This is awesome! Especially for us old fogeys who lived through the "16-Bit Wars". Don't care if you're a die-hard Nintendo fan or you were a Genesis kid back in the day. Since I don't have a Switch 2 (yet), I'm really looking forward to the new Sonic CrossWorlds.
@SleeplessKnight I should point out that I own an Xbox Series X and have owned every Xbox console before it. I also bought My son a Series X and we play 95% of our multiplatform titles on Xbox as we game share, so we've gotten all of our games essentially 2-for-the-price-of-1 for the past 4 years or so. My PS5 is really an exclusive box for the most part. Game Pass is an incredible value to gamers. Is it sustainable? Doesn't seem like it to me with so many layoffs over the past year or so. I guess regardless of what Xbox's future is as far as being a console platform, unlike Sega who were like "Well, see ya" when they cancelled the Dreamcast, Microsoft will ensure that your digital library will be playable on something, even if it's not an "Xbox". I guess just as an old-school "console wars" gamer, I don't like seeing Xbox go the way they're going.
@Godot25 PC gaming is NOT direct competition to console gaming. It's completely different, more expensive and complex comparatively. The majority of console gamers prefer consoles due to their lower cost and ease of use. It's like the sports car market compared to the family sedan or minivan market.
3rd party titles sell FAR fewer copies on Xbox due to 2 factors. First: Game Pass. It has conditioned Xbox gamers not to buy games, but rather wait until they either come to Game Pass or get super steep discounts. Secondly, they've sold just under half the amount of consoles as Sony. Helldivers 2 coming to Xbox isn't like Sony are "Oh man let's start putting all of our exclusives on our direct competitor's poorly selling system where no one actually buys games!" This is a one-off scenario.
Also, regarding the "next Xbox". We don't even know if THEY will be making the console or farming it out to an OEM like Asus and just slapping an Xbox logo on it. Also, IF it does run other storefronts, why would any Steam user buy the Xbox version of multiplatform games or even 1st party Xbox games? How is Microsoft going to (a) sell any of these consoles with ZERO exclusives or (b) make any $$ from it? Unless their Game Pass subs skyrocket how will they market/sell it?
I'm in complete agreement with him and for the most part with all of the other praise this game has garnered. My ONLY personal gripe is the lack of a map in the levels themselves. There's a world map, but I find I get lost quite often in the actual levels/areas. I realize that it's part of the story - those who came before failed, so you're trying to go further. Still for me it wouldn't be too "immersion breaking" to just have a map anyway.
@Godot25 The PC gaming market is not direct competition for Sony. They started very slowly, hesitantly with experimenting with releasing a few of their exclusives, long after they had made the bulk of their sales on their consoles. As time has gone on, they've discovered that there isn't as much of an intersection of console & PC gamers as many think, thus why they've been porting games to pc sooner as of late. They look at PC as additional revenue. They still look at Xbox as a direct competitor. However, due to that competitor being so far behind them, releasing an online multiplayer/live service shooter onto their platform is just added profit for them. They're not going to put their platform-defining single-player AAA titles on other consoles. They are largely the reason WHY the PS5 has sold over double the amount of units worldwide as the Series X/S.
Calm down people! This isn't God of War, Horizon or Uncharted. It's an online shooter. These types of games NEED players or they die. Even if Xbox gamers generally don't buy games anymore, if this game sells a million copies on Xbox, that's still tens of millions in profits for Sony/Arrowhead, and will likely give the game a bump in popularity as well.
Settle down. MLB The Show was forced to go multiplat or MLB would've pulled the license from Sony. Helldivers 2 is an online shooter. The more players you can have for this type of game, the better. Even though Xbox gamers don't really buy games anymore, even if you get another couple million sales from them, that's still a couple million more than you had previously. Plus, launching to a new audience should renew excitement and interest in the game in general.
God of War, Uncharted and TLOU aren't going to Xbox...
@nessisonett Fellow Canuck? I still spell Colour "Color", Centre "Center" and I say "Zee" not "Zed" lol. I do use KM and Celsius, not Miles and Fahrenheit though lol
Wow that was quick! Wonder how many people STILL won't try it for basically "free"? I already own the Cowabunga collection, but I've never played Sonic Colors so I'll give that one a go for sure.
Still one of the most visually impressive games ever made. Only thing that bothered me is no character reflections in windows, mirrors or puddles. If they re-mastered it today in 4K with raytracing it would be incredible! Also I personally felt the criticisms of the gameplay, story, game length etc were overblown. 7/10 for me.
it's 2024, of course the lead character is a female. Let's see. Returnal, Stellar Blade, Hellblade, TLoU Part 2, Control, Horizon, the upcoming Ghost of Yotei and the just-announced new Naughty Dog game and now this game...
However there have always been female leads in games such as in Metroid, Tomb Raider, Bayonetta, Perfect Dark and more.
So I don't know, in a way it does feel like there's a bit of an agenda but is it as egregious as some are making it out to be?
I try not to get TOO excited for the Game Awards. However, unfortunately it's kind of the closest thing we have these days to an e3. So if you can endure the copious amounts of mobile game ads, DLC & microtransaction announcements and fluff award categories that most gamers could care less about, hopefully there will still be some cool stuff announced / revealed in the 3+ hour show.
For me, the PS1 was a necessary evil. As a Nintendo fan (and to some extent Sega fan too) I saw Sony as the "Big Evil" mega corporation coming in to try to capitalize on what Nintendo, Sega and Atari had built. I was going to hold off getting one at all and just stick with the N64, but a couple games almost forced me into buying a PS1. Final Fantasy VII and Resident Evil. Of course I played a bunch of other games for PS1 as well but overall I still liked my N64 more and played it WAY more, especially 4-player games with buddies.
The PS1 generally does NOT hold up well at all today, even compared to the N64. The lack of anti-aliasing, texture warping, polygon popup just look brutal today. Honestly I thought a lot of the games looked like crap on PS1 even back then.
However you still have to give Sony their flowers for the things the PS1 did bring to the table and the way it changed the gaming industry forever.
@LogicStrikesAgain Maybe. I'd love to be wrong about this. I do like the design of the Portal, having a real DualSense cut in half made it the best portable I've ever used as far as comfort goes. Most times on any portable you feel like you have lower quality controls but not in the Portal's case.
My biggest use case and reason I was so disappointed is I'm a hockey fan so I wanted the portal so I could watch the games on the TV and play NHL 24 (then, now I have 25) on the couch at the same time. Sadly hockey is a very fast paced game and I was getting too much input lag, sound levels going up and down, cracking sometimes etc.
@LogicStrikesAgain I wouldn't say Death Stranding played "very well" more like just ok. And with Ghost of Tsushima he didn't even move his character. Plus he noted he's sitting pretty much right next to his router. Now what about in a different room? or across the house? I want to like the Portal, I just don't think we're there yet as far as the Internet infrastructure. No doubt it will likely be the future but it's still probably 5 to 10 years away before it's a near equivalent experience to playing games natively/locally.
@RadioHedgeFund Hard to believe...Doesn't matter as I sold the Portal and will wait for the inevitable 3rd dedicated Sony handheld system that will be coming within the next few years.
Streaming games sucks. I had a Portal and I have a 500+ mbps down connection and it was ok for slower moving games, but anything like sports or FPS was super laggy. And that was with my PS5 hardwired on my network. I can only imagine streaming games over the cloud would be even worse.
@BIG3 Oh for sure Hellblade would be nominated in certain sub categories, I meant for GOTY itself. And what is the release date cutoff I wonder? Just because Stalker 2 releases Nov 20th which may be too late for them to include it.
This series is much more known on PC and not synonymous with the Xbox brand. The day Halo, Gears, Forza and Fable go to other consoles is truly the day Xbox hardware dies.
The admin for this family of sites are such oversensitive pansies! I made a joke that is in no way "inappropriate" at all, it's a JOKE! you know, those things we used to tell and people took it as just that, laughed or didn't and moved on?
you have to have at least a few console-exclusives to attract people to your box and to differentiate your box from the other guys. My thoughts on Microsoft's new strategy have always been that traditionally multiplatform games such as Doom, Call of Duty, Diablo etc were always going to remain multiplatform. Games like Sea of Thieves makes sense as the more players the better. Grounded, Hifi Rush and Pentiment are all such minor titles, no one really associated them with Xbox in the first place. Huge licensed properties such as Indiana Jones - makes sense that it's also going over to PS5. However, tentpole or flagship Xbox franchises such as Halo, Gears, Fable, Forza will NOT be released on rival consoles. The day that happens would truly be the day the Xbox brand as a console would die.
The game's characters, weapons and enemies are such a blatant ripoff of Castlevania already, they may as well make it official by making a deal with Konami.
So, if there are no new PS Studios games being showcased at TGS (other than Astro Bot), perhaps the rumored State of Play, supposedly next week will have some announcements or updates on games like Wolverine or Ghost of Tsushima 2?
Asking PC gamers not to do depraved, perverted, immoral stuff is like asking a politician to tell the truth. Ain't gonna happen. There will be full on porn clips of the characters on the web in very short order.
So now that I've had a day to process this, a thought came to me this morning as far as an equivalent comparison goes.
So let's say I buy a new truck in 2024 for $50,000. Then 4 years later the 2028 models come out with more standard features, fancier trim package, bigger dashboard screen, maybe slightly better fuel economy etc. And due to those slight improvements plus inflation or strength of the dollar and other economic factors, the new truck is $65,000. Am I tempted to get the new truck? Sure maybe. But am I angry that GM, Ford or Toyota made the newer, better model for more money? No. My truck still does everything I need it to just fine.
I don't know I guess that's the closest sort of equivalent I could come up with. Maybe I'm way off?
@Tdot8282 Agreed. It is after all an optional upgrade for those who want the best performance on console. For me It's about $100 too high for what you get. I think the 2TB SSD is the main culprit for the price. It's so easy to just buy and install an aftermarket M.2 drive to expand the storage I don't see why they upped the internal storage from 1TB to 2.
@Tdot8282 Remember the 3DO back in the SNES / Genesis "Console Wars" generation? It was also a great price-to-performance ratio, but no one bought it because of (1) the insane (at the time) price of $500 USD compared to like $150 USD for the 16-bit machines and (2) the game library wasn't anywhere near as compelling as the SNES or Genesis. I can't see Sony manufacturing more than 10 or 15 million of these in the PS5's lifecycle.
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Re: 'Genesis Does What Nintendon't': Sonic Racing Takes Shots at Mario Kart World
This is awesome! Especially for us old fogeys who lived through the "16-Bit Wars". Don't care if you're a die-hard Nintendo fan or you were a Genesis kid back in the day. Since I don't have a Switch 2 (yet), I'm really looking forward to the new Sonic CrossWorlds.
Re: PS5 Fans Divided Over Helldivers 2 on Xbox Pivot
@SleeplessKnight I should point out that I own an Xbox Series X and have owned every Xbox console before it. I also bought My son a Series X and we play 95% of our multiplatform titles on Xbox as we game share, so we've gotten all of our games essentially 2-for-the-price-of-1 for the past 4 years or so. My PS5 is really an exclusive box for the most part. Game Pass is an incredible value to gamers. Is it sustainable? Doesn't seem like it to me with so many layoffs over the past year or so. I guess regardless of what Xbox's future is as far as being a console platform, unlike Sega who were like "Well, see ya" when they cancelled the Dreamcast, Microsoft will ensure that your digital library will be playable on something, even if it's not an "Xbox". I guess just as an old-school "console wars" gamer, I don't like seeing Xbox go the way they're going.
Re: PS5 Fans Divided Over Helldivers 2 on Xbox Pivot
@Godot25 PC gaming is NOT direct competition to console gaming. It's completely different, more expensive and complex comparatively. The majority of console gamers prefer consoles due to their lower cost and ease of use. It's like the sports car market compared to the family sedan or minivan market.
3rd party titles sell FAR fewer copies on Xbox due to 2 factors. First: Game Pass. It has conditioned Xbox gamers not to buy games, but rather wait until they either come to Game Pass or get super steep discounts. Secondly, they've sold just under half the amount of consoles as Sony. Helldivers 2 coming to Xbox isn't like Sony are "Oh man let's start putting all of our exclusives on our direct competitor's poorly selling system where no one actually buys games!" This is a one-off scenario.
Also, regarding the "next Xbox". We don't even know if THEY will be making the console or farming it out to an OEM like Asus and just slapping an Xbox logo on it. Also, IF it does run other storefronts, why would any Steam user buy the Xbox version of multiplatform games or even 1st party Xbox games? How is Microsoft going to (a) sell any of these consoles with ZERO exclusives or (b) make any $$ from it? Unless their Game Pass subs skyrocket how will they market/sell it?
Re: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Story Leaves The Last of Us Director 'In Awe'
I'm in complete agreement with him and for the most part with all of the other praise this game has garnered. My ONLY personal gripe is the lack of a map in the levels themselves. There's a world map, but I find I get lost quite often in the actual levels/areas. I realize that it's part of the story - those who came before failed, so you're trying to go further. Still for me it wouldn't be too "immersion breaking" to just have a map anyway.
Re: Tokyo Game Show 2025 Set to Be Biggest Ever, Confirms Sony, Square Enix, SEGA, More
It would be almost criminal for Sony not to be at TGS this year with Ghost of Yotei. Maybe they'll drop a playable demo or PS+ trial at the show?
Re: PS5 Fans Divided Over Helldivers 2 on Xbox Pivot
@Godot25 The PC gaming market is not direct competition for Sony. They started very slowly, hesitantly with experimenting with releasing a few of their exclusives, long after they had made the bulk of their sales on their consoles. As time has gone on, they've discovered that there isn't as much of an intersection of console & PC gamers as many think, thus why they've been porting games to pc sooner as of late. They look at PC as additional revenue. They still look at Xbox as a direct competitor. However, due to that competitor being so far behind them, releasing an online multiplayer/live service shooter onto their platform is just added profit for them. They're not going to put their platform-defining single-player AAA titles on other consoles. They are largely the reason WHY the PS5 has sold over double the amount of units worldwide as the Series X/S.
Re: PS5 Fans Divided Over Helldivers 2 on Xbox Pivot
Calm down people! This isn't God of War, Horizon or Uncharted. It's an online shooter. These types of games NEED players or they die. Even if Xbox gamers generally don't buy games anymore, if this game sells a million copies on Xbox, that's still tens of millions in profits for Sony/Arrowhead, and will likely give the game a bump in popularity as well.
Re: Reaction: Helldivers 2 on Xbox Signals Another Unexpected But Not Overly Surprising Shift in Strategy from Sony
Settle down. MLB The Show was forced to go multiplat or MLB would've pulled the license from Sony. Helldivers 2 is an online shooter. The more players you can have for this type of game, the better. Even though Xbox gamers don't really buy games anymore, even if you get another couple million sales from them, that's still a couple million more than you had previously. Plus, launching to a new audience should renew excitement and interest in the game in general.
God of War, Uncharted and TLOU aren't going to Xbox...
Re: Death Stranding 2 PS5 Collector's Edition So Impressive It Gets Its Own Trailer
No disc, no buy.
Re: PS Plus Essential PS5, PS4 Games for March 2025 Announced
@nessisonett Fellow Canuck? I still spell Colour "Color", Centre "Center" and I say "Zee" not "Zed" lol. I do use KM and Celsius, not Miles and Fahrenheit though lol
Re: PS Plus Essential PS5, PS4 Games for March 2025 Announced
Wow that was quick! Wonder how many people STILL won't try it for basically "free"? I already own the Cowabunga collection, but I've never played Sonic Colors so I'll give that one a go for sure.
Re: The Order: 1886 Dev Pitched a Sequel to Sony, But Was Denied
Still one of the most visually impressive games ever made. Only thing that bothered me is no character reflections in windows, mirrors or puddles. If they re-mastered it today in 4K with raytracing it would be incredible! Also I personally felt the criticisms of the gameplay, story, game length etc were overblown. 7/10 for me.
Re: Ninja Gaiden 2 Black Remasters an Action Classic, Out Now on PS5
@Dr_ENT If I had a PS5 Pro sure, but I don't so I'll take the "free" option on Series X.
Re: Ninja Gaiden 2 Black Remasters an Action Classic, Out Now on PS5
As an owner of a Series X and PS5 it's Game Pass for this game for me!
Re: The Angry Video Game Nerd Goes 8-Bit in New Action Platformer for PS5, PS4
"eternally dumb" ? Please elaborate.
Re: The Witcher 4 Announced Starring Ciri
it's 2024, of course the lead character is a female. Let's see. Returnal, Stellar Blade, Hellblade, TLoU Part 2, Control, Horizon, the upcoming Ghost of Yotei and the just-announced new Naughty Dog game and now this game...
However there have always been female leads in games such as in Metroid, Tomb Raider, Bayonetta, Perfect Dark and more.
So I don't know, in a way it does feel like there's a bit of an agenda but is it as egregious as some are making it out to be?
Re: What Time Is The Game Awards 2024?
I try not to get TOO excited for the Game Awards. However, unfortunately it's kind of the closest thing we have these days to an e3. So if you can endure the copious amounts of mobile game ads, DLC & microtransaction announcements and fluff award categories that most gamers could care less about, hopefully there will still be some cool stuff announced / revealed in the 3+ hour show.
Re: Talking Point: What Are Your PS1 Memories?
For me, the PS1 was a necessary evil. As a Nintendo fan (and to some extent Sega fan too) I saw Sony as the "Big Evil" mega corporation coming in to try to capitalize on what Nintendo, Sega and Atari had built. I was going to hold off getting one at all and just stick with the N64, but a couple games almost forced me into buying a PS1. Final Fantasy VII and Resident Evil. Of course I played a bunch of other games for PS1 as well but overall I still liked my N64 more and played it WAY more, especially 4-player games with buddies.
The PS1 generally does NOT hold up well at all today, even compared to the N64. The lack of anti-aliasing, texture warping, polygon popup just look brutal today. Honestly I thought a lot of the games looked like crap on PS1 even back then.
However you still have to give Sony their flowers for the things the PS1 did bring to the table and the way it changed the gaming industry forever.
Re: Hands On: PS Plus Cloud Streaming Is a Game Changer for PS Portal
@LogicStrikesAgain Maybe. I'd love to be wrong about this. I do like the design of the Portal, having a real DualSense cut in half made it the best portable I've ever used as far as comfort goes. Most times on any portable you feel like you have lower quality controls but not in the Portal's case.
My biggest use case and reason I was so disappointed is I'm a hockey fan so I wanted the portal so I could watch the games on the TV and play NHL 24 (then, now I have 25) on the couch at the same time. Sadly hockey is a very fast paced game and I was getting too much input lag, sound levels going up and down, cracking sometimes etc.
Re: Hands On: PS Plus Cloud Streaming Is a Game Changer for PS Portal
@LogicStrikesAgain I wouldn't say Death Stranding played "very well" more like just ok. And with Ghost of Tsushima he didn't even move his character. Plus he noted he's sitting pretty much right next to his router. Now what about in a different room? or across the house? I want to like the Portal, I just don't think we're there yet as far as the Internet infrastructure. No doubt it will likely be the future but it's still probably 5 to 10 years away before it's a near equivalent experience to playing games natively/locally.
Re: Hands On: PS Plus Cloud Streaming Is a Game Changer for PS Portal
@Alstil Other than the fact you can play your Switch Lite anywhere and play the games natively, so not really all that comparable.
Re: Hands On: PS Plus Cloud Streaming Is a Game Changer for PS Portal
@RadioHedgeFund Hard to believe...Doesn't matter as I sold the Portal and will wait for the inevitable 3rd dedicated Sony handheld system that will be coming within the next few years.
Re: Hands On: PS Plus Cloud Streaming Is a Game Changer for PS Portal
Streaming games sucks. I had a Portal and I have a 500+ mbps down connection and it was ok for slower moving games, but anything like sports or FPS was super laggy. And that was with my PS5 hardwired on my network. I can only imagine streaming games over the cloud would be even worse.
Re: The Game Awards Will Confirm 2024 Nominees on Monday
@BIG3 Oh for sure Hellblade would be nominated in certain sub categories, I meant for GOTY itself. And what is the release date cutoff I wonder? Just because Stalker 2 releases Nov 20th which may be too late for them to include it.
Re: The Game Awards Will Confirm 2024 Nominees on Monday
Once again the nominees will be dominated by:
PS Exclusives
Nintendo Exclusives
3rd party bangers
and...
ZERO Xbox games
Re: Stellar Blade Will Spread Its Wings to PC in 2025
All the PC weirdos will be well behaved with the game I'm sure...
Re: Xbox Appears to Be Readying More Releases for PS5
This series is much more known on PC and not synonymous with the Xbox brand. The day Halo, Gears, Forza and Fable go to other consoles is truly the day Xbox hardware dies.
Re: Metro Awakening (PSVR2) - One of the Most Immersive VR Games Ever
If Sony wants to save PSVR 2, they need to discount the price by quite a significant margin and actually market it with games like THIS!
Re: Sony Says the Best Time to Get a PS5 Is Now
The admin for this family of sites are such oversensitive pansies! I made a joke that is in no way "inappropriate" at all, it's a JOKE! you know, those things we used to tell and people took it as just that, laughed or didn't and moved on?
Re: Sony Says the Best Time to Get a PS5 Is Now
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Re: Microsoft CEO Says More Xbox Games Will Come to PS5, Hours After Rumours Said Porting Project Was Paused
you have to have at least a few console-exclusives to attract people to your box and to differentiate your box from the other guys. My thoughts on Microsoft's new strategy have always been that traditionally multiplatform games such as Doom, Call of Duty, Diablo etc were always going to remain multiplatform. Games like Sea of Thieves makes sense as the more players the better. Grounded, Hifi Rush and Pentiment are all such minor titles, no one really associated them with Xbox in the first place. Huge licensed properties such as Indiana Jones - makes sense that it's also going over to PS5. However, tentpole or flagship Xbox franchises such as Halo, Gears, Fable, Forza will NOT be released on rival consoles. The day that happens would truly be the day the Xbox brand as a console would die.
Re: Vampire Survivors Gets Huge Castlevania Crossover DLC, Arrives Halloween on PS5, PS4
The game's characters, weapons and enemies are such a blatant ripoff of Castlevania already, they may as well make it official by making a deal with Konami.
Re: Poll: Are You Using the PS5's New Welcome Hub?
Don't have it in Canada yet...at least as of last night.
Re: PS5 Fans Believe Halo Could Make Its PlayStation Debut
@NEStalgia Aren't they (Xbox and PC) basically the same thing these days?
Re: PS5 Fans Believe Halo Could Make Its PlayStation Debut
@NEStalgia You're on a PlayStation fan site
Re: Boy! God of War Ragnarok Will Be PS5 Pro Enhanced
You would damn sure hope that of ALL the games that will be PS5 Pro enhanced, their own 1st party studios games would be included.
Re: LittleBigPlanet 3 Will Be Taken Off PS Store on 31st October
I smell another Cash Gra...er...I mean Remake/Remaster on the way...
Re: Ghost of Yotei Is the Ghost of Tsushima Sequel We Needed, Slashing to PS5 in 2025
Other than being a female lead character (which I don't mind at all) it doesn't appear they're pushing any other agendas. Game looks awesome!
Re: Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered PS5 Is Official, Out 31st October with $10 PS4 to PS5 Upgrade
So...I should just pop in my PS4 disc and I get to download the PS5 remaster for $10?
Re: State of Play Confirmed for Tomorrow, 20+ PS5, PSVR2 Games Included
@yrebud Ok I'll give you that one.
Re: State of Play Confirmed for Tomorrow, 20+ PS5, PSVR2 Games Included
Please NO MORE remakes or remasters...although rumor has it Horizon: Zero Dawn and Days Gone are going to get remasters...
Seriously I hope we get some new announcements, or at least an update on Wolverine? Anything in addition to that would be a welcome bonus.
Re: PS5 Pro Playable at Tokyo Game Show as Sony Announces Full Lineup
So, if there are no new PS Studios games being showcased at TGS (other than Astro Bot), perhaps the rumored State of Play, supposedly next week will have some announcements or updates on games like Wolverine or Ghost of Tsushima 2?
Re: Jaw-Dropping 30th Anniversary PS5 Pro Console and Accessories Will Bankrupt You
It all looks so awesome but my broke ass will probably only be able to afford a 30th Anniversary DualSense.
Re: Yoshi-P Pleads for Modder Restraint Ahead of Final Fantasy 16 PC Launch
@RubyCarbuncle Yup the PC gamer weirdos will flock to this like dogs to fire hydrants.
Re: Yoshi-P Pleads for Modder Restraint Ahead of Final Fantasy 16 PC Launch
Asking PC gamers not to do depraved, perverted, immoral stuff is like asking a politician to tell the truth. Ain't gonna happen. There will be full on porn clips of the characters on the web in very short order.
Re: Feature: Everything You Can Do in PS5's New Welcome Hub
Very cool and the fact its so customizable is great too! This is a W.
Re: Talking Point: Is PS5 Pro Way Too Expensive?
So now that I've had a day to process this, a thought came to me this morning as far as an equivalent comparison goes.
So let's say I buy a new truck in 2024 for $50,000. Then 4 years later the 2028 models come out with more standard features, fancier trim package, bigger dashboard screen, maybe slightly better fuel economy etc. And due to those slight improvements plus inflation or strength of the dollar and other economic factors, the new truck is $65,000. Am I tempted to get the new truck? Sure maybe. But am I angry that GM, Ford or Toyota made the newer, better model for more money? No. My truck still does everything I need it to just fine.
I don't know I guess that's the closest sort of equivalent I could come up with. Maybe I'm way off?
Re: PS5 Pro Announced, Costs $700 and Out in November
@Tdot8282 Agreed. It is after all an optional upgrade for those who want the best performance on console. For me It's about $100 too high for what you get. I think the 2TB SSD is the main culprit for the price. It's so easy to just buy and install an aftermarket M.2 drive to expand the storage I don't see why they upped the internal storage from 1TB to 2.
Re: PS5 Pro Announced, Costs $700 and Out in November
@B0udoir Yes exactly! How could I forget the Neo Geo?! You're bang on there bud.
Re: PS5 Pro Announced, Costs $700 and Out in November
@Tdot8282 Remember the 3DO back in the SNES / Genesis "Console Wars" generation? It was also a great price-to-performance ratio, but no one bought it because of (1) the insane (at the time) price of $500 USD compared to like $150 USD for the 16-bit machines and (2) the game library wasn't anywhere near as compelling as the SNES or Genesis. I can't see Sony manufacturing more than 10 or 15 million of these in the PS5's lifecycle.