I doubt you'll ever be criticized here for expressing a negative opinion about journalists. Remember, one of our unofficial mottos is "you don't hate journalists enough."
lol imagine thinking they need you to bring in your actual mail-in ballot instead of just having them printed in bulk (pre-filled) in advance by the thousands and discretely hauling them around between polling places as needed on election day in the trunks of modest, nondescript sedans.
Yeah, it's a lot of money but for a company of SIE's size, it isn't going to kill them. It's a drop in the bucket, granted it's a big drop, but they've been filling that bucket with tons of shit already. SM2 only sold 11 million copies and that had a monstrous budget as well with another potentially massive marketing budget as well. The game may have been profitable at 11 million copies sold at $70 each but there's still that deal with Marvel that completely screws their profits there. Then there's the TLOU2 shitshow that also cost a fuckton and most of its sales were over a 2 year period, so a lot of the sales were heavily discounted. Then they had to remake TLOU1 and TLOU2 for the PS5, which both likely sold incredibly poorly while the Insomniac leak showed that for reference, the PS4 Spider-Man remaster cost them $50 million. Cancelling the TLOU Factions GAAS MP also probably contributed to them burning money.
Xenoblade 2 can't even hold 30fps at 720p and drops into the mid teens, you must be smoking some crazy shit if you think a console generation from fucking Nintendo is going to let that mess hit anywhere close to 60.
Locked 30 would be a blessing for that game, it's basically held together with string, hope and dreams.
Right, I'm just going to say it: the arguments about frame rates are just console players coping. I literally never heard any of this bullshit about "diminishing returns" and "how much the human eye can see" until we got The Order: 1866 where the developers went on record saying the "frame rate of 30fps was more cinematic" despite films often being 24fps which was always the result of technical limitations and never an artistic choice. And no, going from 60 to 120 is not "diminishing returns". Diminishing returns is when you spend twice as much on a GFX card and don't get double the performance. Going from 60 to 120 is still doubling your fame rate and double the framerate means half the time between frames. Literally the only time you start reaching close to "diminishing returns" is when you get a frame rate higher than what your monitor can physically render, and even then a higher frame rate has benefits.
Oh, I'd heard that shit going all the way back to the 90s. But the fact that those claims are stupid doesn't mean there aren't diminishing (and quickly diminishing) returns. If we get to the point where the Playstation 10 is running at 200 fps and the Playstation 11 marketing wank touts that games will run at 250 fps, that will be pointless snake oil beyond the human eye's ability to reasonably perceive.
What's more is that this is coming from a nintendo fan. I thought we were all clear on not stepping onto that "red ocean" market trap of striving for more frames! more resolution! that nintendo has clearly avoided on purpose. If anything, the dismal reception to the PS5Pro is a searing hot indicator that we just don't care anymore about getting 4k to 8k if all you have to offer is fucking starfield or cyberpunk.
The only time you get "diminishing returns" is when your screen is literally unable to render the amount of frames your system is outputting. Even than, a higher frame rate above the refresh rate of your screen still means lower input lag.
If my eyes and brain can't perceive what my hardware is outputting, it doesn't matter what my hardware is capable of. As I said previously, us digital audio spergs found this out many, many years ago.
Just because you can't tell the difference, doesn't mean I can't. Likewise, for something like a monitor, refresh rate is literally a measurable thing. This isn't some "capacitance" bullshit with wires leading into your speakers. So, maybe you don't notice it, but I don't know your setup.
Yes, I know about the coat hanger test, too.
It is that old saying: "The snowflake never blames itself for the avalance".
lmao "I know all about bullshit snake oil products, but I'm different than everybody else therefore the snake oil is worth it for me and only me"
It is quite a sight to see so many people just joining the PC master race, over this. Now we just need to get Linux up to Windows plug and play standards.
Okay, bro.
I think someone posted earlier that the PS3's Blu-ray support is still unmatched, even compared to the PS5.
