While all of this happening, PC gaming is having really solid, consistent growth. Seems like consoles may have already peaked. It's clear from both Sony and MS that the business is unsustainable in its current form.
Same CPU in Pro, so the expectation is that it'll just be a res boost unfortunately.
I'd argue Sony has been the least innovative of the 3 recently. They've basically consolidated their entire brand to one genre of games. The opportunities they've had to innovate have resulted in them abandoning interesting hardware.
Big part of that is developers being super underpaid in Japan vs America. Like 40k low.
@frosty
lot of words to say "yes"
Unless you're talking about Nintendo, which had about half of the gaming revenue of Microsoft before the ABK acquisition. MS's gaming revenue is about 50% higher than Sony's now.
Armchair accountants still not understanding the difference between expenses and investments.
It ebbs and flows. Everyone loved them again with the second wave of RPGish AC games. Valhalla and Breakpoint dipped it again, and now they seem to be on the upswing with Avatar. They're not particularly innovative, but everything they release is generally solid and technically sound aside from Unity. Shame they stopped cranking out their smaller, more arty games.
Sony fanboys have truly become the GOP of the gaming community.
Nice, leave it to N4G to put a negative spin on this.
That's only half of it; the other problem is that there isn't another ip ready to overtake it. If COD shut down overnight, there wouldn't really be any single place for a lot of those players to go. Some might go to BF, some to battle royale games, but there isn't a property pushing to own that space because it's so dominated by COD.
Not too surprising. The hate circlejerk for this game exists mostly in a couple online communities. Most people just play games and get on with their lives.
Probably like 15 minutes cause the loading screens are basically instant
"Gta6 is the most anticipated game of all time and its third person and has always been."
GTA isn't a great example; it started as a top down game and with one bold innovation (going 3rd person), basically created the entire genre that op's tired of.
Yeah the Spiderman games are great, but they're more akin to Yakuza. Updating the same city, adding a few new mechanics.
Then why aren't Sony exclusives doing anything notable this gen?
@GamerRN
No point trying to reason with fanboy logic. By extension, they're implying that the Switch was the most powerful console last gen.
That was an unsubstantiated rumor from a Bloomberg article.
I don't know how you price anything effectively in places where the currency is that volatile. Every year I visit my family in Turkey I'm getting twice the lira as the year before. Console wars aside, it's a total shitshow of an economy.
No one's even attempted to read the article here either. There's such an enthusiasm for any semblance of Microsoft struggling on this site that's it's not really worth trying to engage meaningfully. The full quote is just him saying that MS, Sony, and developers are having trouble because the console market as a whole is stagnating. They all feel confident that it'll continue to grow again, but public companies aren't allowed to not grow for any period of time without ...