Sony’s mission is to generate value for shareholders, so yes, PSVR2 needs sales on PC. This goes nicely with Sony’s sales of monitors, controllers, and headphones to PC players.
What does the CPU have to do with GTA V frame rates?
Last gen was the first time we saw a mid-cycle upgrade and the bump in power was in the GPU and not the CPU. Compatibility needs to be 100%.
"One comment says it's a 1.6x jump on paper, whereas the PS4 Pro was more like a 2.2x" Don’t waste your time with rumors. But if true, not unexpected. We are working at 4k resolutions now and that means higher frame rates are that much harder to achie...
You couldn’t be more wrong about there being “very few games”. My backlog is only increasing because of the number of new games that I don’t have time to play.
A lot of folks like to point to Nintendo as a sign of growth but Nintendo only has one console now compared to two back in the Wii / DS days. Overall, Nintendo is selling 100M fewer units than a couple of generations ago.
PS5 is growing marketshare at the apparent expense of Xbox. Overall the number of potential PS5 and Xbox owners has not increased in the last two generations.
Agree on not upgrading a 4 year old console. Disagree that PS5 “there are barely any exclusive games”. Disagree on the need for exclusives to upgrade. Third party support matters more.
Game Pass Ultimate costs $204 per year which is a lot more than the $70 Call of Duty released each year. Microsoft would love to convert all Xbox owners into Game Pass subscribers.
I own a PS5, not Sony stock. I don’t care who makes the games so long as I enjoy playing them.
20 years ago we paid $60 for a game that had a 10 hour campaign and tacked on multiplayer. Well, I didn’t pay $60. I borrowed most of my games from my friends. And now I get most of my games from PS+. The way I see, people will only spend so much on games. This is the market.
I would agree except 1) PCs are just so much expensive and 2) I play a lot of the games offered via PS+ Essential.
1.5 stars out of 5 stars is the kind of scoring this industry needs. You cannot fit all games between 5-10 out of 10, no matter how much a publishers spends on advertising or how many fans would be offended.
For me, it’s not access, it’s all because of PS+. I am swimming in games that I don’t have time to play. I cannot justify adding another game to my backlog until the price is at least 50% off.
No. Xbox has to die first. Microsoft is too big, $3T, largest market cap in the world. Microsoft could crush PlayStation simply by outspending them, and then own a total monopoly over gaming in the living room. In this kind of asymmetric warfare, Sony can’t play by Microsoft’s rules.
It was never just PlayStation and Nintendo. Before Xbox, it was Playstation, Nintendo, Sega, and smaller, failed consoles like Neo Geo, Atari Jaguar, and CDi palyers. And I find it hard to see the current landscape as Playstation, Xbox, and Nintendo when the only curren gen home consoles are from Xbox and PlayStation.
Sony only has Nintendo as a competitor to the extent that people play their Nintendo Switch games while docked to a TV. That makes up about 30% of Switch usage? And a month those Switch owners, how many have a Xbox or PS5? Microsoft exiting gives Sony the whole pie. But I don’t Microsoft will exit the hardware business. They make enough off their own connected services and games to make Xbox’s dwindling market share profitable.
What clickbait trash is this from … oh, Engadget. Microsoft really did screw up its console business when a gadget site is telling Microsoft to stop making a gadget.
This runs through everything they said when you read between the lines. They are admitting that Xbox marketshare is shrinking (and indeed they disclosed to The Verge that Xbox Game Pass subscriber numbers are shrinking). The only area for growth in games is 3rd party game sales. They don’t want to piss off Xbox owners right now but they will piss them odd later.
“all the rumours”
Some game enthusiasts like to peak behind the curtain, like sports fans who want to know the details of a 5 year contract or movie fans who want to know the box office.
Sony gets 30% of PSN sales and something like $5-$10 of boxed game sales. Microsoft already sells games on PlayStation and has games on PS+.
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