 How is it going lads and ladies? It is Petrifying Pumpkins here and I am back with another PlayStation virtual reality news update video. Today we're going to be talking a little bit about Firewall, we're going to be talking a little bit about Alvo and then just a smidge of PlayStation 5 in general news. So first things first what I want to talk about is this image that you can see over here. I've pulled up on Twitter this was put up by Ashley Huffman and Frank from First Contact Entertainment retweets it. This is not actually new, apparently this information has been around since 2020. Basically what this is is a list of the top grossing virtual reality games as of September 2020. Now these are estimates they're not locked in so there's some guesswork involved which which just kind of happens all the time with these kind of things especially when it comes to like hardware sales for you know Xbox games because Microsoft never actually give out the hardware sales figures so these kind of companies this company in particular is Kagan. Kagan estimates so I guess they just got there looking for DASA to research DASA. I can't remember which one it is I say and they've come up with these figures basically from September at least so it says in the small print includes games designed specifically only for virtual reality so this does not include games where there's an additional virtual reality mode included I assume that would include the likes of Hitman, Resident Evil 7 you know these are just built from the ground up for virtual reality experiences and games also these are lifetime worldwide sales figures so it's not just one region like North America like it usually is with these things this is supposedly global. So let's take a look at the list a lot of these titles you might notice on the right hand side they like it shows the platforms a good few of them are on multiple platforms so PlayStation and Steam or PC or whatever and so as expected Beat Saber is sitting crazy at number one I should mention the stats here these bars represent the sales and they are given in millions of dollars however I don't see like a like a number to like I can't match up the bar length with numbers so I don't know how many millions that is I'm just going based on the size of the bars so who knows what that value of that is in millions anyway Beat Saber number one not too surprising as I said already it is on multiple platforms PlayStation Steam you got Quest next up then you have Half-Life Alex which is like so shockingly close to Beat Saber considering it's just on the one platform and considering it's else what a year a little bit more than a year I can't remember the exact month it came out but a Half-Life Alex is very impressive but that's the power of having a huge IP like Half-Life I have no doubt that people have bought this game like big Half-Life fans have bought this game without even having a virtual reality headset and anticipation for when they do get a virtual reality headset next then we drop down and there's a good like there's a pretty decent drop off here between second and third place judging by the size of these bars super hot virtual reality that's been an evergreen title it's been on multiple platforms it is you know relatively cheap and it has been there pretty much you know the very early days of each platforms it's had super hot next up then behind this is like another pretty big drop off and then from then on the drop offs aren't as significant but this is a pretty big one as well and it's down to Boneworks virtual reality which is that impressive kind of showcase of I guess physics and how that all works in virtual reality it looks like an excellent game something I'd love to see on psv or two something I think we will see on psv or two I think the developers have even kind of hinted at towards that after that job simulators are not a surprise in one that's one that's always in the top 10 when it comes to uh PlayStation virtual reality sales so it makes sense that it's up there after that then is Pavlov virtual reality which is like pc viewers big chooser team-based online chooser Pavlov after that blade and sorcery after that's arizona sunshine another one that's been around for a long time it's on multiple platforms not too surprising behind that skyrim virtual reality big open world hundreds of hours all of that in virtual reality not one bit surprising that that meant this is a 10 top 10 yeah top 10 so ninth place now what did surprise me in a good way is firewall zero hour down here in 10th position only available on one platform been out since 2018 so it's been out for nearly three years at this stage which is long pretty long but top 10 including all platforms and firewall zero hour has broken into that's that's impressive and why i find this to be exciting personally is for two different reasons as well as okay so first contact entertainment must be happy i don't know for sure obviously plus i would assume they are happy with the performance of firewall zero hour you could argue that virtual reality in general has been underperforming beyond people's expectations for the past five years or however long it's been so in that sense maybe every single game is under performing when you have those expectations in mind but with the way things have played out with you know five million ps viewer headsets firewall zero hour been in the top 10 surely they're happy with us sony teamed up with first contact entertainment that's why you see sony beside as the publisher this is the only sony published game in this top 10 so surely sony you're going to be taken note of that so like oh first contact entertainment these guys can make us money with this quality game why i think that's very exciting is that you know it's increasing the chances of a firewall zero hour two as far as i'm concerned so what better way you know to kick off ps viewer two than with the sequel to obviously one of the hottest virtual reality titles in the world as it turns out keep in mind in the small text there is saying this does not include expansion packs or add-ons or dlc's or stuff like that so i can only assume that's not including any of the you know season passes updates this is all about revenue top gross and viewer games so not necessarily unit sold but how much money these games have met so based on just unit sales it seems that firewall has broken the top 10 worldwide very exciting stuff for firewall fans for ps viewer fans you know there's an awful lot of games out there the firewall is performing better than based on this list now i am just basing everything off this image i've been trying to track down like an article to go along with us i can't seem to find us by doing like a reverse google image search i just see as leading me to different tweets and stuff so i'm assuming it is legitimate if mr frank himself is retweetness and uh all i can say is well you know i'm happy with that next topic i want to talk about we're going to stay on the twisters because this is kind of breaking news i suppose we've got some alvo news they've been kind of quiet for a while but in the last week or so they started to make some rumblings including just one hour ago where they twisted a sneak peak at an upcoming map we'll take a look here at these very brightly less interior i must say it looks quite nice from these images i like the brightness i always like the bright maps and firewall as well containment stuff like that i know what it is about bright colors anyway it's good to see that new content is on the way if we scroll back a little bit there's been you know an update from a zombie mode that we've been expecting to come to alvo for a while we know it's probably a little bit off from release and yes uh but here's a sneak peek and they retweeted this from ps viewer underground who posted it up and as aj pointed out himself is that their objectives and that there's a cache as well so that there's kind of you know there's more going on here that means than just zombie killing you know location captured the objective and you've got a time limit for that and then there's like a currency system going on there so you'd imagine maybe they're going for something like college use zombies where there might be waves so you see here in the top right corner round one that could be wave one um and then in between rounds or whatever you're purchasing weapons or ammunition and you're unlocking more stuff as you progress etc etc so everyone who's person for some alvo content that looks like you're going to get that thirst slacked a little bit hopefully not too far away this twist here does say huge updates also coming this week so a big updates coming this week although it's not going to be the maps or the zombie mode but there is an update coming so keep your eyes peeled for that one and finally this is just some kind of general nothing to do with viewer specifically if you've got a ps5 you can note that there is a big software updates that is currently in base this one is pretty important though one of the biggest problems with a ps5 is that it just doesn't have any expandable storage yes other than external hard drives but you can't play ps5 games off those you need a certain very specific type of ssd that has to be a certain speed to match what the ps5 can do and then you can upgrade your storage with that and that is what this base is going to bring in spring and support for these into ssds since this news came out there have been two manufacturers who've come out and said okay these will work in the ps5 of course it's going to cost you these are pretty expensive upgrades to the storage i would say so this is from the verge sony's playstation 5 system software baser program is starting to roll out today and it includes access to the longways into ssd slots that means a variety of gen 4 drives will be supported including samsung and western digital so those are the two big ones maybe there's more the way they're talking it sounds like there's more but yeah samsung 9ac pro and western digital sn8 50s this is some complex shit just make sure you get the right one if you're going to get one of these aside from m2 ssd support the laces ps5 basis software also includes okay so before i go back onto that the new stuff we'll just stress before if you're thinking about buying any of these um ssd drives to expand your storage just make 100 sure you've got the exact right one that will work the way you want it to work so even if you have the money for this and you want it straight away i would recommend just waiting a month or two make let's other people test that shit out make sure it works before you dish out 400 dollar reduce on two terabytes aside from m2 ssd support the laces ps5 basis software also includes 3d audio support for built-in tv speakers so currently ps5 supports 3d audio but only if you're wearing certain headphones i would say most headphones seem to be able to do is but there are some headphones that won't work but anyway games like return 3d audio is almost like essential in that game so that you know where all the threats are coming from in your face in the right direction and they can really enhance the game with this option or this updates sony are going to somehow attempt to achieve that same effect just through the tv speakers i can't imagine it's going to be half as effective as just using the headphones but we'll see and the feature uses the dual sense controller to measure the acoustics of the room to apply a 3d audio set so i think what they mean is you can do a little like calibration so it uses the microphone in the dual sense controller to detect what the acoustics are in the room and then based on whatever feedback it gets it'll adjust the set accordingly sony is also improving other areas of the ps5 software the control center interface will now include more personalization options for rearranging or choosing controls and ps5 users will be able to view and write messages to friends and parodies from the game base control center so some nice quality of life improvements there the friends tab in game base is also being updated with better management options and the ability to see how many friends are online sony is also addressing some of the confusing aspects of ps4 or ps5 versions of games different versions will now appear separately in the home screen and game library and each game's title will also now include whether it's ps4 or ps5 so that's going to get rid of some of that confusion this new ps5 base will also include a trophy tracker that lets players quickly access up to five trophies per game through the control center so another couple of things that this article doesn't mention that i've seen elsewhere online is that trophies are now going to be listed vertically instead of this stupid horizontal thing they've done so i'm delighted that's going to be gotten rid of i believe they're also going to be making some changes to the create button function including you know different lengths of times that you can save videos you can remove the little icon in the corner of the screen that shows when you start a screenshot but anyway good news overall hopefully the price of those ssds will go down as they you know come peace against each other there's already two of them available which is good so if it was just going to be one available they'd have a little bit of a monopoly on america's at least for the immediate future but straight away out the gaze it looks like there's going to be two of them battling with each other so that's going to encourage them to drive the prices down 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