I got a PS5 because the usual pattern has been that the PS has 3 or 4 exclusives I want to play and Xbox has zero. Demon’s remake, Returnal and Horizon FW superficially fit that pattern, but none of them quite lived up to my hopes
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R&C is… fine. It’s pretty. I would not describe it in any way as a system seller though. You’ll have just as much fun with it a few years from now.
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Seems pretty on brand for modern Ratchet and Clank
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my only complaint about the series s is that it doesn’t have ffxiv
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the GPU is also, like, fairly bad, 4 tflops is not very much, that’s basically a PS4 Pro from 2016, but every other part of the hardware and rendering/upscaling techniques have improved enough that it turns out they can deal with that just fine
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I do kind of want to get a new xbox controller just to sate my controller curiosity. I am not in love with the DualSense like I really liked the DS4.
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I have…concerns about how the Series S is going to hold up once we start getting Unreal 5 titles targeting 30FPS and 1080p pre-reconstruction for the PS5 and Series X. It sounds like the work to get the latest demo (Matrix) working on the Series S was extensive and that’s going to look worse a few years down the line. The memory is shaved just a bit too tight, too.
the way I see it, the CPU is fine, and there’s going to be continued interest in making lower-end GPUs work just in terms of form factor – they’ll just stream them if they have to, which suits Microsoft’s service offering perfectly well
I mean, if they have to resort to streaming then the Xbox is just subbing in for a streaming stick at that point. That’d be a real shame.
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The Xboxes at least have the decency to be rectangular and fit in a 1 ft. cube. The PS5 would make Ken Kutaragi circa 2006 blush
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frankly, I don’t really see an issue with gradually erasing the difference between games that run locally and games that stream – if it’s case by case, it extends the hardware lifespan, it keeps the pricing accessible within the current game pass ecosystem, and video codecs and network latency continue to improve (I get like 2ms pings over wifi to my ISP with my fibre connection), then great. the only compelling alternative is like a $2k+ PC with current street prices, and the people who are compelled by that are welcome to self-select
I mean, I do too but this is the issue (tilting at windmills re: authority over and ownership of software notwithstanding)
Cable was never built to go both ways and the US has given up on fiber
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As in, you’d just prefer the low-cost box is phased out in favor of streaming? Seems like in the decade or more that people have been trying to make that happen, one of the big problems is that the people with the internet capable of streaming are also the ones who have or can afford the local rendering.
I think the most comparable situation to the Xbox Series S is the base Xbox One next to the One X and how often late-gen games have had really bad cutbacks on it. And it’s not too bad, certainly compared to late-period 360 and PS3 titles, but there’s a bigger gap between the new Xboxes and I’m worried it’ll be relatively worse in 3, 4 years.
I want to say yes but circa 2006 is the only Playstation ugly enough to vie against the PS5.
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yeah I mean if you care about this you should get a computer and you should steal; having the conversation in the context of consoles is totally pointless
re the essential shittiness of American broadband infrastructure… aren’t there already enough other extremely wealthy companies with a vested interest in improving that? not sure there’s a rational argument against just assuming they’ll succeed to the point that users will put up with
isn’t this how kingdom hearts and Hitman shipped on switch? I haven’t heard too many complaints there and the switch is very mass market
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Having spent more than a few hours connected to a gasoline powered generator playing jrpgs to unwind in the wake of a natural disaster that left me without internet or cell phone reception I really don’t feel like I’m down with streaming games for the most part. When shit goes down like that I want to be able to do something?
And right now, my connection isn’t that great in general. If I can’t count on hbomax to not BUFFERING than I don’t trust games to do better.
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It’s one thing to get a second job, but quite another to buy new furniture to house your Seto Kaiba obelisk
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Just imagined them marketing the PS5 and Series X as servers you’re supposed to chuck in a closet and stream to a stick
But why do that when they can just sell you the stick and a subscription
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streaming will never be viable for fighting games, rhythm games, or stgs
also it’s bad enough for movies and tv shows, i would rather not give publishers that much control over what games i can access
also also i currently have very limited internet access for an unknown amount of time thanks to isp incompetence, so i’m even more hostile to the idea than usual right now
unrelated: typing more than a couple of words on a touchscreen fucking sucks
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agreed, which is why it’s good that they have sold you a console and not a streaming stick, so it can be case by case
admittedly I know a lot about how video codecs behave under ideal circumstances and that may be biasing me here, but I think it’s a much more reasonable compromise in many cases considering hardware pricing than is being taken seriously
Google Stadia has been another corpse on the pile of satisfying failures for my tastes
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