More than anything, it's an admission of a fundamental lack of self-confidence on Sony's part. If you're turning out bangers then PC ports are free money, and advertising for the next game. And that's the view expressed by Sony at the time. When they still had games studios.

Since then, they've squandered all their money chasing a live service plan that would have failed even if had succeeded (which it didn't - it was just failure all the way through). The primary selling point of PlayStation - "the easiest way to play the best games" - isn't something they're capable of any more. They can't do "the best games" reliably, and nor can they manage "the easiest way." Even if the Steam Machine never actually happens because of the AI-induced component market destruction, just the prospect of what that would be is enough for people to say "no subscription? Free backwards compatibility forever? That's what I want: not PlayStation." And Sony can't meet that head-on with "here are the amazing games you'll get first on PlayStation" because they closed their studios. So all that's left is to lock up their trickle and try to lock in their existing customers, and wait for the end.

It's quite sad, really.

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Quoting: ZlopezI don't really understand all the "Protect the children" laws as they are usually just a way of control in disguise.

Then you do understand. It's nothing to do with children, and it's nothing to do with parents. The people that are pushing their panopticon just want to be able to claim that those who oppose it "hate children."

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I really must get round to playing this at some point. It's been in my library for a while.

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The other half doesn't game much, but Megaquarium really clicked with her. She loves it.

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Over to you in the comments - what have you been playing lately?

This month on the Deck I've been playing Destroy All Humans and Unreal.

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Quoting: ChrisznixDeath Stranding was crazy. I really liked the setting, but i never found out how to battle the BTs, so i chose to abandon it. It ran without issues on the deck, though.

Until you get on the boat to leave the tutorial area your options are limited. You get plenty of means to deal with them as the game progresses.

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These builds are deployed untested.

That's the opposite of what anyone wants.

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Of note with this case is that Valve had already bought a licence for the patents. Then they got sued. So there was a case where they said, "actually, we already paid for this." Then they got sued again, so they took the gloves off.

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Quoting: Loftyersonally i think Displayport should be included on all TV's aswell but i would imagine the HDMI group leans hard on Samsung, Sony against using an alternative connector ?

It's the TV manufacturers who are in charge of HDMI. They don't need leaning on.

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£70/€80 is way too much for the base game of Death Stranding 2. That's $95; although European customers are subsidising US customers because they're only charging $70 in the US. £50/€60 would still be an expensive game, but not insane.

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