What a week! After months of anticipation, the PS5 and Xbox Serie🔥s X are finally being packed up and shipped off to gamers waiting around the world. The word on the metaphorical Internet street is that they're both awesome. That was literally the most e♐xciting thing that happened last week. The rest of the world was just kind of meh.
The biggest stories of the week involve hands-on reviews of the PS5 and Xbox Series X, PS5s skipping stores𝕴 at launch, a number of games being delayed, the Nintendo Switch selling like hotcakes, and the Mass Effect trilogy is being remastered for modern systems.
The PS5 & Xbox Series X Are In The Wild
൲The PS5 and the Xbox Series X have started shipping around the world. Systems have been sent out to journalists for final reviews before the launch day, and TheGamer had the chancܫe to experience both of them.
The PS5 and Xbox Series X both have amazing visuals and super-fast load times. The main difference lies with the hardware. The DualSense controller is a 💦revelation when it comes to immersion, with the haptic feedback and adaptive triggers putting you in the game like never before. It also has some actual launch titles, like Astro's Playroom and Demon's Souls. What the Xbox Series X has is Game Pass and the massive library it offers, along with the promise of more to come. It seems that the PS5 and Xbox Series X live up to the hype, but their scarcity means most fans won't get to experience them until next year.
You can read TheGamer's thoughts on the Xbox Series X here and the PS5 here.
PS5s Won't Be In Stores At Launch
The embarrassing PS5 pre-order situation has been made worse, though not through any fault of Sony. The 168澳洲幸运5开奖网ꦬ:PS5 won't be sold in physical stores at launc꧋h, due to issues regarding the second wave of COVID-19 and the lockdowns that are ongoing in many parts of this world. This means that it will only be possible to purchase a PS5 online until things calm down. The terrible 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:PS5 pre-order situation that Sony apol꧋og𒆙ized for means that a lot of units were bought ꦡ𝓀up by bots and thrown on eBay for inflated prices, so good luck getting one for RRP this Christmas.
The Delays Keep Coming (Just Blame Cyberpunk)
A lot of games have been delayed over the past week, and some of the reasons for this can be tied to Cyberpunk 2077 being pushed back to December. The Xbox Series X's biggest 2020 exclusive, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:🥃The Medium, has been pushed back to January 2🌟021. The upcoming 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Kerbal Sp♑ace Program 2, was pushed to 2022. The next-gen ports of Control: Ultimate Editionℱ have been delayed to 2021, infuriating the people who bought it the current-gen version at launch. The delay of Cyberpunk 2077 was directly responsible for 168澳洲幸运5开奖꧑网:Everspace 2 being pus𓂃hed back to January 2021, while the delay of Avatar 2 (the movie) has also led to its 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:video game🦹 adaptation being pushed back to 2022. It seems that smaller developers are terrified of going up agains🔯t Cyberpunk 2077.
The Switch Is Doing Mega Business & Animal Crossing Is Close To Beating Mario Kart
Nintendo didn't release any high-profile games last week, but that doesn't mean the Switch is slowing down. Nintendo released its latest fiscal earnings report and the Switch's sales numbers are insane. The Switch has almost sold 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:70 million units around the world, putting it ahead of the Famicom/NES and within spitting distance of t🤪he GBA and 3DS. The 2020 holiday period promises to be a big one for the company.
The other revelation to come out of the earnings report is that Animal Crossing: New Horizons has aꦜlmost outsold Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. Mario Kart 8 has had a chokehold on the Switch's sales🐻 ꦗcharts since launch, but Animal Crossing is close to dethroning it. Mario Kart 8 has sold 28.99 million units, while New Horizons has sold 26.04 million units. This holiday season could see Tom Nook lapping Mario on the racetrack.
The Mass Effect Trilogy Is Being Remastered & A New Mass Effect Is On The Way
The worst kept secret in the industry was finally announced, as 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Mass Effect Leg🅺endary Edition is on the way. Mass Effect Legendary Edition is a remastered version of the Mass Effect trilogy for PC, PS4, and Xbox Oneౠ, and it's coming in Spring 2021, with PS5 and Xbox Series X enhancements to follow. It will include improved visuals and load times, as well as all of the DLC for each game. It won't feature any of the multiplayer modes from Mass Effect 3, nor any content that wasn't in the original games, so don't expect any new endings.
Bioware also announced that a new Mass Effect game is on the way. The game is in the early stages of deve🦩lopment, so don't expect any updates for a while. We're not even sure i🐲f it's a direct sequel or a spin-off.