I can now only laugh about their past statements of “uwu we are losing dominance as the market leader because we can’t compete with apple music on iOS, because they can offer the service for less money uwu”

All while no other service is able to compete with them on android because of their special deal lmao

There is. In the battery saver settings, while it’s off, uncheck chat animations > blur in dark theme

They forgot updating the name I guess but disables transparency in light and dark mode for me

They only comply when asked by google/apple because otherwise they risk getting banned on their stores.

That’s why they advice you to, on android, download the app via the web. Because there, these companies have no say and the content is unrestricted.

Not the one you replied to, but I installed lineageos on a old Samsung tab I had laying around and there’s the android native option to ‘pin apps’ which puts the app before the lockscreen basically until you exit the mode manually, meaning you only need to turn on the screen and it’s still protected by password so can’t be used for anything else.

For waking, it’s in the hallway where I have a hue motion sensor. Whenever the sensor notices movement, it’ll send a notification to the tablet with the command to wake the screen and the screen turns on. Pretty easy and straightforward

I’ve been doing mobile device management at my last company and we handed out whatever the latest a series was, to our coworkers, for especially the cost and security factor.

And with the A52 I think, they have become really really decent phones in my opinion, I really don’t know what the hell the writer is fumbling about.

I mean personally it’s not my favorite UI and I would take my pixel any day over it, but it worked so well and was so fluid, for a simple midrange phone. Again, not my cup of tea, but for someone like my mom or whoever just needs a phone for basic social media, calls, texts, decent camera and the web… This is perfectly fine. Now I’d still get her a pixel a series over it because the cam is just perfect imo, but if someone prefers Samsung UI, the a series is incredible.

Plus idk what their current state is but Dex might already be there? Or is coming soon? Judging by the latest Xcover that got it, which also just sports a midrange processor.

I mean it makes sense, although I feel it’s actually not that hard if you stick to it. Eventually the game will click, for me sometime in the second biome and then it’s just amazing. The art design, the audio, the story… it’s all just so well crafted and anyone who appreciates art, even a little bit, will fall in love with it I think.

Regarding horizon, to me personally that was a good change. In the first game I was hyped about the many ways to kill a machine, that were announced before launch. I was almost at the end of the game I realized that I was basically only using the bow, if it wasn’t a Sidequest that required a different weapon. It slayed everything in its way.

In the forbidden West, I actually had to get to know the machines and their weakpoints. Use elemental effects, tear specific parts off to remove attacks. The gameplay finally got diverse to me. I’ve also heard this complaint from friends, that the enemies are quite the sponges but really as soon as you hit them with the right effects, they’re going down much better. Also the spikethrower. Those drilling spikes were just incredible, I loved throwing every one I threw (which where a lot lol)

And thanks for the tip regarding AW! I think I would’ve missed that haha

Omfg yes, exactly the same! And I’m kinda mad it’s overlooked like that. It’s not just good or something, it’s THE game of the generation so far. I can’t believe people are missing out on it.

The other PS exclusives, I loved horizon for being this graphical achievement and how they upgraded the gameplay from the previous one. But as it was said like 5 million times already, Aloy needs to shut the fuck up sometimes. Now the puzzles aren’t always super straight forward and I could use a little help here and there, but me arriving at any destination ‘maybe I can attach my ropecaster there’ before I’ve even seen anything just got really boring to me. I got the plat nonetheless, and found every of the main collectibles. The story was very cool imo, it had incredible new enemies and stuff… but this handholding really left a bitter taste in my mouth

Ironic enough, I started my Alan Wake playthrough like last week! I kind of held off because after returnal that gameplay just seemed slow and I’ve read it didn’t age that well, as it’s quite old. But honestly I’m having a blast. I’m having constant goosebumps playing it lol. It’s not insanely good and snappy like returnal, but the mechanic with the flashlight is just incredible and the world is so interesting. Remedy is really good when it comes to world building.

I completely understand this… The only game that really felt like it was next gen (or current gen) so far was Returnal.

I couldn’t agree more man. Returnal has absolutely blown me and I’m thirsting for more.

If you haven’t played it yet I’d recommend you control. Not quite like returnal, and came out on ps4 actually I think. But also makes great use of the controller, has a dash mechanic and also a weird story that is super interesting. I loved both of them and it depends on the day which I would say is like my favorite game

Yea I totally agree on that. Although from what I read it sounded like streaming directly onto the console wasn’t possible.

I mean in it wouldn’t really make sense you could not stream a game to the console and from there to the handheld? Maybe that’s what they meant.

And streaming onto the console directly is something they could add in the future. Obviously there’s no guarantee, but it would turn this from a meh device to a very good one imo

Yea I agree.

I’ve also checked on Reddit and there’s a huuuuge complaint post about the game. Guess I shouldn’t have made an impulse buy on this

Huh that makes even less sense now

That’s the £ price. In the US, these games are $60. In Germany, they are 80€. Baldurs Gate actually sits at 70€, 80€ for the deluxe. I’m super fine with that actually.

1st, you can stream from everywhere, as long as you have WiFi. Not just home. Idk how people are literally unable to read, just like that. I mean how would that even work. It’s made for remote play so it does remote play, simple as that.

2nd, if you have an iPad you want to do this with, fine I guess. Although it wouldn’t be comfortable for me, on the couch or bed, having an iPad I’d have to place somewhere. Phone? Sure, it’s an option, but it’s awfully slow. Personally I only use it when I’m somewhere and have to recheck the settings, download a dlc, or whatever. Other than that, the screen is just way too small. This device will give you more than 60% more screen! And that’s if you have an iPhone 14 pro max. If you have anything smaller, it will probably be somewhere around double the screen.

Lastly, I don’t need any of the other things. Because for that I have my phone, and my phone is free while using it. So I can use my phone as a browser, message friends, or get calls while playing. Just like on my ps5. I’m perfectly fine with that. If I’d use it for streaming the game, I couldn’t really do that comfortably in the first place, second the phone gets really warm using remote play like this, and this in the end will wear down your battery a lot. So I’m happy to have a separate device for it. Also, the so often praised switch doesn’t have a browser either. Not saying it’s fine, but it sucks just as much. The problem is actually more of the ps5 not having a dedicated browser you could also use in game. Would it be comfortable to use? Probably not. But it’s there in the system anyways, just give us an actual app shortcut to it and it’s fine.

In the end it simply comes down to whether you want to afford it. For me it will be a godsend, easily being able to work on my backlog while hanging with my gf. I could play things on the switch but that thing is awfully uncomfortable and the performance is awful. The exclusives are cool but apart from the few that interest one, there’s nothing good to play on, because everything just runs better elsewhere.

A steamdeck is a nice piece of hardware but expensive as hell and the battery life is meh. This says to strive for the same as the Dualsense which in my experience is like 5-7h which for a handheld these days would be very nice. Especially at 1080p60.

I wasn’t really interested in a Sony Handheld, because of fragmentation, specced down games, etc. I just wasn’t fond of playing worse versions of the same games and if it would’ve been like that I would’ve probably never used it, because I could just get to my console. Also for the market it would’ve been utterly useless.

You got the switch that got awesome exclusives. You got the steam deck which is powerful to play games at a good quality and also got emulation on its side, which is a nice upgrade over the switch. And with Sony you would have… Sony exclusive, but hope that the devs patch their games into a worse quality version, just for the handheld to cost as much as a ps5? Who would buy into that? Now you can just take your ps5 in all its glory on the go, which is amazing. And it comes at a super cheap price of 200€.

Again, you can use other devices but a dedicated handheld is more comfortable to me

I mean as much as I’d like to be saving money as well, and the other comment saying every game company charging this nowadays, simply because everyone else does… I agree

But also, the game has gotten incredible reviews. There was quite a lot about this game setting the bar for gaming and game developers. In that regard, honestly, I’m fine paying that price.

What I’m not fond of is yearly releases, charging that price for a game that is like a dlc to last years game and got so much MTX it could very well be f2p. Cough cod and FIFA

Well, fortunately I didn’t pay attention to the game at all before. The cyberpunk style just wasn’t my thing so I didn’t bother looking into it.

It was only like a few weeks before launch where I was looking for ps5 games for my brand new consoles and saw it. Checked out some trailers and was hyped to buy… only then to find out it’s ps4 only. I looked into it and read that the ps5 version would take up to another year. That killed my interest again, because it was kind of a bad sign imo and again, I was looking for ps5 games. Wanted more games with the awesome haptic feedback, triggers and load times. Just didn’t want to go back to a ps4 game.

The abysmal launch came and I feel like I really dodged a bullet. A friend told me how it’s not even the bugs but more like the core stuff don’t working, such as the path finding on the map etc is just off and gives you directions that take way longer and shit.

Don’t think I’ll ever buy it tho, as what I played was only ‘meh’ as well and there’s way too many games, only on my backlog already. Maybe when it’s free on ps plus or so I’ll give it a go

I’ve tried it when there was a timed trial like 1 or 2 years ago already?

It looked very fun to me, apart from the bugs, but like the trailers. The world seemed to be interesting, the gunplay seemed to be really cool, etc.

When I got to play it felt like GTA but with like zombie NPCs. Whatever it was, they felt really uncanny and not real.

However, I kept playing since I wanted to shoot some guns really bad. When I finally got to it in this training area, it felt not satisfying at all? The aiming curve seemed completely weird and there was also what felt like a big delay when aiming. Really made me put the game down

Yea I’m interested about that as well. Personally I’ll probably be using wired headphones if not simply loud or muted. Because the latter 2 are how I mainly use my switch. When I play in the bed or shit I don’t want to really be wearing a headset anyways

It’s awesome really. At this price, I can see myself buying this. I don’t play on the go anyways, either at home or at my parents.

The PlayStation fambase is kinda ridiculous because on the one hand they’re bothered by games being developed for the PS4 still, arguably downgrading them; while then wishing for an even worse handheld console and expecting devs would support it.

It would’ve caused awful fragmentation in the current ecosystem. Having your ps5 on the go is really the best they could’ve done.

Also, people complaining about latency but also complaining Bluetooth isn’t supported. Make up your mind. I’m happy for this new PlayStation link thing. For the people that don’t understand, it’s basically the 2.4ghz adapter that comes with every headset, being built into the hardware, as Xbox has had it for years. Not requiring you to need that dongle anymore. Having that also on the handheld is perfect for good quality, low latency audio.

The only thing I really don’t get is why you can’t connect to the ps premium streaming directly from the handheld. Wishful thinking it just wasn’t ready in time and will get added later, because connecting to a server would be cheaper, and faster if you’re far from home, than your actual console. Obviously it would also give the great benefit of having games at hand without installing, updating, etc.

Thanks for the reminder, need to continue synapse as well

Funny, I’ve actually never heard of it that way but that makes even less sense now. What if I’m chilling in a 90°C Sauna and feel it’s hot. But on the other hand a 70°C Sauna isn’t bad. Now what’s that on fahrenheit? 99? Or is that death?