Hopefully by the time PS5 comes out, we'll have more information on how AMD "Smartshift" works (which is what Sony is using in PS5. It's all well and good to hear about it in theory, but I'd much rather see how it is actually working in PCs that use the tech. So far I'm only aware of one: a new version of the Dell G5 laptop that just came out last month.
Fair enough, but I'd put you in a different category based on your answer compared to a lot of the people I see expressing similar opinions. It's more that you happen to play games later and there happens to be a new generation starting this fall. It's not as if you're going to blast through those games in the first few weeks after PS5 launches, it's just that that practically when you get to them PS5 will be out. I had a similar thing with PS3 (I got a launch version with...
This is so weird. We don't even know what degree of boost these games will get via PS5 BC, if any. It very well might be like playing them on a slightly more stable PS4 Pro.
You're far from the only one expressing this sentiment, but it still makes no sense to me why you'd sit on so many great titles to wait for a new machine that may very well play them in exactly the same way as the current one. I know Cyberpunk is getting a legitimate next gen version, but no...
Lol in the 2006-2008 era, "journalists" from major sites would openly rip on PS3, compare it to Dreamcast, and talk about how they weren't going to buy one, despite it being their jobs to play a variety of games, including on PS3. Not to mention repeatedly feeding stories about "insider" tips that MGS4 was going to be on 360.
Of course now all of these places are too professional for consoles wars.
Base PS4. Obviously that's less impressive, but it makes the information provided more useful, since far more people own the base system.
Cyberpunk is still coming. Not saying it will be more impressive than TLOU:2, but I don't think we can make a final pronouncement until both are out. And I'll just note Ghost of Tsushima so no one feels the need to say I forgot it.
Exactly, from the outside, what is the difference?
Practically speaking, what is the difference between them delaying because they actually don't want to distract from the protests or them delaying because they don't want to risk bad press by distracting from the protests? In either instance, they are going to act like their motivation is ideological rather than financial, but from a cause and effect perspective, the situation is the same either way.
Avoiding bad press. Sony wants to have this event and have press talking about how awesome the PS5 is, not writing articles about how "out of touch" Sony is. You have to imagine some of the trash gaming blogs were probably already drafting hit pieces on this very subject to publish at the end of the week.
I understand why they did it. Even if they don't truly care ideologically, you know that having a PS5 event this week could easily have resulted in a bunch of terrible articles from sites like Kotaku and Polygon with titles like "When America is Burning and Our Racist-in-Chief is hiding in his bunker, Sony Announces New Toy For White Manbabies."
Yeah it's always funny to see people still argue that they buy physical to save hdd space when that hasn't been applicable this gen (except on Switch).
Also you are right that the notion of having the disc so you have the game is flawed. If in ten years they take Cyberpunk 2077 down from digital stores, and you still have a physical copy of the game, yes you can install something, but without patches, etc, it is not going to be the game you remembered playing. In ma...
I mean, it's not going to go away in the middle of a generation, so that makes no sense. However, digital will continue to expand it's share of the market, just as it has been doing, and we'll also see more important releases that are digital only.
Arguably, PS4 and Xbox One are almost all-digital anyway, in the sense that discs are just a method of installing the game, and due to patches, only part of it at that. Switch is the only modern system where you buy ...
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My whole point is that they basically don't even play in the same league as PlayStation. They were pretty close to PS3 last gen because they had an extra year and Sony royally screwed up their launch. It's basically the equivalent of the worst professional team in a sport having a terrible year and only being a little better than the best college team. Of course you expect the professional team to bounce back and be a lot better the next year, because the...
Well, you have to look at it as relative. They had a trash reveal and launch but could end up selling 60+ million when it's all said and done. Which is not as good as Sony ever does or how 360 did, but 360 itself was artificially boosted by coming out a year ahead of PS3 and PS3 having such a bad launch. For all we know, 60m may be what a "good" Xbox console sells without outside help.
Also, Xbox is basically irrelevant in most of the world outside of the US a...
BC will allow you to play the PS4 release of the game on your PS5. However, to the extent they actually add PS5-specific upgrades to the game later and launch a PS5 version (as they did for PS4 with the first game), it is an open question whether owners of the PS4 version will get that for free.
Look at BioShock on Xbox; if you have the 360 version, you can play it on XONE via BC, but if you want the Remastered version released for XONE, you have to buy that separately.
Unfortunately everyone is mixing the concepts of backwards compatibility and upgraded next gen versions of games. This is why we keep seeing people post nonsense about how they are waiting for the Series X launch to buy Cyberpunk so they can play the next gen version, even though at that time you will just be playing the current gen version via BC. They've already confirmed that the next gen version isn't coming until later, but people just mix these concepts in whatever way that supp...
You are right that it's not happening, lol. However, it's not as if people would buy the device then just stop buying games. You get people to buy the device by pointing out to them that they can keep playing their PS4 games, but then you don't stop selling them games once they own it.
Lol but now used and refurbished PS4s are selling above retail price, with Pros fetching almost $500 on eBay (which to be fair, is happening with all consoles at the moment).
Generally I agree with you though, PS3 got more frequent and more definitive price cuts. Even when Sony has good deals on PS4, it's usually a bundle deal, and whenever it ends or goes out of stock, the console itself on Amazon etc will sometimes cost more than the bundle did. I certainly would not ...