Topic: PlayStation 5 --OT--

@BAMozzy
Johnny is right. There will always be preferences and sometimes going too far as in not tolerating different opinion or liking which is fanaticism.
The exclusive 'debate' is old though. I feel the future is more about cloud gaming vs local gaming. Ms seem to push cloud gaming hard (on the Switch too) while PlayStation said cloud gaming will eventually kill consoles (not now but in quite a few years)

@JJ2 My comment was based on a hypothetical ideal world situation where People actually get on with other people and we aren't excluded from buying or playing any game because of the plastic box of electronics we opt to buy - much like we aren't excluded from playing any studio's 4k HDR Bluray just because we bought a Sony or Samsung or Panasonic 4k HDR Bluray player.

I know people will 'never' get on because they have to feel superior and belittle others. If its not games or platform choice, it can be the sports team they follow, the place they live, the clothes they wear, their gender, their religion, their colour of skin etc etc - some people will always want to seem superior and belittle others - trying to keep it polite.

Again and for the last time, I am talking about an 'ideal' world situation where we can just buy 1 device and enjoy gaming as a community of gamers without segregation. If you buy an online game, you get to play with everyone else who bought the same game - not be segregated because you bought it on a certain platform. Not be restricted or limited to a library of games unless you own multiple devices, be unified as a community of gamers who all have the same access and opportunity to buy and play all the same games - an ideal situation in an ideal world

I know its NOT an ideal world but that still doesn't stop me hoping that one day, we could get to live in that 'ideal' world without having segregation, restrictions and limitations - not just in gaming but in life too.

@BAMozzy Over the next two days they’re going to be 55 new games released on PC. Over the same period of time will be three new PS4 games released all of which are either already on or will be released simultaneously on PC. There is no shortage of games being released the whole time but that isn’t enough time to play everything released on PS4 let alone PC.

However there will only be one game of the year in 2018 that was a Sony game (God of War) in 2017 it was made by Nintendo (Legend of Zelda breath of the wild) Whether A PC version of those games will be is good I don’t know. But the PC required to run them to the same standard would have to be vastly more powerful than the consoles they were built for. So most people would end up with a inferior experience.

@BAMozzy
OK. Cool. I'm not sure an ideal world has anything to do with this thread though.
Off topic too, I'm just seen DF uploaded a retro Sony E3 2006 conference which is cool, if anyone is interested.

Third-party publishers sometimes choose to make their games exclusive to one platform for instance Octtopath travelling on the switch or Kingdom hearts three on the PS4. I’m sure they’ve made a sound commercial decision sometimes a game will do well on one platform and poorly on another FIFA Sales are low on the switch despite doing well on other platforms. Valkyira Chronicles four did far worse on Xbox than PlayStation And Titan Fall On Xbox outperformed for second game that was multi platform.

I've heard the cloud future being touted a lot.

Computer systems like PS, Switch, Xbox are goto big Presents for Xmas. If the big 3 give up hardware then people will look elsewhere and someone will step up.

Indeed we’ve had both the steam machine and the shield fail this generation. If the PlayStation and Xbox hadn’t existed I might well have got one of them. @themcnoisy

Another thing to consider too is that google is debuting its new gaming platform on March 19th. Their streaming device will be announced there too and possibly be released later this year.

Ms wants game pass on PlayStation haha
Spencer: 'We want to bring Game Pass to any device that somebody wants to play on,”
https://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/microsoft-xbox-game-pass...

So Sony will have exclusives and MS won’t? That’ll end well for them. Please don’t stop giving some competition to Sony MS.

@Jaz007 Xbox as you knew it in the past is over. Its not a tied down console anymore. Its a platform/service/ecosystem. Xbox hardware will become like the Surface brand is for Windows.

Even if MS were to have game pass on a Sony console, I doubt I would use it that much. A tenner a montj to play that one exclusive I'm only sort of interested in? I don't think so.

I say if PS5 does not release in March 2020 then I expect September. Thats right before/in time for the big fall games and gives them just enough time to resupply stock for christmas. Plus Sony doesn't like to release their games very late in the year. No objectively good reason to wait until November.

@WebHead Are you expecting a simultaneous global release or do you think they’ll do different regions on different months again this time?

@Ryall I expect America and Europe to be simultaneous but Japan and lower tier countries perhaps later. America and Europe will definitely take priority.

Not to mention March is right in time for tax returns. That plus PS4 trade ins means no real stress to need to save money in advance. And you get the supply chain ready for the holiday. When scarlett sells out there'd be plenty of ps5 systems on shelves.

Interesting video that explains the problems with Back Compatibility, how its worked in the past and its popularity in independent studies.

I still think the only way to guarantee you get to play your old games will be by keeping your old consoles...

I hope PS5 PSN has digital trade in, rental and partial refunds.

@Kidfried I'm sure we will get at least one of those. Sony wants more and more people to go digital. The listed stuff would help.

@Kidfried besides its sorta their job to improve psn to ensure people keep using and paying for their services regardless of where it "fits on their priority list."