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I freely admit I figured this would be a lazy “now it runs natively with no real improvement!” thing.

I…stand corrected.

@30fps60fps Modern Bioware, sadly.

Am I the only one who thought the cutscenes actually looked worse than the actual gameplay graphics?

This is an excellent slate of games. Doki Doki is…Doki Doki and that’s all you need to know.

I am on board for this.

…I’m quietly hopeful this will be worth the money. Wonder if they’ll do a physical PS5 release.

I’ve genuinely never heard of either of these games.

Wow.

Reading through these comments is like having a cross-section of the most toxic examples of why PC gamers can’t stand stereotypical console gamers and vice versa.

munches popcorn and enjoys the show

That said, I think it should be optional. I see no reason to lock a single player campaign behind that requirement. I know, I’m being controversial and unreasonable!

“We don’t currently have anyone to actually MAKE the game right now, but rest assured it’ll get made!”

@LowDefAl I love that “beat cancer” part, too! Might not have happened concurrently but it tried to take him out AND IT FAILED.

I mean…I’m pretty sure ANYTHING has outperformed Concord at this point. Even the Borderlands movie was probably more of a net success.

@tabris95 Agreed.

As someone else said, Sony needs to start focusing on quality smaller experiences and make NEW ones. I’m playing through all the Halo games for the first time ever on my quite nicely backwards compatible Series X, and marveling at how well these games (mostly) hold up. The campaigns are very well done, don't overstay their welcome, and ALMOST make me wish I’d have picked up some model of XBox years ago.

Obviously MS/Bungie of today is different than MS/Bungie of years past glares at the upcoming Marathon game but dang. It’s like MS and Sony are competing to see which one can slough off more customer goodwill in a short time with these remasters for Sony and MS’s braindead decisions in recent years.

That said…bring on the hopefully backwards compatible Switch 2! And maybe someday Bloodborne at 60fps!

The Nintendo situation is quite different. The Wii U was a commercial failure and a ton of amazing games were locked into that system. The big N gets a total pass there from me, especially if they finally port Xenoblade Chronicles X to the Switch!

Sony however…when the PS4 version exists AND CAN BE PLAYED on the PS5 with or without a 60fps patch, AND is readily available, it becomes far harder to swallow.

If they were porting PS3 games that hadn’t been updated for PS4, then it’d be one thing since Sony skipped out on BC due to intentionally making the PS3 hard to develop for. (Great job, Sony. That worked out well.) Or if they released a PS5 native Bloodborne that actually ran at 60fps (since Sony apparently can’t be bothered to patch the PS4 version as folks have BEGGED FOR for years) that would again be a different thing.

Remastering Horizon Zero Dawn for PS5 and actually charging money for it? Nope. Same with Days Gone and other perfectly excellently performing PS4 games and expecting gamers to cough up money because OMG PS5!!!

I’m really feeling my inner crotchety old man coming out right now.

I look forward to him going on an incoherent rant decrying Sony for daring to release a PS5 version.

@Max_the_German Again, nothing really to do with this article. Plus, it isn’t hard to determine which games need PS Plus for multiplayer, they literally say in the game description “PS Plus required for online play.”

@Max_the_German …okay? Has nothing to do with this article.

@TheDaddyOtaku A-freaking-men.

A modern Marathon (not in-name-only that we’re sadly getting) would be amazing.

@AdamNovice I mean…that’s the very definition of a mod.

@thefourfoldroot1 Not for me, I’ve got a PS5, Switch and Series X. I’ve spent enough money on gaming hardware the last few years, I don’t need to add more to the pile. Especially since I’d only play maybe three games using it. For those who like it tho, I’m sure it would be worth the purchase!

So apparently Astro Bot Rescue Mission sold 204,546 digital copies total, after some quick googling. Might have gone up slightly but around there.

I suspect this Astro Bot game utterly demolished that number in a week.

@thefourfoldroot1 The cost is exactly why I will never be part of that community, sadly! If I won’t drop $699 on a PS5 Pro, I sure as hell won’t spend nearly that much on a peripheral.

@thefourfoldroot1 I sincerely doubt this would sell anywhere near that many. You could very well be correct, but I just don’t see it. Maybe a few thousand, but nowhere near the number you think.

@thefourfoldroot1 Bold of you to assume there’s that many PSVR2 active users!

I just started playing this game a little while ago, and this seems like a very good addition.

I mean, it can’t be a worse movie than Borderlands, right?

…right?

Utterly basic merch for an utterly forgettable game and a massive debacle.

Sounds about par for the course where this game is concerned.

@bestuardo Yup. I got that as well in the last sale.

@get2sammyb At least Sony can tell themselves, “Hey, console sales here are low, but we’re not XBOX IN JAPAN low!”

If I were to buy a heist game at this moment in time..It’d be that Crime Boss game. If I were to buy a heist game. Which I probably wouldn’t.

After the previous Payday debacles, I honestly have no intention of touching any of this series.

If it had the disc drive, I would ALMOST think it might be worth it.

But $699 plus another $80? Hell to the no.

$41.99 for the MGS Master Collection, discounted.

glances at the disc copy purchased for $19.99

WHAT A SALE

@Xbox_Dashboard The article says it’s getting a damage boost.

@dreadpirateflappy You can play Peace Walker on a 360, XBox One, Series S or Series X right now. It’s easily purchasable on the Xbox store, I snagged it digitally this weekend.

“It could be argued this increased storage space helps alleviate the concerns caused by the lack of an included Ultra HD disc drive”

It could be, but it’d be a really weak argument. Plus a 2 TB expansion card isn’t overly expensive these days. Certainly cheaper than buying a freaking PS5 Pro.

I’d be slightly more kindly disposed to it if the price included a blu-ray drive.

That lack makes this price stupidly hilarious.

Firewalk should have hired this person.

“Don’t worry, you can spend another $79.99 plus tax on top of that $699 plus tax to make your Pro as capable as your original PS5!”

Oh, I wasn’t worried. I’ll just not spend the $699 in the first place!

$700 with no optical drive included?

Wow. No thank you.

‘"It's certainly sold more copies in the UK in just two days than Concord sold worldwide," he concludes.’

Such a perfect quote. Future devs can know that no matter how bad your game sells, as long as you do better than Concord…

That said, Astro Bot is a freaking masterpiece, and I loved every moment of my playtime with it. Nowhere near getting all the bots and puzzle pieces, but I finished the story and will pick it up again in a few weeks so I can begin the hunt for them once more.

@PuppetMaster CzarCastik would be proud!

As the brilliant Jeremy Clarkson once said: “Oh no! Anyway…”

It’s rather staggering that I dislike EA slightly less than Ubisoft these days.

I can’t wait to see more content that I could pay for and then lose access to forever!

@Maubari Ick. I already have one of those accounts because of Hogwarts Legacy, but that fact makes me really want to just…finish other games before actually trying this one after all. Thanks for that heads up!

Back to either Halo 2 or Pacific Drive, I guess! Just finished Astro Bot a little bit ago, waiting a little bit before I attack the platinum down the road!

@dardel I don’t see comments like that for this article so far, which means the block function works well on this site! I’ve weeded out the particularly vitriolic names over time.

That said, I’ve been pleasantly surprised with the reception for this title so far. I hope folks have fun with it, I need to give it a shot once I’m done with Astro Bot.

@Lup Make fun, absolutely.

Be an utter jerk about it? Nah. There’s a massive difference between a joke and what this nozzle is spouting.

Bad definition.

Live service games depend on an internet connection while playing, for one. Nether Playroom or Astro Bot require this.

This article is a major reach. You might as well say that the packs of items you gradually get from a couple of Yakuza games after launch is “live service” too.

Hell, using this asinine definition, you could say friggin CYBERPUNK 2077 is a live service game because it released in a broken state and got updates to make it, you know, work properly. The original Wolfenstein 3D shareware back in the day was a “live service” game because of the additional episodes.

Astro’s Playroom is simply a game that got updated to add benefits to another single player game. Zero comparison.

Just got my physical copy and its installing to my PS5 now. Going to have a blast this weekend!

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Not their fault a game they covered ended up being a complete and abject failure. Might as well present it, if only as a memorial to millions of dollars wasted.

@get2sammyb …or just patch that uses a clock to run a countdown without any internet truly required afterwards.

You know…or that.

Well, it already looks more entertaining than Concord! I mean, this isn’t a hard bar to hurdle, but…

Too bad it’s from Epic, though.