Xbox One doesn't have backwards compatibility? No biggie. Ps4 requires payment to play online? I wipe myself with $5 a month! Xbox One has mandatory installs? Whatever, man; Halo!
I read a blog by DedicatedToGamers a few days ago, in which he said (in summary) 'I'm not afraid of a console with bad policies, I'm afraid of the gamers that accept them'. I must now concur with grave prejudice.
Over time, I could probably end up coping with all of the issues we've seen unveil the last month, but only in the way that a man accepts taxes; because they don't want to move to a deserted island just to avoid them. They want to live in a place with clean water, some law and order, electronics, etc and manage with the BS for it.
But to see gamers bend so hard to accept policies that they moaned over for an entire generation is truly disturbing.
These were ADVANTAGES. They were positive things. Xbox 360 had BC and no mandatory installs? Great! Ps3 not charging for online? Wonderful, I hate the idea of a paywall to the MP! How can we just shrug these things off where we were once so discontent with when we didn't have them?
Now on a few personal notes, I never cared about BC; it was faulty on the 360 and I didn't care that Ps3 dropped it because my ps2 is a decade old and still runs without a hitch. But not having mandatory installs on 360 was a nice advantage. I can't think of how many games I went with on 360 because I didn't want to make room for 5GB on my PS3. But now Xbox One, with it's proprietary, irreplaceable HDD, will be the one with mandatory installs. That sucks. And no online paywall was a major advantage for me in deciding on being a PlayStation gamer. LIVE was never a financial burden, but it was definitely a moral issue; paying for the multiplayer portion of my game made no sense. I stopped paying for LIVE about 4 years ago and never looked back. I never would have guessed that Sony would backtrack on that policy. I'm very disappointed.
Granted, not everyone has bent over or shrugged. But enough to disappoint me with vigor. The gaming world is ripe for change that favors publishers because so many gamers have no strength or principle.
The PC system requirements for Star Wars Galactic Racer are officially revealed. Check minimum and recommended specs to see if your PC can run the new Star Wars racing game.
The specs are really approachable for a lot of pc players. Hope the game turns out good.
Total sales for Nioh 3 have surpassed one million units worldwide, publisher Koei Tecmo and developer Team NINJA announced. It reached the one million mark faster than any previous Nioh game.
Sony Interactive Entertainment's next console, the PS6, will not be digital only, according to former PlayStation boss Shawn Layden.
Not trying to be rude, but I think Layden has absolutely nothing to do with Sony for almost a decade at this point.
I don't even know why people doubt its gonna support discs too. Of course it will. Once Sony realized they could sell it as an add on, the whole conversation is moot at this point. Because Money. I doubt they will ever stop supporting disc.
And their competition has no such add-on for their digital consoles, meaning if you got the cheap one for christmas, there's no hope of upgrading it to be able to play your old games. I'll gladly take the $100 add-on approach to that.
If this gen is any indication there will totally be a digital only PS5 model. Let's not kid ourselves here. There's going to be 2 SKU's again.
I think what he's saying is that there will still be options to upgrade the digital only model to include a disc drive, much like the current PS5 slim.
No I'm fairly certain they will do what they do now, 1 sku with an expansion slot for a drive. It simplifies production and gives people the option to get a drive later if they want.
I would be fine with a BD drive add-on they started with the slim if it means more power for a more affordable price. better yet, if they allow it to use the PS5 BD add-on by default. it's not like the games run from the disc anyway, and it's totally doable. would be a huge win-win situation for both Sony and gamers
I never would have imagined that this E3 could leave me so sad. It's not that there weren't good looking games. There were plenty. But I hate the new policies and I'm not sure I will ever be able to deal with them. Between DRM and MP subscriptions, none of the home systems (consoles and PC) feel very welcoming anymore.
As soon as I read about the MP paywall on Ps4, I just went numb. I don't care anymore. I stopped looking at E3 details, wrote this blog, and now I'm going to bed. The one system I thought wouldn't find a major way to disappoint me.
Oh gaming...whyyyy?
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Yeah, I don't know what Sony are thinking with the PS+ thing if it indeed is true. It pretty much is true, so I'm going to accept it as true, but Sony need to clarify instead of letting people go off 2 seconds of a youtube video. Pretty stupid thing to do considering they were holding free online play over MS for so long.
The new policies do suck, although - with the push for more cloud-based and integrated/social/massive-mult iplayer/free-to-play/etc/etc - I can understand WHY Sony is requiring PS+. I'm not saying it's okay. I'm just saying I understand why. They can charge for it and still end up being the hero compared to MS. I'm already a PS+ user, so I guess it...doesn't...affect...me *wink wink*
The hypocrisy is downright annoying. Why are mandatory installs and Blu Ray suddenly okay, but $5 for PS+ not okay?
In this instances, we are left to choose the lesser of two evils or stick with the evil we've always had (PC). Oh, or the Wii U... but... well... that's crazy.
Yeah not cool with the online. Doesnt bother me though you get so much content for that 5$ a month. I bought Guacamelee with a 4$ discount at launch, thats almost the price of 1 month PS+ that doesnt include other discounts and the rental games you keep till the sub is up. Also all the apps are not behind a paywall.