New Xbox hardware.
New team dedicated to game preservation and forward compatibility.
Diablo IV on Gamepass.
As PlayStation announces its new strategy to encourage PC users to choose PS5 it is a bitter-sweet moment for PC gamers.
I mean, it's a business based on hardware market. Do we expect them to not even try? It's not like Nintendo doesn't do the same by not putting any games on PC and Microsoft until recently did the same. I don't care what they attempt, as long as they don't abuse the community or lie about their goals/requirements.
Will it work? Not likely. Should we care? No. Let them waste their time, it doesn't affect anything.
I wish them the best of luck.
But PC players are often a patient bunch, many will even wait for Epic launcher exclusivity to end until a game comes to Steam.
If they didnt buy the console when its games were exclusive, why would they do it now theyre not?
PC gamers are just too patient and loyal to their gaming set ups, something they've spent a lot of money on to perfect. They have backlogs of games which many never get round to finishing or get round to at all and will always have other multiplatform releases to keep them going.
Over the many years Sony has published so many awesome titles such as The Last of Us, Uncharted, Heavenly Sword, Infamous, Killzone, LittleBigPlanet, Dreams, Puppeteer, Resistance, Heavy Rain, Gran Turismo, Motor Storm, God of War, Horizon, Ratchet and Clank, Spiderman, Ghost of Tsushima, Bloodborne
If none of those games BEFORE all these PC ports convinced a hardcore PC gamer to get a PS5 console then why on Earth would porting them them to PC now make any difference? All PC gamers now know 100% is that they just have to be patient, which they are good at anyway to get a PS5 game 2 years later.
I get GaaS games or multiplayer focused titles but if people really want to play these games they'd have gotten a PS console years ago.
Who cares? Then just stay on PC and play the waiting game. No big deal. Sony wins in the end anyway.
I mean if there's any single player Sony games that I actually want that aren't on PC then I would buy said console to play them on. But the ones that I like that aren't on PC are few and far between anyway so no loss for me.
If I game, it's usually multiplayer titles, otherwise I like playing around with some other software.
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Following a recent interview with Sony, Naughty Dog head Neil Druckmann claims the original intent was “unfortunately lost” in the process.
Glad he clarified it but i'm still somewhat skeptical. Plus, his comments about how Ai will revolutionize storytelling were still pretty iffy.
Hell yeah!!!
My favorite quote:
"Per emails received by Windows Central, confirmed by Microsoft as genuine, Xbox President Sarah Bond recently briefed her team on various topics.
In the emails, Sarah Bond reiterated Microsoft's plans to build new Xbox hardware focused on delivering "the biggest technical leap ever in a generation."
Way to go, Sarah!
Just focus and give us a full blown next gen system!
Wow “Forward compatibility”
That means, they’re already thinking of leaving the series X/S fanbase behind or it would have said back compat
Let's see how many people fall for this. Wasn't Series X supposed to be the most powerful console out right now? What happened with all that talk?
Funny watching those running Xbox spin their usual nonsense. Then someone else from Microsoft is gonna come and say something different.
This is just B.S. propaganda to get ahead of the negative press from their upcoming digital only series x and the complete loss of any disk based options when both s and x are digital only.
How are you going to preserve games when you can't stick any disks in the console?
And this is such an obvious con coming from the company that has pushed for digital only subscriptions and streaming harder and for longer than anyone else, this is the company that wanted to tie disks to your account to prevent resale and game trading.
I guess they can preserve their games by making disk versions for PlayStation.
Anyone remember when Microsoft deleted all of xblig removing access to hundreds of games people purchased?