It’s so bad that Sony is actually giving refunds for this game.

Sony almost NEVER gives refunds for games.

“Hey, sorry we accused everyone who had negative opinons of being part of a coordinated smear campaign. Turns out our game IS an unoptimized steaming pile. Our bad.”

@Ricky-Spanish It got the patch. Apparently you’re seeing it WITH the patch. It was only delayed a few hours.

@TapeLoader iiiiinteresting! I can’t decide if I love that or hate it, given that my pushing-50s-self seems to need more handholding these days.

I’m sure the guy who claimed there was some sort of coordinated negative campaign will be spouting the usual review bombing accusations soon.

@TapeLoader Oh? I keep hoping to see more about this, anything in particular impress you?

So Microsoft and Microsoft worked together.

Astonishing!

It’s good seeing a fantastic game be appreciated by more folks.

@Kraven “Horrible” may have been a poorly chosen word. But none of this looks good at the moment. Especially when “Update 2” is the launch update and apparently it was submitted so late that it isn’t approved for launch day…

I didn’t hate what I saw of the game, but I honestly forgot it existed until I saw the articles about how no review codes were sent out and that’s almost always a bad sign…

I’d love to be wrong, though!

I wonder if the dev also will blame a concerted misinformation/negativity compaign for the patch being late on XBox…

@Kraven Sometimes if a game looks like it’ll be horrible, it actually IS horrible, and when the dev cries about a conspiracy to destroy their game before release, it makes me wonder why they’re already in damage control mode…

Sorry, but…what are people expecting here? The game is presumably complete, is more dlc being clamored for?

Clockwork Revolution, There Are No Ghosts… and P4R were the only ones I cared about, personally.

I’m betting more like $699 and $899, but I’m not at all certain.

That said…I’ll be good with my Switch 2 as a portable, but I hope those who want this will enjoy it!

And yet it’s still cheaper than a standard 2 TB Series X…

@FraserG Makes sense! Again, NO insult was intended, was pure curiosity!

Ben, I mean ZERO disrespect or insult when I ask this: Why were you picked to review this while having zero 40k knowledge? Was it intentional to see how someone with no knowledge would think, or just luck of the draw? I was just amused when you mentioned the whole story passing you by bit!

@Lup I’m guessing you watched Fleekazoid’s review? I’m pretty sure he said that in his!

I’m a PS and Switch fanboy.

Even I’m saying this was a good showcase. Clockwork Revolution and No Ghosts In… were very intriguing to me, and P4R had me shout YES as I was watching.

I’m content.Though that last COD reveal was just…utterly bleh.

I admit that the trailer started out with me completely uninterested…and then the Lovecraft kicked in and they had my attention.

@N00BiSH Missed opportunity indeed, but I will still play the absolute hell out of this!

Persona 4 remake.

That’s all I’ll be watching this show for.

@AccessibleDaydream Yeah, I actually will be getting that tomorrow as well! But that Onn brand card seems to be a freaking unicorn, no other brand is selling that capacity anywhere near that cheap. But I’ve had decent luck with Onn in the past.

I’m shocked that Walmart of all companies is putting a card like that out at that price. If it spontaneously catches fire, I’ll know why.

@AccessibleDaydream glances at prices of microsd express cards

I mean…it’s a LITTLE bit of an issue…

Well, MS’s physical releases on PS5 have been key disc games, so it’ll go well with the key card games that all but two third party Switch 2 physical launch titles got. (I bought Cyberpunk and Rune Factory Guardians of Azuma for my S2 since they were actual game releases, not those key jokes)

But MS releasing games like Forza Horizon 5, Indy and others for Switch 2 can only be a good thing.

glances at the Switch 2 and then at MS jacking up prices across the board

Huh. Can’t imagine why MS might put these plans on hold. Total mystery.

@GuyinPA75 That’s what I was alluding to.

Perhaps MS should make their own phones that they can put anything they want on?

Oh…wait. That didn’t work out well last time.

Not Borderlands 4, that’s for sure. To hades with Pitchford.

I would need to recieve a $10 account credit to allow this to be in my library.

And I voluntarily paid five bucks for SUICIDE SQUAD.

Ah, Avowed. The game that wouldn’t let Fleekazoid move forward or left.

I look forward to seeing what comes next!

Trust me…there’s more to it than mindless clicking.

Imagine feeling surprised and betrayed that a game is feature-complete.

As the great Jeremy Clarkson would say, “Oh no! Anyway…”

@BAMozzy “Physical media doesn't need to contain the entire Game Code as it does not RUN from the disc - it has to be downloaded and installed onto the Internal storage regardless of whether you download from Disc or Internet.”

The point is that if the data is on the DISC, then you don’t have to pray that you can still download the game from servers in the future, it can just be copied from the disc and installed regardless.

That’s the point. There is a LARGE difference between the two things and they are not comparable. In one scenario you can happily install the game to the console regardless of internet status. In the other, you cannot.

@Balaam_ 100% agreed! My backlog is now large enough that I can safely skip releases like this and focus on games I actually own!

@XboxNumberOne looks at my game shelf with lots of physical games Sure looks like I own these complete single player games and access to them can’t be removed…

@Ricky-Spanish I mean…it sure SOUNDS like you’re gloating, but if you say you’re not…

@Scrubchub @Vectrex XBox users have had a console generation to get used to Smart Delivery forcing you to fully download series X versions of disc based games when there’s a perfectly playable XBone version on the disc, plus gamepass as well.

PS owners haven’t, and the ire on the PS side is pretty understandable. To this day, 99% of all PS disc based games have the game on the disc other than post-pressing patches. Now MS is shoving these discs-as-download-voucher releases at us and I think that even if you don’t think it’s a big deal, it’s understandable that others kinda do.

@Ricky-Spanish Gloat much?

This isn’t a win for anyone other than Microsoft and developers who lease you games indefinitely and can revoke your access at any moment. Better hope your account never gets banned for a wrongful reason.

Oh, well, if it’s “soooo much easier” then never mind then!

Wait, I thought this was over already?

Since getting my series X last year, I’ve had GPU a total of nine months.

I tried a decent number of games but didn’t really focus on any other than High On Life and Indiana Jones.

GPU is definitely not a huge draw for me and once I use the last 3-month code I’m still holding onto, I doubt I’ll uae it again. I’m one of those oddballs that likes owning his games.

@Sindayl This. I got my series X purely to try out some backward compatible stuff and play some XBox exclusives. If it weren’t for Forza Horizon 4 and 5 I’d likely have sold it already. I’m glad I kept it due to the greater BC available (Batman Arkham Origins on a modern console, yay!) but definitely feel no need to make the XBox a GPU machine.

@RadioHedgeFund As will we all. But part of your disparagement was that it must have been done on some high end machine to look that good.

It wasn’t. It was live-rendered in a ps5. As all GTA games have done with their cutscenes since 3.

@RadioHedgeFund The trailer was generated with a PS5. Not even a PS5 Pro, just a regular old PS5. Soooo…

Might want to edit that headline to add “for digital owners” then.

No way in hell.

@Godot25 I don’t doubt that there’ll be a “Hook*rs and Blow” $200 edition of GTA6, so I figured $120 was lowballing it while still being slightly absurd.

“Also, we’re raising the price to $120. You’ll pay it, so don’t even bother complaining!”

PS5 $499.
Series X $599.
Both with blu-ray drives.

…MS had better pray Sony raises their hardware prices in the next few months. That is a monstrously huge disparity in price for essentially the same capability hardware.

One’s blood had better have XBox Green flowing in it to go for an X over a 5 in this current situation. Of course, for all I know, Sony will jump them to match tomorrow…

@Medic_alert Honestly, that’s one reason I’m keeping it. My $499 Switch 2 might go up to $600 next year or even after release, who knows?

Well, guess I’m glad I got my X last year. My first and last XBox!

Still on the fence about keeping my Switch 2 preorder. This might just be my last console generation if things continue this way. Which is honestly fine, my backlog is so massive across all platforms that I could stop buying games today and be good till I’m in my seventies!

Saw the Joker and was like “Yay, Suicide Squad!” Then I saw the free to play and was like “awww.”

@Tasuki yaaaaaayyyyy….

No Jack Black as Claptrap DLC, no buy.

Ah, who am I kidding. I’m not buying this.

@Neither_scene The disc didn’t just contain the license on PS4. It had the whole game. Single player, at least. I don’t touch GTA online. So specious argument there.