GTR Writes: "Roundtable discussion at Hot97 FM with Godfree (Gamertag Radio), Soldier X (Talking About Games) & Tat Wza (IFWT): Tablets or gaming consoles?"
PlayStation Plus has improved the split of PS4 and PS5 players on its priciest tiers, but Sony continues to hide total subscriber numbers.
I for one will be going back to essential at the next renewal. When I feel a game is good & right up my alley, I’ll check trusted reviews & just buy it.
I would like to see Sony add a fourth tier of PS Plus for people who just want to be able to play games online without any of the perks like monthly games, store discounts, or anything like that, and it should cost $20 annually, $30 maximum. There’s no way I’m paying $80 just to play games online. Even the original $60 fee was too much, and I would often wait for sales to re-up my subscription.
Just let my subscription lapse for the first time since 2010. Will sub again every now and then for a month or so to access my old ps+ games but for me it's the end of an era.
Let those numbers continue to drop because it is now too expensive. $80 per year just to play online. I noticed they didn't offer any discounts on the subscription or controllers during this year's days of play for the first time in many years and they will feel it when people choose not to renew.
My subscription will lapse next month and it will stay that way until further notice.
During Sony’s recent business segment meeting and investor presentation regarding its game and network services, the PlayStation company revealed that PlayStation 5 is the company’s “most profitable generation to-date.”
It’s the top slide of the presentation, showing that in its first four years, the PS5 generation has already hit $106 billion in sales, having almost caught up to the PS4’s total $107 billion generated.
Operating income for the PS5 generation has also already surpassed that of the PS4, having now reached $10 billion.
I wouldn't doubt it. They released a high quality system. A lot of high quality games from themselves and their support of 3rd party developers and indies. They released many high quality remakes and remasters. They released a high quality GaaS game going against the naysayers thinking Sony would abandon single player games. And they most likely are profiting a lot more than PS1, PS2 PS4 and the loss leading PS3 that drained all their profits.
Now, I'll wait to see what's cooking tomorrow. But can you use some of those profits to better support your high quality VR headset? Because, by supporting it, you can sell more games and more systems and make more profits?
This will surely shut up all the new trolling accounts trying to spread lies and non facts in other articles comment sections before this article is posted.
Wow! I am super impressed that in just 4 years, ps5 already caught up to the PS4's. Congratulations.
The Xbox brand has done a lot of good over the years, but their various blunders are pretty wild to look back on in their magnitude.
Ironically number 9 can save them at this point (releasing games on multiple platforms)
Phil Spencer is the worst that has happened to Xbox.
They built a respectable brand up to Xbox one. Then this guy took over and things became a joke
Really good video.
I remember the days with RRoD was big news on here, N4G.
Microsoft had it turbulence number of years.
Looking at the success of Sea of Thieves despite being 6 years old, time to release Halo, Forza horizon 4 & 5 on PS5. It'll help their revenue
I found this video painful to watch. Can someone list them out?
Top 10 for me from are:
1. 2013 reveal presentation
2. Bundling Kinect 2 with Xbox One
3. RRoD or why rushing to market with hardware is always a bad idea.
4. Buying studios only to close them.
5. Ads on the Home Screen
6. Letting Halo die.
7. Letting Geard of War die.
8. Every console name
9. Charging for Xbox Live on Xbox 360 when Sony let PS3 players play online for free.
10. Cancelling release of OG Xbox games after the Xbox 360 launched.
I won't take anything these guys say seriously simply because of their hats.
Deerstalkers, Bowlers, Stovepipes, and Tophats are acceptable. A monocle wouldn't hurt.
Silly gansta' caps however just make me think of Dappy from N-Dubz and then my thoughts turn to violence.
And continuing the hat theme , if a deerstalker is a console and a gansta' cap is a tablet there is only one winner.
Darthv72, You didn't think I was being serious did you?
Please say no.
from a convenience POV I see tablets offering more for the gamer 'IF' they can be connected to a TV and allow for traditional controls.
Granted there will always be the question of technical specifications but we are at a point (or close to it) where you just cant get any better than photo realism. So once the hardware has achieved that mark, what is left to keep pushing the industry forward?
My guess would be more ways to interact with the games. We have been gaming the same way for 30+ years. Someone has to come along to shake things up. A convergence of mobility and stationary gaming seems the natural progression of things.
Thing is, there is allot of perception on the company that is willing to take that risk. If it isnt the right company then obviously the device will get panned and ridiculed for trying to do something different. If it is the right company then it will get praised for being a change of pace that millions of gamers will embrace.
Who will be the one to do it and can it be done in a cost effective manner?
Casual tablet apps are not touching core games. Firstly because they are missing a big screen tv, surround sound, game controller, and headset. Secondly, because the gameplay is very basic. Angry Birds = Gorillas, Tank Wars, Worms, or any number of flash games you can play for free online. That’s the reason why, as they said in the interview, tablet games cost at most $9.99. Tablets have consoles beat on number of games and price, but you can’t compare the 2 because they are too far behind on immersion and depth of gameplay. A lot of people will end up buying both because they are very different styles of gaming.
I can't believe people still believe battery-powered mobile CPUs and GPUs can even come *close* to competing with their power hungry brethren.
Anyone who even suggests so is instantly branded "ignorant sheep", in my eyes. Don't even get me started on the lack of a serious control interface.
.99 or 9.99 look as good as the 360/ps3, what a 1000 ton load of crap. There is no tablet game that has the depth and gameplay as a AAA console title.
They are dazed and confused