Literally barely any games that can’t be played on ps4 or Xbox one.
This ps5 almost feels like a waste of 500 bucks
Well you’re first issue is expecting games on a playstation, something that hasn’t happened since the PS2. Xbox, I’m not sure what their deal is. I feel like they are wanting to get out of the console game and focus on pushing games for windows. Nintendo is the only gaming company that remembers that you need novelty to push hardware and keep games on your console.
Though I think another issue is that there’s no reason to make games on consoles any more. Everyone has a smartphone and at least a laptop. ‘Gamers’ all have PCs with dedicated GPUs. Consoles have expensive development hardware and licensing fees. I feel like the Xbox One’s focus on an entertainment center device is the correct way to go if consoles want to continue existing into the future.
Nintendo and PC fanboy. Nice
Nah let people game on what they want to game on. I like consoles because the cost of entry is lower.
The cost of entry for PC gaming is lower than consoles in my opinion. Between buying older games, older parts, and paying for online play, I’ve definitely saved money compared to buying multiple consoles.
I don’t think you’re going to get the kind of power out of a 500 dollar pc that you would a PS5 though.
Nah let people game on what they want to game on.
I wasn’t stopping you, just telling you what I see in the gaming industry rn.
I like consoles because the cost of entry is lower.
That’s fine I’m not judging you for it, but the console is being beaten by other devices, especially smartphones. Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo need to adapt.
And they’re also in the process of porting all the PlayStation exclusives over to PC, making all the consoles completely pointless.
My theory is that there was no reason to make a new generation of consoles, we have reached diminishing returns. People only need their games to look good enough and be big enough and run fast enough, the new generation just doesn’t matter anymore.
Then again my primary form of gaming is ascii graphics so…
That’s why we need to make video games that are NOT woke. With huge boobs. Big hair. Big asses and bigger attitudes. To finally show that cute barista with the blue hair that I am a MAN and I will NEVER back down.
Not woke means with huge boobs. Big hair. Big asses and bigger attitudes. To finally show that cute barista with the blue hair that I am a MAN and I will NEVER back down.
I hope that cleared it up for you.
Just imagine a breast with 1 MILLION POLYGONS. God, forgive me for I am about to sin.
It’s muddled with nostalgia, but I can be convinced a game looks good enough in N64 graphics. It’s possible for magic to happen when the processing power is restrained
The low poly look is incredibly charming to me and I’m glad it’s making a small resurgence in the indie scene after years of pixel platformers and metroidvanias.
Yooo check out Crow Country! It’s got that crumchy PSX JRPG look down perfectly.
the PS2 was famously long lived, with new games coming out for it years after the PS3’s release. I think if Sony really wanted to force people to upgrade they could just do so by fiat, but historically they just haven’t wanted to, preferring to release the next gen as a high-end upgrade at first, and only later releasing a variant that’s within most peoples’ budgets.
Only real leap I see this time is load times and maybe the frame rate is a bit better in some games.
It doesn’t really make sense to force out a new generation of consoles for sales either, considering they’re often sold at a loss. I guess for player retention?
I never owned a console from the PS4/Xbone generation because they sucked so much. I ended up getting a PS5 and even if most of the games I play are also on PS4, they run better with much faster load times.
Not always, but quite often
Found this with a quick search (pcmag)
Typically, when a new games console launches its price point is below the actual cost of manufacturing. But over time, through a combination of bulk component orders and the refining of the hardware design, the cost falls below the retail price. The PS3 was sold at a loss for nearly four years, the PS4 was profitable within six months of its launch, and the PS5 has taken eight months. Considering the novel new design and global chip shortages, that’s quite impressive.
Microsoft doesn’t share Xbox hardware sales figures and has recently stated no Xbox console has ever turned a profit for the company
Actually I gotta say this is very untrue. You coulda kept making games for the PS4, but not only does it have 7GB of memory to share, but its CPU cores are Jaguar architecture, made for netbooks in 2013. They are literally worse than AMD’s own poor-performance FX CPUs from 2011, which is why stuff like System Shock remake runs 30fps on PS4/XBO but can hit 60 on a fourteen year old PC.
So while I agree largely about diminishing returns and that the new consoles are hopped up BS, (and their hardware is now even inadequate for many badly optimised games) the PS4 and XBO were not very good hardware c: The PS3 and 360 were similarly poor.
There is I think no reason to ever replace the PS5 or Series X; they have RDNA2 graphics, eight-core Ryzen 2 CPUs, 16GB of memory and extremely fast NVME storage. Unlike previous generations they are balanced and well-rounded.
That’s because all they had for decades was the anti-consumer practice of console exclusivity. That has been the sole reason for the lack of some games on some of the platforms.
PS5 got rid of themes. That one jazzy song from persona 5 used to be the Theme to Babs’s Bf’s Apartment, but now the best we can get is a spacey wooommmeoooom.
