Sony has supported their systems for a long time in the past. I wouldn't be surprised to see Ragnarok end up being cross-gen, and like others said, just have extra fancy shit/4k60 on PS5.
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Both Ratchet & Clank and Returnal are build around it and they're coming out soon.
Is that Jim Ryan or GoW related? Of course we will see cross gen games for a while, especially third party or sports games. And some first party too.From last week.
PS5 Games Will Continue to be Crossgen Compatible with PS4 for at Least 3 Years Says Sony
How long will you continue to be able to play games on both the PS4 and PS5? Crossgen isn't going away anytime too soon!wccftech.com
really hard concept to grasp here. imagine Jim Ryan scooping details about a game we only have a logo at interviews.
It'd be a nice day when this argument finally dies.
Outside of maybe FIFA or Just Dance type games, has a cross-gen game ever sell more on the old gen than the new gen?
I remember MGSV selling something ridiculous like 70% on PS4 and only around 5% total on PS3.
I must be the only person who'd be disappointed if they started porting God of War on PC with God of War 5.
Like we haven't seen games taking advantage of the SSD right now or Insomniac hasn't announced Ratchet and Clank as PS5 exclusive. You really think Sony invested this much time and money into a powerful SSD because multiple developers said they wanted one, and then Sony turns around and tells their studios to not utilize it to its fullest?
On one hand I agree but on the other hand, it's just video games. I say that as someone who will not own a PS5 when God of War 2 releases and who will likely be out of a job due to the pandemic at that point as well. When you reach a point where the pandemic is killing your budget you cut games out of the equation, be it PS4 or PS5 games, and make sure you have food on your table and a steady income.
Video games are the first thing to go when things get tough economically for me.
Yeah I have no idea what people are asking for specifically. Preventing a game from being on PS4 won't make it better, it will only be less work. Some game cannot be made on PS4, and those have to be exclusive. It's not that difficult to understand.
Not all exclusives require the SSD to the point of being impossible to port to PS4. The exact same thing was happening every other playstation generations, some can be cross-gen, other cannot. Nothing changed.
Because I want to know the whole story?
Incidentally, I'm firmly in the "don't have any expectations about Sony PC ports and treat them as pleasant surprises" camp, so that ppl don't think I'm port-begging.
I misread your post as y ou not wanting them to port God of War on PC period. Sorry!
Make Demon's souls on PS4 is a difficult task, it would be a port like The Witcher 3 wasone on Switch. The dynamic tesselation technology is too much for PS4 and same for the full GI lighting. They need to redo all the assets and multiple rendering system.
I think R&C Rift Apart and Demon's souls will be PS5 only because Bloodborne and Ratchet and Clank PS4 does not sold 10+ millions on PS4.
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As a PS5 owner, I'd be totally happy if it was coming to PS4 too. Make the best game you can for PS4 hardware then have it 60fps locked/beautiful/fast loading on PS5.
The only interesting part of this will be the song and dance around it and then them silently announcing it in a blogpost while their not-E3 show is happening. Just come out and say it if it's crossgen, barely anyone will care.
The only interesting part of this will be the song and dance around it and then them silently announcing it in a blogpost while their not-E3 show is happening. Just come out and say it if it's crossgen, barely anyone will care.
it's going to be cross-gen isn't it. Well as long as they keep the quality intact, I don't really mind.
Miles Morales is great on both platforms.
Miles Morales is great on both platforms.
This is gonna be one of those things where a delay for the game would be overall a good thing and they make it a PS5 title only lol.
Or perhaps this will be more akin to an "beefy" 1.5 title, than a fully fledged sequel to keep in line with cross gen limitations.
Or perhaps this will be more akin to an "beefy" 1.5 title, than a fully fledged sequel to keep in line with cross gen limitations.
No shade to those games in particular, just disappointed the big ones I'm most interested in are going to miss out until their next iterations. Its just frustrating that to see many big efforts get the green light only if the millions of install base are there to make the powers at be happy.
I'm sure they will look and run great regardless just the Cerny SSD talk had so much potential and I need to wait because money is on the table.
I mean it is too early to tell of course but I don't see how you can utilize the SSD to its fullest and also release on a platform that doesn't have one.
Yea I think that's the issue people have. If they just clearly announced what these games were coming out on, people wouldn't get flustered. They know if it's crossgen or not, like Horizon.
I don't think this applies to such a high profile exclusive. It's in development and announced as a 2021 game. Or should we also entertain that it could be PS4 only with backwards compatibility patch on PS5 at launch and a proper upgrade later?
3.5 to 4 years iterating on a formula they've now successfully established isn't necessarily a short dev cycle.
I really wouldn't expect their absolute largest titles to be PS5 only until they surpass 30 million PS5 sold or so. Smaller things like Ratchet and Clank and Demons Souls are great for showing what is capable on the PS5 but they're clearly not the games Sony is expecting to sell a significant amount of, that falls to games like Miles Morales, Horizon Forbidden West and in all likelihood God of War Ragnarok which is why we see them as PS4 titles as well.
With a name like Ragnarok? If you played the first it pretty much confirms it is a full sequel. Unless the next one is called The Real Ragnarok.
Well crossgen seems like a pretty safe bet to me. I'm gonna go ahead and say that Demons Soul will also be crossgen.
Considering how many PS4s they sold, at the very least they would/should consider it. I'm just gonna assume it's cross-gen with the hope that they put the funds into really optimizing the PS5 version.
What wasn't sensible about my post? Implying that's its shitty for him not to be honest with people? Just the other day the head of xbox answered a random question about halo and told us they made craig shirts so I don't really get your business people don't answer random questions. Jim Ryan doesn't answer random questions I'll give you that.
I'd be very surprised if it wasn't cross-gen. Sony did say they'd continue to support the PS4 for years and the two biggest exclusives of 2021 being on the PS4 as well as the PS5 makes sense in that respect.
This is not going to be some side story. Its going to have be 3.5 years since the last one when it releases. This is a full sequel. Also won't be shocked if it's the last major PS4 game either.
If Phil Spencer commented on something, it's because it's on a list of things he's ready to comment about. He's a lot better at coming across friendly and natural in interviews, I'll give him that. He's still following a plan. And there are questions to which he would respond "no comment" or say something longer but equally free of content.
No no, I was genuinely asking. I don't have a PS5 nor have I played Miles Morales on PS4, so I wanted to know if this particular game could be representative of this topic.
3,5 years is assuming they started to work on Ragnarok as soon as GoW PS4 released, 3 years of production would still be quite short for a full game with completely next-gen visuals.
I don't get the massive deal with it being on PS4? same with Horizon. Its going to be an early PS5 game, we are not going to see the system really being pushed for another few years.
It's also assuming it launches in late 2021, and I don't believe it will.