PlayStation

Team Asobi has not released any patch notes yet, though we are hoping this title update will be to fix the crashing issues, and even a save issue that is plaguing players. It seems you have to exit via the dashboard to make a save, as doing otherwise leads to your progress not being saved (one ResetEra poster lost five hours of progress due to this).

More details: https://blog.playstation.com/2024/09/12/ps5-system-update-adds-welcome-hub-party-share-personalized-3d-audio-profiles-adaptive-controller-charging-and-more/

Extra:

• The Plucky Squire | PS5
• Under The Waves | PS4, PS5
• Night in the Woods | PS4, PS5
• Chernobylite | PS4, PS5
• Wild Card Football | PS4, PS5
• Space Engineers | PS4, PS5
• Road 96 | PS4, PS5
• Ben 10 | PS4
• Far Cry 5* | PS4

Premium:

• Pistol Whip | PS VR2
• Secret Agent Clank (PSP) | PS4, PS5
• Sky Gunner (PS2) | PS4, PS5
• Mister Mosquito (PS2) | PS4, PS5

*PlayStation Plus re-release.

Ex-Sony Computer Entertainment Europe president Chris Deering does not believe recent layoffs across the games industry have been a result of corporate greed. Instead, workers who have lost their jobs should "drive an Uber" or "go to the beach for a year" until employment settles.

Deering was a guest on games writer Simon Parkin's podcast My Perfect Console, where the pair discussed games industry layoffs.

"I don't think it's fair to say that the resulting layoffs have been greed," said Deering. "I always tried to minimise the speed with which we added staff because I always knew there would be a cycle and I didn't want to end up having the same problems that Sony did in Electronics."

What a prick. Revenue grew 17% last year but need to lay people off lol.

"Sony has released its FY2023 financial results, revealing that its game and network services revenue grew 17% to ¥4.3 trillion ($27.5 billion). Likewise, the company’s FYQ4 (ending March 31, 2024) gaming revenue saw a modest 2% bump to ¥1.1 trillion ($7.0 billion).

According to its earnings presentation, Sony attributes these gains to increased sales of non-first party titles and add-on content. The company sold 286.4 million games — 14% of which were first party titles. While the year’s total game sales grew 8%, first party sales fell 9% compared to FY23."

Releasing November 7

• 699 USD
• 699 GBP
• 799 Euro
• 119,980 Yen

Main updates are:

• Larger GPU
• Advanced Ray Tracing
• AI Upscaling technology: PSSR

Results for user:

• Get fidelity mode graphics, with "performance mode" performance.

“Yes, so we have free [downloadable content]—so it’s going to be free,” Doucet said. “It’s going to come this year. It will be smaller. You know it’s not going to be like, you know, a huge, huge amount, but it will be focusing on one of the features that people enjoyed in ASTRO’s PLAYROOM—that was the speedruns. You know, there were some speedruns, and the levels were quite short, but it was the fact that you could replay and keep shaving time off… with some new VIP bots to rescue, so some characters we didn’t include yet will appear. But yeah, that’s going to come, and that’s going to focus really on kind-of challenging levels. But if we can, we’d like to also insert something a bit toy-feeling, something that could be really like for any pla

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8gBH2J3sW4

^ I think this is going to be the video link

For anyone who missed it (or who wasn’t aware), there was a “countdown party” in ASTRO’s PLAYROOM for the release of the new Astro Bot game. Not knowing what to expect I captured the last 10 minutes prior to release; for those who want to fast forward more begins to happen around the 9 minute mark, with a countdown ten seconds prior to the new game being available to play. Enjoy!

Coming in 2024

More than 15 playable classic games from the series' history are featured, including many being released for the first time outside Japan. Battle your friends in the multiplayer cult favorite Tetris Battle Gaiden, create massive explosions to clear lines in Super Bombliss, and see where it all began in 1984 with an accurate recreation of the first version of Tetris on the Electronika 60 computer.‍As the next release in Digital Eclipse's acclaimed Gold Master Series, Tetris Forever includes over 90 minutes of all-new documentary footage exploring the lifelong friendship and creative partnership between Tetris creator Alexey Pajitnov and The Tetris Company founder Henk Rogers, as they share the extraordinary but true story about Tetris.‍