I am pretty much a born writer, so I am sure this will be endlessly entertaining, and if not, then I think it was worth the gamble.
As I often find myself doing, I was browsing the headline news today. Somehow this got in it:
http://darkzero.co.uk/blog/why-sony-will-win-the-next-gen-race/#comment-953
I was reading, and I thought very fair points. Makes sense, for this generation anyway, but what will Sony do in future next gen races? I started summing up things, that have added to the disparity of the humble beginnings of each PlayStation. To be honest though, I am not the type of person to trawl through research and look at numbers. I just did some lazy summing up. And remembered best what I could about PS2 launch and the first PlayStation launch. So what did I come up with, that no where else has come up with? Not very much, but with some rambling, it should turn out to be pretty substantial:
-One thing that no one ever seems to mention is Sony's in house development. It's actually the prospective game from Team ICO that convinced me to buy a PS3. And that will never change, even in the next generation. This is in addition to committed third party developers. Very committed. Sony has a great relationship with many developers, and if not, it has superbly talented developers of it's own, creating genuine must-have-titles. Not the faux-must-have-titles of this generation so far. I am looking at you Uncharted and Gears of War.
-The other thing I found no one mentioning is the PS3's difficult hardware. Now, you are no doubt asking:
"wtf IS THE RELEVANCE OF THE PS3rd HARDWARE IN FUTURE GENERATIONS OR EVEN THE CURRENT ONE YOU NUB"
We were expecting problems with mod support, but there are a lot of other issues.
This is why you get the GOG version on gog you can select the version of the game to download.
On pc fallout 4 fallout new vegas and skyrim are all broken on steam because they all got the same "next gen" update.
Skyrim dec 2023
https://www.pcgamer.com/sky...
Can not find new vegas but anyone that modded it knows the script extender there was also broken
Not accidental, they want modders to stop modding their older games to force them to mod Shitfield.
There doing the same on starfield with a mods store and blocking mods
There goal is like blizzard and what they did with fallout 76 you make mods they can sell and you become a slave.
On skyrim they have "trusted" mod devs now basically a badge that lets your mod on the store you get a crumb of the sale when someone buys it.
lol to the disagrees, the last Skyrim update broke mods too. They've been trying to kill mods to monetize them in creation club for years, it's not a stretch that they purposely put out patches just to break free mods.
The disagrees are from people who have common sense. They aren't trying to kill mods. Most mods for any game will break with a new update because they rely on files/code that have been changed. This isn't new. Even with Bethesda this would happen way before the creation club. Mod support is literally one of the things that got Bethesda to where they are, and they're one of the only devs that releases comprehensive mod tools for each of their games.
Over 14 GBs and doesn't change much at all? What? Taking up that much drive space for a pathetic 'remastering' is shameful.
Par for Bethesda.
LOL people are actually expecting massive improvements or something? From Bethesda?? the same people who released Skyrim multiple times and the all look like shit? THAT Bethesda? are people for real?
The ps5 version doesn't change a ton but from my small playtime it's enough to make me want to replay it just to have it running at 60.
A side note to this my PS4 version no longer boots after it's "update" so I guess that's what it feels like to own a Bethesda game on PC
As of right now, there are no monopolies in the games industry, and for the sake of the medium as a whole, they never should either.
And yet the biggest tech companies in America are essentially that. They buy up all the small comps only to kill them off and steal what they have, and if they can't buy em they bleed them to death.
Eventually they’ll realize the value is with the employee not the company. Buying an IP means nothing if the people who contributed are let go. They’ll get it one day.
tech is different because they buy threats and then kill them. Twitter bought Vine and did nothing with it. Despite people seemingly liking it. Could've had tiktok a decade before bytedance. go figure.
They buy IPs not talent. That's why these buyouts never work and the IPs die. Right now it's too expensive to develop games - but I expect that to shift maybe as AI tools can make it easier. The best games have been indie games for awhile as big developers fuck their ips to death with "games as a service" -
A voice actor from The Coalition's third-person shooter series, Gears of War, has hinted at a new game announcement coming in June.
Hopefully Microsoft will go back to the original story line and get away from that woke nonsense from the last Gears game Gears of Woke! But were talking about Microsoft so all the betting money is on more of the same woke nonsense.
The Locust trilogy concluded with Gears of War 3. I don’t get how Gears 4 and 5 are “woke” .
but 'fresh' style.