nhSnork

@sanderson72 Lite's sales count towards Switch's just like PSTV's did towards Vita's. As for PS2, it hosted a multitude of legendary games but I'm challenged to see anything legendary about the console itself. It was no milestone concept like Game Boy, NDS, Wii or Switch, just a followup expanding on its predecessor's appeal and hitting the jackpot with its own extras.

Videos can be watched during hands-full activities like meals (healthcare advice against the practice be as heeded as plenty of other healthcare advice in our lives😅), and, if you don't [have a sufficiently portable backlog to] practice commute gaming, in public transport as well. Not exactly shocking to find it so commonplace. That said, I personally find myself reading stuff about games and related news tangibly (if not a good few times) more than watching it.

@Ralizah just like nothing evidently stops many people from jumping through hoops to connect a Switch Lite to a TV.😄

Nice, but everyone and their Zelda amiibo will still celebrate Switch as the new all-time bestseller once it hits 155+ million. Official data are one thing but the official data no longer publicly tracked for over a decade with an update that just so happens to coincide with another newer console finally breathing down the previous (and already ever so marginal) champion's neck are just that much harder to take at face value. Or do they want Microsoft to take note of this exploit?😆 And to reiterate my comment on Ryan's claims earlier, I don't even have a reason to doubt PS2 kept selling past 2013... but how many customers past 2013 would be seeking out a retail iteration of an officially discontinued console versus a second hand unit with blackjack and hard drives and sometimes even maintenance like renewed thermal paste?

The only part defying goalpost movement suspicions is that they're still phrasing this new plank as "one of the best-selling consoles of all time", which sounds like they still deem the trophy pass inevitable.

@father_noo from what I recall, Lite might be challenged by select stuff in one of the Mario Party titles (that required lining up the interacting consoles just so) and more obviously by the Labo lineup, but 1, 2, Switch ironically checks out - the game focuses on detached joycons and Lite retains the ability to connect separate ones. In fact, that's basically what keeps its family name justified - between the connectivity and the option to prop the thing against a vertical surface in lieu of a native stand, it still technically has a tabletop mode besides the emphasized handheld one.

The Switch successor is pretty much the only new gaming machine it still makes sense for me to pursue in the visible future; a proper Vita successor would become a footnote to that claim. It doesn't even need to compete with anything - just roll out a legacy device embracing what can easily be at least four (PS1/PS2/PSP/PSV) or even five/six pastgen libraries, give it a proper Remote Play with adjustable/adaptive stream resolutions for Gen 9/10 stuff, throw in even just occasional new kids on the block like classic franchise revisits a la Ratchet & Clank and manageable indies developed under SIE patronage - and the result might well reprise PSP's sales or even reach PS4's. Vita itself wasn't even hampered by lack of first party support (what was there of the latter still includes some of the best games in entire PlayStation history) nearly as much as by proprietary storage prices, a stunt I don't expect even Sony to try and pull again. And of course, a hybrid format would also be Sony catching up with the times for once (especially since they already had some disjointed experience putting one's partial Vita library on TV screens via separate hardware), but their focus on living room boxes doesn't leave me holding my breath for such a development - at best, we'd probably get some crossbuys like back in Gen 8.

@thedevilsjester Sega Nomad (basically portable Mega Drive in all but name and peripheral support) could be optionally connected to a TV a good decade before PSP, but nobody discusses it as a hybrid either. It really took Switch to properly conceptualize and embody the latter concept.

My premium just ran out but I don't expect to manage even 111 bucks before discount deadline (unless 12/2 in the app means literal December 2 circa 6 p.m. but even then the odds are slim), and the shorter periods aren't on sale. With November "essentials" already redeemed, perhaps I'll really just have it all lapse for a month and then see if I can invest some of the holiday budget in a quarter's resub at the usual price.

@nessisonett so "infamous" I had to look it up now... and none of the info/footage is cueing me on where to be aghast. If anything, my interest has been somewhat piqued, although the game apparently canned its PC plans, and I'm not holding my breath for such stuff to be a manageable RPCS3 gig yet. Seemingly nowhere in PS+ Catalogue either. Anyhoo, sounds like the umpteenth fandom "don't hyperbolize your boredom over a fiction piece to apocalyptic proportions" challenge (impossible). ¯(ツ)/¯

Sure seems like a while since they last updated the PS3 lineup! I've been curious for more of the Resistance series after beating Burning Skies, and while Fall of Man seems playable on Deck, I might as well dip my toes here first. Ditto with Dying Light 2 which is only available as a "cloud version" on Switch.

6/10. Wrong answers include the number of PS4 USB ports which goes to show how often I even have it out and connected.😅

Death Note sure looks intriguing although I'm still not much of an OM guy, all the less so on a platform I still whip out on a [bi]weekly basis at best. Ghostwire Tokyo would have been THE offer but it's on PS5. And Hot Wheels is on Switch so it can also feel counterproductive to play it on PS4 beyond a possible toe-dip on the quest for 50 more points.😆 So my personal hype is limited again, although the lineup would certainly be a doozy in a universe where I stick to PlayStation home consoles and have plenty of time for them.

Not improbably because a fair share of PlayStation's core audience forgot what can qualify as one.🙄 Hopefully Astro Bot's success can influence the landscape a bit, but at this point seeing is believing.

"Ridiculously good upgrade"

"Voxel cloud rendering"

confused millennial noises

More NPCs and more atmospheric actions for them does sound tangibly neat, though.

@Vivisapprentice wait, "lose all your platinums"? Wouldn't a spare account in another region just bereave your main of future trophy lists in the games you access there? That's been my experience, at least. And if the game is found in both regions, you can normally still play it on your main acc as long as the console is set as primary for both.

@Beetlebum91 very few people emulate violence for the violence itself. Why do kids play with water guns or stick swords or have snowball fights and king-of-the-hill dogpiles? We grow up mimicking armed conflicts for the high stakes, consequently big challenges and consequently proportional sense of adventure and required guts/heroics our minds perceive there before the grimmer facets sink in. Video games are but an extension of this trend, if appreciably among plentiful and not necessarily violence-associated others.

Taken of on the 31st with a friendly heads-up on the 8th. Et tu, Sony?🙄 $20 may not be much in general, but the deadline only covers the very payday I was gearing up to pay $50 for PS+ renewal, and I'm frankly not fond of such short notices in general. Or does everyone involved really just decide it overnight?

Speaking of PS+, I do ironically have the game long redeemed on my main acc as an IGC item, but if maintaining the regional sub was still commercially viable, I wouldn't have been using a US account for almost two years now.😆

@Gunnerzaurus Disney Infinity: "first time?"😏

It took the industry this long to arrive at an animesque driving open-worlder with a cockpit camera... and it's a freemium with no TGS mention of the one console that truly prints money in Japan. Oh well, at least it will be a must check on Deck unless the publisher pulls a region lock or some Linux-allergic anticheats out of their sleeve.

@Nei I always chuckle at the memory of Ubisoft's Immortals being accused of "cloning BotW" while many ongoing playthroughs like my own were still busy climbing Sheikah towers to unlock more of the map.

@DennisReynolds and Legends is getting a followup now.

Wrestling is a comparatively low priority for me and DDLC is on Switch, but I might just try Dead Spa- never mind.

What do modern games like this even have to challenge a machine with PS4 specs? Light No Fire level maps? Aincrad/Alfheim level NPCs? Or bloated pixel counts, rampant VFX and the production crunch on an optimization diet?

@Intr1n5ic

Sony, a TV manufacturer first and a console maker second:

Must be a fluke - can PS5 even process files as small as 382 Mb?😏

He certainly has a point there. Relative simplicity of access as compared to PCs has always been among the innate perks of console gaming. When I got my desktop back in 2006, I had naively different priorities (even having my trusty Mega Drive traded in at the time, although in its case, the already discovered emulation did boast reasonably more efficiency), but the following years, both the student days and the eventual partial return to PC games in the late New Tens, would come to bust that misconception in varied ways. The current situation where my most robust PC gaming hardware is pretty much a Linux machine doesn't help either.😅 On the other hand, that machine does grant me portable access to the existing PlayStation branchouts, so I'd be a hypocrite to say I didn't welcome more of those possibly happening. coughgravityrush2cough

With all respect... the price of almost two Steam Decks and literally two Switch OLEDs without adding a Portal investment? For advanced ray tracing and AI-driven upscaling? And that's in the very wake of releasing an awesome and popular game that doesn't look like it needs a tenth of this stuff.

Sony realized they needed to drum up some hype for their mid-G9 before everyone's eyes are on the hybrid dawn of G10.😜

Quite a hole to make in the catalogue's RPG lineup, but incidentally, 13 Sentinels is 75% off on Switch as we speak, and I already have enough Stars points to convert into Star Ocean IaF next time it goes on sale (which I can't even track in the official app as of late after the system cemented my Extra license as having "purchased" the game - I have admittedly found myself wondering how much spaghetti code might it take to at least rephrase the latter part's text🤔😅). From what I've looked up, it's the only SO entry absent on Switch AND inaccessible on Deck (PS3 version, similarly to the original Tales of Graces, never left Japan).

All the more reason to hope for more Project X Zone where you can meet pretty much all of them.

All of this stuff is on Switch, but either of Skywalker Saga and Ender Lilies could generally make a month on their own.

That's still access to a limited selection of games/modes at the price of Switch OLED, but cheers for the sales boost anyway, I suppose.

@Kienda Japanese fiction has likewise channeled a myriad of western settings, history and culture with a myriad of twists, tweaks, mishmashes and reimaginings. That's how these these things work. I personally hail from a country that barely shows up on foreign attention radars unless something explodes in it (or launches out of it to explode elsewhere😓), and I've appreciated seeing even Hetalia's amicably hyperbolic take on it. Some others here might not - but this sums up to represent a variety of personal resonance statistics as opposed to an issue of intercultural propriety like the one some ACS detractors try to insinuate.

A month with Borderlands 3 is "a crap selection" and these results were even "expected"? That's it, one Life of Black Tiger for August, please. Alongside... checks notes of past fandom rants ...Gollum, perhaps?

Borderlands 3 would be the headturner if not already on Switch alongside Among Us. But I might end up playing some NHL - while there are a few alternatives in hybrid format, the sport gives me a general impression of being a comparatively rarer guest on consoles in general, so it's always neat to be offered more of it.

@PuppetMaster didn't they more or less evolve into spectacle fighters like Bayonetta over time? The latter have enough of their own features (or they wouldn't have earned a subgenre name) but the DNA of navigating through brawl-segmented stages and racking up hit combos is arguably recognizable.

@Kanji-Tatsumi we live in a world where Animal Crossing itself has a mobile gacha entry.

Horizon is one of my fave PlayStation franchises overall, so why wouldn't I look forward to its first entry to go properly portable out of the blue? The Switch port announcement is definitely among this year's most appreciable whams in the gaming news. But more Astro is more Astro as well - any remnant trace of Japan Studio spirit is welcome, all the moreso after Sony snuffed out Pixelopus that briefly looked like it might [help] pick up the torch.

Disney also "had to run a sustainable business" in 2003, and the WDAS Florida unit with nothing but three outstanding movies to its name clearly did the least to "sustain it".😒 And if you have to close previously bought studios after spending a small country's budget on another, you may as well invest in the rights to calling your company "Embracer" while at it.

You'd think "leaning super hard" into a control scheme and making it an option in the settings (and maybe even automatically disabling it in detected cross-plat sessions if need be) are different things, but what do I know.😅 At least the functionality is acknowledged here and an excuse is given, as opposed to a wide range of [predominantly] single player PS4 titles from Saints Row series to the very first-party Horizon Zero Dawn.

Also, this whole talk is yet another reminder of Xbox not even supporting the feature even this generation - and that's the hardware for Switch to be supposedly "outdated" in comparison to?

The bias for another PS portable could admittedly challenge my usual disdain for "leaks" and "rumours" if the whole notion didn't clash against the existence of Portal - it feels like having a dedicated handheld console ANYWHERE in the pipeline would have made the streaming tablet redundant and, combining the Remote Play with a native offline library like its predecessors, would have almost undoubtedly raised much fewer eyebrows upon its announcement. Sony folks seem to have made their choice, at least until Gen 10... whose hypothetical return to the domain would already compete with Switch's own successor.

Watch Dogs would be something to dip toes in... if it wasn't installed on my Deck already. But I might still use this opportunity to sample RDR2 and Stranded.

@TedLassoNikes only the first PSVR with RE7, to be fair, but for a good enough while, and sadly found but a less than wieldy headmounted first person camera controller whose motion sickness concerns forced restrictive controls on the characters' own movements (you could only turn around so many degrees at a time, which made the garage faceoff alone much more of a chore than it was likely ever envisioned as).

Perhaps there are more inventive uses for the tech by now, but I expect nothing to fulfil the promise of actual VR that the fictional worlds like SAO, BoFuri or even Ready Player One describe. Heck, forget SAO, VR.5 visualized the possibilities in the 1995 and we're still not remotely there despite having long moved on from the rest of the respective fictionverse's stuff like CRT monitors.

I mean, between the two costly PS5 peripherals without autonomous functionality, I'd personally still deem Portal a much more rewarding investment than VR2.😅

I have yet to feel enough interest for Destiny (and its filesize to make room for), so between two titles on Switch and one locked to PS5, I don't expect to engage this lineup much beyond maybe installing Tunic for the points' sake.

Never an appreciable feature, but if the likes of Need for Speed and The Crew weathered the "slaughterers" in regards to the subject, why wouldn't this game?

@Ashina the jury's still out on that - action combat typically requires the use of both hands, after all.

The return of Crew 2 (whose PC version is locked for legal purchases and too server-crutched for the proverbial other means) would be the most welcome item here if I hadn't just pulled the trigger on the PS4 version last time it left the sub. Most of the other stuff is available on Switch although Construction Simulator might not be (Deku reports a bunch but I'm not sure what entry is being offered here🤔), and I might even idly dip my toes in the Gen-9-skipping Lego Avengers despite its eventual proper playthrough belonging on Vita.

One doesn't usually expect a PSP game to get a patch and new content in 2024 indeed.🍻

They're a fine lineup I'm only not excited about because I don't have the appropriate hardware for one and have the much more appropriate hardware for the others. But as usual, good luck expressing it in the poll without sounding bored stiff at best.

A fruitful lineup in general but, between one game beyond my hardware library and two available on Switch, not of much use to me. Chances are I'll just briefly toss Skul on board for the points.

@UnlimitedSevens PS5 isn't held back by PS4 parity, it's held back by the long reached ceiling of meaningful graphics boosters beyond the trite "transformative" but ultimately bubblegum aesthetic experiences. We haven't even seen the industry tangibly embrace PS5's single true selling point (game design philosophy changes through variable elimination of loading times), and yet Pro's spec "leaks" already fantasize about parameters that sound enough to build a friggen Ainkrad... but would be most likely also wasted trying to chase and "upscale" the relative parity between the continuously bloated pixel and frame counts instead. At this rate, Gen 9 will really remain primarily marked by Nintendo blowing up the QoL department (just like Gen 7 was primarily marked by them blowing up the gaming interface one) while the other platforms are locked in a beauty pageant stalemate that's growing punnily staler by the year. And releasing a "Pro" now, between its obviously higher specs and price, might well rub it further in indeed.

@MomsSpaghetti I had two idle shots at Morrowind, lasted about an hour in each myself.

Sometime later, I amassed enough whimsical mood to give a third and quite possibly last shot, and that's when I discovered the in-game books. Been genuinely interested in the series since, although it was too late to consistently enjoy it behind a desktop screen, so I only indulged in a proper playthrough several years later with Skyrim on Switch (while starting the "decisive" Morrowind one later yet on the laptop... and predictably shelving it again until the advent of Steam Deck).

"Almost any other franchise would have capitalised on that kind of success as quickly as possible"

Emphasis on "almost", courtesy of Rockstar Games.😅 Then again, the two franchises walked roughly the same path instead, only Elder Scrolls had it be a separate game.

"simply reminds players that "all the items listed below can be obtained in-game or as paid DLC items" before advertising them again. It's a hell of a hustle, and if nothing else, we appreciate its brazen nature"

The very alternative should make it all a non-issue, but I suppose it's brazen to expect people to grind, farm and likewise go out of their way in a JRPG of all genres. Like I said before, all this "DLC" sounds like a token checkmark to report to MTX-worshipping shareholders while everyone in the audience has zero reasons to turn their heads even by MTX standards. Everyone not advisable to have their financial operations supervised for one reason or another, that is.