Game News 2.0

Yeah MS are chasing the streaming market and praying that they lock that down, if a global recession was to happen they would clean up in subscriptions when parents tighten the purse strings

Feel awful for parents who now have another new console their kids will want but absolutely not need.

It seems to be fixing itself as the empty pages are filled. Still really annoying though.

Mighty Keef right on the nose.

As we get further into the digital only environment, I wonder if we’ll see the EU look at enforcing companies to provide a service allowing users to transfer their licenses to other users.

It feels anti competitive to essentially force consumers to lose their digital library if they consider moving to a different platform, and Xbox have said as much - losing the generation where people have started building their digital libraries has made it far more difficult to compete.

I have no doubt Sony/Nintendo would kick up a fuss about it but I really can’t see nothing being done as we move past physical sales.

Yeah the only thing stopping them now are the companies themselves, to be fair to MS they seem to be the most open to let it be a free for all and its because they are miles behind on hardware sales and they are right it does stop people jumping ship, I only looked at this the other day I have 443 games I own on my Xbox ( thank god for gamesharing) this includes games with gold, that number goes beyond 800 when it comes to gamepass, on my Switch I have 19 and on my Playstation I have 9 digital games. There is no way I am not keeping Xbox in some form regardless of what MS do or Ninty/ Sony for that matter either.

From a consumer point of view if I could access the stuff on each of there hardware it would be golden and its not all pie in the sky tech either, yeah you have stuff like touch pad on dualsense but thats a big map button anyway and remapping is possible, Gyro you can turn off on games easily. Haptics arent make or break.

Noice! I'll definitely give it another spin so!

Pity about XVI as it's great, the story does drop a bit towards the end.

As for Rebirth, that is a bloated corpse of a game with a razor thin story wrapped around a hundred hours of doing the same 3 side missions in each biome. It makes Remake, which was already bloated, look like a streamlined experience.

Ah I loved the writing in freedom war(t)s! I'm actually happy to pick this up again because my vita is starting to misbehave as a console and delighted to see this reach out beyond the console again!

you gotta imagine they have potentially massively overestimated profits here. So many reasons why ff7Rebirth was not going to do as well as Remake, and I'm saying that as someone who genuinely enjoyed it. Covid, direct sequel, new console, those waiting on "the collection", etc etc

On the one hand, seems entirely pointless given how great the game looks, how it's already on PC (and so I'm sure people's PCs are already making the game look as good as it probably can) and I think there was a PS5 upgrade for it too. On the other hand, weird to think the game is over 7 years old already, and maybe all the different raytracing etc will be used as a showcase for the PS5 Pro as well.

Horizon Zero Dawn is getting a remaster, because of course it is.

Finally a way to play Zero Dawn on modern systems. 🙄

Maybe bring games stuck on older systems like Infamous. (Yeah I know they can be streamed)

It looks like there has been a big leak of Switch 2 prototype material included renders and casings.

Of course as with anything of this nature you should take it with a grain of salt until there's official confirmation.

It just looks like a switch :D

Looks like additional buttons at the inner side of the shoulder buttons too, although looking at it again I presume they're the joycon release buttons. Different from the Switch 1 buttons anyway.

That said, yeah huge grain of salt. Would have expected a bit more of a difference from the original.

That's the PS5 version, the new PS5 firmware from last week has broken the game.

Technology expert at DF, Richard Leadbetter, claiming GTA VI will be 30fps on console...

Potentially a deal breaker for me. I get why previous releases were, as most games were then, but I don't think I could go back down now. Although it's probably true seeing as we don't even have an RDR2 60fps yet iirc, the reason I haven't gone back. I get the cpu argument, but they got V running at 60 so I'm more than happy to take a visual hit for a smooth 60, including whatever they'd have to pare back on the cpu side. If possible.