Imagine if Dying Light 2 or Horizon Forbidden West had inconsistent performance modes like this on the PS5 and Series X. It would have been one of the primary topics in every review, and it absolutely would have shown up in the review scores.
The problem is that a lot of the exact same people who talk about a "Nintendo Bump" or "Nintendo Boost" for review scores have exactly the same blindspot for anything Fromsoft releases.
@SullysCigar
Sometimes people actually do use discretion, they are just maddeningly inconsistent about it. For instance, people held off from buying the most recent Ghost Recon (Breakpoint or something like that) and it was a commerical failure. However as you said, Assassin's Creed continues to sell, and Rainbow Six Siege somehow gets a pass (and even gets praised as an example of a great shooter) when it seems obviously designed around selling MTs-more so than a lot o...
Reminds me of the Crysis vs. Real Life comparisons from the late 2000s lol.
Lol the PS5 version outsold the PS4 version more than 2-1, and the PS4 version is cheaper and comes with a free upgrade to the PS5 version (so certainly many of those PS4 sales are PS5 owners just saving money). Yet we still have to hear about "not leaving 115 million behind."
But the people who actually buy PlayStation exclusives already have PS5s. Everyone says "you can't leave 115 million behind," but 115 million people don't actually buy PS exclusives. At best they sell about 20 million, and the ones that do that usually take a few years to do it. In a year from today PS5 will have sold well over 30 million, but Horizon will be a massive success if it sells over 10 million during that time. The casuals who are sitting and playing Minecraft on ...
Lol, if you are saying that the physical copies are going to shoot up in price now that the digital stores are closing, you are implicitly admitting that the digital storefronts were the only thing keeping physical prices down.
So what you're saying is that if it wasn't for the digital storefronts, prices for physical games on those platforms would have shot up years earlier? By the way, one thing people seem to misunderstand is that you'll still be able to redownload purchased games after those stores shut down.
First Dying Light 2 and now Cyberpunk. Obviously not two shining examples of polished games, but it does make you wonder if 60fps on Series X/PS5 and 30fps on Series S is going to be a more standard occurrence later this gen, particularly for open world games.
Starfield will be very telling in this respect. Since it's an MS game now, there will be no "well they don't care about the Series S so they didn't put in the effort in that version" if it runs a...
Well with PS5 it's harder to find a digital version of the console than the disc version. But also it's not like everyone who is primarily digital-focused refuses to buy consoles with a disc drive. For my part, I have PS5 Disc, but I buy all my games digitally, and have since the beginning of the PS4 gen (I do have Killzone:Shadow Fall on disc, because I wasn't confident in 2013 that the PSN wouldn't crash on launch day lol). Still, if I ever get the urge to buy a disc or even...
@VersusDMC
Good point. Devs are definitely contributing to the confusion between different versions and patches as well.
It is a native version of the game. Unfortunately websites and people on here seem to be making every effort to blur the line between a patch for a last gen version of a game that allows the game to better take advantage of current gen consoles and an actual version of the game designed for current gen systems. This is the latter.
Even if you don't buy physical games or if you are on Xbox, a good rule of thumb is to look at the disc versions for PlayStation. If there ar...
Witcher 3 left behind the 360/PS3 userbase behind, and that was 160+ million. Which game worked out better, Witcher 3 or Cyberpunk?
If they wouldn't have had to waste so much time in an unsuccessful effort to get the game to run decently on 2013 CPUs, they may have been able to release a decent version of the game much earlier.
Yeah my point is that having to have a carrying case for cartridges feels pretty 90s. I remember having one for my Game Boy Pocket. Now all my games are installed on an SD card on my Switch, and I don't have to lug a ton of cartridges around with the system.
Lol if there's a mass internet outage I'll have much bigger concerns than playing the Switch. Also I have everything downloaded on an SD card.
"Physical is just nicer to have." I mean, for a home console, maybe, if you like having a library on the shelf beside your system. But for a portable device, the less space your system takes up, the better. Having a box of cartridges makes the Switch far less portable.
I don't resell games. I ...
I can't understand wanting physical games for the Switch. Discs for consoles I can understand, because consoles are stationary devices and you can just keep your game collection right there. But one of the great things about the Switch is just having the device with all your games installed on an SD, ready to go. If you were carrying around a bunch of little cartridges, it would still feel like a Gameboy.
Lol the PS5 version outsold the PS4 version more than 2-1, even with the PS4 version being cheaper and coming with a free upgrade to the PS5 version (meaning that many of the PS4 sales were really for PS5 and so the numbers are actually inaccurately skewed towards PS4).
It's nice to have this confirmed in digital numbers, because whenever I point to the UK physical charts to show that the current gen version of a game is outselling the last gen version and that the inst...