@naruball Also, you want a list of games that wouldn't sell well because of content Sony would censor? Are you ***** me? You SJW weirdos bend over backwards to defend censorship of art, and when called out, you downplay games as art or say it isn't a big deal. Censorship is censorship.
Presumably you're a PlayStation fanboy who'll defend anything they do, but that just means your opinion is irrelevant. Illiberal bootlicker opinions should be disregarded.
@naruball Suuuure. Pedo games like Devil May Cry 5, underage characters like Trish. Someone here's triggered and it's not me. I'm a little relieved I can save money by not buying another PlayStation console, it's not like Japanese devs aren't already fleeing for Switch/XB1/PC.
You whined about President Trump in your next comment. How's it feel to be a supporter of actual pedo Beijing Biden? Whose son has photos of him getting a footjob from an underage prostitute floating around? The only reasons to not think Trump kicks ass are either a.) you eat the corporate warmonger media swill or b.) you're triggered that he says mean words sometimes. Stay triggered, illiberal coward.
Lies, they've spat on the Japanese market repeatedly over the past couple years. As far as I'm concerned, PlayStation is now a Western brand that shuns its legacy and Japanese developers. No back-compat, loads of censorship of Japanese games, etc. I'll remain a huge fan of PS systems from the PS1 to the Vita, but everything after has been a big letdown.
I'll never use it, because I'm not getting a PS5 since it continues the trend of not supporting PS1, PS2 and PS3 back-compat. I'm sticking with my Vita and PS3 as my primary PlayStation systems, getting the eventual Switch revision and upgrading my PC. Past month or two I've been collecting Vita games like mad, now that I've realized they aren't doing any more sales and prices are going up.
I'll upgrade my Ryzen 2700 once 5nm, PCIE 5.0 and DDR5 hit the market, and I'll either get Big Navi or wait until next gen to upgrade my 1080 Ti. Hopefully the rumored Super Switch has DLSS upscaling to 4K, but I'd be content with image sharpening. My PS4's collecting dust while my PS3 and Vita are used every single week, and I'm not getting a PS5 unless they add PS1/PS2 back-compat, WITH my old library playable, or when I can get a PS5 Pro out of the bargain bin. I'm patient.
@nessisonett The USA is only screwed if the violent insurrectionist communists take over, and I think the polls show there's gonna be a reckoning against them. They overplayed their hand with over 70 days of rioting in big cities, billions of dollars in property damage, dozens of lives ended and even more people maimed.
Shame me for acknowledging reality all you want, you can be as ignorant of the facts as you want. Freedom of thought is still legal, as long as you're not committing wrongthink in a blue stronghold.
@Jaz007 You either don't know what you're talking about or you're lying to protect Sony. Capcom agreed to censor a butt in DMC5 on PS4, but weren't forced to do so on XB1 or Steam. The Fairy Tail thing is all on Sony, too. Senran Kagura, don't care for it but comparing anime girls to real girls is absurd.
You may be complacent when it comes to censorship, but I'm not. Ever since their HQ changed from Japan to Commiefornia, PlayStation has kinda been trash. Quite disappointing for long-time fans like me.
Staggering, yeah, that the game can't maintain a locked 60FPS or even 30FPS on a GPU more powerful than the one in the PS5. It's poorly-optimized, I'd recommend a hard pass until they fix the hitching/stuttering.
@nessisonett Sony doesn't care if the character is an adult or a child, they censor any kind of fanservice they can. They just censored the Fairy Tail game, forced it to be censored on all platforms. Censored an adult woman's butt in DMC5. Basically forced the Senran Kagura series to end because it's so heavy on fanservice. There are so many cases like this, and I can't think of any that involve "15 year old characters." That's propaganda, as far as I can tell.
If Sony wants to censor fanservice, they have no chance of dominating the anime world. PS4 might also be my last PS console, unless they turn that crap around. Prudish censorship is cringe.
@EternalOptimist1 You must've misread my post, I don't have kids. I said IF I had kids, and even clarified that I'm a bachelor for good measure. I'd like to have three or four kids, but I don't trust the system enough to open myself up to legal troubles like that. I'm a dude, it's stacked against me.
@Milt Large families with a decent income. I'm only getting an XSX within the next couple years, but if I had kids, I'd get them a couple cheaper XSS consoles so they don't have to take turns. If the PS5 had native back-compat with my PS1/PS2 Classics library, I'd get digital-only PS5 consoles for the kiddos. I'm a bachelor, though, so I spoil myself.
This is why I don't plan on getting a PS5. I just ordered over a dozen used PS3 games, caught a huge sale, and I'm gonna get a backup Dualshock 3 soon. I wouldn't have gotten a PS4 if I had known I wouldn't eventually get my PS1 Classics and PS2 Classics library on it, and I don't expect Sony to improve with the PS5.
It's time to hunker down with our PS3s, bois! I'm gonna get a 2TB SSD for mine sometime this year, and I'm gonna keep filling out my library. Tempted to get a second PS3 while they're still under $200 used.
@wiiware Man, ultrawide is glorious. My 3440x1440 and 2560x1080 monitors are sooo immersive, but I ended up getting a 4K 120Hz 16:9 TV since consoles don't support the form factor and it's good for living room gaming. I wish they'd make 21:9 120Hz TVs.
The vast majority of games I buy are less than $20. I'm patient. I did pay $200 for the Doom Eternal collector's edition, though, and I paid $105 for an Ion Fury big box and a Switch copy. I paid $105 on a pre-order of the Wrath: Aeon of Ruin big box.
Most games these days are full of woke garbage, though, and I have negative interest in that. I've bought a few AAA games that push fringe, cringe lefty identitarianism this gen, learned my lesson. A game needs to check out from several of my sources before I drop cash on it, so I've stopped pre-ordering and most games don't pass my muster.
In an alternate universe where games aren't pushing politics and identitarianism on me, I'd be willing to pay $80 for new games. Not now, though, no way in hell. Also the PS5 needs full local back-compat before I get one, I feel burned by the PS4.
@Cybrshrk Oh, and to your TV comment, my LG 65NANO90 does proper 4K 120Hz with FALD HDR. IPS panel. OLED not required or recommended, personally, due to burn-in. I'm planning on using this TV for a good 7 years, don't wanna have to upgrade any time soon. $1,400 for a 65" TV is already pretty nuts, don't wanna pay nearly double for OLED.
@Cybrshrk Excuse me? An AMD fanboy? No, dude, I'm actually not buying AMD GPUs because they recently got political while Nvidia stayed out of it. I'm personally only buying Nvidia GPUs in the near future, sadly I have no option with the consoles.
Not reading the rest of your comment because you made the absurd claim that I'm an AMD fanboy from the get-go. My main rig has a 1080 Ti, which I upgraded to from a Vega 64 because the Vega 64 wasn't powerful enough for 3440x1440 @75FPS and it thermal-throttled in any case I tossed it in, even with Noctua fans going full speed - the Gigabyte model was trash.
The Digital Foundry 5700 XT review was crap, though, it was a trashy ad for RTX products. I'm hyped for Ampere, but the RTX 2000 lineup was garbage. My $540 used 1080 Ti offers significantly better price-to-performance over any RTX 2000 card, and the ~$500 5700 XT is within a few percent of my 1080 Ti with tons of models to choose from. It's basic math, dawg. Still not buying AMD any time soon over Lisa Su's virtue-signalling, probably gonna go all-in on a 3090 or whatever they call it.
@Menchi They meant that the hitching shows that it's real, not a fake like the Killzone 2 E3 demos. Digital Foundry is usually spectacular, they're just obvious Nvidia shills and kinda dense when it comes to understanding RT future-proofing. Basically, RTX 2000 is gonna age like milk but they still recommended it over RDNA cards with superior price-ti-performance.
@PeakyBlinder Faster charging isn't the issue. My PS4 controller is the only controller that I own where I have to charge it every play session or two. Most other controllers last over a week, my Switch Pro controller only needs to be charged about once a month. Xbox Elite Series 2 controller, every two weeks. I'd be fine with it taking eight hours to charge a controller, as long as I don't have to do it often. Total hassle.
For around $15 you can get an extended PS4 controller battery, and I could probably get a wireless charger and put it on my coffee table so it's more convenient. Still one of my top three biggest issues with the PS4, along with bad back-compat and less exclusives I care about than all prior PS systems.
@Scollurio It would seem that the performance hit is borderline negligible on the new consoles, I think AMD's RT solution is stellar. I feel like Sony should've gone with a GPU solution more similar to Microsoft's, 4K 30FPS just isn't next-gen.
Hopefully developers compensate for the PS5's weaker GPU with dynamic resolution modes; on my PC and 4K 120Hz TV, 1440p 120FPS with Nvidia Image Sharpening upscaling to 4K looks great and feels incredibly fluid, a truly "next-gen" experience for me. Current plan is to upgrade my GPU soon, get a launch XSX and snag a PS5 Pro or a PS5 Slim when that's $300. My PS3 still gets the most love of my PS systems.
@Wavey84 100% agreed, dude. I "downgraded" back to 1080p to game at 240FPS, and it's so much smoother that jaggies are harder to notice and it looks so much more lifelike than 4K games at 60FPS. I like that the Xbox Series X seems focused on 4K60 and 120FPS, enough to make me "jump ship" for the start of this gen.
Ratchet & Clank on PS5 does have much more impressive ray-tracing than any RTX game I've seen so far, though, even though it's only 30FPS. I hope we see tons of 60FPS PS5 games that use dynamic resolution while delivering the same graphics, frames over resolution all day every day.
I would've preferred something like 1800p 60FPS on the PS5, thinking I'll wait for a future "Pro" model. Been gaming at 1440p 120FPS and 4K 60FPS since I got my 4K 120FPS TV, the PS5 would feel like a bit of a step down.
Same thing happened with the PS4, my $600 2011 PC was able to do 1080p 60FPS across the vast majority of titles I threw at it until around 2015, while the PS4 was generally stuck at 1080p 30FPS.
As long as we're above 1080p, I just want my frames, dawg. 30FPS isn't cutting it anymore. Once you've gamed extensively on a 240Hz monitor, going back to sub-120FPS gaming feels bad.
@ChipBoundary On paper the PS4 was a big bump up from the PS3, but I haven't played a single PS4 game this gen that didn't feel like it could've been made on a PS3. Bump the resolution down, cull more, drop texture quality a bunch, remove a few graphical features and boom, I could totally see them working fine on a PS3.
PS1 to PS2 was incredible, PS2 to PS3 was mega-hype, PS3 to PS4 felt a little disappointing to me. I think the PS5 is an even bigger leap, thankfully, but I'm jumping ship to Xbox unless the PS5 can play my hundreds of back-compat PS1/PS2 games I bought on my PS3, PSP and Vita. My PS3 shouldn't be getting more use than my PS4, and yet it does.
Man, I only got 8/15. Some of these were really weird picks, I actually have never heard of a few of them! PS1 might be my favorite platform, I own hundreds of games for it.
Death Stranding was my most-hyped game for several years, and when I got the game, it was an immense letdown. Played it maybe 20 hours, never found the fun, dropped the game for over six months. Started playing it yesterday since I got a nice TV and I remembered the game has HDR support, now I'm planning on slogging through the rest of it so I can put the game behind me.
I'm past the point where it supposedly "gets good," but no, it's still not good. 4/10 game for me, as big of a letdown as the cancellation of Silent Hills.
I'm not panicking, I just gave up on PlayStation. My PS3 gets far more use than my PS4 because it has PS1, PS2 and PS3 games. If my PlayStation Classics purchases don't carry on to the PS4 and PS5, why bother? I would've gone Xbox or focused just on PC gaming if I had known Sony would drop the ball.
@Paranoimia I didn't own a single Xbox game when I got my XB1S recently, now I own over 50. Caught a buncha huge sales, actually only spent a couple hundred bucks. Previously I stuck with PlayStation because I loved their exclusives, but with the PS4, it literally just had Bloodborne and Spider-Man for me... this generation was awful, absolutely awful for PlayStation in my book. The Vita was fine with third-party support for a few years, but shame on Sony for dropping support of that lovely little device.
I basically went all-in, jumping ship. Sure, many third-party games will be better on my rig, and I'm still gonna upgrade my PC sometime in 2022 or 2023, but for now, I'm getting the XSX. The event that sealed the deal for me was The Last of Us 2's leaks, so bad, so bad. Death Stranding was one of the reasons I stayed on the PlayStation side of the fence for a while, but it ended up being a 4/10 game for me. That softened me up, TLOU2 dealt the finishing blow.
Like I said earlier, I'll get a PS5 when it's $300 or less and has a game as good as Bloodborne. Half my XB1S library is original Xbox and 360 games that I missed out on, had a lotta fun catching up on Xbox stuff during the coronavirus lockdowns. This generation was weak for both sides, but the Xbox gets the narrow win from me, even though Gears 5 and Halo 5 sucked. Back-compat, baby! Whoo!
Edit for history: I went SNES, PS1, PS2, Wii, PS3 and then PS4, with handhelds and PC gaming always being my focus, but Dad had an Xbox in the PS2 generation. I owned an Xbox 360 for literally a few hours in 2012, but when I realized it didn't have an HDMI port, I gave it back to my friend and told him to keep the money... xD
@Paranoimia I was a PS4/PC guy this past gen, and I'm swapping to the Xbox team because of the superior back-compat; I'm incredibly disappointed that my PS3 gets far more use than my PS4.
Hard disagree on the XB1's library being terrible. Third-party games, yo. Halo: MCC is damn good, Rare Replay is rad, Gears 4 was good but Gears 5 and Halo 5 kinda suck. For my PS4 this gen, if it wasn't for Bloodborne, the XB1 would've had a stronger lineup.
And I have a high-end gaming PC, but the XSX is more powerful than anything on the market right now in a few ways(god-tier 2080 Ti-level GPU, SSD that outperforms 5GB/s NVMEs, etc). Upcoming Ampere and Hopper GPUs, and of course Big Navi, should surpass the XSX, but you can't discount the value of the hardware at the likely $400-500 price point.
Been playing Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory and other older games that I love on my XB1S, gonna be cool to bump those titles up to 4K when I get the XSX. Only way they're gonna lure me back to the PlayStation ecosystem is if they have good back-compat, a Vita successor or a really good deal, like $300 paired with a Bloodborne-tier exclusive. Last one may happen by 2024, maybe.
@ZeroOverOne Obvious reasons? I don't know you that well! xD
Ghost of Sashimi is the only one I may end up getting on PS4, and Cyberpunk 2077 will be a PC or XSX purchase from me. I'm on the TLOU2 hate-bandwagon all the way, and I'm not buying a game starring Ms Marvel.
Something I haven't see. Discussed is that the XSX's 12TF is an accurate reading - the GPU and CPU run at locked clock speeds, so you can expect that to be a totally accurate measurement.
The PS5's GPU runs at a fluctuating clock speed just like desktop AMD RDNA GPUs. They claim it boosts as high as 2.23GHz, which is how they get a little over 10TF, but there's no way that's a sustained speed. It likely boosts up to 2.23GHz for a few seconds to keep to a stable framerate, prevent dips, but I'm willing to bet it runs more like 2GHz normally. I'm expecting it to be more like 9TF normally, with boosts up to 10TF as-needed before it gets too hot and has to dip back down.
The XSX absolutely wins in terms of GPU. I expect XSX games that run at 4K 120FPS to be 4K 60FPS or 1440p-1800p 120FPS on the PS5, and the PS5 will have, I dunno, one second loading times while the XSX has two second loading times. xD
Both good pieces of hardware, gonna be incredible values. All I care about is backwards-compatibility. My PS3 gets way more use than my PS4, but I got an XB1S when I learned they had back-compat all the way back to their original Xbox. I'm planning on going XSX for the best experience on my 4K 120Hz TV, even got a forward-compatible Xbox Elite 2 controller ahead of time for it, and the only way I'm gonna rush to get a PS5 is if I can play my PS1 and PS2 Classics on it.
Microsoft said the entire Xbone library will be playable on the XSX, and Sony said they're gonna gradually add support for PS4 titles... big oof. At the end of the day, I'm gonna end up getting both systems, but I really wish the PS5 would let me play the oldies. ;~;
@KALofKRYPTON Microsoft hasn't debunked a thing, only a rumor with an unverified source has "debunked" it. The fact that Microsoft still, as of this posting, hasn't debunked the always-online rumors is why we all expect it to hold some truth.
@pushx You're correct about bandwidth, the only people who will have any bandwidth issues are third-parties like Facebook, Twitter and streaming services, who can totally manage, and your ISP. Sony won't have to dedicate much bandwidth to the Share services, your system and ISP take care of that. I don't know why people are thinking Sony will handle this themselves, it's absurd. I think the social elements will be free, but cloud gaming support will require some kind of fee. That's the only thing they would have any reason to charge for, since they actually do handle the bandwidth for cloud gaming.
Eh, I'd be excited for this game if it didn't have pre-order exclusive content- one of the most anti-consumer practices in the industry, just as bad as DRM or on-disc DLC. I'm actively boycotting any games with it, so I had to cancel my pre-orders of Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2+, Soul Sacrifice, The Last of Us and a few others. I can wait for them to all hit the bargain bin, it's not like I absolutely must have all the latest games as they release. Most games aren't even worth their launch price, so yeah.
Varia01 What? Armored edition isn't much of an upgrade of the standard Arkham City game, in fact the gimmicks definitely lessen the experience. Hell, even the visuals aren't upgraded at all compared to the PS3 version. The Wii U's a joke of a system, anyways, I really hope Nintendo replaces it with a system that isn't awful soon.
@hydeks Ha, yeah, no. Not even close. I was a Nintendo fan from the SNES days to the 3DS' launch, that awful, mediocre pile of crap horrified me with its amazingly low quality. I spent eight months trying to get over how disappointing it was, but the 3D effect gave me eyestrain, migraines, blurred vision and a persistent eye twitch that lasted around six months... with only around ten hours spent in 3D mode over a period of eight months("getting used to the 3D" = MASSIVE misconception), the screens suck(240p, LCD, resistive lower touchscreen and top isn't touch-capable), the hardware sucks(I'd say about a tenth as powerful as the Vita and 20% more powerful than the PSP) and the control inputs are outdated(resistive lower screen, one circle pad). I got a PSP a little after I got that 3DS and regretted the past seven years I had spent with my DS. I don't think you can imagine how that feels.
Anyways, when I told Nintendo about the effects the 3D had on my eyes they gave me a full refund($250, I can't believe they charged that amount for the 3DS). I spent that money on a Vita and haven't regretted it since, in fact I've used my Vita every single day since launch. No, Nintendo are not the kings of handheld gaming. They haven't been the kings of handheld gaming since they got their first decent competitor back in 2005. Nintendo's just an old-money company, the level of quality they have on display is laughably low and their popularity is an anomaly in the industry. I can trace the public death of the Nintendo that I grew up with and loved since the 16-bit era back to one event, one that I mostly overlooked as a kid but now really understand: when Reggie Fils-Aime took to the stage at E3 2004 and proudly proclaimed that hardware doesn't matter, followed by cheers from the braindead crowd. Nintendo stopped caring about pushing the boundaries of tech long ago, they started putting the end-user experience last when they launched the Wii and they continue that practice now.
Nintendo are not the kings of anything. Not of portable gaming, not of first-party support, certainly not of third-party support or home console gaming; in fact, they're the biggest franchise-milkers in the history of the industry, no one comes even remotely close these days(not EA, Activision, Ubisoft or anyone else) and their hardware is by far the worst. Nintendo is just a sad shell of their former selves, a gross bastardization. I hope that they replace their 3DS and Wii U with systems that aren't disgustingly mediocre soon, it depresses me to no end that my only good option in gaming now is Playstation. Don't get me wrong, I've grown to LOVE Playstation, but I like having more than one good option just in case Sony becomes the next Nintendo or something.
Luckily, I know how to fix Nintendo. Sadly, it involves fixing their complacent fanbase. Nintendo fans are Yes Men, never acknowledging Nintendo's flaws or telling them to improve. If their fanbase were to shun the 3DS and Wii U and tell Nintendo they expect better out of them, Nintendo would be forced to comply. They'd be FORCED into coming out of their mediocre shells, forced to return to being a serious competitor in the game industry. Sadly I don't see Nintendo's fans ever improving, the same people who cheered when Fils-Aime denounced hardware quality at E3 2004 haven't gone away. Oh well. A gamer can dream, can't he?
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Re: Sony Stresses Japan Is of Utmost Importance After Report Claims Company's Interest Has Drifted
@naruball Also, you want a list of games that wouldn't sell well because of content Sony would censor? Are you ***** me? You SJW weirdos bend over backwards to defend censorship of art, and when called out, you downplay games as art or say it isn't a big deal. Censorship is censorship.
Presumably you're a PlayStation fanboy who'll defend anything they do, but that just means your opinion is irrelevant. Illiberal bootlicker opinions should be disregarded.
Re: Sony Stresses Japan Is of Utmost Importance After Report Claims Company's Interest Has Drifted
@naruball Suuuure. Pedo games like Devil May Cry 5, underage characters like Trish. Someone here's triggered and it's not me. I'm a little relieved I can save money by not buying another PlayStation console, it's not like Japanese devs aren't already fleeing for Switch/XB1/PC.
You whined about President Trump in your next comment. How's it feel to be a supporter of actual pedo Beijing Biden? Whose son has photos of him getting a footjob from an underage prostitute floating around? The only reasons to not think Trump kicks ass are either a.) you eat the corporate warmonger media swill or b.) you're triggered that he says mean words sometimes. Stay triggered, illiberal coward.
Re: Sony Stresses Japan Is of Utmost Importance After Report Claims Company's Interest Has Drifted
Lies, they've spat on the Japanese market repeatedly over the past couple years. As far as I'm concerned, PlayStation is now a Western brand that shuns its legacy and Japanese developers. No back-compat, loads of censorship of Japanese games, etc. I'll remain a huge fan of PS systems from the PS1 to the Vita, but everything after has been a big letdown.
PC and Switch all the way.
Re: Poll: How Often Will You Use PS5 Backwards Compatibility?
I'll never use it, because I'm not getting a PS5 since it continues the trend of not supporting PS1, PS2 and PS3 back-compat. I'm sticking with my Vita and PS3 as my primary PlayStation systems, getting the eventual Switch revision and upgrading my PC. Past month or two I've been collecting Vita games like mad, now that I've realized they aren't doing any more sales and prices are going up.
I'll upgrade my Ryzen 2700 once 5nm, PCIE 5.0 and DDR5 hit the market, and I'll either get Big Navi or wait until next gen to upgrade my 1080 Ti. Hopefully the rumored Super Switch has DLSS upscaling to 4K, but I'd be content with image sharpening. My PS4's collecting dust while my PS3 and Vita are used every single week, and I'm not getting a PS5 unless they add PS1/PS2 back-compat, WITH my old library playable, or when I can get a PS5 Pro out of the bargain bin. I'm patient.
Re: Gallery: Peter Parker Has a Brand New Face in Stunning Spider-Man: Remastered PS5 Screenshots
Wow, the new face is awful. Definitely not a fan.
Re: Sony Wants to Conquer the Anime World Next
@nessisonett The USA is only screwed if the violent insurrectionist communists take over, and I think the polls show there's gonna be a reckoning against them. They overplayed their hand with over 70 days of rioting in big cities, billions of dollars in property damage, dozens of lives ended and even more people maimed.
Shame me for acknowledging reality all you want, you can be as ignorant of the facts as you want. Freedom of thought is still legal, as long as you're not committing wrongthink in a blue stronghold.
Re: Sony Wants to Conquer the Anime World Next
@Jaz007 You either don't know what you're talking about or you're lying to protect Sony. Capcom agreed to censor a butt in DMC5 on PS4, but weren't forced to do so on XB1 or Steam. The Fairy Tail thing is all on Sony, too. Senran Kagura, don't care for it but comparing anime girls to real girls is absurd.
You may be complacent when it comes to censorship, but I'm not. Ever since their HQ changed from Japan to Commiefornia, PlayStation has kinda been trash. Quite disappointing for long-time fans like me.
Re: Hands On: Horizon Zero Dawn PC Is a Staggering Port, And a Potential Taste of PS5
Staggering, yeah, that the game can't maintain a locked 60FPS or even 30FPS on a GPU more powerful than the one in the PS5. It's poorly-optimized, I'd recommend a hard pass until they fix the hitching/stuttering.
Re: Sony Wants to Conquer the Anime World Next
@nessisonett Sony doesn't care if the character is an adult or a child, they censor any kind of fanservice they can. They just censored the Fairy Tail game, forced it to be censored on all platforms. Censored an adult woman's butt in DMC5. Basically forced the Senran Kagura series to end because it's so heavy on fanservice. There are so many cases like this, and I can't think of any that involve "15 year old characters." That's propaganda, as far as I can tell.
If Sony wants to censor fanservice, they have no chance of dominating the anime world. PS4 might also be my last PS console, unless they turn that crap around. Prudish censorship is cringe.
Re: PS5 Pre-Orders Look Like They'll Be Restricted to One Per Person
@EternalOptimist1 You must've misread my post, I don't have kids. I said IF I had kids, and even clarified that I'm a bachelor for good measure. I'd like to have three or four kids, but I don't trust the system enough to open myself up to legal troubles like that. I'm a dude, it's stacked against me.
Re: PS5 Pre-Orders Look Like They'll Be Restricted to One Per Person
@Milt Large families with a decent income. I'm only getting an XSX within the next couple years, but if I had kids, I'd get them a couple cheaper XSS consoles so they don't have to take turns. If the PS5 had native back-compat with my PS1/PS2 Classics library, I'd get digital-only PS5 consoles for the kiddos. I'm a bachelor, though, so I spoil myself.
Re: PS5 Backwards Compatibility: Can You Play PS3, PS2, and PS1 Games on PlayStation 5?
This is why I don't plan on getting a PS5. I just ordered over a dozen used PS3 games, caught a huge sale, and I'm gonna get a backup Dualshock 3 soon. I wouldn't have gotten a PS4 if I had known I wouldn't eventually get my PS1 Classics and PS2 Classics library on it, and I don't expect Sony to improve with the PS5.
It's time to hunker down with our PS3s, bois! I'm gonna get a 2TB SSD for mine sometime this year, and I'm gonna keep filling out my library. Tempted to get a second PS3 while they're still under $200 used.
Re: Death Stranding PC Is Like a Movie Compared to TV Drama PS4 Version, Says Kojima Productions
@wiiware Man, ultrawide is glorious. My 3440x1440 and 2560x1080 monitors are sooo immersive, but I ended up getting a 4K 120Hz 16:9 TV since consoles don't support the form factor and it's good for living room gaming. I wish they'd make 21:9 120Hz TVs.
Re: Poll: Would You Pay $70 for a Brand New PS5 Game?
The vast majority of games I buy are less than $20. I'm patient. I did pay $200 for the Doom Eternal collector's edition, though, and I paid $105 for an Ion Fury big box and a Switch copy. I paid $105 on a pre-order of the Wrath: Aeon of Ruin big box.
Most games these days are full of woke garbage, though, and I have negative interest in that. I've bought a few AAA games that push fringe, cringe lefty identitarianism this gen, learned my lesson. A game needs to check out from several of my sources before I drop cash on it, so I've stopped pre-ordering and most games don't pass my muster.
In an alternate universe where games aren't pushing politics and identitarianism on me, I'd be willing to pay $80 for new games. Not now, though, no way in hell. Also the PS5 needs full local back-compat before I get one, I feel burned by the PS4.
Re: Ratchet & Clank PS5 Surpasses 2016 Movie, Runs in Native 4K with Ray Tracing
@Cybrshrk Oh, and to your TV comment, my LG 65NANO90 does proper 4K 120Hz with FALD HDR. IPS panel. OLED not required or recommended, personally, due to burn-in. I'm planning on using this TV for a good 7 years, don't wanna have to upgrade any time soon. $1,400 for a 65" TV is already pretty nuts, don't wanna pay nearly double for OLED.
Re: Ratchet & Clank PS5 Surpasses 2016 Movie, Runs in Native 4K with Ray Tracing
@Cybrshrk Excuse me? An AMD fanboy? No, dude, I'm actually not buying AMD GPUs because they recently got political while Nvidia stayed out of it. I'm personally only buying Nvidia GPUs in the near future, sadly I have no option with the consoles.
Not reading the rest of your comment because you made the absurd claim that I'm an AMD fanboy from the get-go. My main rig has a 1080 Ti, which I upgraded to from a Vega 64 because the Vega 64 wasn't powerful enough for 3440x1440 @75FPS and it thermal-throttled in any case I tossed it in, even with Noctua fans going full speed - the Gigabyte model was trash.
The Digital Foundry 5700 XT review was crap, though, it was a trashy ad for RTX products. I'm hyped for Ampere, but the RTX 2000 lineup was garbage. My $540 used 1080 Ti offers significantly better price-to-performance over any RTX 2000 card, and the ~$500 5700 XT is within a few percent of my 1080 Ti with tons of models to choose from. It's basic math, dawg. Still not buying AMD any time soon over Lisa Su's virtue-signalling, probably gonna go all-in on a 3090 or whatever they call it.
Re: Ratchet & Clank PS5 Surpasses 2016 Movie, Runs in Native 4K with Ray Tracing
@Menchi They meant that the hitching shows that it's real, not a fake like the Killzone 2 E3 demos. Digital Foundry is usually spectacular, they're just obvious Nvidia shills and kinda dense when it comes to understanding RT future-proofing. Basically, RTX 2000 is gonna age like milk but they still recommended it over RDNA cards with superior price-ti-performance.
Re: Sony Insists Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales PS5 Reveal Was Not Misleading
@Gilvin Our first glimpse at PS5 games... was GTA5. I'm still surprised Miles Morales was a full game, I can't stand the character.
Re: PS5's Large Size Helps It Stay Cool, PlayStation Confirms
@PeakyBlinder Faster charging isn't the issue. My PS4 controller is the only controller that I own where I have to charge it every play session or two. Most other controllers last over a week, my Switch Pro controller only needs to be charged about once a month. Xbox Elite Series 2 controller, every two weeks. I'd be fine with it taking eight hours to charge a controller, as long as I don't have to do it often. Total hassle.
For around $15 you can get an extended PS4 controller battery, and I could probably get a wireless charger and put it on my coffee table so it's more convenient. Still one of my top three biggest issues with the PS4, along with bad back-compat and less exclusives I care about than all prior PS systems.
Re: PS5's First Batch of Titles Appear to Deliver the Native 4K Dream
@Scollurio It would seem that the performance hit is borderline negligible on the new consoles, I think AMD's RT solution is stellar. I feel like Sony should've gone with a GPU solution more similar to Microsoft's, 4K 30FPS just isn't next-gen.
Hopefully developers compensate for the PS5's weaker GPU with dynamic resolution modes; on my PC and 4K 120Hz TV, 1440p 120FPS with Nvidia Image Sharpening upscaling to 4K looks great and feels incredibly fluid, a truly "next-gen" experience for me. Current plan is to upgrade my GPU soon, get a launch XSX and snag a PS5 Pro or a PS5 Slim when that's $300. My PS3 still gets the most love of my PS systems.
Re: PS5's First Batch of Titles Appear to Deliver the Native 4K Dream
@Wavey84 100% agreed, dude. I "downgraded" back to 1080p to game at 240FPS, and it's so much smoother that jaggies are harder to notice and it looks so much more lifelike than 4K games at 60FPS. I like that the Xbox Series X seems focused on 4K60 and 120FPS, enough to make me "jump ship" for the start of this gen.
Ratchet & Clank on PS5 does have much more impressive ray-tracing than any RTX game I've seen so far, though, even though it's only 30FPS. I hope we see tons of 60FPS PS5 games that use dynamic resolution while delivering the same graphics, frames over resolution all day every day.
Re: PS5's First Batch of Titles Appear to Deliver the Native 4K Dream
I would've preferred something like 1800p 60FPS on the PS5, thinking I'll wait for a future "Pro" model. Been gaming at 1440p 120FPS and 4K 60FPS since I got my 4K 120FPS TV, the PS5 would feel like a bit of a step down.
Same thing happened with the PS4, my $600 2011 PC was able to do 1080p 60FPS across the vast majority of titles I threw at it until around 2015, while the PS4 was generally stuck at 1080p 30FPS.
As long as we're above 1080p, I just want my frames, dawg. 30FPS isn't cutting it anymore. Once you've gamed extensively on a 240Hz monitor, going back to sub-120FPS gaming feels bad.
Re: Devs Still Raving Over PS5, Some Say It Has 'Better Architecture Than Any Console in History'
@ChipBoundary On paper the PS4 was a big bump up from the PS3, but I haven't played a single PS4 game this gen that didn't feel like it could've been made on a PS3. Bump the resolution down, cull more, drop texture quality a bunch, remove a few graphical features and boom, I could totally see them working fine on a PS3.
PS1 to PS2 was incredible, PS2 to PS3 was mega-hype, PS3 to PS4 felt a little disappointing to me. I think the PS5 is an even bigger leap, thankfully, but I'm jumping ship to Xbox unless the PS5 can play my hundreds of back-compat PS1/PS2 games I bought on my PS3, PSP and Vita. My PS3 shouldn't be getting more use than my PS4, and yet it does.
Re: Can You Name These PS1 Games?
Man, I only got 8/15. Some of these were really weird picks, I actually have never heard of a few of them! PS1 might be my favorite platform, I own hundreds of games for it.
Re: Death Stranding Was a Sales Success, Recent Kojima Project 'Fell Through'
Death Stranding was my most-hyped game for several years, and when I got the game, it was an immense letdown. Played it maybe 20 hours, never found the fun, dropped the game for over six months. Started playing it yesterday since I got a nice TV and I remembered the game has HDR support, now I'm planning on slogging through the rest of it so I can put the game behind me.
I'm past the point where it supposedly "gets good," but no, it's still not good. 4/10 game for me, as big of a letdown as the cancellation of Silent Hills.
Re: PS5 Fans Are Panicking Over Backwards Compatibility
I'm not panicking, I just gave up on PlayStation. My PS3 gets far more use than my PS4 because it has PS1, PS2 and PS3 games. If my PlayStation Classics purchases don't carry on to the PS4 and PS5, why bother? I would've gone Xbox or focused just on PC gaming if I had known Sony would drop the ball.
Re: Sony Reiterates Sheer Speed of PS5, Processing Is '100 Times Faster Than PS4'
@Averagewriter Fast enough, but it appears they won't bother. I'm not getting a PS5 any time soon because of their poor focus on back-compat.
Re: PS5 Approach Is Different But 'Not Necessarily a Bad Thing', Says Former PlayStation Boss
@Paranoimia I didn't own a single Xbox game when I got my XB1S recently, now I own over 50. Caught a buncha huge sales, actually only spent a couple hundred bucks. Previously I stuck with PlayStation because I loved their exclusives, but with the PS4, it literally just had Bloodborne and Spider-Man for me... this generation was awful, absolutely awful for PlayStation in my book. The Vita was fine with third-party support for a few years, but shame on Sony for dropping support of that lovely little device.
I basically went all-in, jumping ship. Sure, many third-party games will be better on my rig, and I'm still gonna upgrade my PC sometime in 2022 or 2023, but for now, I'm getting the XSX. The event that sealed the deal for me was The Last of Us 2's leaks, so bad, so bad. Death Stranding was one of the reasons I stayed on the PlayStation side of the fence for a while, but it ended up being a 4/10 game for me. That softened me up, TLOU2 dealt the finishing blow.
Like I said earlier, I'll get a PS5 when it's $300 or less and has a game as good as Bloodborne. Half my XB1S library is original Xbox and 360 games that I missed out on, had a lotta fun catching up on Xbox stuff during the coronavirus lockdowns. This generation was weak for both sides, but the Xbox gets the narrow win from me, even though Gears 5 and Halo 5 sucked. Back-compat, baby! Whoo!
Edit for history: I went SNES, PS1, PS2, Wii, PS3 and then PS4, with handhelds and PC gaming always being my focus, but Dad had an Xbox in the PS2 generation. I owned an Xbox 360 for literally a few hours in 2012, but when I realized it didn't have an HDMI port, I gave it back to my friend and told him to keep the money... xD
Re: PS5 Approach Is Different But 'Not Necessarily a Bad Thing', Says Former PlayStation Boss
@Paranoimia I was a PS4/PC guy this past gen, and I'm swapping to the Xbox team because of the superior back-compat; I'm incredibly disappointed that my PS3 gets far more use than my PS4.
Hard disagree on the XB1's library being terrible. Third-party games, yo. Halo: MCC is damn good, Rare Replay is rad, Gears 4 was good but Gears 5 and Halo 5 kinda suck. For my PS4 this gen, if it wasn't for Bloodborne, the XB1 would've had a stronger lineup.
And I have a high-end gaming PC, but the XSX is more powerful than anything on the market right now in a few ways(god-tier 2080 Ti-level GPU, SSD that outperforms 5GB/s NVMEs, etc). Upcoming Ampere and Hopper GPUs, and of course Big Navi, should surpass the XSX, but you can't discount the value of the hardware at the likely $400-500 price point.
Been playing Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory and other older games that I love on my XB1S, gonna be cool to bump those titles up to 4K when I get the XSX. Only way they're gonna lure me back to the PlayStation ecosystem is if they have good back-compat, a Vita successor or a really good deal, like $300 paired with a Bloodborne-tier exclusive. Last one may happen by 2024, maybe.
Re: There Are Only Five PS4 Games Available to Pre-Order from the PS Store
@ZeroOverOne Obvious reasons? I don't know you that well! xD
Ghost of Sashimi is the only one I may end up getting on PS4, and Cyberpunk 2077 will be a PC or XSX purchase from me. I'm on the TLOU2 hate-bandwagon all the way, and I'm not buying a game starring Ms Marvel.
Re: Guide: PS5 Teraflops - What Are Teraflops, How Many Teraflops Does PlayStation 5 Have, and Does Xbox Series X Have More Teraflops Than PS5?
Something I haven't see. Discussed is that the XSX's 12TF is an accurate reading - the GPU and CPU run at locked clock speeds, so you can expect that to be a totally accurate measurement.
The PS5's GPU runs at a fluctuating clock speed just like desktop AMD RDNA GPUs. They claim it boosts as high as 2.23GHz, which is how they get a little over 10TF, but there's no way that's a sustained speed. It likely boosts up to 2.23GHz for a few seconds to keep to a stable framerate, prevent dips, but I'm willing to bet it runs more like 2GHz normally. I'm expecting it to be more like 9TF normally, with boosts up to 10TF as-needed before it gets too hot and has to dip back down.
The XSX absolutely wins in terms of GPU. I expect XSX games that run at 4K 120FPS to be 4K 60FPS or 1440p-1800p 120FPS on the PS5, and the PS5 will have, I dunno, one second loading times while the XSX has two second loading times. xD
Both good pieces of hardware, gonna be incredible values. All I care about is backwards-compatibility. My PS3 gets way more use than my PS4, but I got an XB1S when I learned they had back-compat all the way back to their original Xbox. I'm planning on going XSX for the best experience on my 4K 120Hz TV, even got a forward-compatible Xbox Elite 2 controller ahead of time for it, and the only way I'm gonna rush to get a PS5 is if I can play my PS1 and PS2 Classics on it.
Microsoft said the entire Xbone library will be playable on the XSX, and Sony said they're gonna gradually add support for PS4 titles... big oof. At the end of the day, I'm gonna end up getting both systems, but I really wish the PS5 would let me play the oldies. ;~;
Re: Talking Point: Why PS4's Social Features Probably Won't Be Free
@KALofKRYPTON Microsoft hasn't debunked a thing, only a rumor with an unverified source has "debunked" it. The fact that Microsoft still, as of this posting, hasn't debunked the always-online rumors is why we all expect it to hold some truth.
@pushx You're correct about bandwidth, the only people who will have any bandwidth issues are third-parties like Facebook, Twitter and streaming services, who can totally manage, and your ISP. Sony won't have to dedicate much bandwidth to the Share services, your system and ISP take care of that. I don't know why people are thinking Sony will handle this themselves, it's absurd. I think the social elements will be free, but cloud gaming support will require some kind of fee. That's the only thing they would have any reason to charge for, since they actually do handle the bandwidth for cloud gaming.
Re: Review: God of War: Ascension (PlayStation 3)
Eh, I'd be excited for this game if it didn't have pre-order exclusive content- one of the most anti-consumer practices in the industry, just as bad as DRM or on-disc DLC. I'm actively boycotting any games with it, so I had to cancel my pre-orders of Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2+, Soul Sacrifice, The Last of Us and a few others. I can wait for them to all hit the bargain bin, it's not like I absolutely must have all the latest games as they release. Most games aren't even worth their launch price, so yeah.
Re: Review: Batman: Arkham City (PlayStation 3)
Varia01 What? Armored edition isn't much of an upgrade of the standard Arkham City game, in fact the gimmicks definitely lessen the experience. Hell, even the visuals aren't upgraded at all compared to the PS3 version. The Wii U's a joke of a system, anyways, I really hope Nintendo replaces it with a system that isn't awful soon.
Re: Talking Point: Killzone: Mercenary Concludes a Killer Week for PS Vita
@hydeks Ha, yeah, no. Not even close. I was a Nintendo fan from the SNES days to the 3DS' launch, that awful, mediocre pile of crap horrified me with its amazingly low quality. I spent eight months trying to get over how disappointing it was, but the 3D effect gave me eyestrain, migraines, blurred vision and a persistent eye twitch that lasted around six months... with only around ten hours spent in 3D mode over a period of eight months("getting used to the 3D" = MASSIVE misconception), the screens suck(240p, LCD, resistive lower touchscreen and top isn't touch-capable), the hardware sucks(I'd say about a tenth as powerful as the Vita and 20% more powerful than the PSP) and the control inputs are outdated(resistive lower screen, one circle pad). I got a PSP a little after I got that 3DS and regretted the past seven years I had spent with my DS. I don't think you can imagine how that feels.
Anyways, when I told Nintendo about the effects the 3D had on my eyes they gave me a full refund($250, I can't believe they charged that amount for the 3DS). I spent that money on a Vita and haven't regretted it since, in fact I've used my Vita every single day since launch. No, Nintendo are not the kings of handheld gaming. They haven't been the kings of handheld gaming since they got their first decent competitor back in 2005. Nintendo's just an old-money company, the level of quality they have on display is laughably low and their popularity is an anomaly in the industry. I can trace the public death of the Nintendo that I grew up with and loved since the 16-bit era back to one event, one that I mostly overlooked as a kid but now really understand: when Reggie Fils-Aime took to the stage at E3 2004 and proudly proclaimed that hardware doesn't matter, followed by cheers from the braindead crowd. Nintendo stopped caring about pushing the boundaries of tech long ago, they started putting the end-user experience last when they launched the Wii and they continue that practice now.
Nintendo are not the kings of anything. Not of portable gaming, not of first-party support, certainly not of third-party support or home console gaming; in fact, they're the biggest franchise-milkers in the history of the industry, no one comes even remotely close these days(not EA, Activision, Ubisoft or anyone else) and their hardware is by far the worst. Nintendo is just a sad shell of their former selves, a gross bastardization. I hope that they replace their 3DS and Wii U with systems that aren't disgustingly mediocre soon, it depresses me to no end that my only good option in gaming now is Playstation. Don't get me wrong, I've grown to LOVE Playstation, but I like having more than one good option just in case Sony becomes the next Nintendo or something.
Luckily, I know how to fix Nintendo. Sadly, it involves fixing their complacent fanbase. Nintendo fans are Yes Men, never acknowledging Nintendo's flaws or telling them to improve. If their fanbase were to shun the 3DS and Wii U and tell Nintendo they expect better out of them, Nintendo would be forced to comply. They'd be FORCED into coming out of their mediocre shells, forced to return to being a serious competitor in the game industry. Sadly I don't see Nintendo's fans ever improving, the same people who cheered when Fils-Aime denounced hardware quality at E3 2004 haven't gone away. Oh well. A gamer can dream, can't he?