GR: There's a fierce battle that's going to take place in just a few months' time. A showdown that gamers have been eagerly anticipating for years. Both Sony and Microsoft will be releasing their next-generation consoles this fall, and with the competition growing more intense each passing day, the showdown between Xbox One and PlayStation 4 will be one for the history books.
Right now, Sony clearly has the upper hand. With a solid reveal, appealing price point, and a whole lot of love from indie developers, gamers are flocking to PlayStation's side. Meanwhile, Microsoft totally botched the Xbox One announcement with poor messaging, a higher price point, and a DRM flip flop that has everyone questioning the company's overall vision. As such, I can totally understand why Sony's camp is a bit larger than Microsoft's at the moment—but oddly enough, I'm still far more interested in the Xbox One.
Now before you bite my head off, just here me out.
Waiting a decade for new instalments in franchises as massive as Fallout and Elder Scrolls feels like a waste.
Microsoft have Obsidian but I feel it's Bethesda who just don't want to play ball as they've always said they want to do it themselves.
Once MS bought Zenimax in 2020 they should have put the Outer Worlds 2 on the back burner, allow Bethesda to finish off its own Space RPG with Starfield (despite totally different tone why have two in your first party portfolio with two developers who's gameplay is a tad similar) and got Obsidian for one of their projects to make a spiritual successor to New Vegas.
When the Elder Scrolls VI is finished Bethesda can then onto the main numbered Fallout 5 themselves.
The Outer Worlds 2 started development in 2019 so putting it on the back burner wouldn't have been the end of the world, they'd have always come back to it once Fallout was done and it would have been nicely spaced out from Starfields release once they had most likely stopped supporting it and all the expansions were released.
If they did this back in 2020 when they bought Zenimax and the game had a good, steady 4 - 5 years development, you might have seen it release in 2025.
We are literally going to be waiting until 2030 at the very earliest for Fallout 5 and all they seem bothered about is pushing Fallout 76.
Athenian Rhapsody is a JRPG with a difference: alongside turn-based combat & exploration, you'll need to complete WarioWare-style microgames.
Originally launched in 2011, El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron is coming to Nintendo Switch, so It's time to look back at the original.
Still have my ps3 copies. Bought it at launch and another one when I found it cheap and in perfect condition about 10 years ago. I wouldn’t buy it on Switch but if they made a PS5 version I would. I still have one of my PS3 Fats hooked up so good to go either way.
Id play it again on the switch. I wished my 360 version was bc but this is still a good way to play.
did he have to write this just to say: "because of Halo"?
How dare yorarararahhhhhh. Nah I don't care really If you want to play Halo and the other games are multiplatform then it would make sense to go for the One
"The d-pad is leagues better, and the triggers are as smooth as butter"
I disagree with this about the One's controller. I think the work leagues better is a bit of an overstatement. You may think it is better but leagues????
Also is this really an excuse/reason:
"I don't want six HDMI cables sticking out the back of my TV and a half dozen boxes crammed into my entertainment center."
I was with you up to those two points
For me, it's the exclusives of the XB1, with all of the features of it just icing on the cake.
If you're not into Uncharted, inFamous, Killzone, or God of War then there's not much more Sony could do for you, but they will. U4 is not guaranteed to be in development, Sony Santa Monica May have a new IP too. Geurilla have a new IP also. There's 12 new IP's from First Party Studios releasing in the First Year alone.
I can see why you wouldnt want to leave the Halo franchise behind if you really love it, and I definitely agree that Sony haven't shown enough to convince people that they will have games to show. There's just so many First party Sony studios that I know it'll be fine for games.
The HDMI points are silly though, You plug your cable box into X1 right? So that saves 1 HDMI slot, 0 boxes. Also you put a controller in my hand and i'll play it, I've never understood the whole controller thing so I can't really comment.
People keep doing the strange thing of defending Microsoft saying "Well, the were going into the future, they just had bad messaging." And when you ask how the policies were heading into the future people bring up 'Family Sharing' Hardly R2D2 isit? This was possible for digital content on PS3 and really is for a few specific situations. The rest was all just to ensure no used game sales. Modular design is more futuristic than every console has to be online for one to be able to be able to use the cloud. (Especially when it was a stunning few KB once every 24hours, that makes the cloud sound real powerful!)
Troll bait, nothing more