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My Problems with the PS5:

• It’s too big and won’t fit under my tv
• No games console is worth more than £300
• 80% of its big exclusives are already on PS4
• I find the DualSense to be too heavy
• FFXVI will likely come to Xbox
• Handheld gaming has become way more convenient. I can play most of the games I enjoy on an iPhone with a controller.

@Mythologue The one area PlayStation always pays some attention to is family games. From launching with Sackboy’s Adventure to this, PS5 is a console you can play games alongside your kids on.

One hopes that they lean into the usual Lego games penchant for humour and expand the character roster with some PlayStation favourites. Imagine being able to ignore all the stealth and hunting mechanics and just tear up the machines as a Lego Kratos!

Honestly I’d like a Lego Sunwing to sit next to my Tallneck!

If this is the story of thing that makes videogames players angry then I think they need to go outside for a bit for a walk.

In an age when it should be mandatory for all publishers at a software level we still don’t have things like universal rebinding of buttons for accessibility purposes and not all game soundtracks are available for purchase or streaming. How about the complete lack of any real family centric gaming titles I can play with my kids?

There is a lot in gaming to get irate about but covering up some female body parts ain’t one of them.

Screw the weapons: let us play through the entire campaign from start to finish. There is no good reason they keep it all vaulted away.

Perhaps CERO is ran by teenagers? Dismemberment gets shut down but boobs get a free pass.

Now do the same for mobile and release Locoroco on the iPhone!

How the heck did ScummVM get on the App Store back in December then?

They will have found a buyer before the end of the year.

Paying anything more than £20 for a game that becomes useless the moment the servers are gone is a complete waste of money.

@MFTWrecks I never enjoyed this bit. I like being the lone hero against the evil with no back up. Making it online only just spoils the illusion.

If you can’t play it offline yet by yourself then they need to keep trying until you can

This gen has 2 lost years of the pandemic and cross-gen games. It arguably didn’t get started until 2022 which means we shouldn’t really be getting a PS6 until 2029 at the earliest. I don’t think there is any thirst from gamers for a new gen any time soon, not when they could put resources into developing a new portable or a PS5 that actually fits under my TV.

EDF! EDF! EDF! EDF!

@BeerIsAwesome In Fortnite is all works yet looks so out of place in Destiny.

@Legend_Au Aang is coming in the mini-pass later on.

Sony got lucky with the PS4. They were able to support the expensive single player adventures with HD ports of older quirky portable titles to maintain that unique indie feel the PS3 brought to things.

But the PS5 era has seen Japan Studio shuttered and an over-investment in obviously now-cancelled live service titles that the market never asked for. Hoyo pull in the money by meeting players where they are on the hardware they already own rather than needing a dedicated console and the markets are very different.

In other words Sony need to keep spending the money on the big single player titles, which Nintendo have proven can be evergreen with solid update support. Who knows how much they’ve raked in by supporting Mario Kart 8 with ongoing DLC? But they need smaller, cheaper titles to fill in the gaps and remind us why we love PlayStation in the first place.

There goes the live service investments. Let’s hope they refocus on the single player titles that made the PS4 such a winner.

“We over hired during the pandemic on live service titles which we have since canned after realising players don’t want them.”

@Ooccoo_Jr The PS5 or the VR? The answer to both was Sony investing money in now-cancelled live service titles instead of the single player adventures that kept it on top last gen.

It’s alright: Microsoft are here to fill in the gaps!

So, at the very least give people an option to download and store those purchases.

I reckon this isn’t as innocent as made out. If Microsoft do stop making consoles it means Sony could be claimed to be a monopoly on high-end consoles and the EU might get the platform to open up to 3rd party stores.

Now having the Epic Store or Steam on PS5 would be pretty great but it would also allow Microsoft to bring Game Pass to PlayStation with impunity.

This is the best bit! Arguably Midgar, despite being the most iconic part of VII is actually the worst bit in the game. Finally getting to the world map is up there with Hyrule Field!

Gamers: “We hate the live service business model. Give us everything up front!”

Also Gamers: “Where are our constant updates?!?”

A handheld that could play 100% of your existing digital PS4 library out of the box that was about the same dimensions as the Switch OLED would do gangsters

PSVR2 WipEout.

That is all.

They had one job. Honestly.

Cool cyborg ninja with backwards sword technique vs whiny blonde ring pull and they go with the rug pull.

Come on Epic, nobody wants Raiden in a world Gray Fox exists in.

@starbuck2212 @LifeGirl I was being satirical…. 😅

Sounds like something they’d do though!

As from their website:

“To change their appearance, Guardians must hunt down Isha Torus in the Tower. From here they will be able to pick up a new series of quests which will grant them ‘image marks’. Players get 10 marks per quest and it costs 200 per edit. To initiate an edit players must also have harvested 500 Fractal Crystals from the game world. This is available on a time limited part of Nightfall Raids from Feb 1 - Feb 13th.”

@Nem It was actually based on arbitrary dialog choices during gameplay. It was possible to choose all the negative options towards Tifa and Aeris and go on a man date with Barret!

Sony should consider how easy it is to get PSP titles up and running on mobile devices and either sell ports for $10 a pop or include them in a layer of the PS+ sub.

Given the PS5 only has a handful of truly exclusive games that weren’t cross-gen it makes sense to save a few bob and get a PS4. You can still lose a few thousand days in FFXIV, Forbidden West still looks incredible and you can’t play WipEout in VR on PS5.

The fact they describe Streets of Rage Revolution as side scrolling bodes well.

@bindiana they've also made wraps pointless and any more than 4-5 sets of emotes a waste of time.

You had a pretty terrible PS2 multiplayer shooter, a sequel that added some decent multiplayer options and an EA threequel that was 2000's EA through and through.

None of the games were anything close to Perfect Dark on the N64. I put it forward that Timesplitters was overrated.

They shouldn't be more than 800 a piece for non-licenced skins. If they manage to bring, say the Delorean from Bttf then I might pay a bit more.

It needs a lot of tidying up really. Only 8 music tracks, no ability to use unlocked lobby music and a separate £14 purchase for the music pass is kind of taking the mick at this stage.

They're also asking for £28 for a car cosmetic skin, the price of many standalone racing titles.

Do Sony have some sort of deal with Disney to release loads of crappy PS1 games instead of the stuff that's already on the PSN like Parasite Eve, Alundra, Front Mission 3 or MGS?

Honestly it never hooked me. Dossing around the game world with the cheats was fun for a weekend but that's it. GTA V is so old I rented it from Blockbuster at launch and did exactly that.

This is my point: Sony need to get off their ass and get more classic PS1 games out so people who prevously bought them can regain access to their purchases. You also have the option of buying them new instead of just getting them via a sub.

• Buy PPSSPP
• Bolt on the PSP Store that aready exists
• Profit

Oh Sony.

Just port all your PSP titles to mobile and charge a $10 unlock fee after the first hour of gameplay.

It's not that hard.

@Terra_Custodes The point is that those classic games are all under a tenner and still available nearly 20 years later. Horizon Zero Dawn is nearly 7 years old and also under a tenner. I am sure when 2028 rolls around Forbidden West will also be available on the PlayStation 6 for under a tenner.

But to circle back to the original point: videogame prices haven't risen with inflation and digital preservation is easier than physical.

@DaniPooo Actually any PS1 games you hold a digital licence for that get released onto PS+ you can redownload at no additional cost or indeed buy new for the first time. So my 2006 Wild Arms purchase would still work and carry over

But will they ruin it by investing their profits in more big single player titles or failed live services?

@Terra_Custodes My point is that whilst the prices for some digital titles might seem high given the lack of physical infrastructure to manage, they stay in place for decades. I can still download a new copy of Wild Arms on any PlayStation platform made in the last 20 years but I cannot walk into a store and buy a new sealed one. And where a sealed copy might exist it is a lot more expensive than the digital one because it is a collectors item.

Somebody further up the chain was saying how digital prices should be lower than physical because there are no store shelves to think about but the presence on those shelves is a fraction of the time it exists in a digital store.

@z0d15g0d Nope, £60 each. I paid £85 for Majora's Mask because I had to buy the expansion pack with it!

I found BG3 to be just another po-faced WRPG with far too many game mechanics that get in the way of having fun.

Give me the whimsy of Fable 2 any day of the week.

@Robinsad Due to inflation that £500m for Forbidden West in todays money is only worth. Based on £1 in 2000 equating to £1.80 today like for like its £300m vs £150m. It also cost £100m to develop Forbidden West whereas Perfect Dark was probably a lot cheaper.

The point is that videogames have not risen in cost due to inflation. A £60 videogame today is tremendous value for money.