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I don't know if anyone even bothered to try to jailbreak Xbox One to be honest. It was not a hit console. Series and PS5 are too new. I don't know if people will bother trying to mod Series Consoles since that only relies on GP. So it's not dependent on HW. PS5 they will try, but it will be Firmware Updates behind - which means it can't run the latest games. I think they did that too Switch too - only Switch is too old now, so it's completely Jailbroken - much like PS4 was.

From what I've seen - no matter what hardware it is - it will be pirated and modded. Even the PS3 was modded, pirated and emulated - and that was the most out of the way system there is, with it's Cell Processor.

That's great!! Guerilla fixed it I guess

Don't have the game, but this is a fix I found online. See if this works for you - From Source: Guerrilla are investigating the issue but you may be able to sort the problem out yourself 1) On your PS5 menu, highlight Horizon Forbidden West. 2) Press the Options button on the DualSense controller. 3) Go to “Manage Game Content” 4) From here you should be able to see you have the DLC and there is an icon which you can click to start the download. That does seem to work for some people, unfortunately not for me, at least not at first, I was stuck in a limbo where the game management screen shows that it’s installed but I can’t delete it or redownload it, and the game still says it’s not installed. However, in the 10 minutes or so while I have been typing this my PS5 has just notified me that the pack is now installed and I can confirm it now works! Woohoo! Source: https://www.thesixthaxis.com/2023/04/18/horizon-burning-shores-download-dlc-fix-issue/ Till Guerilla/Sony comes with an official fix - try this and post if it works, since this is a major issue and might affect a lot of people

For people in Mumbai - Makoto Shinkai (Creator of Your Name, Weathering With You etc.) is visiting PVR Cinemas in Citi Mall, Andheri on April 19th, for an autograph session. Following that - his new movie Suzume will debut on 20th April 2023. There will be a Q&A Session after the premier in which the director (Makoto Shinkai) will provide his inputs, making of the filmand more details to all attendees. The official release of the movie throughout the country will be the following day on April 21st, 2023. Sources: https://www.sportskeeda.com/anime/makoto-shinkai-s-suzume-tojimari-expected-one-highest-grossing-films-india-following-hype#:~:text=Makoto Shinkai will be visiting,the attendees with his inputs. https://www.hindustantimes.com/entertainment/anime/makoto-shinkai-to-visit-india-for-suzume-premiere-here-s-how-to-meet-him-101681226679313.html https://www.wionews.com/entertainment/japanese-director-makoto-shinkai-to-visit-india-for-the-release-of-his-latest-movie-suzume-581339 As an anime and manga fan - never thought these kinds of events will happen in India! From days where we had 0 official anime and manga (Not that long ago) to now hosting official anime events here - we've come a long way

Really excited for this!! That SoP was awesome!! To be honest, FF has always been trying new gameplay styles. FF was never a proper turn based game, and always trying to be more action-oriented. Where other JRPG games used to be completely turn-based, FF had the ATB system - which limited how much time you could spend taking turns. Then they went for a pseudo-MMO system with FF12. Proper MMOs with FF11 and FF14. Mish-mash of action and turn based in FF7R etc. Nice that you remember FF6 btw!! Most of the people I've seen forget one of the best game(s) in the series and just keep on hyping up FF7 (as if it needs any more hype). Really hope they do a proper remake of FF6 like they did for FF7. SE's traditional Turn-based game series (which will never deviate from turn-based in mainline games) is Dragon Quest (Which is far, far bigger than FF in Japan) Also, really happy they went back to medieval fantasy. This was missing for a long, long time (ever since FF9) and opens up so many story possibilities!!

Let her be! I just hope the characters themselves stay true to the books and the TV Show itself is more faithful to the books (Movies were horrible for this - Hermione was elevated to almost a demi-goddess in the films, Ron was completely butchered and all his lines given to Hermione, Dumbledore was not that great, a lot of cuts, every single death eater and Order Member being able to fly without brooms, and with White and Black Smoke signifying good and bad people - when it was only Voldemort and Snape who could do it in the books and it was a huge deal etc.) HBO is currently the best in the TV Show business, so I have high hopes for this. Wish the Jordan Estate and Tolkien Estate had sold the rights to HBO for the TV Shows instead of Amazon who created those horrible show adaptations of Wheel of Time and so called "Rings of Power".

Same publisher, but different developer/team. Both Forspoken and FF15 were developed by Luminous Productions Co. Ltd. - a subsidiary of SE created with the aim of making games using the Luminous engine. FF13 was done by Square Enix 1st Production Department. Both of these teams/departments - no longer exist. The team responsible for FF16 is Creative Business Unit 13 - the devs responsible for FF14. And FF14 is excellent. In fact, FF14 is the game upholding SE right now as per reports. So if any new FF game has any hopes - it is under this dev. Names of the devs are strange, but I would assume it's like Naughty Dog and Sucker Punh. Different Teams and devs - but both fall under the umbrella of Sony. https://www.eurogamer.net/final-fantasy-14-still-keeping-square-enix-afloat-amid-declining-financial-results

Naoki Yoshida doesn't play around. Still remember how development of 13 and 15 (vs 13) went and how f**ed up it was. Hope the Story is as good as FF14 - especially the expansions (Heavensward, Stormblood, Shadowbringers and Endwalker). Players will be in for a treat! It might just bring back the glory of old SE and FF Franchise

Frankly, it will not work. MS tried everything on their very best generation - The XBox 360 gen. They had tons and tons of Japanese Games as exclusives and timed exclusives (Or the best performing versions) - including big name devs like Hironobu Sakaguchi and Mistwalker (OG dev of Final Fantasy), Square Enix, Bandai Namco, Capcom, Platinum, Team Ninja etc. MS invested so heavily in Japanese Games that almost every new Japanese game announced was by default almost assumed to be an X360 exclusive or timed exclusive. And yet, sale of X360 in Japan remained absolutely miserable. Seems Japanese people mainly prefer Japanese Consoles and Smartphones (Mainly Nintendo and Mobiles then Sony) Also, good luck buying Sega and Capcom. MS will have to manage Gambling Parlors and Amusement Parks if they buy those devs. That's their main business

Is anyone even surprised by this? This was done just to increase user-base in the first place. Now that they have both Bethesda and Activision, their user-base is guaranteed. This was the same strategy Epic used to move players from Steam. Unless, something major happens - everyone will be paying full price for Gamepass soon. Heck, I would not be surprised if MS asks their 3 year backdoor users to cough up full price too after giving them a certain period (Like reducing an entire 3 year duration to a 1 year duration or something and then asking them to pay up the difference).

Diablo 2 is the closest. It's considered the hallmark of the entire genre and all subsequent games like Path of Exile and everything else are based on Diablo 2 only. It also has an awesome lore and captures the horrors perfectly. Diablo 3 on the other hand - is a massive step down. It's cartoony and not horror at all. It was also marked by Blizzard's excessive greed - due to which they took bad decisions, but some of those has been reversed later (Like for example - the Black Money Auction House (BMAH)). Good Gear drops were made extremely rare in the game, and even the good gear you get was more than likely to belong to another class. This was done to "encourage trading" (This was removed later, because it was literally killing the game and franchise). Even the lore was bad - you were an uber- powerful "Nephilim" (Son of angel and devil) whom entire Heaven and Hell were afraid of, because the union made you so awesome. No horror and extremely cartoony graphics and game. Go for Diablo 2 Resurrected (Remaster of Diablo 2). It's a slower game, and more gear dependent as compared to D3, and might have poorer textures and graphics than D3 (It's a remaster of an old game, not a remake) - but the gameplay style is completely different between all the classes, and the lore and story is absolutely awesome.

CoD was the deal maker/breaker in the market, so it was fine I guess. Diablo coming to GP now would be great. Really hope World of Warcraft comes too (and that the GamePass sub fees is enough and they don't charge the separate $15/month fee that they charge now). That said - approval from US is still remaining right? And from other Schengen countries as well? It'll be a long time before Diablo or any Acti-Blizz sees daylight on GP, maybe 1 year at minimum I guess. Also, this is quite a big blow to Sony, don't know if they realize it though. Yes, CoD will be on PS. But it will be on GP as well. That is, on PS it will cost $60 (or $70 - MS will ensure that price remains), while it will be essentially free for PC and Xbox owners. Tons of people are going to migrate there I guess.

That looks really awesome On another note - Those were the days when games had a huge mini-book/manual coming along with even the Standard Editions. I really miss them. Made the game purchase feel really special

Frankly, even with that - I would chalk it up to Insomniac being a far more efficient studio than Bethesda Game Studios (Note: I mean only BGS, not the sister studios like iD Software, Arkane etc.) There was a 5 year gap between ES: Morrowind to Oblivion and again a 5 year gap between ES:Oblivion and Skyrim. 4 year gap between Skyrin amd Fallout 4 - and F4 was nowhere near the quality of Skyrim. Then they rode on the Skyrim train - remastering that same game from 2011 till present. Even with such huge gaps - they always depend on mods to fix their game, and many times even their main quests have game breaking bugs that have to be fixed. Insomniac meanwhile can give 85+ games or 90+ meta games every 2 years or so. Sony is a very good task-master, while Zenimax/Bethesda is a horrible publisher IMO. They have needed a whip, and this is the first time they will be getting one with MS. This does not even count the time that development would have completely stalled or stopped while the acquisition talks were going on between MS and Bethesda. IP-wise though - Spiderman is far bigger than Starfield, and maybe even Elder Scrolls. Between Starfield and Spiderman - Sony/Insomniac have nothing to fear. If anything, MS might have to adjust their release dates to not compete with Spiderman. They need not even do that though, since Starfield will be on GP and most people will have an active sub and will play with that. Sales of Starfield will be minimal, while Spiderman will be huge. Due to GP - both will co-exist.

Yes Hotstar has marked it as 4k Dolby Vision, unlike The Last of Us which is just 1080p.

Very weak argument by CMA. MS can simply say it will be cloud based games or special COD games made specifically for the Switch.

"A Man Called Otto" Saw it 2 days ago in theaters. It's an absolutely brilliant feel-good movie. Very good story and Tom Hanks is brilliant. It's based on a book called "A Man Named Ove" I would encourage you and everyone to watch it. It's a brilliant movie.

Nah don't think do. They'll mostly do like MS did with Forza Horizon 5 on GP. You can play the base game via PS Extra/GP. But to play tye DLC - you'll need to buy the DLC separately

Most casuals will not care much I think. Casuals in India buy 1 or at most 2 games in the entire year afaik. Mostly those games are either FIFA and/or something like CoD IMO. Those games are expensive even on PC (EA/Acti-Blizz tax). Don't think they care beyond those. Only thing - buying PS saves on PC Part cost and trouble.

There are tons and tons of Floo Networks even outside the castle. It's littered throughout the World Map (Outside Hogwarts and Hogsmeade). There's really no need to hold back. Oh yeah - just like in Elder Scrolls or Elden Ring - you'll stumble upon random dungeons, random puzzles and random quests out in the World Map too (Along with Floo Networks nearby of course) - if you're walking too, so you don't need to hold back on exploration. Exploration is very smooth and rewarding.

You can Fast Travel. There are Floo Network Points everywhere, even in World Map - so there's not much back-tracking. You get flying quite late, but there's so much to explore before that. So many side-quests unlock, that it's hard to just do main quests. Not to mention - many side quests give new spells too, not just the classes. The puzzles and collectibles are also quite fun. Yes, flying does make things easier. But there's no need to hold off on all exploration before getting flying.

As if MS can't employ some of the best lawyers in the World (Maybe 10 times more expensive ones to boot), as compared to Sony. Poor Trillion Dollar Windows Owning Company

Remember- complete all Palaces as soon as possible. Most Palace will take 2 days by default, at the very minimum (1 to reach boss and 1 to send Calling Letter). So if you take 2 days to reach the boss/treasure- you will need 3 days to complete the Palace and so on. Some Palaces even force you to go out early via story beats, in which case they will take 3 days to complete at minimum (Lamoshida's Palace is not included in this) These days are precious. They can be used to advance confidante, stats, side-quests etc. if not eaten up by the Palaces. So complete the Palaces in as short run as you can (Preferably the first time you enter itself).

Can't discount a lot of scalpers buying it.