Both companies are reportedly planning to release their next-gen consoles within two years…
  • Lfrith@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 months ago

    It seems soon because it feels like barely anything came out in terms of exclusives for the PS5. Naughty Dog didn’t even come out with anything that wasn’t a remake.

    • mika_mika@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Didn’t Microsoft buy up a shitton of studios- killing some of them? I wouldn’t consider exclusives a good indicator of health necessarily.

      • Lfrith@lemmy.caEnglish
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        2 months ago

        That’s been the only selling point of consoles for me. They mostly all come out on the PC now so more an observation of how Sony’s releases this gen has been really lackluster compared to previous gens.

    • rafoix@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Sony spent this entire generation making live service games are were DOA or failed after years of development.

      People generally buy Sony consoles for their single player exclusives. It seems like that is not a factor to consider for their next console.

      I’m not interested in PS6. I’m more interested in building a Steambox to avoid Windows 11.

    • BombOmOm@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      The best situation for consumers is for games to come out on as many platforms as possible. Exclusives are cancer. It’s awesome to see less and less of them every generation.

      • Lfrith@lemmy.caEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Well for me Sony exclusive means Sony produced games, and they’ve just not released in that department. I’m PC now so its not exclusive for me anyways, but it does matter for console players choosing between Sony or Xbox. And Sony has really under delivered this gen with games from them.

  • TechAnon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    They should release consoles when there’s a significant leap in hardware that devs are waiting to take advantage of. The last few console releases have been boring. Don’t get me started on not only the lack of games but the lack of new types of games. Too many remakes and remasters demanding high prices.

    • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      2 months ago

      We’ve got tons of new types of games that have emerged over the years, but they sprout up at different levels of system requirements. The games that need the new hardware are the ones with the largest development budgets.

  • DamienGramatacus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I only got a ps5 two years ago and I’m set with games for years. I’m still working through PS4 games I never got round to. The idea of a new playstation at this point, particularly after the chip shortage debacle, seems absolutely absurd.

  • CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    At this point I‘m going to assume they‘ll both essentially be handheld PCs. It‘s the only device I could even imagine a market for in 2 years.

  • thetrekkersparky@startrek.websiteEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Man, I was soooo excited about the PS5, but then it turned into such a shit show to get one that I just put my money into my PC and I never even got around to picking one up when availability became more reasonable. I don’t think I’d ever really want to get back into the console gaming space anymore.

    • HeyJoe@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Although I had the same experience, I was finally able to get one after a few months. I was very happy I got one over building a PC because at the time PC GPUs were ridiculous amounts of money, and I felt the PS5 was a great deal over the PC. I ended up building a new one in 2023 a few months after prices started falling a bit finally and thought it worked out perfectly.

      I still use my PS5 more than my PC just because it sits in our main room and has the nicer TV screen. Everything has its use. If anything, I am always disappointed. I built such a nice PC and haven’t used it as much as I would have liked by now.

      • HeyJoe@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Only 1 less year than the ps4 pro. It’s not really that bad. I don’t own it, but I don’t mind that it exists. If it was cheaper and I had a better tv that took advantage of its features, maybe I would have swapped for it.

    • BurgerBaron@piefed.socialEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I used to say PC + Nintendo, but Switch 2 looks like enshittification caught up with Nintendo.

      So just PC now.

      • IEatDaFeesh@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        I would have disagreed a month ago but Sonic Racing has removed my biggest reason to consider getting a Switch 2. PC really has it all. Blessed.

      • mesa@piefed.socialEnglish
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        2 months ago

        I can play my steam games I bought over a decade ago on any hardware. Its awesome. I just got hadies 2 as well and it works flawlessly on the SD.

        And that’s just steam. I just don’t see buying an Xbox/PSehatever/switch5000. Most games come out for everything now. Who cares?

        • BurgerBaron@piefed.socialEnglish
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          2 months ago

          I still have stuff as far back as DOS and Win9x titles on my shelves. Sure I have to use virtual machines and emulators these days since I’m not willing to buy or hold onto old hardware but I’m still able to do this on modern PC which is the main point: freedom.

          I only care about exclusives anymore which is an artificial value yep.

          There are some exceptions like PS2 was my DVD movje player and PS3 was Bluray movie player and what I used Universal Media Server with back then streaming from my PC. Not just the games, but there were games too. Plus weird stuff on PSN like Trash Panic or Tokyo Jungle.

          Also I refuse to pay for online play and I stuck to it.

    • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      2 months ago

      At the very least, the console cycles are a good indicator of when it makes sense to build a new PC.