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@Pranwell I appreciate the reminder that this site is exclusively for glazing Sony. My bad, carry on.

@get2sammyb you're letting them off the hook because of Astrobot? Disappointing reply tbh.

I can't see this being worth it. But maybe I'm playing my games wrong because some of these "upgrades" seem like something I won't notice. That is unless someone with a Pro is sitting next to me on an 8k TV and we're both playing the same game and we pause it to inspect the grass every now and then.

This thing just needs games. Otherwise, yeah, it's dead. Feels like I'm pointing out the obvious but maybe not, since Sony thought hey let's release a headset with no games.

"Factions, The Last of Us 2013's multiplayer offering was a long time ago, folks; expectations are vastly different these days."

Look, don't get me wrong, Fortnite is a behemoth and one can't ignore its existence but there's an audience for alternatives. I'm certain there are gamers out there who just can't get behind lollipop pickaxes and Ariana Grande skins. Like, surely that's not a controversial take.

I want no part of this. If I've decided on a difficulty I want to finish on that difficulty. No interest in having Luigi pop in and ask if I wanna cheese it because I've hit a challenging section.

@EfYI fan of ND but there's no question this is a leadership blunder. Whether that's at ND or SIE is up for debate but clearly someone f'd this up. And when you think about how you can get fired from a normal job for so much less it'll be frustrating but not surprising to see absolutely nothing change.

Well, I guess Jim Ryan's already on the way out and that's probably the closest anyone will get to accountability.

@Camlambelot I've been saying a Joel and Tommy prequel for years!

@AK4tywill Yeah I'm really not seeing how it was one or the other. everyone is just accepting their PR speak framing. not sure why.

Obviously they aren't going to say "yeah we could have scaled back our mp ambitions but then that wouldn't bring in gaas money so Sony had us cancel." But that's ultimately what happened.

Not a fan of online games and had mostly just a curious interest in this but this is complete BS.

And I don't buy that this is a result of ND taking on too much, especially not when you consider Bungie's involvement. It's probably more like, game wasn't live service enough and it was gonna take too much to make it so (to make the changes Bungie wanted).

In any case, it's an absolute embarrassment that a flagship studio leads fans on for years just to cancel. This isn't some Kickstarter project. No excuse for this imo.

Was fairly against the idea of a pro but the more it sounds like a reality the more tempted I am. But it depends on when it comes out. If it's 2024 then nah but I think I'd be ready by 2025.

@ShogunRok Thanks for making 3 the minimum. Just thought I'd show some appreciation on that.

Just don't understand why Sony couldn't make plates like these for the masses. Forever a mystery.

I snagged the WLF edition, because I'm an idiot.

@B_Lindz I think @MatthewJP is being sarcastic with you. The point being you can't play Epic games on your PlayStation and you'll need a fairly new device to run these games so it's not a great comparison.

I'm not picking a side either, I don't have a PC capable of paying anything worthwhile and I've recently quit Plus because I don't see the value in it.

Never played any Fallout for whatever reason but interested in this if Nolan and Joy are attached. Seeing what looks like Ella Purnell and Walton Goggins doesn't hurt either. Trying not judge it for being Amazon Prime though.

No one cares that it's blunt. It's the "definitely" that makes it sound salty. Office culture shade is usually subtle like that.

Sounds like there's some friction there to me. Maybe not a great sign.

Would be great if they'd give us a price before pre-orders. Need to know if I'm setting time aside for this or not, and that all depends on price.

@riceNpea that's what I'm trying to say. I'd argue the busting line isn't as recognizable. I didn't recognize it when I read the headline in fact. Never seen it referenced in any promotional material outside of this tweet either.

We can agree to disagree on that though. My familiarity with something isn't the end all be all for how common it is for everyone else.

@riceNpea you could literally go up to anyone on the planet and say "who you gonna call?" and they'd probably reply Ghostbusters. On the other hand if you went up to strangers exclaiming "busting makes me feel good" you'd probably end up in police custody.

Ray Parker Jr guys. That is all.

@riceNpea the song's line, is itself, an innuendo. I'd also argue this is a fairly obscure line. It's not in a verse and not part of chorus. But that's certainly up for debate.

But by "in my mind" I mean that's how you get by with an innuendo. It's not explicit but makes a connection to things we all know to mean other things... thus we all get the meaning (in our minds) without being overtly vulgar.

@riceNpea can't tell if you're playfully trolling or not. but I agree it's completely in my mind... because that's how innuendos work.

@PegasusActual93 well, I mean, if it's explicit it's not an innuendo.

In any case I'd say alluding to orgasms to sell a video game seems edgy to me but this could be a difference between marketing in the US vs marketing in the UK.

Not a fan of the edgy, sexual innuendo style of marketing myself. But that's just me.

@NinjaSixx but you can buy store credit at a discount quite frequently. Then there's PlayStation stars points along with PlayStation Visa points (if you have those). I'd say it all shakes out about the same if you play things right, with the exception of resale... physical does have that advantage.

Also, for some of us, the PlayStation store doesn't collect sales tax so that's basically a 10 percent discount where I live.

It's very likely just a native PS5 version and not a remake so not sure why this upsets literally anyone.

The continued lack of Changs is disappointing.

Kinda with @Olmaz here in that it seems like the real story here is that more monetisation is on the way in the form of seasonal fatality bundles. Less of an apology and more of a doubling down, no?

@PsBoxSwitchOwner yes and a Shelby is the same as an eco-boost because y'know they're both just Mustangs.

@PsBoxSwitchOwner it looks quite a bit smaller to me, don't really understand where that headline came from. I'll probably continue to call it a slim like everyone else because it's smaller and gets the point across without saying version two, or redesign, or late 2023 model or however we're supposed to identify it.

@VideoGameBoy what are you talking about guerrrrrrrilla?

That said I've sunk an incredible amount of hours into this game.

@Fiendish-Beaver funny thing is she's actually closer to the age of part II Ellie already so I don't think she's going to get to a point where she looks much older any time soon. Still seems like bad casting imo but it's whatevs.

I'm sure the series will still be pretty solid regardless.

If there's Daredevil DLC this game becomes an instant buy. So I'm half hoping it's not Daredevil lol.

@DennisReynolds @OmegaStriver guess we should have known with all of WB's restructuring and financial woes. Seems like any decision they've made lately has been impacted by that. Because outside of this weak entry, NetherRealm had been having some solid releases.

Pretty sure if Polyphony can regularly add cars to GT7 for free then surely NRS can add one seasonal fatality. Disgraceful.

Ah cool cool. Yeah I guess, having been away from PC for so long I didn't realize they'd gone exclusively digital. Or maybe just mostly digital. I'm still mentally stuck in the days of going into a store and picking up a copy of Warcraft III or whatever.

@nessisonett yeah the thing is just so Vegas. A monument to excess in one the most excess friendly places in the US. does look like a cool concert venue though, I'll give it that.

more to the topic though, I'll be glad when all this Spider-Man fervor dies down. No hate no shade as the kids say but the game doesn't seem all that and I look forward to first party stuff that's a little less lowest common denominator.

Lol now I'm out here being elitist

@Cloud39472 why? Just curious.

@EVIL-C this is hardly worth going back to at this point but I'm rarely on here and don't want things misconstrued. Saying that someone is kneecapping oneself, by taking the digital over the physical, sounds elitist yes. Not just the word on it's own. Because if one wanted the console with a smaller profile, a larger capacity SSD, and has no use for physical media (and can possibly sell the physical for the price of a digital)... I don't know, that just didn't seem like the bad deal you were making it out to be unless you meant that the digital, because it has one less feature, is by default inferior. If that's not the way you meant it then all good. Bygones.

@EVIL-C kneecapping though? that's not elitism? Like if I was said, "I don't know why you'd kneecap yourself by not getting the new iphone" I know what that sounds like to me. But eh. What do I know? I'm without substance.

@tselliot he's just simply incorrect is all.

@EVIL-C the insinuation that you're superior for buying physical is why this debate gets needlessly heated.

@Wakozako c'mon man, not one person is saying it's make or break. But downsizing seems to really be making the rounds these days and you're shooting yourself in the foot if you're happily accepting that.

Like there's what I can afford, and then there's what I expect to spend. I can afford hundreds of stands... actually I could probably buy one for every person on this site. I mean they're only $30 and every purchase is in a vacuum apparently. Or, Sony could just include it with their $500 box, as they were already doing.

@Northern_munkey you can clean the fans on every console without removable plates so this was an intentional design choice that seemed, but I guess I'm wrong, to be purely about aesthetics.

So basically I'm never getting any cool plates for my og PS5. Awesome Sony, thanks. Why did you even make them removal again?

@Powerplay94 I was confused by that too. Weird.

I think this is definitely a candidate for most overrated first party series ever and I can't tell if that's an unpopular opinion or not lol.

To be fair, we have no idea what this remaster even means, much less the price. Or if it's even true. Basically, I see no reason for outrage and indignation just yet.

@Jimmer-jammer fair point. But the situation was still unprecedented. And whatever the reason it left the store, this surely provided some not too noble motivation at CDPR. And cleaning up their mess, in my eyes the bare minimum, just isn't deserving of praise imo.

The true test will be their next launch. If it goes well then okay maybe we can put the whole ugly cyberpunk launch behind us.

Kinda gross if you ask me. In a world where jumping hamburgers make it onto the ps store this game was taken off. PlayStation wouldn't let them sell it! That's... crazy. But that's how bad it was. And so 3 years later after pressure from Sony, and the media, and players, and probably shareholders they made it good... wow. Slow clap.