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@hoffa007 They aren't genuine bids. People are creating spoof ebay accounts specifically to screw over the scalpers by bidding ridiculous amounts with no intention of paying.

@sabaki08 This exactly. This is what happened with Nvidia online store yesterday for the 3080. Bots were set up and configured and cards sold in 1.5 seconds. Other websites were also a nightmare. Sony’s approach at least gave more fans a chance to buy

Sony did the right thing by allowing retailers to stagger their pre-order times, and by opening them abruptly. It minimised the impact of bots placing multiple orders. The RTX 3080 launch yesterday was a nightmare, exact time and date announced in advance allowed people to set the bots in advance, it caused absolute chaos.

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@zebric21 No, it comes in the box

I went to Argos around 10:30am today, for straight to the page, added to cart and checked out in 5 mins, painless, must’ve been one of the last because I checked a few mins later and all gone. Order confirmed. After yesterday’s nightmare with RTX 3080 this was a lucky breeze

Fantastic news, ratchet plays much better at 60, the PS4 game was clunky to control compared to the PS2/3 games (except nexus). This should be optional in as many games as possible moving forward.

If Guerilla don't fix it the community will

All four have been available on Steam for a while now, would be nice if they released on PS4 as a collection with a physical copy available.

Steam sales are no longer as legendary as they once were, thanks in large part to the refund policies they implemented (to stop people refunding purchases from just before sales/flash sales). 5/6 years ago they were awesome when they had flash sales and daily deals. Don’t get me wrong, they’re still good, however, with G2A etc you can pretty much get sale prices all year round. PlayStation sales are much better than they were, although I wish they would include more PS3/Vita games from time to time.

This is going to play much better at 60+fps, wish more releases would come to PC. For games I really love if even double dip to get a PS physical for the collection and steam version to play.

This looks great, plus the trailer is 60fps, important for platformers.

They should aim to endure a hefty loss on the digital model because any sales will result in maximum software profits. Imagine how a 299 price would be taken at Microsoft....

4K 60 will be too demanding for PS5 in most AAA games. For reference, with Ghost Recon Wildlands at max settings 4K I could only get around 40ish ave with a 2080TI/8086k 5GHz setup. I imagine to get 60 they will use reconstruction techniques like checkerboard etc. It’s great that they’re now able to offer this choice on console, I hope it’s available in Ratchet and Clank

@tatsumi fair enough, each to their own. I would always cut graphical settings to maximise framerates, controls are much better at 60 over 30. It’s not always that simple to just allow a “switch” between 30 and 60, particularly if game logic is tied to 30. It’s down to the devs.

@suikoden well we will have to wait and see. I’ll believe it when I see it, I hope so! I highly doubt any AAA games will be running at 120fps, the hardware won’t be powerful enough

Edit: The separate 4K trailer they uploaded is 30...

Finally, wonder if they make it cross-gen?

Better not be 30fps, controls are compromised compared with the older games

@Mafia_Man19 Haha, I would actually love to see PS5 launch with a “new” classic ridge racer title. Make it like Ridge Racer 2 on PSP in terms of content, day one purchase.

This can only mean one thing, Kaz Hirai is returning to unveil it

@RenanKJ I think the internet will handle the transition of “relatively minor” 4K content files, internet backbone links are exceeding 400GBps. That is 50 billion bytes, over 47GB per second.

I’ll press buttons and move analogue sticks

Just remake WWF Smackdown 2, with the same roster

Well they all ran awful on consoles before so a re-release on PS5/XSX for people who don’t game on PC would be very welcome should you enjoy the series.

Glad they kept the excellent dpad design, looks pretty nice overall, would’ve been better with some rear buttons/paddles though to eliminate the need to use L3/R3, causes pain clicking sticks.

I recon I would’ve paid Some micro transactions back in the day for some of the Goldeneye cheats that were impossible to unlock (before Rare released the button combos to unlock them years after release)

It might take some people the whole weekend just to download it...

MS holds most of the aces, they have the most powerful hardware, unparalleled BC and the excellent value game pass service. Complete this with a fully transparent reveal. Sony have their exclusives and SSD speed. The Cerny reveal should’ve come after a full hardware reveal, complete with explosive gameplay footage and the actual console/controller. It’s a PR mess.

PS2 and PS3 emulation is incredibly CPU intensive. Even with my 8086k running at 5ghz in all cores with HT there are plenty of small issues (and some large) with most games on both PS2 and 3 emus. These kinds of issues would not be acceptable in a consumer product. IPC data is not available for these chips yet but the clock frequencies don’t seem fast enough. Maybe I’m wrong, but if they had it working for launch they’d be shouting about it right now. Possibly they would have to do the BC on a game by game basis, like PS2 classics and Xbox BC.

At least the framerate can be unlocked, that will be the game changer. I’ve had this game sitting in my backlog for ages, now I will wait for the PC release.

@Agramonte The cryengine implementation of ray tracing is performed entirely in software mode, which is why it will run across a wide range of GPU setups. Even if the consoles are using a form of hardware accelerated RT I doubt we’ll be seeing the same kind of performance as a high end RTX GPU. AMD has yet to show any progress with RT and there is also the fact that consoles will be £500 or less.

You should be able to fully remap all buttons and invert any sticks at the system level, something that is exceptionally supported within Steam

In the future they really should make a few cutbacks with graphical fidelity in order to achieve 60fps. Compared with the original 2 trilogies the reboot’s gameplay was much worse, I could never pull off the same moves as I could before due to the lag.

Hopefully they've got the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles licence back

Sony could quite easily surpass the 155m units of the PS2 if they target additional markets, particularly those with emerging economies, with the PS4 once PS5 has released. The system can be revised further to cut down on production costs and can be sold very cheap. When PS5 is released there will be plenty of countries around the world where spending 400+ on a console would be infeasible. A cheap PS4 will be far more attractive, particularly with the large library of games available. There will also be a crossover period of at least 2 years where many games will be released for both systems.

I'm sure the all streaming future will happen eventually, albeit over a lengthy period of time. I remember using dial up internet just 20 years ago, could never have envisioned the speeds we have nowadays back then so in another 20 years I'm sure infrastructures will have changed dramatically. Just like Horses and carts, oil lanterns, high street shops, analogue broadcasting etc, consoles will eventually become obsolete. Everything evolves. Personally I'd give up gaming moving forward, there's a big enough backlog to keep me going. Future generations will embrace it because they'll know no different.
It will be the manufacturers and publishers dream for a future like this; total control and no resales/piracy.