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A PS5 pro; are you fucking kidding me... I'm never buying another console again if this "4 years of no games lmao, then we launch a pro version for the last two years of it's life cycle when the half dozen or so games worth a damn are either cheap or finally out" strategy is their permanent strat.
I understand that the 8th gen was underpowered from the start and more of a 7.5 gen, but you don't have that excuse this time around.
Fuck these slant-eyed niggers and fuck their pozzed western dicksuckers.

The Demon Pimp of Razgriz said:
The closest Sony had to true mascots was was Crash and Spyro, but they never owned the rights.
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I always put Needles Kane/Sweet Tooth as a mascot, and it's the only one they completely own that's been there from day one, but these faggots don't even remember they own TM.
 
I don't feel sorry for anyone that was dumb enough to buy a PS5 now that the pro is seemingly all but confirmed.

I'd almost feel sorry for people who bought it at launch, but I feel like the writing was on the wall for a Pro model the second they had performance and quality settings in their first party titles. Sony can't be bothered to wait for technology to actually catch up to their pie in the sky 4K, Ray tracing 60fps dreams.
 
The Demon Pimp of Razgriz said:
Who gives a shit about Blu-ray? I don't know a single person with a Blu-ray player, and by the time Blu-ray came out, physical media had become irrelevant in the media space as everybody went digital.
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Blu ray was out in 2006.

Nobody was using online streaming in 2006.

It wasn't common for a long time.

Retards like us were pirating everything in 2006, sure, but normies were just buying DVDs instead. For a long time DVDs would be 1/2 the price or more of the same thing on Blu Ray and normies didn't care about the difference. They re-bought everything on DVD 2001 - 2005 after building a VHS library for 15 years, they weren't about to do it again.

Buy an HDTV? Sure. But fuck off DVDs look fine, I'm not paying more for the same thing.

The whole format had clipped wings because it was competing with "good enough" quality until physical media became unpopular.

Personally I came around hard to physical media late last decade and have been buying up CDs, DVDs, and Blu Rays for a steal.
 
xXx: State of the Union said:
I don't feel sorry for anyone that was dumb enough to buy a PS5 now that the pro is seemingly all but confirmed.

I'd almost feel sorry for people who bought it at launch, but I feel like the writing was on the wall for a Pro model the second they had performance and quality settings in their first party titles. Sony can't be bothered to wait for technology to actually catch up to their pie in the sky 4K, Ray tracing 60fps dreams.
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Don't forget those who bought the "slim" version, LMAO
 
Esquilax said:
I'm probably late to the Vita discussion a few pages back, but I just wanted to comment that the Vita had a phenomenal dpad. Not even a snoy, but I had a Vita for some weeb games and I really loved it. Played an autistic amount of Samurai Warriors/Warriors Orochi on it.
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The dpad is pretty good, and far better than 3DS' (possibly the worst I've ever used in terms of comfort, it was rigid as hell), but there were better. I think the GBA dpad probably had the best of any handheld.

whatever I feel like said:
Lack of a consistent mascot certainly hasn't hurt console sales.
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Mascots have never been enough on their own to make or break a company. Sony's meteoric rise without one, and Sega's fall with one, prove that. But it certainly isn't going to help Sony in the long-term to be without one as their systems increasingly become indistinguishable from Xbox and PC.

In general Sony just lacks an identity, and now they lack good games too. They're coasting off past success, and when they inevitably have to compete directly with Nintendo & PC (not to mention Xbox) down the line it's going to be a slaughter.
 
Playstation mascot is Square, Circle, Triangle and Cross. They literally sell merchandise of this.

It's also the color blue, I guess.

Edit: Conversely, Xbox mascot is the X in a circle and the color green.
 
TVB said:
With any big corporation, especially in video games, there's always a mascot and/or memorable titles to give said corporation an identity. It's obvious that Nintendo has Mario, Zelda, Metroid, Kirby, Animal Crossing, Pikmin, etc. (and technically Pokemon as well). Sega has more than just Sonic, such as Yakuza, NiGHTS, Jet Set Radio, Puyo Puyo, Crazy Taxi, etc. Even Microsoft has Master Chief and many more (including Flight Simulator).

So the real question is this, does Sony ever have a corporate identity in the video game industry? The only identity that I can find for Sony is their movie/TV output such as Spider-Man, Ghostbusters, Men in Black, Charlie's Angels, Karate Kid, Seinfeld, among others.
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Sony switches mascots per era, and usually has multiple in the running.

The PS1 era had Crash & Spyro as the main 2 mascots, but Sony lost the rights to them via a deal with Universal that helped get the PlayStation 1 into reality.

The PS2 is a bit harder to lock down a mascot. They had 3 major 3D platformers between Ratchet & Clank, Jak, and Sly. Only issue was that none of them felt like the big face of the company. Kratos was another big one, but most of his icon status was more PS3 era than 2.

PS3 was a clash between Kratos, Nathan Drake and Sackboy. Those 3 were easily the most popular figureheads.

PS4 was Joel/Ellie given The Last of Us’ popularity. Kratos would make a comeback later and Astro slowly became the main man as PlayStation began to dip into VR. There was also an attempt for Ratchet to be the mascot given his film would launch the Sony movie line.

PS5 is pretty much a clash between Kratos, Ratchet and Astro. 5 seems to be driving Sony towards a more general “cinematic” identity which will bring their E to M games closer in line with each other compared to 1,2 or 3.
 
I'm no fan of modern Sony, but it still made me laugh.

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Basic Blond Boy said:
Sony switches mascots per era, and usually has multiple in the running.

The PS1 era had Crash & Spyro as the main 2 mascots, but Sony lost the rights to them via a deal with Universal that helped get the PlayStation 1 into reality.

The PS2 is a bit harder to lock down a mascot. They had 3 major 3D platformers between Ratchet & Clank, Jak, and Sly. Only issue was that none of them felt like the big face of the company. Kratos was another big one, but most of his icon status was more PS3 era than 2.

PS3 was a clash between Kratos, Nathan Drake and Sackboy. Those 3 were easily the most popular figureheads.

PS4 was Joel/Ellie given The Last of Us’ popularity. Kratos would make a comeback later and Astro slowly became the main man as PlayStation began to dip into VR. There was also an attempt for Ratchet to be the mascot given his film would launch the Sony movie line.

PS5 is pretty much a clash between Kratos, Ratchet and Astro. 5 seems to be driving Sony towards a more general “cinematic” identity which will bring their E to M games closer in line with each other compared to 1,2 or 3.
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All this is is a hallmark of a lack of identity.
 
The Demon Pimp of Razgriz said:
All this is is a hallmark of a lack of identity.
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Not arguing with that, the end statement is just pointing out that they are trying to gain some semblance of one.

The lack of identity was most obvious with PlayStation All-Stars. That roster felt super disconnected and unnatural compared to Nintendo or even recent competitors such as Nickelodeon. Closest thing to PlayStation’s cluster roster is Multiversus with WB’s throw everything at the wall approach.

In my mind, PlayStation’s identity used to be edgy as even the children’s franchises like Crash and Ratchet had some raunchiness to them. That is to say nothing of IP like Twisted Metal or GOW. With 4-5, the identity seems to be more Hollywood film style games as their M rating is used for action adventures while E is more Pixar-like.
 
IDanceonTrannyGraves said:
I don't think that's totally fair. Things go in and out of popularity on top of companies wanting to create new IPs.
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Sony’s original style was to do everything. They are a company that is tonally all over the place going from sunshine and rainbows with LBP to people being decapitated with GOW. They don’t have a trademark style like a Disney or Nintendo, which is what I believe he means.
 
TVB said:
With any big corporation, especially in video games, there's always a mascot and/or memorable titles to give said corporation an identity. It's obvious that Nintendo has Mario, Zelda, Metroid, Kirby, Animal Crossing, Pikmin, etc. (and technically Pokemon as well). Sega has more than just Sonic, such as Yakuza, NiGHTS, Jet Set Radio, Puyo Puyo, Crazy Taxi, etc. Even Microsoft has Master Chief and many more (including Flight Simulator).

So the real question is this, does Sony ever have a corporate identity in the video game industry? The only identity that I can find for Sony is their movie/TV output such as Spider-Man, Ghostbusters, Men in Black, Charlie's Angels, Karate Kid, Seinfeld, among others.
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The only Sony mascot I can maybe think of is Kratos, the protagonist of Sony’s only good franchise. Or I should say WAS Sony’s only good franchise. (Until they ruined it in nu-gow)
 
TVB said:
So the real question is this, does Sony ever have a corporate identity in the video game industry? The only identity that I can find for Sony is their movie/TV output such as Spider-Man, Ghostbusters, Men in Black, Charlie's Angels, Karate Kid, Seinfeld, among others.
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Epoch said:
God of War, Last of Us, Horizon, and maybe Spiderman.
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You can also add Gran Turismo to the list, sort-of, but it wouldn't really count, since it lacks a "Main Character" that is heavily pushed in advertising.
 
The way I see it, Sony would just be smart to split the brand and have two mascots, one for kids and one for the hardcore audience since they technically cater to both unlike Nintendo and XBOX which both stuck their claim in one audience.

Kratos seems like a given for the adult audience as he has been the biggest player since the PS2. As for kids, I would argue they should just go with Ratchet & Clank. The duo has been around longer than Kratos and is the only other remnant of the PS2 left intact beyond Grand Turismo (and Twisted Metal if you count the show). It helps that both these IP seem to be the ones Sony stakes the most claim in. Ratchet was the first film for their line up and was in production to get a TV series. Hell the PS5 was sold on them. Meanwhile, Kratos is their go to, the mascot of PS All-Stars, the guest of MK, etc..
 
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