- Etterra@discuss.onlineEnglish11 minutes
Yeah yeah we’ve heard it before. Now I’m not the kind of person to promote suicide, but that’s because if you’re rich or means we won’t get to devour you alive and screaming 🍽️
- 11 minutes
That’s funny because I’m not coming to PlayStation.
I guess they just sell less then.
2 hoursI mean… For this to actually matter Sony would have to release a decent game for the exclustivity. The last decent one in my eyes was Ragnarok, and I never even finished it.
I have a PS5. It hasen’t been turned on in almost 2 years. I have no reason to. I won’t lose any sleep over this decision.
No problem. Then other companies will get my money (and time). I’m not buying your over priced and proprietary console.
- 4 hours
I don’t believe them. They just think that lying to the public will sell more PS5s… somehow
- Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish4 hours
Spider-Man 2 is literally the only thing they have that I want to play, and that is not worth getting a console for.
- Rooster326@programming.devEnglish4 hours
If you played Spiderman Red (Peter) or Spideman Blue (Miles)
You’ve already played Spiderman 2…
It’s the first time I read these games referred as Red and Blue (like Pokemon editions, lol). Why not just call it Miles Morales, if you have to specify what it is with additional brackets anyway? Is this common way to refer like that?
- Rooster326@programming.devEnglish3 hours
I guess I was just trying to point out how incredibly similar they were.
And how little Spiderman 2 does to change that.
That’s because Miles Morales isn’t a complete new game, it is basically a DLC released as a separate game. I never played any of these games and this is just what I got when reading about it at launch.
- warmaster@lemmy.worldEnglish3 hours
If you ever played a Spiderman game for that matter. I couldn’t finish Spidey Blue. So boring. Cool cinematics tho.
The PS2 one is better anyway imo, and you can just emulate that for free. Speaking as someone who played the Insomniac Spider-Man games first too btw
- Linktank@lemmy.todayEnglish7 hours
Oh yes they will. You’ve just decided to stop making money on them. Fine by us.
yup. if they can emulate the ps3’s insano-architecture they can sure as fuck figure out whatever comes next. they’re simply guaranteeing a wave of piracy instead of profiting off their already developed IPs.
- dreamkeeper@literature.cafeEnglish2 hours
PC gamers were not making them that much money. They don’t care about us. The sales numbers Sony games on PC were abysmal.
Fine by me. Sony does make good games and I can afford a console, so I won’t mind buying one. Most of this thread is just copium.
- superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish8 hours
They will come crawling back after the current moron in charge gets fired. Until then, its like 4 games.
- 7 hours
Exactly! They’ll cut jobs and trim the fat until they run out of half-assed, short-term methods of increasing quarterly profits year over year. Then they’ll remember PC gamers are almost exclusively adults and some of those adults have deep pockets and no interest in the closed ecosystems that consoles provide.
Just watch.
- dreamkeeper@literature.cafeEnglish2 hours
Lol they will not. The next Xbox is literally going to be a PC with a full Windows OS. Sony is not going to become Xbox and give people no reason to stay in their ecosystem.
They also sold 98 million ps5s. All the delulus in this thread acting like their money matters when it doesn’t. Most of the Sony games sold poorly on steam. PC gamers aren’t worth the effort.
People will 100% buy the ps6. I’m not missing out on more horizon, gow, or tlou. You say it’s 4 games, meanwhile I looked at the top 30 best selling PS5 games and half of them were published by Sony: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_PlayStation_5_video_games
Hardcore PC players on Reddit/Lemmy just keep proving they’re still detached from normie reality.
I can almost guarantee you that dude has a board or shareholders or whatever, breathing down his neck, and his yearly bonus is depending on the number of units sold. So he will canibalize the whole system with a complete disregard for the long term effects, so long as the magic number goes up in the short term and he can cash in his bonus.
- Soulphite@reddthat.comEnglish7 hours
This is exactly the reason the saying “they don’t make them like they used to” is a thing for everything.
- 8 hours
Love it or hate it, this is why we don’t want Xbox to fail.
- jtrek@startrek.websiteEnglish6 hours
Can they both fail? Consoles kind of suck. Closed platform owned by mega corps. Their main appeals of “easy” and “cheaper” haven’t been true for years.
Microsoft could have done like a … Steam machine for windows like 25 years ago. Optimized windows install on certified hardware, games that also play on desktop windows. They could’ve made steam. Except they couldn’t because they’re a souless corporate husk full of parasitic ghouls.
Fuck em. Fuck them all.
- Prox@lemmy.worldEnglish3 hours
Their main appeals of “easy” and “cheaper” haven’t been true for years.
Please help me get a machine that compares to the PS5/XSX in terms of performance and cost. I’m being serious. Every time I look at putting something together it’s gonna be like $1500-$2000.
- qwerty@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish2 hours
- Used Rtx 3060ti ~ $200
- Used Ryzen 5 5600x ~ $130
- Used 16gb ddr4 ~ $60 - $120
- B550 mobo ~ $80
- 512gb ssd ~ $60
- 550w 80+ psu ~ $40
- CPU cooler ~ $15 (if not included with cpu)
- Case ~ $10 (optional)
- Case fans ~ $10 (optional)
Total ~ $570 - $665
Plus you don’t have to pay for online and get cheaper (or free 🏴☠️) games.
- jtrek@startrek.websiteEnglish3 hours
The up-front cost of a console is probably cheaper, barring putting some labor in and getting lucky on sales. You’re right about that.
A PC has more utility, a larger library, and no subscription fee. That $80/year PsPlus subscription eats into the savings pretty fast. And when your playstation is end-of-life, it’s far less useful than an older PC.
I’m sure some PC-building nerds would be happy to help put together a cost effective machine for you, but sadly I’m not that kind of nerd. I splurged on a pre-built machine when I had a nice job.
25 years ago, they weren’t going to get any closer than the original Xbox did. PC gaming was extraordinarily different from what we know today, and much as you might not want to hear it, a lot of the reasons it got better were also because of Microsoft. The truth is we can only have something like a Steam Machine today because of incremental improvements that have been done over long periods of time. Valve basically started work on Proton right after the first batch of Steam Machines came out and bombed, and it took until 2022 for their next batch of hardware to materialize that made use of it. Closed platforms can fuck off and die these days, but they solved real problems for decades.
