Invisible war is way worse.

Did they turn HR into a 3rd person shooter? Yes. There are some bosses that you just have to outgun, but I’m sure the original did that as well.

But it still had all the weird multiple entries in every building. Non lethal options, etc.

Parasite Eve 3, or should I say 3rd Birthday.

The first 2 games were sequels to a sci fi horror novel. The title doesn’t actually have “parasite Eve” in it because the rumour is they lost the rights to the book and any references to ideas from the book. So they couldn’t mention the titular Eve or mitochondria.

Instead they made a story about time travel and mysterious unrelated monsters.

No idea why they bothered making it.

I think you should read your link again. It clearly says 720 is “HD”.

“HD Ready” was a marketing term that was sometimes used for things that were both 720 and close to 720.

Honestly, I stopped trying to understand them after 1080.

I’ve worked on broadcast for over a decade and up until recently is been almost exclusively 1080i that I’ve dealt with.

It still is.

720 = HD 1080 = Full HD

Then I think there’s UHD, before they start labelling them as shortened numbers like 8k

Stable vs unstable just means if there are changes happening or if it’s a static version. It doesn’t mean unstable as in wobbly or about to fall over. It’s a poor choice of a term, but that’s what developers use now.

This is a tricky one, though, isn’t it?

The end price of the console is ultimately set by the retailer. The retailer will typically make that price higher than they got it from the manufacturer. Some of that cost was paid by the retailer as tariffs, maybe some extra manufacturing costs were higher because of tariffs.

Who is getting the refund? A Japanese company? Or the Americans who had to pay tariffs? Either way, Sony don’t sell directly to the consumer, so the retailers would have to be gifted a refund by Sony, and then choose to trace and refund their customers.

I’m I completely wrong about this? How should this work?

Not that is should be a valid response, but you can jail break PlayStations to play whatever game you have a “back up” copy of. That tends to be my method of playing legacy PS games because it’s easier than dealing with discs.

At the end of the day, console gaming is a different product to PC gaming. That’s more obvious with Nintendo, but overall expectations should be different.

The comparison still doesn’t make sense. You can’t play a PlayStation disc on a different platform. If you buy a disc on console you are locked to that ecosystem.

Sony are doing this because not enough people buy discs to make it worth manufacturing, and PC gamers should know this because this new age of digital gaming started with the PC. Switching to PC just proves their point.

You had to pay to play online on Xbox a decade before that. It was free on PlayStation. When they changed it I just stopped playing online.

What did Square Enix do?

Looks like a car you’d see in a Final Fantasy game

You’re allowed to be sick more days, they just won’t pay you for it.

Movie licensing is legally different to running a game platform. Are there any examples of games being removed from people’s libraries?

No. I have a fat that was after backwards compatibility. I haven’t tested it yet, but the PS2 games are done with homebrew emulation.

Look, I recently jail broke my PS3, now I can put any digital game from PS1,PS2, PS3 or PSP. I can also rip my discs to the hard drive. Discs for games are irrelevant for me. I prefer digital games on any platform these days, and of the service providers device to remove my ownership I will take that as a sign that I can procure them through other methods.

I’m going to fight this by purchasing digital games on steam. That’ll show 'em.

But seriously, this isn’t an attack from Sony, it’s a reaction. People are trending towards digital purchases on all platforms. If the PlayStation is irrelevant without physical games then they will die by their own sword. Prior to this plenty of people were denigrating consoles as overpriced locked down computers anyway, this hardly makes a difference.

I have no idea what your sofa analogy is trying to say.

My friends and I made fun of ff7s terrible graphics when it came out, but the game was so good the bad graphics didn’t matter. Ff16 looked amazing, but the game is so boring it doesn’t matter.

People don’t want bleeding edge from final fantasy, they want a good game.

There was a stretch in the late 90s where squaresoft released a final fantasy nearly every year for 5 years. Now it’s once every 7+ years. I don’t believe it should be that hard to make games these days. There are more people working on the projects, more tools and pre-made engines/libraries available. It’s purely a management/budgeting problem.

When the CEO keeps saying they’ll have full auto pilot in the next few years for over a decade, then complains that the problem is the government stopping then from rolling it out, you start to question if it should ever be rolled out. At least maybe not by a for profit entity who puts profits before safety.