And yet you equate MS' entire worth to the Xbox division? If that were the case why isn't Activision still in bed with MS over COD?
congrats..... in 14 years that's the longest wall of text playing the victim I've ever read on this site. I think you were telling us to wait some more or something but I gave up half-way through.
Despite RROD, I felt that way too with the 360's first 4 years. Hadn't happened since the PS1/N64 days that I thought owning 2 systems was almost a requirement. But then MS suits went chasing that casual money with Kinect. It cost them an entire decade. Hope they remember that lesson when they go after the mobile crowd with GP.
I gave up waiting on a Pulse. I opted for the Arctis Pro wireless ones. Never would've dropped that kind of dough on a headset but like you I had close to $180 in gift cards/store credit and more importantly, my old ones died. I love the quality. The range is insane compared to Sony's PS4 Platinum ones and they last 20 hours.
Already though the PS5 has outsold the Xbox SX by 2 million while both are supply constrained. This is as close as MS is gonna get. That's the problem. Sony learned via the PS3 you only get one shot to make a good first impression. It took them all gen to crawl out of the basement. With Halo, MS blew it. They've got all the money but not enough IPs to pull a PS3. I'm perfectly fine if Bethesda's catalogue becomes exclusive to MS' ecosystem. Like you said they need AAA exc...
"Console wars are dumb either way"
Yet here you are. And always cheerleading for MS too. Must get tiresome always having to stick up for the little guy, especially for you PC guys!
Housemarque is an independent developer who resurfaced during the launch of the PS3 with a reboot of their old amiga game Super Stardust. Ever since they've been primarily a second party studio. They have released 2 games, Outland and Nex Machina, on other devices. Since it's funded by Sony, I expect Returnal to stay exclusive to Sony's ecosystem. Nex might be the best twin stick shooter I've ever played. They teamed up with Eugene Jarvis (iconic arcade cabinet dev) and it'...
honestly though who cares. The community is toxic enough to sit up right there with Russian F2P games and Dota 2. It's a hard sell regardless - learn the game to put up with dickheads? I quit playing when the devs got lazy, reskinned old maps, and removed the breathers from Terrorist Hunt. They listened to the idiot Karens on the Ubi forums
it's a handheld. Calling it a console is a slap in face to common sense. That ALSO doesn't make it bad either. There's this narrative on the net that if you point out or criticize anything you must be a hater. Nope, just hate the mob mentality of stupidity.
That being said, grats to Nintendo. I still worry about their software output. Minus the remasters and WiiU ports their catalog might be the most anemic yet for a Ninty platform. But as you said people valu...
GT7, Horizon, and GOW. Wouldn't shock me to see 2 of those 3 IPs get delayed to 2022. 2021 is going to be the year of Sony trying to meet demand. If they wait past March '22, the PS5 will have an established userbase of 30 million plus. As long as the quality is there, Sony could easily coast through 2021: Ratchet in the early months, MLB the Show (which is going multiplatform but still 1st party) for Spring/Summer, and say Horizon in the Fall. With a sprinkling of timed exclusives li...
Beloved character? Tess was a side character with no depth, written in purely to facilitate a whimsical plot. How else could anyone believe a murderous smuggler who looked out only for himself is going to suddenly trek clear across an apocalyptic landscape from Boston to Salt Lake to deliver some kid he didn't give a shit about without payment?
Screw Valve. Warner Bros. hired the Turtle Rock devs (who made L4D) to make Back 4 Blood, a spiritual successor to the aforementioned IP. Described as a 1st person zombie shooter with survival elements, look for it next year. We should be getting a trailer in the next 2 months
not sure what Pete's thinking. You're right though. Astro was used to launch the company's last two gaming products; VR and PS5. I absolutely expect a sequel to launch alongside VR2 and hope Sony bundles the original with it. Work out a deal with Valve to release Alyx alongside AB2 and you got yourselves a much bigger splash this time around. Even if Astro were only to be used for new product launches, that alone makes him the best "mascot" lol
whose fault is it that's it's a dead territory? Keep the chin up John, maybe Xcloud will finally make in-roads in Japan. Maybe 343 won't shit upon the lore of Halo's predecessors like Halo 5 did. Maybe losing 3 project leads will actually make those projects better. Maybe all those acquisitions will bear fruit before the 9th gen is decided.
I got a launch PS4 pro wheezing like an old man in the corner over here. The UI is a bloated PIA that stutters constantly and does what it wants to do half the time. Wanna get the PS5 first before reapplying thermal paste on ol' Bessie. Ya know, just in case I screw it up. Be my luck I'd do something stupid like tear the power ribbon disassembling it. Fingers crossed both consoles make it amigo!
@ Lord, yep five are exclusives. So what. PC surprisingly has 2 exclusives on the list, Nintendo has just one and MS has zero (yet). Not sure of your point. If we're talking quantity; 70% of those games are playable on PC, 65% are playable on PS, 30% on Xbox, and just 10% on Switch. It's not hyperbole to say the best place to play on console is PS. That's why when people say PC/PS combo has you covered, they got it handled - 19 of the 20 listed are playable.
on a single platform, yes. The Last of Us sold 8 mil on PS3 and an additional 14 mil so far on PS4. Spiderman is at 16 mil & Horizon passed 12 mil. Sony nailed it this gen, with software sales rivalling Nintendo. Considering all the third party competition on PS4 I would argue they did a better job.
but are you? Sony like all previous gens will continue to support for the PS5 for a couple years beyond the launch of the PS6. This just proves to me with BC there's no need for Pro models, maybe even slims, and the industry will revert to shorter gens again like the early days.
And they bloody well better. COD if anything taught us moving forward this ridiculous patch method is unacceptable. We don't even have the ability to upgrade the storage yet in PS5s. I assumed this was a given with Sony moving to SSDs. Don't understand what the point of removing redundant data, language packs, and portions of the game once completed (i.e. SP campaign) if we're still hamstrung by this archaic updating method? This isn't going to prevent me from buying a PS5 on...
SSD's at the moment. The way the author frames the problem he includes the Vita's omission of external storage at launch as an example. I know there were some reported issues with external HDDs at launch, but I'm assuming they were isolated issues. My PS5 has had zero issues but I am patiently waiting (as many are) for an 2 TB SSD external that can house PS5 games.