This reminds me of when I had a PS3 and I used to run Linux on it.
It still blows my mind that it's not illegal to sell a consumer something, then remove functionality after they've got your money.
Good ol' corporate bait and switch.
You may be entitled to compensation! (although the deadline to submit claims passed in 2018)
And justice was served. I got a whole $12 for their wrongdoing!
I remember this. Not sure if I ever did it though
What I really don’t understand is how crazy it is in 2024 to have to go through the same screen telling you who’s the developer and publisher of the game even after 150 hours of playing time.
I think we should have an option to go to certain parts of the game directly in the welcome screen from your Playstation.
or just automatically load my last save please.
It would not surprise me if game developers use those screens to gain more time to load assets and initialize things in the background.
I’ll bet they do that with cutscenes and elevators too whenever you’re about to go into a new zone.
Tony hawk pro skater underground. First time I saw the extremely obvious loading hallway lol
Could be for some games, but it doesn’t apply to games which had the resume activities and were still exposing you a thousand times to the same screens.
Also, at this point, they don’t know what game mode you’re gonna play so I don’t think they can load much except the general menu.
I don't think I ever used this functionality.
Uhh am I crazy or did like every game I play go straight into where I last played (not checkpoint, not menu) with the feature? Non 1st party too. Maybe I just didn't pay attention, but I do feel like games like Star Wars Survivor and FFXVI just went straight back to whatever random place I was in the game.
That's an incredibly stupid idea to drop that feature. The video in the article says no one used this but uhhhhhhh anyone playing a PS5 game would be using it no? They may not realize it but wow losing it kinda really sucks.
Looking at the video in the article, it sounds like no games used them outside of first party titles.
How terrible, such a neat feature abandoned.
I find it funny how console makers spend tons of resources making up new features only for game publishers do the bare minimum porting job and never bothering to implement any of them
Some games had an activity that was just "main story" or the current mission/objective you had. And resuming it would just load your latest save file. I found that handy, especially to skip all the start up logos and menu navigation
~~Usually it would just bring me into the game as normal unless I left it running so 🤷🏿♀️~~
Whoops, was thinking of something else.
I think that is a different feature than what the article is talking about.
Oops, showing my ignorance.
Never used this. Never cared for it 🤷🏻♂️
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