This thing could have easily passed a million concurrent players on PS5 and PC combined if it weren't for those issues. It just keeps climbing. Possibly the biggest popularity gap between a game and its predecessor.

Huge congrats to Arrowhead and Sony.

I didn't take that into account actually. Didn't even come to mind. Probably like you said, because it doesn't really matter at the moment. Plus it would make it more confusing to some for no reason really. It would be like using Vega's RPM and saying that gave PS4 Pro like 8TF or whatever, which wasn't really the case, and only rarely might some devs go to the trouble of putting it to real good use getting considerable extra performance from it. The rest of the time, in most cases, it might've added a slight bump to performance but that's it.

As for the handheld itself, 4 old TFs or 8 new TFs, let's just say 4TF to make it easy, should be doable by 2026 if XB wanted to launch that early, but it might be a little more costly that early, maybe. If they wait until 2028, 4TF should totally be doable with decent battery life.

I take it this means you don't want to attempt to fix it?

I had drift or something like it start around Oct on my PS4. Both sticks. It was minor, but slowly kept getting worse, so in early Jan I tore down the controller and blew out the sticks and potentiometers and then very carefully cleaned the potentiometers. Put it all back together and it's been working like new ever since. I know they say that sometimes that fix will last, and other times you'll only get a few months before it starts to drift again, but so far so good for me.

There's lots of vids online about how to do it. Complete teardowns step by step. If you're good or ok with that kind of stuff then it might be worth a try. I kinda had extra incentive because I added a new high capacity battery a year ago and didn't want to just go out and get a new controller.

You can also buy new sticks and replace them, but that requires a teardown as well and soldering skills. Without some extra soldering tools, it's a bit trickier to accomplish but still doable. Not all sticks are created equal either apparently, so you can end up with a different feel depending on what you buy.

While an anecdote, I have friends whose gaming horizon's are limited to CS and MOBAs that are talking about Helldivers so the popularity jump sounds pretty massive.

Everyone on my friends list is on Helldivers 2 lol.

Hmm, I might look into that, the only game that I think I cant play anymore even with my workaround is Sly Cooper 4 cause it requires Sixaxis controls


I still have my Dualshock 3 somewhere lol

No surprise, its a huge success - steam concurrent users reached 400,000+ today.

I'm nearly to New Year's Eve in Persona 3 Reload. I should finish the game a little after or even before FF7 Rebirth launches.

I had to let that one for later. I'm still on Granblue/Tekken and Helldivers 2.

I'd play HD2 if it was SP.

Anyway. After finishing Persona 3 Reload and Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth. I went back to Relink to play chapter 0 but not before grinding levels for Siegfried. His red armor with helmet looks so sinister and I love it!

Does it not have SP?

Also what about the first one?