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Barring hacks or April Fools jokes (the latter naturally revealing themselves instead of so much as reaching the cart page), isn't this technically a potential false advertising lawsuit? Unless the dodos reside somewhere comfortably beyond the relevant legislation's reach.

Sifu and HN2 are on Switch and I have yet to jump on the Destiny 2 bandwagon for getting in touch with all the expansion giveaways, but I may well give F1 23 a go or two.

Plot twist: you'll be able to bring her back for real (I mean, as opposed to GameSharks of yore). What do you think the title stands for?😀

A Taleslicious lineup indeed, almost making up for NFS Unbound's Gen 9 exclusivity. I have Zestiria on Deck and the older ones on Switch but I might just give Arise an advance toe dip even if I'm still games and games behind in the respective franchise binge queue. The same may apply to AC Valhalla and would apply to Outer Worlds if the latter didn't already boast a Switch port for years anyway.

Corporate acquisitions by 2024: even franchises get layoffs.

At the risk of triggering some fanheads with Splatoon parallels again, does Foamstars have a single player campaign? Otherwise, Rollerdrome will probably be the only February headturner for me. Steelrising sounds pretty cool, but not the $600 (PS5+Portal) kind of cool; as with Sable, maybe I'll try my luck with it on Deck someday.

Indeed, I'm already confused.😵 Which of these R logos belongs to the company named "RockSTAR", again?😵

@IDreamofAugust not the first time I see a fan's confusion expressed with on-brand eloquence anyway.

@__jamiie fans, shutting up? Don't threaten me with a good time.

Tiny Tina is kinda nice to have back in the absence of access to my main account's IGC stuff it once appeared among, although I have yet to check if the differences are worth another playthrough over the original DLC I'm already looking forward to on Switch. RE2R is great in general but my laptop playthrough is already on the way to the true ending on Claire's side, so I'd have to retrace a whole lot of stuff if I switched platforms now. Now RE3R I'd consider playing in Catalogue indeed. JC3 already completed on Deck, StA and LCU available on Switch... ironically, another killer of a lineup but chances are I will only try Hardspace from it in the near future.

@Colour "but I can’t imagine too many people who wanted them haven’t played them already"

If that logic actually worked, we wouldn't see GTA 5 or Mario Kart 8 in the charts on a weekly basis.

God bless fans. /)_-)

@IDreamofAugust ah yes, I went through that stage myself.😏🙄 Certainly a nicer feeling than eventually accepting one's status as a constant walking land mine of addiction-driven aggression and toxicity, so enjoy it while it lasts, fellow patient.

PS5 is underpowered, so the devs need more time to make the game work. /s

Plague Tale Requiem would easily be the main highlight for me if it didn't turn out exclusive to current gen consoles (one of which still has but a glorified streaming app bearing the name), but Evil West is peculiar as well and the charming NSTW, despite being a legit Switch title, may yet again land on my PS4 even earlier as the smallest filesize to install for a PS Stars reward. A quality lineup overall.

@Triumph741 if they don't confuse it for an X-Ray.

@Olmaz "Do the people in marketing and design know how pompous and vacuous their "explanations" sound to normal people?"

Pretty sure they do because they ARE in marketing and design where both words are pretty much in their job description.

GTA 5 and FFO "decent at best", Salt and Sacrifice "unknown shovelware"... at this point, guys, many other people reading these comment sections will start counting months until your sub expiry just as vocally as you do.😏

@PixelDragon did it not? Oldest I've played is the SNES port of II but it's a fun ride to this day.

Switch release date is the only one I'm after anyway, but this trailer doesn't even mention Xbox family. Are they marketing separately per platform now?

@PixelDragon first Unlimited came out in 2006 and first Test Drive in general dates back to 1987. Goddamn clones and their time machines.😏

Sequels are something fans "endure" now? Then that's an extra reason to have more of them, facilitating the everwelcome process of gradual fandom dissolution. Emphasis on "extra", of course - such factors rarely do well as the sole core of authorial or production intent at hand.

Belatedly met demand means PS5 should continue impressive sales numbers for the visible future, and by then the console library will only get meatier as well.

@Sakai "good to see both next gen consoles doing so well" lists two current gen consoles🤔😅 We're at least a year away from the new generation.

"DMC games are less than 20 hours long"

Unless you get stuck on a lategame fight for hours like I did in DMC1?😅

I spent several weeks planning to try the game myself. Somehow it being a PS5 exclusive had gone over my head initially.😅

@MidnightDragonDX as a Gen 9 console? In some 90+ million sales, it should.

Huh, I'm used to the US rolling it out later (especially with the timezone difference at play), but never to GMT+3's borderline Wednesday midnight before. Last month's games already gone as well, so the monthly tab outright claims to have nothing to show. Or is it just the PS App acting up again?

"Does this kind of thing make you question digital purchases?"

Not at all. I sailed the high seas for years before these digital purchases enabled me to consistently shop for games in the first place; if I had no qualms about torrenting the stuff I couldn't buy, you bet I'll have even less about torrenting the stuff I've legitimately bought if/when I ever find myself no longer capable of redownloading it from the official servers. It's as simple as that.

I'd rather see Code Veronica remade, too. After all, it's another classic entry with ink ribbons whose absence was the very reason I turned to RE2R and RE3R over their respective much more portable originals. RE4-RE6 have none of this and are on Switch and I' hard-pressed to imagine what a remake could offer me on top.

Technically not a very lucrative PS4 month for me between two titles available on Switch and one locked to PS5, but the general notion of TWO variably vehicular open-worlders in one month is definitely not the kind of PS+ batch I could scoff at in sound mind. And Powerwash might end up installed rather soon if it's small enough in size - those PS Stars points won't redeem themselves.😆

Most of the stuff is on Switch (including Eiyuuden I just picked up this month), but for those without it, Dragon's Dogma alone could make the whole lineup, and there's more where it came from, from aforesaid ECR, River City and Grandia to another Dead Island, Klonoa and PaRappa. Teardown looks promising, too.

@TechaNinja Grandia, googling its cast checks out.

Vita 2 would even still make sense if Sony put all of its Gen 6-8 exclusives from Ico, Folklore and MotorStorm to Tearaway, Gravity Rush and Concrete Genie on Steam for Deck to play. Maybe admittedly less so if they put all the aforesaid straight on Switch or "Switch 2". And since neither appears to be within the realm of remote probability... we can only sigh because neither does a Vita 2. Sony needs to focus on living room boxes for teens and lucky-scheduled adults.

@Majk_SVK mobile phones deliberately evolved themselves into a dead end of gaming hardware evolution. They'll need proper physical buttons and flexible storage management back before they need software, and, being GSM-equipped palmtop PCs in all but name, their specs will always have to be shared between games and a ton of other purposes, with all of it for the same battery to shoulder as well.

Forget multiplat software, this generation has seen a whole bunch of native mobile games migrate to Switch, often even adopting the retail model for the cause.

@nicugoalkeper cloud gaming, especially portable one, still has a damn distance to go before we wouldn't. Sleep mode alone has been among the definitive perks of portability since Gen 7, and it's still cryptonite for many server-based games (except ironically in mobile freemiums although I reckon theirs was a sink-or-swim case in particular), let alone fully streamed titles.

So Premium games can be fine but the only middle ground for Extra is "meh, okay"?

Jet skis in the game confirmed?

SAO tier AI? Absolutely.

Modern AI? Not nearly as much.

This is VR and cloud gaming all over again - people in a clueless hurry to monetize a tech whose capabilities and/or contextual infrastructure are still deep in their infancy.

Mafia 2 (amusingly dished out on the borderline anniversary of leaving Extra) seems like the main event here, although I see commenters here turn up their noses even towards it now - based on a Metacritic "score", no less! Did fans not swear by this game when they needed it to bark at the third entry in comparison? Face it, even a lineup of Horizon, Spider-Man and GTA 5 will be "scraping the barrel" in your eyes.

Between the expected heavy online focus and the already existing Switch port, I don't see myself downloading Breakers but the Aliens game might receive some spotlight someday as its respective Switch incarnation is a glorified streaming app. For now, though, Mafia 2 is the only one that might actually compel me to delete something from the packed PS4 storage (and its free space calculation UI from Mars🙄); as with most Switch-absent third party stuff these days, its full playthrough is a Deck prospect, but my Deck storage is routinely packed at the moment as well.😅

Is it a habit or a conscious clickbait to call Gen 9 "new" almost seven years on?🤔😅

@NinjaSixx define a historical fan. Since beginning my binge in 2007, I've beaten every offline flagship except for the ongoing yet variably advanced XII, Revenant Wings and XV playthroughs. Each and every one of them, the aforesaid three included, has proven to be a legitimate and recognizable Final Fantasy game. I have all the reasons to expect the same from XVI, especially given what I've seen in the presented footage before - although I also have all the reasons to expect XVII to be a yet different Final Fantasy (and yet again send the fandom out on a witch hunt) because that's how the franchise has really rolled for decades. Perhaps experiencing it at the natural release pace has left "historical fans" at the disadvantage of forgetting how the old and the new are juggled here from game to game.

@TripleEyeGaming which they can roll out how many of per year? Then again, perhaps they are banking entirely on third party publishers and indies to diversify and pad out their hardware's library (indeed, even EA-helmed titles like Lost in Random, Unravel and It Takes Two tend to give off a fair share of "golden age SIE" vibes). Except these aren't Wii U and XBO times anymore - the majority of these games are also found on consoles like Switch that also maintain their own palette of exclusives. Can Sony shine on while largely limiting their output to photorealistic RPGs/actventures and chasing [the will-o-the-wisp of] "service games"? I unironically enjoy the likes of InFamous, TLoU, Spider-Man and Days Gone myself, but out of this whole bunch, IMHO, so far only Horizon series has managed to offer the kind of an imaginative journey through an exotic world once found all over the PlayStation legacy from LocoRoco, Shadow of the Colossus and LittleBigPlanet to Tearaway, Gravity Rush and Concrete Genie.

Is that what they call battle royales these days?🤔

So lemme get this straight: Netflix, offering Take-Two to limit one of their biggest cash cow franchises to a limited userbase expected to stream this franchise AND control it with a phone touchscreen?

This is why I rarely even bother to parody this kind of "journalism". I couldn't make up this magnitude of stuff if I tried!

@Voltan guess you'll have no choice but to go outside now... ouch! Okay, okay, I'm shutting up now.

@Jimboss I mean, the oh so "underpowered and barebones" Switch from the same generation has done it for years (unless I also missed it being a case of later system update, but even then I believe it's been around since before PS5 launch).

Unless Sony used to expect all of your PS5 exclusives to fit on the home scree- gets dogpiled

Would it perchance work on PS4, seeing as there's already an app supposedly doing this from a console? Given the track record with DS4's touchpad (largely used as a glorified Select button) and gyroscope, I'm not holding my breath for most of PS5 library to make indispensable use of DualSense features anyway.

Most of the stuff is on [its way to] Switch, but I may give Dead Island and Elite Dangerous a roll.

I mean, Japan is among the few countries where game streaming is reportedly at its most modernly viable. I was always mystified why Google never really tried to push Stadia there first and foremost.

@InsaneWade "tied" sounds like a rather misleading word since all of my Remote Play (and native Vita multiplayer) experience has relied on phone hotspots instead - after all, dedicated 3G cards were never an option here; I doubt you could easily find any Eastern European MSP even knowing what a "Vita" was.

@Fiendish-Beaver and all this stuff sounds a lot more interesting than 60 fps, too.

Callisto Protocol is neat although I'm even more curious about Weird West which is likewise absent from Switch eShop (somewhat surprisingly for an UE4 top-down action game published by Devolver but I likely don't know half the situation). On that note... huh, Farming Simulator isn't on Switch either?🤔 Guess it makes this lineup all the more topical (until/unless I haul the respective PC versions over to Deck, but seeing as the latter didn't prevent me from getting the PS4 ports of Avengers and NFS Heat for the time being...).

So I'll be able to play ALL of Horizon portable on Deck after all? Especially since the first game was available for purchase like everything else Sony (with the odd sole exception of first Spider-Man), leaving me with few reasons to expect otherwise in FW's case as well - possibly a rare ironic upside of Sony still thinking that "Belarus" is something edible.

I'm still gradually retracing what progress I made in HZD on PS4 early this year, but this is still promising news.

@Grumblevolcano Gravity Rush 2 when? The game's five years old, too, and a bit surreal to see stuck on home hardware after the series' portable origins. As long as Sony's only Gen 9 portable is a streaming tablet, I'd be in the Steam marker for other stuff like Uncharted trilogy, LBP3 and Concrete Genie, too.

The game, similarly to Night Trap, sports some of the most realistic graphics known to video games, so it particularly feels at home on PS5.

I briefly tried the game on PS4, even claiming a few exclusive items on my otherwise largely laptop-based playthrough, but the lack of motion aiming quickly salted me away - this is exactly what I hoped to find here over the PC version (which might support gyro for all I know, but my budget CBR gamepad doesn't), and it's present even on mobile. Does anyone in the industry even remembers that Dualshock 4 has the functionality? New Saints Row's only downside so far is of the same kind and all the more bafflingly so because it came out in the wake of SR3 and SR4's Switch ports with legit and highly helpful motion aim.

I suppose GI's own long-brewed Switch port is likewise my only hope left to use ranged characters in style.😆 Not a hoot in this Direct either, though; better luck next February.

Huh, Direct and SoP on one day? And both in the same month as TGS? Talk about a wishlist feast.

As if the Essential lineup wasn't unironically impressive enough, September had to become the month of tri-Ace and Vanillaware - plus Cloudpunk, Civilization VI and some Yoko Taro goodness on top.🍻 As usual, I don't see myself touching the stuff that's already on Switch and/or Vita, but with my Deck storage packed full for the visible future, I expect to once again be tempted to have an advance sampling of later Star Ocean entries (franchise binge queue be damned, much of the series seems to be a chronological salad anyway), NieR Replicant (already tried it on my laptop but it's noticeably sluggish there) and Tails Noir which oddly doesn't seem to be on Swi- never mind, it is but titled "Backbone" thereon.

Thanks to Premium (and this year's still fleeting but nonetheless a bit more recurrent home gaming opportunities), I don't even need to measure these appetites up against my PS4 storage which is nice because eagerly installing the month's whole IGC bundle has left me increasingly fed up with it. Dear system UI, you can't tell me I "still need 5 more Gb of free space" while simultaneously boasting almost 60 in the storage menu.

@Skeletor85 "another 20 crap games"

"Will you even bother redeeming these PS5, PS4 games?"

Just did and I even intend to give all three a roll this weekend. For all my generally positive attitude to the Essential lineups, it's been a pretty long while since I could last say that about a single month's offerings.

You guys are welcome to mope your fan organs off until another CoD shows up on the menu. ¯(ツ)/¯

@Cashews and the resulting opinion, once expressed public, inevitably becomes the subject of opinions in itself. Alongside the attitudes and mentalities behind it.