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.

Yea but you see, you can easily have lots of games installed. And manually updating all of them just isn't an option.

I've got like 15 psvr2 games in about 150gb storage already. And well, chances are quite high, as I'm playing lots of different games usually.

In total, I just checked, I have 44 games installed. Idk. Some games I just download as I might play them again with friends one day, like GTA online or rainbow 6. I play them like twice a year, but when I do want to play them, I have to download an update first, which is annoying af. Especially as I'm having my ps5 in rest mode anyways.

Question, how many games do you have? Because in the beginning, it was the same for me. But I've added an SSD and put an external for my PS4 games and as said, it's only updating the last played what feels like 15 or so. Anything I have sitting downloaded, almost unused, is never getting updated.

It works just fine if you use the console like 'vanilla'. Install like 6-10 AAA games that fit in the internal storage and all will be updated, but especially with a psvr2 now that has 20 smaller titles installed for itself, I might not come back to those games for a while and play other games in the meantime, means they won't get updated. Then I'm playing VR for a week, several different games, take a break for a month and my regular games haven't been updated.

The play and app store have figured this out by having a check for all updates and update all button, I really wish the ps5 could simply do the same. Or just actually keep all games updated in rest mode without doing anything, that would actually be the best. Because I'm also having my ps5 in rest mode 99% of the time I'm not using it

Also a phones screen is incredible small in comparison. The aspect ratio of nowadays phones is not 16/9 so even with an iPhone pro max you get like about 6" screen vs 8", which is a 30% increase diagonally and results in like 60% more screen area. It's a very big difference and I really can't bother playing a game on SUCH a small screen personally, which is why I don't really use remote play as of now

Yea same. Also I've checked on my MacBook yesterday and the highest selectable quality is 720p. Having 1080p in a comfortable device I can easily lay on the couch with .. why are people against it so much? It's awesome, and cheap lol

Funny thing is, if this would've been a follow up to the Vita, we would've seen the same statements. 'My steamdeck is more powerful and can play more games lol why do I need this?'. On top it would've been more expensive.

Plus the pricing would've been a tough pill. The cheap steam deck is 420€, the 'good' variant with 256gb is 550€ already. You can buy a ps5 disk version at this price already. Paying something around this for a super specced down ps5 with awful battery life? Who wants that.

On top, people are forgetting Nintendo's absolute dominance on the handheld market. Most people that are interested in handheld gaming, own a switch. Those who want more performance or emulation on top, got a steam deck already. This device would fill such a niche spot for, again, probably only a bit cheaper than a PS5.

The remote player, for 200€? I can easily afford as addition to my switch for playing games at home, and wherever I want (because I only game in places I have WiFi anyways), with much better quality (1080p60!) while still having good battery life! They say they aim for Dualsense battery life, which people argue is bad, but it's still like 2 times that of my switch.. if they actually achieve that, that'd be insane.

No Bluetooth? Only gives you awful delay tho, someone please try on their phone with remote play and then be quiet for heavens sake. Also never wanted to use headphones on my switch. And if, there's even a headphone jack? Anyways, the launch date trailers got lots of likes with barely complaints. I think this is just a weird random outcry again

Yea totally agree on that and tbh, I was slightly bummed there was no boss as hard as phrike anymore. Ixion was slightly hard the first try but especially nemesis was a joke imo. But the enemies in the biomes become incredibly difficult and I think it was biome 4 ( the icy one?) That absolutely shredded me, even without a boss.

Ohh I'm hyped for Alan Wake now! Although I'm playing more death stranding nowadays. Man I need more time haha

The opposite for me.

When there was the anniversary sale or something in July I decided to upgrade my remaining like 450 day for idk, 35€? Simply because I wanted to play humanity, which cost 30€ already and the new ratchet and clank, which was also like 40€. So it was basically a no-brainer. I also knew it had Alan Wake which I wanted to play, the newer assassin's creed games, namely origins and Odyssey I always wanted to play but haven't done yet. Now on sale they are quite cheap anyways but really, this was a nice deal already.

When I found out what else there was to play on there, I was blown away. Death stranding, ghost of Tsushima, even miles morales. I also wanted to buy and play death stranding at some point, the other 2 weren't really of much interest before; but having them for free, I might as well try them.

This far I only finished r&c and am playing Alan Wake and death stranding, while I uninstalled MP games, to focus myself on actually finishing all the games on my backlog.

Also this month this moving out game was added which I played with friends and it was absolutely hilarious.

Personally, I think I might just get 12months on top while it's still the old price so I have some time left.

But the increase is steep indeed and it's wild they're doing that without any service change. Like 'hey in return we're promising an AAA game in every monthly catalog update and a AAA game in every second month of essential free games'

You still get the Russian roulette of maybe 1-2 actually good high quality games a year, 3-4 fun indies and the rest being mid af. For this price? It's tough..

I've seen a post yesterday also about ps5 prices falling in a region, idk what it was anymore and honestly this sounded like a good strategy, business wise. Sell consoles cheaper again, but increase the membership prices to make up for it. Easier to get in for lots of people because they will think the console is cheap, to then be playing high yearly fees basically

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.