150°

PS5 vs PS3 Sales Comparison - December 2021

December 2021 is the 14th month the PlayStation 5 has been available for. In the latest month, the gap grew in favor of the PlayStation 3 when compared to the aligned launch of the PlayStation 5 by 53,852 units. In the last year the PS5 has outsold the PS3 by 5.54 million units. The PlayStation 5 is currently ahead by 8.68 million units.

Read Full Story >>
vgchartz.com
Create Report !X

Add Report

Reports

+ Updates (1)- Updates (1)

Updates

Changed from Pending to Approved
Community809d ago
JEECE809d ago

Lol a nice reminder for everyone who whines about the lack of BC for older PlayStation generations that Sony released a PlayStation that could play all prior generations natively (at launch PS3 had full BC with PS1 and PS2) and people weren't rushing to buy it.

IanTH809d ago (Edited 809d ago )

Feels a bit like a strawman to me, to ignore all the other things surrounding the price & launch of both consoles, and then point to backwards compatibility as the sole (or at least primary) differentiator in sales. It isn't like "if it doesn't have it, I won't buy it!" for most people, it is more a nicety to have once you do buy it.

And, of course, PS5 has direct PS4 backwards compatibility, some games getting specific boosts for PS5 and others still runnable in PS4 Pro mode. The immediate prior generation is always going to be the most immediately "necessary" one, with older ones being the cherry. It isn't like PS5 is thriving with no BC at all. There's definitely *some* value in the BC included in PS5; to whit, most of the games I've played on my PS5 so far are boosted PS4 games.

I really do wish Sony would add backwards compatibility for old consoles, though. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to play all PlayStation games in one place? To either play discs you own, or hit up the store & pick up some old favorites? My full-BC PS3 died, so I have to have my PS3 Slim & PS2 hooked up to go back to older games. Perhaps you don't care, but plenty of people do. There's little reason Sony couldn't add functionality for at least PS1 & PS2 (not to mention, probably fairly easy to do PSP & PSV as well). Make PS5 the hub for all things PlayStation!

JEECE809d ago

I agree with basically everything you said. And since you and I bought a launch PS3 with full BC, we have the right to complain. If we complain about the absence of BC on PS4/PS5, we are not massive hypocrites.

My comment is directed at the people who whine about how critical BC is, but when the chips were down and they had an opportunity to buy a PlayStation that could play all 3 generations of games, they were saying PS3 was the next Dreamcast and talking about how "Wii60" was the way to go. Don't talk to me about how important your PS1 and PS2 collections are if you were perfectly willing to trade the ability to play them for Red Steel and Saints Row. For that matter, it's pretty annoying to hear people complain about not being able to play PS3 games on PS5 when they didn't buy those games at the time.

Good-Smurf809d ago

It was the price tag that put people off not the Full BC and native hardware BC was one of the reasons why the launch consoles got expensive.
Then you add comparatively weak launch titles it was a hard sell.
Even Sony themselves lost a lot of money each unit they sold since I heard the launch model cost Sony an estimated $840 to make.

JEECE809d ago

Sony lost money on it because even at $600 (everyone conveniently forgets about the $500 20GB launch version) the PS3 was a great value for everything that was included. It will probably always be the best console for the money.

TravsVoid809d ago

Who would rush to drop $600, which with inflation is $800 now? If the PS5 was $800 it doesn't matter what it does when there is a cheaper Xbox with the same level of hardware and its backwards compatible too.

JEECE809d ago

Lol me. PS3 was such a better value than 360 at that time. I actually cared about my old library though, unlike all the people who whine about the lack of BC now but were "Wii60" people back then. Launch PS3 is probably the best value console that has ever been released when you consider the tech included at the time of launch.

Retroman809d ago

And the PS5 still not "Available " Scalpers still in control of High prices ,Sony doing absolutely Nothing about it. Best buy and Gamestop and other retailers joined the Scalpers High price wars.
for me I can wait until prices back to normal 599.
by that time Gran Turismo 7 is on Sale .

My personal observation and opinion of course.

SullysCigar809d ago

I'm curious as to how you'd suggest they fix the situation? PC and xbox are also suffering this situation, so presumably it's no piece of cake.

809d ago Replies(2)
120°

Ranking the Devil May Cry Series

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."

Read Full Story >>
vgchartz.com
Create Report !X

Add Report

Reports

+ Updates (1)- Updates (1)

Updates

Changed from Pending to Approved
Community3h ago
VersusDMC2h ago

First to last for me...3,4,5,1,2.

VersusDMC46m ago

Me leaving it out should be telling of my thoughts on it. Better than 2 as a DMC game.

Still a good game though.

Friendlygamer1h ago

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

monkey6021h ago(Edited 1h ago)

2.
Dmc.
4.
5.
1.
3.

God DMC2 was an awful game.
And in case this isn't obvious it goes worst to best

70°

Unicorn Overlord is a tactical RPG masterpiece

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.

Read Full Story >>
knowtechie.com
Create Report !X

Add Report

Reports

+ Updates (1)- Updates (1)

Updates

Changed from Pending to Approved
Community4h ago
jznrpg1h ago

I have the game and downloaded it going to start it tonight and play it on the Portal.

90°

Beloved Strategem Still Broken as Helldivers 2 Players Plead to Devs

Some Helldivers 2 players are frustrated with some content still being broken, so read this article to see what that is all about.

Create Report !X

Add Report

Reports

+ Updates (1)- Updates (1)

Updates

Changed from Pending to Approved
Community5h ago
TwoPicklesGood1d 3h ago

Some?? Try all. Mechs are bugged, many weapons are useless including the newly renewed ones, stratagems are bugged or weak, we still get stuck in the terrain with no way out, and the list goes on. Good game but they need to fix the issues before doing anything else.

jznrpg58m ago

Love the game hate the bugs. The worst for me is difficulty reverted on me so I can’t play past hard 5 and it won’t unlock again. Friend invites are spotty. Need a rejoin mission button for when you get booted (seems to happen at night more often than the day time) Fell through the world once. Got stuck a couple times on destroyed ships, on rocks a couple times stuff like that. There are other issues but those are the ones that bothered me the most without getting into weapons and strats. It all adds up. It’s not every mission besides the difficulty issue but it’s a bit frustrating. They have something special but the bugs are hurting it.

I want the difficulty one fixed right away and the friend invite as well. If they keep adding new stuff and with it comes new issues they may end up with so many issues they can potentially ruin the game.I can live without new anything for some time (however long it takes really) if they fix the major issues first.