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The PS5 and Xbox 2 thread - it's happening

Abu Antar

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Enjoy the Revolution! Another revolution around the sun that is. Shadorwun: Hong Kong Divinity: Original Sin 2 Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire Pathfinder: Wrath I'm very into cock and ball torture I helped put crap in Monomyth
I wish them all the misfortune, businesswise.
 
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toro said:
wrong thread?

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Another 400 million dollars down the drain.
 
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DemonKing said:
Wow Sony - gamers sure do love your PS4 remakes.
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The game isn't that out of date - being from 2015 and all.. not even considering that the original is literally given for free with every account that subscribes to PS+ (and I would imagine that most people do sub going off statistics I've seen of it). Who would buy into a console nowadays and not consider the online aspect important?
 
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https://www.techradar.com/gaming/ga...ying-on-blockbuster-games-is-a-death-sentence

Former PlayStation CEO Shawn Layden:

"[In the past] we spent a lot more time looking at games and not asking 'what's your monetization scheme,' or 'what's your recurrent revenue plan,' or 'what's your subscription formula?'" said Layden.

"We asked the simple question: is it fun? Are we having a good time? If you said yes to those questions, you'd usually get a green light. You didn't worry so much about the end piece, for better or for worse. Of course back then you didn't make a game for millions [of] dollars. So your risk tolerance was fairly high.

"Today, the entry costs for making a AAA game is in triple digit millions now. I think naturally, risk tolerance drops. And you're [looking] at sequels, you're looking at copycats, because the finance guys who draw the line say, 'Well, if Fortnite made this much money in this amount of time, my Fortnite knockoff can make this in that amount of time.' We're seeing a collapse of creativity in games today [with] studio consolidation and the high cost of production."

Layden is worried that if the industry mainly relies on the blockbuster AAA games that could be a "death sentence."

"Now if we can just get a bit more interest and excitement and exposure for these lower budget, but super creative and super unusual [type] of games... I'd like to see more of that. Because if we're just going to rely on the blockbusters to get us through, I think that's a death sentence."

He was asked what strategy the few remaining AA studios could adopt, and he said AA has a natural niche that brings "the new thing" rather than be "a dollar store version of God of War."
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He helped light the thing on fire, ran from the ashes and now gives his two cents like it was out of his control at the time. I maintain that it's more a publisher problem than a consumer problem. The pubs still drive it. What an asshole.
 
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Tehdagah said:
Ezekiel said:
https://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2024/10/23/ps5-resume-activity-feature-gone-for-good/

Quick resume removed from PS5 because of apparently issues in some games. Can PS4 still resume or do I never update it again?
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PS4 never had a quick resume. The quick resume was one of the selling points of the PS5. Xbox Series still have it but it isn't like if Sony feels threatened by the Xbox anymore.
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I'm confused. What's the thing on PS4 called that lets you continue a game from where you stopped? Without having to go through the menu and cutscenes and level again?

Oh, "suspend/resume."
 
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Ezekiel said:
Tehdagah said:
Ezekiel said:
https://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2024/10/23/ps5-resume-activity-feature-gone-for-good/

Quick resume removed from PS5 because of apparently issues in some games. Can PS4 still resume or do I never update it again?
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PS4 never had a quick resume. The quick resume was one of the selling points of the PS5. Xbox Series still have it but it isn't like if Sony feels threatened by the Xbox anymore.
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I'm confused. What's the thing on PS4 called that lets you continue a game from where you stopped? Without having to go through the menu and cutscenes and level again?

Oh, "suspend/resume."
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Quick resume allowed players to go back at a game even if they were playing something else.
 
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Ezekiel said:
https://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2024/10/23/ps5-resume-activity-feature-gone-for-good/

Quick resume removed from PS5 because of apparently issues in some games. Can PS4 still resume or do I never update it again?
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Reminds me of the PS2's fast disc read option for PS1 games blocking out games from using in later PS2 revisions because they had issues with it on. Problem was that games were often blocked when they only had issues under absurdly specific circumstances.

I wonder if Sony ever advertised this feature. That's what got them in trouble for removing OtherOS.
 
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