Both companies are reportedly planning to release their next-gen consoles within two years…
  • CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish
    91·
    9 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.

  • DamienGramatacus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    9 months ago

    I only got a ps5 two years ago and I’m set with games for years. I’m still working through PS4 games I never got round to. The idea of a new playstation at this point, particularly after the chip shortage debacle, seems absolutely absurd.

  • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
    121·
    9 months ago

    I think I’ve turned my PS5 on maybe 30 times since I got it. They just hasn’t been anything released for it that I’ve been interested in basically it’s not been anything released for it.

    • thermal_shock@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      9 months ago

      I bought a 3070 and a pair of 1440 gaming monitors, maybe $1000 total, and I feel like an asshole not having time to play my favorite games.

    • PieMePlenty@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      Mine has seen some use… but its nowhere near what I was expecting when I bought it. I own it for the exclusives and while I did enjoy them (GT7, Ragnarok, Spider Man 2, Astro Bot, Death Stranding 2), I also think I could have done without them and waited for the eventual PC release. I hope Intergalactic (Naughty Dog) remedies my feeling towards the console, but so far, nothing it’s seen has been generation defining.
      Most probably skipping consoles after this gen.

  • baatliwala@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    9 months ago

    What even happened in this generation? There was nothing that separated it lmao. Realistically the only thing the next gen can add over this is full ray tracing from ground up, even something like frame gen would be proper embarrassing because a console is supposed to have all graphics baked in.

    If MS goes Windows on Xbox then that might genuinely be the way forward atp

    • rafoix@lemmy.zipEnglish
      11·
      9 months ago

      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.

    • mika_mika@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      9 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.

    • BombOmOm@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      9 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.

    • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      102·
      9 months ago

      At the very least, the console cycles are a good indicator of when it makes sense to build a new PC.

    • BurgerBaron@piefed.socialEnglish
      28·
      9 months ago

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

      So just PC now.

      • IEatDaFeesh@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        9 months ago

        I would have disagreed a month ago but Sonic Racing has removed my biggest reason to consider getting a Switch 2. PC really has it all. Blessed.

      • mesa@piefed.socialEnglish
        10·
        9 months ago

        I can play my steam games I bought over a decade ago on any hardware. Its awesome. I just got hadies 2 as well and it works flawlessly on the SD.

        And that’s just steam. I just don’t see buying an Xbox/PSehatever/switch5000. Most games come out for everything now. Who cares?

        • BurgerBaron@piefed.socialEnglish
          6·
          9 months ago

          I still have stuff as far back as DOS and Win9x titles on my shelves. Sure I have to use virtual machines and emulators these days since I’m not willing to buy or hold onto old hardware but I’m still able to do this on modern PC which is the main point: freedom.

          I only care about exclusives anymore which is an artificial value yep.

          There are some exceptions like PS2 was my DVD movje player and PS3 was Bluray movie player and what I used Universal Media Server with back then streaming from my PC. Not just the games, but there were games too. Plus weird stuff on PSN like Trash Panic or Tokyo Jungle.

          Also I refuse to pay for online play and I stuck to it.

  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldEnglish
    102·
    9 months ago

    Good luck with the tarriffs…

    The last time a console generation lined up with a giant economic crisis we got the Kinect and PlayStation Move instead and a proper console release was delayed until 2013.

    I could see this being pushed to 2030, easy, if it happens at all.

  • TechAnon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    9 months ago

    They should release consoles when there’s a significant leap in hardware that devs are waiting to take advantage of. The last few console releases have been boring. Don’t get me started on not only the lack of games but the lack of new types of games. Too many remakes and remasters demanding high prices.

    • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      21·
      9 months ago

      We’ve got tons of new types of games that have emerged over the years, but they sprout up at different levels of system requirements. The games that need the new hardware are the ones with the largest development budgets.