PlayStation 4 System Software Update 2.50 codenamed Yukimura has just been released and the PlayStation app has been updated. They bring the ability to delete games from your trophy list that have zero percent completion. It's really easy to do, watch my video guide to show you how.
PlayStation Plus is getting a price rise in Australia and other global regions, with subscribers set to pay a few dollars more on each tier.
Sadly the price increases are expanding to Australia and likely other regions beyond.
Seems like it's best to stack now if you're in the position to do so
I try to stack every time they offer a psn sale that discounts the deluxe tier by 30 percent I find that's the best way to get past the multi year increases but yeah it's sucked feel like everything has increased so much lately across all subs I've cancelled gamepass and a few other streaming services going back to just psn, NSO and Netflix
Same here. I let my subscription lapse since it ran out last summer. If we do the math, is a console really cheaper than a PC? It sucks that I can no longer play Helldivers 2, but it is not worth spending so much on the subscription fee for a function that should be free.
PS plus essential is $80
PS5 is $500
The generation is expected to last 7-8 years, which means you would have spent at least $1060 just to access basic features along with the initial purchase. Not to mention some games being more expensive. There are also the additional controllers you may need to buy once your original ones start to drift. I have 3 DualSense controllers, and all of them drifted. I was able to fix 2 of the 3 by modding them with Hall effect sticks.
I love my Playstation, and I do not regret buying it at launch since I got to enjoy some great games like Ratchet and Clank, Horizon Forbidden West, Spiderman 2, Demon Souls, Astro Bot, and God of War Ragnarok.
The issue I have is that the Playstation that we know today is different from the Playstation we had in the PS4 era. Things are also getting progressively more expensive as time goes on.
Once the PC hardware situation improves, I will be looking to build my own one part at a time instead of getting a Pro console.
@ Divine
The PC situation won't get better. If you want to game, you will need to choose who you want to get screwed by.
Terrible idea to Stack now in my opinion. The raise is not that much for 12 months, so you might as well wait for the 30% sales at the end of year, because you will be saving more money. That's when I'm going to stack like a mofo. I'll buy like 5 years then
You gotta love the attitude people had before: "Price hike! NO, THIS IS TERRIBLE, I HATE—wait ... South America? lol ok."
It starts hitting closer to home and now we're worried. It was always a concern and people should have always treated it that way.
Funny enough, Sony is likely losing subscribers with every price hike, and all they're doing is offering the beefed up service to fewer people. Doubtful this offsets the lost subs.
Haven't had Plus in years, and I don't miss it. And frankly, with the way things are going, I just don't see myself getting into the next generation either. Increased reliance on AI, stagnant gaming experiences despite better tech, untenable budgets, increased cost to consumers, tendency to push GaaS, very long development cycles, weak/non-existent digital rights protections, poor global economy, tariff madness.
It's probably a better use of my time to double down on my other hobbies. Can't speak for others, but it wouldn't be surprising if the market crashes because enough people come to the same conclusion.
Sony has been quietly working on a PS5 Pro PSSR update that addresses visual issues experienced in some previously released games.
Fast forwarding it's going to be interesting to see how PSSR will have evolved since 2024 once the PS6 is one month or so away from release.
Personally though, I gotta admit I am still not that keen towards upscalers.
Since I've got that feeling that they've been somewhat invented to just reduce costs and therefore sacrifice quality.
But, yeah, dunno, maybe it's just me.
I love them. Anything that can deliver a similar image with vastly less power used can only be good for gamers. No evidence in games yet to say they're releasing at less quality because of them
I think they serve a purpose, but overall the power they use I think is better spent just giving us a smaller boost to res instead of a larger upscale. Artifacts are worse that state stepping and pixelation.
Its the difference between working smarter instead of harder. And espcially in a world where more the most performant gaming GPUs are out of the price range of most consumers.... even then the highest of high end rigs will struggle with state of the art visuals at native 4K at a decent framerate.
100% upscalers are both cost reduction and efficient improvements. That isn't a bad thing at all.
Imagine hardware costs and power consumption to handle everything natively
I don't think it has much to do with financial savings personally, I think the introduction of AI upscalers is more about leveraging technology to get the most possible performance out of a GPU.
Personally, I am a big fan, I am currently playing AC Shadows on my PS5Pro and it is jaw dropping to look at!
Speaking of AC Shadows, I read somewhere that Ubi still haven't released a proper update for the Pro so once they release that, it should look even better.
You are not keen on getting more out of the power that you have? I don’t understand the argument.
You are in a console-focused space, where people's understanding of technology is barely akin to that of a child. Basically, if it looks shiny, it's good. So, I don't think your point will be popular.
But yes, ML-based upscalers were created primarily to make development easier and cheaper. They function by allowing developers to skip certain details, which are later added by the model, and by enabling the adoption of cost-saving and time-saving technologies like ray tracing.
It is quite literally the opposite of "free power" or "extracting more power" from the hardware. That would happen without these models, where rasterization techniques would need to be used, tailor-made for each game and hardware, thereby extracting every ounce of power available.
The genius of it is not the tech itself, it is the marketing. Manufacturers presented two equally bad options for users and developers: spatial algorithm upscalers and ML-based upscalers. So, these groups chose the least bad of the two, without realizing that the third, much better option, no upscalers at all, was deliberately hidden. So they are here to stay.
Thank you very much for the explaination. That's exactly how I feel about these upscalers.
And this feeling originated from, as one example watching DF tech videos.
And from them coming to the conclusion that there's a sacrifice being made by developers using upscaling.
(And that DF for that matter, although they actually have the knowledge about what's going on beneath, probably rather committing to their business model to produce videos accompanying upscale technology. But not investigating it, not going beneath it. Which is fine, because they had to make a choice business wise. I can understand Richard, who still criticizes when he seees fit.)
So thanks again!
And of course:
I knew this would blow up the downvotes.
Despite having actually phrased excitment about where PSSR will stand in a few years, right at the beginning of my comment.
But "Oh, 3 downvotes already!" often times lead to just more downvotes.
And I am totally fine with people not agreeing with a comment I've made in the Internet.
I don't get why people against AI upscaler, eventually we won't be able to tell the differences, and we save money on keep chasing GPU with raw power for 4k, 120fps, ray tracing... which even top of the line card that costs thousands of dollars cannot do.
More like youll pay a premium for AI upscale rather then receive actual performance upgrade for the price.
You don’t like upscalers? So you don’t like getting more out of your hardware? Niiiiice
I just can't believe how much more emersive of a game GOW:Rangerok is on the pro. I'm going for the platinum 🏆. Stunning!
I can't see any difference at all on any PSSR title. In fact, In GT7, it makes the image worse, with a weird shimmering texture on car interiors.
I feel cheated after having bought the Pro. The only really good thing about it is 60FPS in many more games. But graphically, I can't see *any* improvement, regardless of game, PSSR on or off.
What have you played though? You won't notice a difference on GT7 because of how it looks to start with. Only have to load up a game like FF7 Rebirth and it's instantly noticeable.
The reason you are seeing shimmering on car interiors (in that setting) is that it is using ray tracing, which is a massive step up in visual realism but is expensive so the resolution is dropped a fair bit. I think the other modes still give PS5 Pro an advantage over PS5 so just use those if the trade offs for that setting aren't worth it for you. They are for me.
For me, biggest improvement by far: Elden Ring now gets a consistent 55-60fps in the DLC areas on performance.
Any PSSR title? What kind of TV are you using? I ask because this is the complete opposite of my experience while playing on an LG OLED G2. I suspect the panel could be an issue here.
I'm using a 2023 LG C2, 65".
I never said games don't look great. I just don't see any improvement with PSSR.
Uhh, hey fake news!
This is a very oddly framed article reporting on the news that Ubisoft has a PSSR patch in the works for AC Shadows, but this awful author is inserting her own narrative that it's already out and updated and that it was Sony's update.
PSSR is not yet updated again. AC Shadows is not yet using PSSR. It could be days or weeks or even months before we see the AC Shadows PSSR patch and for all Ubisoft has said, they've only worked with Sony, they didn't say PSSR itself is being updated based on the work they did to implement it into the game.
Reads like something a know biased PlayStation fanboy on YouTube would write to justify throwing their money away on something that's marginally better than PlayStation 5 base and especially series x.
No. It just reads like someone is making their own headline and conclusion. No need to fanboy this up, troll.
The late 1980s and early 1990s saw gaming giant Nintendo engage in a rapid-fire series of corporate deals and backstabbing — the consequences of which would create a new rival and industry titan to change the gaming landscape forever.
TBH, there's no longer any rivalries. sure they are selling consoles but those looking for Nintendo games, will buy Nintendo's but those looking for higher end console experiences, will definitely choose Playstation
The game hasn't changed just the players as it's always been.
Intellivision vs Atari
Nintendo vs sega
Nintendo vs PlayStation vs sega vs Atari vs 3d0
PlayStation vs Xbox vs Nintendo
And now PlayStation vs Nintendo
They may be playing the game differently but they are absolutely competitors
Never consider Playstation v Nintendo as a rivalry now.
Glad you omitted Microsoft. Sony's war with Microsoft was over a couple of years ago.
Console wars is long dead imo.
Yep. It’s about to be what it would have been if no Xbox had joined the scene in 2001 - Nintendo and PlayStation providing the goods. LOTS of exclusives, Japanese games, etc!
Only difference now is Sony puts many of their games on PC, but otherwise, that’s about to be the status quo.
"higher end". Considering some of the most successful games sold of all time don't fall under the "higher end" category, I find that comment funny.
Great games exist everywhere, Astrobot proved that you don't need to have photo-realistic graphics to make an amazing game.
If a game handles great, is fun/awesome to play and I get my money's worth, then why isn't that a higher end experience?
Since when is "high end" means most sold? But ok, let's play the devil's advocate here and take some examples. Some of the best selling games in recent years are indeed the higher end experience Nintendo isn't delivering like GTAV, RDR2, CoD games, RE remakes, FF games, Elden Ring, BG3 etc. and these are multiplat games not available only on Nintendo's. So yeah, those seeking to experience these, have had to choose the PS or Xbox or go PC.
Nintendo has the portable market locked down with little chance for others but at the same time, they also know that they just can't compete at the higher end market. Licky for them their core fanbase is ok with games looking last gen being sold at current gen prices. The moment they go multiplat, they will be reduced to just a publisher like xbox because their games look and play better on more powerful hardware they're unwilling to supply.
@badz149 - you sound like you are 10 years old.
define deliver? Are Nintendo games fun to play? Do they handle great? Do they look aesthetically pleasing?
It'll be interesting to see what you say when the Switch 2 starts getting these 3rd party games because the hardware can actually handle them. Start moving those goal posts now badz, gotta get your new argument ready.
cool. basically delete it right from your PS4, or using the PS app. I think I will do some spring cleaning soon.
Damn those 1% games I didn't like and will never play again!
Its as simple as going to your trophy list and deleting the ones you dont want (0%)
I love how Xbox has a gamerscore attached to achievements and how you can compare monthly and overall scores with your friends. Does PS have a trophy count display or something similar?
One time my friend came over after buying a game and tried it on my PS3, so I don't even have the game. So yeah deleting that one