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Death Stranding is a sure thing. It's possible the leakers are dumb and that's the "exclusive" they mean, but it sounds like more than one game is coming.
Most likely outcome: Horizon Zero Dawn
Funniest outcome: Days Gone or Sackboy
Won't happen, but we can dream: Gravity Rush
 
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Looks like the digital future is facing a hurdle in the Netherlands.

Sony Faces Class Action Lawsuit in the Netherlands Over Alleged Inflation of PlayStation Digital Prices

Sony Interactive Entertainment has become the target of a class action lawsuit in the Netherlands, as the Mass Damage & Consumer Foundation officially filed a claim on behalf of Dutch PlayStation users. The lawsuit accuses Sony of abusing its dominant market position to artificially inflate prices of digital games and in-game content, creating financial harm for nearly 1.7 million consumers in the country.
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Basic Blonde Boy said:
Hey, anyone in this thread play The Pathless yet? Been wanting a BOTW for the PS5, and that seemed like a good substitute. I did play and enjoy the previous title ABZU.

Otherwise, should I pick up Horizon?
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I actually played it on my phone when it was on Apple Arcade around I want to say November 2021. It was honestly really fun and I wish my fuckass laptop would be able to run it a little better lmao. It’s such a beautiful game it’s criminal how few people have played it
 
Two Dollars said:
One of my highlights of the last general Direct was Hot Shots Everybody’s Golf and Patapon coming to Switch, and I probably won’t even get them :story:

Considering Horizon’s track record, they’d probably release it on the same day as a new Smash or something.
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Freedom Wars too.

Regardless, the "big exclusive" is probably just Stellar Blade. A good game but not really first party.
 

The Alderon Games dev known for going on the record about Intel's cRaptor Lake instability is saying that PS5 consoles stood vertically can cause the liquid metal to pool or leak, leading to crashes among ~3% of users in intensive games like his dinosaur autism one. It's possible that you could have a different effect depending on where the liquid metal is settling and where the bare spots are (i.e. CPU vs GPU).
 
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The Mass Shooter Ron Soye said:

The Alderon Games dev known for going on the record about Intel's cRaptor Lake instability is saying that PS5 consoles stood vertically can cause the liquid metal to pool or leak, leading to crashes among ~3% of users in intensive games like his dinosaur autism one. It's possible that you could have a different effect depending on where the liquid metal is settling and where the bare spots are (i.e. CPU vs GPU).
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People stand the PS5 vertically? The things an eyesore and should be as low as possible - for all their flaws Nintendo at least keeps their consoles relatively compact. Wait did those fuckers stop including the stand with new models?

I legitimately wouldn’t put it past them…
 
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Caddo Cobgang said:
The PS5 sucked thanks to Jim Ryan anyway, the fact that he didn’t go the way of Brian Thompson during his tenure as CEO and ended up shot by some disgruntled autist is a fucking tragedy
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The PS5 is a great piece of hardware, I'm one of the few that likes the look of it because it isn't just a black box and the controllers' haptic feedback is a pleasant addition. The software at the window was decent and made it look like it was going to be a good generation. Ryan had a long term plan but bailed before it was implemented, and with the state of the upper management, I think I can understand why he left.

The issue wasn't Ryan, it was his successor who threw out everything he had done, or had planned to do, to get the department through COVID and beyond.

Look how Hulst has acted before he became the big man, now he's calling the shots and is as fragile and in love with his own franchise as druckerman is.
 
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Celebrate Nite said:
Fucking how???

Are soyniggers that fucking buck-broken that they just immediately buy the next new thing even though it's fucking garbage? I mean I'll give PS3 a pass but how any other sony console could beat the PS2 is fucking mind-boggling since the PS2 had WAAAAAAAAAAY more going for it.
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Sony stopped spending money on games and instead just positioned Playstation as the ultimate box for MTX slop they can take a cut of. I know people who only own a PS5 for Fortnite or NBA and they spend like crazy on that shit.

I don't think it's exactly healthy since someone else can come in and undercut them on Fortnite-capable hardware but it is what it is.

FloydsFeedandSeed said:
I'm like 10-15 years late with this, but the same issues that plagued the Xbox 360 with the red ring of death also affected the PS3 (look up bumpgate). Sony fixed the issue in latter half of 2008. Around the same time the fixed 360 boards came out which are reliable. Yet MS got 10 times the amount of shit for it when they were the only ones to extend the warranty for all systems affected. A friend of mine who got an early (close to launch) PS3 was out of luck and had to purchase another.
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I think it went under the radar because the PS3 didn't really take off until the latter part of the generation when the slim model came out. I see way more PS3 slims in the wild than I do fat ones.

Incecticyder said:
I have to admit that while not knowing enough about UE5, everything I have heard about it makes it sound like a rush job. What do you guys think?
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Tech debt leftover from the UE2-UE4 era. New technology gets added but core things like scheduling are creaky owing to the fact that they were first implemented back in like 2002.

We're also just living in a bad era for it. UE5 was rolled out on the premise that midrange gamers would be buying into decent modern GPUs en masse, but the pricing of GPUs has made adoption of modern HW features slow and Nvidia hamstringing their midrange cards also doesn't help. I think there was an earnest belief in the industry around 2020 that everyone would have something on par with an RTX 3080 by now but that hasn't really panned out due to the market and so now you have a studios making games for hardware that very few people have.

The Mass Shooter Ron Soye said:
The Alderon Games dev known for going on the record about Intel's cRaptor Lake instability is saying that PS5 consoles stood vertically can cause the liquid metal to pool or leak, leading to crashes among ~3% of users in intensive games like his dinosaur autism one. It's possible that you could have a different effect depending on where the liquid metal is settling and where the bare spots are (i.e. CPU vs GPU).
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Overbuilding cooling systems for consoles was and still is a bad idea. I still can't believe Sony went with fucking liquid metal of all things. I can only assume Mark Cerny was smoking crack that day.

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EDIT: Right as I post this, I see this pop up - Sony Says PlayStation Plus Engagement Has “Never Been Higher,” Still Won’t Add First-Party Games Day-One

After SIE president and chief executive officer Hideaki Nishino revealed that more players are choosing the PS Plus Extra and Premium tiers, Maguire backed up Nishino's comments, and added that "Engagement in Plus has never been higher than it is right now," which is due in part to the restructuring of the service PlayStation announced in 2022.


The switch from the old PS Plus model to the current tiered model "surpassed our expectations," Maguire said. "It's really given us a new way to reach the audiences with these games, and it's given new value to partners to find new people to play their titles. And just the engagement we see from it is really positive, in terms of the number of people choosing that Catalog and coming back month after month."


Magurie did not talk about how the prices have gone up, only saying "I think we just want to invest in Plus. We want to invest in the proposition, bring more value to users. And we're seeing high growth in Extra, Premium."


When Nishino was asked about the price increases just a couple of weeks ago, he said the increases were part of Sony "increasing value we bring to the players," and it's clear from how many players continue to choose the Extra and Premium tiers that the increases aren't exactly hurting subscriber numbers.


On a separate matter, Maguire did make it clear that Sony has no intention of adding its first-party, PlayStation Studios-developed titles to the PlayStation Plus service on day one. Instead, PlayStation will continue to add third-party titles on day one where it sees a good fit, like how FBC: Firebreak recently launched into the service.
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Console kids deserve their suffering.
 
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Fcret said:
EDIT: Right as I post this, I see this pop up - Sony Says PlayStation Plus Engagement Has “Never Been Higher,” Still Won’t Add First-Party Games Day-One
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Notice the weasel words of 'engagement' and 'playstation plus'. If PS Plus boots up on a PC, that's engagement. Same as a PS5 and PS4.

Split that 'engagement' down to hardware and how long each users spends playing games on the PS5 and the investors would storm Sony HQ the minute those numbers were published.
 
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Leaf Wage Slave Jr said:
People stand the PS5 vertically? The things an eyesore and should be as low as possible - for all their flaws Nintendo at least keeps their consoles relatively compact. Wait did those fuckers stop including the stand with new models?

I legitimately wouldn’t put it past them…
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The thing is fucking huge and often won't fit anywhere unless placed vertically. Which costs $30 extra. And can permanently damage it.
 
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Markorian said:
The thing is fucking huge and often won't fit anywhere unless placed vertically. Which costs $30 extra. And can permanently damage it.
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Huh. I've had mine horizontal since I bought the thing - and it included the stand back then - , and I've never had problems with it. Not gonna question it too much, if it decides to crap out I'm sure as hell not replacing it.
 
Leaf Wage Slave Jr said:
Huh. I've had mine horizontal since I bought the thing - and it included the stand back then - , and I've never had problems with it. Not gonna question it too much, if it decides to crap out I'm sure as hell not replacing it.
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"Anywhere" is a bit hyperbolic, but if I did have my sanity leave me long enough to buy a ps5, I wouldn't be able to place it horizontal anywhere on my tv stand, and I know for a fact I'm not the only one, since I know someone who got a pro and then later had to buy a $30 stand for it because it just didn't fit otherwise.
 
The Mass Shooter Ron Soye said:

The Alderon Games dev known for going on the record about Intel's cRaptor Lake instability is saying that PS5 consoles stood vertically can cause the liquid metal to pool or leak, leading to crashes among ~3% of users in intensive games like his dinosaur autism one. It's possible that you could have a different effect depending on where the liquid metal is settling and where the bare spots are (i.e. CPU vs GPU).
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I thought the issue with the liquid metal was known since Day 1.
 
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