Lol the problem isn't the problem, it's the people mentioning the problem.
It is kind of funny that no one batted an eye that the standard PS5 is $100 more expensive than the launch PS4, but everyone is losing their minds that some games are starting at $10 more.
Lol it's amazing people still don't understand the issue with cross-gen after seeing the footage for that game.
I'd love to see a breakdown by game, but I guess we're unlikely to ever see anything official on that. I do wonder if this includes "Ground Zeroes" separate from "The Phantom Pain." I assume it does, but Ground Zeroes was basically a glorified demo, so this could be a bit inflated.
Lol Xbox always does far worse in Europe. The US is where it makes its money.
Uhh what console shooter right now plays like a good Battlefield game? Because right now everyone is chasing esports or the BR craze. I might have agreed with you in the PS3/360 gen, but now there's actually a dearth of solid team-based shooters on console that aren't just designed to push MTs.
Yeah. UK sales are useful when they are the only data available, which frequently now they are, but we also know that Titanfall was the #1 game on NPD the month it released in the US on PC and XONE, but on 360 it didn't even chart (while the 360 version of Minecraft did) https://venturebeat.com/201... Vgchartz also confirms XONE version sold way better...
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Because there's a group of people on here who inexplicably want games to be designed around ancient hardware in perpetuity. So anytime I point out that the PS5 version of a game outsold the PS4 version, that game sales on old hardware always nosedive when new consoles release, or just generally point out the disadvantages of cross-gen, they downvote.
Haha I love the idea that scalpers aren't selling the PS5s to consumers, even though selling to consumers is the only thing that makes them a scalper rather than a consumer/collector.
No it isn't. Sony releasing Horizon as a cross-gen game in 2021 would be the equivalent of Uncharted being cross-gen PS2/PS3. This fixation on cross-gen is new.
Why didn't they release BF4 on the Wii then? It had a huge install base.
Why didn't Titanfall become a hit on 360, when there were 85+ million 360s and probably fewer than 10 million Xbox Ones?
Why did MGSV sell 19-1 on PS4/XONE compared to PS3/360 when the older consoles had a 100 million-ish advantage in install base?
Why did Hitman 3 on PS5 double the PS4 version's sales 2 months after PS5 launched?
Exactly. The Cross-gen move might have a little more weight if the series still had the momentum from 4 and 1 (some people mad about 5 now try to lump 1 with 5 but at the time it was huge, and still retains a good community), because huge mainstream games are the only games that don't nosedive in sales on last gen consoles after the current gen consoles launch. But after 5 they aren't in that tier of games anymore. By firmly establishing themselves as the ground up shooter for PS5/XSX...
This seems like the best possible scenario; that the old versions are actually basically a different game (sort of like BF3 on PS3/360 vs the PC version).
But 25 million people who are excited and actually buying games is a better option than 150 million dusty Netflix/Fortnite machines. A PS4 is not a living entity; if the person who has it isn't buying new games, it's irrelevant. Why do you think the original Titanfall wasn't a big deal on the 360? Way more people had 360s than Xbox Ones in 2014, and multiplayer games had obviously sold well there before. It's because the people who weren't upgrading weren't buying new ...
At this point I want them to start talking about PS6, because I'm convinced the only time they're going to make games designed around PS5 is when it means they are gimping them for the next gen.
Yep. Just like how all these devs NEEDED Sony to allow crossplay, and then when Sony allowed it, half of them changed their tune to "maybe in the future."
Lol the PS5 versions of Hitman 3, Outriders, and Resident Evil Village have already outsold their PS4 counterparts, and there are only around 9 million PS5s sold (7.8 mil at the end of March + 5 weeks of 200kish). Even if the chip situation doesn't improve much, there could be close to 25 million current gen consoles sold (I'm not calling 8 year old machines current gen, they are last gen) by the time Battlefield launches (assuming Novemberish), and they will be the people actually bu...
Yep. And if you are one of the "$70 is too much, I'm waiting until it's $40-50" folks, that's fair, but actually remember it when it does get to that price (if you're like me, you usually end up just forgetting about things once you wait on them a few months).
I'd love to eventually see HL:Alyx on PSVR2 and then some new games, but in the immediate term I'd like to see "The Orange Box 2." It Could be all of HL:2, Both Portal Games, and both L4D games. Or I'd love even just an amped up version of L4D2. Now that every co-op game has become a loot-based semi-RPG, L4D2 remains one of the best available co-op games.
A good rule of thumb is that anyone who says "no one cares" about something you said actually cares about that thing a great deal.