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Unless the PS5 Pro is a complete failure or MS has a rival console launching in the €600 range, I would expect the minimum price the PS6 will be launched at to be €800 now.

Can’t see the Pros price going down that much over the next couple of years and certainly can’t seem them pricing their new console more cheaply than that.

Wonder if their going the Apple route and having a new release every few years with the latest and greatest being considered their Pro offering - the console landscape has changed in that there’s less and less reasons to jump to a newer gen. The PS4 still has a huge install base and is still being supported with new games, that’ll probably be the same with the PS5 years into the PS6 lifetime.

So instead of going for a big bang approach and trying to get everyone to adopt the latest asap, they’re probably changing to have a fancy model for those who can afford it while having a more traditionally priced version supported that will play most(or all) of the games the newest plays.

I do think that approach sort of makes sense, but I do think it would give MS an enormous opportunity for market share with a more traditionally priced top tier offering. Although knowing them, they’d just take it to mean that they should start charging €800 for their console too.

It does sound like psvr2 will get a boost from the pro hardware, and there is a version of the upscaling coming later on for it too.

Alright, I googled and ran with the first number I saw, my bad. Maybe it was the most expensive model I saw, maybe it was reddit speculation, i cant remember. It wasn't, and isn't, my intent to make up anything.

But I'm not trying to justify the Pro, I am getting it. That was always a given. My point was people will buy what they personally see value in. Most on here think the Pro is too much, but it still costs less than a lot of other tech people will buy. I'll get more value out of the Pro than I will out of my pc or whatever the next flagship phone I'll buy will be. O

I don't think I'll bother with the Pro. Not at launch anyway. I usually try for one big purchase for myself every so often and I've my eye on a new coffee machine. I don't need the extra storage of the Pro (have 2tb already added to my PS5), won't notice the graphics and just can't see a reason to.

I know I'll probably change my mind closer the time as I've eyes bigger than my stomach, but for now anyway I can't even convince myself why I should get it.

Though maybe I will after a few coffees…

The entire staff of Annapurna Interactive, the video-game publishing division of Megan Ellison's Annapurna studio, resigned this month following a dispute with its owner, according to people familiar with the situation.

Annapurna Interactive President Nathan Gary and his team had been negotiating with Ellison, the daughter of billionaire Larry Ellison, to spin off the video-game division as an independent entity, said the people, who spoke anonymously because they were not authorized to share the information with the press. When Ellison pulled out of the negotiations, Gary and other executives resigned and were followed by around two dozen other staffers.

A spokesperson for Annapurna confirmed that it had explored a spinoff and said the parties failed to reach an agreement, which led to the resignations.

"Our top priority is continuing to support our developer and publishing partners during this transition," Ellison said in a statement to Bloomberg News. "We're committed to not only our existing slate of games but also expanding our presence in the interactive space as we continue to look for opportunities to take a more integrated approach to linear and interactive storytelling across film and TV, gaming, and theater."

The exodus has led to chaos as game developers partnered with Annapurna try to figure out what this means for their upcoming projects. As a publisher, Annapurna is responsible not only for funding the games but for handling services such as quality-assurance, adapting the products for local markets and marketing. Over the past few days, game makers working with Annapurna have scrambled to find new points of contact and figure out whether the company will continue to honor its agreements.

The spokesperson said that all existing games and projects will remain under Annapurna.

Happy with my PS5 disk slim. Got rid of my original PS5, was too noisy and too big. But mostly too noisy. Have a ton of PS4/PS5 games to play at 60 FPS. From a technical point of view, FPS, and relative quiet ( not at good as XBox series ), trumps ray tracing and resolution easily. Sony killed MS, but then dropped a console that does not seem to add anything extra. The killer app for PS5 pro is GTA6 of course, but when will that actually arrive ?

Yep. I meant to go back and edit my post.

Oh the empty page thing is annoying. Do we need to create new threads to avoid the problem ?

Anyway, The Crew 2 is a euro everywhere at the moment and Ubisoft are adding an offline mode. And it's 60 FPS on ancient hardware like PS5. You don't even need a pro for it.

Not a particularly good look for Capcom with this one. The US version of the Marvel vs Capcom Fighting Collection is getting a physical cartridge release on Switch in North America while the European version is code in a box. This is a full price release with a €55 price tag.

European's who care about owning their games

Unfortunately that's not how it works - you don't own the game in neither case. You own the right to play the game, and that right can be nuked in both cases even if you own a physical copy, which is nothing more than a key and (in most cases) an early obsolete copy of the game that needs to be updated anyway.

Any EU initiative should enforce a minimum period of support, and once the support ends and sales stops a mandatory transfer into public domain for all software products.

We do have to be realistic here as well though. Its not a zero cost policy to release legacy games in a working order when servers go down

Of course. But I see two directions here, one will be to enforce this end of life release of all it's needed to keep the game (or any other kind of sw) functional, and have all this cost factored in when budgeting and planning a game, and the other would be to be forced to either provide support or lose the right to seek to stop others. And none of these direction don't imply loosing the rights to IPs and trademarks and all collateral copyrighted or otherwise IP protected stuff. Simply put, either keep selling and supporting it, or allow others to do it.

Darksiders 2 Definitive Edition for PS5 launching in October. A remaster of the remaster... I love the game but I don't think I could justify buying it again. And why start with 2? Where's the remastered remastered version of 1? Which I prefer ever so slightly over 2. Don't think a remaster of 3 will improve it.

Oh, and they clarified this release is not related to their recent Darksiders teaser. Which I presume is for Darksiders 4, which isn't announced yet.

Sure does look pretty though. And that style of game is right up my street. Wonder how long before inclusion on PS+...

Fyi

Note: If you already own Darksiders II Deathinitive Edition on PlayStation 4, you will receive a free upgrade to the PlayStation 5 version when the game launches on October 15th, 2024.

Xbox Owners: Rejoice! There's a 50% discount on Darksiders II Deathinitive Edition for Xbox One, running until October 14th, 2024. Afterward, your purchase will automatically unlock the new features of the Xbox Series S/X version via Smart Delivery.

FFXVI is the first FF game I've ever played, and I could only stomach it for about 5 hours or so. The combat felt reasonably fun, but everything else just started to bore me to tears and looked like it would only continue to get worse.

It wouldn't put me off future FF games as I know they can all be relatively different, but with reports of how long the game generally takes to finish I just couldn't bring myself to continue with it.