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Must hurt to see a well known Naughty Dog created PS mascot from back in the day to be owned by MS now...

I gave up on Pixel phones when Google did the same to India. I have a couple of friends who imported the Pixel 6 Pro. Comparing that with my S21U, the fingerprint sensor sticks out like a sore thumb. The camera quality is comparable, we went on a trip recently and Pixels 9/10 times had good 1st time pics while mine had 8/10. The 'Single Take' feature can have some interesting results sometimes. I'm looking to upgrade to the S22U as Samsung have a decent exchange plan and I get an annual handset reimbursement from my org

I'm planning to do a digital pre-order on the PS5. Planning to take my time with this game.

IBULHSG is showing some sell-off. I'm tempted to add at <210 levels.

MS did go ahead briefly during the 360 era. Since then MS has been blundering up until Game Pass. Their approach now seems to be platform agnostic and subscription focus. All these acquisitions keep adding value for the GPU subscribers and will help bring in more subscribers. Sony's version of gamepass, if it does come out, will have a gargantuan task of beating GPU. They will need to focus on non-MS owned IPs/franchises to be added to the library on a monthly basis. That leaves what - EA, Take2, Ubi, Konami, Capcom, Square Enix amongst the notable ones left. Out of these, only Capcom, Konami & Square Enix seem likely to release titles on Sony's 'gamepass'. EA/Ubi/Take2 make enough money through their games, and to get their releases on a subscription, Sony will have to pay an arm and a leg. There are ofcourse, Sony 1st party games, but these are not annualized garbage (and I'm thankful for it). Sony's 1st party studios take their time and release some quality games. I'm concerned that this quality might get affected due to the pressure of having a decent game released at least each quarter. On the matter of anti-trust, I'm actually surprised the Acti deal was not flagged. I'm sure MS's army of lawyers will have run through all scenarios and they have made the announcement after they were absolutely sure about it going through.

I think majority of the Destiny player base is still on PS

Thanks, I had forgotten that point in my list: Activision workplace culture I don't why its difficult to differentiate between a business deal and a press release about toxic workplace culture? Also, the payout that KotDick will get will have been in his contract as an exit clause, just in case you plan to bring up the payout he'll get as part of of his expected exit as another 'bad' thing in this deal

Lol.... And calling Activision Blizzard & Bethesda 'random' acquisitions... I mean I knew there will be some beautiful nuggets in this thread on how these acquisitions will be bad. So far we've had: Xbox has no games Xbox has monopoly Xbox is killing AAA games MS has killed gaming consoles Talk about grasping at straws....

Yes, don't think they would make these well established franchises exclusives. The annualized cash cows will continue to be multi-plat, but will be day-1 GPU titles imo.

So glad I didn't pick it up! I saw @Assassins Creed playing and was really tempted!

The Activision sexual harassment has already been brought up

I was sure this would be brought up here

I'm most excited for Diablo 4. CoD, Overwatch etc are bonus.

And we will soon find out from the 'other' gang how getting all these games on XBGPU is actually a bad thing.... Cannot wait to be enlightened

Bring on the scampass!!!!!!

Cheers, will check it out... shame that the headphones don't have USB C charging

Sweet! Do the equalizer settings work in USB/PS5 mode as well?

I'm day 1, mostly picking it up on the PS5, but might pivot to XSX if we have more IVG guys on that platform @Assassins Creed @rushaboswal what about you? Feels like it might have some interesting DualSense features

Its was a bit buggy at launch but overall had +ve reviews

They are finally here! Got them on black Friday sale for 120USD and a friend got them along with him to India. They feel so light, that headband completely takes the weight off. Only used them with the PS5 for a bit, will use them more over the weekend Sent from my SM-G998B using Tapatalk

Scampass gang gonna try some Aliens co-op?

This thread always makes me chuckle... Apparently Hades was not Day-1 GP release because it was released earlier on the switch for a year and was not announced as a day 1 release?? Apparently actually releasing on GP on the day of launch is not enough... Talk about grasping at straws..

I know!! I missed out on pyramiding them as well... Added some in Bajajfinance in the last dip and have been dipping my toes in derivatives with a few Index calls. Booked saome profit during the fluctuations.

They aren't (at least not at launch): Ref - https://blog.playstation.com/2021/12/13/new-dualsense-wireless-controller-colors-arrive-next-month-followed-by-new-ps5-console-covers/

I'm not too keen on all of the changes made so far. Below points are not spoilers as such, but some comments on the differences between the book & the show till only episode 3, but marked them as spoilers for anyone who wants to steer clear of book info completely. Over all positive outlook towards the 1st 3 episodes