All Overcooked content is on Switch (and I already own half of it, still stuck on The Peckening even in co-op efforts), Predator evokes more curiosity but only if single player IS possible (Warframe is explicitly geared towards multiplayer as well, but fully playable solo). And of course, both this one and Hitman 2, expected to put healthy emphasis on gunplay, leave the jury still out when it comes to control schemes. But that aside, they'll make pretty neat PS4 library additions.
Like I said before, completely indifferent for once - I don't subscribe to the local buzz that tries to denigrate the games themselves (even though I'm not really into battle royales either), but they're still two games I can access much more conveniently elsewhere and one game I can't access at all. Still adding them to library, though, because why wouldn't I?
I don't have a gripe with the content (although battle royales don't usually so much for me), but between one game on PS5 and two already on Switch, there's nothing I can see myself adding to download queue anytime soon.
Demand on consoles for... classic console games? Perish the thought, I remember when gamers back in 1987 wished they could play Final Fantasy on their MSXs instead...
@ShogunRok it's 2021, and some fans still manage to call a massive crowd of fully employed gamers "a niche".π It's been repeated ad nauseaum - while you folks with appropriate life schedules "want to play [insert game] on a big screen while sitting comfortably on a sofa", many others want to PLAY [insert game] at all. No matter how beautiful to look at, it's not some kind of painting, it's a game you're meant to make progress in, to advance the story and other elements of - which tends to feature activities fit for long sessions and those fit for short bursts alike. And no game will "look good" on a big screen if you have time to turn that big screen on once a week at best or one vacation a year at worst.
If Nintendo games were the only thing to buy Nintendo consoles for, Wii U wouldn't end up outsold (if marginally) by the very aforediscussed Vita. Which, by the way, is still THE reason some folks even own and can more or less use a PS4 in the first place. We turn to portable gaming for the ability to accommodate the hobby itself [back] into our adult lives, and no matter how long Nintendo evergreens may top Switch charts, you'll find very few among the 85+ million users whose Switch library would remain limited to these Nintendo evergreens. Steam Deck won't change the picture much - micro PCs offer portability with their own baggage of fine print, this one's strength is mainly a rather competitive pricetag among its own kind, - but I can see folks investing in it for the games not on Switch. Including the few Sony offerings in Steam library as long as Sony itself sticks to big screens and sofas, choosing to capitalize on demographics up to and including the college age.
Industry leaders have room for BotWs and Part Time UFOs alike under their roofs. And if "homeruns" are to be defined by short term memories who deem a classic like Gravity Rush inferior to GoW2018 or HZD, this isn't a baseball game I'm compelled to spectate. But that's more on the coverage of the interview here; Ryan's own words mostly raise a bit of an eyebrow in how he puts PlayStation in "direct competition" with the very forms of entertainment media that other Sony branches cultivate themselves.π
@guntam I believe I've elaborated on my points enough above; if you came out of it with an idea that I will "happily take PS+ in any form", then I'm not sure if there's anything I can add to counter your skimming techniques.
And I know that fanspeak excels in Freudian slang, but "masturbatory language" sounds like a whole new gem on the block. π
In the internet, everything is everyone's business anyway, and a lot of publicly written opinions fall under the demand of taking the same responsibilities as all other incarnations of publicistic writing. If an opinion reeks of fanship venom and its "desire of change" (often on top of change itself regarding a conspicuously hedonistic first world problem) refuses the other party any room to say no at the legitimate cost of possibly losing the requester's wallet, this opinion will be called out for all the consumerist narcissism it radiates. "Flaccid" or not, there's no overruling the civility of an age-old take-it-or-leave-it approach in the market relationships; the reactive rest is just your tough luck of running into a sociopathic philologist with contempt for all fans and their brands of "wanting change".
Me, I don't want this sub "to be better" - I just want it if, when and as long as it gives me something I want for the price I'm motivated and enabled to pay. End of story. And it's not about jumping back in "when you're interested" - like I said above, I don't pay for what I might get in the future months, I pay for what I already have in the sub's frame. Namely, the save cloud and the amassed subscription library full of things that already appeal to me but await their hour in the backlog. Unless both of these factors undergo significant changes (like, say, everything I have here ending up on Switch for me to double-dip on, but that's unlikely) or the subscription price skyrockets to the point of being beyond my reach or getting overshadowed by other spending priorities at a given time, this state of things will thoroughly explain while I continue "flaccidly" spending money on this stuff. And remain a randomly vocal stain on the fandom's dramatic narrative of how unacceptable it is. Β―(γ)/Β―
Indifferent this time. A Plague Tale is awesome and could have ironically been a rarest port I might be caught playing over Switch's (regardless of control scheme pitfalls, 360p/544p remains tangibly more streamable than 720p where I live)... but it's on a console I don't have that's only "portable" on buttonless devices whose creators likely deem even 720p atavistic. Better luck next gen with this game. Elsewhere, I'm lukewarm towards wrestling games (despite fooling around with WWF WrestleMania Challenge quite a bit as a kid, not that I ever figured out how to play efficiently) and to most CoDs that don't at least have "warfare" in the title - but I got one of the latter in the past (could've got two, but the excessively cautious mistake of making a Russian PSN account backfired yet again), so hey.
@guntam sane people either pay when they're interested or don't when they're not. I just expressed my personal "meh" for this month's lineup, but that didn't stop me from extending the sub for another year (a mailed discount code was welcome, too), and I barely even use multiplayer. For me, PS+ is about cloud saves and maintaining access to a massive library of offerings I enjoy AND have the ability to play, including Vita classics like Grand Kingdom and Zero Time Dilemma. When it comes to PS4, the control scheme gambles of the past pretty much discouraged me from buying games for it at all, so PS+ is the bulk of my library over there, including [semi]comfortable experiences like Concrete Genie, Greedfall, Just Cause 4, Uncharted and TLoU... all of which are still in my backlog. I have enough reason to keep subscribing; if I didn't, the rational thing would be to quit, not raise cain about it online. A business offer that doesn't or no longer meet a consumer's demand is nothing extraordinary and nothing apocalyptic.
Press F. Fanblog sphere apologists may spin narratives about sparse output and production chaos in the recent years, but even those are questions to ask the management of a multimillionaire media corporation, not quite the devs themselves who are responsible for some of the most Nintendoesquely authentic that PlayStation brand has ever been. Commercial success is also only that much of an argument when others manage to print money by way of a turnip sale simulator. They weren't alone, and the figurative pressure is all on the likes of Pixelopus and Media Molecule now, but this IS an end of an era, as well as potential limbo for many prized fictionverses and a gaping hole in the platform's talent bank. When Neverland of Rune Factory fame went bust, Marvelous stepped in to shelter the devs and is reaping tangible rewards with RF5 now; the people behind Gravity Rush, Shadow of Colossus etc, from what I hear, are all third party and somewhere else now. Β―(γ)/Β―
Except for ones that aren't. And the ones you can't use on your Vita (barring Henkaku country) unless you also happen to own a PS3 remain a bit of a troll.π
But like I said, at least statements like these seem to further prolong Sony's commitment to [what still remains of] Vita store proper.
I have a half mind to start a petition to cancel PlayStation fans. Granted, that's my 24/7 half mind about all fans in existence, myself included, but nonetheless.
The year is 2021 AD and announcements of absent announcements have really become a thing. Congratulations, fellow fans, the world has acknowledged us as INCAPABLE of responsible hype.
More indifferent this month, but I might try Star Wars Squadrons sometime. Although it probably involves a lot of shooting, so you can guess my usual concerns by now.
Now available again, I don't know the previous price but it's peculiarly 1429 RUB now as opposed to Vita's usual 2800-something (not "affected" by the accidental giveaway but intact all this time on Store app instead - and the DLC was still free on the platform). While you still won't catch me investing in a home version while a portable one is available, the seeming price drop is nice... yet the seeming price glitches during its implementation and the necessity to temporarily delist the entire page during a fix are perplexing.
So does it mean some belatedly notified development projects still have to be cancelled or rushed or are they at least allowing to finish everything that's already been in the works? π€
@Boucho11 Liberation? It's also on Switch (bundled with AC3), but if you don't have one or prefer it here, that's easily one of the most memorable games on the platform. I haven't even played much despite it being among my first Vita purchases (still on the first game in the respective binge), but what I've experienced already had quite an impression on me. And the game can also boast being an Assassin's Creed with a female protagonist before it was cool.π
No, but I finally got the first Resident Evil on Switch.
In PlayStation land, I'll be also turning towards the original platform RE2 and RE3 first when the time comes.... or so I thought until the other day before finding that RE2 seems to have sailed back into pirate waters on my part. Turns out, the game is still not properly marked to appear on Vita's PSS and the web version used to be the only way to buy it here! π At least RE3 is there while 4-6 and 0 are on Switch. Time will tell about RE7, but the demo didn't seem too conflicting with Vita controls in RP, so...
I would have naturally welcomed Wreckfest on PS4 instead - vehicle games are my thing, - but yet again, would it even control well on Vita? Enough of that riddle to come with Battlefield V - the games tend to feature a lot of FPS and vehicles, i.e. pretty fun unless the control scheme makes sure it isn't.
Not well-versed on Stranded Deep and up to my neck in survivals and other gradual builders on Switch as it is, but it's still a genre I particularly welcome, so hey. In other words, not much hype about this month for various personal reasons, but nothing to complain about either.
Hilarious to see the fandom pat its own head in the comments when Sony's "reconsideration" is almost certain to stem from the feedback of the people entitled to criticizing the previous decision most - the devs and publishers, including everyone caught completely off guard mid-development on the Vita front. Nonetheless, good news. Gotta wonder if this will make Atlus and some others restore the recent advance bailouts like Utawarerumono and Dungeon Travelers 2 or if they're not looking back now... but until/unless the titles in question show up on Switch, I'll strongly hope for the former. In any case, that's quite a wallet emergency alleviated on my part, but it remains a wake-up call as far as a good bunch of Vita-compatible games are concerned. Still planning some investment come July (and possibly May), regardless of sales.
To be fair, let's be honest - the moment PS4 store AND servers ever go down in their legitimate entirety, how many people would remain morally or pragmatically inhibited from putting a CFW on their PS4s? What the digital age means for that part of a console's life is that all the games and updates don't even need a dumping process anymore.π
These aren't third party bailouts on the storefront itself, Sony is responsible for server data maintenance as long as they don't announce otherwise in advance, so there's little to assume here but temporary database errors. But one can see how it may fan (no pun intended) some more flames of paranoia, given the general atmosphere.π
@Fyz306903 it is, but it seems like American English (and what of its influence flows over the Atlantic) inexplicably took to using a shorter variant... with remarkable nonchalance about the word omission choice effectively flipping the polarity of the entire message. Guess they're used to it by now.
Fine by me, although I will only have any chance for a stake in the matter if the mobile entries belong to touchscreen-friendly genres. Which, seeing as most of Sony's prized APs are action-heavy games, isn't quite a given. Although even a mere turn-based crossover along the lines of Tales of Crestoria and Star Ocean Anamnesis could work, highlighting many legacy characters and concepts in the process.
@nessisonett well, I want portability from PlayStation, but I don't see that impacting Sony's modern endeavours either. Somehow their world and biz doesn't revolve around me, alas.ππ
A neat list, if merely a sliver of the full list in context - after all, a lot of nominally physical editions might as well be digital-only, too (unless you pay through the nose on eBay, but countries like mine don't even get that "luxury" most of the time). But like I was bitching earlier today, there appears to be a risk of losing these games' purchase options even earlier than it was expected - particularly third party titles whose publishers are opting to take them down months ahead, with zero publicity and with little rhyme or reason. First party might be safer until August... you measure the emphasis on "might".
@TheFrenchiestFry for the same ol' reason that PCs are homechained and even laptops are a quite a compromise to lug around? Fans still don't get the memo that we salarymen and downtown downtimers from the Adultland are quite a crowd and have the income to make us a market.π No superior version of a game will be superior if it's not the one you can actually sit down and play.
@Spyroescape because all RPGs benefit from portability in particular, among other similar genres that balance a main campaign with a lot of side activities, exploration, grinding, farming, idle backtracking and whatnot. Despite their size and scale, they may ironically be more of a "pick'n'play" environment than even bite-sized stage puzzles commonly associated with the phrase.
Like the article itself just admitted, an audience is not limited to a fandom. And you'll be surprised, but normal people outside the fan asylums don't quite buy games and consoles to seek "respect" or "loyalty" - they buy games and consoles to entertain themselves. If Sony actually loses to XBox this gen, it won't be a battle of reputations, it'll be on the perennial battlefield of sufficiently marketed offer and sufficiently financed demand.
Sony lost me as a customer for their 9th gen, for instance, but I've never needed any vitriol to justify it - I'm simply not in a position to make satisfactory use of their 9th gen products. Granted, the same applies to XBox - frankly, the only Microsoft-related thing I care for is them hopefully sticking to their Bethesda policy statement verbatim so that GamePass doesn't block the possibility of porting older stuff like Dishonored to Switch. And that's the end of the story, completely unrelated to either company's "reputation" in my eyes. They are businesses, I'm a consumer. They don't exist to pamper me over their own interests, I don't exist to worship them (many a rabid fanhead believe even sane adherence to the age-old take-it-or-leave-it to be "blind worship", but those are rabid fanheads for you), and while I never mind ending up "pampered" here and there, I never take it for granted... or for a marital contract of any sort between us. I just act and adjust accordingly to whether I have enough personal motivation to invest in their offers or not.
As for "response to GamePass"... I'd have to see it to form an opinion. Pseudoglobal services like PS Now don't enthuse me by default, neither do pure streaming services if they don't involve physical buttons and don't stick to the video resolutions my phone hotspot can stomach. And the rotation aspect of the likes of GamePass isn't a big selling point for me either - paying for limited access to games could come to dictate your own backlog schedules, something I could supposedly deal with but am in no hurry to HAVE to deal with. PS+ and Nintendo's CGC are more up my alley in that regard.
@Ruby Carbuncle "closing down soon" is one thing to address, but it seems like some games have been getting SILENTLY delisted far in advance. Dungeon Travelers 2, for instance, has been on my wishlist for ages, so I marked it as one of the top priority "July at latest if no May sale happens" purchases in the farewell Vita spree... and now I hear that it got quietly taken down this very week, not even far into April? Alongside Utawarerumono, Conception 2, Lost Dimension... If PS Store embraces this trend on top of the rest, I might just run out of stuff to buy by the time I have the designated summer budget for it.π
Not gonna lie, the aforesaid DT2 example in itself miffs me to the point that an eyepatch-wearing part of me already kneejerked back with an unapologetic of investing said summer budget into a spare used Vita to CFW instead, spending the rest on first party (the rest I could still honestly go for legal ownership of if the affected titles were to reincarnate on Switch later). But even the latter footnote naturally applies on the assumption that Sony won't start getting funny ideas about its first-party Vita stuff before July either.π³
Seriously, all the Super Mario 3D All-Stars mourners out there, what do you even KNOW about FOMO...π
What a week in Sony announcements. π I fully understand the contexts and footnotes at play here but won't even bother excusing my biased fanbutt from wishing for stuff like Gravity Rush dilogy on Switch that much more seriously now. π I mean, League influence or not, we're talking older first-party titles on a platform that doesn't compete with PlayStation versus a brand new first-party title on the one platform that supposedly does!
Also bears mentioning, per the same Sony newsletter, that crossbuy titles (ironically, the only ones on sale most of the year including now) aren't going away either - buying them via PS4 storefronts will still add the other eligible versions to the respective libraries. But I assume the 120 titles narrowed down already exclude these.
@get2sammyb oh, they sure seem to have plans for it, or they would have probably let its team slip through their fingers like the rest of the studio.π
@Agramonte I only had a chance to try Folklore briefly two years ago, but I was impressed. Too bad it's yet another first party classic that got stuck on its native console and will soon drop out of official distribution for the visible future to boot.
@Dekutheevilclown which once again brings us back to have a lot more questions for Sony than for the studio itself, but also leaves you wistfully wondering how many more interesting things we could have seen if someone had worked out a proper pipeline for the output.
Days Gone is definitely a highlight - moreso if it controls well on Vita (although its shooting and driving elements are among Remote Play's biggest gambles in this regard). Fanheads can kerfuffle all they want, but the difference should be obvious - this is a limited time addition window whereas PS+ collection has PS5 users covered no matter when they get a console (which is a rather fitting commodity in the context of PS5 stock situation).
And it's not like this collection didn't include some games that had already appeared on standard PS+ rosters before, potentially limiting the gain of some generation upgraders - was there a kerfuffle about it, too? No, on second thought, forget I asked.
Yeah, now we're talking no FWPs here. Third parties on the game production side are expected to know about store closure deadlines for MANY months ahead - indeed, all the moreso if you're nonchalantly continuing to sell them devkits in the meantime. Ball legitimately dropped, and dropped hard. /)_-)
@jack22 as someone regularly using his NDS and PSP to this day, I fail to imagine Vita going anywhere anytime soon either.
Cue armchair managers with lectures on how SJS was dysfunctional, unprofitable, lame etc. World of their own - but sadly enough, of the current Sony's, too. It's one thing to try optimizing output and resources, and another to be losing versatile veteran talents by the week in the process.
All the richer to have never transcended the regional license limits all this time. The era of official portable PS1 games has come and gone [for now], and we in Europe still haven't got Medal of Honor or Xenogears or the first Parasite Eve... And while we're at it, has Metal Gear Solid remained unusable on Vita without a PS3 at hand? I appreciate what we got, but all these weird moments have survived the whole thing. Β―(γ)/Β―
Now we're talking. And unlike the oh so credible "insider reports", this one at least makes sure to spell out that the previous purchases remain intact. Although I still wonder how Vita's download list will work past August - will a firmware update bring a separate app for it, or will the PS Store one just log you in as usual but show errors on attempts to access game pages?
The deadline is, indeed, trollishly puny for the libraries of this site, but excluding all the multiplat stuff available or to come (hopefully Koei Tecmo will comment on the odds of Nosurge dilogy's western Switch localisation ASAP), I suppose it could be worse. Sorry, CrisTales & Co - unless a juggernaut of FFXIII collection's caliber draws near and targets June/July on Switch, the bulk of my vacation bonuses' gaming expense tab might just get splurged away on as many top wishlist exclusives as possible (which may still be not many, since I'm not holding my breath for any blowout discounts). And Nintendo was accused of "FOMO exploitation" with a total of four games?π
@Haruki_NLI as long as these sites run around with unsubstantiated claims and refuse to name their sources (if any hypothetical legits among the latter worry about their careers, here's a lifehack - don't deal with tabloids), it will always be attention whoring for clicks and nothing more. Regardless of how many official bits may align with their content afterwards. That's how it works among civilized people, at least.
As for PS1, anything I won't have managed to obtain before the deadline will have to stay under the Jolly Roger on my PSP (some games like Medal of Honor are better suited for Vita controls but aren't available in my region anyway) - at least until it gets ported to another portable with a functional digital shop (need I even hint?) or until a vague utopian future where Sony grows itself a new portable console once again. You decide which is more of a pipe dream.
At least such store interface goofups ironically make for more "humourable" sources than what the likes of Bloomberg and gleeful "gaming journalists" rely on nowadays. Not that there isn't room for doubt, especially when some people's console interface PS+ ads also start showing off October 2016 items for the reportedly umpteenth time.π
Anyway, if true, it might come in handy for my friend whose place my PS4 remains a mutually agreed tenant of since day one. IIRC he has tried it before but his relatively old PC wasn't quite up to scratch. Pass on my side, though - I've had the Switch port since its release window and just recently equipped it with the two big expansions the PS+ offering will most certainly exclude.
Damn, turns out Paper Beast is VR only as well. What does that leave for me to actually play on PS4, Rez Infinite?π
On the upside, I only just noticed a "remote play support" tag on some games like Subnautica. The Witness, on the other hand, doesn't have one. Did they perchance start to tag the titles with adequate control schemes on Vita whose icon is specifically used for the notion here? Not to mention that it's probably the only Vita trace you have on the new browser PSS now.π Credit where it's due...
I wouldn't pick it on PS4 over the serviceable access I already have on my laptop (especially since shooters evoke the least enthusiasm when it comes to guessing Vita RP controls), but I'm certainly in the market for a possible Switch version. What I've played of the game so far is pretty neat, and I'm thankful it doesn't force the voice controls (responses and commands work through buttons as well).
@Tharsman right, I forgot they shut down the entirety of the servers. But Wii and DSi were the same generation, not two - and used the same third party servers Nintendo decided to eliminate the dependence on. Considering how long it took them, I fail to see a precedent for Wii U and 3DS eShops to go down anytime before 2025 at worst.
Props to PS for at least reaching out to Sony for a commentary, but that's all there is to do about it and nothing to discuss until an official statement rather than the umpteenth "source familiar with the situation" the likes of which are steadily turning the already fragile reputation of gaming newsblogs into a parody of itself. I needn't even highlight all the gaps in the current narrative, from the short deadline (a couple months is a plugjerk even for a few games like last year's Danganronpa, let alone for three platform libraries) to the lack of any details on redownloads - the latter are normally a given in Delistingville, but Vita users, similarly to 3DS ones, can't redownload games without opening the Store app first. Are we supposed to believe that Source-senpai is familiar with the whole shutdown but not with such topical parts of it? The news could raise a lot of eyebrows and drive many towards CFWs (although ironically, I still couldn't do that without a spare Vita - jollyrogering my primary one would render the PS4 literally unplayable for me in returnπ ), but it has to be news first. Apparently NL aren't the only ones who seem to have forgotten they have a RUMOUR tag?
@Tharsman Nintendo has had a glorious three generations of digital stores, and only one of them has been shutdown in specific circumstances - keeping the users' access to already purchased titles nonetheless and outliving the respective platforms by almost a decade overall.
@JapaneseSonic many emulators - and official tech like PSP's PS1 functionality - are capable of adjusting the window size to combat resolution discrepancy. The only people who would have an issue with that are those who believe in video games expiring like dairy overtime to begin with, but they never made the bulk of the market even before the NES/SNES/PS1 generations grew up to come back into gaming with a steady income (then again, they also came back with a taste for portability, and Sony still nonchalantly believes that portability is only required for Candy Crush these days).
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Re: PS Plus September 2021 PS5, PS4 Games Announced
All Overcooked content is on Switch (and I already own half of it, still stuck on The Peckening even in co-op efforts), Predator evokes more curiosity but only if single player IS possible (Warframe is explicitly geared towards multiplayer as well, but fully playable solo). And of course, both this one and Hitman 2, expected to put healthy emphasis on gunplay, leave the jury still out when it comes to control schemes. But that aside, they'll make pretty neat PS4 library additions.
Re: Poll: Are You Happy with Your PS Plus Games for August 2021?
Like I said before, completely indifferent for once - I don't subscribe to the local buzz that tries to denigrate the games themselves (even though I'm not really into battle royales either), but they're still two games I can access much more conveniently elsewhere and one game I can't access at all. Still adding them to library, though, because why wouldn't I?
Re: PS Plus August 2021 PS5, PS4 Games Leaked by Sony
I don't have a gripe with the content (although battle royales don't usually so much for me), but between one game on PS5 and two already on Switch, there's nothing I can see myself adding to download queue anytime soon.
Re: Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster Could Come to Consoles If There's Demand, Says Square Enix
Demand on consoles for... classic console games? Perish the thought, I remember when gamers back in 1987 wished they could play Final Fantasy on their MSXs instead...
Re: With the Steam Deck Announced, This Is What a Next-Gen PSP Could Be
@ShogunRok it's 2021, and some fans still manage to call a massive crowd of fully employed gamers "a niche".π It's been repeated ad nauseaum - while you folks with appropriate life schedules "want to play [insert game] on a big screen while sitting comfortably on a sofa", many others want to PLAY [insert game] at all. No matter how beautiful to look at, it's not some kind of painting, it's a game you're meant to make progress in, to advance the story and other elements of - which tends to feature activities fit for long sessions and those fit for short bursts alike. And no game will "look good" on a big screen if you have time to turn that big screen on once a week at best or one vacation a year at worst.
If Nintendo games were the only thing to buy Nintendo consoles for, Wii U wouldn't end up outsold (if marginally) by the very aforediscussed Vita. Which, by the way, is still THE reason some folks even own and can more or less use a PS4 in the first place. We turn to portable gaming for the ability to accommodate the hobby itself [back] into our adult lives, and no matter how long Nintendo evergreens may top Switch charts, you'll find very few among the 85+ million users whose Switch library would remain limited to these Nintendo evergreens. Steam Deck won't change the picture much - micro PCs offer portability with their own baggage of fine print, this one's strength is mainly a rather competitive pricetag among its own kind, - but I can see folks investing in it for the games not on Switch. Including the few Sony offerings in Steam library as long as Sony itself sticks to big screens and sofas, choosing to capitalize on demographics up to and including the college age.
Re: Jim Ryan Says Players Only Remember the Best Games
Industry leaders have room for BotWs and Part Time UFOs alike under their roofs. And if "homeruns" are to be defined by short term memories who deem a classic like Gravity Rush inferior to GoW2018 or HZD, this isn't a baseball game I'm compelled to spectate. But that's more on the coverage of the interview here; Ryan's own words mostly raise a bit of an eyebrow in how he puts PlayStation in "direct competition" with the very forms of entertainment media that other Sony branches cultivate themselves.π
Re: Poll: Are You Happy with Your PS Plus Games for July 2021?
@guntam I believe I've elaborated on my points enough above; if you came out of it with an idea that I will "happily take PS+ in any form", then I'm not sure if there's anything I can add to counter your skimming techniques.
And I know that fanspeak excels in Freudian slang, but "masturbatory language" sounds like a whole new gem on the block. π
Re: Poll: Are You Happy with Your PS Plus Games for July 2021?
In the internet, everything is everyone's business anyway, and a lot of publicly written opinions fall under the demand of taking the same responsibilities as all other incarnations of publicistic writing. If an opinion reeks of fanship venom and its "desire of change" (often on top of change itself regarding a conspicuously hedonistic first world problem) refuses the other party any room to say no at the legitimate cost of possibly losing the requester's wallet, this opinion will be called out for all the consumerist narcissism it radiates. "Flaccid" or not, there's no overruling the civility of an age-old take-it-or-leave-it approach in the market relationships; the reactive rest is just your tough luck of running into a sociopathic philologist with contempt for all fans and their brands of "wanting change".
Me, I don't want this sub "to be better" - I just want it if, when and as long as it gives me something I want for the price I'm motivated and enabled to pay. End of story. And it's not about jumping back in "when you're interested" - like I said above, I don't pay for what I might get in the future months, I pay for what I already have in the sub's frame. Namely, the save cloud and the amassed subscription library full of things that already appeal to me but await their hour in the backlog. Unless both of these factors undergo significant changes (like, say, everything I have here ending up on Switch for me to double-dip on, but that's unlikely) or the subscription price skyrockets to the point of being beyond my reach or getting overshadowed by other spending priorities at a given time, this state of things will thoroughly explain while I continue "flaccidly" spending money on this stuff. And remain a randomly vocal stain on the fandom's dramatic narrative of how unacceptable it is. Β―(γ)/Β―
Re: Poll: Are You Happy with Your PS Plus Games for July 2021?
Indifferent this time. A Plague Tale is awesome and could have ironically been a rarest port I might be caught playing over Switch's (regardless of control scheme pitfalls, 360p/544p remains tangibly more streamable than 720p where I live)... but it's on a console I don't have that's only "portable" on buttonless devices whose creators likely deem even 720p atavistic. Better luck next gen with this game. Elsewhere, I'm lukewarm towards wrestling games (despite fooling around with WWF WrestleMania Challenge quite a bit as a kid, not that I ever figured out how to play efficiently) and to most CoDs that don't at least have "warfare" in the title - but I got one of the latter in the past (could've got two, but the excessively cautious mistake of making a Russian PSN account backfired yet again), so hey.
@guntam sane people either pay when they're interested or don't when they're not. I just expressed my personal "meh" for this month's lineup, but that didn't stop me from extending the sub for another year (a mailed discount code was welcome, too), and I barely even use multiplayer. For me, PS+ is about cloud saves and maintaining access to a massive library of offerings I enjoy AND have the ability to play, including Vita classics like Grand Kingdom and Zero Time Dilemma. When it comes to PS4, the control scheme gambles of the past pretty much discouraged me from buying games for it at all, so PS+ is the bulk of my library over there, including [semi]comfortable experiences like Concrete Genie, Greedfall, Just Cause 4, Uncharted and TLoU... all of which are still in my backlog. I have enough reason to keep subscribing; if I didn't, the rational thing would be to quit, not raise cain about it online. A business offer that doesn't or no longer meet a consumer's demand is nothing extraordinary and nothing apocalyptic.
Re: Japan Studio Has Officially Been Removed from Sony's Website
Press F. Fanblog sphere apologists may spin narratives about sparse output and production chaos in the recent years, but even those are questions to ask the management of a multimillionaire media corporation, not quite the devs themselves who are responsible for some of the most Nintendoesquely authentic that PlayStation brand has ever been. Commercial success is also only that much of an argument when others manage to print money by way of a turnip sale simulator. They weren't alone, and the figurative pressure is all on the likes of Pixelopus and Media Molecule now, but this IS an end of an era, as well as potential limbo for many prized fictionverses and a gaping hole in the platform's talent bank. When Neverland of Rune Factory fame went bust, Marvelous stepped in to shelter the devs and is reaping tangible rewards with RF5 now; the people behind Gravity Rush, Shadow of Colossus etc, from what I hear, are all third party and somewhere else now. Β―(γ)/Β―
Re: PSP's Store Closes Today, But Its Games Are Still Up for Grabs on PS3 and PS Vita
Except for ones that aren't. And the ones you can't use on your Vita (barring Henkaku country) unless you also happen to own a PS3 remain a bit of a troll.π
But like I said, at least statements like these seem to further prolong Sony's commitment to [what still remains of] Vita store proper.
Re: Random: PlayStation Fans Start Petition to Cancel Hideo Kojima's Rumoured Xbox Game
I have a half mind to start a petition to cancel PlayStation fans. Granted, that's my 24/7 half mind about all fans in existence, myself included, but nonetheless.
Re: You Won't Have to Wait Too Long for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 on PS5
"...as opposed to your own PS5"
gets dogpiled
Re: Metro, Saints Row, TimeSplitters, and Dead Island Won't Be at E3 2021 or Summer Games Fest
The year is 2021 AD and announcements of absent announcements have really become a thing. Congratulations, fellow fans, the world has acknowledged us as INCAPABLE of responsible hype.
Re: Poll: Are You Happy with Your PS Plus Games for June 2021?
More indifferent this month, but I might try Star Wars Squadrons sometime. Although it probably involves a lot of shooting, so you can guess my usual concerns by now.
Re: LittleBigPlanet Servers Disabled Again After Disgruntled Fan Declares #LittleBigVictory
No comment - even my snark levels fail me.
Re: Valkyria Revolution Temporarily Free on UK, EU PS Store
Now available again, I don't know the previous price but it's peculiarly 1429 RUB now as opposed to Vita's usual 2800-something (not "affected" by the accidental giveaway but intact all this time on Store app instead - and the DLC was still free on the platform). While you still won't catch me investing in a home version while a portable one is available, the seeming price drop is nice... yet the seeming price glitches during its implementation and the necessity to temporarily delist the entire page during a fix are perplexing.
Re: New PS Vita Games Will Sadly Cease This Summer
So does it mean some belatedly notified development projects still have to be cancelled or rushed or are they at least allowing to finish everything that's already been in the works? π€
@Boucho11 Liberation? It's also on Switch (bundled with AC3), but if you don't have one or prefer it here, that's easily one of the most memorable games on the platform. I haven't even played much despite it being among my first Vita purchases (still on the first game in the respective binge), but what I've experienced already had quite an impression on me. And the game can also boast being an Assassin's Creed with a female protagonist before it was cool.π
Re: Poll: Did You Buy Resident Evil Village?
No, but I finally got the first Resident Evil on Switch.
In PlayStation land, I'll be also turning towards the original platform RE2 and RE3 first when the time comes.... or so I thought until the other day before finding that RE2 seems to have sailed back into pirate waters on my part. Turns out, the game is still not properly marked to appear on Vita's PSS and the web version used to be the only way to buy it here! π At least RE3 is there while 4-6 and 0 are on Switch. Time will tell about RE7, but the demo didn't seem too conflicting with Vita controls in RP, so...
Re: Poll: Are You Happy with Your PS Plus Games for May 2021?
I would have naturally welcomed Wreckfest on PS4 instead - vehicle games are my thing, - but yet again, would it even control well on Vita? Enough of that riddle to come with Battlefield V - the games tend to feature a lot of FPS and vehicles, i.e. pretty fun unless the control scheme makes sure it isn't.
Not well-versed on Stranded Deep and up to my neck in survivals and other gradual builders on Switch as it is, but it's still a genre I particularly welcome, so hey. In other words, not much hype about this month for various personal reasons, but nothing to complain about either.
Re: Free Days Gone PS4 Dynamic Theme Available for One Day Only
Code already expired. Not sure how many hours the studio's SMM believes days to have, but I guess that day is really gone in their opinion. Oh well.
Re: Jim Ryan: PS5 Generation Will Have More Exclusive Games 'Than Ever Before'
@Agramonte except for the range of ability to actually play all those games. Β―(γ)/Β―
Re: PlayStation Plus Video Pass Expands PS Plus with Movies and TV Shows, but Only in Poland for Now
It's easy to enter a testing phase in select countries. The real challenge is to exit it... if PS Now is any indication.π
Re: Rumour: PS Plus Expanding with PlayStation Plus Video Pass
I certainly can't picture myself streaming a movie from PS4 to Vita. Not that the former's VOD apps even allow that to begin with.
Re: Sony Backtracks PS3, PS Vita Online Store Closures
Hilarious to see the fandom pat its own head in the comments when Sony's "reconsideration" is almost certain to stem from the feedback of the people entitled to criticizing the previous decision most - the devs and publishers, including everyone caught completely off guard mid-development on the Vita front. Nonetheless, good news. Gotta wonder if this will make Atlus and some others restore the recent advance bailouts like Utawarerumono and Dungeon Travelers 2 or if they're not looking back now... but until/unless the titles in question show up on Switch, I'll strongly hope for the former. In any case, that's quite a wallet emergency alleviated on my part, but it remains a wake-up call as far as a good bunch of Vita-compatible games are concerned. Still planning some investment come July (and possibly May), regardless of sales.
Re: PS4 Clock Battery Problem Proven, But Don't Panic Right Now
To be fair, let's be honest - the moment PS4 store AND servers ever go down in their legitimate entirety, how many people would remain morally or pragmatically inhibited from putting a CFW on their PS4s? What the digital age means for that part of a console's life is that all the games and updates don't even need a dumping process anymore.π
Re: PS Plus Oversight Is a Bummer for PS3, PS Vita Owners
For a moment I thought the article was claiming that the subscription items would no longer autorestore after a lapse. Geez.
Re: Some PS3 Games Supposedly No Longer Downloading Patches
These aren't third party bailouts on the storefront itself, Sony is responsible for server data maintenance as long as they don't announce otherwise in advance, so there's little to assume here but temporary database errors. But one can see how it may fan (no pun intended) some more flames of paranoia, given the general atmosphere.π
@Fyz306903 it is, but it seems like American English (and what of its influence flows over the Atlantic) inexplicably took to using a shorter variant... with remarkable nonchalance about the word omission choice effectively flipping the polarity of the entire message. Guess they're used to it by now.
Re: Sony Wants to Bring PlayStation's Most Popular Franchises to Smartphones
Fine by me, although I will only have any chance for a stake in the matter if the mobile entries belong to touchscreen-friendly genres. Which, seeing as most of Sony's prized APs are action-heavy games, isn't quite a given. Although even a mere turn-based crossover along the lines of Tales of Crestoria and Star Ocean Anamnesis could work, highlighting many legacy characters and concepts in the process.
@nessisonett well, I want portability from PlayStation, but I don't see that impacting Sony's modern endeavours either. Somehow their world and biz doesn't revolve around me, alas.ππ
Re: 10 Digital-Only PSP, PS Vita Games to Buy Before the PS Store Closes
A neat list, if merely a sliver of the full list in context - after all, a lot of nominally physical editions might as well be digital-only, too (unless you pay through the nose on eBay, but countries like mine don't even get that "luxury" most of the time). But like I was bitching earlier today, there appears to be a risk of losing these games' purchase options even earlier than it was expected - particularly third party titles whose publishers are opting to take them down months ahead, with zero publicity and with little rhyme or reason. First party might be safer until August... you measure the emphasis on "might".
@TheFrenchiestFry for the same ol' reason that PCs are homechained and even laptops are a quite a compromise to lug around? Fans still don't get the memo that we salarymen and downtown downtimers from the Adultland are quite a crowd and have the income to make us a market.π No superior version of a game will be superior if it's not the one you can actually sit down and play.
@Spyroescape because all RPGs benefit from portability in particular, among other similar genres that balance a main campaign with a lot of side activities, exploration, grinding, farming, idle backtracking and whatnot. Despite their size and scale, they may ironically be more of a "pick'n'play" environment than even bite-sized stage puzzles commonly associated with the phrase.
Re: Poll: Is PlayStation Losing Ground to Xbox?
Like the article itself just admitted, an audience is not limited to a fandom. And you'll be surprised, but normal people outside the fan asylums don't quite buy games and consoles to seek "respect" or "loyalty" - they buy games and consoles to entertain themselves. If Sony actually loses to XBox this gen, it won't be a battle of reputations, it'll be on the perennial battlefield of sufficiently marketed offer and sufficiently financed demand.
Sony lost me as a customer for their 9th gen, for instance, but I've never needed any vitriol to justify it - I'm simply not in a position to make satisfactory use of their 9th gen products. Granted, the same applies to XBox - frankly, the only Microsoft-related thing I care for is them hopefully sticking to their Bethesda policy statement verbatim so that GamePass doesn't block the possibility of porting older stuff like Dishonored to Switch. And that's the end of the story, completely unrelated to either company's "reputation" in my eyes. They are businesses, I'm a consumer. They don't exist to pamper me over their own interests, I don't exist to worship them (many a rabid fanhead believe even sane adherence to the age-old take-it-or-leave-it to be "blind worship", but those are rabid fanheads for you), and while I never mind ending up "pampered" here and there, I never take it for granted... or for a marital contract of any sort between us. I just act and adjust accordingly to whether I have enough personal motivation to invest in their offers or not.
As for "response to GamePass"... I'd have to see it to form an opinion. Pseudoglobal services like PS Now don't enthuse me by default, neither do pure streaming services if they don't involve physical buttons and don't stick to the video resolutions my phone hotspot can stomach. And the rotation aspect of the likes of GamePass isn't a big selling point for me either - paying for limited access to games could come to dictate your own backlog schedules, something I could supposedly deal with but am in no hurry to HAVE to deal with. PS+ and Nintendo's CGC are more up my alley in that regard.
Re: PS5 Has Already Outsold PS Vita, Nintendo Wii U, and SEGA Dreamcast in the UK
@Ruby Carbuncle "closing down soon" is one thing to address, but it seems like some games have been getting SILENTLY delisted far in advance. Dungeon Travelers 2, for instance, has been on my wishlist for ages, so I marked it as one of the top priority "July at latest if no May sale happens" purchases in the farewell Vita spree... and now I hear that it got quietly taken down this very week, not even far into April? Alongside Utawarerumono, Conception 2, Lost Dimension... If PS Store embraces this trend on top of the rest, I might just run out of stuff to buy by the time I have the designated summer budget for it.π
Not gonna lie, the aforesaid DT2 example in itself miffs me to the point that an eyepatch-wearing part of me already kneejerked back with an unapologetic of investing said summer budget into a spare used Vita to CFW instead, spending the rest on first party (the rest I could still honestly go for legal ownership of if the affected titles were to reincarnate on Switch later). But even the latter footnote naturally applies on the assumption that Sony won't start getting funny ideas about its first-party Vita stuff before July either.π³
Seriously, all the Super Mario 3D All-Stars mourners out there, what do you even KNOW about FOMO...π
Re: Reaction: Sony Said Xbox Game Pass Isn't Sustainable, Then Released One of Its Tentpole Titles into the Service Anyway
What a week in Sony announcements. π I fully understand the contexts and footnotes at play here but won't even bother excusing my biased fanbutt from wishing for stuff like Gravity Rush dilogy on Switch that much more seriously now. π I mean, League influence or not, we're talking older first-party titles on a platform that doesn't compete with PlayStation versus a brand new first-party title on the one platform that supposedly does!
Re: Around 2,200 Digital Games on the Chopping Block When Sony Closes PS3, PS Vita, PSP Stores
Also bears mentioning, per the same Sony newsletter, that crossbuy titles (ironically, the only ones on sale most of the year including now) aren't going away either - buying them via PS4 storefronts will still add the other eligible versions to the respective libraries. But I assume the 120 titles narrowed down already exclude these.
Re: Puppeteer's Gavin Moore Rounds Out Japan Studio Exodus As Team Disbands
@get2sammyb oh, they sure seem to have plans for it, or they would have probably let its team slip through their fingers like the rest of the studio.π
@Agramonte I only had a chance to try Folklore briefly two years ago, but I was impressed. Too bad it's yet another first party classic that got stuck on its native console and will soon drop out of official distribution for the visible future to boot.
Re: Gravity Rush Character Designer the Latest Departure from Sony's Japan Studio
@Dekutheevilclown which once again brings us back to have a lot more questions for Sony than for the studio itself, but also leaves you wistfully wondering how many more interesting things we could have seen if someone had worked out a proper pipeline for the output.
Re: The Elder Scrolls Online PS5 Version Coming This June
TESO with even higher resolution textures, though? That sound you just heard was your SSD's remaining free space.π
Re: PS Plus April 2021 PS5, PS4 Games Announced
Days Gone is definitely a highlight - moreso if it controls well on Vita (although its shooting and driving elements are among Remote Play's biggest gambles in this regard). Fanheads can kerfuffle all they want, but the difference should be obvious - this is a limited time addition window whereas PS+ collection has PS5 users covered no matter when they get a console (which is a rather fitting commodity in the context of PS5 stock situation).
And it's not like this collection didn't include some games that had already appeared on standard PS+ rosters before, potentially limiting the gain of some generation upgraders - was there a kerfuffle about it, too? No, on second thought, forget I asked.
Re: Many PS Vita Devs Cancel Projects After Sudden PS Store Closure
Yeah, now we're talking no FWPs here. Third parties on the game production side are expected to know about store closure deadlines for MANY months ahead - indeed, all the moreso if you're nonchalantly continuing to sell them devkits in the meantime. Ball legitimately dropped, and dropped hard. /)_-)
@jack22 as someone regularly using his NDS and PSP to this day, I fail to imagine Vita going anywhere anytime soon either.
Re: Gravity Rush Character Designer the Latest Departure from Sony's Japan Studio
Cue armchair managers with lectures on how SJS was dysfunctional, unprofitable, lame etc. World of their own - but sadly enough, of the current Sony's, too. It's one thing to try optimizing output and resources, and another to be losing versatile veteran talents by the week in the process.
Re: ScourgeBringer Will Be the Final PS Vita Game Released Digitally
@IonMagus and weird, considering the console itself wasn't even discontinued until 2019.
Re: Soon, You Won't Be Able to Buy These Awesome PS1 Games
All the richer to have never transcended the regional license limits all this time. The era of official portable PS1 games has come and gone [for now], and we in Europe still haven't got Medal of Honor or Xenogears or the first Parasite Eve... And while we're at it, has Metal Gear Solid remained unusable on Vita without a PS3 at hand? I appreciate what we got, but all these weird moments have survived the whole thing. Β―(γ)/Β―
Re: Sony Confirms PS3, PS Vita, PSP Store Closures, Downloads Will Be Retained
Now we're talking. And unlike the oh so credible "insider reports", this one at least makes sure to spell out that the previous purchases remain intact. Although I still wonder how Vita's download list will work past August - will a firmware update bring a separate app for it, or will the PS Store one just log you in as usual but show errors on attempts to access game pages?
The deadline is, indeed, trollishly puny for the libraries of this site, but excluding all the multiplat stuff available or to come (hopefully Koei Tecmo will comment on the odds of Nosurge dilogy's western Switch localisation ASAP), I suppose it could be worse. Sorry, CrisTales & Co - unless a juggernaut of FFXIII collection's caliber draws near and targets June/July on Switch, the bulk of my vacation bonuses' gaming expense tab might just get splurged away on as many top wishlist exclusives as possible (which may still be not many, since I'm not holding my breath for any blowout discounts). And Nintendo was accused of "FOMO exploitation" with a total of four games?π
@Haruki_NLI as long as these sites run around with unsubstantiated claims and refuse to name their sources (if any hypothetical legits among the latter worry about their careers, here's a lifehack - don't deal with tabloids), it will always be attention whoring for clicks and nothing more. Regardless of how many official bits may align with their content afterwards. That's how it works among civilized people, at least.
As for PS1, anything I won't have managed to obtain before the deadline will have to stay under the Jolly Roger on my PSP (some games like Medal of Honor are better suited for Vita controls but aren't available in my region anyway) - at least until it gets ported to another portable with a functional digital shop (need I even hint?) or until a vague utopian future where Sony grows itself a new portable console once again. You decide which is more of a pipe dream.
Re: UK Sales Charts: Just Two PS5, PS4 Games Make the Top 10 This Week
All these disclaimers about the lack of digital sales data start sounding like they assume few to no people buying things on eShop as well.π
Re: Rumour: Civilization VI Is an April PS Plus Game, But Evidence Is Shaky
At least such store interface goofups ironically make for more "humourable" sources than what the likes of Bloomberg and gleeful "gaming journalists" rely on nowadays. Not that there isn't room for doubt, especially when some people's console interface PS+ ads also start showing off October 2016 items for the reportedly umpteenth time.π
Anyway, if true, it might come in handy for my friend whose place my PS4 remains a mutually agreed tenant of since day one. IIRC he has tried it before but his relatively old PC wasn't quite up to scratch. Pass on my side, though - I've had the Switch port since its release window and just recently equipped it with the two big expansions the PS+ offering will most certainly exclude.
Re: Nine Free PS4 Games Are Available to Download Now
Damn, turns out Paper Beast is VR only as well. What does that leave for me to actually play on PS4, Rez Infinite?π
On the upside, I only just noticed a "remote play support" tag on some games like Subnautica. The Witness, on the other hand, doesn't have one. Did they perchance start to tag the titles with adequate control schemes on Vita whose icon is specifically used for the notion here? Not to mention that it's probably the only Vita trace you have on the new browser PSS now.π Credit where it's due...
Re: SEGA Producer Would Like to Remaster Criminally Overlooked PS3 Shooter Binary Domain
I wouldn't pick it on PS4 over the serviceable access I already have on my laptop (especially since shooters evoke the least enthusiasm when it comes to guessing Vita RP controls), but I'm certainly in the market for a possible Switch version. What I've played of the game so far is pretty neat, and I'm thankful it doesn't force the voice controls (responses and commands work through buttons as well).
Re: Talking Point: Would You Buy a PS1, PS2, or PS3 Emulator for PS5?
No, it would require me to have a usable PS5 first. A PS2 emulator on PS4, maybe... provided the compatibility with Remote Play, of course.
Re: Sony Must Communicate Its Plans for PS3, PS Vita, and PSP
@Tharsman right, I forgot they shut down the entirety of the servers. But Wii and DSi were the same generation, not two - and used the same third party servers Nintendo decided to eliminate the dependence on. Considering how long it took them, I fail to see a precedent for Wii U and 3DS eShops to go down anytime before 2025 at worst.
Re: Sony Must Communicate Its Plans for PS3, PS Vita, and PSP
Props to PS for at least reaching out to Sony for a commentary, but that's all there is to do about it and nothing to discuss until an official statement rather than the umpteenth "source familiar with the situation" the likes of which are steadily turning the already fragile reputation of gaming newsblogs into a parody of itself. I needn't even highlight all the gaps in the current narrative, from the short deadline (a couple months is a plugjerk even for a few games like last year's Danganronpa, let alone for three platform libraries) to the lack of any details on redownloads - the latter are normally a given in Delistingville, but Vita users, similarly to 3DS ones, can't redownload games without opening the Store app first. Are we supposed to believe that Source-senpai is familiar with the whole shutdown but not with such topical parts of it? The news could raise a lot of eyebrows and drive many towards CFWs (although ironically, I still couldn't do that without a spare Vita - jollyrogering my primary one would render the PS4 literally unplayable for me in returnπ ), but it has to be news first. Apparently NL aren't the only ones who seem to have forgotten they have a RUMOUR tag?
@Tharsman Nintendo has had a glorious three generations of digital stores, and only one of them has been shutdown in specific circumstances - keeping the users' access to already purchased titles nonetheless and outliving the respective platforms by almost a decade overall.
@JapaneseSonic many emulators - and official tech like PSP's PS1 functionality - are capable of adjusting the window size to combat resolution discrepancy. The only people who would have an issue with that are those who believe in video games expiring like dairy overtime to begin with, but they never made the bulk of the market even before the NES/SNES/PS1 generations grew up to come back into gaming with a steady income (then again, they also came back with a taste for portability, and Sony still nonchalantly believes that portability is only required for Candy Crush these days).