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The Pulverizer said:
No it just doesn't get better than this. Why wait for the superior product to come along? Might as well get the most functionality out of this thing. It'll take decades for VR to actually become functional.
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So long as "VR" continues to look even remotely like this
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I will be passing on it.
And as stated above, the sheer State spying it will be used for is an abomination in my eyes which will likely keep me off it forever.
 
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Ibanez RG 350EX said:
At this rate, will we even get a tenth generation of consoles, Nintendo notwithstanding? Microsoft can sorta kinda justify Xbox becoming a "platform" because they also own Windows, but Sony seems to be straight up burning down the house to stay warm here.
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The only companies I know that are trying to compete in the game console war are Steam Amazon and Apple, and even the latter two are just used for cloud gaming, while Nintendo and Steam are just regulars (although if we are technical here, Nintendo did implement cloud gaming on these titles that were available for Switch by using Ubitus, more specifically Control, Guardians of the Galaxy, the third Hitman game and the entire Kingdom Hearts franchise, but keep in mind, those are just a few games while the majority of titles released on the Switch aren't cloud gaming).
 
The Pulverizer said:
No it just doesn't get better than this. Why wait for the superior product to come along? Might as well get the most functionality out of this thing. It'll take decades for VR to actually become functional.
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It's really something how even the controllers never got past the glorified Wii Remote stage. Nothing even close to delicate motor functions.

Ibanez RG 350EX said:
At this rate, will we even get a tenth generation of consoles, Nintendo notwithstanding? Microsoft can sorta kinda justify Xbox becoming a "platform" because they also own Windows, but Sony seems to be straight up burning down the house to stay warm here.
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If you asked that back in the 8th generation's equivalent to today, which would now be early 2017, I would have said "Yes, but they'll be glorified upgrades more akin to smartphones, though they might axe backwards compatibility so you'll have to buy your library yet again."

I wouldn't have ever predicted the PS4 and Xbox One continuing to receive big releases this far out. Though I also wouldn't have predicted COVID screwing up literally everything. Well, actually, I would have said "They'll probably try something!", but a world-scale bioweapon was still in the realm of fantasy.

Video games are in such a weird place right now. Weirder than I've ever seen. It feels like a second gaming crash because Sony and Microsoft's positions feel like Atari's position in the mid-80s, when they were just shitting right through the bed, and Nintendo just kind of showed up out of the blue and ate their lunch. Atari was king of the arcades, the 2600 was ubiquitous, and then the Atari 5200 came out and nobody wanted one, with the 2600 just continuing to sell, having brand new releases for years. The 7800 and Jaguar were jokes. Lynx was a cool little thing, but far too little too late. And speaking of that early 80s era, we sure didn't see any sequel consoles from Coleco or Mattel. So, Nintendo kinda had the doors held open for them to just sort of show up and do everything right. Kind of like how Sony got their foot in the door in the first place, with Nintendo going with ROM cartridges at a time when The Multimedia CD-ROM Experience™ was all the rage, and Sega was doing absolutely everything wrong with the Saturn.

Now it's 2024. Microsoft is autistically insisting Xbox is not a console, while looking to get rid of physical copies mid-generation and refusing to ever have exclusives like an eager cuckold. Sony's in-house productions are mostly of one genre: the glorified movie-game, but everything they're releasing is substandard. Even Gran Turismo, which I'd think would be a franchise that just sells itself, and all anyone asks from it is for them to not mess it up. PlayStation 5s have never been available enough to not get scalped to high heaven. Everything is going wrong with the two major brands.

In a way, Valve releasing the Steam Deck is kind of like what Nintendo did in the mid-80s. A strong new competitor comes out of left field with a product not quite like anything on the market, capable of playing just about everything, and it quickly became a staple of gaming discussion. Though, ironically, a notable part of the NES was its strong (at the time) copy protection, making it especially difficult for unlicensed software to work. A notable part of the Steam Deck is that it's an unrestricted computer, and Valve couldn't care less if you pirate on it, with the piracy determent just coming from the hassle of sideloading games, vs. the sleekness of installing them directly from Steam.

It is the future. Consoles are dying. The new competitor is handheld PCs that can run anything. If exclusivity and physical copies are dead, why would you not go with the most open platform?
 
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TVB said:
Sonysisters still taking the L
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I think Sony sisters are getting their first W's in years. A bunch of pretentious Hollywood wannabe faggots from Naughty Dog, Insoymniac, and Firesprite have been fired.

The last straw must've been Spider-Man 2. Despite the fact that it had a $300M dollar budget (double that for advertising), it only sold 10M units. That means that even if all of those 10 million players bought the game at full price in USD, then the game has barely managed to break even at $600M in profit.

The thing everyone has to realize is that Microsoft can afford to piss away money. Sony cannot under any circumstances risk losing the PlayStation brand. If PlayStation dies, then Sony dies. That's why the new Japanese leadership is finally restructuring the company to capitalize on the platform's neglected potential.
 
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The Pulverizer said:
I think Sony sisters are getting their first W's in years. A bunch of pretentious Hollywood wannabe faggots from Naughty Dog, Insoymniac, and Firesprite have been fired.

The last straw must've been Spider-Man 2. Despite the fact that it had a $300M dollar budget (double that for advertising), it only sold 10M units. That means that even if all of those 10 million players bought the game at full price in USD, then the game has barely managed to break even at $600M in profit.

The thing everyone has to realize is that Microsoft can afford to piss away money. Sony cannot under any circumstances risk losing the PlayStation brand. If PlayStation dies, then Sony dies. That's why the new Japanese leadership is finally restructuring the company to capitalize on the platform's neglected potential.
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Hahahaha, I went to go look up PS5s because I couldn't remember if Spider-Man 2 was a pack-in or not, and right now at Best Buy, the PS5 that comes with it is actually $50 cheaper than the one that comes with nothing at all.
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I can't remember any other instances where a bundled game actually reduces the value of a console.
 
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Pissmaster said:
Hahahaha, I went to go look up PS5s because I couldn't remember if Spider-Man 2 was a pack-in or not, and right now at Best Buy, the PS5 that comes with it is actually $50 cheaper than the one that comes with nothing at all.
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Because Disney and Sony had a deal where they had to sell X amount of bundled consoles with Spider-Man 2. Otherwise they'd have to pay Disney money and they'd lose the license.
 
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The Pulverizer said:
I think Sony sisters are getting their first W's in years. A bunch of pretentious Hollywood wannabe faggots from Naughty Dog, Insoymniac, and Firesprite have been fired.
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Yes, but again, I'm not holding my breath here. We still have a second season of that shitty Last of Us TV show in the works and then some, so I'm not here to celebrate just yet
 
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TVB said:
Yes, but again, I'm not holding my breath here. We still have a second season of that shitty Last of Us TV show in the works and then some, so I'm not here to celebrate just yet
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True but for now I'm optimistic. Sony is in shambles and Naughty Dog are getting punished for their hubris. After the show, it will all go further downhill from here.
 
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Pissmaster said:
Hahahaha, I went to go look up PS5s because I couldn't remember if Spider-Man 2 was a pack-in or not, and right now at Best Buy, the PS5 that comes with it is actually $50 cheaper than the one that comes with nothing at all.
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I can't remember any other instances where a bundled game actually reduces the value of a console.
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It gets better, Disney cut of that Spiderman bundle is upwards of 45 dollars.

That said, disregard what that other guy said about needing to sell 6 million bundles, it was actually just copies in general and the game blew past that in its first week.
 
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