter As opposed to not sounding like you are reading it off a peice of paper.

@REALAIS You just need to get to the Pacifica part which is a few hours in.

@ShogunRok I was aware of that (although good to clear up for anyone who isn't). It's more just the ideal way would be to be able to play the full main story (with more time clearance) rather than just get to pacifica then jump out to play the dlc. Sept was the wrong month for 2.0. August would have been much better.

Is the narrator reading the lines off a peice of paper?

Edit: Sounds unnatural.

Not a great amount of time for new players to clear the main game before playing the dlc (Esp in a month of Starfield, BG3 and so many other big games). I'm lucky I have already cleared the main story so I will just jump straight into the dlc on the 26th.

The Nintendo Direct was decent but not mind blowing for myself as a switch owner. It does either take a bit of pressure of Sony or actually set them up for a really strong showing.

I hope the cover stellar blade and Rise of Ronin as 3rd party devloped games which will be published as exclusives. Little Dragon inside is also a showing for 2024. The Wolverine game will be the big one for Fall 2024.

2024 could be more of a PS5 pro and upscale exsisting PS5 games kind of year.

I'd love to see Rise of Ronin as it is from a 3rd party developer but published by Sony.

What would really blow everything out the water is Persona 6 or GTA 6. Maybe the revised console announcement too.

Just imagine a world where all gamers were platform agnostic. I love My XSS and my PS5, I love Starfield and I'm sure I'll love Spdierman 2. I feel sorry for console/PC zealots.

Got this on pre order and pre loaded ready to play tonight! I was lucky enough to play the demo and really enjoyed it. If you like the social stuff in Persona you'll like this game.

Might be a hot take but the effort of special editons has really gone down hill since the PS4 days. Now you get black cover plates with a print and black controllers with the white dualsense buttons and some print on it. No unique components or textures. The GOW controller the only one that actually doesn't use the default black controller in some way. The old PS4 Spiderman set was much better. I got the Hogwarts Legacy controller and it has a bit of gold print on it.

I brought it on steam and regretted it. It's and 8 or 9 out of 10 game because it actually has some improved mechanics over the majority of games that don't try. GTA 6 will take care of that 97 score from 9 reviewers.

@Suur Totally agree this is an above average game in a sea of games that does nothing new. I got it on steam thankfully so I was able to get a refund. It is a shame as I can imagine there are others who will get swept up by the 10/10. It's like Persona 5 Royal, one of the best rated game of all time but it's never going to be suitable for a mass audience.

FF16 was okay but well below what is was expecting. It was very much a 7/10 one and done kind of exp. I may look at getting the dlc on discount in the future during a quiet gaming month.

Just tell me when we get a release date haha

Some of my observations based on my gaming retail background:

HL will be the best selling game of the year. Where I work we have sold huge numbers this year to date and expect even more when the switch version drops.

Fifa 23 still holding on despite 24 being out at the end of the month is impressive.

Zelda will stay in the top 10 the rest of this year.

We have sold a lot of Xbox Starfield Standard copies despite it being on gamepass and Steam. The preimum upgrade pys ed getting into the top 10 also really suprised me considering there is a digital disount for gamepass subscribers.

@MrMagic The game gets really good after about 10 hours, but it is a bit slow until then to be fair. I expected a Space RPG not a space sim so I wasn't disapointed.

@Powerplay94 Thats the £99.99/$99.99 version of Starfield most people will buy the regular version this week. Where are work the standard version has high pre order levels. Only Hogwarts Legacy and TOTK have been pre ordered more to date.

Hopefully we get at least a week with 2.0 before the DLC drops.

It's Starfield and BG3 this month. Sony knows not to waste money on games for the service this month.

@Loamy I'll be playing both but having no life in the process haha.

People will be playing BG3 or Starfield and Sony know it.

Is monthly staying the same? the wording leads me to believe it's going up.

This one dropped bang on midnight on PS plus and 5am on gamepass so it was an exculsive for 5 hours haha. I was going to play on gamepass but they always have weird launch times to counteract the NZ loophole they could just fix themselves.

How about some story DLC!

@KnightRider1982 I'm talking about the eshops

It needed a bit more time in the oven and september is stacked so this can only be a good thing. Shame Nacon didn't feel the need to let anyone know on the game store sites though!

A 2-3 week delay either way would have been smarter.

Pretty quiet week for PS with Sea of Stars a nice addtion on PS+. I'll be on my Xbox a lot more until Enternights comes out on the 12th.

I will try the trial and if I like it I will be able to get it on a steep discount by Xmas. Good old ubisoft loves to discount thier tier 2 sales games quickly to increse units. Only AC games are in that T1 bracket. Maybe the Avatar or Star Wars game could join AC.

FYI PS5 is back on sale at £399.99 in the UK.

Just finished my playthough in time for Starfield and a few other games coming up in September. Was pretty good overall apart from a few frame dips on the quality mode i used.

It was a good choice as BG3 should be availibe to as many people as possible. I always thought trying to get feature partity on a console that is now over £200 cheaper than the main was was the wrong idea. I guess you could argue the lack of RT on Series S games means this actually happened ages ago. Series S is a must have for PS gamers that want to play gamepass titles and basically the best AAA xbox games. I picked one up with my PS5 at launch and have not regretted it! I feel sorry for those who hate on other consoles for no logical reason.

Now Nacon are saying Nov 2nd launch date.

@RobN To be fair I was able to get my PS4 version refunded pretty easily via a special PSN form, and I had played the whole game first too.

Hopefully 2.0 comes out before the 1st of Sept as Starfield will be taking all the headlines (good or bad) from then followed by BG3 on PS5 and a slew of other good games in Sept.

@michaelf Yeah I was lucky enough to try the beta and felt that the orignal end of sept date was a bit of a push.

The only game i'll be getting on that list is Persona 3 Reload. Then i'll be waiting for the next Like a Dragon.

Sony have screwed up the pre orders on thier store.

1000% worth every penny of that £60. It's basically a brand new game for fans who haven't played before and a house knockdown and rebuilt aproach for previous fans, all by one of the best dev studios (P-studio) in the last decade. If you don't want to pay you can get it on launch day on gamepass so nobody need to wait if they don't want to.

November 9th - it will be delayed. Surpised they haven't said nothing yet. Maybe it might slip further. The lack of release date by now should have indicated that though. Based on the beta early 2024 isn't out the question. Nacon games often get delayed.

Early 2024 probably not the best time to be launching this amoungst some other huge action story driven games. This is an August type of game.

Infinite Wealth will be April. And even if GTA 6 came out i'd still be playing this game on lauch day!

2023 has been one of the best years for games in my lifetime, but 2024 is shaping up to be pretty good as well.

Another game to add to my expanding 2024 list!

It was decent, The expections were correctly set and there were some nice bits in there. IF the expectations were not clearly laid out beforehand I would be more disapointed but I expected no Sony 1st party news and that is how it played out.

I expect a showcase Sept or Oct for Sony with the launch date of the new PS5 plus project Q in November.

We may also get a Spiderman 2 state of Play and if we are really lucky a Rise of Ronin State of Play (Due out early 2024).

I can imagine the main games for 2024 will be Rise of Ronin (early year) Stellar Blade (middle year) Wolverine (Late year) complimented by some strong 3rd party and addtional 3rd party exclusives.

I play this casually so I have never had any issues with the game and always enjoyed playing the UK routes.