TheMightyImp2

@WizzNL it's the same type of person who gets a mini bought for them, and never waves at other minis.

Maybe they got a ps5 as a gift and have absolutely no idea where any of the bots came from.

Or the type of person on 'who wants to be a millionaire' who, when the audience is asked, puts a stupid answer so they can see thier vote.. lol

It's a 10/10 if you have are a playstation fan, knowing all the games and references.
If you had to nit pick and look for improvements, timed runs should have been included from the start, and, more importantly, abilities that you get from levels should be able to be carried over to other levels, like Skylanders or mario with the big and small mushrooms.
Going back to each level as the mouse could open up new areas inaccessible previously, same as with the sponge power up, etc...

Shut up and take my money!! And memories!

The fact you get the PS4 version, and the PS5 version, and there are literally hundreds of trophies across a triple trophy list makes this remarkable just for that.

Luckily, those trophies are achieved by playing an excellent game many, many times.

Looks awful, is a single stick shooter with no fire button, so should be worse than beserk in a world of robotrons, but it's actually a fantastic game..

What suprise success was that then?

If they are going on sales, I hope that's net sales, as most people I know through internet forums like Facebook took theirs back when they realised that the updates they hoped for like ability to stream streams were never going to come.
Like the psvr2, it was a conspicuous consumption item that people used to flex over others, only to find out it had little support or real function.

2tb is fine. Had it since they activated the nvme port just after launch..

I keep all PS4 games on a 5tb external HDD, and all ps5 games on a 2tb Samsung 980 pro.

The ps5 itself is almost full of the operating system.. it saves to the internal SSD all the data needed to find the stuff on the HDD and the removable SSD. No idea how anyone copes with less than 7tb of extra storage!

I'll swap you one of my Spiderman controllers for three of these, boxed as new

My first PS5 is a release day machine. Used daily for everything from gaming to streaming. My second PS5 is a second edition and has never been out of the box. It went out of warranty in the box. I really don't care, because I made the decision to be an early adopter, and it's odd that the same people who were feeling all smug cos they got a console or headset early are now feeling butthurt because of the inevitable price drops.
Ps5 got cheaper because it's the 4th edition. It's been made of cheaper components with smaller boards, less plastics, cheaper to distribute because they weigh less and you can fit more in a lorry or freight plane.
Vr is cheaper because it was dead before it released.
Guess what? Your portal will halve in price soon, because they are crap.
It's just the way things are and will always be.

@Enigk you'd be surprised.
My 5 kids are under great pressure from their mates to get the latest skin, or all dressed in the same outfit.
My kids know better if course, but occasionally they will work their butts off to get extra in-game credits to buy doja cat skin or whatever..

@DiscoDriver44 is there a pc version already?

I was gutted when the ps5 turned out not to look like this.
If they brought out a special edition like this, I'd buy it in a heartbeat.

Maybe someone could scan one and 3d print it? Then sell the shells only

Do you still need to do the same race a million times to buy a car that is out of stock by the time you want it?

So, the first day the servers wouldn't let me on
Now, the game crashes every time I talk to the first guy in the next area..
I've sent 5 crash reports.
Hopefully it will settle down and be playable

@Rocky1972 they probably know that by now, considering thier comment was in December 2022..

Well, it worked.. we clicked, we read, we realised we didn't really learn anything..

Already pre-ordered the physical copy.
Shopped around and got it cheap. Just a shame that the pre-order bonuses seem to be for the waaay more expensive digital versions.. it's almost like they want an all digital future with the bonuses for digital pre-orders!!

@nomither6 not sure if you wanted an answer, but on psnprofiles it's almost a quarter of a million players that have seen it all the way to platinum, something like just under half the number of people who have launched the game and are members on psnprofiles. And that's just one trophy tracking site.

Having been a relatively early adopter of the first revision of the first psvr headset, with the lighter wires etc (which I'll always call PSVR2) I knew from the disintegrating rubber headband, the uncomfortable heat of wearing the headset in the summer, the low quality shovelware that was churned out like chocolate buttons, and the very few good titles like astro rescue mission, I guessed that the actual PSVR2 would have maybe a couple of games I'd like to experience, but I wasn't prepared to pay about £350 for each of those two games.. for an investment of £600 for a headset, and £50 per AAA game, you really need to spread that cost out over 50 games really, all of which still cost £12 extra each once you divide that £600 between them.

Bit of a misleading title.

We all know where they will be.

Memory meadow, gusty gateway, behind the ape escape bot

SSD speedway, turbo trail, where gravity rush girl is juggling the apple up the wall

Cooling springs, frigid flies, where the bot is waving the race end chequered flag. (You could probably backtrack from hotel hopalot checkpoint, to be fair)

You'll just have to wait 30 days in between each

Re cold storage tracks on wipeout, you just turn the in game music off and run a Spotify playlist of those tracks... You are welcome

@Paranoimia this is a pretty spot on comment, to be fair.
Made an Xbox account for Minecraft, unisoft for Uno etc, e for burnout paradise.

It's really not big news to make an account..

Ps5 owners couldn't care less about concorde. I doubt pc owners will jump through hoops to play it.

If you were into that sort of thing, I would imagine scouring YouTube private videos could be down relatively easily.

Using the same tech that ai uses to group all your photos together into stories, etc, I'm sure you could make a routine that searches for recently uploaded videos for playstation presentations.

It was pretty crap. Can't even remember the game they force fed us for the first 10 minutes. Some 5x5 FPS. Yawn..

Astro bot obviously great, and one other.

A good measure of how good the presentation was, is to go to the lab store, and see how many games featured in the show you have added to your wishlist.

Let's just hope 60 of the levels aren't just flying levels using the controller orientation to control it, like much of the presentation

Mine has worked just fine up until now.

I'll check to see if it's gone mad, but I know it teaches my 175 hours on FFXVI, my 3,000+ hours on happy dungeons etc. )It even showed your PS4 games total times)

Well, I play on my PS5 most, but it's usually PS4 games as they run better than on the PS4 pro.
I occasionally boot up my PS4 pro because the PS5 likes to hide PS4 games that are also PS5 games. It's good to check the 4 because you'll miss out on double trophy lists.
The vita is used occasionally, last week I bought an uncharted game.

The fat PS3 that plays all the PS2 and PS1 games I have, sits next to the PS5, wondering what it's done wrong. But at least it's not in a cupboard like my PS1's.
I have a UK and an USA PS2, but that gets used for Gitarooman and dance games with a mat controller.
Even as a day 1 PS5 owner, and owner of three PS5's, I still wouldn't push the PS5 on someone who is still happy with their PS4

Rebirth had the problem of being part of the FFVII trilogy.
Personally, on remake, I couldn't be bothered to do the last few vr fights, or do the entire replay of the game to get my last few trophies. Rebirth is so much better than remake, but not everyone will know that as the first one was very mink coat and no knickers.

FFXVI likely suffered due to the swearing for no reason, and that Dacia voice over guy. I was glad that for once, a Japanese game would not have phrases like 'candy' 'sidewalk' 'gee whizz' or any other American localisation phrases, but even as a Brit, the awful UK voices were jarring after a while. Also, XVI wasn't a real final fantasy. It was more a devil may cry arcade game..
I honestly can't remember ever having to alter my armour, change my weapon for an elemental advantage, or cast a certain spell to maximise damage against individual foes. You just put your best gear on with the best stats and hammer away. Once some people knew of the idiot mode you could enable using rings, it likely deterred some strategy fans as they knew anyone would easily be able to platinum it

Ooh, I'm trendy! Bought physical sealed version of sonic superstars for PS4 to get the ps5 upgrade for free, only paid £19.99

And, cyberpunk I've had since day one.. might have to jump back in!

@NinjaNicky
Depends if they are completely cosmetic, or if they give you an advantage permanently, like higher Ollie's,.more stable manuals, etc.
Having played 'happy dungeons' and 'is it wrong to try to chat up girls in a dungeon, battle chronicle' I know only too well that permanent bonuses and new areas you have to pay for that enabled better rankings in competitions do really make a difference.

Maybe (obviously not) there won't be any micro transactions, and all the money will come from renaming tricks into product placement.

Grind the subway footlong bench
Do a pepsi max (kick flip)
Hold a Nandos for 45 seconds (manual)

Well, at 13 hours or so, I'll just wait until the dlc goes fully free. Sony will want to make it free around Xmas, I reckon

Handy article. I haven't taken the plunge yet as talk of 20-30hrs was originally used to describe the game length.

Just out of curiosity due to the 'censorship' hype, is it true the Japan version is uncensored on disc, and if so, does that mean that the Hong Kong version will be too? HK versions are usually the Japanese version with English as an option for select screens at a minimum, from what I've experienced

Most exciting part was the introduction of qr codes to scan so you could read all the stuff in that 'article'

I've been into final fantasy forever.
I came into the franchise very early, and still went backwards to play earlier games.

16 was enjoyable, but it was too simple for a final fantasy game. As some people have already said, more debuffs, buffs, elemental weaknesses etc should have been used, as I remember it as a bit of a one button bashing, wait for super move to charge, use and repeat.

I was also happy to not have the game americanised in it's translation. It really takes you out of the immersion when Japanese characters are saying Jeez, sidewalk, go to the mall, (not exact examples but you get the point)
However, having said that, and being English, the heavy English voice acting got pretty wearing. I remember it as almost a bunch of cockneys, like EastEnders does final fantasy. Maybe I'm remembering it wrong, but I also remember a disproportionate about if swearing, which wasn't necessary.

Just platinum'd the fractured but whole.
Much better than I anticipated, and has so many laugh out loud moments, my whole household started watching the play though

Screw 60fps.
I bought a TV that does 120hz.. make all games 120fps!!

@zhoont download the demo, and remove the green suit..

I'd buy it.
Let us know when it comes out!

I'm a real playstation fan. Had multiple consoles and handhelds of each generation, but not even I would say that the ps5 is at the top of its game. Very few ps5 only games.
It's a great console for playing PS4 games, nice and fast and quiet. But it's not as ground breaking as the PS2 or PS3 was at the time

Bought too many ps5's and too many dualsense controllers to go pro straight away..
I'll be holding out for PS6

This patch broke the gold saucer progression in chapter 12..

We still have 4 PS4's in the house. Why wouldn't you? Even with a couple of PS5's, we can still play 6p linked burnout paradise etc..
No one is lingering... The idea that everyone would have sold their PS4 to buy a PS5 is odd, and who do you think bought them? Not gonna be people who don't use them, is it? Of course the PS4 is still alive and well.

Forspoken has been £10 or £12 brand new physical disc in many shops recently.
Some of these sale prices really aren't that good at all.

Quite a short sighted view really.
They will always lose money on hardware.
The PS5 has had 4 revisions that we know of already, and the development of the VR2 would have been very expensive. Seems sony have given up on that faster than the vita.
They will make their money back with the games and the subscriptions..
The thing about this sector is that any money taken, even at small margins, is money not earned by the competition.
Keep on plugging away and slowly kill off your rivals.

The new handheld being a success will be less important than Sony taking some sales away from the competition, whatever that console will be at the time.

I didn't think they could keep the lights on, let alone run a billion PS5's..

@FuzzieGinge88 the number of times in the last few weeks I've seen people asking how they upgrade well before the release date.. it was bound to happen, lol

Nope.. I have all the originals on discs.
Once I saw digital foundry's review of the game being better only for the VRR, I have decided to not play the exact same game again with actually worse pop up in places..

@Veritas7Ax
Thomas was alone was free way back when.. I really cannot remember how long ago. It's actually a good game that develops the further you play it.

It does make a 1977 Atari VCS's graphics look good in comparison though.