TheMightyImp2

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.

*will lose.. sounds better than loses (in the future)

So, something you haven't read... And the main part of the 'story' is to explain what anthology means.

Not the greatest read.

Anyone read theses articles and wonder why they bother? I know it's for clicks, and comments like this, to get advertising.. but does anyone really want this anymore?

@species
I've just watched the tronicsfix videos again and the cosmic red and black controllers are identical to the white ones, but the starlight blue, galactic purple and nova pink controllers have all new boards and slightly altered sticks

The video to watch is called 'sony did something right?! New PS5 controller teardown & comparison'

@species
That does seem unfortunate.

To be fair, I have 5 white ones, that I no longer use since I got the first blue and red ones, I also use a black one, a purple one, and a Spider-Man controller.
I've never used my camo one, I have another red and blue one.

Maybe the colour ones are more robust, but I doubt it, as tronicsfix disassembled them at launch and they (red and blue) were identical inside.

I'm pretty sure the Spider-Man controller has a different board, as it has different connections to the rumble motors..

Maybe white ones die faster? But to be clear, the only reason I don't use my white ones anymore is because I bought (or had bought for me) coloured controllers.

@Sil_Am
Agreed. I have 12 controllers (7 in my family, 2 PS5's)
None of them have ever got stick drift, despite the youngest players being 7 at the time, and they are twins, so if anyone is gonna give the sticks a workout it's competitive 7 year olds!
Never had drift on Any of my DS4's either.

Must be a dirty hand thing.. I guess either people press down on the sticks while using them, or allow bits of food to get in the base of the sticks.

The only issue I've ever had with Dualsense is a broken R2 spring, and that controller was replaced under warranty due to 'maneater' being an R2 destroying free game on PSN back in the day!

I have an embarrassing amount of controllers. I have 5 out of box at any one time, 4 permanently on charge on two official charge docks in a line, cable under the other one, nice and neat.. and one by my gaming seat.
In an average day of gaming with a bit of streaming from YouTube, netflix etc, I'll swap pads to the chargers twice a day.

So four hours is probably about right.

If they have extended battery life.of the new controller, it's probably due to more efficient motors in the rumble and haptics, and also maybe the battery is now a couple of batteries instead of the one big slab.

It really wasn't in PlayStation's interest to have long lasting controllers in the beginning, because they sold more controllers and charging docks due to poor battery performance. We die hard early adopters put up with it, because it's new.. but now that everyone and his cat can get hold of a PS5, they are having to get a little bit more efficient as the general population just won't put up with that battery life.

@Bez87
You are probably joking, but just incase you aren't, limited run games bring digital release games and release a physical copy, of few units, like 5,000 or whatever.
They are pretty expensive, usually you buy it well in advance like a Kickstarter, and you get it long after you forgot you ordered it.
I have a few of them, including the first ever ps5 limited run release. And a few PS4 ones

People saying you rent rather than buy.
I under the licenses situation. But there is a solution. Sony either refunds all money paid by purchasers, or they negotiate a deal that allows the sales to be final,. similar to 'the pinball arcade' losing the Bally licenses for future sale, but previous purchasers are still allowed access.

Sony paying a ton for stuff that was bought ages ago won't make Sony money. It will cost a lot. But it will restore a little confidence in Sony for existing customers.

And many movies have rent or buy. If we allow this to happen, all bought items become rental, and that's not a good situation

He is right, I'm afraid..
Ragnarok is a great game.
The Valhalla thing.. not so much.
But he is soft as Mr whippy right now..
It's all flowers and feelings..

There was a few minutes when I thought epic had done a good thing, and added content to keep their game relevant with new modes.
But my kids have told me that you need a separate pass for the guitar hero type bit.. otherwise you don't get as many level up items. So it's all to sell additional battle pass type real money transactions. Boo!

It's not a system though is it. It's an accessory

@silverspeed
Yup, easy to get in the UK.
Smyth's, Argos, game, you name it, they have it, and they've been available for a very long time.
My Smyth's have the special Spiderman 2 bundle, they had the horizon bundle for ages, and they got all the slit sided consoles in on day one and have them available off the shelf.

What a useful article. There I was, standing in line at the hairdresser's, all excited to buy a console I got on release day years ago, and this article saved me the embarrassment of informing me that they are available from every retailer you'd expect them to be.

This isn't an article, it's just a list. ..still, it worked 300+ of us commented

@Enigk I thought the same. But it's to stop pay to win advantages for players.. if a skin gave you perks, it would be even harder to refuse to buy them for kids because they'd need them to be competitive

Firstly.. wow, that's pretty.good value getting free skins from a company that drags money out of parents for a free game as effectively as they do. So that's good, I guess.

Secondly, I'm ancient, and i'll be playing Fortnite with my kids when the Lego survival bit Launches, and I'll be checking out the rocket league part too.

Thirdly, this is something like the most popular game of all time, or top three or something. It's certainly a game, and it's kept my kids playing since October 2020 when I bought all 5 of them all Fortnite special edition Nintendo switches on release day.. saved me a fortune on playstation games. They hardly play anything else!

Saved me a ton

Having recently bought 2k drive physical PS4 for £15, I thought I'd got a bargain!
I was surprised to find I couldn't update to ps5 at all, so to get it free now will be great.
Powerwash is something I wouldn't have got, but will enjoy once I get it, and I know nothing about sable.
Overall, I'm very happy with this selection.

I have loads of seasons of SpongeBob on the PS3 that my kids used to watch.. but they weren't from discovery, so it's all good.
In an ideal world, sony would refund all the purchases, as they have made interest etc off the purchases that were probably from ages ago, and it's just a good practice thing to look after your customers.

This will likely become the next ultra collectable peripheral. Like a 500 million PS4 controller, or the 500 million headphones.
This is crazy expensive, and that in itself makes it less likely to be bought in huge numbers.. this scarcity will drive the price up for collectors..
I have way too many controllers.. but I'd love this one of they want to send me a review sample to keep!

Better than life was the game in red dwarf.. such a good vr experience that users would forget to eat, and just die.

PS5 can only get stronger, especially as the player base grows.. especially if the new so called slim can sell at the black friday prices we've just witnessed.

For £200, you have a pick of a pretty huge crop.
I think it's poor that you need these if you bought a portal, as they seem to be the only compatible earbuds.
Thankfully, I haven't bought either, so it doesn't affect me at all

@Ravix a good idea.oa either to put games in folders of when they joined the line up, or even into folders labelled when they are leaving the service.

That way, if you aren't that I to some of these games and your go to game is getting a bit boring, you can scan your folders for stuff leaving soon and maybe give them a try before they go

Wow, I'm gonna get so much money back, I spend loads in the store, lol!
Digital games are way too expensive in the store. Disc is always cheaper if you shop around, and this is the point.. you can't shop around in the digital store. You can wait for sales.. you can search for games under £5 etc.. but the lack of competition has lead to really expensive games, and then loads of absolute trash free on mobile but pay on PlayStation games.
The series of jump games, jumping games, and flappy bird type games are the scourge of the playstation store. I'm sure these are there to make average prices look better.

I heard it was peach beach splash, where everyone uses guns including Harley Quinn, who is more famous for melee weapons..

Has it changed for the better?