The Scorpio and Windows 10 have some lessons for Sony to imbibe with the eventual PS5.
The friendly folks over at Razer recently sent us their full size Kishi Ultra mobile gaming controller, and this thing didn't disappoint.
VGChartz's Mark Nielsen: "Upon finally finishing Devil May Cry 5 recently - after it spent several years on my “I’ll play that soon” list - I considered giving it a fittingly-named Late Look article. However, considering that this was indeed the final piece I was missing in the DMC puzzle, I decided to instead take this opportunity to take a look back at the entirety of this genre-defining series and rank the entries. What also made this a particularly tempting notion was that while most high-profile series have developed fairly evenly over time, with a few bumps on the road, the history of Devil May Cry has, at least in my eyes, been an absolute roller coaster, with everything from total disasters to action game gold."
Me leaving it out should be telling of my thoughts on it. Better than 2 as a DMC game.
Still a good game though.
3,1,4,5 to me, never played 2. 5 gameplay is amazing but level design was really disappointing to me, just a bunch of plain arenas, the story felt like a worse written rehash of the 3rd and the charater models looked weird ( specially the ladies ). Another problem with 5 was that there was not enough content for 3 charaters so I could never really familiarize with any of them
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Dmc.
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God DMC2 was an awful game.
And in case this isn't obvious it goes worst to best
Order changes depending on your focus. I tend to focus on gameplay/fun factor, so...
5, 3, 1, 4, 2.
I really didn't like 4 but commend Dante's weapon diversity. The retreading of old ground was pretty unacceptable to me.
But even then... Still more enjoyable than 2 for me
Vanillaware's tactical role-playing game Unicorn Overlord is a beautiful mix of old mechanics and new-age graphics, with over 65 unique recruitable characters and a rich storyline.
Microsoft's strategy with Scorpio isn't necessarily going to affect how Sony handles PS5, as long as PS4 dominates and the strength of their platform-defining exclusives are what everybody is talking about.
What Microsoft sees as offering value in services and features, the mass market doesn't choose to agree to with their hard-earned. And as the article points out, Sony cares more for the future investment into games of all kinds, and Microsoft more for investment into services and features, which is why their games lineup can't touch what PS4 has going on.
As long as PS5 is going to have a strong creative lineup to compliment its release onwards and is significantly more powerful, this whole power race is going to get messy especially for those that really, really believe power is the game changer. Which it's not.
Sony will shape the direction of PS5 pure and simple! Games have always shaped the direction of PlayStation even during PS3's era. Sony didn't stop what they were doing to see what Microsoft were doing! No they just continued to do what has worked for them every generation! And that is deliver top quality exclusive titles.
Who knows?
For Sony to maintain their position within the games console market, they need to ensure that they continue to develop compelling exclusives, as well as securing platform exclusives from third parties, and further improve PSN. But, it is also important that Sony commits to being more consumer friendly. In regards to that I hope the PS5 will be fully backwards compatible with PS4 titles for both physical and digital content, and I also hope Sony follow the example of Steam and MS in offering a similar refund scheme.