Seriously. If I win a recreation league basketball tournament, I'm not in a position to criticize an NBA team for losing in the first round of the playoffs, even if their coach came out before the season and guaranteed they'd make it to the championship game. Yes, I technically would have done a lot better at the thing I did, but the thing I did was much easier.
@Aussiesummer
I mean, there are videos of him from a few years before the game talking about features that didn't end up in it, yes (many of the "lies" are more based on arbitrary expectations, but he did say there would be a planetary physics system that wasn't in the final game). But literally almost every big game cuts features (this doesn't make it okay, I'm just saying NMS wasn't out of the ordinary in this respect). Plus, my main point is...
Yep. It's baffling. You could watch long gameplay videos of the game several months before it actually launched. Also, for all the flack Sean Murray gets, he specifically explained in 2014 that NMS wasn't going to be a multiplayer game like Destiny that you could play with your friends (source: https://www.gameinformer.co...
I still don't understand how people were so taken by surprise at NMS. You could watch long gameplay sessions well before release and see what the game was. Granted, it wasn't what we all had hoped for from the initial trailers, but it wasn't like you couldn't see exactly what the game was before it launched.
And Hitman 3 sales on PS4 are half of the PS5 version's sales, because install base.
Groan. Let's cut that "DLC game" crap. Miles Morales got compared to Lost Legacy in one Bloomberg article, but the reality is that it got way more exposure than LL and was pushed as Sony's big fall exclusive last year (if you don't believe me, get on youtube and look at the difference in views for the announcement trailers of LL and MM), and was the primary launch exclusive for the PS5.
If anything, the sales are soft given what everyone says about ho...
But it's free with PS Plus right now...I mean I understand if you still want the physical version for your collection or just because you want to support the devs, but you don't have to wait to start playing it.
Yep. I like the game, but there is a 0% chance I'm going to go back through all of what I've played. Hopefully you can play the DLC packs as standalone options without using a base game save, so that I can just finish the PS4 version of Control then play the DLCs on PS5.
Well I think you meant to ask the first two the other way around, but if so, the obvious answer is yes to all of them. No games ever took advantage of the PS4 Pro or One X, because they were always gimped for the earlier versions. Same thing this gen; indeed, a dev just said the other day that the RAM on the series S is the limit that all next gen games (including PS5 versions of multiplats) have to be based around, because it's the lowest common denominator. The weakest system a game is ...
@Outlawzz
Yes, obviously everyone knows about the new 3DS. There were also some virtual console games available on it that you couldn't play on a standard 3DS. I just assume they aren't going to do anything that stupid again. It's implicit in my comment though that I'm saying if they intend to release standard switch games, they can't base them around the power of a pro system. Obviously if they want to target only the fraction of the audience who buy th...
Yes, the "devs need more power to get them through the gen" argument never makes any sense. It's not like releasing an updated version is going to automatically upgrade the power of the 80 million Switches already put there, so it's not like you can build a game around any extra power the pro would have.
@LucasRuinedChildhood
Actually sim racers can sell very well. In the era before Sony's first party games started routinely selling 5+ million and many times even 10+ million, Gran Turismo was its most reliable seller. Gran Turismo 3 sold over 14 million on PS2, and Gran Turismo 5 sold about 12 million on PS3.
Unfortunately, they have massively mishandled the series recently, beginning with their decision to rely on the always-flawed "install bas...
Hmm, didn't expect this so late, as they seemed pretty confident a few weeks ago. Still, it's not not long, and I have plenty to play in the meantime, so if it is needed to improve the game, that's fine.
Exactly. These cross-gen apologists don't seem to realize that if a studio puts out a cross-gen game (that is, a game really built for PS4 rather than PS5) in late 2021 or early 2022, that studio will likely only put out one real PS5 game this gen.
Exactly, that's what I do. I take it for granted that the newer the console, the higher the percentage of sales that will be digital, because people are gradually shifting. I only point to the digital version because that is an objective fact that refutes someone from trying to say "well maybe the PS4 version is really selling better and there are just more people buying physical on PS5."
Some PS5s can't even play discs (thus suggesting that a higher percentage of overall PS5 game sales will be digital compared to PS4 games), and there are only a few million PS5s sold, yet its physical sales of Hitman double the PS4 version and its vaunted install base.
Despite this happening in January of 2021, two months after PS5's launch, we'll still see people using the "install base" and "why leave behind 120 million gamers" nonsense to ...
Umm no. The only thing I am is mad that devs keep limiting PS5 games by making them cross gen, even though people stop buying non-casual titles on old hardware once new systems are out. So if devs are going to limit their games by designing them for PS4, then yes, I absolutely want them to run at flawless 60 fps 4k on PS5, because there are no excuses at that point.
Btw, PS5 is over 10 tflops (not that tflops are everything, as we've learned from PS5 games often looking...
Games don't "need" to exist at all. But yes, I obviously I want games to look better than they did on an old console last year, and games that are designed for an old system and slightly updated for a new one are not going to look as good as games designed from the ground up for the better hardware.
It's especially frustrating when it's being held back without good reason. By May, the type of person who buys RE games in the launch window will have alre...
Unfortunately Sony would make good multiplayer titles, but people on Playstation would largely ignore them in favor of more generic third party stuff, so as much as I miss their output, I can't blame them for focusing on games people actually buy.
But the relevant issue is the lowest tier console. I mean, technically Ps4 Pro and One X will limit Series X and PS5 as well, but when there's a much weaker console included, that is the relevant limitation.
But yes, PS4 is a big limitation. Lol get on any thread about upcoming cross gen PlayStation exclusives and you'll see me complaining about it and pointing to numbers showing that old install bases stop buying games.