Presumably the file structure isn’t the same on the system level, hence the incompatibility.

I wonder if the colour has something to do with it. X is blue, O is red. So maybe some western developers figured blue=ok, red=cancel and that just stuck.

They’re all separate from each other. Each entry in the main series is in a new world, with new characters, different lore, etc.

I can understand it not supporting PS1 discs, but it would be nice if I could play the PS1 classics I own digitally like I could on the PS3, PSP and Vita.

Bear in mind that €80 price includes tax, the US price doesn’t.

On that note, I had a German friend who got a bit annoyed that lederhosen are used to represent Germany. Apparently they are specifically a Bavarian thing.

If you’re a PC gamer, I don’t think Microsoft are expecting you to want an Xbox. They’d rather sell you games and services on PC.

Maybe an easy way to explain it is that they are in alphabetical order in terms of power.

The name Lockhart makes me thing of Tifa Lockhart. Which maybe isn’t the best association when Final Fantasy VII is primarily associated with their competitor.

Sometimes even using the us subdomain didn’t work. For a while it was impossible for me to visit the US Kotaku on my phone. Nothing I did stopped the redirect.

No doubt some people would be willing to upgrade to a discless PS5 Pro. It would make sense for people who have mostly gone digital already and only have one or two physical copies.

That might be a hard sell to anyone who has a collection of games on disc. They’re not going to want to buy a mid-gen refresh that can’t play the games they already own.

For PS3 maybe, but I reckon for PS1 and PS2 local emulators would be easier and cheaper than running them via a streaming service. I mean why pay for all those servers and bandwidth when the users have a device that could easily do the work instead?

They are using a bundled in emulator. Looks like people have managed to hack them to play other PS2 games on PS4. But they contain game specific tweaks, and lots of games don’t work.

PSNow as in streaming? Or are downloadable games now included in PSNow?

My preferred outcome of this is that both companies get multi-billion dollar fines, Apple is forced to allow competing stores, but Epic specificially is banned from doing so, and Tim Cook and Tim Sweeney are sentenced to live in a glass box together for 3 months.

Presumably Sony are paying the developers to have it on PS+. So that will be equivalent to some number of sales.

That’s what I assumed at first, but now I’ve played through the first part I don’t think it makes sense.

I thought the combat was great, I hope they stick with it.

Square-Enix is a big company, they have several development teams. It’s heavily rumoured that one of them is working on XVI.