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A PS5 handheld would cost at least $1000/£850.

@Rob3008 And way less than half the people playing on Xbox are subscribed to Game Pass. Counting PC it's probably less than 5% of the game's potential market. I feel like if anything GP probably helped with word of mouth.

@naruball I’m saying that the success of an expensive and completely inessential product like the PSP shows that Sony fanboys will happily eat up whatever tripe Sony throws their way just like Nintendo fanboys.

@naruball Dude the PSP is constantly sold out when there options that do the same thing for less than half the price and the steam deck that does the same thing and is a handheld gaming pc costs the same price.

@PuppetMaster The port of Luigi’s Mansion 2 sold 1.5 million copies and has been available for only a month. 1.5 for the only Sony developed game this year is a massive disappointment.

@PuppetMaster I'm not sure claiming it is a $60 AA game is the positive argument you think it is but beyond that your analysis is flawed. It was 100% marketed like a AAA blockbuster from the biggest gaming company. The numbers are disappointing.

This strikes me as disappointing for the only first party release of the year. Star Wars Outlaws sold a similar amount and that was considered a failure. Luigi's Mansion sold like 15 million.

@Secryt Name one single game that has been review bombed for failing to include diversity.

The reason you only see reporting on this specific type of review bombing is because all of the people doing review bombing are the bigots.

I don't understand the people defending this. They have just realized they can sell $50 DLC length games like Miles Morales instead of $20 DLC. This is absolutely a bad move for consumers. Screaming about it is weird too but defending a company is weird bootlicker behavior.

The volume of people complaining about too many soulslikes is way higher than the actual amount of soulslikes.

@ATaco the venn diagram of gamers who review bomb and gamers who complain about DEI is a circle.

@McTwist Their actions already discredited them. When you act like an incel people are going to call you an incel. Some people deserve to be shamed.

I have played DMC and Bayonetta. They're fine. The combat feels super repetitive to me. In every battle you're generally just throwing out as many different combos as possible, not in any intentional way based on situation, but instead to increase variety and run up the score. It rarely if ever matters what you choose to do at any given time. GoW on high difficulty requires me to be incredibly intentional and thoughtful about using my full tool kit and making sure to use the right moves in the right situations.

I would tell you to try GoW on high difficulty so that you can experience how perfectly designed the combat can be but some of the things you wrote make me feel like you have a skill issue. You can be in complete control of the action in GoW as long as you're smart about spacing and flexible in your approach. The things you wrote make it sound like you struggled with both at standard difficulty and like you're mad at the game for asking you to master these skills.

@clvr oh we are not a same page here. I would give the game a 10 and think it’s not just a masterpiece but also one of the very best games ever made. A few mid puzzles doesn’t at all detract from everything it does well. For me, it has the best melee combat in any game ever.

@R_L_Stine I played the game on give me god of war difficulty. Almost all enemies have more poise than you so it fundamentally changes the game. It becomes like a more dynamic version of souls combat. And I beat all 72 bosses. It was a ***** load of very challenging and fun gameplay. Gna alone took almost four hours. For me the puzzles were just busy work for me to get back to the part of the game I liked.

I loved the puzzle hints. GoW puzzles are generally uninteresting busy work so the tips helped me get back to the fun part of the game quicker.

8 - Its fun and has a lot of cool ideas but it never does anything compelling with them.

The chicken rocket and balloon power are really only used as high jumps. The time stopper and octopus are used to create mindlessly easy platforming sections. The lights you carry cast to such a wide area that the platforms being invisible becomes completely irrelevant. Other better platformers have used these same powers to create incredibly fun levels specifically built around the skills but in Astro they rarely lead to anything more than rote platforming.

I’m not surprised. Astro didn’t show up on the upcoming games section of opencritic until the week of its release and that list seems to be driven by user activity. Most AAA games show up on it a couple months before releasing.

@30fps60fps I played 90 hour of Tears of the Kingdom and never stopped seeing the choppiness so no it is not something I get use to.

There was a study earlier this year showing that some humans have less ability perceive high frame rates. If you’re not noticing you probably just don’t have as good of visual perception as other people.

@MS7000 Even worse the graphical improvements were only noticeable when they specifically highlighted them. It wasn't improvements you would even notice while playing the games.

@jrt87 I can never understand why people choose fidelity when it doesn't just play worse but it also looks worse due to the choppiness.

I see so many people online stupidly thinking they will be getting more than this trading in their launch units to buy a pro. They definitely won’t be getting a good trade in value now.

I really don’t think open world fits the genre. I don’t think ER is replicable. Even ER DLC which was basically ER 2 came and went rapidly.

I don’t get the love for Crimson Desert. Each round of hype has been increasingly perplexing. The combat looked awful and the preview I read said it felt frustrating not fun.

@get2sammyb I’ve got way too much I’m already playing to fit it in at the moment. It’s usually on sale super cheap so I’ll probably just buy it eventually.

It seems like big third party games only stay on Extra for a few months. Bummed about missing Midnight Suns.

This is 100% going to have performance issues on PS5. Every time a game has had to delay its Xbox launch but launched on PS5 it has come out with terrible performance.

@nessisonett After beating a Returnal’s campaign I never went back because it is a dreadful roguelite. The tower mode however is a fantastic roguelite and I love the shooting so I’ve put dozens of hours into it.

I thought this game was a disappointment. Even with the extremely short run time they were not able to come up with enough smart level design ideas for the drilling. And two of the bosses are so poorly designed that the best strategy did not include drilling. There are a few good ideas in there but they're shockingly spread out for such a small game.

That’s pretty rough for a game that looked expensive and had a lot of marketing dollars behind it. It’s a good game but perhaps it wasn’t the best idea to court and audience of angry horny weirdos that make other people embarrassed to play your game.

Playing 75 hours and beating the main game didn't spoil or even give me any clue about it's story so I doubt this trailer will do much to ruin the DLC for me.

@ShogunRok I would love to see the crosstabs for your polls. I'm curious to know how the responents in one poll voted other especially when y'all do the PS Plus drop polls.

@CallMeDuraSouka So I will take that to mean that no you cannot name a single instance of the thing that you feel persecuted about. People like you want to play victim when you're really just projecting.

Also your response to me makes literally no sense. That idiom doesn't apply at all when the problem with the initial statement is that it is a strawman arguement.

@BrettAwesome Name a game that’s been cancelled or review bombed because of characters showing skin. That’s ***** bigoted conservative weirdos do when they see black or woman characters.

I had rock bottom expectations and it still managed to completely underwhelm.

@NEStalgia Personally I don't miss any news on games I am interested during the noraml news cycle. I think lumping everything together at once makes it harder for the types of interesting game I want to play to stand out from the crowd. All the coverage ends up focused on a handful of big AAA games and indies. Everything else is just kind of shotgun blasted at us in poorly currated "everything we saw" lists.

@KundaliniRising333 Right?! If he is downplaying the show as an 8/10 I automatically assume it's a 6/10 at best.

@nessisonett Part of that sounds a bit like nostalgia. It's hard to get as hyped for commercials as we did when we were kids and the world had so much less happening. But I do completely agree with you on the impersonal nature of the current events. It felt like before there was room for gaming journalist to be surprised by the games they encountered on the show floor whereas now they only cover the handful of games they get access to and those tend to be known titles from prominent AAA/indie publishers that typically already have hype. I feel like with E3 I would always come away excited for a bunch of smaller games and that doesn't really happen anymore.

My problem with both this mess and E3 is that they are not adding anything and just condense a bunch of news into a one week period with the months around it being slow on news. I would prefer to just have news and hype rolled out at a steady cadence.

I have already played SoR4 but it is easily one of the best games ever given away on PS Plus. It is probably the best brawler ever made with great combat, music, and visuals. And it's a top 5 local coop game.

@Jacko11 I personally would not hold other people accountable for my inability to accurately parse their statements. Jeff was right again.

@Jacko11 I listen to literally all of his podcasts. If you listen to the words he is saying he very rarely claims to know exact information and instead is very clear about the level of certainty he has in anything he is talking about. The problem is that websites and Twitter trolls misquote or take his statements out of context. He is the best insider in the business. Incredibly entertaining, well Informed, and knowledgeable.

@Jacko11 He hasn’t said that at all. He has said he heard it would happen in May and that he has no clue when in May. He has to be the most misquoted person in gaming.

No one should ever give a crap about a corporation missing its goals even one that makes a product you like. F*** them all.

@themightyant Got it. I understand your reasoning and why my last response was kind of dumb. I’m not sold on this being a huge factor but do agree with you that it’s not 50/50 as implied by reporting.

@themightyant wouldn’t that thinking also imply that there are multiple monthly users on PS4 consoles as well. In fact it stands to reason that users still on PS4, who either cannot or are not willing to spend money to upgrade, are even less likely to have multiple consoles in their home for each individual user.

@themightyant I don't understand your disbelief? They used extremely simple math to determine that half of PS users are not on PS5. What is the alternative explanation? Who are the other 59 million active users if not people playing on PS4?

@Frmknst My dude, I referred to the game as a masterpiece and mentioned issues I might personally have based on my gaming preferences. There is really no need for you passive aggressive comment.

@Bez87 on the one hand the role playing and exploration you mention are unappealing to me personally but on the other hand you’re right that I should just give it a shot. It’s on a service I pay for so why not? I appreciate your thoughts.

@Pete_Stooge thanks for the feedback!