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Talk about a franchise foundation formula.😄 Will we see the fandom rant about Thirteen Strikes and clamouring for a Seven Strikes remake years later?

@Jrs1 so basically Them's Fightin' Herds?

@bleeflooflah well, duh, it promises twice the amount of combat!

On a serious note, it found a fair share of playtime with me as well. A deceptively simple but engaging work.

Would I beli-Eve a game's protagonist getting a cameo in a mobile freemium from that very same game's developers? Nah, it sounds ridiculous.🙃

@Juanalf my Gran Turismo PSP, Most Wanted 2012, Grid Autosport, Wreckfest, Lego 2K Drive and Burnout Paradise playthroughs (as well as Deck-facilitated Payback) beg to differ. Heck, even Porche Unleashed on GBA was legit fun. There's nary a genre that doesn't benefit from portability, and in the hybrid family's case, you could opt to make some racing progress on a big screen anyway... the progress you wouldn't have to leave behind for another week or four afterwards.

@Nexozi right? I ask myself the same thing every time a Switch release gets a later PS4 or PS5 port.😜 As for screens... Xenoblade series boasts some of the most stunning worlds in the video game history, and the first of those was a jaw weight even on 3DS. But then again, I suppose that if ophthalmology factors in...

Until a Switch or Switch 2 port, that is.

Imagine resorting to publicly evident cheating in pursuit of items whose arguable primary value lies in the public bragging rights. Forget shame, such folks don't even seem acquainted with the sense of irony.

"Full Tech Spec Comparison"

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@Wiceheid as if the coming of Jesus would be an argument for such merry folks at all. If anything, he's pretty "woke" by their standards.

I'd certainly toast to Robocop which went MIA on Switch, but it has apparently whooshed right over PS4 as well. With Cyber Sleuth properly in the hybrid queen's court, I suppose that leaves TCM and its reported handful of single player missions to look forward to.

I still can't get past the first boss on the bridge and only learned the other month that this dodo has been OPTIONAL all along. Might get back to the game with this in mind because the lore and setting is easily among the most interesting in the subgenre, even though the likes of Code Vein, Nioh, Ender Lilies and The Surge (and even what I've played of Star Wars Survivor if that counts) still captivate me more in general. Hope and dreams for Bloodborne itself? Either a Switch port (wishful thinking is a free action) or at least, indeed, a PC one to run on Deck.

Australian government saves the day again! Thank goodness modern consoles don't support multiple regions and other insidious stuff like that.

"What do you make of all this madness?"

Within the vocabulary range acceptable in this comment section? Not much.

Between this and a similar earlier report about Square Enix, cheers. The concrete-melting mixture of fanship and online disinhibition effect could certainly use a FAFO counterweight or two.

@Zeldorf there are market segments that would be most welcome to go wipe themselves with the money they contribute to these sales. Despite what such folks threaten, a reprise of "Great video game crash" (the titular embellishment of the very latter phenomenon notwithstanding) is unimaginable today but a "great video game fandom crash" can seem rather overdue.

@Blauwe_Chimay the golden rule of Fiction/audience relationship - I have the right to dislike what a fiction work does as long as the work has the right to do what I dislike. Most pseudocritique cases compelling the countermeasures like the one above boil down to the vehement and vocal denial of said right. Fans, an inherently addicted bunch, just struggle with the very idea of simply saying "meh" and moving on. We end up living for regular doses of what hooked us in the first place.

@Psofo no matter how asinine in itself, I don't imagine a piece of mind like "ugh, this sucks" making up much of a lawsuit. On the other hand, a more fan-flavoured tirade like "these degenerates wouldn't know good game quality if it clobbered them on their dumb heads and need to suffer alongside their families for every day we have to live with the reminder of their crap's existence" (and yes, believe it or not, I toned this example way down from what I've come across) certainly sounds like something you might be officially dared to repeat out loud in court if you're so passionate about it.

@LifeGirl if you state your own opinion, the use of "people" may be a treacherous path. I, for one, do very much remember Cindy for her skills and Lulu for her personality, and Tifa is among my FF faves with many other ladies like Rydia, Terra, Freya and Vanille none of whose respective physiques are remotely as memetic among the fandom's more hormonally volatile representatives.

@Skeletor85 yet another word that ridiculed the mentality it was associated with and then got adopted by the very mentality in the umpteenth demonstration of deficient sense of irony and self-awareness.

@Perturbator FFXIII says hi. One of the most memorable and most fire-forged casts in the series, and that's coming from someone who has binged the borderline entirety of it by now. Heck, it's a rare entry to have updated my own roster of Final Fantasy top faves with a male character (namely Sazh).

Even what I've already played of SR22 and Agents of Mayhem only ever felt "inferior" to SR3/SE4 in its lack of motion aiming that the latter games' Switch ports spoiled me with, but that's pretty much the story of PS4's life. These are but two of the countless games that prove to exceed their fanbloid cred tenfold in practice. As for the business, it certainly needs to mature and stop bloating budgets, but not many market-conditioned studios and consumers would readily acknowledge the elephant in the room that these budgets get wasted on with the progressively elusive returns.

@wiiware SJS was an awesome Japanese dev who still got demolished, whereafter it took the remaining glorified skeleton crew several years to produce another work of the bygone tier.

"in full 4K from around 120fps to up to 350fps"

This isn't even funny anymore. What eyesight or variably related medical conditions should one even have to benefit from stuff like this or even maintain awareness thereof without relying on Figital Doundry's spec porn? If there's an answer, then it could at least be filed under something useful like accessibility options (commercial accessibility notwithstanding). Otherwise, this is the very drain down which all the modern budget bloat goes with no practical OR aesthetic contributions.

A legal retro handheld. The legitimacy may be in the eye of the beholder when having to stream games many other dedicated handhelds can run a massive library of quite natively. But for those already making use of Portal RP anyway, this may have well been an annoying omission, so cheers where due.

Imagine telling Kojima of all people not to "dare do something".

@JustMyOpinion neither would I, or I'd forfeit playing Smash Bros.😄 My comment above is fairly tongue-in-cheek but I'm still standing by the inherent irony of the subject at hand, whether it's deliberate (which I wouldn't put past this franchise) or not.

Well, if accounts like that of @ErrantRob are any indication, the thing does sound like it can stomach a proper hotspot Remote Play session on the go, with Sony perhaps taking a page out of GeForce Now's trick book (in contrast to Switch "cloud versions" that seem to push the default resolution regardless of whether your portable connection can handle it). This certainly elevates it further above the autopilot Wii U comparisons from way back when and makes it that much more of a Vita successor in the very aspect that the otherwise best PlayStation console (don't @ me) sadly wouldn't always provide adequate control schemes for. This still doesn't bump the $700+ combo high enough among my hobby spending priorities, but it sure lowers my eyebrow in regards to the device's general value and actual sales.

Veilguard would be definitely something to dip my toes into, even ahead of playing the earlier stuff (a likely distant prospect in itself since I've been focusing on Mass Effect among Bioware titles), buuuuuut... And the other two items are on Switch, so it looks like another month where I'll just download the smallest size offering to redeem the points. Then again, if the previous such months didn't deter me from dumping a Franklin into 12 more months, there's evidently only so much salt in my bellyaching here. Objectively, it's a lucrative lineup through and through.

Frankly, unless a P4 remake gets a female protagonist where Reload lost one, it might become every bit of a varying mileage value investment for a Switch or PS4/5 user. If anything, revisiting the earlier games again two (heck, soon-to-be three) generations later might turn more heads, especially since Eternal Punishment's only western outing still dates even further back to PS1.

So that's how T-1000 defeats another fighter. And how does another fighter defeat T-1000? He's an admittedly peculiar choice for a generally melee-oriented fighting game since back in the movie there were only so many ways to even just slow the guy down. Outside elemental users like Sub-Zero, you'd think one would need fatalities spammed to defeat an opponent like this.🤔

Lemme guess, live action? Two decades of benching 2D feature animation in CGI's favour only for the latter to be repeatedly deemed commercially deficient in adaptations of something long produced on its basis in the first place? Learn marketing from corporate entertainment biz, they said...

@breakneck

My sub renewals have been all over the calendar since miscalculating the funds for the annual one last summer (Switch eShop sure can spoil you into forgetting about the extra costs that come with retail gift cards), so I didn't have an active one last weekend anyway. That puts the compensation beyond my interest zone as well but it still sounds pretty neat in regards to those affected.

"or lean all the way in to appreciate the finer details of your scouts, cities, arm-" tumbles over

"Resistance: Burning Skies (PS Vita) - 2%"

There are dozens of us! Do- okay, more like one dozen so far, but still! Seriously, though, one of my fondest Vita memories even despite neglecting the console's gyro functionality and the reason I'm in the market for more of the series these days to begin with.

It's more surprising to see no Switch version in sight, but then again, the generally hybrid-prolific publisher has yet to get around to porting a few of their other titles like Dark Rose Valkyrie or Omega Quintet as well. Worst case scenario, this will be one for the Deck, but hope springs eternal.

A shift more understandable (if still unpleasant) in case of PS3 and Vita, but with a fully backward compatible pastgen? Forget PS+, PS4 games still arguably remain a key incentive of PlayStation 5 itself. Which might need all the incentives it can afford once you're able to get a whole Gen 10 hybrid for its price.

Then again, the shakeup is still almost a year away, and there should still be a fair share of crossgens to fill the lineups with. I also dare assume the first-party Premium segment will remain because it would be kind of disingenuous to "retire" Gen 8 classics from the same subservice you're offering Gens 5-7 on. Time will tell.

@Koverby if I had a dollar for every thing you first world consumers are tired of, I could probably splurge out on a PS5 just for the whim of it, the everpresent dust-collecting risks of a home console in my household be damned.

Funny how the article elaborates on Payday 3 and Pac-Man World but skips High On Life, a rare metroidvania experience still not on Switch. Chances are this is what I'll be downloading first and foremost once I resub next month.

We're at the point where a video game unable to run on anything below a hypothetical "PS6" had better boast NerveGear tier VR worlds or do taxes and make waffles. There are only so many extra pixels and frames to hunger for playing all the already achievable video game experiences at.

@Lup one of, to be exact - the genre has only bloomed stronger yet over the last couple generations. But it also qualifies as a grand return to form for the series rooted among the arguable progenitors and pioneers of metroidvanias as such.

I have yet to get down to anything GoW, but perhaps I'll give Ragnarok a stream or two just to hear the music. Beating Xenoblade 3 OST at its respective award category does tempt to dare expect something of a similar caliber, after all.😃

Unless Horizon series is part of the school curriculum and exams now, any allegation of it being "forced" upon anyone is but a routine example of addiction-imposed consumerist stupidity. Not the first and sadly not the last.

I don't have enough popcorn for all the pseudocritical comments triggered into barking at Infinite again. And that's before they hear that B2 remains damn worthwhile across the board, too.

@Balaam_ art direction is already how game visuals hold up and stand out. And while only Infinite came out close to the approximate time of 3DCG graphics reaching their evolution peak, the first two games are a far cry from the submedium's Gen 5 infancy and look great in their own right. The only compromises stem from budget/time shortage (like Tennenbaum's limited onscreen appearances in B1 which just used a female splicer model), but YMMV if these instances alone warrant a full remake where the potential of more useful features like gyro aiming didn't.

Knowing only one anatomical destination to redirect fandom rants to, I could have well given Suicide Squad a roll if not for the apparent Gen 9 exclusivity. The other two are on Switch and I even have HP10 long beaten there, although it's still neat to see more Need for Speed in the IGC lineup overall (too bad that Unbound inclusion would be of no use to me either😅). Still a worthwhile selection for a PS5 owner whose backlogs aren't steered by complete strangers' tastes.

A Nintendo fan here, and I'm anything but. Besides, Steam Deck has already shown the approximate capabilities of newer mobile chips (never mind Switch's own abundant PS4/PS5 ports from various devs for whom "optimization" doesn't mean something edible), and it's an AMD-based Linux PC with all the consequent fine print thereof.

@Thatguyoverthere Penguin Land, Steep and I Am Setsuna: 😎

Until the Switch release, my Genshin activity and acquaintance remains very limited, but we're talking Ufotable here.

The header phrasing briefly sent my mind towards Choo Choo Charles instead.😅

I poked around JC4 here once again (after first trying it as an IGC item on main account way back when), but I knew this wouldn't last. Still bummed I missed the EGS giveaway before 2022; I wishlisted the game instead but that obviously became useless as with all other Squeenix releases on PC. Chances are it'll end up my only black flag vessel in the series once there's room enough on Deck for it - although Switch and/or its successor might yet alter that probability.

"NIKKE: Goddess of Victory is, in essence, a visual novel, with short cover-based shooter segments interspersed throughout"

A cover-based shooter is already more descriptive of the game in itself since the visual novel format is how pretty much anything mobile delivers the story content. Exceptions like Guardian Tales (available on Switch but originally mobile as well) are quite rare.

@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.😅