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After 5 years of No Games, Sony leaks they'll announce PS5 Pro on September 10th (edit: Revealed. $700 and no disc drive. Come laugh at it.)

Ezekiel

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Speaking of Bloodborne, we'll probably play that on PC at stable 60fps within a year, maybe even sooner considering how much progress guys behind shadPS4 are making. Console players will have to wait for the Bluepoint remake when PS6 comes out, and that will be an inferior version. :lol:

Yes, that is extremely prestigious, waiting fucking 10 years to play one of the best Souls games created. If someone really likes Souls games and didn't play Bloodborne since the game was released in freaking March of 2015, there is only one excuse: being poor. The total cost of getting an used PS4 for cheap, playing through Bloodborne and selling PS4 after it's equal to bag of potatoes and a bottle of vodka. Achievable even in Potato countries. But for some reason people prefer to spend their energy asking for PC port every year, for the last 10 years dammit.
I'm poor and I agree with this 100%
Yeah, already played Bloodborne twice, years ago. Was tired of FromSoftware's repetition and lack of self-improvement by that point, but they weren't so dislikable yet. Might play it again if it ever is ported to PC, but at a big discount and not with any eagerness.

I would also recommend Gravity Rush Remastered (but maybe the emulated PS Vita version is as good) and The Last Guardian.

Until Dawn was kind of neat. But monsters were lame. Was surprised that I wanted those annoying kids to live. Tried a second time to save that creepy one from the last 007 and quit the playthrough when he died again. PC version will force an over-the-shoulder perspective in parts, as per the modern standard, so not worth it.

Found Infamous okay, but don't know if I could get through it a second time. Never played the PS3 games.
 

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Snoy Shady - Without Sony :
THEY CREATED A MONSTER
CAUSE NOBODY WANTS TO SEE SONY NO MORE THEY WANT GAYBEN HE'S CHOPPED LIVER
WELL IF YOU WANT GAMING THIS IS WHAT I'LL GIVE YA
A LITTLE BIT OF STEAM MIXED WITH SOME HARD HITTERS
SOME CLASSICS THAT'LL JUMP START YOUR HEART QUICKER
THAN A COCK WHEN THEY GIVE HEAD WHILE SUCKING SKITTLES
AT THE CONFERENCE WHEN THEY'RE NOT CO-OPERATING
WHEN THE SUITS ARE PROPAGANDIZING AND PROPAGATING
YOU'VE WAITED THIS LONG SO STOP DEBATING
SNOYFAGS BACK WITH A GASH AND DIAL8ING
I KNOW THAT YOU GOT A JOB HIROKI
BUT YOUR CONSOLE'S LIBRARY IS COMPLICATING
SO THE PS3 WON'T LET ME BE
OR LET SONY SEE A NEW RELEASE
THEY GONNA SHUT IT DOWN EVENTUALLY
CAUSE THEIR CATALOG IS SO EMPTY
SO COME WITH THE CHIPS, I'LL BRING THE DIP
FUCK THAT, CUM AS I PLAY LITTLE BIG PLANET
AND GET READY, CAUSE THIS SHIT'S ABOUT TO GET HEAVY
I JUST PEDDLED ALL MY SWITCH GAMES (FUCK YOU REGGIE)

NOW, THIS CONSOLE LOOKS COOKED TO ME
SO EVERYBODY, SWITCH TO PC
CAUSE THIS SEEMS A LITTLE BIT TOO PRICEY
CAUSE IT FEELS JUST LIKE THE PS3

LITTLE SNOYFAGS, STARTED FEELIN' THEY BOY BAGS
EMBARRASSED, THEY HOPING CONCORD WILL BOUNCE BACK
STARTED FEELING LIKE SONY WAS HELPLESS
TILL GAYBEN COMES ALONG WITH HIS STEAM DECK AND YELLS "BITCH"
A VISIONARY, PC IS SCARY, COULD START PROSTITUTING
POLLUTING THE STEAM STORE WITH AYLOY
SO JUST LET ME REVEL AND BASK IN THE FACT THAT PLAYSTATION BE KISSING HIS ASS
IT'S A DISASTER, SUCH A CATASTROPHE
FOR YOU SEE SO DAMN MUCH OF PLAYSTATION ON PC
WELL HE'S BACK (NA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NA)
FIX YOU SHIT FRAMERATE OPTIMIZE AND THEN WE GONNA
ENTER IN WINDOWS 10 LIKE A SINNER
THE CENTER OF ATTENTION
PLAYSTATION KILLER
WE INTERESTING, KEEP THE SNOYFAGS GUESSING
BESTING SONY STOCKS CAUSE WE NOT INVESTING
TESTING, ATTENTION PLEASE
FEEL THE TENSION SOON AS SONY ON PC
HERE'S MY TEN CENTS, GIVE US BLOODBORNE PLEASE
YOU NUISANCE, THE LAST OF US WAS ON PS3

NOW, THIS CONSOLE LOOKS COOKED TO ME
SO EVERYBODY, SWITCH TO PC
CAUSE THIS SEEMS A LITTLE BIT TOO PRICEY
CAUSE IT FEELS JUST LIKE THE PS3

A TISKET A TASKET
I'LL GO TIT-FOR-TAT WITH
ANYBODY WHO'S PREPPING SONYFAG CASKETS
PICK THE FABRIC SO THEY CAN REST THEY ASS QUICK
AS THE HEARSE DRIVES DOWN TO UBISOFT'S ENCAMPMENT
AND SONY? YOU CAN GET FUCKED BY PC
YOU RAINBOW-HAIRED-FEMINIST-FAGS YOU CAN BLOW ME
YOU DON'T KNOW ME, YOU'RE TOO WOKE, LET'S GO, IT'S OVER
NOBODY GONNA PLAY ASTRO
NOW LET'S GO, JUST GIVE ME THE SIGNAL
I'LL BE THERE WITH SOME ROMS THAT'LL MAKE YOU ASS GIGGLE
THEY'VE BEEN DOPE, SUSPENSEFUL AND ESSENTIAL
EVER SINCE PRINCESS PEACH WAS KNOWN AS A TOADSTOOL
SOMETIMES THIS SHIT ON V
EVERYBODY ONLY WANTS TO SHITPOST MEMES
SO THERE'S NO POINT IN DISCUSSING
NAH IT'S JUST ME I'M JUST JUDGING
THOUGH NOT THE CRUX OF THE CONTROVERSY
SONYFAGS ARE MAD CAUSE THEY'RE CONSOLE'S BURNING
INTO PLASTIC BITS SO PROFUSELY
OVERHEATING ITSELF SO ACUTELY (HEY!)
HERE'S A CONCEPT THAT WORKS
TWENTY MILLION OF THESE GAY SNOYFAGS ARE PURGED
BUT NO MATTER HOW MANY GAMES ARE PUT ON STEAM
IT STILL FEELS LIKE THEY'VE GOT NOTHING


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PS All Stars :
SOMEBODY ONCE TOLD ME THAT SNOYS WOULD TRY TO TROLL ME
THEY’LL ARGUE TILL THEIR FACES ARE RED

THEY WERE LOOKING KIND OF DUMB AND SHITPOSTING JUST FOR FUN
WHEN I TOLD THEM THEIR EXCLUSIVES WERE DEAD

WELL, THE FLOPS START COMIN' AND THEY DON'T STOP COMIN'
BARELY HITTIN’ 40 FPS WHILE RUNNIN'

DOESN'T MAKE SENSE TO JUST SHILL FOR FREE
YOUR BRAIN GETS ROTTED ON REDDIT AND TWEETS

NO GAMES TO PLAY, MOVIES TO SEE
SO WHAT’S WRONG WITH BUILDING A PC?
YOU ONLY GOT ONE GAME TO MOURN
AN EMULATOR’S RUNNING BLOODBORNE

HEY NOW, PS ALL STARS
THE ABSOLUTE STATE OF PLAAAAY

HEY NOW, PS ALL STARS
LIVE SERVICE FLOPS DAY BY DAAAAY

NO GAMES FOR THE PROOOOOOO
TWO WEEK LIFETIME FOR CONCOOOOOOOOORD

700 BUCKS, AND NO DISC DRIVE
A 30 DOLLAR STAND FOR YOUR PS5

BUT ALL THE SNOYS WOULD BEG TO DIFFER
“YOU COULD AFFORD IT IF YOU WERE ALL RICHER”

THE NORMALFAG’S PATIENCE, GETTIN’ PRETTY THIN
ALL YOUR SONY DISCS GOIN’ IN THE TRASH BIN

THE STORE’S GOT NOTHIN’, IT’S ALL PORTS
PRAYIN’ ASTRO-BOT HOLDS DOWN THE FORT

HEY NOW, PS ALL STARS
THE ABSOLUTE STATE OF PLAAAAY

HEY NOW, PS ALL STARS
LIVE SERVICE FLOPS DAY BY DAAAAY

AN 800 DOLLAR PROOOOOOO
TWO WEEK LIFETIME FOR CONCOOOOOOOOORD


[INTERLUDE]


NO GAMES COMING SOON

N-N-N-NO GAMES COMING SOON

NO GAMES COMING SOON

N-N-N-NO GAMES COMING SOON

HEY NOW, PS ALL STARS
THE ABSOLUTE STATE OF PLAAAAY

HEY NOW, PS ALL STARS
LIVE SERVICE FLOPS DAY BY DAAAAY

NO GAMES FOR THE PROOOOOOO~

SOMEBODY ONCE SAID “THIS CONSOLE’S FUCKING DEAD”
I SAID, “I WISH SONY WOULD USE THEIR IP”
SPIDER-MAN AND GOD OF WAR
STILL SUPPORTING PS4
AND STILL ENDING UP ON STEAAAAAAAM

WELL, THE FLOPS START COMIN' AND THEY DON'T STOP COMIN'
BARELY HITTIN’ 40 FPS WHILE RUNNIN'

DOESN'T MAKE SENSE TO JUST SHILL FOR FREE
YOUR BRAIN GETS ROTTED ON REDDIT AND TWEETS

NO GAMES TO PLAY, MOVIES TO SEE
SO WHAT’S WRONG WITH BUILDING A PC?
YOU ONLY GOT ONE GAME TO MOURN
AN EMULATOR’S RUNNING BLOODBORNE

HEY NOW, PS ALL STARS
THE ABSOLUTE STATE OF PLAAAAY

HEY NOW, PS ALL STARS
LIVE SERVICE FLOPS DAY BY DAAAAY

NO GAMES FOR THE PROOOOOOO
TWO WEEK LIFETIME FOR CONCOOOOOOOOORD

NO GAMES FOR THE PROOOOOOO
TWO WEEK LIFETIME FOR CONCOOOOOOOOORD


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IS THIS THE REAL PRICE
IS THIS JUST PS3
THEY ANNOUNCED THE PRO MODEL
WITH NO DISC OR STABILITY

OPEN YOUR EYES
LOOK UP TO THE SKIES AND SEE
I'M JUST A POOR SNOY
IT'S SUNK-COST FALLACY

BECAUSE I FREELY SHILL
LOSING HOPE
PRICES HIGH
GAMEPLAY? NO!

WHERE DID ALL THE GAMES GO?
DOESN'T REALLY MATTER TO ME
TO MEEEEE

MAMA
JUST KILLED A GAME
PUT CONCORD OUT WITH DREAD
JUST RELEASED AND NOW ITS DEAD
MAMA
SERVICE HAD JUST BEGUN
250 MIL AND THREW IT ALLLLLL AWAY
MAMA OOOOHOOOHOH
DIDN'T MEAN TO TELL A LIE
SOMETIMES I WISH IT'D NEVER BEEN MADE AT ALL

BUT I'M JUST A SONY BOY NOBODY LOVES ME
HE'S JUST A SONY BOY FROM A WOKE COMPANY
SPARE HIM SOME GAMES FROM THE MASTERRACE
Spencer Come, Spencer Go, Will you give me games?
DAS-RA-SICT, NO, WE WILL NOT GIVE YOU GAMES



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Now and then I think of when you used to make games
But then you went and just let all your IPs die
Told myself that I would love Sony
But then you went and moved your company
But that was love, and it's an ache I still remember

You play games as a form of entertainment
But Naughty Dog says no fun, never say fun
But when you said that Concord's service ends,
Said Astro Bot was my only friend,
But I'll admit that I'm glad it was Joever.

But you didn't have to rip me off,
Raise the price and still have a library full of nothing,
And I don't even need this stuff,
But you treat me like a tendie and that feels so rough

No you didn't have to stoop so low,
Cut the disk drive off and charge me for 80 more dollars
I guess that I don't need that though,
Now you're just a console that I used to own.
Now you're just a console that I used to own.
Now you're just a console that I used to own.

Now and then I think of all the games you ported over,
But had me believing that Rebirth would be the one,
But I don't want to live that way,
Having movies but no games to play,
You said buy a PS5 pro,
And I'd finally get some games on a console that I used to own.

But you didn't have to rip me off,
Raise the price and still have a library full of nothing,
And I don't even need this stuff,
But you treat me like a tendie and that feels so rough

No you didn't have to stoop so low,
Cut the disk drive off and charge me for 80 more dollars
I guess that I don't need that though,
Now you're just a console that I used to own.
Now you're just a console that I used to own.
Now you're just a console that I used to own.

Some console (I used to own)
Some console (now you're just some console that I used to own)
Some console (I used to own)
Some console (Now you're a console that I used to own)

I used to own
That I used to own
I used to own
Some console
 
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Reading around tells me that the response is overwhelmingly negative. Even people who say they can comfortably afford it and hardcore PS enthusiasts are condemning the price and Sony's decision to omit the optical drive. Sony's really misjudged this, especially in regard to dumping the optical drive. Yes, you can buy one and attach it, but the optical drive not being available out the box will be interpreted as the loss of a significant feature.

Those detachable drives are going to be hoarded by scalpers. It's already unavailable at a bunch of retailers. This is also going to affect base PS5 Digital Edition owners who want to add an optical drive. Having the drive as a pack-in [with the Pro] would have avoided this.

I reckon Sony will end up having to do a temporary price cut on the Pro at some point in a year or so. Sony temporarily slashed the price of PSVR2 a few months ago (by £200 / $200). Probably be something similar for the Pro.
Maybe. Or they will do start doing what other tech companies in the consumer space like NVidia and Apple are already doing. Or other industries like autos, housing and even fast food (McDonalds) are doing.

They are going to start catering more and more towards upscale customers with lots of disposable income. Prioritizing profit margins instead of volume.
Sony seems to be positioning itself as the Apple of gaming. Just look at all the expensive accessories it has come out with this gen.
I think the $700 PS5 Pro is Sony's way of priming people for a $600 base PS6 w/ no disc drive. The base [PS6] console is designed for mass appeal, so I expect it to be sold at a loss and therefore I think it will be cheaper than the PS5 Pro.

I think the days of PlayStation home consoles launching at $400 to $500 price points are a thing of the past. $600 / £600 will be the minimum for the PS6.
 

Ebonsword

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Christ, for $700 they could at least bundle in a DualSense Edge controller instead of the standard controller.

At least they had the decency to upgrade the SSD.
 

911 Jumper

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PlayStation 5 Pro Shows the Futility of the Video-Game Graphics Race
It’s become redundant to say that a modern game has “great graphics,” the way everyone did in the 1990s or early 2000s. These days, they all do.
Diminishing returns
The most striking thing about this week’s PlayStation 5 Pro reveal wasn’t the internal power or sticker price (although that one was pretty shocking). It was the games.

In a nine-minute presentation revealing the new iteration of the PS5 and touting its impressive hardware specs, lead architect Mark Cerny showed footage of games including The Last of Us Part II, Ghost of Tsushima, Hogwarts Legacy, Horizon Forbidden West and Gran Turismo 7. One common factor? They were all also released on PlayStation 4 — and look perfectly fine on the 2013 console.

Another common factor? They all have incredible graphics — despite most of the games being years old.

Many video-game enthusiasts have noticed over the last few years that graphics have reached a point of diminishing returns. Gone are the days of primitive avatars and chunky monsters. Today, most video games hit a level of graphical fidelity so vivid and realistic that it’s hard not to marvel at the pores on a hero’s face or the way that blades of grass sway in the wind. It’s become redundant to say that a modern game has “great graphics,” the way we might have in the 1990s or early 2000s. These days, they all do.

In the past, each console generation brought forward massive leaps in technology. Going from the PlayStation 1 to the PlayStation 2 was a revelation, transforming blocky angles and deformed faces into characters and buildings that popped on the screen. But by the mid-2010s, you had to start squinting to see the yearly graphical improvements. Nowadays, they barely exist. Red Dead Redemption II, released six years ago for the PlayStation 4, might still be the best-looking video game on the market.

This is all fine! Games do not need to keep making vast graphical improvements when they could instead be pursuing innovation in other ways. But watching Cerny’s presentation was a reminder that despite the giddy excitement over ray-tracing and reflective surfaces, the graphical improvements brought by the newest consoles on the market are insignificant.

The $700 PlayStation 5 Pro will certainly appeal to tech aficionados with lots of disposable income who want to play games at 4K resolution and the highest frame rates possible. But most people will not be able to tell the difference between Final Fantasy VII Rebirth running on PS5 or PS5 Pro. It’s gorgeous either way.

It’s enough to make you wonder: do we really need new consoles? The makers of PlayStation rely on continual iterations of hardware in order to grow their business, but how much longer will the appetite be there?

The PS5 has failed to beat the PS4’s growth and is lagging behind it on sales, at least in part because so many players are sticking with older, less graphically intensive games, such as Fortnite and Grand Theft Auto Online, that can be played on the old consoles. (An industry downturn and a lack of big-name exclusive games also don’t help.) Meanwhile, rival Xbox seems to have given up on selling consoles in the first place… maybe? Nobody really knows what Xbox is doing.

Meanwhile, the most popular console on the market is the Nintendo Switch, which has sold 143 million units despite having graphical capabilities equivalent to a PS4. Its successor, expected to be released next year, will likely also be underpowered compared to its competitors — and will also likely outsell them all.

The Switch’s success stems from many factors, including the fact that it’s the only console that allows you to play beloved Nintendo franchises such as Mario and Zelda. But it also makes clear that the graphical arms race has a limited appeal, and that times have changed. The majority of video-game fans are no longer chasing the hottest technology above all else.

The PS5 Pro doesn’t feel like the console of the future — it feels like the vestige of a rapidly disappearing past.
Source: Bloomberg
 

Ezekiel

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PlayStation 5 Pro Shows the Futility of the Video-Game Graphics Race
...............
Mark Cerney himself said in the presentation that 3/4 of players prefer performance mode over fidelity. Which means that players don't care about graphics as much as the publishers think. I've been saying for a while that the long development times and high costs that made games so risk-averse are a self-imposed problem.
 

911 Jumper

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PlayStation 5 Pro Shows the Futility of the Video-Game Graphics Race
...............
Mark Cerney himself said in the presentation that 3/4 of players prefer performance mode over fidelity. Which means that players don't care about graphics as much as the publishers think. I've been saying for a while that the long development times and high costs that made games so risk-averse are a self-imposed problem.
Sony's cinematic/graphics obsession began during the PS3 era with the rise of Naughty Dog, Guerilla Games, and PlayStation's “western shift” under Kaz Hirai. The game dev bloat increased as the US and Euro studios gained more influence over the [PlayStation] platform.

There's also a vocal section of the gaming population who really just want to play technology and not video games. They are obsessed with console performance face-offs and the numbers that are produced. Of course, Digital Foundry has played a huge role in cultivating this culture, which has helped to promote “the graphics above everything” attitude to game development. Just look at this recent comment from John Linneman from Digital Foundry in regard to FF7 Remake:


To say that Remake is unplayable on a base PS5 because the image quality is so awful is ridiculous. But these are the tech autists who contribute to gaming's obsession with graphics.
 

tritosine2k

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Mark Cerney himself said in the presentation that 3/4 of players prefer performance mode over fidelity

lol how 48fps isn't on the table anyone with half brain was asking for.
 

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Sony seems to be positioning itself as the Apple of gaming. Just look at all the expensive accessories it has come out with this gen.
I can imagine the executives thinking that is what they are doing but lets be honest the way they are going about it is head scratching at best.

Apple can larp as a premium brand because for a very long time(around 10-20 years or more) they have been a premium brand. Expensive but with products that were quite bluntly trend setters and had customer service that was a step above other brands. Yes, they made you pay out the ass but they also delivered. They genuinely had a ecosystem that basically provided everything a normy could ever ask for. Only in recent years did they become overpriced trash peddlers and even that is not entirely true of everything they do.

On the other hand the last time Sony and the Playstation brand could be mistaken for "premium" was when the PS3 launched. The launch models of the PS3 were slick, stacked with pretty much everything a 2006 guy could ask for and fully compatible with the PS1 and PS2 library. Ever since then it was on a downward trajectory so much so that the PS3 did not even retain its luster throughout its own generation. The PS4 and PS5 are a far cry in comparison.
 

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Sony has always had a heavily inflated image of themselves. Remember when they the balls to ship a rootkit on 22 million CDs? Remember when they greenlighted The Interview and almost caused a war with North Korea? Remember that time they lost the info of 77 million users?
I member'.
 

abija

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Mark Cerney himself said in the presentation that 3/4 of players prefer performance mode over fidelity. Which means that players don't care about graphics as much as the publishers think. I've been saying for a while that the long development times and high costs that made games so risk-averse are a self-imposed problem.
It doesn't mean that. It just means 3/4 of the players prefer not feeling sick from the <15 fps drops. For many AAA games even performance is barely playable.
 

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Mark Cerney himself said in the presentation that 3/4 of players prefer performance mode over fidelity. Which means that players don't care about graphics as much as the publishers think. I've been saying for a while that the long development times and high costs that made games so risk-averse are a self-imposed problem.
It doesn't mean that. It just means 3/4 of the players prefer not feeling sick from the <15 fps drops. For many AAA games even performance is barely playable.
Technically my old PC (I7 8700 + NVidia 2700 Super) was equivalent to a PS5.

However, it was already becoming outdated for 4K gaming even with DLSS enabled. Even lowering the resolution to 1440 I still had to lower graphics settings to Medium or even Low and it still couldn't maintain a steady 60 fps much of the time. Depending on the game, DLSS performance still couldn't guarantee a steady 60 fps.

Lowering resolution to 1080P was out of the question as it looks horrendous on a 4K TV.

So IMHO, I could see the need for a PS5 Pro. It was already becoming common on the regular PS5 for high fidelity games having to drop to 720 P and then upscale it for the Performance mode.
 

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30 fps shouldn't even be an option anymore. It looks like crap. I remember back in my gamespot days there were console fanboys trying to argue that 30 fps was "more cinematic". What a bunch of morons.
 

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30 fps looks normal. Until you see 60. And then you see 144, and 60 starts looking like shit. But nu games hardly run at that framerate. Now everything looks like shit to you. The only winning move is not to play.

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30 fps looks normal. Until you see 60. And then you see 144, and 60 starts looking like shit. But nu games hardly run at that framerate. Now everything looks like shit to you. The only winning move is not to play.

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I imagine there's some truth to this. 60 always looks good to me but I rarely ever see higher shit lol.
 

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PlayStation 5 Pro Shows the Futility of the Video-Game Graphics Race
It’s become redundant to say that a modern game has “great graphics,” the way everyone did in the 1990s or early 2000s. These days, they all do.
this is 100% false. As I'm playing through Space Marine 2 right this moment, a game that looks about as modern as modern games get, I'm noticing alot of shit that could look much better. We're not even close to "Pixar level graphics".
 

Ravielsk

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30 fps looks normal. Until you see 60. And then you see 144, and 60 starts looking like shit. But nu games hardly run at that framerate. Now everything looks like shit to you. The only winning move is not to play.

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It depends. A turn based game like FF tactics can easily get away with running at 12fps, it would not look great but for all intends and purposes would be perfectly playable. But any game with fast paced action is invariably gimped by a 30 FPS cap. Games like DMC or Bloodborne can become unplayable if the framerate dips too much or at all because when your reaction window is about 3 frames worth of animation cutting that in half essentially means that you straight up cannot react to what is happening on screen.
 
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Codex 2016 - The Age of Grimoire Make the Codex Great Again! Grab the Codex by the pussy Codex Year of the Donut Shadorwun: Hong Kong Divinity: Original Sin 2 Steve gets a Kidney but I don't even get a tag.
30 FPS per eye, so if you only got one eye, you are fine. :shittydog:
 

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