Here's a list of the top five things wrong with the PlayStation 4 Pro, problems that might put you off from buying one.
Do you agree with them?
Sony has launched a new PlayStation Store sale this week titled "Big Games, Big Deals" and this discounts over 1,700 items on the storefront.
"The sudden closure of several video-game studios at Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox division was the result of a widespread cost-cutting initiative that still isn’t finished.
This week, Xbox began offering voluntary severance agreements to producers, quality assurance testers and other staff at ZeniMax, which it purchased in 2020 for $7.5 billion, according to people familiar with the company’s plans. Others across the Xbox organization have been told that more cuts are on the way.
Speaking about the closures more broadly, Booty said that the company’s studios had been spread too thin — like “peanut butter on bread” — and that leaders across the division had felt understaffed. They decided to close these studios to free up resources elsewhere, he said.
Game Pass has not seen the massive growth that Xbox boss Phil Spencer may have been hoping for."
Sense it seems very few remember that human's were around before 2020 the next studio to close will be bethesda based no doubt on the history of.
Fallout 76
Elder scrolls online
elder scrolls blades mobile
fallout mobile
The vr versions of old games
Then you got starfield pissing out cash nothing to cover it.
I doubt tod's team or any sub team is making m$ cash they are no doubt on the chopping block for job cuts
If you can remember before 2020 even fallout 76 was made with over 4 studios.
"Speaking about the closures more broadly, Booty said that the company’s studios had been spread too thin — like “peanut butter on bread” — and that leaders across the division had felt understaffed. They decided to close these studios to free up resources elsewhere, he said"
So what you're saying is...you bought all these studios and you guys can't run them.
Jesus.
Spread thin after firing over 2000 employees a few months prior. So basically they created the problem and their solution was to just fire more people. Absolute geniuses over at Xbox, of course can we even believe this to be the reason for the closures?
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They left them do there "magic" for 3 years lost alot of money redfall is what made them take charge.
This is right now m$ in charge
Leaders can't run them hire more management create new roles don't shutter entire studios cause you can't figure out how to run them.
Unless the reality is this whole consolidation thing was really an excuse for IP harvesting
Reports are suggesting that Game Pass will be getting a price hike soon and that Call of Duty may not be added to the day one offering. I honestly have a hard time believing this but it does beg the question why exactly did GP fail? I think the answer is that it just didn't get the growth that it anticipated. Jim was right but I wish he wasn't because at the end of the day, its gamers, devs and other front-line workers who have to absorb the blow for Spencer and team's miscalculations.
Honestly as long as is not a situation where the industry has to contract in order focus wealth on a few people who are already trillionaires..
For all the armchair executives who were calling for Sony to release its big-budget AAA games on PS+, the same exact thing would have happened at PlayStation. Game Pass has killed Xbox. Congrats.
There's not many of of us clamoring for Sony to do this because most of us understand it would kill Playstation. I'm sure there's a few but I've not seen alot of it myself.
I will give you a like sense this site is pro sony even the mods will delete this comment like my last asap as they defend sony 24/7.
Those with brains knows microsoft a trillion dollar company cares little about devs and is all about making cash so they will lease out ips gamepass is not a loss like amazon/netflix the overall ms make billions a week.
Twisted Voxel writes: "We've almost reached the end of the 1st half of 2024, and Xbox has had more studio closures than first party game releases in the year so far."
Hellblade 2, Indiana Jones, Avowed, Towerborne, and Call of Duty are still to be released this year. Marcus Fenix collection to be added to the list with the Xbox showcase, hopefully.
"Xbox Has Had More Studio Closures Than First Party Game Releases So Far In 2024"
they kept the IPs though. they'll be making them under the MS brand i'm guessing. like minecraft all those years ago.
If we're going to talk in "still to be's" there still could be more studio closures from Microsoft this year as well.
How much confidence do people have in these games being good though? I hope they will be (especially Avowed) but from what we know of them so far, it's hardly a guarantee, is it?
And even if they do turn out to be good, how much of that will be down to Xbox and its leadership? Most of these games were either sequels to games made before being acquired or started development before being acquired.
And just a note on Hellblade II - it is out in two weeks and unless I'm missing something, I don't see much in the way of previews or advertising from Microsoft. Not ideal for a niche game that looks like it probably cost a lot of money to make. It genuinely feels like another game being sent out to die and then have the studio shut down.
To me...Avowed graphics look cheap, the game looks generic as well as boring.
I find it interesting that people have to resort to praising how they were randomly born in a certain location to say they're not weird. But, I'm not sure this kind of stupidity can be generalized over an entire group of people, at least, I'm being optimistic here.
Sony doesn't have to bother fighting the next Microsoft acquisition. The massive layoff by themselves should be enough to get the next big buy blocked.
Vindicates Jim Ryan. Don't know who didnt see this coming except those frothing pro acquisition fanboys who are not commenting here for some reason....
Let’s not pretend Sony is setting the world on fire with its first party either….it’s been crickets from them as well. In fact they even said not to expect any at all this year.
MS is a dumpster fire and Sony isn’t fighting anymore and it shows. I fail to see how this is a good thing.
Wasn't it no new existing IP entries? That would still leave room for new IPs, maybe we'll see one or more of those this year.
So if MS hadn't spent $80 billion consolidating the industry just think of all the games and jobs that would have saved.
MS is a drain on gaming and have been nothing but a negative.
not exactly like the studios were putting out good games anyway. Industry needs to restart from the ground up; if games like battlebit or manor lords can be made by teams with 10 people - then there's something fundamentally wrong with having 500 man teams put out glitchy overmonetized crap.
Interesting. Prey was a good game, evil within was dope, and hi fi was the best Xbox game that Xbox has had in so many years. That's according to the base.
HiFi Rush was a really good game actually so that's hardly the reason for shutting down Tango.
I think Sony has essentially killed scorpio by releasing the PS4 Pro. Think about it, the PS4 Pro has the benefit of being novel for 2 reasons:
1) it has a bigger power gap against existing consoles at time of its release (2-3 times more powerful than the others) AND
2) it has the novelty of introducing VR to console gamers.
When scorpio releases, it will only be (roughly) 33% more powerful than other existing consoles. (For those that arent good at math the PS4 Pro, by comparison is between 200%-300% more powerful than existing consoles)
Also by that time console gamers will already be fimiliar with VR.
So, yeah i think PS4Pro is going to really staggnate the sales of scorpio.
Barely any of these makes sense, and this article exists just for nonsense clicks.
The author's 3rd and 4th points directly and embarrassingly conflict.
3) "The boost in visuals on a regular, non-4K HD TV will likely not be worth the $400 you’ll pay for the system."
4) "is it really that hard to save $100 over a few months and wait for an opportunity to buy the PS4 Pro"
.........WHAT? Author is clueless. Double standards exposed. Is it right, or is it wrong?
On to the rest of the points:
1) This is a blatant lie about a lack of native 4K, when the PS4 Pro has an absolute capability to output the resolution natively. The author doesn't even bother to go into detail about how this is "wrong" anyway, doesn't even bother to go into detail about how the hardware-based checkerboard rendering process compares to native. Then it brings up Scorpio, as though it were more than just a single 6TF number at this point and lofty claims from a corporation that historically hasn't yet lived up to its earlier claims about the XB1, such as cloud computing making it 3-4 times more powerful.
2) This is a 100% non-gaming, non-starter that would only bring up the price of the console, and somehow this is a bad thing.... even though UHD Blu-ray media is not only sparse right now, but ridiculously expensive, and not exactly gaining traction either.
3) This talks about "needing" a 4KTV to fully benefit. How exactly does this detail how PS4 Pro gets it "wrong"? If anything it gets it right in the sense that it provides immediate benefits to those who don't yet have 4KTVs, so you aren't wasting your money when buying it and not seeing the 4K benefit. Idiot author.
4) This talks about just how "pointless" it makes another console seem, but refuses to bring up how pointless it makes the current XB1 or XB1 S considering that it's only $100 more than those consoles too and much more powerful. The author decided to bring up Scorpio in the first point, but doesn't want to bring up the other Xbox consoles in this point. Strange. That extra $100 can make all the difference if you're in the market for something like PSVR, but the author is just very simple.
5) This is a jest at how it looks "ugly" despite really having no substantial reasoning as to why that is. Seems as thought they could only think of 4 things so they just added it, pointlessly.
I agree with everything but 5. I think the Pro is absolutely gorgeous. I'm going to love seeing it on my custom wall mount like the thing's so epic it literally has the power to shift gravity.
TBH I could mention the 5 things right with the ps4 pro.
1: No competition - for a year or more.
2: It's cheap - 400 dollars for a gaming machine that if build 3 years ago would have cost 900+ dollars before tax is VALUE.
3: It doesn't separate the ps4 community. - Which would have meant low budget shitty start of gen exclusives ALL over again.
4: it offers more power. - Which everyone bitched about late last gen wanting more than 720p 30fps. "That they're now getting."
5: it's offering forward compatibility. - Offering more value than we ever thought we were getting when we bought our older games.
I really feel like every time someone writes a list about the negative aspects of things, they should REALLY attempt to think outside the box and consider the positives as well, even if they don't want to. Being intentionally ignorant helps nobody.
Rise of the tomb raider 1080p avg 50fps, or booseted visuals 30fps. Cant wait!!!
1. Doesn’t Do Native 4K Gaming
2. Doesn’t Play UHD 4K Blu-Rays
3. You Need a 4K TV to Fully Benefit
4. Makes PS4 Slim Almost Pointless
5. One of the Ugliest Designs Ever
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Funny stuff right? At 1) they even claim the Scorpio will do native 4k and something about why settle for an imitation!
1. Scorpio will be as much a native 4k machine as the PS4 Pro is, not all games will be native 4k.
2. Yeah we know already after like 50 opinion articles about it
3. You don't say?
4. Ehhh, ok
5. That's subjective
The only real one is of course #2, the UHD drive, the others are either subjective (the looks) or the same as with the Scorpio with which they compare it.