Well good for Microsoft then? Don't understand the point of making an article about this. Most COD players, Or even other groups addicted to a single live service scheme, aren't gamers at all and should be considered a completely seperate demographic and industry partition. It's this lumping together that has led to so many failures and poor decisions by the gaming sector in recent years. Seperate them out and make your garbage addiction schemes for that crowd with a dedicated team of whatever you would call them, working for that, and then have your actual game development teams make actual games.
Instead we have talented game devs being forced to make and promote this garbage or lifeless sequels and remasters cash grabs and then fired when they inevitably fail. Such a shame
Nope
Not really in the habit of wanting to or needing to game on the go or in other circumstances. I can just play on my TV at home when I set aside time to do so. Not one to need a screen to stare at and distract me from this reality everywhere I go, or share specific screen time amongst competing household members.
However, The latter I do get as a selling point for those that share one large screen amongst many.
The sad reality is that they missed the real issues paying attention to a loud vocal minority. The forces stealth is nothing of an issue compared to combat/stealth as a whole because of terrible enemy AI. From what I've widely seen reported this was the primary issue gameplay wise.
I wouldn't touch this for anything more than 20 bones. The black Friday sale is only down to 40 physical, probably worse on ps store.
Looking forward to playing through this and the nostalgia it will conjure. Too bad they released it unfinished. Likely ran out of resources to delay it even more.
I don't know man something's not adding up with those numbers like there's got to be a bunch of costs they aren't including in the supposed budgets because needing to sell three to four million for control two at a minimum of 60 bucks or we can even say 50 bucks like that's hundreds of millions of dollars.
I'm also one of the few that just really bounced off control I played you know double digit hours into that game and it just started to feel so repetitive in terms of encounter design World design I mean I get it all in one building and all of that but it just had such solid combat but such a boring and repetitive gameplay Loop the only thing that kept me going for as long as I did was lore but that only goes so far if like getting from point A to point B is so repetitive and boring.
If they can really take the bones of what they put into control and really expand that in a sequel it could be amazing. I wish them the best because in a current climate of gaming that is so stale aside from what the folks over at Larian and some of the indy scene are doing, it's nice to have a developer that is willing to not be so generic and safe in the name of greed.
Multiplayer?! Lmfao not on console you aren't. what in 540p, With a one foot draw distance? The game can't run consistent as is lmfao. Even the pro can't fix it because Sony chose to leave the CPU in the same dated state.
Didn't the game creator leave capcom because he didn't get the support to fully flesh out DD2 anyways?
My only concern with this is the sequel purgatory Sony seems to put all of their most talented devs in.
I would hate to see Fromsoft just churn out dated engine fueled games like multiple elden ring sequels. I thought Sekiro was such a refreshing take on their formula that it's kind of stale when they just go back to what amounts to just Demon Souls with a different skin. That aside though Fromsoft needs some serious technical upgrading to occur.
Sony seems so overtly focused on boring iterative sequels based on board room decided "safe bets," that they've lost so much of the diverse gaming catalogue and unique experiences that once made them great. Now it's sequels that are essentially the same game over and over again, taking 7 years to make, alongside shameless cash grab hardware releases and squeezeing extra cash out of their fan base in any slimey way possible.
While I enjoyed Erdtree, I don't think it should be on here. I am just glad Veilguard isn't. I half expected it to be as it's quite clear the nominations are often suspect with these Ad Fests marketed as award or expo type shows.
@Wario_Waha bingo. However you will get predominantly responders making excuses for the situation.
It's at least a bit reassuring that outside these brand allegiant website echo chambers, there are those that are willing to voice their frustration with such an overpriced piece of hardware releasing in circumstances that don't really justify it's "premium" marketing.
Still really only one major improvement in the form of FF Rebirth And zero new software to support this launch.
Kind of laughable that Sony launched this overpriced refresh with its major Marketing gimmick being that it might make old unoptomized games run better, or already gorgeous old first party games get dedicated patches that you have to squint to see the difference. so replay those already great running fp games very slightly better. Yet the other third party games that really needed boosts, the pro is undelivering on due to the nonexistent cpu upgrade.
There is really no reason to justify this hardware, even as an enthusiast, aside from fomo. Hopefully those reasons come in the future. However the CPU limitation doesn't bode well for that occurring on a mind blowing scale even for big games to come.
@Northern_munkey I hear ya. I have pretty much given up on mp games because of this. I was a die hard socom player back in the day. However cheating has become so widespread and frankly economic for the creators, users, and devs, that it just not fun to engage with any of it anymore as there is really no desire on the dev side to get rid of them.
Looks promising. It just feels like the perfect setup for a pretty game shell disguising a never ending loop of live service schemes masquerading as shallow progression.
The tech and art style looks great, too bad it wasn't put toward an actual game and story. Who knows maybe it has more, however this is the outfit that uses a ton of AI designed drivel for those aspects, including voice, so I wouldn't hold my breath.
Here's hoping to something interesting, yet fully expecting just another addiction based scheme full of cosmetic nonsense and stat loot carrot on a stick motivations.
If square released properly optomized games on release, I feel like alot of us that waited and still are now for a sale would have jumped in. That just hasn't been the case for games like Rebirth or Ff16. They also sold off all diversifying ip to make a quick buck. SE is just straight up mismanaged. Much like Ubisoft and now clearly Sony as well.
Couple that with what feels like a PS5 pro marketing scheme to offer it selling points through brute forcing better performance with these old games, only if you buy into an over priced and under performant mid gen hardware.
Especially as it certainly suggests further base performance patches are likely not even coming because of the choice to Help Sony sell the pro. Cause let's be honest, literally the ONLY genuinely transformative Pro boost available at launch is with Rebirth. So most of those that waited hoping on them actually finishing these games technically are now going to wait for very steep sales or ps plus inclusions.
@Enuo a well crafted kids game is still a kids game. Just because you and the ps band wagon applauds a simple platformer as a triumph it's still a platformer and if that genre of game is not your thing, it just isn't, no matter how good,.... And that's OK
I loved platformers as a kid. Hell I may even enjoyed these Lego games. As an adult they are far less appealing. Pretty understandable, no?
Hopefully, more than iterative and frankly aging sequels. We need more new IP or at the very least new ideas. TLOU, Spiderboy, uncharted, horizon, and GOW are already losing their luster for me. Imagining another sequel if it's just the same we saw in their second outings is just not all that compellimg. Hell even if Ghost of Yotei doubles down on the very boring side content is a letdown for me.
So iterative in the most bland ways. Not To Mention the marvel junk is getting as boring as their movies.
I get I'm in the minority here speaking my mind and criticisms about modern day Playstation, on a Playstation site in which most are in a perpetual loop of brand allegiant excuse making and various other forms of echo chamber herd mentality.
However, I can't be the only one who is/was less enthused when the news broke that insomniac is just planning on a wolverine game and then more Spiderboy/venom. I feel like they have such talent and yet they along with other Sony studios, are stuck in sequel or marvel purgatory merely because it prints money.
Completely insane to me that the pro Model still has the limited 32gb hdmi 2.1 bandwidth. This means lesser color output as well as more limited vrr range compared to the other box and pc when using applicable modes.
Why wouldn't they address this limitation?
No one seems to be reporting on the fact that the specs that were leaked a good deal back where wrong in terms of GPU power. Those Leaks stated 33 teraflops.
In the unboxings we now know that the official manual for the Ps5 pro states it's only a little more than 16 teraflops. Only 4 more than the xbsx and 6 more than the base ps5...
Why does this matter? It doesn't lol, none of this does.
However, consider this: you have continued to be blasted with marketing and the fan human defenders give reasonings such as the idea that an equivalent pc GPU/setup could not be made for the the Ps5 pro asking price and Thus it's a valid price point.
That rational was based on those leaked/assumed specs.... However the actual speed rating puts it an entire line of gpus lower than what those compatisons/rationales were based on.
Gee..... I wonder why Sony didn't correct that pre release, or even release official specs at all during that time...
@Porco @Nepp67 @nessisonett
Exactly. Capcom and SE both seem to have taken this release unfinished approach.
🤔I have to be honest it's curious when you think about the fact that these devs knew a pro was coming long before we did. I mean the pros marketing/release has essentially translated to these devs enjoying a sort of second release window double dip of marketing and potential game sales....
No one seems to be reporting on the fact that the specs that were leaked a good deal back where wrong in terms of GPU power. Those Leaks stated 33 teraflops.
In the unboxings we now know that the official manual for the Ps5 pro states it's only a little more than 16 teraflops. Only 4 more than the xbsx and 6 more than the base ps5...
Why does this matter? It doesn't lol, none of this does.
However, consider this: you have continued to be blasted with marketing and the fan human defenders give reasonings such as the idea that an equivalent pc GPU/setup could not be made for the the Ps5 pro asking price and Thus it's a valid price point.
That rational was based on those leaked/assumed specs....
Gee..... I wonder why Sony didn't correct that pre release, or even release official specs at all during that time...
No one seems to be reporting on the fact that the specs that were leaked a good deal back where wrong in terms of GPU power. Those Leaks stated 33 teraflops.
In the unboxings we now know that the official manual for the Ps5 pro states it's only a little more than 16 teraflops. Only 4 more than the xbsx and 6 more than the base ps5...
Why does this matter? It doesn't lol, none of this does.
However, consider this: you have continued to be blasted with marketing and the fan human defenders give reasonings such as the idea that an equivalent pc GPU/setup could not be made for the the Ps5 pro asking price and Thus it's a valid price point.
That rational was based on those leaked/assumed specs....
Gee..... I wonder why Sony didn't correct that pre release, or even release official specs at all during that time...
Insanity to see the excuse making, copium, and myriad of absurd takes here.
The bottom line no one wanted this. That's it.
Sure some found the idea of playing yet another ps4 game being resold to them with a modest visual upgrade for 10 bucks less robbery.
Yet, for the most part, you set that price aside and no one wanted this and that was largely the consensus even when it was just rumored.
Most of us who wanted to play horizon have, and a slightly better coat of paint doesn't make an entire playthrough of a 7 year old story driven map icon laden game like this compelling.
I think a lot of people, even the ones typing brand allegiant discourse on here, if they get real with themselves, are frankly tired of the current PS rerelease strategy not to mention their overall fan base relations.
Only the willfully ignorant and brand allegiant playstation fan humans would turn a discussion on a terrible ps plus month into a random reason to flame Xbox.
Pretty interesting considering Sony is just ghosting the holiday release season aside from peddling an overpriced upgrade on the back of improving technically unpolished third party releases from the last 18 months and shipping a friggin Lego game....
@Bionic-Spencer couldn't have put it better myself. If this and it's absorbent price were pre planned.. That's not a good thing and this idiot Said the quiet part put loud.
To compare the ps4 pro to the Ps5 pro is just ridiculous due to the price disparity to their base models alone.
Just say you planned to prey on your fanbase coming off the success of the last generation to the most greedy and slimey extent possible. When you saw the Ps5 selling like hotcakes during its release you chose to magnify that plan even more and ghost your fans along the way, Despite the first party software side being pretty weak and mostly cross gen.
So far I'd say the problems with playstation leadership/decision making extend far beyond just whoever is CEO.
However, Hulst is proving to be quite costly for their revenue streams and fans alike. Pretty interesting that everyone blamed Ryan for these bad decisions when we come to find out much of them were Herman's babies.....
Yeah, absolutely not. This generation is the worst one Sony has ever had in terms of output to some degree, but more importantly in terms of fan service and greed driven anti consumer policy. Had I known this was going to be their way, I would have never jumped in day one, nor now.
This is shaping up to be an entirely skippable one, as the majority of the Ps5 native ps studios stuff won't even drop until the end of the generation if it is even native (Ghost of Yotei looks like a Ps4 game). By that time just wait and play it on the ps6 where it will run better or have 2 remakes. By then.
Not to mention you have nearly all of the major third party releases in the last 18 months intentionally releasing unfinished/unoptomized titles in order to help sell a minor and over priced mid gen refresh or at the very least use it as a crutch and manner to essentially have two releases for the same game in a way.
It's the worst time to get a ps5 because now we can see the writing on the wall. I would caution anyone on doing so. At this point play your back catalogue or the majority of current Gen games that are in actuality better running ps4 games, and wait for ps6 or save for a pc.
I see no reason to be grifted into Playing a game I have no interest in doing so again, merely under the premise of a modest visual upgrade. One that up until a month ago, everyone agreed was completely unnecessary. It's still unnecessary regardless of it being 10 bones, or even if it were free. It's still a waste of time and yet another double dip from the the modern Sony greed wagon.
@PsBoxSwitchOwner well for me because it's almost been every single one of his accounts that largely align with what my interpretations of the same games end up being. That's why we all kind of have go to sources of information that we believe to be more credible is it not?
However, that's just me and I get that, but what makes it even more compelling is that he gives examples directly pulled from the game that show what he's talking about criticism or praise. You don't see that in any of these major industry arm reviews. no direct examples like video clips or photos of anything backing up what they're saying. Honestly, a lot of times it makes sense because they're not really saying anything of depth to explain there general conclusions anyways.
And when it comes down to a game like this it's really depth that you need when it's an endeavor that's upwards of 50 hours of ones time to to be invested to complete alongside that $70 price tag.
Let's Be real here. You are gonna need to slap a heavy discount on this one to get many that didn't hop into this at release, to ever consider doing so now or in the near future.
Lol, it already looked and ran great even in performance mode. Any issues were so minor as to be undetectable by this avid soulslike fan. Nowhere near the poor performance and aging visuals coming out of Fromsoft.
Sony and it's marketing arms are really grasping at every straw to increase pro demand and shape public perceptions........
After we continue to milk two ips with unnecessary ps5 pro remasterakes for the next 18 months. Don't worry, this time we will only charge 10 bones for it, and the marketing arm of the industry will tell you that means perceptions have changed, and people are cool with it 👍right HZD remaster?!
Such a shame when we we have bloated AAA studios churning out formulaic sequels and double dip remakes, yet a team creating quality new an creative ideas/stories don't sell well because they don't get their efforts viewed from a fair and equalizing perspective via games media.
Ubisoft has gotten so bad with their stealth in AC and even worse with outlaws. Not really excited at all to see a modern day Ubisoft attempt at Splinter Cell stealth.
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Re: Oct 2024 USA Sales: PS5, PS4 Account for 82% of Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Sales in the US
Well good for Microsoft then? Don't understand the point of making an article about this. Most COD players, Or even other groups addicted to a single live service scheme, aren't gamers at all and should be considered a completely seperate demographic and industry partition. It's this lumping together that has led to so many failures and poor decisions by the gaming sector in recent years. Seperate them out and make your garbage addiction schemes for that crowd with a dedicated team of whatever you would call them, working for that, and then have your actual game development teams make actual games.
Instead we have talented game devs being forced to make and promote this garbage or lifeless sequels and remasters cash grabs and then fired when they inevitably fail. Such a shame
Re: Talking Point: Would You Want a Steam Deck-Like Portable PlayStation?
Nope
Not really in the habit of wanting to or needing to game on the go or in other circumstances. I can just play on my TV at home when I set aside time to do so. Not one to need a screen to stare at and distract me from this reality everywhere I go, or share specific screen time amongst competing household members.
However, The latter I do get as a selling point for those that share one large screen amongst many.
Re: Star Wars Outlaws PS5 Does Away with Forced Stealth in Major Update
The sad reality is that they missed the real issues paying attention to a loud vocal minority. The forces stealth is nothing of an issue compared to combat/stealth as a whole because of terrible enemy AI. From what I've widely seen reported this was the primary issue gameplay wise.
I wouldn't touch this for anything more than 20 bones. The black Friday sale is only down to 40 physical, probably worse on ps store.
Re: STALKER 2's Technical Troubles Likely Fixed by the Time It Comes to PS5
Looking forward to playing through this and the nostalgia it will conjure. Too bad they released it unfinished. Likely ran out of resources to delay it even more.
Re: Huge PlayStation Black Friday Sales Begin 22nd November
Keep in mind: The deals On games Specifically, Will be astronomically better than whatever Sony does Digitally.
Re: Remedy Offers Control 2 Insight, AAA Action RPG on €50 Million Budget
I don't know man something's not adding up with those numbers like there's got to be a bunch of costs they aren't including in the supposed budgets because needing to sell three to four million for control two at a minimum of 60 bucks or we can even say 50 bucks like that's hundreds of millions of dollars.
I'm also one of the few that just really bounced off control I played you know double digit hours into that game and it just started to feel so repetitive in terms of encounter design World design I mean I get it all in one building and all of that but it just had such solid combat but such a boring and repetitive gameplay Loop the only thing that kept me going for as long as I did was lore but that only goes so far if like getting from point A to point B is so repetitive and boring.
If they can really take the bones of what they put into control and really expand that in a sequel it could be amazing. I wish them the best because in a current climate of gaming that is so stale aside from what the folks over at Larian and some of the indy scene are doing, it's nice to have a developer that is willing to not be so generic and safe in the name of greed.
Re: Rumour: Dragon's Dogma 2 Datamine Reveals Potential Multiplayer Plans
Multiplayer?! Lmfao not on console you aren't. what in 540p, With a one foot draw distance? The game can't run consistent as is lmfao. Even the pro can't fix it because Sony chose to leave the CPU in the same dated state.
Didn't the game creator leave capcom because he didn't get the support to fully flesh out DD2 anyways?
Re: Sony Reportedly in Talks to Acquire Elden Ring Dev's Parent Company Kadokawa Corp
My only concern with this is the sequel purgatory Sony seems to put all of their most talented devs in.
I would hate to see Fromsoft just churn out dated engine fueled games like multiple elden ring sequels. I thought Sekiro was such a refreshing take on their formula that it's kind of stale when they just go back to what amounts to just Demon Souls with a different skin. That aside though Fromsoft needs some serious technical upgrading to occur.
Sony seems so overtly focused on boring iterative sequels based on board room decided "safe bets," that they've lost so much of the diverse gaming catalogue and unique experiences that once made them great. Now it's sequels that are essentially the same game over and over again, taking 7 years to make, alongside shameless cash grab hardware releases and squeezeing extra cash out of their fan base in any slimey way possible.
Re: All The Game Awards 2024 Nominees Revealed, Astro Bot Up for 7 Awards
While I enjoyed Erdtree, I don't think it should be on here. I am just glad Veilguard isn't. I half expected it to be as it's quite clear the nominations are often suspect with these Ad Fests marketed as award or expo type shows.
Re: Disgruntled PS5 Pro Owners Campaign to Disable Support After Slew of Shoddy Patches
@Wario_Waha bingo. However you will get predominantly responders making excuses for the situation.
It's at least a bit reassuring that outside these brand allegiant website echo chambers, there are those that are willing to voice their frustration with such an overpriced piece of hardware releasing in circumstances that don't really justify it's "premium" marketing.
Re: LEGO Horizon Adventures (PS5) - Dull Design Lets Down This Gorgeous Spin-Off
Talk About the holiday season banger there Sony!
Re: GTA Trilogy Dev Implies Rockstar Made a 'D*ck Move' Removing Its Name from PS5, PS4 Remasters
Rockstar doing scummy *****?!..... Par for the course
Re: Hands On: Spider-Man 2 All in on Ray Tracing for PS5 Pro
Still really only one major improvement in the form of FF Rebirth And zero new software to support this launch.
Kind of laughable that Sony launched this overpriced refresh with its major Marketing gimmick being that it might make old unoptomized games run better, or already gorgeous old first party games get dedicated patches that you have to squint to see the difference. so replay those already great running fp games very slightly better. Yet the other third party games that really needed boosts, the pro is undelivering on due to the nonexistent cpu upgrade.
There is really no reason to justify this hardware, even as an enthusiast, aside from fomo. Hopefully those reasons come in the future. However the CPU limitation doesn't bode well for that occurring on a mind blowing scale even for big games to come.
Re: ARC Raiders Unveils Promising Extraction Loop in Gameplay Reveal
@Northern_munkey I hear ya. I have pretty much given up on mp games because of this. I was a die hard socom player back in the day. However cheating has become so widespread and frankly economic for the creators, users, and devs, that it just not fun to engage with any of it anymore as there is really no desire on the dev side to get rid of them.
Re: ARC Raiders Unveils Promising Extraction Loop in Gameplay Reveal
Looks promising. It just feels like the perfect setup for a pretty game shell disguising a never ending loop of live service schemes masquerading as shallow progression.
The tech and art style looks great, too bad it wasn't put toward an actual game and story. Who knows maybe it has more, however this is the outfit that uses a ton of AI designed drivel for those aspects, including voice, so I wouldn't hold my breath.
Here's hoping to something interesting, yet fully expecting just another addiction based scheme full of cosmetic nonsense and stat loot carrot on a stick motivations.
Re: Square Enix's New AAA Games Are Being Trounced by Final Fantasy 14
If square released properly optomized games on release, I feel like alot of us that waited and still are now for a sale would have jumped in. That just hasn't been the case for games like Rebirth or Ff16. They also sold off all diversifying ip to make a quick buck. SE is just straight up mismanaged. Much like Ubisoft and now clearly Sony as well.
Couple that with what feels like a PS5 pro marketing scheme to offer it selling points through brute forcing better performance with these old games, only if you buy into an over priced and under performant mid gen hardware.
Especially as it certainly suggests further base performance patches are likely not even coming because of the choice to Help Sony sell the pro. Cause let's be honest, literally the ONLY genuinely transformative Pro boost available at launch is with Rebirth. So most of those that waited hoping on them actually finishing these games technically are now going to wait for very steep sales or ps plus inclusions.
Re: LEGO Horizon Adventures Is Getting a Surprisingly Huge Marketing Push
@Enuo a well crafted kids game is still a kids game. Just because you and the ps band wagon applauds a simple platformer as a triumph it's still a platformer and if that genre of game is not your thing, it just isn't, no matter how good,.... And that's OK
I loved platformers as a kid. Hell I may even enjoyed these Lego games. As an adult they are far less appealing. Pretty understandable, no?
Re: LEGO Horizon Adventures Is Getting a Surprisingly Huge Marketing Push
Well yah, it's all they have to offer this holiday release window....
Pretty lame unless you like kid level games imo
Re: Sony Comments on Concord Disaster, Says Game Should Have Been Tested Earlier
So basically what I am hearing is: they didn't learn anything from that failure, nor do they actually even have a clue why it failed.
An interesting glimpse into the somewhat delusional/oblivious and non-fan facing minds of the corporate goons.
Re: Sony Promises It'll Launch Major PS5 Single Player Games Every Year Moving Forwards
Hopefully, more than iterative and frankly aging sequels. We need more new IP or at the very least new ideas. TLOU, Spiderboy, uncharted, horizon, and GOW are already losing their luster for me. Imagining another sequel if it's just the same we saw in their second outings is just not all that compellimg. Hell even if Ghost of Yotei doubles down on the very boring side content is a letdown for me.
So iterative in the most bland ways. Not To Mention the marvel junk is getting as boring as their movies.
I get I'm in the minority here speaking my mind and criticisms about modern day Playstation, on a Playstation site in which most are in a perpetual loop of brand allegiant excuse making and various other forms of echo chamber herd mentality.
However, I can't be the only one who is/was less enthused when the news broke that insomniac is just planning on a wolverine game and then more Spiderboy/venom. I feel like they have such talent and yet they along with other Sony studios, are stuck in sequel or marvel purgatory merely because it prints money.
Re: Round Up: PS5 Pro Reviews Love New Tech and Its Glimpse of PS6 Potential
Completely insane to me that the pro Model still has the limited 32gb hdmi 2.1 bandwidth. This means lesser color output as well as more limited vrr range compared to the other box and pc when using applicable modes.
Why wouldn't they address this limitation?
Re: PS5 Pro vs PS5: Full Tech Specs Comparison
No one seems to be reporting on the fact that the specs that were leaked a good deal back where wrong in terms of GPU power. Those Leaks stated 33 teraflops.
In the unboxings we now know that the official manual for the Ps5 pro states it's only a little more than 16 teraflops. Only 4 more than the xbsx and 6 more than the base ps5...
Why does this matter? It doesn't lol, none of this does.
However, consider this: you have continued to be blasted with marketing and the fan human defenders give reasonings such as the idea that an equivalent pc GPU/setup could not be made for the the Ps5 pro asking price and Thus it's a valid price point.
That rational was based on those leaked/assumed specs.... However the actual speed rating puts it an entire line of gpus lower than what those compatisons/rationales were based on.
Gee..... I wonder why Sony didn't correct that pre release, or even release official specs at all during that time...
Re: Dragon's Dogma 2 Set to Run Significantly Better on PS5 Pro, Early Footage Reveals
@Porco @Nepp67 @nessisonett
Exactly. Capcom and SE both seem to have taken this release unfinished approach.
🤔I have to be honest it's curious when you think about the fact that these devs knew a pro was coming long before we did. I mean the pros marketing/release has essentially translated to these devs enjoying a sort of second release window double dip of marketing and potential game sales....
Re: PS5 Pro Unboxings Now Online, Same Box Basically
No one seems to be reporting on the fact that the specs that were leaked a good deal back where wrong in terms of GPU power. Those Leaks stated 33 teraflops.
In the unboxings we now know that the official manual for the Ps5 pro states it's only a little more than 16 teraflops. Only 4 more than the xbsx and 6 more than the base ps5...
Why does this matter? It doesn't lol, none of this does.
However, consider this: you have continued to be blasted with marketing and the fan human defenders give reasonings such as the idea that an equivalent pc GPU/setup could not be made for the the Ps5 pro asking price and Thus it's a valid price point.
That rational was based on those leaked/assumed specs....
Gee..... I wonder why Sony didn't correct that pre release, or even release official specs at all during that time...
Re: Official List of PS5 Pro Launch Games Revealed by Sony
No one seems to be reporting on the fact that the specs that were leaked a good deal back where wrong in terms of GPU power. Those Leaks stated 33 teraflops.
In the unboxings we now know that the official manual for the Ps5 pro states it's only a little more than 16 teraflops. Only 4 more than the xbsx and 6 more than the base ps5...
Why does this matter? It doesn't lol, none of this does.
However, consider this: you have continued to be blasted with marketing and the fan human defenders give reasonings such as the idea that an equivalent pc GPU/setup could not be made for the the Ps5 pro asking price and Thus it's a valid price point.
That rational was based on those leaked/assumed specs....
Gee..... I wonder why Sony didn't correct that pre release, or even release official specs at all during that time...
Re: More People Are Playing the Original Horizon Zero Dawn Than Its Remaster on PC
@TrickyDicky99 bingo
Re: More People Are Playing the Original Horizon Zero Dawn Than Its Remaster on PC
Insanity to see the excuse making, copium, and myriad of absurd takes here.
The bottom line no one wanted this. That's it.
Sure some found the idea of playing yet another ps4 game being resold to them with a modest visual upgrade for 10 bucks less robbery.
Yet, for the most part, you set that price aside and no one wanted this and that was largely the consensus even when it was just rumored.
Most of us who wanted to play horizon have, and a slightly better coat of paint doesn't make an entire playthrough of a 7 year old story driven map icon laden game like this compelling.
I think a lot of people, even the ones typing brand allegiant discourse on here, if they get real with themselves, are frankly tired of the current PS rerelease strategy not to mention their overall fan base relations.
Re: PS5 Goes for the Kill with Fortnite Console Bundle This Christmas
Only the willfully ignorant and brand allegiant playstation fan humans would turn a discussion on a terrible ps plus month into a random reason to flame Xbox.
Pretty interesting considering Sony is just ghosting the holiday release season aside from peddling an overpriced upgrade on the back of improving technically unpolished third party releases from the last 18 months and shipping a friggin Lego game....
Re: PS5 Pro was a '5-Year Project', In Development Before PS5's Launch
@tameshiyaku bingo
Re: PS5 Pro was a '5-Year Project', In Development Before PS5's Launch
@Bionic-Spencer couldn't have put it better myself. If this and it's absorbent price were pre planned.. That's not a good thing and this idiot Said the quiet part put loud.
To compare the ps4 pro to the Ps5 pro is just ridiculous due to the price disparity to their base models alone.
Just say you planned to prey on your fanbase coming off the success of the last generation to the most greedy and slimey extent possible. When you saw the Ps5 selling like hotcakes during its release you chose to magnify that plan even more and ghost your fans along the way, Despite the first party software side being pretty weak and mostly cross gen.
Re: PlayStation's Dual CEO Setup Has 'Opportunities and Risks'
So far I'd say the problems with playstation leadership/decision making extend far beyond just whoever is CEO.
However, Hulst is proving to be quite costly for their revenue streams and fans alike. Pretty interesting that everyone blamed Ryan for these bad decisions when we come to find out much of them were Herman's babies.....
Re: Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 PS5 Offers Tasty Gameplay Morsel
This game is is in quite the development hell at this point. Such a shame.
Really enjoyed the first back in the day. Hopefully It comes together with some of that DNA still in there.
Re: Sony Adopting 'Show Don't Tell' Strategy with PS5
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Re: Sony Says the Best Time to Get a PS5 Is Now
Yeah, absolutely not. This generation is the worst one Sony has ever had in terms of output to some degree, but more importantly in terms of fan service and greed driven anti consumer policy. Had I known this was going to be their way, I would have never jumped in day one, nor now.
This is shaping up to be an entirely skippable one, as the majority of the Ps5 native ps studios stuff won't even drop until the end of the generation if it is even native (Ghost of Yotei looks like a Ps4 game). By that time just wait and play it on the ps6 where it will run better or have 2 remakes. By then.
Not to mention you have nearly all of the major third party releases in the last 18 months intentionally releasing unfinished/unoptomized titles in order to help sell a minor and over priced mid gen refresh or at the very least use it as a crutch and manner to essentially have two releases for the same game in a way.
It's the worst time to get a ps5 because now we can see the writing on the wall. I would caution anyone on doing so. At this point play your back catalogue or the majority of current Gen games that are in actuality better running ps4 games, and wait for ps6 or save for a pc.
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Re: Video: Horizon Zero Dawn's PS5 Remaster Is a Massive Upgrade
@thefourfoldroot1 exactly
Re: PS Plus Essential Games for November 2024 Announced
Ouch. Pretty weak month
Re: Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered (PS5) - A Sublime Remaster of a Modern PlayStation Classic
Great. Already played it to 100% completion.
I see no reason to be grifted into Playing a game I have no interest in doing so again, merely under the premise of a modest visual upgrade. One that up until a month ago, everyone agreed was completely unnecessary. It's still unnecessary regardless of it being 10 bones, or even if it were free. It's still a waste of time and yet another double dip from the the modern Sony greed wagon.
It's baffling this even got another review.
Re: Random: Forward-Thinking PlayStation Gamer Spends $2,000 on 24 Years of PS Plus
@Czar_Khastik 🤣 ironically it's literally that stupid, sarcasm aside. 👍
Re: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (PS5) - The Best BioWare Game Since Mass Effect 3
@PsBoxSwitchOwner well for me because it's almost been every single one of his accounts that largely align with what my interpretations of the same games end up being. That's why we all kind of have go to sources of information that we believe to be more credible is it not?
However, that's just me and I get that, but what makes it even more compelling is that he gives examples directly pulled from the game that show what he's talking about criticism or praise. You don't see that in any of these major industry arm reviews. no direct examples like video clips or photos of anything backing up what they're saying. Honestly, a lot of times it makes sense because they're not really saying anything of depth to explain there general conclusions anyways.
And when it comes down to a game like this it's really depth that you need when it's an endeavor that's upwards of 50 hours of ones time to to be invested to complete alongside that $70 price tag.
Re: Cash Rewards Still Missing for Many from PS5, PS4 Rewards Scheme PS Stars
Yet another example of Sony ***** on their Fandom in the name of greed.
Re: Stealth Issues Still the Focus of Star Wars Outlaws PS5 Patches
Let's Be real here. You are gonna need to slap a heavy discount on this one to get many that didn't hop into this at release, to ever consider doing so now or in the near future.
Re: No Lies Detected! Loved Soulslike Lies of P Will Look and Run Better on PS5 Pro
@Northern_munkey agreed. The only discourse I remember around the game was it's parry window but even that I think was slightly addressed.
That actual final boss if you make that certain decision though.... Kicked my ass many times 🤣
Re: No Lies Detected! Loved Soulslike Lies of P Will Look and Run Better on PS5 Pro
Lol, it already looked and ran great even in performance mode. Any issues were so minor as to be undetectable by this avid soulslike fan. Nowhere near the poor performance and aging visuals coming out of Fromsoft.
Sony and it's marketing arms are really grasping at every straw to increase pro demand and shape public perceptions........
Re: Naughty Dog's Next Game Will Reportedly Put More of a Focus on 'Player Freedom'
Coming sometime in the future....
After we continue to milk two ips with unnecessary ps5 pro remasterakes for the next 18 months. Don't worry, this time we will only charge 10 bones for it, and the marketing arm of the industry will tell you that means perceptions have changed, and people are cool with it 👍right HZD remaster?!
Re: Some Marvel's Spider-Man 2 PS5 Fans Are Furious It's Not Getting DLC
I really want them to move on and do something original, rather than move on to just another iteration of the formulaic Disney filtered marvel drivel.
Such a waste of talent to see them trapped in this greed driven marvel assembly line purgatory.
Re: Don't Nod Financials Result in Reorganisation and Layoffs, Cancelled Projects
Such a shame when we we have bloated AAA studios churning out formulaic sequels and double dip remakes, yet a team creating quality new an creative ideas/stories don't sell well because they don't get their efforts viewed from a fair and equalizing perspective via games media.
Re: Report Provides Update on Ubisoft's Elusive PS5 Splinter Cell Remake
Ubisoft has gotten so bad with their stealth in AC and even worse with outlaws. Not really excited at all to see a modern day Ubisoft attempt at Splinter Cell stealth.