Sony hate thread

[Miller]

If I could rate just that video as Autistic without doing your entire post, I would. Sony made a big deal out of having a basic feature that everyone else had and their mindless fanboys are still eating it up over a decade later as some epic own. Microsoft briefly announced that they wouldn’t support used games, then completely abandoned that idea a few weeks later, long before the system even released. This video is not a selling point, and it never was.

It's not the first time that Sony do that last-minute thing. When Microsoft announced that the Xbox One would be sold with a Kinect during E3, people were upset and based on that feedback Sony removed their own version of Kinect from the promotional pictures before their conference.

 

[Markorian]

I forgot about the time differential for Halo, admittedly but I'm not conceding shit on BotW, which was in 100 percent exactly the same as Miles Morales. If PS5 doesn't get Miles then Switch doesn't get BotW.

Personally, I don't count BotW as a switch exclusive either. However, it's retarded to act like there's no difference at all between a game releasing on the wiiu, which sold 13 million and was all but dead 2 years prior to the switch, and releasing on the ps4, which sold 115 million (even if a significant number was ps4pro double dippers) and 4 years after its successor's launch is still beating it in terms of software/playtime depending on the month.

 

[whatever I feel like]

Yeah, but what games did it have? Infamous: Second Son?

I remember being against PS4 and Xbox One because all of their games were cross gen shit, and then when they got exclusives they sucked ass. Everyone I knew convinced me to buy both eventually to play with them Online, but then the PS4 users never actually played games and the Xbox losers only played games at like 3 am so I said fuck it sold both and built a PC.

I get why normies bought PS4, it was cause of the Black Friday Bunduru of 2014. But even THAT only included remasters of PS3 games.

360 was 8 years old at that point. If you were really on board for even more of that era at the time you were a total cuck for mediocrity. Unfortunately the next gen systems, as released, were very leak in tech specs (especially the XBO launch version, despite costing more than the PS4,) and held back PC releases for years-basically until the Pro versions were released.

 

[Markorian]

It's not the first time that Sony do that last-minute thing. When Microsoft announced that the Xbox One would be sold with a Kinect during E3, people were upset and based on that feedback Sony removed their own version of Kinect from the promotional pictures before their conference.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong and just going on about schizo-tier tinfoil nonsense, but I vividly remember people taking apart the ps4 (and not just launch models) and finding that the first time a game was played, the ps4 would laser engrave its serial number into the disc, it's just that after the xbone fiasco, they disabled the part of the code that actually compares the system's serial number with the one engraved onto the disc, which is how sony planned to disable used games.

 

[Pissmaster]

If I could rate just that video as Autistic without doing your entire post, I would. Sony made a big deal out of having a basic feature that everyone else had and their mindless fanboys are still eating it up over a decade later as some epic own. Microsoft briefly announced that they wouldn’t support used games, then completely abandoned that idea a few weeks later, long before the system even released. This video is not a selling point, and it never was.

I'll give you that one. I just remember the hype on that response being pretty popular. It was refreshing after hearing so much doom and gloom over the direction the Xbox brand was going, on top of how they permanently screwed up the UI for the stupid Kinect.

Funny how even way back when, before Clown World and COVID and chaotic elections and everything, there was already a sense of relief that the PS4 appeared to be just a regular video game console, no strings attached. We didn't know 50+gb installs and mandatory patches for just about everything were around the corner.

 

[Baraka Obama]

360 was 8 years old at that point. If you were really on board for even more of that era at the time you were a total cuck for mediocrity. Unfortunately the next gen systems, as released, were very leak in tech specs (especially the XBO launch version, despite costing more than the PS4,) and held back PC releases for years-basically until the Pro versions were released.

I was happy to cuck for mediocrity when the alternative had largely the same fucking games. How many years did Xbox One and PS4 act more like $400 DLC packs for Xbox 360 and PS3? By my measure it took at least until 2016.

 

[marvlouslie]

I was happy to cuck for mediocrity when the alternative had largely the same fucking games. How many years did Xbox One and PS4 act more like $400 DLC packs for Xbox 360 and PS3? By my measure it took at least until 2016.

Honestly, it was better than the slop that we're getting now. At least the devs back then seemed like they gave a shit about the kind of games they were producing. Just look at the two Transformers games that were made during this time. You can tell the folks at High Moon were Transformers guys with the detail and care they put into it.

The 360 / PS3 generation just gave us the last good batch of games, and it's all been downhill from there.

 

[CaptainAutism69]

My Xbone was a retarded purchase. I had both that and the PS4.
Honestly, other than sunset overdrive and rare collection, and maybe a COD, I can't remember any games that I bought for that post 2016.

 

[CaptainAutism69]

I'm still amazed that the current generation of consoles has been out for 4 years now, and there are still no games worth playing on them. This is the first gen ever that I've opted out of...usually I was a 'too much disposable income' day 1 buyer.

 

[Jarch6]

As much as sony ponies (or whatever pejorative you'd like to employ for the soyslurping bugman that gobbles up every new bland/generic/soulless ,third-person, "cinematic", "action" slop) are rightfully derided nowadays one can't help but feel a twinge of sadness for the oldfag sony adherents. The era of the mascot platformer with classics like crash bandicoot or spyro was great alongside all the great titles in the more relatively niche genres like silent hill, ace combat, shadow of the colossus, etc. One can see why hearts were stirred to engage in the console wars when you had vidja brimming with novelty and quality like that - now it is a desolate wasteland with nary a good exclusive to be found.

 

[Shao Khan]

This video is not a selling point, and it never was.

yes it was you fucking moron, that video and the price announcement totally killed the xbone brand. the ps4 sucked and its my least played console of all time but the marketing was fucking great

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

yes it was you fucking moron, that video and the price announcement totally killed the xbone brand. the ps4 sucked and its my least played console of all time but the marketing was fucking great

The only people who gave a shit about that video were Sony fags

What killed Xbox was the price point. Normies don't didn't watch E3 for those videos they watched it for the highlights of the games.

 

[ZMOT]

The only people who gave a shit about that video were Sony fags

What killed Xbox was the price point. Normies don't didn't watch E3 for those videos they watched it for the highlights of the games.

ah yes MS' famous 2013 e3 which had everyone talk about their games...

I get this is the dedicated sony hate circlejerk thread, but comparing 2024 sony to 2013 sony, or the industry at large, is fucking retarded.

 

[whatever I feel like]

The only people who gave a shit about that video were Sony fags

What killed Xbox was the price point. Normies don't didn't watch E3 for those videos they watched it for the highlights of the games.

It had no fucking games and closed or parted ways with it's three most successful 360 era teams. Instead it put a significant amount of resources into Kinnect titles and force-bundled the mess into all launch systems. And at the same time they proported to direct its money into non-gaming apps while the actual user interface and services of Live on One were actively worse than on the 360 version. Like hell it was just the extra 50 dollars.

When a games company stops talking about games and starts talking about anything else you know they're about to anally eat consumer cock.

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

It had no fucking games

Neither did PS4 at launch. What did Sony actually have before Bloodborne came out in 2015?

You know how I know that those videos did nothing? PS4 and Xbone launch sales were basically the fucking same. The only time the whole "Xbox doesn't let you share games" shit would effect is the launch. The PS4 didn't start it's domination until after it's launch, specifically around the time of the 2014 Black Friday Bundles

It's a lot more than "an extra 50 bucks" when Sony is giving away GTA V and Last of Us Remasters on top of it.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

The only people who gave a shit about that video were Sony fags

What killed Xbox was the price point. Normies don't didn't watch E3 for those videos they watched it for the highlights of the games.

Sorry mush but other than the PS4, the only Sony console I owned was PS1 (And vita if that counts?)
I was a sega and microsoft fag up until the xbone. The console was fucking retarded, I hated kinect and the move to capture the normiefag audience put me off.

The PS4 came it out with better specs than expected, was priced at a relatively cheap price and had some bangers at launch. Resogun was fun, Second son showed incredible graphics while being enjoyable and KZ, while clunky, had the 'wow' factor of the graphics. I'm not a graphics whore, but I want to be wowed with my new console. As I skipped PS3, The PS4 gave me a back catalogue of Sony games to play.

Microsoft's messaging to me as a console fag was "Thanks for your money and support, now fuck off, we have a new audience"
Sony messaging was "Here's a console that plays games, like you've done for decades".

The fall of Xbox from 2011 to 2014 when I stopped giving a shit was shit to see as an xbox fan.
The Fall of Sony from 2020 - present is just fucking pathetic.

I'll buy a PS5 and PSVR2 (I'm a vr fag) when I can buy both brand new for <£500 and I can jailbreak the PS5. Other than that, neither company will get a fucking penny off of me again.

/autism.

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

KZ, while clunky, had the 'wow' factor of the graphics. I'm not a graphics whore, but I want to be wowed with my new console.

 

[whatever I feel like]

People really forget how fucked the base One unit was, with its bundled in Kinnect, broken interface, Ryse as the launch game and inability to hit 1080p.

Xbox off.

 

[Pissmaster]

Neither did PS4 at launch. What did Sony actually have before Bloodborne came out in 2015?

Killzone: Shadowfall?

Well, uh, best I can come up with is: before some point, quite a few console games actually were exclusives, but got PC ports over the years. Yakuza 6 was a PS4 exclusive for a good three years (five in Japan but shut up). I'm sure someone else could name more, I'm drawing a blank right now. I think it's worth mentioning that PC ports weren't as reliably good as they are today, and Steam Input wasn't a thing yet, so a game coming out on both PS4 and PC didn't necessarily mean you'd get a better version on PC like you do today.

Anyway, back in 2013, I don't think anyone really predicted just how lacking in exclusivity consoles would become in the future. It'd make sense not to expect it, since exclusive games sell consoles, and of course they want to sell consoles and get more people in their ecosystem, right? Surely Sony would keep their games they funded and developed on PlayStation, so you have to buy a PlayStation to play them, where you also see advertisements that make them money and access to a store where they get a cut from every game sold, right? Surely they'd never just give all of that to Steam, riiiiiiiiiiiiight?

Well, it's Clown World, the endless worldwide event where everything's turned on its head, and somehow, PC gets almost everything that's not Nintendo. PlayStation 4 only wound up with Bloodborne and Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise. When the PS4 was new, there was no possible way I would have predicted that it'd wind up with all of two exclusives worth playing. If I did know, I would have not bought one.

 

[whatever I feel like]

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