They do it because consumers do not want physical media anymore, not because the company has an agenda. They benefit from it yes, but not doing it because of that only, otherwise they would not offer an option. Same with movies and music. Doesn't matter how you spin it or slice it, that's just the way the world is and will be moving forward.
The best way to play is to invest into the top end PC hardware every 4-6 years. You'll make 1/3 of the investment back in lower game prices and zero subscriptions to access all features. The overall experience is always better and you will have more games to enjoy.
Literally all PS Exclusives on PC support Dualsense wirelessly with all the features. What you get on top is high frame rate and better image quality. Plus you can use very simple mods that unlock FPS or AI u...
I fully agree.
ALLM, VRR, HDR, AI Based Upscaling and Frame Generation combined with a highly capable non-flickery VRR OLED will be such a set of technologies that will make the anything between 50-500fps gaming (mostly probably 60-120fps) incredible and a bit of a game changing experience.
Experiencing this already today on a large OLED TV and RTX4090 and have to say playing games is an absolute blast. Once they solve #stutterstruggle, it will be perfect...
In no priority but the reasons I think are for current gen Xbox:
1) Idiotic name - Doesn't convey anything to buyer
2) Brand recognition / awareness is low outside the US
3) Zero exclusives - No incentive to buy
4) No innovation in hardware such as controllers or a new way to play, everything is a copy or refinement at best
5) Two SKUs at launch complicates buying decision
6) Top performance SKU behind competition's top S...
I'm curious, how do you know what is happening at Sony and Nintendo? They have around 120 000 people working combined globally, what's your insight as an outsider to what kind of culture these workers are experiencing every day?
Same, my last Ubisoft game is Rayman Legends. I did buy Valiant Hearts and Child of Light as well. After these, I haven't touched their games.
I think the PS5 Pro is good for what it is. However, I knew it would be around 7800XT level performance with slightly faster RT from RDNA4 architecture, so I made a decision early on to get the 4090 and 5800X3D to simply have at least double the performance of the upcoming PS5 Pro, because it was only ever able to do 30fps RT on an AMD system in the most demanding titles. For that the 4090 can easily do 60fps, and most of the time 70-100fps which is fantastic with a Gsync display.
Who cares about your predictions track record?
Are you expecting people to go "that guy darthv72, well, he was right! I've been tracking every word he has been saying I think I'm going to the N4G forums and write him a complementary comment because his price predictions were so good. What a great guy!"
I mean come on, who has time or interest for that sort of stuff?
I'm pretty sure they will be using DLSS on the Switch 2.
PS5 Pro has a GPU similar to the soon to be released 60CU part 8700XT. That is closer to 6800XT and 7800XT of the PC parts (they have more watts and higher clocks) in raster and faster in RT and better upscaling due to ML. PS5 Pro has a very slow CPU which is a downclocked Ryzen 3700X.
I bought it but am not installing it yet due to 175gb size and probably playing it after multiple other Sony exclusives. Got 2 TB full of games I didn't finish (FFXVI, Forbidden West, BG3, etc. etc. ) already out of 2.5 TB total NVME/SSD space. The player count does to tell everything, the numbers are not comparable directly, although 60% less is a large number (but it is exactly the same time frame, same release days, or weekdays mixed etc. ? )
Let's remember that it kept a lot of families afloat, most of that is salaries paid to creative people across different studios who worked on multiple aspects of the project. It didn't go to a trashbin or disappear, but actually people made a living out of that money mostly. Which is of course very good. I do agree, 400M US does sound a bit nuts.
This is Sony's Betamax moment in gaming. Hope they learn from it and pivot back to where they are strong and build on it. I do want them to keep innovating as well. They should think what type of new gaming genres they can create, the medium has nearly endless boundaries creatively that have not been tested out yet.
Not true at all. Works very well on the 4090.
I'm going to have to clear BG3 before I can install this behemoth...
I appreciate it is a great device, but simply not enough to run the games I play. I’m also going to wait for a Z2E or Z3E OLED version of Steam Deck before jumping in.
I want to run games at medium/optimized settings at 60fps for 3hrs+, and we are not there yet.
I'm gaming with my 4090 on a G4 83" from my sofa with a Dualsense controller at hand.
@fr0sty, Why are you so hard trying to defend the PS5 Pro? As many mentioned already, you have no idea what you are talking about.
Speaking of Japan here, not the US.
With the latest rumors that the Z2 Extreme chip will be 12 CU instead of 16 CU (latter being cancelled for handhelds), it makes me wonder if Valve knew that will be the case and thus put out those comments? Z1E to Z2E is a mere 10% uplift from something like a Rog Ally X, and certainly not a "generational leap" which is what Valve is after.
If the Z3 Extreme chip in 2026 will be 16 CU and based on Zen6/RDNA5, that might be a real leap from the original Steam Deck....