As NeoGamer232 pointed out, I was obviously invoking a comparison to movies being released to consumers post-theater. And, as also pointed out, studios are actively taking advantage of this time by advancing digital releases, without worrying about people whining about how they need a disc so they can "own the movie."
Concerts are being pushed back too, but the point is that albums that are complete are still being released because music is no longer shackled to o...
If only there were some way to release a game without having to worry about the trouble of manufacturing and shipping discs. Maybe once music and movies figure out a solution to that problem, games can follow suit.
There's so much conflicting info about these consoles right now. I really just want Sony to come out and show what the system looks like, probe that it doesn't overheat, and show some games running.
When I say "everyone", I obviously don't literally mean 100% of all console purchasers; I mean that that was the reaction among the sort of people who now treat BC as king.
And I'm not saying anyone actively decided against PS3 because it had BC, because that doesn't make sense. I'm saying that it clearly was not the deciding factor people are now saying it is. People were happy to give up comprehensive BC of all their old games to save money and t...
Sigh. If only a subset of people wasn't holding all of us back by refusing to buy digital.
This so much. People talk so much now about how important BC is and how they'd pay a premium for one PlayStation system that could play all their old discs, but when they were offered that exact thing in 2006, they bashed Sony and bought a 360. Funny how BC is not that big of a deal when Sony is pushing it (and offering a universal solution), and when they drop it to cut costs and MS starts pushing it, all the sudden it is the most important consumer-focused move any company can make. <...
If you ignore the media misrepresentations about the "almost 100 games" thing and look at what was actually said, it sounds a lot more like BC is the standard, but they wanted to cover themselves for the scenario when Atelier x One Piece Pirate: Explorers 3 has random framerate drops in the second half of the game, or a cutscene freezes sometimes in the PS4 remaster of Resident Evil 6. Like basically it is going to work, but there will inevitably be unexpected kinks here and there, ...
Yeah, they really should, especially because it got so misrepresented in the media by the whole "100 games" thing. Honestly, it would have been better if they had just said BC is a part of the console, and if we run into hiccups with certain specific games, we'll try to iron those out. Almost every instance of BC has some weird kinks with a few specific games (including 360 games on Xbox One), so that would not have been a huge surprise.
Remember when Sony launched a console that could play every PlayStation game that had ever been released (minus PSP), and everyone's reaction was "hey bros, let's play Gears of War and Dead Rising"? Because I'm sure they remember.
Oh we need cross play or we'll run out of people to play against online! It preserves old games!
It's telling about the state of Western RPGs that this article, like so many, is comparing a 2011 game with a 2015 game. And that the games aren't even in the same perspective (yes I know Skyrim can be played in third person, but people primarily play first person).
@Gahl1k
The temperature of the sun is higher than the temperature of Earth.
Do you accept that statement as a well known, verifiable fact, or do you need "data, statistics, or at least some kind of legitimate survey with a large sampling pool" to prove it to you?
@Atticus_finch
Thanks for agreeing with me, glad someone else isn't afraid the Sony police are going to arrest them for not being a big enough ...
Nope. PSN download speeds are far slower than my ISP's speed, and even compared to what PSN registers in an internet speed test. I'm not sure why people feel the need to dispute something they know to be true (Sony isn't paying attention guys, they aren't going to give you a special bonus for being the biggest fan). I've never understood the idea that we should pretend there are no problems on our favorite platform. I want to point them out, so it can get even better.
Wow, I didn't know that stating a well known, verifiable fact would get such hate, lol.
PS4 download speeds are already absurdly slow compared to Steam.
@shiva1 I respect that, lol.
@Charal I never said it was the only selling point. If PlayStation wasn't superior to all competition in a number of other ways, I wouldn't even be interested. The point is that it matters significantly. I bought PS3 at launch, and although it was technically more powerful, it was so complicated for devs that PS3 versions of multiplats were worse for several years (Burnout Paradise being the first notable title I remember being superior ...
Lol I'm getting downvoted, but you can't just build the less powerful console with a far less complete backwards compatibility solution (which to be fair is being misrepresented, they never said only 100 games, they said most games and had tested the 100 most popular as a benchmark) and expect to charge the same amount of money as the competition. I mean, yes, Sony will always have the best new games and a superior controller, but the price has to be right based on the machine itself....
Ugh. As someone who has bought every piece of PlayStation hardware, PS5 really needs to be at least $100 cheaper than XSX to make any sense at all. Which, to be fair, may end up being the case, because rumors suggest that XSX is basically going to be the "pro" version of the Xbox and there is going to be another cheaper version (which inevitably will be the primary version of the console if it exists). If there's a $400-$450 version of the Xbox, they can probably get away with $...
This will be fine as long as Sony prices the PS5 appropriately.
@Mr_Writer85
Your analogies make no sense. Since you invoked cars, a much better analogy would be if Ford and Chevy were each launching a car next year, and a subset of potential purchasers proclaimed they would only buy a car from the company that offered a 4-wheel drive mode, and since Ford wasn't including one, they'd buy the Chevy. This claim would be inherently suspect if the two manufacturers had released competing models several years before, and those same p...