DebatableRaccoon

I’ve been playing it post malware removal and it plays well. Fairly certain it was still buggy until then though.

Let’s see if they can somehow manage to make it even more of a performance train wreck than the last one.

Bad expectations and probably a lack of understanding of how launching expensive games as platform exclusives can hurt sales numbers. They were likely expecting the kind of numbers a game can only get from launching on the big 3.

I will admit it’s not only the price that is a deterrent, even if that’s now competing with a perfectly capable gaming PC that can do significantly more, doesn’t have an additional charge to play online, doesn’t have to deal with increasingly standardised subpar controller longevity, commonly have cheaper games, better sales, and will have a longer shelf life. I already thought the PS5 was a bit pricy at launch, at a time when I was still considering buying one. That time has been and gone, I’ve spent the money on upgrading my already decent computer into an absolute beast because I figured “why not?” and I still have yet to see a reason to buy the PS5. It’s no secret that consoles are commonly loss leaders for the manufacturers while the exclusives are the money-makers. It’s a way of doing business, that’s fine, but to this day, I can only claim to have seen them release maybe 4 exclusives that I’d deem worth playing. That’s already a bad deal. No-one in their right mind can justify paying full price for a console to play 4 games. On top of that, 1 already got ported to PC, one’s got a release date, one’s already had public response from the developer to be working on the port, and the last has really strong odds of getting ported too. 4 is my number, and I don’t doubt other players would swap my own picks for something more their taste, or maybe even bolster the numbers, but I don’t think anyone could make it as high as 10 without naming a game that was also released for the PS4 and/or got ported. So unless Sony gets their shit together, the PS5 tells us that the PS6 will be a bad deal.

My regards to Sony, the pricing makes it easier to not even consider buying one.

And if devs are smart, they won’t return anyway. They’ve tried it once and I’m fairly certain they’d be more than happy to try it again. The gaming market is all about death by a thousand cuts these days.

They didn’t exactly get a warm welcome when they first launched the poorly performing pile of excrement, which they never fixed so it’s honestly a surprise they’ve clung on even this long.

It doesn’t invalidate what they’re doing in a karmic way, no. As for any legal precedent way, I’m genuinely concerned that it’ll very much be a “too little, too late” scenario. Many of us who have come from the school of Jim Fucking Sterling Son, or even those with their eyes open, saw how bad this could get a decade ago. It got bad enough to go to court where companies like EA produced pathetic stand-in excuses about “lootboxes” that manipulate the young, ill and weak-willed into spending insane amounts of money are actually “surprise mechanics” and thus totally different. Some countries were smart enough to put some amount of age limit on such things, others were even smarter and outright banned them but many just let it happen. It has kept happening and the biggest gaming corpos are now more than big enough to hire all of the lawyers in the world collectively and fight any claims off through the sheer force of printing money.

Yes, I’m possibly embellishing a little in that lot but after witnessing the gaming market slip further and further down the sinkhole the way it has with excuses of “it’s only cosmetic”, “it’s optional” and “it’s not required to experience the game”, I have every reason to think we’re not coming back from this.

Oh god, not them. Pick another producer, please. There are plenty out there… Most of them suck but at least most of them aren’t publicly known to be sex abusers.

Lots of gamers and parents have been going on about this for around a decade. EA was even in court over it. Where the heck have these ‘groups’ been? On an extended vacation with their distant relatives the mole people?

I’m hearing the word “emulation” floating on the air. That’s already PC + most consoles and even Android. It wouldn’t surprise me if someone out there has done something about emulating iOS but I’ve never taken enough interest to know.

Thinking is but a step on the path to knowing.

That would certainly explain suddenly forcing Guilded users to have Roblox accounts to use a chat app. Get fucked, Roblox.

Same here. I’d love a chance to play as Spider-Gwen

Sony’s still holding the IP for that Spider-Verse game Insomniac was working on… Just sayin’…

A lot of people won’t like the answer but no private individual should ever trust a corporate entity. They aren’t held to the same standards a regular person is so we can only hope that in a bad situation, the company will do the right thing. When there’s a difference between right morally, right for the customer and right for the bottom line is the time to start sweating and hoping.

Bugs at launch? Whoda seen that coming?

A good point, and I think they’ve been doing a fantastic job of proving that pretty much no corp respects their customers.

That’s certainly a reason to not have a TV. My bordering requirement of one is because I live pretty much all of my life through a computer but don’t have to sit at a desk all of the time of I use a TV as a computer monitor.

I wouldn’t touch Samsung with a 10’ barge pole. That said, I’m not interested in OLED. MicroLED looks like a much more interesting technology to me.

As for the expectation of not having your data sold when spending more, I’d say it stems from the free and cheap business model of prices being low because they subsidise the cost by selling your data. If what you’re getting is free/cheap, you are the product, thus if you’re paying serious money, the expectation is that you’ve bought it and there’s no subsidising going on.

Personally, when the time comes for me to upgrade, I’ll be looking at either a commercial TV or a large monitor (not ultra wide) since I don’t use smart TV features and already have a setup to not need internal speakers.

Oh, I’m not questioning the quality of their displays, they’re certainly up there as being some of the best available. I’m referring to something Louis Rossman has covered before about how even their expensive units have information gathering turned on as standard. When paying over 2 grand for a TV, I’d expect my information wouldn’t be subsidising the cost anymore.