• CosmoNova@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    At this point I‘m going to assume they‘ll both essentially be handheld PCs. It‘s the only device I could even imagine a market for in 2 years.

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      2 months ago

      I used to say PC + Nintendo, but Switch 2 looks like enshittification caught up with Nintendo.

      So just PC now.

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    2 months ago

    It seems soon because it feels like barely anything came out in terms of exclusives for the PS5. Naughty Dog didn’t even come out with anything that wasn’t a remake.

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      2 months ago

      The best situation for consumers is for games to come out on as many platforms as possible. Exclusives are cancer. It’s awesome to see less and less of them every generation.

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      2 months ago

      Didn’t Microsoft buy up a shitton of studios- killing some of them? I wouldn’t consider exclusives a good indicator of health necessarily.

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        2 months ago

        That’s been the only selling point of consoles for me. They mostly all come out on the PC now so more an observation of how Sony’s releases this gen has been really lackluster compared to previous gens.

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      Sony spent this entire generation making live service games are were DOA or failed after years of development.

      People generally buy Sony consoles for their single player exclusives. It seems like that is not a factor to consider for their next console.

      I’m not interested in PS6. I’m more interested in building a Steambox to avoid Windows 11.

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    2 months ago

    sometimes it feels like the world is kinda moving off consoles for being too restrictive. and I wonder if there will be a future where these two companies just keep making consoles to fight each other while not selling any.

    just two giant, hot black chunks of plastic locked in an eternal battle of corporate obliviousness for all eternity.

    edit: this comment was meant as a funny and not a serious.

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    2 months ago

    Man, I was soooo excited about the PS5, but then it turned into such a shit show to get one that I just put my money into my PC and I never even got around to picking one up when availability became more reasonable. I don’t think I’d ever really want to get back into the console gaming space anymore.

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      2 months ago

      Although I had the same experience, I was finally able to get one after a few months. I was very happy I got one over building a PC because at the time PC GPUs were ridiculous amounts of money, and I felt the PS5 was a great deal over the PC. I ended up building a new one in 2023 a few months after prices started falling a bit finally and thought it worked out perfectly.

      I still use my PS5 more than my PC just because it sits in our main room and has the nicer TV screen. Everything has its use. If anything, I am always disappointed. I built such a nice PC and haven’t used it as much as I would have liked by now.