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@anon_pel222 Every developer that has released a Pro patch for their games is neck deep in their next project, yet they manage to do it. Insomniac patched all 4 of their PS5 games. Ubisoft has patched 4 AC games, including the 9-year old Syndicate just yesterday. No excuses. Especially not for Rockstar/Take2.

Kudos to Ubisoft for all these patches for old AC games. Meanwhile, Take-Two and Activision refuse to patch even one of their last gen titles. Even Sony won't update Shadow of the Colossus, The Last Guardian, or The Order, which has been proven to be a relatively trivial task.

I enjoyed this game for what it was. If they proceed to give this treatment to Unity, AC3 Remastered and The Ezio Collection, that would be incredible, but they have already gone above and beyond. (Black Flag is rumored to be getting a remaster, so if true, a patch isn't needed)

There's nothing I want more than a Resistance remastered collection along with Killzone, Infamous, Motorstorm, and Ratchet & Clank.

@Americansamurai1 Not a chance. They're just adding them to cloud streaming as is.

There's been a lot of coverage of Spider-Man 2 on the Pro, but I haven't seen any analysis of the first game's Pro upgrade. I'm really interested in seeing what the Pro treatment did for that older title.

@Shad361 You mean Metal Gear Solid (1998)? One of the points made in this article is how Snake Eater is actually the first game chronologically. I too would prefer a remake of MGS, but MGS3 is the optimal one to start with. Hopefully, they will proceed to remake the other titles.

@darthvirgin No, this article isn't entirely accurate. It should work the same way it does with PS5 to PS5. We just don't have 100% confirmation yet. But there's no reason to believe it wouldn't work from PS5 to PS5 Pro.

@LiamCroft
"This is the only way to transfer save data outside of the official Data Transfer offered by Sony; there's no other way of doing it".

I believe this is incorrect. The PS5 has a backup and restore feature that includes save data. You can backup the system to an external drive and restore it on another system. See the official PS support article titled "How to back up and restore PS5 console data".

Returnal could use a patch to increase the resolution. I believe it's currently upscaled 1080p.

Sony needs to fix this trophy grouping problem on PS5 already. It's getting ridiculous at this point.

I haven't bought a game on day 1, or even month 1, since the PS3 generation. In fact, for the past decade I haven't played a game in its year 1. I just don't have the money or the time. I'm currently about 5 years behind and I don't mind it at all. I pay an average of $15 per game, including AAA titles. I do buy/play a lot of games, however.

@Blaze215 You're probably right, unfortunately.

@Blaze215 While I generally agree with you, I do find it quite immersion breaking when I'm playing as Lara, Aloy or Chloe in Uncharted and they're scaling a cliff with their bone-thin arms with the same effortlessness as Nathan Drake—even though such a feat would be physically impossible for him as well. Or how these petite women can just as easily take down multiple trained men in armed or unarmed combat. So giving Lara a strong upper body actually makes more sense to me. She might not be as attractive to most guys who don't prefer women with ripped arms, but she still has a clear feminine figure.

@Alps_Stranger My point exactly. I agree that they shouldn't have made the remaster, but once they did, they had to determine pricing. Their decision to offer the $10 upgrade and raise the price of the PS4 version was actually less sleazy than the alternative options because most people who are interested in playing HZD have already bought it by now. So the vast majority of players will be getting the game for the low upgrade price—including those who were given it for free—instead of everyone paying $50 as you proposed.

@Alps_Stranger @Bez87 @nessisonett
Is it scummy that they are charging that much for the remaster, or scummy that they closed a loophole that would allow new customers to get the remaster for cheaper?

@Oram77 That's a bit misleading. They only removed the "A Hideo Kojima Game" card from the opening. Otherwise, he is still fully credited - "Mr. Kojima and all the original development staff are of course credited for their original roles". -Noriaki Okamura, Producer

@nicc83 Because MGS3 is chronologically the first in the series. Hopefully, they will proceed to give the same treatment to MGS and MGS2.

I'll buy it due to the cheap upgrade price, but surely Sony must know that there's a plethora of first party games that are much more in need of a remaster than this one—a game that is not only already playable on PS5, but is even enhanced. I would think that a full priced remastered collection of any of the beloved series stranded on PS3 would generate more profit than this HZD remaster, of which the vast majority of its sales will undoubtedly be through the upgrade.

I don't see how a HZD remaster would sell better than a remastered collection of any of these PS3 series: Resistance, Killzone, Infamous, Motorstorm, Ratchet & Clank. I guess it requires a lot less work, so it's cheaper to do. But it's still so disappointing to know that they prioritize a game that already looks and runs great on both PS5 and PC.

Bandai Namco?

I finally got to try PS VR2 a few weeks ago, and I enjoyed this game the most of the half dozen demos I played. But it definitely required the largest play area because you need to really swing your arms and reach for the ball at times.

@ButterySmooth30FPS Yes, that was from the blog post, but the next sentence is "Players can add an Ultra HD Blu-ray Disc Drive, or swap out console covers when they become available". The last 4 words suggest that it uses different covers, but the disc drive compatibility suggests otherwise. It looks like the designers compensated for the height differential with the thick band of black in between the side covers compared to the Slim model's thin strip. So the covers should be identical.

Am I the only one to notice that the fact that the Pro uses the same disc drive as the Slim indicates that they both use the same console covers, despite the blog post suggesting otherwise? This also tells us that both models have the same depth measurement.

For fans of The Last Guardian, Sony has a great solution for us to play the game at 60fps: all we have to do is own a disc copy of the game and a PS5 disc drive, then disconnect from the network or delete any patches that were installed. Now we can enjoy the high frame rate with bugs and missing optimizations. No patch needed!

And Red Dead Redemption 2 will still be capped at 30fps with checkerboard rendering. Poor Take-Two; if only they could afford to produce a patch. Same with poor old Activision/Microsoft and their titles (CTR, Crash Trilogy, Spyro Trilogy).

What I want to know is are the covers identical to the slim model's covers? That's the only way there would be a chance that I buy one down the line because I have a slim with the disc drive, and I would want to move the drive over to the Pro and swap the covers so that I could sell my slim as a digital only model.

Glad I impulse purchased a black model last black Friday for $35 even though I didn't need it.

If the disc drive isn't included it might be a deal breaker for me. I could remove the drive from my current slim model before selling it, but then I would have to buy a side cover, which ridiculously costs almost as much as a new disc drive.

@Galactrix Was wondering the same. The PS2 version of Chamber of Secrets is the only HP game I've played, and I remember really enjoying it.

The fifth poll option should have been worded: "No, I've got zero interest in STREAMING retro games".

Aren't all the Super Stardust games essentially the same as the original Super Stardust HD? If so, then as the review mentioned, might as well just play Ultimate, but I believe it has issues when played on PS5. Sony/Housmarque should really fix that already. No excuse.

I guess at this point they will never add the ability to copy PS5 game saves to a USB drive. They should at least add a disclaimer on the PS5's packaging and in marketing materials: "PS+ subscription required to secure your game progress".

I enjoyed this game on PSP back in the day and I'm looking forward to playing it again with trophies on PS5.

In a case like this where there's PSP and PS2 versions of the same game, I'm curious how Sony chooses which one to bring forward. I would think the PS2 versions are generally superior in terms of graphics and controls. It would be nice if they released both. Same for Syphon Filter, Twisted Metal and Motorstorm: Arctic Edge (we'll probably never get this one due to music licensing, sadly).

Garvin and Ross didn't deserve the vilification for GamingBible's irresponsible reporting. It's clear that community manager doesn't like them.

I, for one, enjoyed all of their previous work and would love to see a Days Gone sequel.

@Rainbowjames Not really, unfortunately. The best they offer is the option to view your account transaction history from the PS website. It's extremely unintuitive as it's a list full of entries of "Wallet funding" and "Product purchase", and you need to select them one at a time to expand them to see what was purchased. Even more frustrating is how every time you expand a record and then go back to the list, it goes back to the top of the list and you need scroll back to where you were. There is a chrome extension that allowed exporting the list, but it doesn't work anymore.

As great as this would be, I doubt the PS5 has enough power overhead to run PS3 games with enhanced resolution or frame rate. I would much prefer it if they released remastered collections of that legendary first-party library (Resistance, Killzone, Infamous, Ratchet, Motorstorm, God of War, etc.) similar to what they did on PS3 with their PS2 library. Though, of course, emulation is better than nothing.

A 60 fps patch would be nice.

I just wish they could at least release a PS5 patch for Shadow of the Colossus to raise the fps to 60 in cinematic mode. The 1080p performance mode looks too blurry.

Guerilla Cambridge was not shut down following the release of Killzone Mercenary; it was shut down following the release of the PSVR launch title RIGS.

@AdamNovice It's actually the opposite; consoles have resources reserved for the system and all its features, so developers know exactly what's available for their game. On PC, this is not the case and the user's system settings could adversely impact performance. However, the user could also improve performance of games by manually optimizing OS settings. For this reason Windows has Game mode which prioritizes the PC's resources for games. There's no brute forcing that PC can do that PS5 can't, unless you're referring to overclocking.

Take for example, how the modder Illusion got games such as The Order: 1886 and RDR2 running at locked 60fps on PS5 by modifying basic API calls, yet Sony has still not implemented this. Microsoft on the other hand has done exactly this through their backwards compatibility program. They created patches for games without needing access to the code; all they needed was the go ahead from the games' publishers. Sony could do this, but they choose not to. It's the same with their emulation efforts.

The PS5 is more than capable of PS2 emulation with all the enhancements we see on PC and other devices. It's all dependant on the emulator they're utilizing and if Sony or Implicit Conversions want to support the enhancements.

@NEStalgia
"every other wired HMD just has a USB-C port and PCVR players don't see to have problems with this".

This is not true. For example, Valve Index, HTC Vive, HP Reverb G2, and Pimax Vision 8K all connect via both USB and display cables. The only VR headsets that connect with a single USB cable that I'm aware of are the Quests. And there are many reports of issues with the connection; so much so that many claim the wireless connection methods are more reliable.

@NEStalgia Sony's engineers likely designed it that way for compatibility because PCs have many different USB implementations. Even when they support DisplayPort via USB, they don't always have the same bandwidth, and in many cases they're not able to interface with the GPU properly. So to ensure compatibility with most systems, it was probably best to have a dedicated video connection and a separate USB connection for all other i/o communication.

They need to release a USB wireless adapter for connecting the Dualsense to PC. A wired connection is still required to enable ALL features (I know adaptive triggers work via Bluetooth, but haptics do not).

@sanderson72 @GrimWillows
It's not an emulator app that can run just any PS2 game. The way emulation works on consoles is they package each game with a specifically tuned version of the emulator. Similar to how on PC or mobile the emulator settings need to be tweaked to get the best performance out of each game. On consoles that part is already done for the user. Due to this approach, users can't use the emulator to play any games from their library, including games that utilize the old emulator which were released on PS4. Sony would need to update each of those titles to utilize the new improved emulator. There's a good chance they will do this for multiple reasons: 1) They have a responsibility to fix those broken titles that they sold to customers in recent history, 2) They already have those titles available for sale on PS Store, so a portion of the work is already done.

@jorel262 Mostly graphical glitches, particularly when played on PS5. Some games worse than others. I believe there were performance issues as well.

@Jswift56 I just realized I missed the word "not" in your original comment. My bad.

@Jswift56 What are you basing that info on? Last news on the subject that I heard was that Tony Hawk revealed Activision decided not to move forward with the project and instead had Vicarious Visions absorbed into Blizzard.

I wish Ubi would release some more linear, story-based games, like they used to in the PS2 and PS3 days. Games like Splinter Cell, the 3D Prince of Persia titles, or GRAW. While I enjoy Assassin's Creed and am most looking forward to the Splinter Cell remake, I would love to see a new title similar to the aforementioned ones that they did so well. It's amazing how they were best in class in that type of game back then, and now they've completely abandoned it for the open world and live service genres. Though, The Lost Crown was definitely a welcomed surprise and hopefully a sign that Ubi is returning to their roots in some capacity.

I just don't want to compromise on visual quality in exchange for frame rate, and want sustained 60fps. If the Pro combined with PSSR upscaling can achieve Quality Mode-level visuals at locked 60fps, then I'm sold.

@pyrrhic_victory The One X has a slightly more powerful GPU and 2GB more VRAM, so it can push higher resolutions. Otherwise, the Series S is superior overall.