Who would have thought in 2020, with the launch of next gen PlayStation and Xbox. What are we going to play?
No Man's Sky!
No Man's Sky!
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VERY nice. I've got over two hundred hours logged on my base PS4... I guess I'll be racking up another few hundred more soon.
The game so regularly goes on sale at this point, why worry about it?
Although I would also argue that the game has added more than enough to justify a small bump to the MSRP like this.
To be fair I I think this is actually a new PS5 version of the game that current owners are being given a free upgrade to as opposed to a simple patch
Totally understand that, still does not change the fact that every single game announced for the ps5 is using it in some fashion
Finally my massive bases will be entirely visible haha. Does anyone know if saves transfer between physical and digital versions of this game? Thinking of getting it digitally but no interest in losing my 500 hour save for the convenience.
They just really do keep outdoing themselves over and over again.
Never have I ever seen such a redemption tale work out so well. What a ride or die situation for their whole company and they made it happen. Huge props
Never have I ever seen such a redemption tale work out so well. What a ride or die situation for their whole company and they made it happen. Huge props
- PlayStation VR: No Man's Sky is fully playable in PS VR on PlayStation 5 by virtue of its backwards compatibility functionality.
To me it makes it sound like they're referring to the PS5 is just BC compat with the VR hardware itself, not via software?
Absolutely fantastic. Definitely going to play this on day one.
Any videos played within the tweet itself are basically a blurry mess for the entire video. Even full screen it takes an age to bump the quality up to watchable.
Yep. Twitter's video compression / adaptive quality streaming, or whatever it is, is absolutely garbage. It's so bad I'm amazed it ever got to the point of a public launch.
Any videos played within the tweet itself are basically a blurry mess for the entire video. Even full screen it takes an age to bump the quality up to watchable.
Hell yeah! I've been waiting for this announcement. I figured they'd improve the game on next gen consoles, and I am so excited. Definitely one of the PS4 games I planned on installing to the PS5's SSD (most of my PS4 library is going to stay on the external HDD until I buy an SSD expansion for the PS5 sometime later on).
One of my favorite games of the previous generation. I hope this upgrade is available day 1 on PS5. Not that I don't have enough to keep me busy, but NMS is my go to relaxation game!
One of my favorite games of the previous generation. I hope this upgrade is available day 1 on PS5. Not that I don't have enough to keep me busy, but NMS is my go to relaxation game!
The PSVR version of the game has been neglected by the dev as far as visual upgrades go. It did not offer any PS4 Pro upgrades when it first received headset support despite a TON of begging out there, and unless I missed something, the PSVR mode will still receive no visual improvements on the PS5.
Yes, it is only BC, but people are simply asking for them to address crisper PSVR graphics that the PS4 Pro can handle, nothing more.
Yes, it is only BC, but people are simply asking for them to address crisper PSVR graphics that the PS4 Pro can handle, nothing more.
I held back on jumping back in after the last few updates hoping Hello Games' would deliver a next-gen update. Actually it's more like expecting because their post-launch support has been phenomenal and this seemed almost inevitable. Having it at launch is just the icing on the cake. I might just purchase a digital copy actually and give my disc to my cousin. They've earned the extra sale. :)
Good point. I skimmed through it and overlooked the portion about the Series S having two modes. Hopefully, it runs at a stable 60 fps, since the One X performance mode is all over the place.
Here you go!
Basically, Series X will have everything but advanced haptics, 3D audio, and VR (obviously).
Looks like they increased the price from $49.99 to $76.99 about 1 week ago. I wish I had picked it up for $24.99, now. It was that price quite often and isn't going to remain on Game Pass for much longer. In all fairness, they've put a ton of updates out for the game.
The sale has recently been from $49.99 CAD/USD to $24.99 CAD/USD. Do you think we'll see it go from the much higher $76.99 CAD ($59.99) to $24.99 CAD/USD? Edit: Looked up actual prices. Didn't realize it was previously at CAD/USD parity, before. Likely, based on when it came out.
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The game is currently in an absolutely amazing state. I play it a lot on PS4 Pro. Combined with this next gen update it should be a really amazing package.
They've done such a great job, all through the year during pandemic they're still pumping out constant updates.
This is my question too. It seems like if it had significant upgrades they would be touting it more so I assume it will be just like the PS4 version. I'll be happy to be proven wrong though.
There is no native PS5 VR yet as far as I can tell. I believe anything right now will be present in the form of PS4 BC when it comes to VR. The extra juice from boost mode is what will help here at least for VR performance.
The wait for PSVR2 begins.
No 3D audio? because Xbox Series X (and even Xbox One) supports 3D audio. Maybe it means they added support for PS5 3D audio and Xbox already support 3D audio?
This brings into question a whole other issue: if PSVR is only playable in BC mode, does that mean you have to have both the PS4 version AND PS5 version of No Man's Sky installed if you intend to jump between VR and TV?
Could just be coming later, they're fairly different implementations and Hello Games is a small team. It's also not unlikely that they had PS5 kits before Xbox kits given their past relationship with Sony.
"simply"
I get wanting crisper graphics on PSVR, but for something delivered as a free upgrade, it is rather embarrassing to see the number of people on today's blog post totally ignore how amazing the update actually is and just use it to harp on about this.
No idea. Maybe PS5's 3D audio pipeline is simpler or Hello Games have had the PS5 dev kit longer. I'm sure Series X/S will eventually get it.
Yea, that's probably it. Or maybe Sony asked them to mention it's inclusion like I'm sure Microsoft are doing with Smart Delivery.
It's being ignored by them for good reason. Before touting a whole slew of upgrades like this, Hello Games still has unfinished business when it comes to their half-hearted support of the PSVR version for PS4 Pro (and soon, PS5) owners. There are some out there who have zero interest in playing 2D NMS, so why not give them a better polished version on machines that are capable?
You can just look at how many PSVR games received Pro upgrades by other dev teams to see why there are complaints. Some of those teams likely have less employees, and they still figure out a way to offer SOMETHING in the way of Pro upgrades.
I mean, off the top of my head I remember reading a few posts from the developer of Ultrawings for the PSVR headset. They put out several free patches in the span of a few weeks where they improved the graphics on 60 fps version and then went back in forth public testing of a 90 fps version with the old visuals.
That dev can't be any more taxed for these type of upgrades than HG with NMS for a strongly requested improvement.
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Looks like I'll be downloading No Man's Sky when I get my PS5 too. Good shit Hello Games, good shit.
