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After seeing the reviews it just does not appeal to me. I don't mind a hard game. But Elden ring is going to fill that slot in the near future

I think this would produce better games so its a win, CPU cars are never as good to race as real player cars so. At least its in the same frame GT7 not pie in the sky stuff. Still, better AI is the expectation in games today.

@ShaneReactions If you bought on PS3 it was a full price upgrade to PS4 and this is likely to be the same. They have released no updated stuff, free or not. The game is the exact content they released day one. They maintain GTA-online but shark cards are far from being free.

I think RDR-2 was a good indicator that they will invest in a great single player game as its foundation and not go the way of COD and other games that relegated the single player campaigns once they found online success. I'm not a GTA fan but they always have pushed gaming to its limits so I'm very interested in what they will deliver.

I like the look of it, It could something different. I was glad to see its a more reasonable £59 not the £69 PS has set as standard, although its £49 ON steam. I can't play it on PS though as it says controller vibration is required and it triggers spasms due to my disability. It's understandable why PS is mandating the use of the controller functions otherwise developers will just side line them. It's just unfortunate for those of use that can not use them.

Switch is my first Nintendo console, handheld or other. I played on computers in the 80's PC in the 90's Than PC/PS from PS1 onwards. Only hand help I'd had before the switch was the PSP which was great. Don't use mine loads but I use it enough to be glad I bought it.

I have a feeling that this and Deathloop was a single deal with a single marketing spend requirement from Sony. Sony chose to over saturate Deathloop to the point of irritation in order to remove most marketing commitment from GWT. Seems like it was a but of a childish response to the MS buyout. BUT.. Sony may well know something we don't, this may be a real stinker. Time will tell.

@LiamCroft HaHa, yep, its a big studio but they are Independent, and this is self published. Totally fits my definition of a Indie. 400+ studio as per their 8th April 21 tweet

Thing is they have one single IP. You can say they bought the people, but in gaming a lot of it is the design team and there is not not much stopping the leaders taking their new $B and moving on. They will probably have 12 months fixes in place but little else.

I'm going to support this one. For an indie game studio this has to be among the most ambitious ever. In a time we are all complaining about consolidation in the industry, Indie developers making big games need support. I expect it will have a few bugs, that what happens when small teams make big games. But DL1 just got better and better and I'm sure the same will be true here..

They have sunsetted the Witch King haven't they? I still think it is crazy how much content people paid for has been permanently removed. Saying that I feel off Destiny a long time ago. I will be interested to see what Bungie have coming out after Destiny, its hard to recommend anyone who is not a Destiny faithful tries to get into it at this point.

This is a major Sport league title, This is the kind of IP that Sony needs going forward and it needs to be cross platform to catch up with FIFA and Madden which dwarfed MLB in the past. It does look bad from a value point of view but PS has already taken the stand not to compete on value this gen and FIFA sells millions every year. FIFA is also £69 on current gen digital, although it's £46 most places physical. I sure feel bad for those that bought the PS5 digital at this point!

With this purchase and the music rights Sony have bought this year Sony only has about $2B left in the bank from the cash in their last results. They can raise more but they are not a company to load up with debt historically. I would not expect any more buyouts of this level for the time being

Maybe they can sort out Destiny. It has a good player base but its inaccessible for new comers and has a reputation of squeezing every penny out of you, even among its most loyal players. It just deleted a lot of its best content and a vast amount of story and lore, so new players have little in game context to a lot of content.

Sony has said for a while they wanted to expand multi-player offerings. It may not be our cup of tea but games like COD, FIFA, Destiny and GTA online are bigger than any single player games, first party or other wise. The age of Consoles leading gaming is coming to a end. Not tomorrow but they will decline in relevance over the coming decade. Mobile is already the largest in pure money terms, although a lot of that is not the same market as consoles. But soon, every laptop will have the power to game on and every TV will have game streaming built in. PS is the biggest earner for Sony and they have to leverage that for future markets.

This does not mean they will stop making single player games. Why would they stop doing what they are best at just at the time when they need to expand

With what is know of the resolution this would mean very small screens and a very limited FOV with current lens tech. They would need to have a massive set of lenses to make this work so I'm not sure this makes any sense at all.

@frankmcma I'm not in agreement that you need ultimate. My older sons have PC game pass. My younger son only plays fortnight online so has has just plain gamepass both £7 per month. Only I have Ultimate and even then its only because I play on both PC and Xbox and want my progress to follow me. It's only on PS platforms that everyone see's the GP price of entry as the Ultimate. If you don't play across platforms or play online the basic package is the best way to go.

@frankmcma You could have also added the PS Plus collection games to that list.

When we all talk about GamePass, and it is a great service, The PS collection is not mentioned and it is also a very good value and when added to the PS+ games it really starts to compete on value with Xbox. I think Spartacus is going to be an expansion of what was already started with the Plus collection. If they started rolling new games into the collection so they are there for new sign-ups they would go a long way in combatting GamePass. Add is some launch AA and Indie games and Sony can compete at offering a solid ready built catalogue of games for new comers.

@Dezzy70 I saw them on the shelf at a Smyths a couple of weeks back, Went back the next day to pick one up for a friend and all gone. But they are showing up in the wild. I think the scalpers days for PS5 and SX are close to being over. Wish the same was true for Graphics cards.

I think I played around the 40 hour mark. It was about perfect for me. Still more to do for those that wanted but could have blasted though quicker if I had less time or inclination. It's a good sign HFW is confident in the game. I feel a lot of the grindy games like the new AC's swap quality for quantity.

It also looks like they gained a bit with he engine being used for Death Stranding. The animations look much tighter and more nuance than the original. I'm not going to pick it up on launch, I've set £50 as my cap on game costs, so I'll probably hold off until it drops on PS+ with DL2 and Elden Ring taking Feb's main single player slots with a bit of CrossfireX and Warhammer 3 filling in the dead spots.

This is the bravest thing Push Square ever wrote.

I'm a From fan and Bloodbourne is in my all time top 5 games, but I'm not sure I ever wanted a From open world. The tight interconnecting city was one of the stars of the game. I would not want to swap that for a open world. I'm hoping this is great but I'm yet to be convinced. It's not the direction I would have hoped From went.

Unisoft used to make my favourite games, the later PS3 AC games were the best of the generation in my humble opinion. But I can't remember last enjoying one of their games. For me, AC is now so full of unskipable mundane busy work that its unplayable. WD3, set in my hometown, just did nothing for me, FC is better, at least it does not try and drag you into 150 hours of none fun but that's hardly an endorsement. It's probable that they have moved on from me as a customer but I do wish they would look at making some 30/40 hour tight single player games of their past.

I guess on the VR front Sony is really competing against Facebook/Meta and the Quest2. I wonder how a middle of the road offer will work for VR. It works well for the rest of the Console space but I wonder if those just wanting to try it out will gravitate to the free standing Quest while those committed to VR will want the power of a PC driving it. Like most things in gaming content will end up being king and Sony will have to invest studio resources into VR if its going to grow the market.

I think the main thing Sony needs to deal with is the value issue. I bought 3 Xbox Series S for my nephews as a Xmas gift. They also got 12 months of Game Pass. Now I'm sure they would like to play Sony's big hitters but £70 is to high if kids want to play more than 3 or 4 games a year. Its fine to say we paid X amount in the 80's and 90's but Sony is not competing with the past.

Has there been any Sony marketing, Exclusives are always tided to marketing spend. It why we saw so much Deathloop from Sony before release. I'm not even sure what this is about

I'm not really a shooter player but I really liked Battlefield 1 and, after it was fixed Battlefront 2 was fun for a while. I installed BF 2042 (10 hours trial) and deleted after 45 minutes. Even free would not have me reinstall.

Wow, I think some people may be getting a little over worked here, Human rights, mass murder and global domination... This is computer games we are talking about. There are hundreds of new games being created right now, all over the world by 100's of companies, You may not be able to play a curtain game on a curtain piece of electrical equipment as you had hoped but come on, these are not crimes against humanity we are talking here.

I'm happy for games to come out when they are ready. I don't get why people are so upset when a game is delayed. Unless you have an investment, games are to be played. I look forward to new games more than I should but in the same light there is always far more than I could ever play available at any one time. Same folks will also be the first to complain about bugs and poor performance. I know I was guilty of both when it came to Cyberpunk so I not innocent of it myself.

Having read all the comments till now I don't think folks on here understand how the games business works from a finical point of view. A few points to maybe help.

1, Both Sony and MS make little to no money on hardware. This is not a profit zone. Hardware sales only serve to bring players into the ecosystem.
2. Sony makes almost no money on its exclusives, they spend big to again, attract users to their ecosystem.
3. Sony's exclusive deals tend to be on the basis of Sony will charge no platform fees / cut of sales for the exclusive window and will spend X amount on marketing. Exclusives cost Sony. They do not make a profit.
4. All of Sony profit is from third party sales. Over 60% of that profit came from 3 titles in the PS4 generation. COD, EA Sport, GTA-V.

Sony just lost 25% + of PS profitable business. If you buy a PS to just play the exclusives Sony hates you, you are not a profitable consumer. Sony loves the COD bros, Sony Loves the FIFA junkies. Sony Loves the shark cards. All the rest is to get those player to pick PlayStation as their platform.

This is how the Console Business has worked since at least the PS3

The biggest hit to sony is the fact the all of PS profit comes from the 3rd party sales. The 30% cut FIFA and COD will be most of PS's UK profit. Those games are that important. Sure PS will still have FIFA but as a lot of players only play both FIFA and COD, MS is going to take a small chunk of those FIFA $$££ away with this deal. I did wonder how MS was going to respond to PS buying up timed exclusives. Very few companies wanted to sell exclusive rights to MS as Sony was the market leader. I guess we have an answer to that now. I think in some ways both this and the bethesda purchase have been warnings to Sony, As long as you pay to keep games off Xbox we'll keep buying studios. This thing is that if this shifts consoles sales in favour of Xbox, it will become much harder for PS to buy exclusive rights as it will limit exposure to a smaller user base. Then with less exclusives Sony looses more ground.

I always thought Sony was playing a dangerous game buying exclusive rights. I think they where hoping to kill off MS while they where down. Once MS committed to next gen they had to make some move. I did not think it would go this far. The question now is, does Sony stop try to pay to keep things off Xbox and hope for a truce or keep going and risk more buyouts?

I tried it yesterday, as soon as it said they auto pilot, you do the shooting I uninstalled. Not a mobile gamer but Wipeout will always have a place in heart. This is not Wipeout

It's always better they delay a game if it needs it. If it is in a dev hole they will need to considerer the high value of the property. It can take years to recover good will and with HP if they burnt the current market it would need to hold off for a generation. It's not like this was going to be the only thing out there to play

Plus 1 for Sony holding this to counter Starfield. PS was looking to buy exclusively for Starfield so I'm guessing they will have something in the works to limit its FOMO

I know BR's are not very popular on here but I do enjoy jumping into Apex every now and then. Its one of my current ever greens and (along with a little Halo) one of the only PvP shooters I play.

To add to the controller debate. I have had a PS1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. My first Xbox was the One X and I instantly preferred the offset. Xbox is now my default controller. I do respect all the features PS added to the duel sense, But I have to turn them off. I have a degenerative nerve condition and the buzzing of the controller triggers muscle spasms, same with the switch pro controller. Old fashion rumble is fine though.

@Porco No its not, you drank all the coolaid. You could run those transformation over and over again from any SSD given 8Gb memory to play with. They well be a day that PS5 games need 5000Mb/s but its not today and its certainly not Ratchet. With those assets you could load that in and out over the the same wire frame with 6GB of memory and a SATA drive. It's almost like to don't realise that PC graphics far outstrip PS5 graphics. Gartner report from November had 34 Million RTX desktops and another 22 Million RXT laptops. Every one of those is more powerful than a PS5. That's before 60 or 70 million other graphics cards that would be perfectly suitable at 1080/1440.

Again, they are many reasons PS will hold back releases from PC but performance is not one.

@Porco Not right, The only thing that Ratchet needs is a decent SSD, It been a while since I needed to follow hardware stats, work change, but SSD's have been in the majority since 2014. PC users are also still very likely to be running 1080 or 1440 monitors. As seen with Cyberpunk, it was the consoles that fell over. On PC the game was still poor but you did not hear the same performance issues as console. Sony will wait to release on PC but not for the reason you give.

It's going to be a strange gen for Sony, they almost have a Nintendo situation now. Unless you are a Sony die hard most people are going to get a Xbox X for GamePass and a PS for the exclusives but at the moment the PC is the best performer (But at a cost) Xbox comes next performance charts and PS is in third. If they loose the 3rd party sales, which is the main profit centre, to the better performing systems (That's a really big "IF" still at this point) they are going to need to max the profit on the exclusives. Sony spend a lot more then Nintendo do on their titles and PS is Sony's main cash cow (Movies income is increasing, Camera modules doing fine but everything else is struggling) I think we may see the release gap drop to 2 years over the generation. But if Sony needs to raid PS piggy bank along the way I think we will see some variation. Sony cash reserves may well end up driving the PS-PC release timing.

@GADG3Tx87 Yep, I have a large PS collection going back to the beginning. I currently have a day one PS3 still connected and I found a second one in very good order a few years ago that I packed away for the day mine dies. This covers PS1,2 and 3 games. But sooner or later these are going to die. My first Xbox was the One X so I don't have a collection of Xbox games but for those that do, They are in a much better place than PS collectors like myself. I find myself reluctant to use my PS collection because in the back of my mind every use is one less remaining. I have close to 4000 physical PS games in my collection and most rely on a single 15 year old piece of hardware to function. I get that collectors are a tiny proportion of customers but compared to XBox most feel PS does not have any care for us or their own history.

@GADG3Tx87 Must have duel frequency as you can still play CD's on Xbox, Both last gen and new gen. A lot of Duel laser devices are still made. I'm guessing these will become rarer as the lower density red stuff becomes older but PS4 was kind of the odd ball on its release as a device with blue laser only as most devices at the time aimed to be cross compatible. The PS3 was duel laser.

Given all you have to do on the Xbox is put the disk into the machine I think charging for the ability to play your own PS1 and 2 games would be more bad press. If they include a emulator as part of PS Now they need to make it freely available to those with their owns disk for free, just like the competition. Sony is not operating in a vacuum and they need to remain competitive and feature set.

While I don't think it will happen I'm still hoping Sony will look to match GamePass on the new games front. I don't see many folks paying more for today's PS plus/PS now + some 20 year old games. But it seems to work for Nintendo so who knows..

I bought my nephew's a Xbox s and 12 months game pass each. Normally I would have bought them a couple of games each. I wonder if game pass is starting to effect game sales at this point

I think I'm part of the issue why this was not renewed for a follow-up. Not only did I what for a sale, I also gave up early, irritated by the most unreliable motor bike the world ever saw in the early game. When they look at player metrics lots of players dropping out after 4 hours does not do much for games future. As Days Gone has such a fan base to defend it, I should give it a second try some time and try get past the early game irritation.

I think it was important for them to clarify, After the last few AC games forcing you into 100+ hour games unless you pay to skip, it's become important for many of us to know if a game will respect our time. Its one thing to offer hundreds of hours of game play but another to enforce it to progress. Without the clarification I would not have even bothered loading their game. Now thought, a 20-to-80 playthrough dictated by how much fun I'm having. Yep, I'll go for that.

I don't see the need for a remake, the remaster still looks good enough today. It would be nice to get settings turned up to max on it but no way I'd spill £70 for a remake. I think they'd have more success having another go at the TLOS-2 and just pretend the first try did not exists.

Edit: Now to remake on the first game in VR would be something I'd be interested in, Clickers in VR... folks would get to use all that toilet roll they stocked up when the world started to go mad.

I don't know abut that, we already had Half life Aylx. That's a game that matched main line Horizon. So unless forbidden west took a back seat to the VR game I expect this to be a over hyped statement. But VR needs more that the single AAA game it currently has so I'm fully on board and looking forward to reviews.

A lot of fan boying in this comments section, from both sides. The simple facts are that Xbox has got its act together and that's a win for us all, both the X and S are great consoles and Gamepass is a great service. I expect Xbox studios to deliver some fantastic games in the next few years. Its also a fact that Sony still has all the skills and capabilities that enabled to destroy the competition last gen and will keep on suppling first class games for the foreseeable future.
I get the fact that many gamers are 12 years old but I'm going to take a guess that many of the "fanboys" that acting like 12 years at the moment are infract full grown men and women.

It's single cable USB-C and I'm fine with that. With the high Res screens all the PS5 power needs to go into the image. I was not really interested, I already have a index and thought the PS5 would never compete with my pc but now it has eye tracking I'll be following carefully.

As someone who has both consoles I'm happy for Xbox to do their thing and PS to go their own way. If Sony focus on matching game pass it will have to sacrifice elsewhere.

Its looking like a good year, It was hard to just pick top 5. I think 22 and 23 are going to be bumper years with all the stuff that has been delayed hitting release. This year I will not have time to play everything I would like to play so I'm going to have to get really picky.