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@Steeleye25 I've just put two hours into Absolom, and absolutely loving it so far.

How's the player-base these days on Rematch? Very tempted.

What I'm not tempted for is Absolum. That's an instant buy for me now. I actually picked up four new games last week - Shinobi, Divinity Original Sin 2, The Crew Motorfest, Gears of War. And I'm balls deep into Death Stranding 3... those will all be getting shelved this weekend for Absolum.

@Toot1st Me saying I don't want an Xbox but wouldn't mind playing a few select games isn't some random statement, it's a reply to someone repeatedly telling others to buy an Xbox. What I said is entirely within context of the conversation.

Reading comprehension - give it a go sometime, will make your own and everyone else's lives a bit easier.

@SMJ He didn't mean it literally...

@Balaam_ I say this as someone with several thousand physical CDs and records in the room next to me - physical media is dead, time to get over it.

@SMJ I mean, that's true, but also impactical for a lot of people. Do I want to replay Forza Horizon 2 and 3 again? I sure do, but do I want an Xbox One sitting under my TV? And the effort of tracking down physical copies of those games (since they're long delisted)? Absolutely not. I'll just crack on with the considerable backlog of games I already have on formats I already own.

Like the other commenters, if those games somehow launched on PS5, I'd buy them in a heartbeat. But they won't, so "meh" to the alternatives.

@nomither6 Wii smashed the 360 in terms of sales, PS3 overtook it and had vastly more daring games in the last few years of the generation (as did the Wii by default - Kinect was a lame attempt to emulate it and capture that audience).

360 was great, but never on top.

@SMJ Bugs are ironed out, QoL improvements abound, more content.

By all means, tell us how he's wrong?

@Oram77 Not just studios, but whole publishing houses!

Should bloody well hope so they (as a now-third party mega publisher who) can show PlayStation some "love", or whatever the other poster you were replying to called it.

@SMJ

But this site does enjoy whipping up the fanboys

Delicious irony considering you're telling people to "just play it on Xbox", or "buy an Xbox".

Pardon me/them for not wanting to spend money on a dead platform.

Love these, shame I find it hard going back to a regular Dual Sense after using the Edge for a year.

Games already feel like they've been dumbed down to be "interactive experiences" rather than "games" with proper fail states and skills checks.

At this point just lash on a YouTube or Twitch playthrough and save yourself the price of admission

@GamingGod Nintendo's market is people looking for a console to play console games, Sony's market is people looking for a console to play console games. They're the same thing, just slightly different flavours.

If I go and buy a Switch 2 tomorrow, that's almost €500 of my gaming budget that goes to Nintendo instead of Sony. Then I'll be buying games for the Switch 2 - same deal. But as it is, I'm not going to because I have a frankly embarrassing backlog on PS5, which means the money I paid to Sony didn't go to Nintendo, and it's also stolen the time away from them.

@NavalHistorian I'm a firm believer that the rot was setting in with Xbox before the Xbox One - they pivoted hard to Kinect with the 360.

I was working my way through university behind the tills in GameStop at the time, and early in that gen was selling the 360 to people who wanted titles like Halo 3 and Gears of War (the LE Gears of War console sold like hotcakes because it was damn cool). I remember selling a bunch of 360s for games like Dead Space, Fallout 3, Rainbow 6, GTA4, Final Fantasy 13, etc. at those games respective launches. The number of systems (and Live Gold subs) CoD helped shift needs no introduction.

Then Kinect shows up, it attracts the Wii "casual waggle" crowd, the killer first party exclsuves dry up, and no one is sure who the console is aimed at anymore.

@PuppetMaster Right? Like the two best burgers in my hometown are across the street from each other. One place does great pizzas as well and doesn't go too hard on chips/fries, the other great chips/fries.

Are they in competition with each other despite their products not being identical? Well if I want a quality burger with similarly good side, absolutely. Just like how Sony and Nintendo don't sell identical products, but if I want to buy a console + console games then they are clearly vying for the same people's time and money.

And wasn't it one of the big Nintendo honchos who said "everything is in competition with our products" (possibly the DS).

@TheArt Subjective opinion innit.

I think Spider-Man 2 and GoW Ragnarok are horribly mid games, yet I also think CO E33 is utterly mid as well, and Death Stranding 2 smokes it in every aspect.

But once again that's just my subjective opinion, and there's no right or wrong.

@RPGamer1994 And Japan is one country. Meanwhile in the rest of the world.

You're a hardcore PC fanboy - cool, we get it. Go play those games instead of trolling a site for a platform you have zero interest in.

@RPGamer1994 You recon AMD and Nvidia smell of roses?

Lol.

@GamingGod It's already been explained several times in this thread - Sony sells consoles and games, Nintendo sells consoles and games.

The exact same market.

@RPGamer1994 If PlayStation make the same bad moves as Xbox, then why is the PS5 another massive success for them while the Xbox brand is effectively dead and buried?

@Mattlong78 What made it "much better" for you?

When I had the Series X (did the exact same as yourself in terms of timing) I thought it was much of a muchness between them, bar maybe Quick Resume (which was an amazing feature).

By the time I sold my Series X it was louder than my PS5 (which saw the most use to begin with).

I worked at GameStop during the PS3/360/Wii era (was a handy job for university when you have a gaming habit - staff discounts were decent at one point). Used to trip over the number of special editions (I'm being hyperbolic here, but you know what I mean).

Really miss those days at times.

@saffeqwe What age range are you? Because this game is anything but obscure - released when the PS2 was really taking off, and the renewed hype for Star Wars was a thing.

@Jammer That's exactly what they did.

https://www.smythstoys.com/ie/en-ie/gaming-and-tech/games/avatar-frontiers-of-pandora/avatar-frontiers-of-pandora-from-the-ashes-edition-ps5/p/254352

@MasterChiefWiggum Microsoft haven't been competition since the late 360 days.

And yes, Nintendo are competition - the vast majority of people into gaming (or any hobby) have finite time and money to spend on it. Sony sell a videogame console, with online infrastructure, first party exclsuves, lots of third party games, which is the exact same as Nintendo.

Just because one of them is less powerful and can be played on the sh**ter doesn't mean it's not in competition with the other.

@RoomWithaMoose Different tone and context to what's been said though.

And Microsoft are one of the main companies enabling the enshitification of everything with AI. Not Larian, or Sandfall.

Nadella could do well to read up about The Streisand Effect.

Rare physical release ≠ obscure game.

@AhmadSumadi I loaded my save and was "refunded" a massive wedge of points!

I got as far as finishing Kiera Metz's questline on it (NG on Death March), but could see that the build just wasn't possible again, so noped out of it.

Then again, it's my second-most played game ever on my 17 year old profile (and most played single player), and the PS5 upgrade was free, so it's not like it owed me anything.

@AhmadSumadi Meanwhile my PS4 Death March toxicity build absolutely no longer works and is a limp biscuit compared to what it was.

I haven't booted the PS5 version in a long time, but if I recall, the branches take three points to max vs. five in the PS4 version, and you can't push the max stats as hard. Pretty significant difference there.

Saros and Tokyo Extreme Racer.

I've almost 500 hours on the PS4 version, but zero interest in the PS5 version as they decided to mess with the builds and stats of a then eight year old, single player game for no apparent reason.

Death Stranding 2. Went back and five-starred everything in Mexico for some juicy unlocks. Back in Australia, I just finished chapter four and unlocked the blood boomerang.

Shinobi Art of Vengeance. Really enjoying this, think I'm in the third area proper. Can see the legitimacy of the complaint that the stages are a bit too long.

@bowzoid I just saw a video of Sektori the other day and will be my next purchase.

I'm still playing Resogun since it launched in 2013 FFS.

but a free-to-play fighter inspired by the world and characters of League of Legends seems like a no-brainer, doesn’t it?

As a long-time fighting game player (since 1991), it isn't. Zero interest in this.

@NathanKang Started it yesterday and played for five hours straight. Can confirm the clear lack of taste lol.

@JDINCINERATOR Or it looks like part of the graffiti culture that can go with the sort of street racing depicted...

@get2sammyb Once you get round the bunkum story it's a good'un. Also don't expect to win every race, but you'll still progress - I found that kinda refreshing.

@doctommaso Nah, I play games for the gameplay, not the story. Doesn't matter how good it is.

@Oram77 Yeah it's so bizarre.

I enjoyed the 20 hours I played of E33, but I never felt it's the second coming as some people seem to be touting it as.

@clvr Ah yes, because artistic direction didn't exist on PS2 or Xbox 360...

@Northern_munkey Shinobi has been bought and installed! As has The Crew Motorfest for some brain-dead arcade racing.

I might boot them up, but there's so many packages to deliver 😂

If Tsushima never existed this would have been a 10/10 experience. But it does, and this is just a tweaked version of that game.

7/10.

Ah quality control, we hardly knew ye.

@Stevemalkpus Yes. Hollow Knight is overrated in the extreme.

(Oooh, that's that, a personal opinion? See how this works now?)

Found this to be a meh story. Really don't understand the hype for this game at all.

@Dan12836666 Using the same logic then all third party/multiformat developers are lazy by default.

@Dan12836666 Nonsense. I buy Nintendo consoles almost exclusively to play mario games. Would be much handier if they were available on PlayStation, which has been my main format since 1997.

Anyways, of the three I played - Yotei was a boring sequel. Could've saved myself the entry fee and played Tsushima again.

Expedition 33 for me is The Emperor's New Clothes and wholly overrated. Great battle mechanics, but that's it. The stages were little more than pretty but empty boxes to run around.

Death Stranding 2 is my top game of the year, albeit I've only played 16 hours so far.