Bandwidth my ass. All that cash money made from shark cards because everything is price-gated unless you have hours and hours of time to grind or you happened to have modded money back from the old PS3/Xbox days. And yet, all that money goes towards the shareholders and the CEO. There's nothing of value in GTA online…

One of those “pretend not to know what the author is referring to when they use common industry parlance that refers to a specific business model, so that I can act superior and impart useless information that is irrelevant to the topic at hand” statements...lmao

We didn’t used to refer to any online game as a “live service” though. There’s a difference between a multiplayer game where they have to keep the servers running and maybe occasional balance updates and fixes, and one that has regular new content, microtransactions, battle passes, etc. It’s still technically a “live…

They threw out the baby with the bathwater. We just wanted Factions 2, not some hulking GaaSy monstrosity.

I also think that Somewhere deep down Sony must be seeing the market trends and their own game sales proving that Single Player games are a huge market. They broke their own sales records 3 times in the last 3 years.

Yeah I didn’t want a live service, just a modern update to Factions, bummer that wasn’t their intention. Probably for the best to kill the live service project, but let’s not pretend Last of Us 3 was in danger of not happening because of a live service project, that series is a cash cow and they’re going to milk it…

Please let this be the harbinger of a sea change within the industry. The world needs fewer of these live service abominations - not more.

Goofy equation you just cooked up. My cousin also died from lung cancer and never smoked or owned a video game in her life. Yes, inhaling anything is bad. Tacking on some random celebrity who didn’t actually do what is being warned against is silly. 

soooo what happens when it returns control to a driver already not paying attention? what if the driver fails to realize control has been turned back over to them for whatever reason?

There’s the cylindrical “refresh” coming next year.

Remember when Lindsay Lohan repeatedly sued Rockstar because, according to her, this character from GTA V looked exactly like her (and not Kate Upton)?

Here’s the thing: there is a 0% chance he’ll get any money from Rockstar, as the tattoos aren’t the same, so there goes any possible copyright claims, and it’s obviously a work of parody.

So you want money because they stole your likeness, the likeness you stole from a movie.... >.>

Everybody wonders why IT is necessary until they need us. That’s why I moved from client services to server admin. 

I’ll be really surprised if this thing isn’t on a “please get rid of this stock” clearance price by summer.

Would you rather us not be around? I don’t friggin’ think so.

I’ve seen multiple comments like this, was this really an expectation? I figured it was understood this is just a dedicated remote play device.

Expecting a tech reviewer to understand a tiny bit about how their network works isn’t a big ask.

I think that’s the major thing it’s missing. If it had PS+ support for streaming games from the cloud it would be a different story. For me the device has no appeal since I can’t think of a situation where I’d benefit from it. If I really needed to stream from my PS5 when I was away I’d just use my MacBook Pro and…

Sidenote, It really bugs me how close the control stick bulge is to the screen.