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Re: Could the Next Xbox Get a Head Start on PS6?

Futureshark

Head starts no longer matter when people are already heavily invested in the ecosystem of their choice.

One of the troubles with Gamepass is that it denies that personal investment as basically as a subscription all the games accessible on it are disposable to the user.

However anyone who has spent a significant amount of money on PSN digital content, from PS4 and now PS5 eras are most unlikely to jump ship and abandon all those games they have 'purchased' and would no longer be accesible.

Backwards compatibility is now actually cross-gen investment and you can bet that (I believe Mark Cerny has already confirmed) that the PS6 will play all PS5 and PS4 games off the bat.

Xbox has already lost, headstart or not it will find it very hard to reclaim those PS users to it's fold.

And of course, now MS is a third party publisher, what would be the point of PS users going Xbox, unless of course you are rich enough to buy both.

Re: Korean Dev Shift Up Had a Record Breaking 2024, Powered by Stellar Blade

Futureshark

@Oram77 @get2sammyb
Shift Up says steps taken to ensure the PC version’s success include “optimisation, enhancing user convenience, adding supplementary content, and tailored marketing strategies unique to Shift Up”.

"Adding supplementary content..."
What could that be?

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/stellar-blades-developer-expects-the-pc-version-to-sell-better-than-the-ps5-one/

Re: Old But Not Forgotten, Far Cry New Dawn Gets 60fps Patch on PS5

Futureshark

@Sacrosanctus
You can add The Last Guardian and Gravity Rush 2 to that list.
Last Guardian is particularly galling as the non patch disc version is frame rate unlocked.
Similar for Assassin's Creed Unity, which I'm hoping is next on the list at Ubisoft seeing as they are pushing the AC Nexus/ Animus platform with the new one.