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We don't want any of that... What do you call it? Money? HAH!
idgaf I can't afford a computer with the AI price increase
Oh yes they will. You've just decided to stop making money on them. Fine by us.
yup. if they can emulate the ps3's insano-architecture they can sure as fuck figure out whatever comes next. they're simply guaranteeing a wave of piracy instead of profiting off their already developed IPs.
Love it or hate it, this is why we don’t want Xbox to fail.
Can they both fail? Consoles kind of suck. Closed platform owned by mega corps. Their main appeals of "easy" and "cheaper" haven't been true for years.
Microsoft could have done like a ... Steam machine for windows like 25 years ago. Optimized windows install on certified hardware, games that also play on desktop windows. They could've made steam. Except they couldn't because they're a souless corporate husk full of parasitic ghouls.
Fuck em. Fuck them all.
25 years ago, they weren't going to get any closer than the original Xbox did. PC gaming was extraordinarily different from what we know today, and much as you might not want to hear it, a lot of the reasons it got better were also because of Microsoft. The truth is we can only have something like a Steam Machine today because of incremental improvements that have been done over long periods of time. Valve basically started work on Proton right after the first batch of Steam Machines came out and bombed, and it took until 2022 for their next batch of hardware to materialize that made use of it. Closed platforms can fuck off and die these days, but they solved real problems for decades.
That's the last straw! I'm buying a playstation!
Could you please pump more into Generative AI so it's impossible to afford computers? Yes?! Ho thank you! And you also made playstations more expensive? Great!
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Oh no, all 3 games.
They will come crawling back after the current moron in charge gets fired. Until then, its like 4 games.
Exactly! They'll cut jobs and trim the fat until they run out of half-assed, short-term methods of increasing quarterly profits year over year. Then they'll remember PC gamers are almost exclusively adults and some of those adults have deep pockets and no interest in the closed ecosystems that consoles provide.
Just watch.
Oh well, still not buying a PS.
I can almost guarantee you that dude has a board or shareholders or whatever, breathing down his neck, and his yearly bonus is depending on the number of units sold. So he will canibalize the whole system with a complete disregard for the long term effects, so long as the magic number goes up in the short term and he can cash in his bonus.
You just described all business in the modern day.
This is exactly the reason the saying "they don't make them like they used to" is a thing for everything.
Heh. My backlog spans 19 years. I won't miss much. Only a couple of their first party titles got my attention at all.
Well he’s wrong because all console games eventually come to PC one way or another. He’s just ensuring they won’t be coming first under their control.
My thoughts exactly
They must not like money.
"Everyone keep buying our console even though we keep raising the price. No? Fine, we'll keep all the games just for our platform, surely that will get you to buy a PS5."
Emulation's gonna bring them here anyway XD
My wife and I 100% Super Mario Wonder high off our asses on edibles. All on a PC emulator. I'm old and patient as hell. Emulation is our friend!
Not going to buy a PlayStation.
I imagine in a few years they'll come crawling back, and learn nothing from the whole experience.
Well fuck you too buddy.
I hope that when Horizon 3 is released, they will reconsider this. It's a series, and people who bought “Horizon: Zero Dawn” and “Horizon: Forbidden West” will be outraged.
I was really happy when I could finally play the horizon games and enjoyed the heck out of them. But if the third one never comes to PC then I'll just never play it. At worst I'll be able to just watch the entire thing being played for the story.
Same with part three for ff7 remake. But again I'll just have to live without it. My console days are over and they aren't coming back.
I just won't buy their games then? I'm not going to move over just for a few games.
Hasn't this been tried before?
Maybe they should make their console more affordable then
Tbh, it's not even about affordability, I just don't want to have to own four different devices in order to play fucking games.
How many CD players did you need to play regular CDs from all the studios? One.
Same with DVD. And Blu-Ray.
Consoles got a pass back in the day because they legitimately used different formats and architectures, but now they're basically all just single use PCs that don't even have a physical media drive, they can all piss off. If a game isn't available on PC, I'll wait until I have a PC powerful enough to emulate it, then I'll pirate it and they can shit up a rope.
CD-DA, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW didnt all play in all players.
BETAMAX vs VHS
HDDVD vs BLU-RAY
Mini-disc vs DCC
DVD vs DIVX
it happens all the time. proprietary is shit
For those who don't know, is largely because of Xbox supporting PC games on their consoles, and then also the Steam Frame. All of a sudden they know their hardware won't matter. Not excusing it, it's still incredibly shitty, but this is the main driver.
Sure they will, we'll emulate them for free.
Then I’m happy to have a Playstation 5 that I don’t use as much as my Steam Deck, but it would take a lot of great single player games to make me buy a Playstation 6 alongside my future Steam Machine.
still waiting for bloodbourne on steam...
Rpcs3 is always there to be added as a non Steam game
Bloodborne is famously a PS4 exclusive. You would want ShadPS4 for this, not RPCS3.
I haven't tried that, how jank is it for BB? Like does it give proper 60FPS?
I could not care less. They don't make games for me anyway.
Ok... is that supposed to make me sad? didn't care about exclusives before and this certainly won't make me care now, regardless which platform wants to do this idiocy.