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How the hell does he find the time to do that?

Then again, Sakurai has always between heavily platform agnostic, and his company will work with anyone who pays the bills.

@viciousarcanum Well its not Nintendo's decision. But CoD? Yeah Sony paid for that.

And on my initial point in the comment, I like how this got spoiled on a website that has nothing to do with the release on that platform

Wait, what?

Capcom said there were 3 dates to look for, the 16th, 20th and then 13th. They didn't announce what these special features for Switch were yet. So um....thanks I guess?

Also funny that for all the PS4 exclusive modes and features games get, you're quick to moan

@Ryall Nintendo didn't buy the rights. SEGA Licenses it to them to use. Because apparently, SEGA aint paying for it themselves, Kamiya admitted that with 2, and basically the same with 3.

Heck, Astral Chain seems to have been Platinum's idea, but no one wanted it.

Further, I expect the Japanese VO for Bayonetta will be included, which was paid for and recorded by Nintendo.

And I mean sure, we can all complain about once multiplatform games going single platform, but isn't that what Sony just did in buying Insomniac? They made stuff for other platforms ocassionaly and now they cant.

What about studio acquisitions? The Outer Worlds as an IP from the second game on isn't multiplatform beyond PC.

Hellblade was, now it isn't.

And what about IP from one system as an exclusive bought to another, like Banjo, or Sunset Overdrive.

Or remember Final Fantasy?

This is the way business works. Developers will find someone who wants to foot the bill. Live with it.

I mean this isn't really healthy competition. The idea they had to kill them from the start as he worded it, implies they didn't WANT the competition.

Reminds me of what I believe Jim Ryan said a while back, around the time Switch launched. Let no one eat into any part of their market share.

So yeah, competition is very healthy, this APPROACH to it, is not.

The current record holder is Sonic 4. Episode 1 - 2010, Episode 2 - 2012

@Jaz007 Why buy a Switch when you can play BOTW on that Wii U you....wait.

Why buy a Wii when you can buy Twilight Princess on that Gamecube….wait.

Er….

hm.

I honestly expect some cross generation first party games, because there is always one, even the PS4 pulled TLOU out a year later, for some reason, so to say oh, TLOUP2 wont be enhanced on PS5 is weird, and Ghost of Tsushima, assuming its late 2020, is basically just asking for it.

This is a case of different companies doing different things and you know what? Good.

The two boxes are already going to be basically the same in hardware again, so how they present and develop their games is going to be the deciding factor.

@David187 I did say it's an issue of not being intended to do what it is now doing.

Not a dig at Sony. I just wrote out why I thought it was happening within the logic of how PSN operates, using an a previous example of something similar (name change errors) as an example of doing things not originally accounted for (though the problems with PSN name changes is more of an actual error in logic and how data was assigned instead of simply going beyond original scope).

This is simply a case, as I said in my post, of PSN being taken beyond original specification and unintended side effects occuring.

It's fixable, all things are, it just depends how they go about it.

Not everything I say is a dig at Sony. This is actually an interesting topic, one that will come up more and more in a digital future, of services being up to snuff with how fast needs change, and if the original spec can accommodate these changes comfortably, or if it requires larger scale changes to prevent things like this.

I mean given its a network built in the mid to late 2000s it's obvious streaming wasn't intended, so the license issue is expected.

Reminds me of the issue with changing your display name, because in the PSN Database it seemed like your display name was what all your other data was anchored to, instead of a random non-volatile string.

So here, it seems like the PSN cant distinguish between what you bought....and what you had effectively rented.

So really, its like the system considers a PSNow download the same as a PSN Download.

But if you're part of PS Now, that almost overrides the existing one when it expires, wiping that data from your account, even if its a PSN License, not a PS Now one.

You can tell PSN wasn't designed to do this, but then again, it was designed god knows how long ago.

@Rob_230 But wasn't the 360 a PowerPC unit...like the Gamecube? PPC was already a very well known quantity.

Whether or not PS3 released first, by using known and accessible, at the time, architecture, would have given the 360 the advantage regardless.

It's where the Wii U flopped. It stayed PPC despite the at the time standard being X86.

And I mean, given we know both PS5 and Scarlett will be borderline identical, like last time, I cant imagine developers are anxious about lacking Scarlett devkits.

They can just make a spec for PC, because it's AMD PC tech being used again, or make a spec for PS5, and since games are now designed to be available, because of how many configs there are now of x86 alone, they'll pretty much have made a Scarlett version of a game by simply...making the game at all.

@NYJetsfan123 oh no.

How dare someone not like sex.

Apparently that's weird to people then?

Yeah I'm good. I don't want virtual bits in my face any more than real ones.

Imagine getting married.

But...wouldn't this require Activision renegotiating the license with Hawk, which I recall he wasn't willing to do?

I mean, isn't the reason we disable this to stop it happening?

Makes me wonder why disable it at all if it keeps coming up regardless.

This is also the guy (And his friends) who swore Metroid Prime Trilogy was a thing and err....wouldn't shut up about it.

Over and over.

And then it didn't happen, and hasn't happened for a year since.

But he also broke Elden Ring, granted with help from one Liam Robertson.

Since he has no additional backing here, treat this as the same as MPT.

"Most recently" was a PS3 game? Jesus.

But hey, its not Half-Life 3, but its something!

The whole Play Anywhere idea of Stadia, EA's upcoming service...is already being done.

Switch, PS Remote Play, xCloud...and the play anywhere factors aren't there as the only feature. They are part of a package

What a pure streaming platform gives is less overall compared to all the other platforms letting you play anywhere in different ways as a supplement

The biggest thing for me here is the overall shape at the top, no longer leaning downward when you lay it flat.

The PS4 charging cables always bent if you lay it flat while using them, because the top of the controller was angles where the port was....for some reason...

I wonder when the story will actually finish?

So it's even more like a PC? Neat.

Who? Like...first I've heard of him.

I mean, you did ask who wanted the Switch and turned your nose at it declaring handheld gaming dead....and look how that went. Enthusiast gamers turning their noses up at new ideas.

So what you're saying is yes, the GAME says you got 100%, but the system OS says you didn't.

Now, who do you believe? Red pill, or blue?

@ShogunRok @get2sammyb To quote your own staff, let's keep things on topic please.

Retro Studios

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Here's why.

To refer to these devices as solely "Consoles" as this piece does, is to use the broad term. By using the broad term of "Games consoles", they therefore include all sub-genres within, both home and handheld consoles.

To state it is the second best selling home console, is accurate. To say it is the second best selling console, is inaccurate. One specifies within the data, and one is a statement that ignores the data.

Second best selling game console ever? Neat.

Wait....something's missing.

Shouldn't this be second best selling home console? And 4th best selling console ever?

And before someone steps in and says, well handhelds aren't consoles....

"Also called game(s) console, gaming console, video-game console. a computer system specially made for playing video games by connecting it to a television or other display for video and sound." (Dictionary.com)

@Turismo4GT I don't think the world will be around in 2055 let's be honest.

And sure, freeze me. I'm rolling up comfortably to 24 so why not drag it out.

@JohnKarnes Honestly, no.

@DeepSpace5D I dont see how Decima running on a PC is a shock.....given stuff like the engine itself, and the games in it....are built on PCs....

Plus even beyond the "How software development works" side of it, PS4, Xbox One, PS5 and Scarlett all use the same architecture as modern PCs. All you need to do is scale to the capabilities of the machine.

I wonder if the marketing team told the crowd "America has fallen, this game is a glimpse of it" and the crowd all high fived? (Applicable anywhere with any nation falling lets be real, which makes the message of this game....even more on point)

Anyway, interesting stunt. Actually...thematically in theme, and not in the Resident Evil lets leave body parts around London, or Watch_Dogs bomb scare kinda way.

Also, is "Give me some skin" what the floating brain in a jar of Hideo Kojima say in 2451 as he works on Death Stranding 12 where you reconnect parallel universes that collapsed due to the looming threat of Zorbglaxes within mirrors consuming the souls of mortals?

@Callmegil Given I spent 5 years making games and PCs, I know what an m.2 is.

I was more referring to how the article simply says "Fastest console" while not referring to what specifically about it is fast.

It could be fast clock speeds, fast memory, fast SSD as we all know is coming (At least compared to what is in the PS4 with it's HDD, yet to see load times on native PS5 software).

It could be a fast OS, as despite the PS4 OS being a fork of the same Linux based system as Horizon (Switch) and many other OS systems....it takes a long time to do anything by comparison, and also uses a large amount of RAM.

Further, if they ARE talking about the SSD as the bar for what makes this "The fastest console", what does that mean for the Xbox Scarlett SSD? Is that one confirmed to those parties to be slower?

Fastest what? GPU? memory speeds? CPU? SSD? Overall? At which point how do they know compared to other consoles? What metrics are they using?

But....if that's the case and it is a story reason....why just one version?

This reeks of something similar to what has happened to other games and some um...."changes" compared to other platforms...

Well if it's a UE4 Tech demo (you know, that 2015 engine) running on an old graphics card...I would be worried if that's all PS5 can do.

Yooka-Tooie did this too.

At what point does adoration for this man become cultish and he wisks Death Stranding fans away for some tactical espionage action in a farm in Idaho with him as their god?

"but it was famously backstabbed by its Japanese compatriot"

After Sony would have forced Nintendo to pay to release games on its own damn system. Works two ways after all.

Anyhow, I reckon this will fetch $100k at most.

What do I think? An SSD that needs to be at least 2TBs, plus the currently touted spec makes me think I can lose one of these kidneys.

Another idea Sony had that was ahead of its time, let down by implementation.

@TheBuzz "it will kick microsoft hard in the crotch, since they are so dependent on their xbox live and xbox pass to get their earnings."

You know Microsoft makes a lot of money from things other than Xbox right? Like Azure, Windows, Office....

"he’s revealed that he simply won’t allow complacency at the company."

This is the man who can change his excuse 4 times in one interview for God's sake.

And if emerging reports are true, he has some other things to answer to that led to Layden leaving, and apparently some third parties are nervous due to a lack of transparency on PS5...so yes Mr Foot In Mouth, you DO need to talk more, just not to the public.

Oh god a phone app for your games? What is this, 2017?

But...this is even more redundant than the Nintendo app....as if its a phone app you talk to, I can just say "Okay Google" and away I go, because its already part of my phone that can access a far larger database of information that doesn't require specific game support.

Also, isn't this same thing something Stadia has built into its controller or something?

Did you just use the original 1980s dodgy translation spelling of Ganon?

Jesus....thats a deep cut.

And now I'm interested

Poorly calibrated expectations after this?

https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2019/09/sonys_taking_next_weeks_state_of_play_seriously

"new game reveals, new content from PlayStation’s Worldwide Studios, and a host of other updates"

Sure there were a couple new game reveals. There was an update for PS+, and TLOUP2, and a new bundle for Death Stranding...and an update on Wattam and PSVR...

What was the new reveal from worldwide studios exactly?

The Daily London Commute: Game Edition

Only took 4 years and er….what is this exactly?

Again, if this is games now, that SSD in this PS5 better be huuuuge.

And the bigger your Flash storage is the more it costs...way more than HDDs. Yikes.