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Great review and a great product from Sony at a great price too!

On the topic of price, I think it's unfair to suggest this is expensive. It's surely more comparable to the elite controllers Xbox and Sony have released in the £200 range than it is the standard controller. In that respect, circa £80 is beyond reasonable.

Having worked with a few charities that specialise in this area in the past, I know for a fact that some of the bespoke controller setups they create run into the many hundreds of pounds. This controller won't be an alternative solution for all, but it is certainly going to help a lot and the price is really respectable. Good job Sony.

Didn't you guys post an article just the other week about how stacked early 2024 is with quality games? The wait for GTA6 is going to be easy. We're in prime top quality games period for this console generation. Not to mention Nintendo may have some surprises in 2024 too. The wait will be easy.

This is such a nonsense article - you really shouldn't have bothered.

The worst thing about GTA6 coming out? All the articles about it that tell us absolutely nothing of interest and are essentially just a baby's babble in an echo chamber. Can't wait.

I think there's a generational aspect to this debate too. A lot of young parents, born in the 80s, will know more about games and gaming than the previous generation did.

There will always be a place in gaming for live action, don't get me wrong, but the growth and frankly outrageous profiteering that the likes of EA and Epic have enjoyed over the past 10 years will certainly not be sustained in the next 10 years. We Are better equipped to steer the pocket money away from these, largely but not entirely, fruitless endeavours.

This will be a controversial view... but the thing about kids and gaming is that it is all down to the parents. I grew up with games and have kept them in my adult life too. Therefore my kids play a wide range of stuff from Crash Bandicoot, LEGO, Mario, Kirby, Super Monkey Ball, Sonic. They play a wide range of consoles, old and new, too. They've been enjoying that Watermelon game recently.

They won't be playing any live action games. I don't care if their friends do. I have enough high quality games from present day through 20 years to ensure they never get bored or feel short changed.

The kids playing Roblox all weekend, and sinking all their pocket money into it are the unfortunate ones as far as I am concerned. I feel sorry for them.

One thing I'd like to see is the Pool table in the building in Costa Del Sol being a minigame!

What's Twitter?

Why is everyone so up in arms with the price? It costs me more to run my frigging tumble dryer in the winter months than the PlayStation Portal. Besides, this is obviously aimed at the demographic that are TV time poor but cash rich aka anyone born in the 80s that decided to have kids and held down any desk based job.

Just a quick clarification SEGA...

Companies want to acquire your brand and your IP.

They'll have no interest in you!

Sounds like it should have been DLC at half the price at best, and just simply not worked on at all at worst.

Not sure why there is hate for the annual releases. A developer with the knowledge and resources of Activision should be more than capable of releasing a remaster/reworked game intertwined with a brand new release every 2 years. These are the same games in the same series... it's perfectly achievable as evidenced by the fact they've releases a COD every year for nearly two decades.

Thirst! As soon as this arrives... I can finally get FF16 concluded.

Human 1 does a race. Human 1 saves and uploads the replay of their race to the GT servers. GT servers download that result into Human 2's race as an AI driver. Human 2 now races a really good AI. Repeat process 1000s and 1000s of times.

Perhaps I'm naive to think that's a simple and effective solution? It took hours to download the game before I could play it... a few more hours to have some decent AI loaded ahead of each race is fine with me.

In fact, I'm fine with downloading Human races ahead of all the races. It's a far better experience to wait and enjoy ONE high quality race versus ploughing my way through dozens of rubbish races in a row.

I'm in the market for some new ear buds, so the timing is spot on here. However, I obviously want bluetooth, so these are not getting purchased.

I'll play the portal with wired headphones and I'll use it less as a result. Which means I'll ultimately buy less software for my PS5 too. Pretty stupid if you ask me.

Sony seem to think we live in a world where people wear different ear buds for different devices... maybe some are OK with that, but I am certainly not.

Hoping to find a spare couple of hours for the GT7 update content!

Will wait for a sale and then may be tempted... but realistically I'll just forget all about it as a result of other games taking my attention.

2023 isn't exactly the year for having a spare week to play an average rated game.

This is so unbelievably bad! Who signed this off?! Scratch and sniff offers a better interactive experience than this nonsense.

And let's be honest... silent hill's storyline is hardly It's strong point. Largely absolute nonsensical nonsense. And that's being kind.

Looks bang average. The trailer is really weak - who signed off that VO?! About as exciting as watching the films with your friend back to back, but you're the one facing away from the TV.

I was hoping the Slim model would be a lot slimmer than this... it's still too big and ugly for me.

Playing Sonic co-op is like playing 2 player Micro Machines on a Gameboy.

You've either got the skills to do it... or you're like this reviewer, and don't have the skills.

I still firmly believe that the only way we get a truly decent star wars game is if a Disney owned studio is developing it. Disney definitely outsource too much and should invest in delivering their own games themselves.

@silverspeed I have an interest because it's a tool that helps fit gaming into a busy life. And to be clear, no offense is meant to people by me saying "busy life" - it's essentially having kids. I love my PS5 but it gathers dust whilst the Switch gets picked up and played frequently. That's not just because of a TV or Tablet being occupied... my kids aren't at the age of hogging screens yet, but it is still an absolute pain in the backside to get the PS5 onto the TV for any useful amount of time without one of a dozen disturbances.

So yea, short of buying a bigger house with more rooms and space to essentially hide away and get to play... this device is a good solution.

HOWEVER...

I've bought mine through Amazon because if this device is still just as bad at maintaining a connection as using my phone/tablet etc then it will go straight back. I'm hopeful that it will have a better connection.

Oh and in terms of why this device versus using a phone... size, battery, just needing phone for god knows what and simple ease. You pick it up and off you go. No messing about.

First and foremost, it's never nice to hear people losing their jobs. I hope they all find something else in the industry.

That said, this is just the beginning of staff losses and price hikes. The generation of kids coming in now all have parents that are familiar with videogames and the F2P MXT models are going to fall off a cliff.

The 80s babies ain't letting their kids play this crap.

My backlog is celebrating 🍾

@Hamurai Correct, and exactly what I was just pondering. Why is the trailer showing Junon firing the cannon, if the game ends in Forgotten Capitol?

Thinking back to the first game, and the unbelievable attention to detail SE gave to the game, I don't believe for 1 second that they're messing about with timelines and events. That's nonsense if you ask me.

So what is going on with the trailer then... and how can it be explained? No idea right now... haha

Great trailer! Great release date!

This is how you do a remake. The bar has been set and many, many others have fallen short.

For everyone that played the original when it released all those years ago... what an amazing gift this is. Well done SE - I often criticise them for all the rubbish they do, but this one deserves the applause and the accolades.

They packed in the content to this trailer too... things I am looking forward to and expected to see in part 2.

Gold saucer and games to play there
Chocobo racing
Chocobo riding on World map with abilities (practically confirms KOTR!)
Cosmo canyon
Niebelheim
Junon!
Military parade minigame!
The midgar zolom!
Weapon!
Vincent!
Cait Sith!

Don't think we saw Costa del Sol yet? I suspect that may be in the next trailer, hopefully with Hojo on the beach, a football to kick and that pool table better be there with a minigame to play!

Nope. Roblox is well and truly on the banned game list in my house. The kids can play it when they've moved out!

I stand true to my word though. Come to me with a proper game they want to play and I'll buy it there and then. Complete it and I'll buy you another. Ready when you are.

Roblox though? That does not qualify. And neither does Fortnite for the record.

"Completely forgettable story" and "extremely dull environments". And I'm out. Thanks for the heads up PushSquare!

@Luigia The lack of bluetooth is something the original Nintendo Switch got grief about. Interesting Sony have done the same thing... does it really add significant cost to the build? Hard to believe it does.

Of course... the headphones Sony sell you for the PS5 also do not connect to other devices via Bluetooth... (which is just irritating and in my humble opinion shouldn't even be allowed) so perhaps this is all a deliberate ploy to get you to use their headphones (which are distinctly average by the way) using the aux.

OK well the price point is decent at least.

Does PS Remote play work any better on this device versus others? I suspect that it's absolute nonsense that it would work any differently at all versus a phone or tablet, but hope springs eternal!

If this device offers the exact same levels of latency and reliability when using PS remote play, then I'm sorry, but what is the point in this device? It's for all the people that don't have a tablet or laptop? Yes... all those technology and gadget obsessed playstation owners who don't have a tablet or laptop... all three of them.

£200 is decent - but the fact is, I'm not parting with my cash as easily at the moment and I would much rather use my existing tablet and have £200 in my pocket towards the next Switch console.

I'm picking this one up, but only for the combined reasons of it being the first COD since I got my PS5 and the first COD I'll have bought in 10 years!

Trying to think of something positive to say about this release...

Nope. I got nothing.

As far as teaser trailers go... this was poor. PS5 hardware has been shifting some decent numbers over recent months, so it's a great opportunity for COD. This trailer stinks of complacency if you ask me. I was up for it, but this has put me off!

That laughing scene prevented me from voting Tidus.

I ended up going for Cloud Strife, but, I think you should do another article on the baddies(!) because Cloud as a character really has nothing on Sephiroth.

Unrelated... why isn't there a "Cloud's Theme" track on the FF7 soundtrack Original or Remake? All the other characters have one.

This looks and sounds dreadful.

It's not the amount of time that's the problem, it's filling games with boring content that's the problem.

I stand by my firm belief that a Disney owned studio would deliver the Star Wars game we all want. Ubisoft are essentially a mercenary studio - doesn't mean they will make a bad game, but it does mean they will inevitably fall short. They always do.

No interest in going to see either of these films...! I had them down as "watch once they land on streaming" kind of films. Am I missing out?!

Why would SE have anything to say about a FF9 remake when they've just launched FF16 and are between 6 and 9 months from the next FF7 Remake game?

I don't understand why fans want everything all at once. I'm sorry, but it's stupid. None of us have the time to play these games in such quick succession anyway.

Honestly, worse than all the Zelda fans wanting Wind Waker and Twiloght Princess last year when TotK was imminent. Even now, we've literally just had TotK and SS not so long ago. And we've literally just had FF16 and there's FF7 remake imminent!

My vote is for absolutely nothing about FF9 or WW/TP for at least a year please. They'll be perfect to slot into the CHASM of time that will exist before we see Final Fantasy 17 and the next major 3D Zelda game!

FF17 is a good 6 years away you'd think. FF7 remake part 3... a good 4 or 5 years I reckon. Who wants FF9 now, instead of somewhere in that long wait? Crazy!

@Flaming_Kaiser Hrmm yes, that's true - good points. Well we don't have long to wait and see what happens with this one. Maybe August will pay off for them.

Not sure how anyone gets an "everyone is here" vibe from that box art. It's the opposite. No-one is there. Haaland is literally the only exception.

Anyway, I am holding back my judgement until I have seen the FIFA licensed football game that FIFA mentioned at the time of EA disputing the costs!

Is there anything more vomit inducing than reading about FIFA and EA falling out over money?

The one silver lining in all of this, for me, is that EA will all but certainly see a dip in sales, and FIFA will lose put on a considerable income source for the foreseeable.

Which developer is going to pay anywhere near the license fee EA paid to go up against EA? I suspect even Konami gave that a resounding NOPE!

@Flaming_Kaiser Nah, I don't believe that logic at all. Of you release in August you're as good as saying "this game isn't good enough to compete".

Evidence? Shadow of Mordor. That released 30th September 2014 and was a huge breakout hit amongst big competition.

It did not release in August. If you're game is good, you back yourself.

This does look good. August release date is a bit weird though...? September to November is the sweet spot.

@bkeswick if they want people to buy digital... they'd stop making a physical console!

They clearly DO want people to buy physical, because they DO make a physical console.

Why do they want people to buy physical? Well, they need to keep their retail partners happy, don't they? GAME, Amazon, Target etc. are still way too far off the pace to cope with digital only.

Hrmm isn't this just the usual price drop in the summer tactic to maintain demand? It goes something along the lines of... Summer is sunny so people play outside more, oh no, they aren't playing videogames or buying playstations... here's 100 off to tempt you back inside. Does not mean a new hardware iteration is coming anytime soon.

Genuine question... if Final Fantasy 6 really is the best in the series, then why are SE remaking 7, and now there's rumours that 9 will follow? Why not 6?

As for 16's ranking... meh. I'm not far in at all, but the Game Of Thrones vibes this is giving off is already annoying. Will give it a chance, and hope it'll improve - but some of SE's story writing leaves a lot to be desired. It's like they develop great characters, locations and ideas... but then completely lose the plot. I hope it moves off the GOT vibe because I don't believe for one minute SE have written something even close to that quality - and I'm not even a huge GOT fan.

Yep, it's arriving today and looking forward to playing it inbetween watching Glastonbury coverage. One of my favourite weekends of the year just got even better!

I took the hard decision to put TotK on hold. Well I say hold. It's pretty much abandoned since FF16 is going to be at least a month and then there's a lot of PS5 games I've been saving, starting with Street Fighter and Jedi Survivor.

The original plan was to be playing TotK and wait for the first price drop on FF16, but what can I say? I've played 50 hours of TotK and it's already feeling repetitive and boring to me. All the sense of adventure and exploration is missing because I used it all up in BotW on a very similar map. It's a great game. It just doesn't have the hook because I already unhooked myself...!

Final Fantasy 16.

I joke. I joke.

Seriously, roll on the next generation and the end of physical.

I don't want F1 2023, can you remake F1 2003 instead?

Better drivers.
Better tracks.
Better racing.
Better pit stops.

Oh, and I can actually see where I am going without this stupid halo thing blocking half the screen. There's realism and then there's blocking half the viewing screen. The halo is there to protect the driver in an accident... is it needed in a game? Interesting debate that one. In the meantime... sod that for a laugh.

I don't understand the mockery in the article... it says "new music" not just "music". That's fine to confirm?!

Author of the article seems pretty quick to forget just how amazing it is/was that FF7 is being remade. It was requested for years and years. Rumours and speculation. Now that it's here, can we just enjoy it?

Also, the soundtrack of Final Fantasy 7 is one of the main reasons the game is held in such high esteem. So can we get someone writing articles on here that actually appreciates this fact? Where is the topic starter about which amazing FF7 songs will likely feature in Part 2, based on the locations we know are going to feature?

Not to go on, but just write about another game if this one isn't for you? It's fine to not want to write about FF7.

Final Fantasy 9 was the one for me. Spent the entire long summer between school and college. Wasn't quite a no life scenario as did it all with my best friend.

Well I say all... we actually never did find ONE of those pesky chocographs or whatever they were called. Great game and great time.

Hope the FF9 Remake rumours are true.