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@Luigia it really isn't a copy of Nintendo at all

Take 2 examples-

1: Horizon Zero Dawn
2: Zelda: Breath of the Wild

one Sony first party exclusive, one Nintendo exclusive. Both were released within a month of each other (Feb 2017, March 2017)

Horizon Zero Dawn's all time lowest digital price? completely free, (not even contingent on a PS Plus membership) but even if we pretend for a minute that that's "cheating" you can easily get it for £8 digitally when it's on sale, which it frequently is - and that's the complete edition, including the DLC. The regular price for the complete edition, in 2022, when it's not on sale, is £16

Breath of the Wild, on the other hand? All time low digital price of £41.99. I personally only picked it up in December 2021, and I considered £32.99 (physical copy) from Amazon to be an absolute bargain - and you still have to buy the DLC seperately if you want it

Sony are being conservative with discounts for PS5 games because we're a little over a year into this generation. Nintendo are conservative with discounts because they're Nintendo - the two are not the same

Witcher 3 GOTY @ £6.99 is standard pricing at this point (whenever it's included in a sale anyway, which it very often is). If you're paying more than this for the game in 2022 you have more money than sense

when it comes to gyro controls I can take it or leave it..

I can take it on the nintendo switch in portable mode (actually moving the whole screen around and seeing the aim change in line with where you're pointing the screen)

But, I can leave it if I'm playing with just a controller (PS5, nintendo switch in docked mode, etc) - I just find it too easy to move the controller while pulling the trigger and missing the shot completely

That's just great. I feel guilty enough about spending money on games that sit in my backlog and I don't even play them - now I'm potentially stopping trees from being planted?!

Seriously though-
1: When I get around to getting HFW I can't imagine it'll sit in my backlog for too long
2: My more sensible thoughts that the above comment alludes to are, why would anyone come up with such an unnecessarily convoluted rationale for planting trees? Plant a game for every game sold, sure - it's a marketing gimmick but I can get behind that. Plant a tree for everyone who earns a speicific trophy, though? Why let the backloggers hold you back!? If the tree needs planting, just do it, Sony!

@get2sammyb if it's difficult to go back to after experiencing 60fps, it sounds like you're recommending the wrong option

In all seriousness though, I'm curious as to what the actual difference is between performance and "resolution mode".

Is that all there is to it - resolution (i.e. 4K)? If that's the case, my TV is only 1080p anyway so any kind of 4K mode is wasted on me, unless you're also getting ray tracing or something similar for your reduced frame rate

well duh.. maybe if Xbox massively outsells PS next generation (or before then) they might reconsider, but things being the way they are, that's a whole chunk of players whose money MS aren't going to turn up.

Bethesda games, while also huge are at least a bit more niche (more so than CoD) and are primarily played by PC players rather than the console crowd - so while MS making them Xbox/PC inclusive might ruffle a few feathers, it's not like throwing CoD money away

meh. IMO my comment was neither particularly unconstructive (in context - I don't think it was any more unconstructive than all the unremoved "I thought this was a PS blog" comments whenever any writer deigns to criticise Sony or report on PC stuff), nor was it particularly unfair (mainly, I think it was perfectly fair), but do what you gotta do, guys. I accept that there's a line and I'm not the one who gets to draw it

reads the overly positive headline

sees the Mars Attacks avatar underneath it

dies of confusion

@ChrisDeku it's a physical game, relax. The whole point of physical games for some people is that you can re-sell it. There's no need to get on such a high horse about it

@Z390 I don't think this is a problem unique to the PlayStation store, it just depends on how the developer handles "DLCs". If it literally treats them as "downloadable content" where you have to download something extra, then when you first install the game, it'll only be the base game that you're installing (an example of this would be AC Odyssey, where you have to manually install the DLC if you have the season pass, from what I remember).

A lot of developers don't do this, instead the "DLC" that you pay for is more of a "license to play/use" the DLC, but the data for the DLC is included in the base game.

My point being, it's the developer's choice which of these two ways they handle their DLC, not Sony

@get2sammyb I don't know if it needs six star wars games, but it does need at least one follow up to Fallen Order

but why is the news feed full of No Man's sky guides for seemingly no reason?

This game never maintained my interest long enough for me to even understand what the system was for scoring (and I doubt it was all that complicated). I can't imagine a new scoring system is going to fix my lack of interest

personally I'm hoping for an announcement of the steam release too

What a stupid question

Although it's somewhat telling that PushSquare's poll gives out at the 40 hour mark and labels everything more than that simply "more than 40 hours". I'd say 40 hours is probably a good maximum length for a game's story content, but even then there are exceptions

I can really enjoy a 5 hour game
I can really enjoy a 10 hour game
I can even really enjoy a 40 hour game
I can even enjoy games that go on longer than this

What really makes some games more enjoyable than others isn't that they've hit some magic sweet spot for game length, it's that they actually do a good job of being interesting for the whole length of the game (although they don't necessarily have to get this perfect)

What I absolutely hate is games that are artifically long, sending you mindlessly scrambling around an icon riddled map looking for levelled loot. I mean collectables are tedious enough but they're just about bearable because you know you're collecting all of them. Many games now have you scrambling around simply finding things that you're only going to sell. Which wouldn't be so bad except you can sink tens of hours finding this rubbish, it's just lazy on the dev's part.

@Jacko11 @danzoEX @FixMadden22

Not saying I agree with @BoldAndBrash, but I will say this-
The swinging in Insomniac's Spiderman is so easy, my 4 year old daughter likes to have a turn and she can quite happily swing around New York with ease

I think @BoldAndBrash might be after more of a Dark Souls-style swinging experience, where it takes more than just puching the left stick forward and holding down a button, and if you choose to swing into the side a building full pelt, you get to face the consequences

At the end of the day, Insomniac's swinging mechanics were built to be easy and fun, not to be particularly challenging or realistic, and some people are within their rights to want more realism

Interesting stuff going on with those cargo pallets - they're strapped together incredibly far apart (far apart enough for one to fly all the way out of the plane before the next one starts moving) on the plane, but as soon as they're outside the distance between them shrinks to about 2 Tom Hollands. They're playing by their own rules, no one else's!

@djlard it doesn't matter how many turns of phrase you use, your point is still dumb. Your whole point seems to be "a game doesn't truly exist on a hardware configuration unless it's exclusively playable on that hardware configuration". If that were truly the case then nobody in their right minds would buy an RTX 3090 (I mean, you could argue that nobody in their right minds would buy one right now anyway, what with the markup on the things even from regular retailers) just to play a bunch of "souped up GTX 1060 games"

Granted, Sony still likes to categorise games as "PS4" or "PS5" (IMO the Xbox model makes more sense in that regard) but effectively the PS5 is really more of a "PS4 Pro Pro" right now. But that's just where we're at with console generations right now - it's not like a decade or so ago where a new generation of consoles would be able to play games that were completely incapable of running on old hardware

@djlard "better graphics and maybe loading times" - as opposed to what, exactly? Granted, there's also the Dualsense which is by far the PS5's USP, but there are plenty of games where the PS5 version has some degree of Dualsense support.

Better graphics and loading times though - for the most part, that's the main difference between console generations this time round. The PS4 really isn't holding back PS5 games as much as know-it-all PS5 purists like to think. Look at the world of PC gaming, where there are thousands of combinations of CPU/GPU/memory to choose from, and there are still plenty of HDD users who haven't got an SSD yet. You don't hear the PC crowd complaining that PC gaming is inferior because of all the people who have to set all their graphics settings to "Very Low" (plenty of your PS4/PS5 games are also available on PC, so if anything the "very low" PC users would be holding things back, even after game devs ditch the PS4, if that logic actually holds up)

The fact is that there are just not many games that really require the PS5's power, and won't run on a PS4 with a bit of a graphical downgrade. Even Rift Apart could have been built to run on PS4 - it wouldn't have been built the same way as it was for PS5, for sure - but apart from some slightly longer loading times (at the start of the game/when dying) and some inferior graphics/frame rate, you likely wouldn't have even noticed the difference if it wasn't pointed out to you

@Broosh "FFVII Alternate Universe Intergrade" sounds better/doesn't sound as silly as the actual name too

@Broosh and yet it's actually more of an alternate universe sequel, than either of those things

I never really thought these words were all that confusing to be honest. It's not the fault of the word "remastered" that everyone thinks that every future remaster is going to be more like a remake, despite the fact that none of the past ones have been

If you want to get into really murky words, let's talk about "Definitive Edition" and what that means?

@rachetmarvel well of course it can. Were you under the impression that Sony needed our money so that could keep putting coins in their internet meter, otherwise multiplayer would die and there'd be nothing they could do about it?

Kind of curious who this freebie is for exactly. Anyone so committed to single player gaming that they're not even subscribed to PS Plus (after all, there are plenty of PS Plus subscribers who are in it for the games, not the ability to use multiplayer features) are probably not going be swayed by a weekend of free access to the thing they're not bothered about anyway.

At best, I can see this appealing to a few Dark Souls players who like to co-op but aren't actively subscribed to PS Plus at the moment

@Nem I don't think there's been a Remedy game that's first person so far, so that would be a bit unexpected

Eclipse? Should have gone with "Degobah: Become Jedi"

@theheadofabroom whaaat

sorry, but I like my war on Christmas theory better than the boring truth

even if I do have to only look at PC related articles to sustain the illusion that PushSquare has turned red to celebrate December

@Areus now you're just stating the obvious

@Futureshark pushsquare is red because the facade has slipped and it turns out they're run by communists! (This is Britain, we use proper political colours, not that weird system in America where the conservatives are the red side!)

Either that or they're teaming up with Starbucks for the war on Christmas, making the whole site red without actually acknowledging Christmas anywhere. It's political correctness gone mad!

(Silliness over - it's most likely a significantly less war-like version of the second option and with less collaboration with Starbucks too)

@NEStalgia yeah it'll be interesting to see what happens with the new service assuming it's not just an empty rumor (there's been plenty of those this year). I have a year's worth of PS now (minus a month or so) and 2 years worth of PS plus on my account, and if they're doing a tiered subscription I wonder how those subscriptions will translate into tiers in the new world

@NEStalgia I stream PS now on my PC using a dualsense controller (it was that or just don't do it, I've never had a PS4). You're right that it's not natively supported but there's a nice bit of software called reWASD that lets you map your dualsense controller to PS4 controls, fooling the PC (and PS now) into thinking that it's a DS4. You can also map it so that the PC thinks it's an Xbox controller, and use it for PC games that aren't in Steam. Only slight downer is it's not free, but you get a free week or so and after that it's only £6 or so I think

I don't need to answer any quiz questions to predict disappointment and saltiness

@mucc yeah I'm gutted I didn't try harder to get a 3060 when they'd just launched. "I can't afford it just yet" I thought. lol..

@PC_Peasant since when was HZD free on PC? It was free on PSN for a while, but never on PC

@ChrisDeku 2021 is a joke. Everything else just kind of rolls up into it

@mucc you also need mad bargaining skills to get a RTX 3080 at 700 of your chosen currency . Not sure what the situation is in the US but over here even the retailers (major retailers! not scalpers! although it's kind of debatable at this point) are selling them at about twice the RRP, if not more

@ChrisDeku I feel you fell for bait but I could be wrong

I love how the "ultra" setting asks for a 16 core CPU (on the AMD side anyway). Pretty sure that's a little over the top, even for Ultra (I'd have thought the difference between "performance" and "ultra" would be mainly GPU related)

@Voltan maybe - but I still wouldn't really consider it newsworthy in PlaystationLand until we start seeing devs actually using it on consoles, and I also wouldn't anticipate that we'll ever get such a patch for HZD itself, since it's already running at 4K 60FPS on PS5 (I'm assuming that PS4 doesn't support FidelityFX with it being an older chipset, but that's just an assumption so I could be wrong). Maybe they could try and target 120FPS but I'd be really surprised since the user base for 4K 120FPS is really pretty small at the moment, whereas pretty much everyone benefits from a 60FPS patch

I mean, I get that HZD used to be Playstation exclusive, but even so I'm struggling to justify why this stub of an article was even written.

I hear DLSS is great - I hope to be able to pay a reasonable price for a graphics card that supports it some day, and ditch my poor little GTX 1060 (in the meantime the 1060 is capable of at least running most things, I'm just not prepared to shell out 2x RRP for the sake of better graphics & framerate). But even then it would have nothing to do with the games I play on Playstation

I mean, obviously. Just like it's also obvious it'll be riddled with microtransactions

@Jammsbro no.

"Getting it for less money" is what you do, if you exchange your £ for $, go over to America (or use a VPN and set up a US PSN account in the case of digital games) and buy stuff there and bring it back, or otherwise get stuff shipped over here, and even then you're only "getting it for less money" if it works out cheaper after you pay customs charges that might be necessary

They're not "getting it for less money" - they're simply priced differently, for reasons that you're not privvy to/dont understand.

If "getting it for less money" was really a concern, you'd be up in arms about the price of games in poorer countries, where charging UK/US prices with a mere exchange rate applied would completely tank sales in that region

@Jammsbro no, the UK isn't "being made to pay a higher price for the same item". International pricing isn't as simple as "apply exchange rate, good to go", there are all sorts of factors that boil down to "what's affordable in that country", which is why pretty much everything from these, to PSN games, to graphics cards, to computer monitors, to TVs, is priced mostly pretty much the same (numerically) in the UK and the US. It's also why there's a thriving grey market, buying Steam keys for games in poorer countries e.g. in Eastern Europe, and then selling them to people in richer countries in order to turn a profit. It's also why when you buy a can of Coke or Dr Pepper from some roadside cafe in a van, more often than not the ingredients/nutritional info is in some language you don't recognise, because somewhere in the supply chain that was cheaper than buying the UK version.

US prices might look good on paper when the only information you have to hand is the exchange rate, but you don't actually know for a fact that they'd be any more affordable for you if you actually lived and worked over there (due to being born there I mean - if you move over there specifically because of a well paying job that's a different matter entirely )

I really don't get why someone would pay £250 for a controller specifically designed for use in first person shooters when the issue with FPS controls on controller isn't the time it takes to pull the trigger, it's having to aim with a velocity based analogue stick control instead of just pushing a mouse exactly where you want it.

Anyone with any sense would just spend that money on a PC instead of spending (more than) half as much as the cost of a PS5, on a special controller.

I mean maybe they wouldn't do it right now though - they'd probably wait until graphics card prices were a bit more reasonable

people really need to start leaving it until at least the day after before they start moaning about this sort of stuff. Whether or not you think it's acceptable, new games on PS Now don't just suddenly appear when you expect them to on the days those games go live, and often they're not properly playable/streamable until fairly late in the day. The only reason for the fuss this time is everyone wants to try out GTA 3 Definitive edition and see if it's truly as bad as it's made out to be

If you're not angry yet/still defending Sony, latest news as of 2 minutes ago:

Godfall: Challenger Edition is free for PC users via Epic games next week

That's "actually free" for all you purists - you don't need any kind of subscription to claim free games from Epic games

With a name like Majo ("my name is Majo".. anybody..?) I'm surprised she didn't platinum her job status and end up running the place in the space of half an hour

@nessisonett Still struggling to even get my head around the NFT thing. I mean I understand that the maths/algorithm behind them is sound, I just can't help but feel that the people buying them with actual money are basically victims of an elaborate con