News & Rumours: Playstation 4/ Orbis *spin*

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PlayStation Plus: We’ve made a dedicated section for PlayStation Plus,

Oh great, now we have a dedicated section to dwell ourselves in the misery that PS Plus has become.
Unless you're willing to spend 50€/year for dozens of indie titles that could have been purchased in Humble Bundles for a 1/5th of that price, that is.
 
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2015...mes-squares-premier-concert-and-events-venue/

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The partnership will include the rebranding of all of the Theater’s interior and exterior signage, including the iconic Times Square marquee, live performances on PlayStation Network, experiential marketing initiatives, and VIP hospitality opportunities.
I’m excited by the PlayStation Theater initiative because it allows us to marry our tremendous brand momentum with an amazing venue right in the heart of Times Square. We are looking forward to exploring significant cultural moments at PlayStation Theater. Learn more about PlayStation Theater’s Fall 2015 lineup here.

This sounds interesting
 
Oh great, now we have a dedicated section to dwell ourselves in the misery that PS Plus has become.
Unless you're willing to spend 50€/year for dozens of indie titles that could have been purchased in Humble Bundles for a 1/5th of that price, that is.

Don't Starve and Binding Of Isaac are two of the best games I have played this gen. Whether that is enough to justify the cost of Plus is a different argument but some very good games have been included with the service (indie or not).

Where I think they have been slacking is that there should be way more included themes.
 
Don't Starve and Binding Of Isaac are two of the best games I have played this gen. Whether that is enough to justify the cost of Plus is a different argument but some very good games have been included with the service (indie or not).

There's nothing wrong in bundling some indies. The problem is in the fact that they practically don't bring anything else.

If the Plus/IGC proposed itself initially as a 50€/year subscription for getting dozens of indies, it would have never been successful.
IGC has been terrible, Sony knows this perfectly and they have no intention on getting it better. That's why they hiked the prices of the monthly and trimester subscriptions but kept the yearly one. They can't have people deciding on each month's releases either to pay for plus or not (result would be disastrous), so they make everyone pay for a full year and hope it'll get better over time (it won't).

And it's not about the bundled Indies being good or not. Up to the PS4's release, IGC was about sheer ridiculous value, and now the value is just terrible.
Most of these indies being bundled have been available on Humble Bundles, Bundle Stars, Indie Gala, and lots of other packets that you can buy for 2€ or less.
Take this month's poster-child: Super Meat Boy. It's a ~3 year-old Indie that was in a Humble Bundle in June on the $1 option.
Don't Starve has been sold for 2.5€ several times and Binding of Isaac was also in a Humble Bundle 2 years ago in the $1option.


If someone just wants to play Indies, for crap's sake don't let them get a PS4 + IGC for that, it's ridiculous.
It'll be much cheaper to just get an Intel Compute Stick for $100 and then shop for indie bundles. Plus, they'll actually own the games and not be tied to a 50€/year (or more) subscription to play them.
 
Knack got mediocre reviews, but I heard it's quite fun at couch coop.
 
Oh great, now we have a dedicated section to dwell ourselves in the misery that PS Plus has become.
Unless you're willing to spend 50€/year for dozens of indie titles that could have been purchased in Humble Bundles for a 1/5th of that price, that is.

Not even the Humble Bundle believes that, which is why their new monthly subscription in $144 a year.
 
I'm not gonna lie I really enjoyed it. It's a surprisingly challenging game. I'd quite fancy a sequel.
I got it cause I'm shit with money and it was kinda cheap enough to have a look. I've never played a more empty, reductive and soulless game in my life. Waste of money.
 
I got it cause I'm shit with money and it was kinda cheap enough to have a look. I've never played a more empty, reductive and soulless game in my life. Waste of money.
And I can totally understand why... It wasn't the best in terms of moment to moment gameplay mechanics, for sure. In fact the gameplay felt like a chore most of the time. But for me I enjoyed the graphics and I found the story and characters to be quite endearing. It's def not everyone's cup of tea I can appreciate that.
 
Neither are officially out yet. The bundle comes out October 9th like the game. It does appear the US is going to get at least a "temporary" price drop like the one announced for the UK.
 
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