Well it's an interesting idea but unfortunately still shows the QA control that goes on at Microsoft. For those that know, it's a pretty interesting demo, for those that don't it's pretty unimpressive really.
@0niguy Well I'm hoping it'll be more then just a 'PS5 Pro - Pro' (or PS5 Proplus for our caffeine addicted friends) with a new front end and an HDMI2.2 connection, but I have a feeling that essentially that's what it'll be.
Reminds me of the good old days of renting a telly from Rumbelows.
However if I were to go down this route, I think I'd rather pick an agreement where you keep the item at the end of the lease rather then have to give it up.
Head starts no longer matter when people are already heavily invested in the ecosystem of their choice.
One of the troubles with Gamepass is that it denies that personal investment as basically as a subscription all the games accessible on it are disposable to the user.
However anyone who has spent a significant amount of money on PSN digital content, from PS4 and now PS5 eras are most unlikely to jump ship and abandon all those games they have 'purchased' and would no longer be accesible.
Backwards compatibility is now actually cross-gen investment and you can bet that (I believe Mark Cerny has already confirmed) that the PS6 will play all PS5 and PS4 games off the bat.
Xbox has already lost, headstart or not it will find it very hard to reclaim those PS users to it's fold.
And of course, now MS is a third party publisher, what would be the point of PS users going Xbox, unless of course you are rich enough to buy both.
"For example, Death Stranding 2: On the Beach is a game published and fully funded by PlayStation, but it doesn’t own the IP, so it sits somewhere between first-party and second-party really."
So it's a first-and-a-half party game...obviously!!!
@Oram77 @get2sammyb
Shift Up says steps taken to ensure the PC version’s success include “optimisation, enhancing user convenience, adding supplementary content, and tailored marketing strategies unique to Shift Up”.
"Adding supplementary content..."
What could that be?
@Sacrosanctus You can add The Last Guardian and Gravity Rush 2 to that list. Last Guardian is particularly galling as the non patch disc version is frame rate unlocked. Similar for Assassin's Creed Unity, which I'm hoping is next on the list at Ubisoft seeing as they are pushing the AC Nexus/ Animus platform with the new one.
Well MS love money and they've finally realised they can resell their portfolio to playstation fans now that the hardware division is in its death rattle.
What's not to like! Personally Halo MCC is the one I want first.
Well hopefully with the new Animus hub/ Infinity Launcher and the recent uptick of Assassins Creed Syndicate to 60fps, here's still hoping a fixed/improved version of Unity will finally happen when it's added there.
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Re: Stellar Blade's Hyper-Realistic $3,600 Statues Sold Out in Minutes
Sorry everyone, it was me, I bought the lot.
And if you think I'm going to scalp them at a higher price, then I'm afraid I'm going to disappoint you.
They're all going in my 'Eve & Tachy' room.
I will have 3000 'drone' models going spare, but I don't think anyone's really going to want just them...
Re: The Future of Destiny 2 Will Be Revealed Soon, as Bungie Teases The Edge of Fate
They're going to tell everyone to forget all your Destiny 2 progress and start again with.... Destiny 3!!!
Just like they did from Destiny to Destiny 2 (which was exactly when I gave up playing it).
Re: Bring Home Hyper-Realistic Replicas of Stellar Blade's Eve and Tachy Soon
I'll be getting 2 Eve's and 3 Tachys.
Re: Oblivion PS5 Remaster Is Real as New Screenshots Leak
ahhh, horse armour...
Re: Indiana Jones and the Great Circle (PS5) - Globe-Trotting Adventure Just Got Even Better on PS5
I'm still waiting for the Indiana Jones Basketball game.
Temple of Boomshakalaka!!
Re: Netflix's Devil May Cry Has Been Such a Hit a Second Season Has Already Been Confirmed
Can we have S2 of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners too please?
Re: Nintendo Is Displaying Hubris Which Would Make Even PS3 Era Sony Blush
My A500 Commodore Amiga cost £399 all the way back in the late 1980's (what a machine - a great time to be alive, apart from Thatcherism).
Re: Cristiano Ronaldo Says It's 'Very Cool' to Be in a 'Big Game' Like Fatal Fury: City of Wolves
You know, I don't think he's actually played the game!!
Re: Microsoft's AI Obsession Continues with Atrocious Copilot Version of Quake 2
Well it's an interesting idea but unfortunately still shows the QA control that goes on at Microsoft. For those that know, it's a pretty interesting demo, for those that don't it's pretty unimpressive really.
Re: Minecraft Movie Obliterates Box Office Records as Jack Black Flick Goes Viral
Just want to point out it's not called
"The Minecraft Movie"
It's called
"A Minecraft Movie"
So expect a huge number of Minecraft movie sequels/franchise (not a surprise), especially as it's doing rather well at the cinema.
Re: Venus Vacation Prism: Dead or Alive Xtreme (PS5) - Splashy Dating Sim Barely Gets Its Feet Wet
"Rizzers rarely go full perv."
Sorry, what does this mean please?
Re: Random: This Stellar Blade Super Fan Sleeps with Eve Every Night
Hmmmm, I have a feeling that duvet set is going to be somewhat 'crusty'...
Re: Starfield Could Have Released on PS5 Already, Work Has Been Ongoing for a While
Massive over hyped borefest.
Seriously, don't waste your time or money on it.
Re: The Last of Us Boss Answers Its Most Profound Question: Was Joel Right?
I would have made the same choice even if it was my cat that needed to be sacrificed to save humanity.
You can't underestimate the family bond and how much love means to people.
It might not be the right choice for humanity but it was right for Joel.
Re: Gradius Origins Collection Brings Legendary Shmup Series to PS5, Includes Brand New Game
Gahhh, no Gradius V.....
A Treasure classic from the PS2 and they missed it, almost all the rest I think are already available from the Arcade Archives collection.
Re: Bloodborne Fans Wait with Bated Breath as Iconic PS4 Exclusive Turns 10 Today
I remember Lance McDonald (the 60fps Bloodborne modder) saying it was only a 2 line update to get the game running perfectly at 60fps.
Deep sigh...
Re: Stellar Blade Reveals Massive PC Frame Rate Improvements with Cutting-Edge Nvidia Tech
350fps, well that's even more then real life!!
Re: Another PS5 Live Service Title Does a Concord, Game and Dev to Close Two Weeks After PS5 Launch
Shows the general apathy towards live service games by alot of the comments here mentioning they'd never heard of it.
Me neither!!
Feel a bit sorry for the Devs to see all the hard work get flushed away and forgotten about.
Re: Localthunk Bans AI Art Following Balatro Community Erotica Debacle
"Is it too much to ask to have a fun subreddit about a fun game that isn't being held hostage by a horny pro-AI weirdo?"
They obviously haven't used the internet for very long.
Re: Kojima Said Death Stranding 2 Actor Would Be the Spitting Image of Solid Snake in a Bandana, So He Made It Happen
serpente solido
Re: Sony's AI Leak Reveals a Creepy Sci-Fi Future PS5 Gamers Don’t Necessarily Want
Give it 5 to 10 years and you'll never be able to tell the difference...
Re: Rise of the Ronin's PC Port Panned by Media Ahead of Release
And it's faff and failure like this that just puts me right off PC gaming in general. Shame.
Re: AMD Hypes Up PS6 Collaboration, FSR 4 Upscaling Tech
@0niguy
Well I'm hoping it'll be more then just a 'PS5 Pro - Pro' (or PS5 Proplus for our caffeine addicted friends) with a new front end and an HDMI2.2 connection, but I have a feeling that essentially that's what it'll be.
Day one of course!
Re: Sony Expands Its PS5 Console Rental Service to the UK
Reminds me of the good old days of renting a telly from Rumbelows.
However if I were to go down this route, I think I'd rather pick an agreement where you keep the item at the end of the lease rather then have to give it up.
Re: Split Fiction (PS5) - A Truly Outstanding, Peerlessly Creative Co-Op Adventure
We've got a co-op up the road, their eggs are rather expensive though compared to Tesco.
Re: Could the Next Xbox Get a Head Start on PS6?
Head starts no longer matter when people are already heavily invested in the ecosystem of their choice.
One of the troubles with Gamepass is that it denies that personal investment as basically as a subscription all the games accessible on it are disposable to the user.
However anyone who has spent a significant amount of money on PSN digital content, from PS4 and now PS5 eras are most unlikely to jump ship and abandon all those games they have 'purchased' and would no longer be accesible.
Backwards compatibility is now actually cross-gen investment and you can bet that (I believe Mark Cerny has already confirmed) that the PS6 will play all PS5 and PS4 games off the bat.
Xbox has already lost, headstart or not it will find it very hard to reclaim those PS users to it's fold.
And of course, now MS is a third party publisher, what would be the point of PS users going Xbox, unless of course you are rich enough to buy both.
Re: PSVR2 Gets Enormous Price Reduction Starting March 2025
Try out Trombone Champ and be converted.
Pistol whip is also rather good.
Re: Some Monster Hunter Wilds Fans Are Losing Their Minds Over the Game Being 'Too Easy'
Well for me they've always been rather easy.
(Smirk)
Re: Sony Clarifies the Difference Between First-Party, Second-Party, and So On
"For example, Death Stranding 2: On the Beach is a game published and fully funded by PlayStation, but it doesn’t own the IP, so it sits somewhere between first-party and second-party really."
So it's a first-and-a-half party game...obviously!!!
Re: Sony Japan Studio Closed Because AA Market 'Disappeared', Says Shu Yoshida
What ever happened to...
https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2024/03/rumour-gravity-rush-2-remaster-dropping-onto-ps5-pc-reveal-coming-in-may
Re: Reaction: Xbox Publishing More Games on PS5 Than Sony Is Not a Gotcha, It's Just a Sign of the Times
Its just a massive port-a-thon from MS though.
Re: Korean Dev Shift Up Had a Record Breaking 2024, Powered by Stellar Blade
@Oram77 @get2sammyb
Shift Up says steps taken to ensure the PC version’s success include “optimisation, enhancing user convenience, adding supplementary content, and tailored marketing strategies unique to Shift Up”.
"Adding supplementary content..."
What could that be?
https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/stellar-blades-developer-expects-the-pc-version-to-sell-better-than-the-ps5-one/
Re: Report Investigates Why PS5's Store Is Still Drowning in 'Eslop'
My new word of the day....
Eslop!!
Re: Sony's Bloodborne 60fps Mod DMCA Takedown Was About the Name, Not the Patch Itself
"McDonald has said in the past that Bloodborne is just two lines of code away from hitting the performance target."
I got hopium going up one nostril and copium going up the other.
C'mon Sony, It's only 2 lines!
Re: Old But Not Forgotten, Far Cry New Dawn Gets 60fps Patch on PS5
@Sacrosanctus
You can add The Last Guardian and Gravity Rush 2 to that list.
Last Guardian is particularly galling as the non patch disc version is frame rate unlocked.
Similar for Assassin's Creed Unity, which I'm hoping is next on the list at Ubisoft seeing as they are pushing the AC Nexus/ Animus platform with the new one.
Re: Rumour: Xbox's Fable, Killer Instinct, More to Join Forza Horizon 5 on PS5
Well MS love money and they've finally realised they can resell their portfolio to playstation fans now that the hardware division is in its death rattle.
What's not to like!
Personally Halo MCC is the one I want first.
Re: Former Rockstar Animator Doubtful GTA 6 Will Run at 60fps on PS5
Probably get it on sale for the inevitable PS6 version
Re: We're Already Big Fans of Street Fighter 6's Mai, Launching As DLC Next Week on PS5, PS4
Mai Shiranui and Chun-Li.....hmmmmmm.
Sorry, drifted off for a moment there and have totally forgotten what I was going to write.
Re: Preview: Assassin's Creed Shadows Is the Golden Ticket Ubisoft Needs
Well hopefully with the new Animus hub/ Infinity Launcher and the recent uptick of Assassins Creed Syndicate to 60fps, here's still hoping a fixed/improved version of Unity will finally happen when it's added there.
Re: PS5 Console Exclusive Phantom Blade Zero Looks Mind Blowingly Good in Stunning Gameplay Trailer
Well that looks suitably bonkers!
Love the crazy metal soundtrack, looks to be a certain future purchase, right up my street!
Re: New PS5 Firmware Update Is Coming Today in Phased Release
Stability improvements!!
Hopefully I can finally remove that folded beermat from the from corner of my TV stand.
Re: Iconic Final Fantasy Baddy Turns Heads at Louis Vuitton Fashion Show
ooooh, expensive man bags!!!!
Oh I simply MUST have one!!
Re: Vintage Retro Sports Games Preserved on PS5, PS4 from 30th January
Summer Games 1+2, Winter Games, World Games, California Games.
EPYX classics that would make a great retro collection for the right price.
Re: Damning PlayStation Studios Rumour Debunked After Live Service PS5 Game Cancellations
What's that?
A rumour started by Jeff Grubby turned out to be untrue!!!
I'll believe that when I see the President of USA dancing the YMCA
Re: Shuhei Yoshida: If You Want New First-Party PS5 Games, You Should Support Remasters
I support remasters, I'd especially support a remaster of a certain PS4 game that begins with B
Re: Random: You'll Want to Plunge a Knife into Zayn Malik's The Last of Us Birthday Cake
Well that looks just delicious!!
I guess you light the candles with a Molotov.
Re: Death Stranding 2 PS5 Enters Crunch Period, Hideo Kojima Questions How Much Longer He Can Do It For
Can't he just have his brain grafted into some sort of robotic game making ninja?
Re: The Brilliant Hitman: World of Assassination Reaches an Incredible 75 Million Players
One word....
Backlog.
Sigh...
Re: Rumour: Halo: The Master Chief Collection Coming to PS5 This Year
Reminds me of the day when I read Sonic was first appearing on the GBA.
I'll buy MCC and Oblivion remake to rekindle fond Fat+360 memories. Flight simulator not my jam though.
Re: 10+ Hour DLC Packs Grow Assassin's Creed Shadows After Launch
Was interested, gone right off the boil for me now.
Ghost of Yotei will be my next Japanese historical epic methinks.