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>> No. 22298 Anonymous
24th March 2018
Saturday 9:07 pm
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I know I'm a bit late to the party but I'm considering getting either a PS4 or an Xbox One. I'm assuming these days there's little difference between the two other than having the odd exclusive title. I've seen a few Xbox One bundles in the region of £150 - £200 so I'll probably go for one of them as they're cheaper than what I've seen for the PS4.

Have I left it too late, as in are the next generation of consoles expected any day now? Also, which games do you lads recommend? I'm a bit out of the loop with gaming.
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>> No. 24917 Anonymous
30th April 2021
Friday 7:11 pm
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EE are doing a bolt-on for £10 per month which gives you the Xbox game pass and unlimited mobile data for gaming. I guess this is Microsoft's way of trying to muscle in on the portability of the Switch.

https://ee.co.uk/gaming
>> No. 25016 Anonymous
16th July 2021
Friday 8:19 pm
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How do you lads think Steam's handheld console will fare?
>> No. 25017 Anonymous
16th July 2021
Friday 9:00 pm
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>>25016

It's hard to say, as it's not something I would ever really consider buying - but people seem to fucking love the switch, despite its many apparent flaws, so it'll probably do okay.
>> No. 25018 Anonymous
16th July 2021
Friday 9:52 pm
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>>25016
I'm not sure it's going to do terribly well. Looking at the most played games on Steam many of them wouldn't really work on that kind of device. Even most of the FPS games on there are multiplayer focused and I can't imagine you're going to get on very well with your Sega Game Gear Steam Deck sitting on the train using thumb sticks against little Kylan with his 40,000 DPI mouse and brain full of energy drinks.

Like the Switch my personal opinion is "yeah, it'd be nice to play something like Skyrim bed or the garden", but not nice enough to spend hundreds of quid.
>> No. 25019 Anonymous
16th July 2021
Friday 11:56 pm
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>>25018
Agreed, seems like a luxury device.
>> No. 25020 Anonymous
17th July 2021
Saturday 12:07 am
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>>25016
I think if they are completely honest about it's capabilities, then it has a chance. Wont become a heavy hitter but wont fail either.
>> No. 25021 Anonymous
17th July 2021
Saturday 12:20 am
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>>25018
Could be a blast for emulation? Don't know how it would compare to the Switch, but I hear that its performance is underwhelming.
>> No. 25022 Anonymous
17th July 2021
Saturday 12:36 am
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>>25021
>“We don't think people should be locked into a certain direction or a certain set of software that they can install,” Valve designer Lawrence Yang told IGN. “If you buy a Steam Deck, it's a PC. You can install whatever you want on it, you can attach any peripherals you want to it. Maybe a better way to think about it is that it's a small PC with a controller attached as opposed to a gaming console.”

https://www.ign.com/articles/steam-deck-hands-on-impressions-details-valve-handheld-gaming-pc
>> No. 25023 Anonymous
17th July 2021
Saturday 1:19 am
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>>25019

It's definitely a luxury device, but the same could be said of the Valve Index and they've been flying off the shelves.

Valve's previous efforts at hardware have been underwhelming, but this looks like a capable and well thought out device. GPD have shown that there's a real appetite for this sort of thing, the fact that it's a PC but with tight Steam integration seems like the best of both worlds and the price is quite reasonable given the components involved. I'm rather tempted, but I'd want to know more about the battery life and ergonomics before committing.
>> No. 25024 Anonymous
17th July 2021
Saturday 10:04 am
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Unless you're trying to speedrun eye strain with your bestie, is this an actual use case for anyone? Don't get me wrong if you have a mate who wants to take a pair of giant fighting stick controllers to a cafe with you I'm deeply envious and more power to you both. However, it seems like Valve themselves aren't sure what you're meant to do with their product. It just seems like a lot of money to play AAA single-player games on the go.

>>25021
That's definitely a good idea. It's not something I've done beyond a handful of DS games and perhaps there are other uses I'm not considering, so maybe I'm being too negative about the Deck.
>> No. 25025 Anonymous
17th July 2021
Saturday 12:03 pm
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>>25023
If by luxury simply because it's expensive, yes, but otherwise I wouldn't agree the Index is a luxury. That's a product that you require in order to access a specific medium. I don't think anyone actually needs the Deck.
>> No. 25026 Anonymous
17th July 2021
Saturday 12:04 pm
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>>25024
That's right, it looks fucking retarded.
>> No. 25027 Anonymous
17th July 2021
Saturday 12:29 pm
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It's bloody ugly tbh.

A handheld needs to be sleek and attractive as well as comfortable in the hands. Nintendo are masters of it, despite the often frustrating limitations of their systems, and that combined with the fact they're always relatively affordable means people don't mind dropping a couple hundred quid just to have one laying around for a rainy day. The 3DS really came into it's own in the hands of homebrewers, though, and I expect the same will be true of the Switch.

I can't see anyone thinking the same thing about a clunky handheld PC. I'd rather just get an ultra slim notebook and limit my expectations in terms of what games it will run.
>> No. 25044 Anonymous
28th July 2021
Wednesday 6:39 am
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Has the Nintendo Switch gone up in price? I was looking to get one and it's currently about £275 for the console by itself or £310 if I pre-order the OLED one for October. I could have sworn they weren't much more than £200 last year.
>> No. 25045 Anonymous
28th July 2021
Wednesday 8:52 am
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>>25044
Amazon price trackers show it's currently at the lowest price in history. You might be conflating the Switch and the Switch Lite.
>> No. 25046 Anonymous
28th July 2021
Wednesday 9:08 am
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>>25045
Aldi had them for £230 last Black Friday and I believe Tesco did the same, but I could have sworn that they were cheaper than that before prices shot up due to lockdown anyway.
>> No. 25047 Anonymous
28th July 2021
Wednesday 12:34 pm
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>>25044
I absolutely remember Argos having an offer in April because I budgeted for it. They were immediately out of stock because they'd all been bought up by scalpers and then sold for considerable mark-ups. Same story on Amazon where retailers were sold out and all you could get were scalpers or companies in HK where you'd be waiting for months if it arrives at all.

Then I realised that there's nothing on the Switch I'd want to play that couldn't be bought for my laptop and I have no use for a portable device.
>> No. 25048 Anonymous
28th July 2021
Wednesday 12:38 pm
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>>25046
What is going on here? Why is the mascot for Black Friday a Christmas carrot? Why is L I K E the most important word in that copy?
>> No. 25049 Anonymous
28th July 2021
Wednesday 1:14 pm
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>>25048
I can't explain the LIKE - maybe they're saying you will LIKE their bargains? Pretty pisspoor if so - but Kevin the Carrot has been Aldi's Christmas mascot since 2016, and Black Friday is considered the start of the Christmas shopping season.

https://www.aldi.co.uk/kevin
>> No. 25103 Anonymous
26th August 2021
Thursday 9:55 am
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Laddo has bought a Switch. I forgot how expensive Nintendo games are because they rarely go down in price.
>> No. 25313 Anonymous
19th November 2021
Friday 11:46 am
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Google Stadia Premiere Edition has been reduced from £70 to £20, might be worth it at that price just for the 4K UHD Chromecast.

https://store.google.com/product/stadia_specs?hl=en-GB-store-3827733
>> No. 25314 Anonymous
19th November 2021
Friday 4:24 pm
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>>25313
bits of that make the chromecast look locked down, or I may be missing something?
>> No. 25315 Anonymous
19th November 2021
Friday 5:57 pm
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>>25314

It's a completely standard Chromecast Ultra. They're knocking them out cheap because a) nobody wants Stadia and b) the Chromecast Ultra has been discontinued and replaced with the newer Chromecast with Google TV.
>> No. 25316 Anonymous
19th November 2021
Friday 6:30 pm
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>>25315
Those new Chromecasts with Google TV are pretty good - the interface is zippy and clean, it makes me 7ish year old Sony Bravia seem like a perfectly standard new telly apart from the bezel (which even then is shy of a centimetre, but looks gargantuan compared with modern screens).
>> No. 25317 Anonymous
20th November 2021
Saturday 10:38 am
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>>25313
Bought one despite not having a TV for the chromecast. Annoyingly you can't use the controller wirelessly apart from for Stadia, but I've heard it's still decent, and will probably be a bit better than my wired X360 controller held together with tape. Might give the CC to my sister for christmas.
>> No. 25322 Anonymous
27th November 2021
Saturday 7:10 pm
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>>25317
Despite an estimated arrival time of two days ago, it hasn't even been sent for dispatch yet. I feel like they might not have as many as they sold.
>> No. 25406 Anonymous
18th January 2022
Tuesday 2:57 pm
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Microsoft plans to buy Activision Blizzard for nearly $70bn

Microsoft says it plans to buy major games company Activision Blizzard in a deal worth $68.7bn (£50.57bn). It would be the biggest acquisition in the company's history and is expected to be finalised in 2023.

The move means Microsoft will take ownership of gaming franchises like Call of Duty, Warcraft and Overwatch.

Microsoft claims it will help them grow their gaming business across mobile, PC and consoles along with providing building blocks for the metaverse. This deal is the biggest in gaming history and comes a year after Microsoft bought another influential gaming company Bethesda for $7.5bn.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-60042409

They're not fucking about.
>> No. 25407 Anonymous
18th January 2022
Tuesday 3:11 pm
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>>25406

Games are big money nowadays, right? Doesn't it completely overshadow the film industry, for example?
>> No. 25408 Anonymous
18th January 2022
Tuesday 4:26 pm
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>>25407
A quick search online suggests they're on par, with both in the US$40-50 billion region.

As a side question, is the overall revenue of the gaming industry really a very good indicator of its quality and cultural worth? You hear it brought up a lot that the games market is rivalling film/TV for its income, but I always think a deeper dive and some other metrics need to be considered. It's like when Americans insist the US is a first-world country because of its high GDP, despite the absolute shitshow that their day-to-day life is.
>> No. 25409 Anonymous
18th January 2022
Tuesday 4:55 pm
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>>25406
If this means that CoD games are coming to Game Pass, particularly on day one, this could be a very beneficial move for me. CoD games don't go on huge sales very often, and £70 for the cross-gen edition of Vanguard is ludicrous. If I can get them for a reasonable subscription fee, I'd be over the moon. The new Rainbow Six game is day one Game Pass, soon I'll never have to buy a game again!
>> No. 25410 Anonymous
18th January 2022
Tuesday 5:12 pm
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>>25409
I've never actually managed to play Cod, but it seems a bit nuts to me that games I associate with my PlayStation childhood, like Tony Hawk's Pro Skater and Crash Bandicoot, are now owned by Microsoft.
>> No. 25411 Anonymous
18th January 2022
Tuesday 5:25 pm
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>>25410
Yeah it's odd, but then you look at it and see Crash and Spyro have both been multiplatform for over 20 years. Their Playstation exclusive years were a small part of their overall history.
>> No. 25412 Anonymous
19th January 2022
Wednesday 9:15 am
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Asda are having a clear out of their old Switch bundles.
>> No. 25416 Anonymous
28th January 2022
Friday 10:54 am
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>>25412
They've also reduced the Switch Lite + Animal Crossing bundles to £80, but I've seen lots of people complaining online that Asda staff are hiding stock so they can buy it themselves.
>> No. 25417 Anonymous
28th January 2022
Friday 11:41 am
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>>25416
£80 is almost cheap enough to tempt me so I can play Pokemon games in the garden and use it as a slightly-too-big MP3 player, but then I remember you still have to buy games for full price. Not sure I can go back to that kind of thing after so many years on Steam. Thanks to the rapid expansion of the Chinese middle-class the Lunar New Year has already ushered in another massive Steam sale.
>> No. 25418 Anonymous
28th January 2022
Friday 6:15 pm
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>>25412

The switch is getting on a bit now, isn't it? I'm quite surprised Nintendo haven't pulled their usual stunt of realeasing an XL version, a Lite version, an XL new-lite 3D version, etc etc...

It must be due for a bit of an update before long though.
>> No. 25419 Anonymous
28th January 2022
Friday 6:26 pm
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>>25418
The OLED version came out a couple of months before Christmas.
>> No. 25424 Anonymous
29th January 2022
Saturday 8:03 pm
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>>25419
The OLED version is rather nice, as it happens. There are only a couple of games on it so far that really do it justice, but Metroid Dread was developed for it and you can tell as it look grand.
>> No. 25425 Anonymous
29th January 2022
Saturday 8:22 pm
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>>25418
The 'new' Nintendo 3DS was quite controversial, for having certain features and games that couldn't be played on the previous 3DS/2DS systems. Think the key exclusives for the 'new' model were SNES Virtual Console games, Xenoblade Chronicles, and Fire Emblem Warriors. Nothing particulary exciting, but people didn't like their console becoming obsolete due to a slight upgrade. With the Switch, which has way more mainstream appeal, they probably could get away with releasing an upgraded model, as Sony did with PS4 Pro, and Microsoft did with Xbox One X. But it's a gamble, they don't want to alienate their loyal fans.

Personally I think the Switch is too underpowered for me. For every beautiful smooth running game like Super Mario Odyssey and Metroid Dread, you have dozens of third party games which run like shit and/or need to be streamed. I'm not a graphics snob, but playing Shin Megami Tensei V at 20FPS while my console whirrs like an aeroplane, not a great experience.
>> No. 25436 Anonymous
1st February 2022
Tuesday 8:41 am
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>Japanese technology giant Sony says it will buy video game developer Bungie in a deal worth $3.6bn (£2.7bn). The US-based company is best known for the Destiny and Halo gaming franchises.

>Sony says the deal will give it control of Bungie's franchises and access to its live gaming services, as it aims to "reach billions of players".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60210450
>> No. 25437 Anonymous
1st February 2022
Tuesday 3:20 pm
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>>25436
Franchises, plural?
>> No. 25438 Anonymous
1st February 2022
Tuesday 4:32 pm
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>>25437
Marathon's back, baby!
>> No. 25441 Anonymous
1st February 2022
Tuesday 7:45 pm
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>>25436
Destiny is maybe the most boring shooter on the market. There are nuggets of brilliance in the enemy backgrounds, but the gameplay is tedious. I beat 2's campaign at launch, and I can't remember any set pieces, any story beats, anything of note. It's the gaming equivalent of muzak. It exists, nothing more. Does not begin to touch the greatness of Halo. I doubt Microsoft are quaking in their boots knowing Sony have Bungie.
>> No. 25442 Anonymous
1st February 2022
Tuesday 9:19 pm
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>>25441

Destiny 2 got even worse once they made it free to play, I jumped in and played for a while because it was free but without going into an engaging campaign it just turned into a mildly distracting shoot-n-loot with no stakes or interesting story to hook you.
Clearly there was a plot to begin with but you sort of had to dig around the main hub to find the missions, and then they were disjointed and not that interesting anyway. I much prefer indie FPS games lately, and Doom, but Doom is a whole beast unto itself now.
>> No. 25794 Anonymous
27th September 2022
Tuesday 1:22 pm
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Are PS5s worth it yet? I've got a Series X, but the PS5 appeals to me for its own exclusives, particularly Final Fantasy XVI (though I believe that's only a timed exclusive). Are God Of War and Uncharted and TLOU and Returnal worth dropping £500 on a new console. I see PS now has a Game Pass style service, anyone know if it's any good?
>> No. 25795 Anonymous
27th September 2022
Tuesday 5:07 pm
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>>25794
Not really.
>> No. 25797 Anonymous
27th September 2022
Tuesday 9:50 pm
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>>25794
Didn't Sony announce last month they were raising the price of the PS5 due to inflation?
>> No. 25813 Anonymous
17th October 2022
Monday 7:06 pm
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Picked up an Xbox One. I know I'm a generation behind but what games do I start with?

I've had a look on The Game Collection and they have Fallout 4, Dishonoured 2, Titanfall 2, Shadow of War, Mothergunship and Red Faction Guerrilla, amongst others, for £2.95 each so that seems like a good place to start?
>> No. 25814 Anonymous
17th October 2022
Monday 8:17 pm
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>>25813
I'm sure you could find a very cheap 1 month trial to Gamepass Ultimate which should provide access to a lot of newer games. There are tricks you can do to get 3 years worth of it for <£100

Some good picks on your list. Maybe also Halo: Master Chief Collection, Dark Souls, Forza Horizon, Hollow Knight, Ori and some of the older CoD titles maybe.
>> No. 25815 Anonymous
17th October 2022
Monday 8:25 pm
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>>25813

Those are all solid games, save perhaps Red Faction, which is just a bit bland, and much, much older than the others. It's the sort of game that would be in that 99p bin if Game still existed. Hang on, do Game still exist?

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