doctommaso

So a likely game as a service based on murdering the good guys. Thanks, no.

Crash 4 looked pretty great. Nothing of interest otherwise for me; a lot of filler imo. Overall poor to very poor

@Makina I’m sorry but I don’t believe that. Even new controllers don’t offer close to 13 hours of charge with all features off and no headphone usage.

@Stevo260 Fine solutions but why not be happy for a longer battery life?

@SaikoWaifu2003 Some of us have busy lives and don’t always get to game daily, and so when we do get a chance we might get a longer session in of say 2-4 hours.

@Flaming_Kaiser Didn’t take quite a while for me.

Most people I know get 3-4 hours on a DS4 full charge (fully dimmed, no headphone usage), which is the same that I get. I have no idea how some of you are getting 8-10 hours. The DS5 battery is a significant upgrade. Sure, it's not the end of the world, but I have to constantly have a backup controller charging so I can rotate controllers during longer gaming sessions. Also, I've been right in the middle of a boss fight several times in Souls games (during which I couldn't pause) and had the controller flat out die on me; a battery life of 7-8 hours means that will never happen during one of my longer gaming sessions anymore.

@JLPick Yep, and Sony via 989 Studios made great sports games during the PS1 days.

This smacks of “We need to appease the fan base because Elden Ring is way behind schedule”. Still, could be a welcome addition for some.

Interested enough based on the Switch demo to get it once on sale. Nothing groundbreaking but pretty fun.

Dang... huge Arthurian legend fan here. What a bummer.

@KratosMD @Jarobusa I'm not sure how you can say that. If anything, XBox is the company that has provided the same experiences over and over (Forza, Halo, Gears, rinse and repeat); that may change now that Microsoft has invested in other studios, but how many of the games are actually going to be quality titles is questionable — whereas Sony has a history of very high quality first and second party titles. And I'd say the PS5 games are likely well ahead of where the XBox games are, based on the showcases (12 PS5 games with gameplay, 2 XBox). I love Game Pass for the chance to try out indie games and second tier AA/AAA titles I'd never buy otherwise, but I'd never pick XBox OVER Playstation — especially not after seeing these two conferences. But as I said, I hope it works out for you and you enjoy it.

@KratosMD Many of the showcased games will not be available for years on Series X, and since gameplay basically wasn’t shown for most of them, you don’t really know what you’re going to get. Hope it works out for you.

The Last of Us Remastered (never played before; really intense!)
Jedi Fallen Order (just started; better than I expected)
Mario Golf, Wave Race (revisiting my two fave N64 games on Wii U virtual console)

@PSfan4Life22 Exact same thoughts.

Xbox just lost the entire next generation in one hour today. It's laughable how much worse this show was — and Sony's not done showing stuff yet, either.

@NoCode23 Orange and blue would work for the Mets too... I'm on board.

I'm okay either way — if I can't get one for a few months or more, I have my huge backlog to play through still.

Nothing of interest to me.

Knack 2, finally. Thus far, it's disappointing compared to the first (at least the first had novelty), but it's still early.

Seriously, guys, the amount of vitriol for a blue case is a little bit ridiculous. It’s not amazing, it’s not horrid — it’s fine. Plenty of more important things to get worked up about.

I am essentially all digital now, and the only games I buy new anymore are some Nintendo games (since they rarely are discounted much digitally anyway) and titles by From Software; I otherwise wait for a sale. I have such a backlog that there is no reason to pay full price at release.

@doctommaso There is a purpose, and I think it's the sole reason they are keeping the blue — people go into the store looking for blue boxes at this point, and with so many systems on store shelves, it's helpful to have a distinct color.

This is pretty much exactly what I expected. Love the white banner/trim. I personally like the black case better, but I prefer they stick to the blue case to maintain their theme/identity.

I was kind of excited about the B&W mode, until I found out the sound quality will also be altered; not sure I will like that.

@Grindagger I can totally respect that. I think because I grew up in the age of Atari with very repetitive but fun simple graphical games, I can find a lot of enjoyment in titles with well executed mechanics but without frills, a story, etc. And don’t get me wrong, I certainly enjoy some of the big budget games, too.

@Grindagger That’s fair. I tend to gravitate toward indies with some positive reviews rather than examine every release; from there, I can pretty much instantly tell from a quick YouTube clip or even some screenshots whether I’m going to like the game or not. I still turn down far more indies than I play.

@Grindagger @SamiFranco @Tc93 Totally the opposite here. My top three games so far this year are all indies. They’re getting better and better; just need to find the gems among the rocks.

@Nickolaidas Once they realized Dying Light was a huge gravy train for them, they dropped it. It was supposed to be a love letter to King’s Field, which I adore. No one is more disappointed than I am.

Octopath 2 or another RPG in that style.

Tomb Raider (preferably remakes of the old games but I’m sure that’s asking for too much).

Sadly, it looks really boring to me. Maybe it just needs sound effects, etc., but it comes off as really dull.

@ArcadeHeroes They did a great job with Spyro Reignited and helped with Crash N Sane Trilogy; they're pretty perfect for this imo.

@Assassinated That annoyed me, as well; I then looked it up and found that the modern English usage has changed.

Yes a little excited. Hopefully pace and difficulty is closer to the original series than the latter bunch.

$499 digital / $599 disc.

As an aside, the poll is largely useless as currently worded, as for example a $499 console could be assigned to either “$399 to $499” or “$499 to $599”.

@Jeaz I actually think AB/XY makes more sense — “Press Y” sounds more reasonable than “Press Triangle”. However, the Sony symbols are much cooler and are language-agnostic.

@Cybrshrk Oh now we get you; you're a PC elitist. FYI — PS5 isn't really competing with PC. And have to disagree; several of the games shown could not run remotely as well on PS4.

@J_Warrior Did you think they would not be?

I'm guessing $499 and $599, but the loaded model could be more.

@Matroska All-Stars wasn’t at launch. Was almost exactly two years post launch in the US, well over a year in the UK.

60 FPS for sure.

@Sanctanox I didn’t quite dislike the others, but I didn’t like them enough to finish them.

Resogun and Nex Machina were incredible. Dead Nation, Alienation, and Matterfall not so much. Very curious to see their next title.

Some-Finn, actually. Clever though.

Love Bloodborne but wouldn't replay it this soon just for a better frame rate and such. Too many other games to play.

@starhops I agree; I really hope "refined gameplay" doesn't mean changing the combat mechanics — they were the best I've ever played in an action-RPG (chakrams were amazing!)

Another big advantage for Sony is that Xbox Series X's first year or two of games will be playable on the Xbox One; that does not scream must-buy in any way.

@Jarobusa

1. PlayStation 2 — 155 million units sold
2. PlayStation 4 — 108.9 million units sold
3. PlayStation 1 — 102.5 million units sold
...
10. Xbox One — 46.9 million units sold

This is my grounded in reality face.

As long as Sony brings the games, they can sell $50 higher than Xbox and get away with it.

"2016."

(leaves stage)

All jokes aside, 2015 was also a great year for Sony. Well written article!

@shonenjump86 That’s already been announced as an Intellivision Amico exclusive.