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@somnambulance Same here! And I hope that the Ubi of 2025 will be more like Lost Crown.

@get2sammyb This model of subsidised hardware, is it still fully intact? I‘d argue that both the Switch and the PS5 Pro are not subsidised, and the base PS5 only a bit if that.

Regarding picking a different store, I guess most people out there would rather buy on Steam at a higher price than going to Epic. It’s the supreme experience. If Microsoft can offer such a supreme (fully integrated) solution, chances are that they will find success.

And if that doesn’t work out: Microsoft can still remove all of its publishers‘ games from Steam etc. and make them Xbox Store exclusive, simple and brutal.

Microsoft however… will show us a new understanding of what a console can be: open like a PC, easy-to-use like a traditional console (when using the Xbox surface).

And even if Microsoft doesn’t go this route: I think there will be still enough market left for three console platforms. Let’s hope for a strong Xbox future, I don’t want Arrogant Sony to return.

@TheKurgan Brutal, but true.

Ji doesn’t hide his feelings: It’s about the pride of China, which is in its self-conception the centre and leading power in the world; in the imperial period, China saw itself as the single valid power in the world. So being beaten by a game from Japan, which China sees as one of its main rivals on eye level, caused by North American influence, is a great shame. I expect to see more of these cultural conflicts in the near future.

@MrPeanutbutterz Of course this is a bland copy of Joel, with the beard and gun and cloths and setting, and I and everyone else immediately recognizes it. Just wanted to mention that Sony created its most memorable figure based on a very average archetype, and the reason he is so memorable is his character, not his appearance. That’s a huge achievement. Compare it with the characters of Concord, unique designs, and nobody cared.

@Flaming_Kaiser Yeah, because this guy here is a bland copy of Pedro Pascal. So for many people he basically looks more like Joel than the Joel in the video games (which is quite clever imo).

Sorry, but Joel is an American white family man in his late forties, living in a single family house in a small town. This is pretty much the most generic American with the most generic appearance you can imagine, so many gamers can identify with him in some regard. What makes him (and the other characters) so interesting is his story and the decision he makes based on his experiences, the „Druckmann part“.

And therefore everyone can cool down, because replicating the quality of his character is hard.

An announcement trailer with great gameplay, nice and funny cutscenes and an actual release date in just three months? Hazelight, congratulations!

This spaceship reminds me of nothing I associate with today’s Porsche. Feels like unorganic product placement to me.

@dark_knightmare2 „like a fight in a deadly gas where you need to cover your mouth with one hand“

Sounds like a gimmick straight from the worst times of Wii and Kinect. Great games like GT7 don’t need this BS.

And one game less on my PSN wishlist.

I don’t get how they choose this time of day in this globalised world. For live shows with global appeal, just broadcast them at 7 AM PT, then it can be enjoyed by almost the whole world.

@ShogunRok Is a Pro patch really needed? The lowest resolution of the base PS5 in Performance Mode is around 1008p (https://www.eurogamer.net/digitalfoundry-2023-cyberpunk-2077-phantom-liberty-an-ambitious-evolution-targeting-todays-consoles). With the Pro Boost, the DRS will bring it more to the max of 1440p AND framerates closer to 60 fps. With a Pro patch, the results wouldn’t be much better than this. Or do you really want to play a mode with light RT and 60 fps at 900p upscaled?

@FutilityInExcellence I think it could be possible to calculate the input values for the PSVR1 API with the output values of the PSVR2 subsystem, so that PSVR1 games could run natively on PSVR2. These API developers should be the ones who are now working on the Apple integration, and that is also not for free!

Great news! Because why wasting development capacities to e.g. make PSVR2 backwards compatible to play PSVR1 games?

Main differences between this and Concord:
1) Established IP
2) Likable characters
3) F2P

@lazarus11 Just 30 min? I‘d wish I had the same tolerance for crap as you.

@JustCameHereToSay I think of games like Star Wars Outlaws and the Assassins Creed series, which I don’t play.

Beautiful, well written and directed cutscenes, a meaningful open world, the big orchestra, AND fine and varied gameplay, which tries things other than the Ubi formula.

Finally AAA gaming is back, baby!

Another one bites the foam.

1:53 looks interesting. What is that? Sony seems to keep it secret.

No voice acting in the trailer, so definitely an advantage over the original.

@MrPeanutbutterz This is not the level of conversation I want to conduct.

@Ainu20 I am convinced that the Apple success story is: „You as a customer pay a high price, and for that you don’t have to care about technical menus and options. We at Apple are technical experts and choose the best option for you, trust us.“ And people trust. It’s the same story as with consoles: Using them is super easy and convenient, and the PSN prices are higher than those in Steam.

@Northern_munkey I worry about people who feel overwhelmed by these graphical settings. They bought an easy-to-use console to AVOID this technical stuff, professionals should take care about this.

Maybe this „worrying about everybody else“ is part of my empathy.

I‘m a bit sad that there are so many graphical options for more and more console games these days. Most people won’t know what the best configuration would be for their TV setup and their personal experience. With or without PSSR? 60 fps with RT, or 120 fps without? And when choosing 60 fps, resolution or performance mode?

Too many options here!

I’m surprised by the the negative response here on It Takes Two. There is a reason why it became GOTY. Don’t complain before trying!

@The_Pixel_King Latency is still bad. But stuttering is dramatically reduced.

A black PS Portal sounds great, with the bezel already in black and the backside of the standard version dominated by a dull white area. An all-black model would make it look much more like „one piece“, instead of a halved DualSense attached to a tablet with Ultrahand.

Nintendo gives a **** on whether the Switch will overtake the DS and the PS2 or not. The price per unit almost never changed, the prices for Nintendo titles are very stable, they still earn good money from it. Hermen and his pride are more important for SIE‘s corporate culture than for anyone out there.

And Nintendo will probably keep on earning for two more years. Because there will always be 8 year olds whose parents won’t spend 400 USD on a Switch 2 but will spend 150 USD for a Switch Lite bundle instead.

Much more critical for them is how to tell the story of the Switch 2. There are so many things that can go wrong, I‘m very curious how they will approach it.

@GamingFan4Lyf @colonelkilgore It is a pleasure to read your refreshing dialogue! I‘d love to see more of these debates on that intellectual level from PushSquare staff on controversial topics which are not just black and white.

Only if it is portable PS5 or PS6. While customers could be willing to invest in several platforms, the platform holders are not. I.e. they don’t want to make „small“ games for portables and „big“ games for consoles, just games which runs on all of their target platforms. That’s why Sony stopped supporting the Vita and Nintendo unified the development in one R&D unit.

And I don’t belive that Sony is willing to sacrifice its first level party games to get them running on weak mobile CPUs.

Please help me, I am obviously not a clever person:
My Essential subscription will expire in 32 days. If I want to upgrade to Extra of Premium (interesting for PSVR2), I can only buy a discounted upgrade for this remaining 32 days.
My questions:
Must I first book Essential (for 1 year), and then the upgrade is available for one year? Or for the remaining time of 32 + 365 days? And is there an option to book Premium directly for 1 year, without doing the upgrade for the remaining 32 days?

Thanks for your support!

With that resonance, I am surprised that DQ3 HD wasn’t released on PS4 as well. That would have shifted many more copies I think.

Was Battlefield 1 really a bad attempt? I think it was quite successful back in the day, and critics were also positive.

I just tested the new update 4.0.0 with locally playing Astro‘s Playroom. I used this for testing all PS Portal updates, because it has a very clean image, fluidity and timing are crucial for this game, and problems are immediately noticeable. I also tested Doom 2016.

What can I say? Sony, mission accomplished! That‘s the experience I expected from the first day.

• Fluid 60 fps, with only rare frame drops
• Pristine image quality, no compression visible
• Latency is most noticable in menus, while Astro gameplay is totally fine. For Doom, the latency is too high

So while I‘d wish to see lower latency in future updates, I‘m pretty certain that this is the best we will get in this regard, and that the PS Portal experience will not significantly change in future.

Here is a great video in German, testing the update 4.0.0:

• Micro stutters with local play are COMPLETELY GONE, „completely new feeling“, tested with FC 24 and Rayman Legends
• Latency with cloud streaming is significant, I would consider it unacceptable.

https://youtu.be/RGUpeXaZBgg?si=xMkwzlo5IF2KtoMc

For PS Portal, cloud streaming probably works better than local PS5 streaming:

• The cloud encoder will likely encode with 60 Hz which is optimal for PS Portal, not the 59.94 Hz of the PS5 encoder which causes the infamous PS Portal Stutters.
• The PS5 (Pro) seems to use the Remote Play hardware of the PS4 Pro, which was an updated version (allows 1080p streaming) of the PS4 Remote Play hardware. In comparison, cloud streaming can use a state-of-the-art codec, with optimal settings for the PS Portal.

The effect: stutterfree streaming with sharper image quality.

The latency though?

Dear PushSquare team, please make the following poll. I‘m highly interested in the opinion of the people here.

Why do you think is nothing known about a Bloodborne Remastered for PS5 so far?

1) Remastered announcement incoming! (TGA, 10th anniversary, …)
2) Stuck in IP hell
3) Saved for PS6 release, similar to Demon‘s Souls
4) Sony doesn’t see enough value in that game for the effort

2021: Rift Apart was nominated, It Takes Two won, and Returnal wasn’t even nominated.

Btw Returnal: THAT would benefit a lot from a PS5 Pro patch!

Fortunately, some here in the comments already mentioned it:

We want FUN!

Many AAA games lack it, because they are based on safe, schematic gameplay mechanics.

Many smaller games lack it, because their world building is not well fleshed out.

Repetition is no fun for most of us.

Shadow of the Erdtree, despite only being an extension, is of more substance than many other games mentioned here. In the past, when time periods between two releases were shorter and this kind of DLC was not technically feasible, SotE would have been its own game. Same with Phantom Liberty. MW3 meanwhile is a prime example for a stand-aolne game which is more like a full-price DLC with LESS substance than SotE and PL.

So: Allowing MW3 while blocking SotE and PL?

Is „Active Reloading“ mandatory? I don’t like this „immersive“ stuff in VR, for me it’s just uncomfortable fiddling, same as swinging the WiiMote.

Sony is also to blame here. They should offer an SDK which should avoid such problems and make it easy for devs to implement the new functions. Alan Wake 2 and Star Wars Jedi Survivor also suffer from instable pictures.

PSSR is not (yet) the simple plug-and-play solution.