45% of enthusiasts 'seriously considering' leaving Sony for PC
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Re: 45% of enthusiasts 'seriously considering' leaving Sony for PC
#2Literally no point to specific hardware
Re: 45% of enthusiasts 'seriously considering' leaving Sony for PC
#3Not sure why. looking at the polls it would seem the primary points are
1) Sony ending physical disks
2) potential high price of next gen.
1 is hilarious, even games that come on physical disks are already mostly useless without internet. I had a ps4 and bought "Last of Us" and the game is literally unbeatable without an internet connection. It has a game breaking bug that isn't patched on disk. Many other games are crap or broken without patches. Also jumping to PC where there hasn't been physical media in ages and 99% of games have DRM is just out of the frying pan into the fire. based on the market share for GOG I can assure you only a small fraction of gamers actually care about "owning" their games.
2 is kinda stupid, they mentioned a price point of $1,000, not sure you can build a next-gen-console comparable PC for that price. My current computer's GPU cost more than that by itself and anything but a pittance of RAM will too.
I mean go for it, more PC gamers the better (it's my chosen platform) but if you weren't already on board years ago not sure anything has really changed.
Re: 45% of enthusiasts 'seriously considering' leaving Sony for PC
#4Why? It makes no sense really... you buy into a console and stay with it until the next release...
Last time I checked, the ps6 hasn't been announced, there probably won't be a Xbox one X/S/pro/whatever successor any time soon, and PC hardware is expensive or hard to get right now.
Just stay the road for 6 months and see how the market shakes out.
Re: 45% of enthusiasts 'seriously considering' leaving Sony for PC
#5Gaming is getting too expensive. This feels like sort of an accident of complex systems. Budgets for games are skyrocketing, graphics requirements are skyrocketing. But, some of the most fun games in the world were made 30 ago. From a pure "can we have good entertainment?" standpoint there's no reason for this cost creep. In practice, companies are pushing it, and although it probably does not apply to the HN crowd, but consumers are also demanding better graphics.
The industry and its fans are its own worst enemies. However, if you don't go bonkers over recent AAA games, gaming has never been more accessible or cheaper. I didn't buy a game this steam sale for more than $3, and each game would run on more or less anything.
Re: 45% of enthusiasts 'seriously considering' leaving Sony for PC
#6Sure. Until the first FromSoftware PS6 exclusive is released.
Child, six, seriously considering running away from home after parents refuse to serve dinner on dinosaur plate.
People realize that Steam doesn't use physical media, right? The real issue is the lack of consumer friendly regulation, not the medium.
Re: 45% of enthusiasts 'seriously considering' leaving Sony for PC
#7Why? It makes no sense really... you buy into a console and stay with it until the next release... Last time I checked, the ps6 hasn't been announced, there probably won't be a Xbox one X/S/pro/whatever successor any time soon, and PC hardware is expensive or hard to get right now. Just stay the road for 6 months and see how the market shakes out.
You missed the part where Sony is going download only, which means any attempt to collect playstation games in the long run becomes impossible.
Re: 45% of enthusiasts 'seriously considering' leaving Sony for PC
#8Gaming is getting too expensive. This feels like sort of an accident of complex systems. Budgets for games are skyrocketing, graphics requirements are skyrocketing. But, some of the most fun games in the world were made 30 ago. From a pure "can we have good entertainment?" standpoint there's no reason for this cost creep. In practice, companies are pushing it, and although it probably does not apply to the HN crowd,…
I do wonder if a studio that made a lot of smaller games with less technical specs but spent all the money in fun gameplay design and character design and stories would outcompete major AAA game studios.
I think I'm just describing mobile game studios pre-gachafication
Re: 45% of enthusiasts 'seriously considering' leaving Sony for PC
#9Consoles have been on their last gap as the difference between what consoles and PCs offer have converged. PS2 had significant sales because it was many customers first DVD player. With everything digital and console prices coming close to mid-tier Gaming PCs, where's the benefit of buying a console? Nintendo was smart for making the Switch a hybrid console.
Re: 45% of enthusiasts 'seriously considering' leaving Sony for PC
#10Why? It makes no sense really... you buy into a console and stay with it until the next release... Last time I checked, the ps6 hasn't been announced, there probably won't be a Xbox one X/S/pro/whatever successor any time soon, and PC hardware is expensive or hard to get right now. Just stay the road for 6 months and see how the market shakes out.
You missed the part where Sony is going download only, which means any attempt to collect playstation games in the long run becomes impossible.
I'm aware of that announcement, but its just words until they have a console to back it up with.