That's ONE thing that Sony did right. Correct me if I'm wrong, but their tech demo, Astro Bot, came with their PS4/PS5s. Now Nintendo is doing the same thing, but asking people to pay for a glorified tech demo. Of course, they tried that with 1+2 Switch too.Paid console tutorial "game"
You can make this argument about just buying video games in general. It’s literally a jangly key machine.
The sad thing is, they're not even in the top 10, and that's AFTER excluding any company affiliated with gacha.
I definitely think that this will suffer the fate of the PS3 and 3DS, its almost the exact same situation.
I'll push back on this, at least in part. Mario Kart looks absolutely phenomenal, and even excluding the open world elements, brings more new to the series than arguably any other entry aside from maybe double dash, if even that. That's what really makes this painful, when the ps5 pro costs $700 (plus $80 if you want a disc drive, another $30 if you want to stand it in the only orientation it fits on most tv cabinets) with the same shitass cpu that bottlenecks the base model, I can laugh at it, because am I really going to be missing out on "Dr Uckmann's Troon Simulator 7 Remake Part 1: Extra Pores and Pimples Edition"? Of course not. This, I'm actually mad about. I'd love to play the new Mario kart with my family, the new dk looks fantastic as well, and mouse-aiming prime 4 was my biggest wishlist item going into the direct, and was what I thought was my "ok, sure, I'll buy this within the launch year" condition, because I simply couldn't fathom them not only catching up to the shitty practices of the industry like $70 games, but even being the ones to push them forward.
Not when it's obviously a method force people into buying something they probably don't want. Why not just patch the game to run at 60 and make the DLC optional? By bundling the 2 together you're forced to buy the DLC just for the performance. If that happened on PC there would be a review bomb of the game.
GPU prices are high because of AI. Not Crypto. nVidia got huge in the last few years and feel they can charge apple prices for their shit. And it'll mostly work. Since AMD is still trying to catch up with nVidia.
I mean, it's almost exactly like the ds to 3ds transition. PS3 ruined sony primarily because they bet on blu ray overtaking dvd as fast as dvd overtook vhs, which never panned out (and also because they expected to sell a $3000-4000 Sony hdtv with every PS3, instead, they helped sell A LOT of $1200 Samsung hdtvs). Meanwhile:
