FinalWeapon:
The year 2019 is coming to a close. Ending another year, no, another decade of video gaming. And with a new decade just around the corner, it’s fitting that the industry will celebrate this new decade with new hardware. I probably know what some of you are thinking about.
If the PS5 Pro leaks are accurate, the eventual PS6 is slated to be one powerful console. But if modern GPUs still lag behind true photorealism, can the PS6 get there?
I hate to be "that guy", but we have go ask ourselves do the industry need photorealistic graphics at this point or actually good games, good content, less anti-consumer practices?
This graphical obsession has brought nothing but years upon years of waiting for a game to launch with huge detailed empty worlds, bad stories and predictable gameplay and (micro)transactions everywhere. Sorry for the rant.
Personally for me, graphics have already gotten to the point where I don't really feel the need to see having it to make anymore realistic or better.
At this point, I rather game developers focus on quality/engaging stories, gameplay, & contents. Also not every every single game needs to opened world just for the sake of it.
Honestly with UC4 I thought we were close but things don't really seem to have improved much in 8 years. Hellblade 2 seems to have raised the bar a bit though
I don't think publishers have the money to make that happen. They can barely sustain the current level of fidelity.
Simply, no! Graphics wise there is barely any difference between the PS4 and PS5 just a little more particle effects and very minimal use of ray tracing. I expect even less diffence between PS5 and PS6. Just better implementation of Ray Tracing.
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.
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
It should be an interesting year; Sony, Nintendo, and MS all have new Hardware to show.
Sony is taking actions as video by Moore’s Law is Dead, has been issued with a copyright claim.
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.
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
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 🤣
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.
Its interesting read and I agree the companies have different approach that we saw coming long ago already. However theres a lot of wishful thinking emphasized in the conclusion.
'There aren’t console gamers or PC Gamers. We are all gamers, period.'
Is just denying the facts with virtue signalling magic powder. We are all gamers doesn't contradict the tact that people have preferences and different approaches to playing video games even including on mobile phones. I see the so called 'console war' getting stronger than ever from the companies and even more so from gamers who started on all forum, discussion, youtube and social media, to push their own preferences and propaganda.
Console wars will never end
If you have a mind of your own there was never any console wars. No amount of trolling is going to move me from what I prefer. If my preference changes, the change was motivated by me and me alone. Not anyone talking negatively on my preferences.
"Console wars" ended a while ago. Once the "craze" element in gaming ended, the "wars" ended. Even in the 360 generation, gaming could still be seen in what i like to call, "the exciting" period where getting your ps2,GC,xbox,360,ps3 and wii was "exciting" and it just felt different.
However, you could even argue that it ended with Nintendo vs Sega. Can we really say there is a "war" between Sony and Microsoft when 3rd party games have been more or less the best selling, most popular and most memorable games on their platforms? Mario vs Sonic is the only real company battle there has really been.
The Console Wars are a relly fun way to troll many.