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@Jey887 Same Blizzard thinks the Microsoft deal is great, too...

@Snake_V5 likely you'll need to do something to get the discount. Perhaps if you buy now it'll add 365 days to your account at the discounted rate.

@Eggnosher but, in the end, it's still a turd 😁

@Eggnosher [insert obligatory reference to Mythbusters]

I thought they were just getting some unjustified flack as a continuation of the elvish language thing. However...

How on earth did this get past user acceptance testing? Did they fire the QA team or are they running that squad on a shoe string budget?

It's objectively bad.

@SurgicalMenace I'd credit Mark Cerny more with the PlayStation success than Jim Ryan.

This handheld is already dead on arrival as far as I'm concerned. Another PlayStation TV.

How to ruin a lead

• Jim Ryan

@KidRyan then we need a PS6 not a PS5 pro.

I don't feel like we're using the current generation hardware to it's limits yet. What would be good is some better RT hardware so games can run 60FPS@4k with all the bells and whistles. The PS4 Pro didn't justify the price, on my opinion.

@NeutronBomb yep, it's not for me. I'm not the target audience for it and that's ok

I'm so ready for this, but, they cannot just be straight ports of the games.

We do not, for instance, want a PS2 Classics emulated Sons of Liberty or Snake Eater when the already superior HD Remaster versions exist. It would surely be less work to port those versions.

Equally, the MGS1 cannot be just the PS1 Classic version. It needs sorting out, upscaling, assets cleaning up, etc.

@KidRyan I don't know why anyone is in a rush for a new SKU.

It's not going to work with me, anyway. I'm not up for "live services".

I want story and gameplay driven single player experiences. I don't want Sony's hand in my pocket with microtransactions, battle passes and digital currency.

I think the industry reached peak monetisation with season passes. Everything that's come afterwards has been egregious.

I'm not the target audience for this. No interest in multiplayer only games. It sounds absolutely dire.

We don't deserve live services, though, Jim.

We were good. We're buying the new console. We've taken the £/$10 increase in base price.

What did we do wrong to deserve live services? How can we make you stop?

@Porco after MGS5 and Death Stranding... I think the only ones we need to worry about returning are the voice actors.

I can already confirm I'm aggressively against cloud gaming.

@Gooseman42 yeah that's true. I hadn't considered that.

I grabbed one. I don't have any remorse over it but it needs a price drop to be viable for people to buy. It shouldn't have been more expensive than a PS5.

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Also the wire is too short. There needs to be a wireless system for it. I don't know how much juice it actually draws but, yeah, it's a bit short.

An extender could work but I do still get tangled from time to time.

@RoomWithaMoose I think people are just happy they've not lost focus on what has made the previous two Spiderman games really good.

It's not people railing against co-operative games or gameplay, just that in this instance it's not really something fans desired and, as it turns out, that the studio wanted to provide.

Honestly, good. There's enough multiplayer games out there. Some games don't need any of that stuff.

Good luck in his future endeavours! I'm sure having God of War on your CV opens loads of doors for you.

16 games, eh? We definitely needed to add £10 to games, right guys?

@tameshiyaku agreed. I'd rather they send Jeff Bezos to space a few more times then carry on with Rings of Power.

I have to comment, as it's in the article images, but, Rings of Power was terrible.

I wouldn't have minded the £10 increase of they ditched the thing where there's some sort of "deluxe" version that's usually £10 more expensive, but with a little bit of DLC or artwork and just rolled that content into the base version.

But they've kept those, which are now £10 more than the new increased price.

No offense to the industry, but they seem to be under the impression that the value in games has gone up, without the price increases, for years. Whereas consumers already know the true cost of gaming has increased over the years and the value proposition has gotten worse.

Games are stacked with DLC and micro transactions that used to come with the game, at no extra cost, which was usually £50. Now that's £70 and all the extra cool stuff is, at least, another £40 or so away.

@THEH4MM did you ever notice the smooooth walk he had going on?

@RobN problem with that is Aloy seems to distrust him (with good reason) so a sudden shift to "you're my new Rost" would be crap.

I think Sylens being killed off screen doing something heroic wouldn't be too out of character and sends him off well, and then Aloy can bring him up in a good light at times, like you mentioned.

My first Lance Reddick thing was The Fringe, where he was cast as Agent Phillip Broyles. He's been consistently great in everything he's been in.

Broyles and Sylens had that "shady guy knows more than he lets on" thing going on.

Very sudden, very sad. He'll be missed.

@Futureshark "Performance and Stability improvements"

Some people are just broken.

It should still be blocked. The regulator rulings are all rubbish, including the CMA.

Microsoft is too big to own such a large stake in the videogame publishing industry.

That's all there is to it. There's absolutely no consumer interest in doing this. This benefits the stock market and Microsoft.

Microsoft could promise that all ABK games are multiplatform for, at least, 10 years and that they will run it as a publisher first and foremost and not an extension of Xbox, which would go a long way towards soothing us naysayers... But they haven't and won't, because that's what they want to do.

Sony owns a bunch of first party studios that publish exclusively on PlayStation and this number isn't anywhere comparable to ABK. Many of these studios were acquired decades ago or were opened newly by Sony. Not at all comparable to taking over an active part of the current market, reducing the pool significantly.

The purchase of Zenimax set off alarms but wasn't so big that it made it a massive problem. This, with that, is a huge problem.

Nothing good will come of this.

@JohntheRaptor to be super honest, they're all aberrant. Single player games with coins/gems/digital currency are part of what's wrong in gaming these days.

It's never a case of "just don't buy them" either, because they are still here, regardless.

Oh no.

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@Quinsect Microsoft aren't going to decide to leave the console gaming market because they're not allowed to break the regulators.

They're pitching a fit right now for the media's benefit. They're making money hand over fist without this deal and Xbox is in a way better market position then they're making out.

Microsoft are painting a picture of a poor wittle company stuck under the jack boot of Sony, struggling to survive without being able to spend $70bn to buy an advantage.

The CMA should hold it's ground.

I personally think Microsoft has simply paid off the other regulators. That's why they were so mad about the CMAs decision and hit back with that spiteful media hitjob about Britain being ***** anyway since Brexit (we know).

It doesn't benefit consumers, just Microsoft customers. To suggest anyone will be playing Call of Duty, or any other competitive online shooter, via the cloud is just ridiculous. Total rubbish meant to appease stuffy regulator board members who don't know any better.

I'd rather ActivisionBlizzard go bankrupt and administrators handle the auction of their IP to the highest bidder. That would be fairer.

The PS1, not just nostalgia but because it was a form of POST as well.

Microsoft had a good console with the Xbox 360, had that generation in the bag while Sony struggled with weird hardware, and then they blew consumer confidence with the Xbox One and their anti-consumer practices.

As a result, they handed Sony the last generation and Sony sold 2:1 despite having the, on paper, weaker console.

Sony built a brand in the back of that mistake. For the Players. They also built good games and fostered studio's creativity.

So Phil Spencer can try flood the media with "oh we're losing really badly so we need this unfair deal to survive" all he wants but we know what he's up to.

I was annoyed when the PS4 Pro came out, especially when it was just two GPUs in "Crossfire" mode and didn't equal doubling frame rates like we might have expected. It was still technically 4k and 30FPS. I didn't really see the benefit.

So, colour me sceptical on a PS5 Pro. What are we going to get, exactly? I haven't seen anything that's pushed the PS5 to the limits. It's still as quiet as a mouse. 4k@60FPS is commonplace (as it should be).

Will it be all the ray tracing stuff turned on at 4k/60? Will that really be worth the extra cost and new SKU? There's little point in adding 8k support in this generation.

Will they give players a way to remove all the cosmetic crap that they rammed into Tekken 7?

I'm sure some people like all that stuff and it's great that they've got it, but I genuinely dislike the arcade and Vs modes where you are fighting an opponent with an oversized flamingo on their back, star glasses and a pink hat.

I'd just love a slider in the options that turns all that off and keeps the characters in their, much cooler, costumes when I'm playing.

I honestly didn't love Returnal. Clearly a well polished game but I didn't gel with this one.

It's called a corporate tantrum

@knowles2 exactly. Publishers can't be trusted with these sorts of innovations (or, in general).

Old gits like me were never going to pay real money for in-game cars.

Anything that allows developers to reduce their workload I'm all for. I've used ChatGPT to help me with my work as a software engineer and it's brilliant.

The problem is whether publishers and studio heads do the capitalist thing and increase the workload or reduce headcount in response, rather than enjoying the boost in productivity with existing staff levels.

Ask anyone who's worked in a supermarket for a long time. They told staff self serve checkouts would give them more time to do other jobs (that often get neglected) and instead they cut staff levels.

Leaks are pointless to me after the Last of Us: Part II leaks. I stopped looking at them after that fiasco. The more of us that stop being interested in them, the less it should happen.

There's no need to steal information and leak it if no one cares.

I want no part in any live services. Especially not games like Uncharted or Last of Us.

I got my PS5 for retail price from a retail store by sheer luck.

I don't have even one molecule in my body for anyone losing money scalping consoles.

Absolute scum of the earth.

@Rafie yep and the PlayStation 1 games are barely there. I expected hundreds. I think we've hardly got as many as the PlayStation classic

I do not consider game trials a premium feature at all and detest this marketing from Sony. Game trials should be freely available to anyone with a PlayStation.

Premium users got shafted on this one.