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It seems to have been discounted to €480 or €475 for the majority of eurozone countries (France, Spain, Belgium, Greece, Germany). They did something similar last month and some months before to "remove" the stock of the OG model.

In any case €475 is a "good" price for what you get.

@nomither6 OK, I am semi trolling/joking but you missed

• Ability to back up game saves in USB

@sanderson72 You are right, I totally forgot this. I also have a PS4 with an internal SSD and it downloads up to three stuff simultaneously, if I recall correct. However, as you stated the "copy" can be extremely slow in any PlayStation console depending on set up. It surely is very slow in some cases.

@kirkn The PS5 is an impressive piece of hardware and I am very happy with it, even though the only real exclusives are Final Fantasy games which was the selling point for me either way.

That said the OS is bad with frustrating menus, lots of useless options. Some processes like copying games are very slow, the media support is subpar, no actual folder support. And the most bizarre of all games not in the home screen do not update automatically and there is no way to back up PS5 saves.

@E5115271 You can only back up PS4 saves on USB, not PS5 ones. And their paid PS Plus cloud saves doesn't even work well. It has some bizarre sort of limit on how many save files you have. When I was a subscriber, it always told me that I am out of space even though I was not even close to the actual GB limit.

Another useless update. Although, to be honest, the only think I want is the ability to back up PS5 games on a USB. You can only do this for PS4 games.

I don't care for Suicide Squad or Harry Potter but say that you wanted to take another shot at a live service game. What a better IP to do this than a Harry Potter game, especially with the new series approaching? I guess they will mess it up but it could work

@Ralizah I will definitely play it again in the Steam Deck when it eventually arrives on PC. Hoping for no Epic Games exclusivity non sense this time around.

I started it yesterday. Come to think of it the only recent games I have in PS5 are Final Fantasy games

So they left Microsoft to partner with ... Microsoft?

Started playing yesterday. I managed to avoid everything but of course Square themselves said in what area the game ends...

Come to think of it the only other game I got before Rebirth was FF16...

To be honest I am not a subscriber to any ps plus tier and I have no reason to, but if they had Horizon and Spiderman there day one I would subscribe and I think I am not the only one.

Watching this bizarre podcast was a waste of time. We will bring four games but we won't say which. Some others may come in the future or not... Basically, what Microsoft more or less always said in the past.

I let my sub lapse last November and I don't miss anything. I may occasionally pay for a month if I need cloud saves but thats it

For some reason there is no PC version of Felix the Cat? Anyway, for some reason I have never played those games, time to check them out...

The game plays very well and looks great even in the base PS4. Too bad the story is a cliché and generic mess.

After many years of being a plus member I let the sub lapse. The price is way too high and I only paid for cloud saves anyway.

I am a huge jrpg fan but, even if the dub is not that good, I prefer to understand what the characters talk without having to read tons of text. I still don't get why the Atelier developers stopped providing dubs. They said it cost too much or something

I am one of the original backers. I hope the game delivers.

I really like FF16 but the story doesn't feel that complete. Seems that they really didn't know how they wanted the game to end. As for a possible sequel I would like to see what is there beyond the ocean but I would much prefer a new FF17.

I am not sure that this DLC is not that anticipated though. In Sony's blog and in various forums I see a hate to this due to the rogue like nature. In any case I will play it as soon as I can. It is cool that they also offer the DLC for PS4 players unlike the HFW situation.

Wait when did SEGA confirm platforms for the new games? JSR could be a live service android game. Also, Microsoft could buy the game for Game Pass due to the platform's history with JSR.
I really hope though that the new games are fully console games without the nonsense exclusivity that SEGA Ages and Virtua Fighter 5 currently have.

I will certainly not stay up in 2:30 in the morning to watch a show that will end in 5:00. Couldn't they have chosen a better time for Europeans? Or do it one day later?

I am in the Minority but got Superstars instead of Spider-Man 2 and never had any real interest in Mario games.

Still, I would prefer a game in the pixel style of Mania or Origins. Some elements blend together and some of the late bosses need rebalancing.

I don't really care about this game but I would love if they released the new Layton on Steam or PS4/5.

I can confirm that if you have the older versions of Grandia and
Jet Moto you get the new for free.

They uploaded the trailer in YouTube https://youtu.be/Ye3st9z6jQY?si=vJazCOJCMQjRzp1_

I see the discounted extension (mine ends in a month or so) for the base tier in the app. From 72 euros goes to 57.

Finally, the PSP and PS1 classics all fans, new and old, have been waiting for!

Very cool, hope they add digital cross buy

To be honest I have no idea who Jaffe and Connie or Totoki are and I wasn't even aware who Ryan was before he tried to close the PS Vita store and made me rush to buy the PS1 classics I missed only for the store to remain open. I am pretty sure the same applies to most, even they follow the news a lot.

I don't get what the issue here is. Everyone that worked in the original versions is credited. Everyone that has not worked in the ports is not credited. Why it should be any different?

The semi random nature of whether you can buy PS1/PSP games continues. This time in typical Namco nature you cannot while you can for Sony games.

Hall Effect sticks are cool, but I hate the asymmetrical placement of the sticks.

I have the Game Boy version and the game ... is not very good

This is great! I would also like to have audio description and captions at launch but it is great that they are planned

I thought Advent was cool. I was not a big fan of Digre though.

I don't like limited run games. I ordered Castlevania Requiem and arrived more than one year later...

@Kidfried Exactly! Websites and Square Enix themselves spoil parts of the game casually. Square even spoiled the final area of the game!!

I get that they want to create interest but come on...

@ArmoredMore I played those games on Vita and loved them. I ALMOST got the platinum but gave up eventually.

Portable Opps with Metal Gear is always good. I may also treat me with a Steam Deck copy sometime. I am pretty sure the collection won't run that good on Switch.

If you want a laugh try to play the PS4 version from the Disk without the patches. It literally runs like a slow motion replay from a football game. The patched version works fine though.

Do we know if it is cross buy with the PS5 version?

Edit: to answer my own question my digital version preorder says PS4 & PS5 now so I guess it is cross buy which is neat

Meanwhile I started playing the fan translation of Kuro 2.

Kuro 1 may be indeed announced tomorrow but since the other games are fresh, I think it will come out in at least a year from now.

@MagisterMagi The Sega games are very different from the Nintendo ones. The Nintendo ones are kind of similar to one another though.

If they could add the Master System / Game Gear version or any of the Lost World...

Still this collection is way cool

@ArcticSin I was speaking what hypothetically would be good for Microsoft, not what would be good for PC gaming! I am not very familiar with PC gaming anyway; I only have a Steam Deck and even though I work in both Linux and Windows I very much prefer Windows. Seems that the stores on PC don't really compete though.

That said Proton is very good as an alternative but there are arguments in both sides. Windows 11 work good in the Steam Deck if you have a fast SSD, albeit a bit slow. You get more compatibility but loose some stuff from Steam OS like changing TDP in the fly etc.

I have no connection to Nintendo, its characters and its franchises at all. That said imagine Zelda made by Nintendo in modern and not dated hardware available day one in Game Pass... How many would subs it would get!

On a more serious note though, wouldn't Valve make more sense if Microsoft would buy another company? Imagine the stores merging and buying a game once and be able to play on PC, Xbox or Steam Deck without any hustle. Microsoft store is not as bad as it was since Game Pass was introduced and it offers cross buy with Xbox but imagine cross buy with Steam as well. Even now the stores don't compete that much, most of the time they have the same discounts...

@__jamiie In the end it comes down to what games you play the most. Games like Sonic Origins and Blasphemous do not play that well with this circular off position dpad in the Series S controller. The controller is perfect in the other aspects though.

More on the topic, it may be an unpopular opinion but I would much rather have a 30 to 40 € simple controller with only rumble and a big battery, like some 8bitdo models, not 80+ € controllers of questionable durability with underutilized features. Since when buying a controller became such an investment?

In any case if Microsoft made a controller with symmetric sticks and proper dpad I would buy it day one.

@theheadofabroom Thanks for the info, I was not sure of the differences of Unity and Unreal Engine/Godot!

@DennisReynolds Steam has the PS4 version of the game for some bizarre reason while it should have the PS5 one with scalable options in case you have PS4-era hardware.