If I want to play Football Manager on my PC I have to log into Steam. What is the difference?

I think I have to be logged into EA to play EA games. I tend not to buy them but I think I had to when I installed then quickly deleted their latest football game - which was a "free" PS Plus one.

MS have finally worked out that keeping their games off the PS is a waste of time and there is money to be made.

It is only the rabid Xboxers, living in the past, who thinks that they should be kept off the PS. The same applies to PS games being kept off the Xbox and rabid PSers living in the past.

Exclusivity is actually hurting game studios.

I enjoyed and a lot of PC users will too. It deserved to sell a lot more than it did.

It was a game free from any micro-transactions (that I could see anyway). It was a game made with a lot of care and a lot of love from the developers. It is kind of fun to have the crazy world of Numora.

The only mistake that Square Enix made with this was keeping it exclusive to just the PS5.

It may be time to stop trashing games just because it doesn't gel with you subjectively - something we all - including me - are guilty of - or it doesn't appear on your console of choice.

I mean I have zero interest in HellDivers but from what I hear it is a good game that a lot of people enjoy playing. Save the ire for the real clunkers like Suicide Squad that was made for the totally wrong reasons.

@kathaariancode: Well I played some of the first game on my PS4 so your argument doesn't hold up.

Liking Hellblade, IMO, is like saying you prefer a McDonald's burger over a succulent T-Bone steak.

Not for me as I do not like FPS games.

But I think MS has realised it can make a fair bit of money from us Playstation gamers haven't they? Are we paying Uncle Phil's bonus?

For me, the first game was boring and I gave up on it and the second one sounds just as boring.

This has nothing to do with exclusivity. This is about people over-praising an average game because it is on your console.

Microsoft do not need to make their own hardware to sell Game Pass. The problem was there was once a lack of hardware to sell to people with smaller budgets. Now we have the PC handhelds and mini-PCs. Both these devices will be able to run decent games at an okay level at a cost that is within console owners budgets.

Microsoft has seen the future and is not with consoles. It is with owning the big games and selling it either on your store front or someone else's and getting your cut. They saw the future with selling OSs instead of hardware and they are doing the same with gaming. Why build your own hardware when you can get GP on someone else's?

Now if only they can understand that Recall is a bad idea.......

They do matter as they can point out problems with the game as well as giving you an idea how it plays.

A great example of this is Cyberpunk. It was initially released in a bad state for some platforms and that needed to be pointed out. When fixes are made which improve the game then the review can be revisited.

There was a Batman game that was released on PC with bad framerates.

The reviews should be to warn people about things objective like this.

For Hellblade it is a six hour hour average game and that should be pointed out. Probably along the lines if you liked the first one you'll like this one but it won't change the minds of people who did not like the first.

The Japanese Charts - albeit being just physical - are absolutely funny. Nine Switch games but this one spends a second week at number one.

Who would have thought this game would be the one to break Nintendo's domination of that chart?

And the game has sold out of physical copies and would have sold more in Japan.

@last_lap: People will always go with what they know.

It is an uncomfortable truth that the PC market is very bad at marketing itself as a gaming choice, at least here in the UK. I do not know how it is in other countries, but over here games are marketed with MS or PS but never by PC manufacturers. PCs are marketed for social media.

If you are new to gaming then you would choose either the Xbox or PS and not the PC. Maybe it is because of the fractured market but the PC is not seen as the place to game until you are into gaming. It is then seen as too expensive. The Steam Deck has done more for PC gaming than anything else ever has.