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I can't wait for Persona 5 Imperial with yet another character and semester (joke aside, I'd be tempted to buy it)

I'm confused, is Sony paying us £33.49 to download Balan Wonderworld? Either way, I don't want it on my console.

Another meaningless article that fails to mention that many games are digital only and F2P games that purely rely on macrotransactions (not a typo).

Why not specify that 100% of PS4/PS5 hardware were sold as physical versions? It would make as much sense as this article.

We all know people will still preorder their next game and complain about it being a wreck because humans never learn.

Too bad you don't fight enemies directly on the map. Hopefully it will play better than Berseria, which had a boring and repetitive combat system.

What a nasty person. Paying full price at launch is a risky gamble considering games are often unfinished and never reflect what was shown on trailers.

Fans will be pleased when Metal Gear Survive 2 is announced.

I'm sure some CEOs saw the many 10/10 user scores for Balan Wonderworld on metacritic and thought "I need to buy that company"

I had no idea another Bioshock was on the way. This is awesome!

But we've seen some dismal quality in recent years from CDPR, Bioware and Bethesda. Hopefully 2K won't follow the trend and murder an anticipated game.

Say what? They weren't prout of its state on release day? They'll sell at least one to me when the game gets out of unofficial early access.

It's not Hideo Kojima, but Hideki Kojima, his twin who was never revealed to the world so they could pull some Prestige level magic tricks.

You forgot to mention it sold more than the Virtual boy, the 64DD and the PS7 combined

I still read Sor Presta on the logo. And I got tired of shoot-em-up 25 years ago.

Should we all go to E3 and break our PS4s for no reason? Please advise, I have no idea how to behave like a playstation fanatic and I don't care about exclusives being ported to other platforms.

They should rename this game to Cyberpunk ETA 2077

I played it after FF15, and in comparison, it's a masterpiece.
Visually I loved those door textures and backgrounds that were full of PSOne nostalgia (disclaimer: sarcasm)

@twitchtvpat And the Series X does not exist? 3+1=4

I have to tip my had to Microsoft who offers backwards compatibility over 4 generations.

@orson I'm not sure why anyone would want CDPR to rush a release after Cyberpunk 2077. Also it's a good thing if they have most of their devs working on finishing CP2077 instead of trying to make more money on a re-release of a perfectly playable game.

@Jayofmaya That explains why I found it so hard to sleep on the top bunk bed as a kid.

The patch note is longer than those diablo 3 patch notes in which they detailed every single item and skill modification, except these are bugs, not balance adjustments. I wonder if this makes the game playable

Do we know of it will be exclusive to a platform?
Hopefully it'll be more fun to play than Death Stranding. It wasn't bad, but often felt like a chore to play.

Going gold doesn't mean much nowadays. Games aren't properly finished until months after release. No man's sky went gold ahead of release and took years to be polished.

@Playstation FYI, PS3 and PSP are from the same generation. My comment was referring to the Vita as the failure.

Look at the bright side, the price is so high, scalpers won't be able to afford it... Or maybe Sony decided to cut out the middle man and pseudo-scalp the PS5 themselves?

You know a console wasn't a success when its shop is shut down the same year as the previous generation.

Also Sony should really hire a new communication team. They have made way too many mistakes this past year.

I think the music is still gorgeous. Hopefully they also fixed the door texture problem and some ugly background towards the end of the game (I'm watching on a phone so I couldn't tell).

I really hope they don't rely on jumpscares for tension. Just crawling next to a clicker with a one note instrument was enough for me to stop breathing and blinking.

As a massive half-life nothing (played a bit on a friend's pc 15 years ago and never finished), I'd still be interested, and having more than 2 and a half games worth playing on PSVR would be an incentive to buy it.

I still see VR as a very expensive experiment with developers still unsure what to do with it. In my mind, it should be a simple control/display option on normal games, rather than VR exclusives. Until this happens, I won't be convinced to buy any VR headset (also I had severe motion sickness as a kid and I don't want to re-experience it as an adult)

Now we need more than 3 games worth playing to justify buying the psvr2 set.

Let's make an early wish and hope they won't remove it again for 6 month when the ps6 comes out.

This is good news, but I was incredibly stupid of them to remove this feature. Then again, the software behind the PS5 is still unfinished, so they probably ran out of time.

@pharos_haven you might be waiting for over 20 years for a compilation. They still don't know how many part they will make.

I'm beginning to think 2077 will be the actual year it's back on the ps store.

I'm not too picky about the protagonist as long as it's Chloe voiced by Ashly Burch in an alternate universe in which she has a happy life... I guess I am picky.

@DrJames It gets even worse when a small fry takes the fall because of an executives mistake. It is all a matter of brand protection. An employee gets sacked because of something unacceptable, people think they are proactive and that it makes a it good company (sometimes it does). Same thing with a CEO would be devastating for a company.

@DrJames I'm pretty sure it's about breaking the rules and screwing directly with customers.

I've seen this in the past in an MMORPG with a GM trying to restore balance between factions by giving/selling overpowered items to the weakest one (not sure if there was money involved). The end result was extremely messy, with items almost impossible to optain and near unkillable characters that would wreak havoc on the battlefield, random people being banned or stripped naked for duplicated and GM created items etc.

There is a lot of competition from studios that have been in the FPS market for much longer with insanely big budget, so trying to get a share of the market is a gamble, especially if the game ends up being stale, and looking at your review, this sadly isn't too surprising.

@nnp42 JPRG: Japanese Pole Raying Game. It probably has Raytracing!

I never tried the PSVR, but I expect the new one to seem a little les experimental and to have better support. I won't consider buying one unless it feel worth it. I won't pay the price of a console for an accessory only compatible with a few games

@Phelan Following your explanation, I'm not sure cheaper is the right word. You still need a Pegi rating for a physical version, and once it's on an eshop, you make ~70% of what you sell without requiring to pay ahead the manufacturing cost. In the end, digital is a much safer bet for indie games, and if a physical version is released afterwards, collectors will gladly double dip. Translation aside, I suppose you can always extend the number of countries in which you want to sell a game later.

@LordSteev all indie games are digital only, unless they become big enough to have a special physical version. Printing physical games costs a lot of money, and I hate this kind of article that says physical games are dying because manufacturers might take this as a hint to stop making physical games. Sadly, it has started with the ps5 digital edition and Xbox series S, and I hope it won't sell much compared to the physical edition in the long run so physical games will live on.

Edit: also barely anybody buys physical pc games anymore. Even if you do, you still need to link it to a steam account or equivalent, so you can't lend it to a friend or sell it, making it pointless. And pc games are still available a decade later, unlike console eshops.

Those statistics mean nothing since most games are digital only. Any similar statistic only taking into account games that have physical releases on day one?

Worst case scenario, Nintendo will always be there for single player games... Because the excel at it and still have no clue how to make an online game.

I'm not even sure I'd bother to reinstall it even if it has a free update with additional content.

FF6 would make sense since it's one of player's favourite alongside FF7. I'd be more interested in Chrono Trigger, but not a crappy remake like secret of mana.

How many versions of ff7 will they make? You have the original, the HD remaster, the remake and this one... The HDer? Remake-ish?

@MrDoug91 It's not just £10. Most games can be found £42-45 at launch. Selling it at 70 means an extra 50+%

I bought it ~2 months ago, so I'll be selfish and hope it won't come to ps plus.

Not everyone would pour ressources to save a game like FFXIV by restarting development from scratch. It's not like anyone expected EA to allocate enough ressources and time to make a game worth playing. EA management must really hate Bioware.

98 more patches and a big apology letter to Sony and the game will be worth buying... on PS6