Sony usually does preorders through their PlayStation website using PSN names as a way to weed out people and limit purchases. I used it for my PSVR2 and PS Portal preorders and it worked great. But you do need to be a bit proactive and get on it ASAP.
The PS5 definitely has some untapped...
I think the lack of backward compatibility kind of killed it out of the gate. It's tough selling such an expensive add-on to an already-expensive system, even more when your old library of digital-only games can't go with it or you can't say at launch "look at all these great games you can play...
Any game that advertises scavenging, crafting, base-building, and "survival" instantly goes into my "no thanks" list. I have a full time job, I don't need to spend my free time pretending I need another job.
I saw that from last week. Definitely interesting and they pulled it off as a software-only hack.
I wonder if this would be something Sony intends to use somehow. Not emulation but rather just having some degree of actual power in the unit.
The new Pokemon game announced this morning has a 2025 release date "on all Switch consoles" which backs up this rumor. Wonder if Nintendo is going to emulate the Switch launch and announce/show it in the fall.
Sounds a lot like the leak from the FTC documents last year.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/alleged-xbox-series-x-refresh-revealed-in-colossal-ftc-court-docs-leak
Hey, whatever works best for you!
I would love it if games started offering locked 30/60 modes and just said "30" or "60" instead of "performance" and "graphics."
If you do decide to hop back into gaming, you'd probably find a lot of value in a Switch or a Steam Deck. The games you're interested in are well-represented on both.
Wait, you hate 60 fps because it usually means lower resolution or because its too smooth?
In my experience, I would much rather have 60 fps than 30 but with 4K.
The Series X is held back by the Series S. Microsoft mandated that any Xbox games be able to function on both systems without missing features unless it's enhanced graphics, which means developers have to scale back some games and put in more time.
PS5 games that also release on PS4 are a...
Edwin - if you're looking at Sony-published PS5-only games, then the list really is incredibly small. But when you look at how well Horizon and God of War run, and you look at how good the PSVR2 is, I think it's still a worthy investment to go from PS4 to PS5.
That said, I'm not sure what...
In Mario Odyssey, there's a couple hidden levels that are really fun to find and play, but I think going all the way to 1000 Moons (at some point you're just collecting coins to buy the rest) only gets you new outfits.
It took what was likely hundreds of millions of dollars in development and marketing costs to make two bad Battlefront games before they realized that people just want THIS instead.
I'm heavily considering buying these, even though I hate playing anything online. These games are classics.
The impression seems to be that marquee titles and games that they expect to really drive a lot of business will not end up elsewhere, but smaller games with more limited audiences might end up on competitor platforms. Apparently some of the tension internally came from developers being upset...
This was quite the weekend for Microsoft news. Apparently they're looking to essentially turn into a 3rd party publisher. Put all, or at least most, of their games on PlayStation and/or Switch while shifting to a digital-only release strategy for Xbox (and possibly other platforms, too). The...
Was it an HDMI version mismatch? Like you needed a 1.4 but had a 1.2 or something? It's very annoying to me that they created a wonderful standard with HDMI but then failed to just make it so every cable is the same version from the beginning.
I am very, very over the aesthetic and story concept of games like Stellar Blade. Which I guess is to say I'm over the anime-style stuff.
Sonic? Not much interest, but it's good to see Sega actually managing the franchise well for a change.
Judas looks like its trying too hard to be Bioshock...
Are you going right from the PS5 into the TV or passing through something else like a receiver? Do you get sound but no picture?
I had a similar issue a while back and it was due to 2 things at once: too many pass-throughs (PS5 to receiver to wall plate to another wall plate to TV; signal loss...
Xbox just cut their physical retail division and I just read that 10% of retail physical game sales were from Xbox. I wouldn't be surprised if they're pushing into a digital-first or even digital-only future now.
That leaked new Series X from last year with no disc drive is likely being...
I saw someone write under an article about this stuff on facebook something along the lines of "you never see Nintendo having mass layoffs, instead their CEO took a huge pay cut when the Wii U bombed."
It's not really Bethesda, it's one of the companies they own. MachineGame made the last 3 Wolfenstein games (as Steve said) and they're all REALLY good. The voice actor is not Ford, it's Troy Baker. He's been in a ton of games.
This is one case where I'd assume Microsoft was hands-off in letting MachineGames do what they wanted so I expect this will be good. That said, the title image in Alex's post is way too videogame-y for me to take it seriously as an Indiana Jones story. The title itself is also a bit simple so...
I believe the company that made it is French so maybe that's part of it? The writing never bothered me. Yeah, the two main characters are relatively generic but...I mean...most 90s/SNES-era RPG heroes were. Garl being the star is kind of a big plot point overall.
The game, however, keeps...
Steve - how much of Sea of Stars did you play? There were a few moments in it that wowed me and it had some very good ideas. Huge evolution of the SNES RPGs its inspired by.
Over the holidays I finished Sea of Stars (excellent, highly recommend) and Cocoon (way overhyped but still good, not amazing). Started Hi-Fi Rush last weekend and really enjoying it, even though I knew it was good I'm still surprised.