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The next console war is going to be way more fun than the last one

Sony dropped a few new details on the PlayStation 5 yesterday. The headline has the key details: Sony confirms PlayStation 5 name, holiday 2020 release date, but I’m curious to see what proper haptics feels like on a controller, instead of just rumbles. I feel like the “HD Rumble” Joy-Cons on the Nintendo Switch are headed in the right direction, but their haptics are too subtle.

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Kingthrash3601672d ago

The console wars aren't fun....they are distractions from what's really going on and clickbait for lazy journalists

CoNn3rB1672d ago

As much as we all hate it, the age-old 'my console is better than yours' argument will never die

darthv721672d ago

which is why I always get both. So I can watch from the middle ground.

Silly gameAr1672d ago (Edited 1672d ago )

@darth72

I usually get both too, or all 3, but I don't think I'll be doing that anymore after this gen, unless I see a good reason too. I'm not going to buy all console just to say I have all consoles anymore.

darthv721672d ago

@silly, well that isnt why I get them either. There are just some games you cant play any other way and I've never once limited my play to just one platform in my 40+ years of gaming. I enjoy playing the field.

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rainslacker1672d ago

Without the console war, what would people talk about. Generalized communities like this dont talk much about anything other than the console war, controversy, or things they hate about the industry or other gamers.

Its.rare where I see.much discussion going on for games, and the ones that get the most attention are those that have some kind of console war stuff attached to them

madpuppy1671d ago

Console wars may not be fun for some...But, they are necessary when it comes to healthy market competition. Competition makes the gamer (consumer) the important aspect of the console war, not the console itself.

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nowitzki20041672d ago

Hopefully, blow outs are not that fun

NarutoFox1672d ago (Edited 1672d ago )

Better get ready for another blow out 🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️ 😁

darthv721672d ago

^this guy.... so funny.

xTonyMontana1672d ago

Each to their own but "this how to share a game" video is going to take a hell of a lot to beat.

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nowitzki20041672d ago

That was when the gen was won lol.

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BrainSyphoned1672d ago

If you like going to funerals.

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Nintendo says Switch 2 will be officially announced before the end of March 2025

This is Furukawa, President of Nintendo. We will make an announcement about the successor to Nintendo Switch within this fiscal year. It will have been over nine years since we announced the existence of Nintendo Switch back in March 2015. We will be holding a Nintendo Direct this June regarding the Nintendo Switch software lineup for the latter half of 2024, but please be aware that there will be no mention of the Nintendo Switch successor during that presentation.

Profchaos2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

I'm excited for a switch 2 however I don't feel it will be coming this year as per the tweet in they are commuting to a reveal in this Japanese financial year in 2025.

Realistically we will get one last holiday season to focus on the switch because it would be madness for Nintendo to go into the holidays where the switch always performs well when they have announced a switch 2.

I'm thinking we see a announcement late Jan 25 personally with a release between March and June depending on when the software is ready and how strong the holday sales were if they need to boost those figures for the next earnings call or not

gold_drake2d ago

yea agreed. they'll probably match it with the new pkmn game they announced

VenomUK2d ago

So it begins!

Where one contender pulls out of the game, another comes back bigger and stronger.

Nintendo Switch 2 - let the games begin.

Cacabunga1d 22h ago

A new Splatoon launch title for sure.. hoping they change the recipe and make it open world.

I think it’ll come out Q1 25. Let’s wait and see

H92d ago

There's a event in June for games on the switch and they said there won't be a switch 2 announcement so no way they will announce the console after june and still release it in the same year

Eonjay2d ago

So, I think they will shoot for another FYQ4 release (like with the first Switch) but I am confused by the headline:

'[...] Switch 2 will be officially ANNOUNCED before the end of March 2025' This implies that the Switch 2 isn't coming out till maybe holiday 2025 or maybe even 2026. I think they will be better served by NOT releasing when GTA 6 launches (unless there is some shocking reveal that it will run on Switch 2). Release early 2025.

Neonridr2d ago

I'd say it'll be released before March 2025 tbh.

notachance2d ago

Holiday announcement with summer launch

thesoftware7302d ago

It should be an interesting year; Sony, Nintendo, and MS all have new Hardware to show.

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PS5 Pro specs leak video taken down by Sony

Sony is taking actions as video by Moore’s Law is Dead, has been issued with a copyright claim.

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andy8522d ago

And people say it's all fake because Sony haven't said anything 😂 conveniently forget the PS4 Pro was only announced 2 months before release.

BeHunted22d ago

It's fake. There's no factual evidence other than his own made up specs.

Hereandthere22d ago

What were the specks Sony was afraid of showing?

Shikoku22d ago (Edited 22d ago )

Digital foundry put a video out saying what he leaked was exactly what they also knew about the PS5 PRO. So no it's not just stuff he made up

Babadook722d ago (Edited 22d ago )

If it’s fake what copyright does MLID infringe upon?

😂

andy8522d ago

Aye because they'd go to the effort of copyright claiming it if it didn't exist 🙃😂 you'd have to be a special kind to be thinking its not a thing by now

Cacabunga22d ago

They need to reveal it with uncharted killzone or a heavy hitter like this

Ironmike22d ago (Edited 22d ago )

U mean the specs that we'll established digital foundry which said these are the actual specs published a video on 2 weeks ago I mean they are only one of most trusted sites for tech information but they just made up a video for the sake of it

Christopher21d ago

I would love for it all to be fake, but lots of people are saying they've seen/heard the same thing. But, man, we 100% don't need mid-gen upgrades when we're failing hard to optimize current hardware.

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Seraphim21d ago (Edited 21d ago )

if I recall Sony lowered sales expectations for PS5 earlier this year. if that is the case we won't hear anything about a Pro until next year or shortly before/when it's dropping. After all, if the Pro was dropping this year/fiscal year they wouldn't have lowered expectations.

As for squashing rumors. Yeah, shit like this prevents potential buyers from adopting now, just like slim rumors in the past. It only makes sense to keep things under wraps from a business perspective. Despite living in a technological age of unfettered access to information we don't need to know whats going on behind closed doors be that at Sony, Nintendo, MS, or amongst any development studios. When the steak is done we shall feast.

JackBNimble21d ago

By the time games are actually made to take advantage of the pro spec's the ps6 will be released or close to it.

jznrpg22d ago (Edited 22d ago )

Just announce it already! I want to preorder one asap. But in reality they don’t want to lessen PS5 sales until Pro is ready to launch so I understand the business part of it. September is probably when they announce it with an early November launch like the PS4 Pro

Ironmike22d ago

Pro won't lessen sales sames ps4 pro never and the ps4 pro was more relevant at the time cos move to 4k this not needed

RaidenBlack22d ago (Edited 22d ago )

Yea, my brother got his PS4 (coz of a good deal) after the PS4 Pro's release.

darthv7222d ago

^^same here. I got a base 4 for only $100 off a guy who bought the Pro. then a few months later I found a guy on craigslist selling a pro for $100 because it was left behind by his former roommate who moved out. That was the beginning of my obsession to buy up the different variants of the PS4 that were released.

As of now I am really only missing the 500m one and the gold slim but otherwise I have pretty much all the other retail ones. https://consolevariations.c...

crazyCoconuts21d ago

Anyone with 4K that appreciates 60fps is gonna disagree about it not being needed.
DLSS is a god send for Nvidia, and there's been nothing like it for AMD...yet ...

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DeadlyFire22d ago

They will announce it around E3 timeframe about May-June whenever they do a showcase for the year.

neutralgamer199222d ago

Just announce it this thing will sell well

Ironmike22d ago (Edited 22d ago )

I don't think it will pll still haven't seen the potential of ps5 yet

Cacabunga21d ago

agreed, but it might sell if they announce some 1st party games to lead the way. if people see the difference with the base version they can move on. for my sake I am still gaming mainly on PS4 (still not finished with RDR2 due to lack of gaming time). I have a huge backlog on PS5 I am hoping to get into.

mark3214uk22d ago

why? game makers havnt even come close to maxing out current spec yet, were getting al lthese new TFlops and game maker are making crappy remakes not worthy of the ps3

Minute Man 72122d ago

The guts of the 5 and X are 5 years old

fr0sty21d ago

People keep saying that, yet we still have games running at near HD resolutions, 30fps, and ray tracing features turned off.

PRIMORDUS22d ago (Edited 22d ago )

I would take that video and upload a torrent of it, fuck that copyright bullshit. If your going to do something that has a chance of being taken down, make a torrent first share it. Then Sony or any other company is helpless and you can laugh in their faces, taunting them to try to take it down 🤣

LoveSpuds22d ago

With kind of analysis and advice, you could be a lawyer for Trump!🤣

tronyx1222d ago

As much as the PS4 Pro didn't represent a major % in the playerbase, announcing a 'better' model will hinder sales from the 'base' model. They are right, business-wise.

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XDefiant misses launch window, Ubi says a new release date will be announced after stress test

XDefiant was originally supposed to be out in summer 2023, but following a seemingly-successful beta test in April of that year, it was bumped to October 2023, and then delayed again to an unspecified future date. In its February 2024 financial report, Ubisoft slated XDefiant for launch in the fourth quarter of its 2023-24 fiscal year, which ended March 31.

A week before that date arrived, rumors surfaced that the game would be delayed yet again, and a few days later Ubisoft made it official.

"The game has always been community-first, with player feedback as a top priority," the development team said in the update. "While we hoped to go live by the end of March, there are still some improvements that we need to test before that."

Ubisoft said it's "finishing preparations" for a server stress test that will run for 12 hours on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S. "After this short test, we expected to be able to lock a launch date and start sharing more about exciting content XDefiant has to offer in the future!"

just_looken37d ago (Edited 37d ago )

The previous news was from the team/rumors this is ubisoft themselves now saying the game is delayed again no new date set but they will have a stress test on a date that has not been set.

So the game is delayed to _____ TBD
Network stress test at ____ TBD

Ubisoft we make games whenever for whoever we just do not care

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X-2336d ago

I'm just going to be honest here and say what people seem to not want to, XDefiant success is going to be short-lived and it's because it's a game that's going to be under Ubisoft's umbrella. The development team can be absolute rockstars, but with Ubisoft steering the ship it's not going to go anywhere.

Profchaos36d ago

It could be a truely amazing game (it won't be) but with Ubisoft it will be monitized within a inch of its life.

smolinsk36d ago

The game is dead move on. It's the same with the Finals. These short period hype games doesn't last.

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