This little extinction burst is cute... but... let's not pretend this kind of a shakeup of the whole Xbox division is anywhere near comparable to Sony choosing to close a studio that did nothing but make remakes.
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.
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.
Except Sony fanboys saying Xbox is leaving hardware have solid evidence to back it... Including Xbox going third party which Sony fans have been saying is coming for decades while the Xbox fans laughed in their faces. Yet, here we are, Gears of War, Forza, even Halo now all coming to PS5. MS has gone full third party. Hardware is next.
Sony, on the other hand, is outselling even Switch 2 at times. The PS5 is printing money for them, and shows little signs of slowing down. Y...
Not much of a remaster, though... it's the same thing running at higher resolution with sharper textures... but there are not any improvements made to lighting, for instance.
I like the concept, it could prove fun, but I'm not a fan of the cartoony Fortnite-like art style. I wish they'd just stuck to how the original games looked. This looks more like a Fortnite crossover than a proper Horizon game.
I've been really hyped for this one, War Thunder is great.
I'm glad to see that, after all the incel controversy regarding the lead becoming a female character, this game went on to outsell the original. Looks like folks don't mind playing as a woman after all, especially when she's a badass like Atsu. It ain't so bad, incels... you even get to see her butt when upgrading your health in the springs! Don't tell me you preferred seeing Jin's? lol
I fully agree for 2 reasons:
1. Microsoft seems to be in a hurry to release the new Xbox, if they do at all... AMD speculates a 2027 release. This will hurt them in the long run, because:
2. Datacenters are buying up ALL the RAM, and some RAM manufacturers have stopped making RAM for consumer products entirely, while the other remaining ones are scared to ramp up their production capacity to make more RAM because they're worried this whole AI thing is...
32GB of DDR5 still costs in the neighborhood of $250-300 for the super cheap stuff, $450 for the name brand. That's what entire consoles used to cost. That eats up a huge chunk of the budget that was supposed to be paying for the CPU and GPU, which means that the cost of this system will be driven farther north than previously anticipated, and it was already expected to be above $1k. Releasing a console in the middle of an industry-wide RAM shortage is stupid. Even GPU makers are scaling ...
They might think taking a crack at the PC/console hybrid approach might work out for them... but with PS6 delayed until 2029 at least, there went the power advantage that paying all that extra money was supposed to afford them once PS6 does launch. Also, releasing a console right now is stupid with RAM prices as high as they are. Either we're gonna be forking out $1200-1500 for this thing, or it's going to get downgraded. It costs over $700 to put 64GB of RAM into a PC right now becau...
And we all know how much they doctor screenshots to look better than the actual game, so you aren't making a compelling argument against Estermin8or3_'s point.
I'm happy to see switch 2's success. I'm a Sony gamer personally, but I welcome competition when they are contributing to the industry, which Nintendo very much is, in a healthy way. They aren't trying to play dirty and buy out the industry only to lay off most of the employees they bought and cancel our favorite game franchises.
EXCEPT trying to connect your phone, lol. They make you stop to do that. But the big screen that is every bit as distracting as a phone, it's cool.
Unless they've worked out a way for tactile feedback so you can feel them. Perhaps little air bladders that could inflate when a button is placed in that position, placed under a flexible screen? Maybe it wouldn't be the best controller for all of us, but I know people who have medical conditions that make holding traditional controllers very uncomfortable with their default button layouts, this could help them.
It was pretty cool, but yeah, over time the red was annoying. The real insane thing about it is how it generates those visuals, though... there's no screen, just a single strip of pixels and a mirror that vibrates back and forth hundreds of thousands of times per second until it beams those pixels right into your eyes so fast that it is able to draw a complete image out of them. This was mid-90's tech!
This also means fewer cross-gen games, more time to develop games for the hardware targets they've already made, and more time to add in more powerful hardware that will create an even bigger generational leap than we would have got if it released next year.
Expect R* to force it on you.
What I see happening here is, R* is going to ban mods in GTA6 UNLESS you buy them from the marketplace and R* then gets a cut of that sale.
And which gaming division is currently dominating the market the way it has for several generations straight while the other is planning its escape from hardware and having the majority of its game sales on competing consoles?
I think it's hilarious how y'all went from "PlayStation has no games, it's nothing but remakes!" to crying foul because Sony closed the studio that was making all those remakes...