@Cloud7794 or even just stop charging an insane amount of money for the storage. Better yet just release the proprietary code for the vita cards and let 3rd party make some cheaper ones. This and primarily this was the reason for failure of the Vita. Storage was too damn expensive.
@Applejackson75 This is just flat wrong. Games industry has absolutely NOT ignored inflation and is making far FAR more money than it ever has. With scummier and scummier practices. Every part of gaming has become more expensive. Dunno why you're trying to hold water for the rich fuchs taking your money.
@Flaming_Kaiser What is your point? Nearly all of their first party releases still had "Deluxe" AND "Ultimate" editions that had content locked behind them. Even if you ignore that, your argument is what exactly? "Well Sony doesn't do MT and DLC so the price hike in the WHOLE REST OF THE INDUSTRY doesn't matter"? That dont make sense bruh.
@David187 you clearly have lived under a rock the past 20 years. Videogames have absolutely NOT stayed at the same price since the 80s. $60 gets you the base game. Want the "complete" package? Well be prepared to cough up TWICE that much, cause that's exactly what it costs to buy a full game now. So called Deluxe editions, complete editions, platinum editions all cost upwards of $100 or more and often this still isn't the complete game. These also often launch buggy and broken. So no we aren't paying the same, we are paying more for LESS.
OMG the number of panicky privacy divas in these comments. No one and I mean NO ONE wants audio of your chip munching beer drinking self. This feature is clearly just for the consumer and youtubers to post/laugh at. Your PS5 is NOT "spying on you". You aren't that important, Broseph. Jeez, you'd think you didn't have a damn cellphone.
@Carl-G Unofficial == cheap. I have bought many a Unofficial peripheral and custom item for my consoles over the years very few were of poor quality. You will have to do some research though and that's usually the part that stops people.
@hi_drnick Absolutely not. Under no circumstances should you EVER trust a corporation to "do the right thing". Sony does NOT have a great track record and is seemingly hiding vital information. If YOU want to be a lemming that's on you, but I want to know what the ***** they are actually trying to sell me!
@Cloud39472 Crystal Dynamics is proving what we already know to be true, live services are garbage and you should ALWAYS wait a year before buying the game.
Look I get the optics on this and it feels kinda ***** but it's not like Remedy and 505 are some big dogs with infinite resources and/or stupidly overpaid CEOs. They may just not have the money/resources to develop a PS5 version for both SKUs. Granted it would be BETTER, but this is a lot of hate for a relatively well behaved company.
@Cornaboyzzz Yes, but to be "fair" a new SKU likely means new code and you can't just tack on the upgrade to something you haven't spent the time on. Granted they should just bite the bullet and do it for both but they may just not have the resources, we don't know.
@thefirst One might say that arguments for eugenics and class warfare are also disgusting and abhorrent.
Hopefully it ends with you educating yourself on why your arguments are so terrible and have led to so many genocides and attempted genocides.
Also there is a difference between purchasing a "extravagance" and using your extreme wealth to buy something that's purpose is solely to flaunt that wealth at others. ESPECIALLY during a global crisis.
@Makina Please stop trying to Gatekeep. If the devs want to add accessibility options they can. YOUR judgement of how hard or easy a game is is exactly that, yours.
I personally find the game quite easy on Hard, but I know many many gamers that would not.
@thefirst Because in an era of war, poverty, and disease that ALL could be solved/cured with proper political motivation this is just a gross extravagance for gross people.
@Rob_230 Fan speed isn't a developer issue, it's a hardware one. Sony did a very bad job with the thermal paste in the PS4 and it causes it to overheat which will drive the fan speed up.
I have the new pro version which doesn't have that issue and even when I'm rapidly changing the time of day in photo mode you can barely hear the fan at all.
@Neft Dude you think movies regularly cost more than $245 Million dollars?? AAA Games have LONG cost MORE than most movies do.
4k assets are already a thing.
Games DO cost too much to make. But that's not OUR fault or problem that is a CHOICE the industry has made. This decision was made to "justify" the insane salaries and compensation that the CEOs get. "Well we spent a couple hundred mil on this game so of course we have to give me $30 million in bonuses, but yes definitely fire most of the people who actually made that game." - Bobby Kotick probably.
@__jamiie No prices will increase. Kotick et al will make sure of that. These guys can't ever have enough money. They could have ALL the money and they would still be trying to have more.
@amyjojj7405 The difference is that the money we are paying now isn't going to the people who created these games, who are often quite over worked, it is largely going to a handful of ridiculously over paid CEOs. What makes you think that a $10 price hike in the base price will be the only place they do that? They are already so greedy it's destructive. They don't care about us or even the industry as a whole. They will burn everything down around them to make another dollar and not give a *****.
@Powerpellet Ah yes the ever present defender of the rich. You guys always forget that it's NEVER gonna be you, they always break the LAW to get where they are, they abuse their employees, they don't pay their taxes, and they are using addiction tactics to make not only more money than they need but so much money it's causing problems for the WHOLE industry. So yeah sure you keep trying to hold their water and see where it gets you.
@BalsBigBrother not counting smaller budget titles, I'm at 3 with FFVIIR, NIOH 2, and Ghost. I'll prolly get CP 2077, and there are a couple other lesser know titles I'm interested in. So yeah been an expensive year.
@neon-xxiv Understood. But even at $60 USD I buy VERY rarely. There are sales so often and so highly discounted that I buy maybe 3 new games a year out of upwards of 30-40 total games. Though I will admit I've already hit that this year with FF VIIR, NIOH 2, and now GoT.
@Severian This does not match the facts. Yes the BASE price for a game is the same as it was for the FULL game years ago. Microtransaction, loot boxes, season passes, collectors edition and more have all driven the price of games WAY up.
The answer isn't inflation, it's greed. No CEO of a gaming co or publisher in the 80s was a BILLIONAIRE. We have several now.
@Neft There isn't another answer besides greed tho.
These games are expensive to make. Fact. What's more expensive? Far FAR more expensive? The pay of most of the publisher CEOs. The ENTIRE profits from a game is often not enough to pay the BONUS for Bobby "Satan" Kotick or Android Wilson. These companies do not exist to make games. They exist to make ONE person so rich they can't ever spend even half the money they have.
@SZRT_CIC_Ice PC games are sold cheaper because they don't have the console mark up. Console manufacturers charge more than Steam or any other PC platform.
PC still gets loot boxes and microtransactions tho. Why? Cause Bobby and Andrew need another 30 mil to go with their Billions.
@zedd117 Unfortunately it won't. Greed rules these companies. They will charge more upfront and continue to sell microtransactions and loot boxes and everything else they can think of to pay for those millions and millions of dollars that those greedy ***** in charge "must" be paid.
@neon-xxiv I have known a friend from the 360 era in the UK and he NEVER paid as much as I or anyone else I knew in the states for new games. I know that the standard pricing is higher but it is MUCH easier to find new games at reduced price there.
I completely understand inflation and that games dev has risen in cost significantly in the past 40 years, but games would be A metric ***** ton cheaper if these major Publishers CEOs weren't effing BILLIONAIRES. These guys are so rich they could NOT GET PAID FOR A YEAR and they wouldn't even notice! Literally!
Games industry is littered with the greediest POS slimeballs imaginable. They over work their employees, underpay them, then fire them so they can then receive yet another fat bonus they can NEVER SPEND.
@nessisonett Then that's why you wait for sales. I'm not made of money either but it is insane to expect the cost of something to stay the same for 30+ years. Of course it hasn't. Games do cost more they are just hiding it.
@Kienda Then count yourself lucky. I have a slim and a pro and they both do it and these are just my current consoles. I've had a launch PS4 and an 1st gen pro and they also did those things. I am most definitely not alone. I have friends that have complained about these and other issues. If you check the comments others have too.
This is dumb. You don't need to hack anything to find consistent ongoing problems with PSN. All you need is a PS4 and some self loathing.
Talking with your friends just like you always do? Boom just got kicked from your own party chat. What's that, the store crashed? Again? Well you must have a PlayStation! Want to check the trophies on a game you just played? Nope. Dashboard is borked. Only game it will let you have details on is 3 over from the game you want.
@sabaki08 No there doesn't actually. That's the problem with YouTube copyright "protection" it's often and easily abused. There is also very little you can do to fight these strikes.
@Grindagger Agreed, this "LIVE" event is primarily for generating hype not not because it serves a purpose for it to be so. Most of it is already pre-recorded anyway. Even "live gameplay" won't have any impact without the ability to examine the hardware being used. With the remote nature of this reveal they could be using anything and we have no way of knowing different.
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Re: PS5, PS4 Fans Are Worried Cash Rewards Have Been Removed from PS Stars
@Drago201 Same here
Re: PS5 Folders, 1440p Support Part of New Beta Update Out Today
@DTfeartheBEARD The lower the resolution the faster the game can be rendered. 1440p is often considered a "sweet spot" for performance and fidelity.
Re: PS Vita the Only Console Snubbed in Sony's New PS Plus Premium Subscription
@KidBoruto The dual shock 3, 4 and dual sense all support "motion controls" so I dont know what you mean.
Re: PS Vita the Only Console Snubbed in Sony's New PS Plus Premium Subscription
@Cloud7794 or even just stop charging an insane amount of money for the storage. Better yet just release the proprietary code for the vita cards and let 3rd party make some cheaper ones. This and primarily this was the reason for failure of the Vita. Storage was too damn expensive.
Re: Soapbox: PS5 Pricing Is Setting Releases Like Returnal Up to Fail
@Applejackson75 YOUR OPINION.
Totally unsupported by facts and of course wrong, opinion.
Re: Soapbox: PS5 Pricing Is Setting Releases Like Returnal Up to Fail
@David187 If you actually bothered to read, you would already know the answer.
Re: Soapbox: PS5 Pricing Is Setting Releases Like Returnal Up to Fail
@Applejackson75 This is just flat wrong. Games industry has absolutely NOT ignored inflation and is making far FAR more money than it ever has. With scummier and scummier practices. Every part of gaming has become more expensive. Dunno why you're trying to hold water for the rich fuchs taking your money.
Re: Soapbox: PS5 Pricing Is Setting Releases Like Returnal Up to Fail
@Flaming_Kaiser What is your point? Nearly all of their first party releases still had "Deluxe" AND "Ultimate" editions that had content locked behind them. Even if you ignore that, your argument is what exactly? "Well Sony doesn't do MT and DLC so the price hike in the WHOLE REST OF THE INDUSTRY doesn't matter"? That dont make sense bruh.
Re: Soapbox: PS5 Pricing Is Setting Releases Like Returnal Up to Fail
@David187 you clearly have lived under a rock the past 20 years. Videogames have absolutely NOT stayed at the same price since the 80s. $60 gets you the base game. Want the "complete" package? Well be prepared to cough up TWICE that much, cause that's exactly what it costs to buy a full game now. So called Deluxe editions, complete editions, platinum editions all cost upwards of $100 or more and often this still isn't the complete game. These also often launch buggy and broken. So no we aren't paying the same, we are paying more for LESS.
Re: PS5 Microphone Records Your Voice When You Get a Trophy
@NEStalgia it's a MUTE button not a MIC button. Of course the light is ON when active.
Re: PS5 Microphone Records Your Voice When You Get a Trophy
OMG the number of panicky privacy divas in these comments. No one and I mean NO ONE wants audio of your chip munching beer drinking self. This feature is clearly just for the consumer and youtubers to post/laugh at. Your PS5 is NOT "spying on you". You aren't that important, Broseph. Jeez, you'd think you didn't have a damn cellphone.
Re: Unofficial PS5 Faceplate Seller Has to Rebrand After Sony Complaint
@lacerz Indeed, the FIRST thing I asked after seeing the UI. Folders are a MUST.
Re: Unofficial PS5 Faceplate Seller Has to Rebrand After Sony Complaint
@Carl-G Unofficial == cheap. I have bought many a Unofficial peripheral and custom item for my consoles over the years very few were of poor quality. You will have to do some research though and that's usually the part that stops people.
Re: Reminder: Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice Receives Free Major Update on 28th October
@b1ackjack Yeah.... You might be waiting a real long time
Re: Soapbox: The Week After PS5's Showcase, Sony Told Us Nothing About Its Next-Gen Console
@hi_drnick Absolutely not. Under no circumstances should you EVER trust a corporation to "do the right thing". Sony does NOT have a great track record and is seemingly hiding vital information. If YOU want to be a lemming that's on you, but I want to know what the ***** they are actually trying to sell me!
Re: Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2 Is the Fastest Selling Game in Franchise History
Ow, my thumbs!
They hurt.
Re: Marvel’s Avengers Trailer Proves Sony Aren't the Only Bad Guys
@Cloud39472 Crystal Dynamics is proving what we already know to be true, live services are garbage and you should ALWAYS wait a year before buying the game.
Re: Marvel’s Avengers Trailer Proves Sony Aren't the Only Bad Guys
@feral1975 If he didn't use tired catch phrases he wouldn't have anything to post and he must post.
Re: 505 Games Attempts to Explain Control's PS5 Upgrade Scandal
Look I get the optics on this and it feels kinda ***** but it's not like Remedy and 505 are some big dogs with infinite resources and/or stupidly overpaid CEOs. They may just not have the money/resources to develop a PS5 version for both SKUs. Granted it would be BETTER, but this is a lot of hate for a relatively well behaved company.
Re: 505 Games Attempts to Explain Control's PS5 Upgrade Scandal
@Cornaboyzzz Yes, but to be "fair" a new SKU likely means new code and you can't just tack on the upgrade to something you haven't spent the time on. Granted they should just bite the bullet and do it for both but they may just not have the resources, we don't know.
Re: Name the PS4 Game Using These Screenshots
17 of 20 Bitches!
Re: Fall Guys Flexes Figures with Impressive Infographic
This is fun and pretty cool but I can't help but think how much more fun it would be with some MXC style commentary.
Re: PlayStation Shares Some Gobsmacking Ghost of Tsushima Player Stats
@thefirst Ok, firstly OBVIOUS joke.
Secondly ***** you? You ain't my boss or anything remotely like it.
Re: PlayStation Shares Some Gobsmacking Ghost of Tsushima Player Stats
Now they need to release the number rage induced fits that resulted in a busted controller because the camera is such a pos.
Re: Random: PS5 to Get 24-Karat Gold Makeover for the Uber-Rich
@thefirst One might say that arguments for eugenics and class warfare are also disgusting and abhorrent.
Hopefully it ends with you educating yourself on why your arguments are so terrible and have led to so many genocides and attempted genocides.
Also there is a difference between purchasing a "extravagance" and using your extreme wealth to buy something that's purpose is solely to flaunt that wealth at others. ESPECIALLY during a global crisis.
Re: Ghost of Tsushima Patch 1.05 Adds Lethal Difficulty, Easier Combat Setting, and Text Options
@Makina Please stop trying to Gatekeep. If the devs want to add accessibility options they can. YOUR judgement of how hard or easy a game is is exactly that, yours.
I personally find the game quite easy on Hard, but I know many many gamers that would not.
Not everyone can or should "git gud".
Re: Random: PS5 to Get 24-Karat Gold Makeover for the Uber-Rich
This is a disgusting example of excess.
Re: Random: PS5 to Get 24-Karat Gold Makeover for the Uber-Rich
@SaikoWaifu2003 Those who enjoy lording their wealth over others.
Re: Random: PS5 to Get 24-Karat Gold Makeover for the Uber-Rich
@thefirst Because in an era of war, poverty, and disease that ALL could be solved/cured with proper political motivation this is just a gross extravagance for gross people.
Re: Ghost of Tsushima's Shockingly Short Load Times Were Originally Even Quicker
@djlard except that they aren't idiotic, they have useful information, and are only there for a short time
Re: Ghost of Tsushima's Shockingly Short Load Times Were Originally Even Quicker
@Rob_230 Fan speed isn't a developer issue, it's a hardware one. Sony did a very bad job with the thermal paste in the PS4 and it causes it to overheat which will drive the fan speed up.
I have the new pro version which doesn't have that issue and even when I'm rapidly changing the time of day in photo mode you can barely hear the fan at all.
Re: Poll: Would You Pay $70 for a Brand New PS5 Game?
@Neft Dude you think movies regularly cost more than $245 Million dollars?? AAA Games have LONG cost MORE than most movies do.
4k assets are already a thing.
Games DO cost too much to make. But that's not OUR fault or problem that is a CHOICE the industry has made. This decision was made to "justify" the insane salaries and compensation that the CEOs get. "Well we spent a couple hundred mil on this game so of course we have to give me $30 million in bonuses, but yes definitely fire most of the people who actually made that game." - Bobby Kotick probably.
Re: Poll: Would You Pay $70 for a Brand New PS5 Game?
@__jamiie No prices will increase. Kotick et al will make sure of that. These guys can't ever have enough money. They could have ALL the money and they would still be trying to have more.
Re: Poll: Would You Pay $70 for a Brand New PS5 Game?
@amyjojj7405 The difference is that the money we are paying now isn't going to the people who created these games, who are often quite over worked, it is largely going to a handful of ridiculously over paid CEOs. What makes you think that a $10 price hike in the base price will be the only place they do that? They are already so greedy it's destructive. They don't care about us or even the industry as a whole. They will burn everything down around them to make another dollar and not give a *****.
Re: Poll: Would You Pay $70 for a Brand New PS5 Game?
@Powerpellet Ah yes the ever present defender of the rich. You guys always forget that it's NEVER gonna be you, they always break the LAW to get where they are, they abuse their employees, they don't pay their taxes, and they are using addiction tactics to make not only more money than they need but so much money it's causing problems for the WHOLE industry. So yeah sure you keep trying to hold their water and see where it gets you.
Re: Poll: Would You Pay $70 for a Brand New PS5 Game?
@BalsBigBrother not counting smaller budget titles, I'm at 3 with FFVIIR, NIOH 2, and Ghost. I'll prolly get CP 2077, and there are a couple other lesser know titles I'm interested in. So yeah been an expensive year.
Re: Poll: Would You Pay $70 for a Brand New PS5 Game?
@neon-xxiv Understood. But even at $60 USD I buy VERY rarely. There are sales so often and so highly discounted that I buy maybe 3 new games a year out of upwards of 30-40 total games. Though I will admit I've already hit that this year with FF VIIR, NIOH 2, and now GoT.
Re: Poll: Would You Pay $70 for a Brand New PS5 Game?
@Severian This does not match the facts. Yes the BASE price for a game is the same as it was for the FULL game years ago. Microtransaction, loot boxes, season passes, collectors edition and more have all driven the price of games WAY up.
The answer isn't inflation, it's greed. No CEO of a gaming co or publisher in the 80s was a BILLIONAIRE. We have several now.
Re: Poll: Would You Pay $70 for a Brand New PS5 Game?
@Neft There isn't another answer besides greed tho.
These games are expensive to make. Fact. What's more expensive? Far FAR more expensive? The pay of most of the publisher CEOs. The ENTIRE profits from a game is often not enough to pay the BONUS for Bobby "Satan" Kotick or Android Wilson. These companies do not exist to make games. They exist to make ONE person so rich they can't ever spend even half the money they have.
Re: Poll: Would You Pay $70 for a Brand New PS5 Game?
@SZRT_CIC_Ice PC games are sold cheaper because they don't have the console mark up. Console manufacturers charge more than Steam or any other PC platform.
PC still gets loot boxes and microtransactions tho. Why? Cause Bobby and Andrew need another 30 mil to go with their Billions.
Re: Poll: Would You Pay $70 for a Brand New PS5 Game?
@zedd117 Unfortunately it won't. Greed rules these companies. They will charge more upfront and continue to sell microtransactions and loot boxes and everything else they can think of to pay for those millions and millions of dollars that those greedy ***** in charge "must" be paid.
Re: Poll: Would You Pay $70 for a Brand New PS5 Game?
@neon-xxiv I have known a friend from the 360 era in the UK and he NEVER paid as much as I or anyone else I knew in the states for new games. I know that the standard pricing is higher but it is MUCH easier to find new games at reduced price there.
Re: Poll: Would You Pay $70 for a Brand New PS5 Game?
@Nakatomi_Uk THIS.
I completely understand inflation and that games dev has risen in cost significantly in the past 40 years, but games would be A metric ***** ton cheaper if these major Publishers CEOs weren't effing BILLIONAIRES. These guys are so rich they could NOT GET PAID FOR A YEAR and they wouldn't even notice! Literally!
Games industry is littered with the greediest POS slimeballs imaginable. They over work their employees, underpay them, then fire them so they can then receive yet another fat bonus they can NEVER SPEND.
CAPITALISM SUCKS. It ruins everything good.
Re: Poll: Would You Pay $70 for a Brand New PS5 Game?
@nessisonett Then that's why you wait for sales. I'm not made of money either but it is insane to expect the cost of something to stay the same for 30+ years. Of course it hasn't. Games do cost more they are just hiding it.
Re: Seems Sony Will Pay You to Hack PS4, PSN and Report Security Flaws
@Kienda Then count yourself lucky. I have a slim and a pro and they both do it and these are just my current consoles. I've had a launch PS4 and an 1st gen pro and they also did those things. I am most definitely not alone. I have friends that have complained about these and other issues. If you check the comments others have too.
Re: Seems Sony Will Pay You to Hack PS4, PSN and Report Security Flaws
This is dumb. You don't need to hack anything to find consistent ongoing problems with PSN. All you need is a PS4 and some self loathing.
Talking with your friends just like you always do? Boom just got kicked from your own party chat. What's that, the store crashed? Again? Well you must have a PlayStation! Want to check the trophies on a game you just played? Nope. Dashboard is borked. Only game it will let you have details on is 3 over from the game you want.
See? Easy! No hats needed.
Re: Weirdness: Sony's Spider-Man PS5 Trailer Pulled from YouTube Due to Gameloft Copyright Claim
@sabaki08 No there doesn't actually. That's the problem with YouTube copyright "protection" it's often and easily abused. There is also very little you can do to fight these strikes.
Re: 4K Footage of PS5 Games Will Follow 1080p, 30 Frames-Per-Second Reveal Event
@Grindagger Agreed, this "LIVE" event is primarily for generating hype not not because it serves a purpose for it to be so. Most of it is already pre-recorded anyway. Even "live gameplay" won't have any impact without the ability to examine the hardware being used. With the remote nature of this reveal they could be using anything and we have no way of knowing different.
Re: 4K Footage of PS5 Games Will Follow 1080p, 30 Frames-Per-Second Reveal Event
@SegaBlueSky Reliable? Have you met Sony?
Re: 4K Footage of PS5 Games Will Follow 1080p, 30 Frames-Per-Second Reveal Event
@playstation1995 You definitely do care of it's in 240p. Even on a phone anything less than 480p looks like trash.