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@NEStalgia Maybe you should give the demo a try. The combat is actually a mix of HacknSlash and a Souls, well that's even if you consider Sekiro a Souls in the first place but anyway as a result of the mix it is much easier than a souls but much more challenging than the average HacknSlash.

@Vivisapprentice You forgot phantom blade zero. Apparently we're getting a demo later this year according to the latest trailer and the release is supposed to be 2024

I have no interest in Sea of Thieves and never did. Other ports are already in the works and I wouldn't be surprised if Xbox just said this as a clever marketing tactic to get more people to buy a copy.

@pirlega Nobody cares what you you do with your life savings, so just keep scrimping and saving and complaining on Push while the rest of us play the games we're interested in.

@pirlega just click on PS5 standard edition on the app on your phone and the demo pops up or just click on the circle with 3 dots icon (...) on the PSN store stellar blade page on your PS5 and the demo comes up as an option.

@tameshiyaku Except that comparison doesn't work because Steam still has exclusives and Valve is only where it is because it got there first.

@tameshiyaku Exclusives do exactly what you described and it is better than competing on things like power because consoles prices would have spiraled out of control a long time ago and the same can be said for constant R&D in an attempt for non stop innovation, which is much more risky than the tried and trusted exclusive method.

@tameshiyaku Yeah but 3rd party exclusives are necessary to fill in the gaps between 1st party, especially now that games take so long to develop.

I would never have bought immortals and was actually waiting for it to hit plus because to me it seems like the perfect game for it and Skul looks like a good 2d side scroller for old school and indie fans so I'll check that out as well. I have zero interest in anything Minecraft though.

@tameshiyaku There's a few reasons why exclusives are important but the most important I would say is that without them then console makers have less incentive to subsidize when they make a console, actually why even make a console at all, they may as well just make expensive PC's.

I feel like I want it and that's all that actually matters to me, also didn't Phil say Xbox will never be beaten on power again? The fact he'll be proven wrong again is just the cherry on top.

FC24 has just went on sale for £20 so no doubt that played a part but the new games definitely seem to be underperforming, at least physically. I don't think Dogma was ever as big an IP as people made it out to be, then you've got the fact Ronin's graphics aren't appealing to the ooh! Shiny crowd. The same with Peach, it probably appeals more to young girls and women but like a lot of Nintendo games it'll probably still have some legs and hang around a lot longer than the other two.

I'm sure there's plenty of people who just drop a game for being too difficult instead of looking for guides so I think this is a good idea because it provides a level of convenience.

These developers are contradicting themselves. If there's more juice to be squeezed then why aren't they squeezing? This just makes them sound incompetent and lazy.

I think some developers have already hit their limits on what they are capable of on the PS5 but budgets and deadlines also play a big part on the level of polish they can do. The real complaint they've got here is they obviously don't want to do any extra work because they believe they'll just mainly be selling to the same people and if there's not much extra cash on the table for them then they don't want to do any extra work.

Sony has apparently made the Pro's extra power as easy to utilise as possible and if I'm remembering correctly we also had similar complaints about PS4 Pro from anonymous Devs. I don't care what anyone says though, I'm buying the Pro because these same developers who are complaining will continue to put out games that have lower internal resolutions and unstable framerates.

Kotaku just copied Bloomberg then added the "it may get delayed to 2026" but it is pure speculation, they have no source. Well that's according to Tom Henderson anyway.

@colonelkilgore I'll definitely check out the demo. I admire how brazen they were about it as well.

I'm glad I decided to skip this at the last minute. Not only does it run poorly but it has microtransactions that they hid from reviewers. They want you to pay to change your characters appearance and they are also trying to sell fast travel items for real cash.

I definitely won't be supporting it that's for sure and Capcom is probably going to lose a lot of goodwill over it, at least I hope they do so they change course quickly.

@MFTWrecks It may as well be CGI. For In-engine it does look great but it can also be very deceptive. Starfield is proof of that.

@RoomWithaMoose Yeah they could help ground the setting without being playable though. When people buy superhero games they want to play as the superhero, it's one of the reasons people complained about Mary Jane. I personally have no problem with it as long as it is done well.

CGI trailers don't mean much, gameplay is what counts. I also don't see much point in the 2 randoms you get to play as, maybe they are from the comics but 99% of people will never of heard of them, hopefully they add some decent variety to the gameplay at least.

@Sakai @Professor_Niggle There's 2358 games on PS5 not including the back compatible games and only about 7 games run at 30fps. We also have no idea which ones are CPU heavy and which ones are GPU bound or which ones are just down to bad optimisation and lazy devs, so as long as PSSR is a good upscaler then it should be able to improve every game that already has a 60fps performance mode and every game that gets one, also every GPU bound game can obviously be improved as well.

The 7 Games are -

• Marquette - which is also on the Switch so probably should already be 60fps.
• Cartel Tycoon - which looks like a mobile game to me.
• The Quarry - Interactive Horror game. Probably benefits from being more cinematic anyway.
• Gotham Knights - I've never played it but I've heard there's no reason for it to be 30fps other than incompetence.
• The Medium - Port of an Xbox game, apparently this is 30fps because it renders 2 worlds at once, at least that's what an Xbox fan told me.
• Pacific Drive - Unlocked 30fps but I can't see any reason why it doesn't have a performance mode either.
• Dragons Dogma 2 - Unlocked 30fps and the only game on here that most people will care about.

If there's any more I'm not aware of then tell me and I'll add them.

Am I the only one that thought the Callisto Protocol Studio closed down after the game flopped? Well I'm glad they are still around at least.

Magg from Colt Eastwood's channel is claiming that his source at EA/Respawn told him that they tested PSSR on Jedi Survivor on the Pro devkit and they got a locked 120fps at 4k.

Not sure why an Xbox YouTuber would lie about that but It still sounds a bit too good to be true to me. I guess we'll see though.

I'm definitely buying a Pro anyway.

@AverageGamer Yeah I'm sure it takes the same length of time to make a AAA game now as it did then but anyway, why don't you go and ask someone at insomniac or Sony why they couldn't do both because you're boring me.

I just stumbled across this before.

The final is God of war 2018 Vs Ragnarok.

@tameshiyaku Yeah it probably is a decent pallet cleanser but I prefer not to move on to a different game until I finish the one I'm playing and unfortunately this one is just low priority for me due to personal taste.

@AverageGamer Except I would say they are wisely using Insomniac to sell consoles, where they generate most of their revenue and it seems to have paid off since they obviously contributed to Phil Spencer declaring to the world they've lost the console war lol. That definitely seems the smarter move to me, rather than waste them for a market that is a huge risk with a higher chance of falling.

Only time will tell if Meta can be a success but as I said before it still sounds like a pipe dream at this point in time. 👍

@AverageGamer Well it seems it suffers from the same problem as PSVR2, for most after the initial hype wears off it becomes a dust collector so they'll have to overcome their retention problems first, so good luck with that pipe dream I guess.

https://www.roadtovr.com/quest-sales-20-million-retention-struggles/amp/

I don't have time to fit this in between Rebirth, Ronin, Stellar and Dogma but I'm sure I'll pick it up someday on a deep sale.

@GoingTheDist Yep but it is still propped up by Facebook. Loads of other companies would have been bankrupt 10 times over but Zuckerberg is willing to take huge losses. I also wonder how many of the PC crowd just buy it for xxx and a believe that it'll eventually lead to them having a virtual girlfriend.

@AverageGamer I know that their operating cost is the reason why they are constantly losing billions, it seems their plan is to saturate the PCVR market as much as possible and that's why they don't care how much they lose to make it happen.

@liathach I don't think there ever was a war, well only in Meta users minds because Sony obviously see's the massive investment and billions of dollars Meta constantly loses on VR. I personally think the plan was to sit back a bit and hope Meta makes VR a must have and then they'd benefit from that but they aren't benefiting enough from it which makes getting 3rd party support more difficult and makes it harder to justify big investments for 1st party games for it..

@Shepherd_Tallon Yeah hopefully Sony sticks it out and the library grows slowly but surely, at least enough to get enough people interested in buying one and it's best to take everything this Bloomberg guy says with a pinch of salt because he's proven himself to be unreliable.

@MomsSpaghetti Yeah you're best off not giving those naysayers much attention, especially that one guy, he never misses an opportunity to try and ***** on PSVR2 while praising Meta. It is all he ever seems to talk about.

This Takeshi guy definitely can't be trusted, he just recently misquoted Sony again to make a more dramatic headline from that investors meeting and there's a history of Sony correcting him but honestly this wouldn't suprise me if it was true.

Demand is obviously low and there's no point in having a surplus, hopefully Behemoth & that Metro game can drum up a bit of interest and if it is actually going to PC then hopefully it takes off on there, although that could just be streaming PCVR games to the headset for PlayStation users from the vague statement they made.

@GoingTheDist You'd think with those kind of numbers, Meta wouldn't still be losing billions on VR but somehow they still lost $4.65 billion on it last quarter.

@RBRTMNZ Whatever you say sunshine and FYI that IGN hit piece was written by an Englishman and there's people from multiple races and ethnicities defending the game in the comments, and yes that includes African Americans. 👍

@RBRTMNZ Yeah white men are the problem. They are everything that is wrong with your world. Just how racist are you? You're clowning yourself for trying to associate American problems to a Japanese video game anyway. So what's your solution? Only white guys can be the bad guys in media? As I said before nobody has to agree with your supposed issues. The world does not revolve around you.

@RBRTMNZ You mean self defense? Show me the law that says it only applies to white people, I'll wait, anyway trying to associate that to a game about a zombie outbreak in Africa is utterly ridiculous, I'm sure there's a lot of messed up stuff that happens in America and also the rest of the world for that matter but I wasn't referring to serious issues, I'm talking about the minuscule and trivial ones or the ones that are actually none existent until some self righteous holier than thou attention seeker tries to create one and pair it with a real world issue just because it triggered their victim mentality or hero complex.

Ofc some supposed issues can be more important to some but that doesn't mean the rest of the world has to agree with them, or that they are right about it, or that it is an actual issue in the first place.

@RBRTMNZ @Hyena_socks My original comment was influenced by the fact I had just watched that IGN Resident Evil 5 video but I was also only being semi-serious to begin with. The actual intention behind it was just to poke fun at the constantly offended. You're right though, this definitely wasn't the place for it so for that I apologise, and yeah this game actually does look fun.

@RBRTMNZ Except these days, half the time they aren't actual issue's, that was the point.

@Hyena_socks Sorry no can do. I've got to lead my brigade to victory, there's no turning back now. It should be easy though when the opposition are just a bunch of drama queens.

Seriously though do you think people just wake up one day and decide to start saying everyone gets offended by everything? Yeah there's definitely no cause for it, lets just go with that.

@Flaming_Kaiser I'm not sure what you're trying to say so I'm just going to go ahead and presume your drunk, I hope you had a good time anyway mate. 👍

Yeah people forget gaming is supposed to be fun. How long until someone finds something to be offended by in this game and then tries to organise a boycott even though they had no intention to play the game in the first place?

@carlos82 Yeah I'm aware that TFlops can be misleading but that's fine by me either way, actually if it keeps the price down I'm all for it.

I'm more interested in seeing what level of Ray Tracing it can deliver and how good Cerny's resolution upscaling is, or Cerny's secret sauce as some people call it.

@carlos82 "67 TFLOPS of 16-bit floating point."

No I won't think of it that way because it is 33.5 at FP32 👍

If all that is true then I'm definitely buying one. It actually sounds way more impressive than I thought it would.

Hopefully they do a good job on it because this game was definitely fun. It'll probably be digital only though which means I'll have to wait for a sale.

Day one for me as well. Skill Up can complain all he wants about it not being Nioh 3, it makes absolutely no difference to me.

As long as we see some good games then I don't really care who hosts it.

Physical copy or I wait for a deep sale, but I'll buy it for sure.

Well Tencent will probably buy some shares so Sony may as well. They are currently trying to make inroads into the South Korean gaming market so it would make sense and just be a similar situation to what they've already got with FromSoftware.