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.
And specifically that it was being developed at Sony mid-PS3 era. Had it come out in like 2015-2016 instead, they probably would have made much better decisons. Also why they didn't call it PSP2 is beyond me.
Yeah people forget that the proprietary memory nuked the excitement for the device. Honestly it should have had 16 GB at least built in, with SD for expansion.
I remember one fall (it may have been the second fall it was out), they did a bundle with a 4gb memory card and assassin's Creed liberation for $200ish (I'm thinking $189 for some reason but that sounds weird), and they couldn't keep it in stock anywhere.
I've been thinking the same thing for years (since everyone has been going on and on about how the PS4 processor is just a mobile processor). So many people would already have a library of games, and devs who were already familiar with the platform wouldn't have to learn anything new.
I remember after getting the PS3 at age 16 talking to my brother and saying that it would probably be the last PlayStation I would get because of how much older I would be the next time, but that even if I was still in for the next one, there's no way I'd get a PS5. Lol.
Fair enough. You'd be surprised how many people don't though. I've had so many people argue to me this gen that buying physical games saves hdd space because you don't have to install the entire game (which of course was true last gen). Then when you send them an article pointing out that a game is the same size whether installed via disc or download, they claim that it may be true for a specific game, but that it isn't true generally and that "everyone knows" ph...
Base PS4. Obviously that's less impressive, but it makes the information provided more useful, since far more people own the base system.