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Shimmyhill

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I want the Uncharted collection. Its going for £20 on cdkeys, but it says you need a US PSN account to activate it.

Does this mean i cant attach it to my UK one at all, or is there some sort of sneaky workaround?

Setup a free US account, buy it and install via US account but then you can play it on your UK account - I bought Last of us from cdkeys as a USA version.

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Took me a while to join the next gen cos Destiny on the 360 & clearing up loads of games I'd missed from the last gen kept me going, but I've got a sparkly new PS4 waiting for me at home today. Got most of December booked off too, so those cold winter nights are going to be full of Bloodborne & Batman & other assorted treats. New console, yay! :)

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Took me a while to join the next gen cos Destiny on the 360 & clearing up loads of games I'd missed from the last gen kept me going, but I've got a sparkly new PS4 waiting for me at home today. Got most of December booked off too, so those cold winter nights are going to be full of Bloodborne & Batman & other assorted treats. New console, yay! :)

Welcome to next gen Destiny!

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MW_Jimmy

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Santa Monica's latest collaboration is with a studio I've never heard of called Plastic and a teaser has been released ahead of PSX:

It's being described as a mature narrative driven platformer, and have said “The result: we are going to deliver a “notgame” to you, which is also a game. It’s up to you to decide how you would like to play". Everything they've collaborated on has been brilliant so I'm expecting good things again here.

Also announced for PS4 a few things from Steam Greenlight:

Monsters & Monocles which looks like a 4player twin stick Smash TV-esq shooter with an art style a little bit like Zombies ate my Neighbours.

Jazzpunk which I purposefully know little about except it's a brilliant comedy game.

and Home Improvisation which is an online collaborative "lets constuct Ikea furniture!" game.

I kinda want to play it.

Also seen announcements this week for XING (1st person puzzler), Fallen Legion (2D action RPG), Masquerada: Songs and Shadows (Isometric Shadowrun-esq RPG), Tharsis (weird Dice-rollin' survive on a spaceship horror) and Shakedown Hawaii (Retro City Rampage 16bit sequel)

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Wiper

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Santa Monica Studio are an interesting one - I've never got much out of their core franchises, but as you say, their collaborations are frequently brilliant. I'll be interested to see how Bound turns out, and the visual style shown in the trailer is certainly arresting enough to pique my interest.

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Mortis

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Not reading discs I can live with but to not allow the PS1/2 classics that people may have bought on the PS3 to carry over is a bit much - Sony really are trying to piss away any goodwill they had with gamers these days.

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Ferine

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Saying that "PS2 Classics [...] are incompatible with PS4 systems" doesn't mean that prior digital purchases won't carry over should there be an updated PS4 version, it's just saying that PS2 Classics — a.k.a. the PS3 versions — don't work on PS4. If Capcom decided not to put out an updated PS4 version of God Hand, for example, then owning the PS3 version doesn't mean much as the emulation is totally different.

I don't think it's unreasonable to assume that Sony would either honour prior digital purchases or at least offer a discounted upgrade, given how generous their CrossBuy scheme has been. Clearly each PS2 game requires some amount of individual attention, though, so it's not guaranteed that all the PlayStation 2 games on PS3 will be re-released as there must be some investment required by the companies involved, however meagre that might be. Hence the disclaimer.

As for disc-based emulation, that's a pretty substantial technical hurdle with very little business case. I imagine it would be hard to get companies to pay for whatever certification and Trophy retro-fitting is required when a large chunk of their potential 'sales' are going to be eaten up by pre-owned physical copies of which they don't see a penny.

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Superunknown

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Surely that all depends on how the emulation is implemented on PS4?

If it's like the Xbox One, then yeah the games have to be approved by the publisher for re-packaging, and there's no guarantee that a PS3 "PS2 Classic" will receive that agreement.

On the other hand, if the PS4 emulator simply plays PS2 ISOs (which is what the PS3 does I believe?) then it'll be on Sony if they've required that things like Trophy's have to be included for the PS4 version.

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