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Re: PlayStation Users Set to Lose Hundreds of TV Shows They Paid For

Futureshark

@Contimaloris @Bez87 oh I totally get the point, I was just being flippant that it was a big pile of crap being removed that if anyone had bought in the first place then they probably have more money then sense.

But yes, the point is this is the same as a publisher coming to your house and taking your books away that they published.

Unfortunately it's the way now though and has been going on for more then 10 years, for example you can't leave you iTunes purchases to your loved ones when you die, they belong to Apple. Only you are purchasing a licence to play them.
So the whole thing about inheriting your parents record collection is eroding to become a thing of the past.

Re: PlayStation Users Set to Lose Hundreds of TV Shows They Paid For

Futureshark

Tell you what, go read the list on the link and think to yourselves like I did, "Somebody bought a season of this?!!!"

All the shows on there are terrible documentaries or reality shows.

I guess someone, somewhere must enjoy 'Cake Boss | Season 8' or 'Finding Bigfoot | Season 9' but I think Sony is doing the world a favour by flushing this pile of crap down the toilet.

Re: More Resident Evil Remakes Are on the Way, Capcom Confirms

Futureshark

I really enjoyed RE5 at the time, I remember it was the first after RE4 that allowed walking AND shooting at the same time, was quite action heavy and great fun.
Shiva's AI was pretty poor though so that could well do with the upgrade too.

However, I want to see Code Veronica redone first please!!

Re: Baldur's Gate 3 Physical Deluxe Edition Announced, Is Two Discs on PS5

Futureshark

This is actually pretty cool, they could have given a basic key on a disc, which then would allow you to download the game and play, but only if the game is in the drive.
However by shipping on 2 discs, it proves you are receiving the complete game on disc, and probably a very highly patched version too rather then just v1.0.

Larian are now even cooler in my cool book.

Re: Video: PS Portal Unboxing Gives Us Our First Look at Sony Handheld

Futureshark

I want to if you login to you ps+ account into it, or you just remote onto whichever PS5 is on your network.

IF you login to your account first then there's no reason you couldn't use the PS+ streaming on it instead of remoting to your PS5 first.

SONY will really be missing a trick not to align this product with the new streaming service, it just seems perfect for each other.

Re: Physical Games Represented Just 4% of Sales for PlayStation Last Quarter

Futureshark

The thing nowadays is that day 1 patches are so big and important now, it's almost like the physical disk is now just a 'key' that lets you use the installed software.
The actual code on the disc (especially after multiple patching or even almost game rewrites ala Cyberpunk) becomes old and irrelevant compared to the latest version.

So yes you own the 'key' to playing the game and a box to keep it in. For digital that key is electronic and you have no box (and no resale of said 'key' of course).

Re: Poll: Do You Think GTA 6 Will Release on PS4?

Futureshark

Of course it will, there's still a HUGE PS4 userbase out there which means even more $$$$$$$$.

GTA6 will still sell millions even if there's PS3 version, they don't care about new gen anymore or we would have seen PS5 exclusive DLC for GTA5, or at least decent ports of the GTA trilogy, RDR or even a 60fps RDR2 patch.

No it's all about the multiplayer and getting the player numbers high to get that large revenue stream from the start.

Re: PlayStation Users to Be Considered 'Part of the Xbox Community', Says Xbox Boss

Futureshark

Mr Delusional!!

I would think it's fairer to say with the massive hardware sales of the PS5 and the barebones mediocrity of the Xbox first party line up, that we should probably consider Xbox games part of the PlayStation community instead.

For example, it'd be a fascinating statistic to know how many PS5 owners bought an Xbox S/X to play Starfield, and then how many Xbox owners bought a PS5 to play Spider-man 2 (assuming they already didn't have both).

I bet it was the latter and by this statement I think Phil probably knows it too, hence the misguided belief that new Playstation users who already have Xbox's are now still part of the community.

Phil would make a great violinist of the string quartet who played while the Titanic sank.