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I hope you can level up strength by horsing 45kg bags of coal into the boot of mrs murphys car, but get a roasting for throwing them on top of her shoppping.

Apparently if you want to transfer your save in Death Stranding to the PS5 version you literally have to deliver it in game first.

Bloody Kojima.

Mario and Luigi trying to figure out why there's going to be a new Super Mario film when the first was perfection.

Oh it's animated, phew ok carry on.

It never ceases to amaze me how people just brush over Nintendos shortcomings regarding networking and online management.

for the price of entry to PSN or XBL, you've robust friends lists, gamertags, clan support, LFG, party chat, matchmaking, messaging and voice chat, across different games and platforms if you include pc,

whereas nintendo come out with some nonsense like downloading an app to your phone or scanning barcodes or 30 digit 'friend' codes and people just give them a pass,

its hors£hit, and not good enough in this day and age. you cant argue 'its cheaper' if its not fit for purpose to begin with.

And waving the flag that PC is free is also pointless, given the high cost of entry / component scarcity that isnt going away anytime soon. Consoles have never been better value than the are this gen (if you can get one).

you don't need a great pc to play any of the old games, but best of luck getting something that'll run modern games at high resolution and framerate.

I'm also not defending console manufacturers either, but its fair to say, you'll have a lot of years worth of PS plus or XBL bought by the time you've gathered the price of even a middling GPU at the moment.

keep moving the goalposts along, whether or not you're happy with playing stuff at 1080p or not is irrelevant, if you can buy a much cheaper console that'll do upscaled 4k, straight out of the box for €299, and comes with a €70 controller and doesn't need any additional peripherals to get up and going.

The consoles' digital storefronts have sales as often as PC does at this stage, I'm not as Au-fait with Sony, but XBL are giving away 4 games a month (most of which are the same as have been given away on consoles) and then you've gamepass added into the mix, which gives you access to a crazy amount of titles on xbox, pc, and mobile, as well as remote play with cross save / progression, and discounts on buying those games if you like them.

The Mad thing is, over the last 2 years, I've become a primarily PC gamer, and one thing it most certainly isn't, is cheap. But its allowing me to have unique experiences like Escape from Tarkov.