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At this pace, Flat2VR Studios will announce PSVR2 ports of Astro Bot Rescue Mission and Half Life: Alyx later this day.

The problem with this show is its length: the longer, the more Geoff money. A 45 min show with short mixed gameplay+story trailers of newly announced games would be great. But, no chance!

With some graphic cards (Nvidia 2000 series, more recent AMD cards) with USB-C port, you don‘t need the adapter:

https://youtu.be/hHFp_yoHqC0?si=GQ-TaZWvhX0BIVza

@Troubbble The internet connection doesn’t matter if you play in the same LAN. It’s more important to have a 5 GHz Wifi connection which is not heavily used by other tasks, and its channel should not be used by other Wifis nearby. Your PS5 should be connected via Ethernet. Video lag is noticeable, but a minor issue in my opinion. Major issues in comparison are 1) audio lag (sound lags noticeably behind video) and 2) frequently dropped frames: 60 fps often feels more like 45 fps. And I have an optimal setup: a dedicated Wifi router exclusively for PS Portal, with an exclusive Wifi channel, 802.11ac-only forced (not needed, but nice to have), PS5 wired, less than 5 m Wifi distance. And STILL many dropped frames.

My conclusion: As long as these issues are not significantly reduced by future software updates, if you don’t need the Portal, don’t by it.

It is so hypocritical that one of the things in the world that can be the most beautiful, positively emotional and life-affirming is removed, but „gore, violence, or other amusing scenes“ (i.e. life-negating) is acceptable.

I know there is a lot of sexism. However, in what kind of society do we live?

„None of them, to be honest“

@get2sammyb 2.4m PS5 consoles sold in Q1, after a significant price cut compared to the original price. 2.1m Switch consoles sold in Q1, for almost the original price, dominated by the most expensive OLED model. Sony earns a lot with PSN sales of third parties, but this is dangered if the gaming market shifts towards PC gaming. And the bread-and-butter business still seems to be PSN sales for PS4s.

The big question for me is: When most new releases (especially FC, Madden, CoD, GTA6) will not target PS4 anymore, will PS4 users upgrade to PS5? Or will they move to PC (= SteamDeck) or Xbox Series S?

@ryancraddock Please discuss at Hookshot how to handle release dates for fake early access titles like Outlaws. Because you can also argue that Outlaws gets released on 27th and gets its first (very Ubi-like) price reduction three days later. I wouldn’t even be surprised if the first patch arrives on 27th, claimed to be „pre-release“, while in fact a day-one patch.
Great to have independent journalism with Hookshot!

@NomNom That‘s the right question now!

1) Fortunately for Totoki, they can blame Big Jimbo for it, while he must have approved the deal. So under normal circumstances, Totoki had to go.

2) SIE will shrink Bungie even more to reduce the very high ongoing HR costs. They will keep making Destiny as before, and maybe their advice for other studios regarding Live Service Games will be lessened. Bungie will be a studio like every other PS Studio.

3) The main question: Will SIE keep the focus on first-party Live Service, or will they move back to their successful business model of the PS4 era? Naughty Dog already moved back, and the success of both Concord and Fairgame$ will settle the future for SIE‘s strategy. Helldivers 2 proved that a third-party model is a valid alternative.

So why not biting the bullet (or swallowing the toad, as we say in German), making Bungie independent again and paying just for single projects?

„wrote on X (also Twitter)“ This joke can’t get old, can it?

The last „genre defining“ game was Death Stranding, and it invented the Strandslike, with dozens of other Strandslike game since then - not.

Ergo, „genre defining“ is a hollow phrase.

@Dange Thanks!

@dschons „Two PS Studios games in development“

Do you have a quotable source for this claim? Or is your uncle working at SIE?

@KillerBoy I expect a 82 Metacritics score and a significant price drop to 40 quids on Black Friday, when the main issues are patched out.

But if it doesn’t provide 60 fps most of the time, I won’t get it even at that price.

@Boxmonkey Looks more like the final stock clearance to me. A last hurrah, and with no more systems easily available to purchase, there’s no pressure on SIE to publish new PSVR2 games any more. The end for all PlayStation VR efforts.

@Nepp67 The Edge is just too much in many aspects, while providing bad battery life. Perfect design is if you can’t remove anything without damaging the core functionality. That minimalistic approach is what makes the standard DualSense so great (mediocre battery life aside).

I‘d argue that the standard DualSense will remain a prime example for great controller design for many years to come!

@playstation1995 Team Cosmic Red!

@PuppetMaster This is so obvious, SIE doesn’t need me. There are probably DOZENS of SIE people analyzing the Chinese market for years, and of course this affects the games.

PS Studios probably splits its games BEFORE development in two (or more) categories: those which can include liberal political statements, and thosr which must be apolitical.

Btw, these unpolitical games are the ones for Sony to be successful in China. And I wonder why they don’t focus on them (like Nintendo).

Games with lesbian and transgender people fighting in a post-apocalyptic world, stealing from billionaires or loud yelling „Democracy!“ are not easy to bring to the Chinese market, mildly speaking.

It won‘t limit to PS5 GotY, it‘s a strong contender for overall GotY. Just pure joy, you would 100% it even without Trophies.

@NEStalgia Exactly!

Teo is such a unique type of man, never seen in other action games.

@Batesy125s I am tired of them, too. But I like a set of action and an enviroment which allow me totally different approaches. It doesn’t have to be an immersive sim, but a bit of Breath of the Wild in this regard would be nice.

@Styledvinny79 I don’t want something for free from Sony, just Astro Bot Rescue Mission Remastered full price.

@Anke This pregnancy test works differently: not pregnant, redhead, greenhead

It still looks like a game were the player does what the game tells them to do. And following becomes increasingly popular these days.
I prefer games which let me think tactically and act freely.

When this game will go offline, at least one thing will keep reminding us: an ugly controller the guests have to use for FC couch coop.

That‘s a bit like when the relationship with your partner was not great in the last couple of months, and now they have a new, separate flat in another town for their new job. So, what happens next…

@TheFakulty In my understanding it is doing the exact super sampling you described. And in still images or with slow movement you can see the absence of aliasing in cases of high base resolutions.

No, I think that the issues with the PS5 implementation of Remote Play are different: disturbing compression artifacts when fast movement, high latency, no 60 Hz output (only 59.94 Hz, which PS Portal is not natively capable of), dripping frames regularly, verified by Digital Foundry with cable ethernet (!) connection to a high-end PC (!) with a best-in-class Remote Play software.

Sony would have to implement a software-based Remote Play encoding, running on the system-reserved CPU cores. Feasible? Unclear.

@TheFakulty In my understanding there is a big misconception, PS5 already generates a native 1080p stream (and is not capable of generating something higher). This seems to be a myth made by some YouTubers with limited technical knowledge.

I miss 3D Audio for my PS Portal. For the PS5, PS Portal is just „Remote Play“.

Are there technical limitations (like audio compression) which prohibit 3D Audio for Remote Play? And if not, could Sony implement a mechanism to allow it specifically for the Portal?

Many great games in the charts, restores my faith in humanity (a bit).

@Lup What does a 3-day-early access for AAA games really mean? It means that the game gets a discount only three days after release. The actual release date is August 27, not August 30. But I‘m happy for you.

Probably the new prime example for AAA: high price, high production value, shallow gameplay, several patches after release to fix the worst problems.

@Atreus97 @get2sammyb I agree. And I think most of the critical voices here don’t conplain about the Why, but the How: Sony has such a great heritage of IPs, and they embrace them with Astro Bot. But here, they made a generic looking copy. Or they could create a completely new artstyle, as Nintendo did with Splatoon. But here, they made a generic looking copy. What a waste of creative potential!

Maybe there’s just NO reason for most people to spend money for a copy of unknown success while they can get the original for free with a vital player base. Not that hard, right? Why did Big Jimbo and Hermen Hulst decide to make Concord at all?

Why this malice here? Sony earns a lot with PS here in Europe, with very high sales at PSN, so of course there is steam in the machine. On the other side Xbox, which never was as successful here, even in the best 360 / worst PS3 times. As a big company, you just put that much money into marketing if the ground is not fertile enough.

And don’t forget, this guy Michael Flatt is probably loosing his job, so maybe he exaggerates.

The only situation in the footage were the player had something like a choice was to hit the hanging barrel or not, which I wouldn’t consider elaborate. All the other stuff was „Go there, do that“, and the player follows.

If being a follower is so popular these days, then happy days for dictators.

These regular Wednesday announcements for price reductions show what I regard the normal prices I am willing to spend for digital games. Only very few of them are usually really remarkable.

@glennthefrog For me, CP2077 is a cyberpunk world set in the American Dream. You could also create a cyberpunk world with a totalitarian society, connected by cyber implantations, suppressing individuals who want to think their own way and to use any kind of modification. Some kind of 1984.
But in CP2077, total individualism (incl. body modification) and freedom is celebrated, farmers defending their homes with guns, commerce rules, culture is replaced by kitsch, giant dildos everywhere.
Technology on its own is never interesting, it becomes interesting as part of individual decisions and social behavior.

Well, Rockstar North from Edinburgh created a great satire of LA in GTA5, it didn’t need an American studio for it. Maybe this distant view helped to make this satire edgier.

So the main question for me is: What kind of place should Night City be? A wonderful sandbox, or an edgy satire of the American Dream?

Previews for The Plucky Squire are very positive.

@Northern_munkey Maybe it got lost in translation: I think he is a very humble person who sells himself short. And he wants to encourage players to use all the means the game offers, because this would be the way the game is designed. You shouldn’t feel ashamed to be reliant on that, as he is as well. I like his attitude and message!

@DennisReynolds Sorry, now I got your message. I think what irritated me was the „as well“.

I think he totally exaggerates, given he can at least solve the game, which is probably better than most of the passionate gamers in the world.

There are gaming gods out there, speedrunners and people who use Donkey Kongas etc., and their videos are very prominent (which often show one success after dozens of hours of failure, btw). So if they are the benchmark, and you are a humble person, you cannot feel but being intimidated and pretend to suck in gaming.

@DennisReynolds You know that the T-1000 is NOT Arnie? The Arnie-Terminator is the T-800, while the T-1000 is the liquid-metal one.

This game will have an impact, no doubt. But will it stop or even reverse the current trend for big publishers?

The trend seems to me to be towards big Western studios and cinematic AAA games with very safe gameplay mechanics. We lament here for several years now, but the closures or shrinking at PS Studios (Japan Studio, London Studio, Media Molecule, Pixelopus) and Xbox (Tango, Arkane Austin) points in a different direction.

I miss the option „ I own PSVR2 but lost hope a long time ago“.

Embracer seems to be in a bad state financially wise right now, and necessity begets ingenuity.

People here complain about both 70 dollar price tags and long waiting for new games due to long development times. Maybe AI can not only be considered a „job killer“, but also a new tool which helps to accelerate development processes and to enhance productivity of the given staff.