Decline PS4 wins the console war against XboxONE, yet it is a hollow victory as Consolesdämmerung is upon us

Nope. People buy consoles for FIFA and Battlefield. 99% of the fuckers I dealt with when I worked as support for XBONE had issues with those,and now at MS Store, get the same queries: FIFA bundles,Battlefield,Minecraft etc. I think you're giving consoletards as a group way too much credit. I don't get any RPG queries at all. Sure, if just 5% of consoletards get Witcher for example it's still millions and it obscures the fact that almost nobody overall gets consoles for exclusives or RPG's. Conversely the fact that so many do play FIFA/Battlefield show that EA aren't going to go away anytime soon, so gleeful commentary about TORtanic,Inquisition etc. is pretty wishful thinking when the fuckers rake in eyewatering amounts from FIFA points alone and the yearly roster updates they sell as full games(I know as I'd help with refunds when little Johnny maxed out parents credit cards getting them!EA wouldn't even refund!).

 

Fair enough, I wouldn't know how to empathize with your average FIFA or CoD buying retard. But if you are gonna hate consoles, hate those guys, not the few of us who get them for the few standout games that warrant their purchase.

 

Has that happened since the PS2 though?

 

Kind of rarely, if I am very honest. There haven't been a lot of real exclusives worth getting - but those are still worth getting. Dark Souls/Demon's Souls/NieR were all worth getting a PS3 for.
It looks a little better for the PS4, at least as far as my tastes are concerned: Persona 5, Bloodborne, The Last Guardian, NieR 2; those are all pretty promising titles. Hell, I even look forward to the new Final Fantasy, even though it will disappoint with 99% certainty.

In the end it is a matter of taste and priorities. But if you absolutely put games first, not ideology, then having a console is absolutely understandable, even if it were only for 1 single game that is not available any other way. Someone who really cares about games doesn't mind spending the price for the entire console plus the game for just one game alone.

 

Overall your're right but I'm slowly tired of situation when there only few new games worth playing and they're spread through several platforms like it was during last gen. Not that I don't appreciate competition in market but just imagine... if there were finally a ONE platform under the foot of even most terrible owner like Microsoft with their UWP... all stuff available via one OS, just buy some hardware once for 5 years and play everything that is released. All software creators are being forced to focus on that one platform, no effort is in vein, optimalization for that one trve OS became a priority so no more resources wasted during porting etc.

But I guess in real life we would just end up deep in the gutter of shite never known to human customer before.

 

If we consolidated it all to 1 platform, it would have to be the PC. We could still enjoy console games - just plug in a good controller. As much I like the console exclusives and don't mind shelling out big $$$ for them, this would be much better for everyone. The problem is dumb kids. Every fucking parent buys their dumb kids these CoD and Battlefield hell machines - too profitable to stop.

 

We ought to be more worried about tablets than consoles at this point. In fact I forsee tablets replacing both PeeCees and consoles because retards gonna retard.

 

Why worry when it already happen?

Mobile gaming is currently the most lucrative and the biggest piece of pie in the video game industry.

Most of the money made is in that market, not the console or the pc market.

 

If tablets could finally kill consoles and introduce dichotomy of total casual simplistic crap on Android/IOS and proper games on PC it would be much better than current hybrid state of gaming.

 

Strongly Agree. Multiplatform as a standard killed videogames.

 

This would be impossible. Tablets can't kill consoles, no matter how powerful they've gotten, they only get console leftovers.

 

I don't think Tablets will replace consoles any time soon, there is a limit on the amount of horse power you can place inside a tablet limited by both the space as the battery. Even future tablets, they will be more powerful than consoles are now but will keep being cleary inferior to the future machines. So far, all the attempts of FPS and other console games for tablets were so fucking horrible, the level of dumb down required to fit them on tablets was so big that scared even console gamers, the publishers kinda gave up and rely alot on cow clickers and other Zinga style waste of time games. Those kinds of games make alot of money but people aren't stopping playing console games to play them.

 

http://gematsu.com/2016/03/rumor-ps4-5-twice-powerful-gpu-deep-down-god-war-4-among-launch-titles

 

In a console generation of remakes, the PS4 itself is about to get a remake.

 

So now ps 4.5 will have exclusives that will not run on ps 4 ?

 

I like the 4k buzzword.

 

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Because the masses have been sold on the idea, and now they can't undo the damage. Anyone buying a 4K TV now won't be able to understand why their console doesn't meet the same standard. Basically, TV marketing fucked consoles completely. Us glorious PC master race can only laugh in scorn and derision.

 

Because selling hot shit to retards is the oldest form of Jew-Fu in the book?

 

Because people will still buy into it. The people who will buy PS4.5 are the same morons who believed they were getting 60FPS 1080p games when they bought their PS4.

 

There is a chance that those ps4.5 games will have a graphic option menu, so you can scale back the graphics to run on a ps4. There were a few console games recently which had a graphic options, so gamers could sacrifice graphical fidelity for a higher framerate. One of these was The Division, but I'm sure more will come in the future.

 

4K probably only refers to 4K Blu-Ray capability, because I can't see how a twice as powerful GPU would be sufficient enough to play 4K@ 30fps games.

 

Because they probably realized scalars are cheap and very few people run a setup where they can notice the difference between 1080p and 1080p scaled to 2160p? (by setup I mean screen size and distance to it)