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As a PS5 owner, it bothers you that Sony will have just 1 big AAA PS5 only original game in 3 years?
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More than tech time and money are the limiting factor for AAA games these days.
I can understand if you were sold on the idea that the new consoles were going to be revolutionary that you are disappointed but we are past the days of tech and power holding back software the way it used to 20+ years ago. And I think an iterative future where the focus is on software is honestly better for the consumer. Well better as long as there is some kind of backwards compatibility...
I can understand if you were sold on the idea that the new consoles were going to be revolutionary that you are disappointed but we are past the days of tech and power holding back software the way it used to 20+ years ago. And I think an iterative future where the focus is on software is honestly better for the consumer. Well better as long as there is some kind of backwards compatibility...
Would I prefer that everything be made specifically for the PS5 hardware? Of course. Am I especially bothered by it? No.
The games look good, they look fun, and it seems everything is going to be running at 60fps which is great. It's not like they showed everything either. I highly doubt you'll be still sitting there in three years time making a thread about how Demon's Souls, Returnal and Rift Apart are the only true PS5 exclusives.
The games look good, they look fun, and it seems everything is going to be running at 60fps which is great. It's not like they showed everything either. I highly doubt you'll be still sitting there in three years time making a thread about how Demon's Souls, Returnal and Rift Apart are the only true PS5 exclusives.
Nah. I don't care whether a game is AAA or not, a good game is a good game. Returnal is my GOTY and one of my favourite games right now, which since it's a "smaller" game, doesn't matter? Wack.
MS won't have a true next-gen AAA exclusive until next year, (Flight Sim does count but it's not AAA) but I still love my Series X, plus FH5 and Halo Infinite look great, and they're both cross-gen.
People upset because a game is coming out on PS4/Xbox One is really weird to me. A good game is a good game.
MS won't have a true next-gen AAA exclusive until next year, (Flight Sim does count but it's not AAA) but I still love my Series X, plus FH5 and Halo Infinite look great, and they're both cross-gen.
People upset because a game is coming out on PS4/Xbox One is really weird to me. A good game is a good game.
LOL that's a way to dismiss Demon's Souls and Returnal...
Anyway, no, it doesn't. It's my primary machine, so there's plenty of games yet to play and to be released, even the cross-gen ones. I'll get the juicy new gen only games eventually, I'm not in a rush.
Anyway, no, it doesn't. It's my primary machine, so there's plenty of games yet to play and to be released, even the cross-gen ones. I'll get the juicy new gen only games eventually, I'm not in a rush.
It's a bit of a bummer, but not more than that. 3rd party is where it's at for me. Having the better version of any game on PS5 + backward compat. of older games was good enough for me to get one. I've come to terms with the fact that Sony's first-party offering are just mostly of no interest to me, but, like I said, it's not why I got a PS5 in the first place.
No, and for two reasons.
1. There was, and still is, a global Pandemic ongoing that is affecting literally every single aspect of game design and release. Down to literally the equipment they'd need to create said games being difficult to come by due to the chip shortage.
2. Because of reason 1, the PS5 has been difficult to find in stock. My thinking at this point, since there's also relatively few games coming out because of the pandemic, is to just wait until the PS5 slim version releases (Or mid-gen upgrade if they go that route) to grab one.
1. There was, and still is, a global Pandemic ongoing that is affecting literally every single aspect of game design and release. Down to literally the equipment they'd need to create said games being difficult to come by due to the chip shortage.
2. Because of reason 1, the PS5 has been difficult to find in stock. My thinking at this point, since there's also relatively few games coming out because of the pandemic, is to just wait until the PS5 slim version releases (Or mid-gen upgrade if they go that route) to grab one.
No, I really don't care if a game I'm looking forward to on PS5 is also coming out on PS4. If there's a game I want to play, then I'm going to play it. This gen is a special case since it started during a global pandemic and it's obvious plans had to be changed to reflect that.
If you ask me, we're lucky that we're even getting new games at all. If this pandemic happened in earlier gens, game development would have probably halted completely due to devs not being able to effectively work from home.
If you ask me, we're lucky that we're even getting new games at all. If this pandemic happened in earlier gens, game development would have probably halted completely due to devs not being able to effectively work from home.
Same. Without RPGs, their first-party lineup has become an absolute snoozefest for me. The Marvel games are alright but I'm not buying a $500+ console for Spider-Man 2.
I'm explicitly annoyed that they jacked up the pricing and are selling us what amount to Ultra Settings PS4 games for $95 USD in places around the world - this is more of an issue for people outside of America obviously, if it was a nice friendly $10 raise like in the States, I would probably care less - as it is now, they are approaching double the price of Switch games/ or PS4 games at retail a year ago in a lot of places and that is shitty.
These games would still have been PS4 games without the pandemic so the pandemic reasoning doesn't hold apart from it dragging out the length of cross gen (and new consoles are ALWAYS hard to get hold of). Hopefully with Spider-Man being PS5 only (until the inevitable Hermen blogpost or Jim Ryan interview shows up) we have seen the back of the PS4 gen for first party after 2022. I find it funny that the thread about no free PS4 upgrades for cross gen Horizon was a collective gamers rise up outrage but price gouging PS5 owners on games that should have free upgrades from PS4 is not an issue and everyone is just entitled for being annoyed about it
These games would still have been PS4 games without the pandemic so the pandemic reasoning doesn't hold apart from it dragging out the length of cross gen (and new consoles are ALWAYS hard to get hold of). Hopefully with Spider-Man being PS5 only (until the inevitable Hermen blogpost or Jim Ryan interview shows up) we have seen the back of the PS4 gen for first party after 2022. I find it funny that the thread about no free PS4 upgrades for cross gen Horizon was a collective gamers rise up outrage but price gouging PS5 owners on games that should have free upgrades from PS4 is not an issue and everyone is just entitled for being annoyed about it
This thread premise feels like peak Era, "I know they launched during a Pandemic, but I personally still find it inexcusable that their First Party exclusives are so spread out and the first few are also on PS4!"
Yes it is.
Xbox has had 1 big exclusive game since the Series X came out 10 months ago and that exclusivity ended last week.
The Pandemic happened and work loads got cut and dates got pushed back for everyone.
Never mind releasing games, none of them can make enough console to sell because of the situation in the world at the moment.
Not really bothered right now as what we're seeing is just the logical evolution from having only new IPs, or reinventions dominating Sony games in 2017/2018 with Horizon, Spider-Man and God of War. All those games were huge hits and were guarenteed to get sequels, and as they all came out close to one another, it makes sense that the sequels will come out in close proximity too.
This is just a cycle that will end up with a few years (2025-2027, I'd bet) where we will see more new original IPs or reboots and less sequels once again. Let's not forget that just yesterday Cory Barlog confirmed he's directing another game for Santa Monica, that will almost certainly be a new IP. And, as most people have already said, it's not as if Sony hasen't released a new big IP this very year.
This is just a cycle that will end up with a few years (2025-2027, I'd bet) where we will see more new original IPs or reboots and less sequels once again. Let's not forget that just yesterday Cory Barlog confirmed he's directing another game for Santa Monica, that will almost certainly be a new IP. And, as most people have already said, it's not as if Sony hasen't released a new big IP this very year.
This thread starts with a false premise. There are already 3 AAA PS5 exclusives (Returnal, Demon's Souls and Ratchet and Clank. The fact that you're only counting one doesn't make it a fact.
Ditto, I'm glad for the Marvel stuff frankly as it's all I'm really looking forward to from PS in the future.
It's annoying there's only a couple of PS5 only games yes because of the limitations 2011 hardware and a standard HDD bring in terms of game development (aswell as Sony's whole generations bullshit) but there's also been a global pandemic which will influence game development well in 2022 so it's fine. I've still to play Returnal and Ratchet so I'm all set until next year.
I'm not bothered by this. Being in PC gaming for a string of years kinda made generations break down more to a preference for higher performance, and I think the start of this generation reflects that better than ever before on the console side of things. It's mostly the same stuff I'd be playing on older hardware at a higher performance level. That encompassed much of my time on PC with my hardware upgrades, and was usually the biggest motivator in seeking upgrades to begin with since actual base compatibility was rarely the actual issue. My PC could run almost everything I wanted it to through the years, I just sometimes found myself wanting it all to run better.
If I had never spent 5-6 years in custom build PC territory, I may have never adopted this perspective but I do understand how console players might want more of the traditional technical leaps. I'm in an uncommon position of having picked this perspective up from PC gaming but no longer wanting to engage with PC (for a relatively complex range of reasons) and now I'm back on console only.
If I had never spent 5-6 years in custom build PC territory, I may have never adopted this perspective but I do understand how console players might want more of the traditional technical leaps. I'm in an uncommon position of having picked this perspective up from PC gaming but no longer wanting to engage with PC (for a relatively complex range of reasons) and now I'm back on console only.
Nope, not remotely.
What bugged me was the whole attempt to play off crossgen as a bad thing in the first place to score brownie points against Xbox. Crossgen is proconsumer as most games given the 5 year dev cycle are limited anyways.
Leave exceptions like MSFS and Ratchet to next gen.
What bugged me was the whole attempt to play off crossgen as a bad thing in the first place to score brownie points against Xbox. Crossgen is proconsumer as most games given the 5 year dev cycle are limited anyways.
Leave exceptions like MSFS and Ratchet to next gen.
Returnal, Demon's Souls and the BC upgrades/patches have been worth it for me so far. I got a PS5 in January and I've really enjoyed it, especially Returnal which in hindsight actually turned out to be a system seller for me.
If the only way you can make a point is to completely disqualify multiple games which render your point incorrect then you haven't really made a point.
Either way, no this does not bother me because there have been multiple PS5 original titles, and unless we have become psychics, the PS5 has only been out ten months. We have no idea what can be announced and released over the next two years.
Either way, no this does not bother me because there have been multiple PS5 original titles, and unless we have become psychics, the PS5 has only been out ten months. We have no idea what can be announced and released over the next two years.
Three years, eh? You sure Sony got nothing else to announce that's coming anytime sooner than November 2023? We are not even a year into the release, and you are already saying they're not releasing anything original on PS5 only in the next two years...?
Plus what they release (Returnal, Demon's Souls) doesn't count. Alright.
Plus what they release (Returnal, Demon's Souls) doesn't count. Alright.
At one point it annoyed me that so many of the games were cross gen, but I've kind of given up on that feeling. Insomniac has shown that we can have cross gen games that still feel like they're taking advantage of new more powerful hardware. The stuff that really redefines what SSD hardware can do wouldn't have happened for a couple of years anyway, so better graphics and shorter load times were about the extent we were going to get.
That being said, I'll be ready for the cross gen phase to be over.
That being said, I'll be ready for the cross gen phase to be over.