Price cuts, 2 new games from Ico Developers, and much more...
This is a very simple list to complete. There are no collectibles. Most of everything here is story related with a couple miscellaneous Trophies thrown in. Nothing here can be missed as there is a really helpful rewind feature as well as mission select.
A new battleground is heating up in the modern era: backwards compatibility. Sony and Microsoft have different angles, but which is better?
These are different companies with different eco systems. They will pick the approach that best suits them and the games in their catalog which are also vastly different.
Nothing will ever be as good as the phat PS3 model. Since sites like to compare things all the time, compare the older systems to the newer systems when it comes to BC. I'm sure you'll find the newer systems lacking.
Modern gaming journalism. Creates division so that they have something to talk about in the time between new games.
PS2 BC wasn't finicky. It played nearly every game in PS1's catalog. The list was almost negligible. PS3 almost played all the games from PS1 and PS2 until the removal of full BC. But Sony showed you can sell over 100 million PS4 consoles WITHOUT it if you provide a smattering of new games. Microsoft showed you can't sell 100 million consoles WITH it if you don't provide enough new games for a new console.
Xbox is said to lead the way but if we were to count the total amount of BC games for each console, it's near the same amount. Microsoft doesn't play all its previous games as Sony doesn't. Just offering different selections.
New games for new consoles still matter and should always be the priority. BC is fine but should be secondary to providing new games. There isn't any new battleground. If a strategy is to look to the past for games already played or purchased for new consoles, you're looking in the wrong direction. It would be the same with subscriptions. You don't watch Netflix to watch old shows you already watched even if they were good. You look to watch NEW shows you haven't watched.
I know some love trophy or achievement hunting. But that's not enough for me. Only if the games looked better, moves better and played with better controls. Going back to some these games with bad camera angles and tank controls to get a trophy doesn't sound fun to me. But that's just me. Some might. But I hope it's because a game was fun.
Incoming From Bend Studio
I would love to replay older games with trophies. I would replay the shit out of the tedious and beloved Digimon World to get the platinum
Love Syphon Filter so this will do me nicely, hope we get a new one built for PS5.
This is pretty neat, I wonder how 'involved' the trophies are, e.g. are they just 'finish level' or does it actually have knowledge of the gameplay and can do things like 'Kill X enemies', 'Finish level X only using the tazer" etc.
Also related... I hope when they put this on the store it sells a bucketload and we get a remake bundle and sequel.
I hope MGS1 will have trophies as well when that eventually gets emulated.
I don't have many platinums but they're usually games I love (that also don't have annoying lists, haha). MGS1 wasn't the first game I played but it was the first game I bought when I got my second-hand PS1.
I'm pretty sure the reason I picked MGS is because I watched my cousins play Syphon Filter. lol. I'd like to finally give Syphon Filter a go.
I hope one of them is Shadow of the Collossus 2.
I want play a Tale like i dit with ICO/SotC
WOW if all what they listed are true than i will be broke fore the next two years. Jak4, SotC2/Online, Syphon Filter and a Insomniac game beside of Ratched and Clank:ToD 2 wow what an amazing year
this gdc looks explosive for sony
hope for alan wake gameplay also
"New 40gb ps3 sku will be launched this May. The cost will be 299$."
already I detect fake.
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how so? care to actually back that claim with reason? it wouldn't be the first time a 40GB SKU was introduced as part of a price cut, and it fits in line with the reports of certain retailers getting 80GB bundles with 2 games for $399.
3.1
i can agree it does sound too soon to announce, but look at the last time they announced a price cut...
http://www.gamespot.com/new...
a month ahead of the release.
i predict sony will dissapoint, microsoft take another game from the ps3 and the wii will present a new wii fit.