The PS5 will probably still be worth getting eventually and I’m sure Sony will still put out some good games, I’m just saying it could be a repeat of the PS3 era where they were not at they’re best.
Personally I stopped giving a crap about Naughty Dog ever since Uncharted. Uncharted 2 was the only one in the series I liked and uncharted 1 was beyond primitive in it's gameplay even though it was a launch title, it was kill X amount of bad guys so door could open and you could move on. Like Doom allowed you to rush past guys and grab a key to open stuff. Hell Golden Eye gave you more freedom. Even looking at OG Tomb Raider itself it gave the player more freedom.
Uncharted was not a launch title, it came out a year after the PS3 first did.
I dunno I played 1-3 and it just felt so restrictive, especially compared to the Jak games that gave you much more freedom. I honestly liked the Tomb Raider reboots better because they gave you more time to explore the surrounding world and in a game about lost civilizations spending quiet time just searching and looking for stuff felt more appropriate than just shooting constantly all the time.
Here's some more developers coming out of the woodwork talking about this.
They're taking a lot of heat over this article in particular. I follow Colin Moriarty's shit and his company literally just got a dev kit from Sony. When the rumors started popping up he asked them about it and got no response. They literally just dropped this on them with no prior warning. Pretty scummy behavior TBH. Guess they really don't give a shit about devs unless they're making cinematic third person action games.
The defense force over Sony's lack of BC has always been obnoxious as fuck. I think it stings them a lot because they know it's one of the biggest areas MS has them beat in. They say "No one would use it anyway!" but then soy-face over niche shit like PSVR and PS Now - two things I'd gladly sacrifice if it meant getting proper BC.
This isn't a threat this is a way of life for 90% of the systems out there, especially Neo Geo
I really wouldn't be glorifying Microsoft's backwards compatibility, for one thing the OG xbox support is real limited, the second thing is that it's online server reliant for the backwards compatibility to work, the third thing is if you've ever dealt with Microsoft in the PC realm you know their posturing is bullshit. This is the same company who tried their damnedest to get rid of Windows 7.
If I may ACKSHULLY, the talent that left formed their own smaller companies to work with Playstation themselves.
That is true, however it's still losing talent that may do more than just direct or make art for games. Higher up talents can have a knock on effect of boosting everyone else at a studio in terms of quality and creativity. For example when Itagaki left Team Ninja look at what happened to be DOA and Ninja Gaiden. It's not neccessarily that it means the death of a company when people leave, but higher up people leaving one after another signals something is up to me. Bungie may still be making games for Xbox but Marty being fired, Joe Staten quitting after being fucked over, and Jamie Griessemer leaving all made me realize Bungie is fucked up and their games have suffered as a result. The same thing seems to be happening at Sony. Japan Studio is probably going to be chained to Astro for eternity now, which is a problem. I can pretty much guess what almost ever next first party Sony game is from each studio now except smaller ones. SSM is making another God Of War, Naughty Dog is probably gonna make TLOU3, Guerilla is making Horizon 2 and some shooter probably, Suckerpunch is definitely making GoT2, etc. That's not a problem for Sonys bottom line really but for people like me it makes me not interested. Japan Studio helped quell that problem in earlier gens but that doesn't seem like it'll be the case going forward. Them seemingly not giving a shit about their past doesn't paint a bright picture in my mind.
They closed Japan studio and are converting the remains into everything based around VR. So all the non-VR people are leaving.
That's really dumb since VR isn't going to catch on until it becomes much less cumbersome, has less wires, and doesn't cause headaches/nechaches for alot of people. Also really dumb to have your Japanese studio focus on something that requires a decent amount of space from my knowledge. Especially considering Japanese houses have pretty small spaces that make even big PCs a problem. I honestly don't know what they're thinking. Nintendos whole thing has been largely Japanese games that people anywhere could enjoy. Xboxs appeal has been all over the place from being a pseudo Dreamcast successor, to being based around multiplayer, to whatever the fuck the Xbone was supposed to be. Sonys appeal has always been a healthy mix of Western and Japanese games. Seems like a really stupid strategy to me unless they're about to buy Square or something, which honestly wouldn't mean much to anyone not interested in Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest.
Ironically enough, I'm far more annoyed at the idiots going around "you can pirate everything for those platforms anyway" despite that's far from the truth, even assuming some are saying that sentence as a hyperbole. Sony definitively shut down the legacy PSN webstore for good and no longer can be browsed through the alternate links, meaning the old PSDLE exploit is no more possible to get the pkg download links necessary for sharing (the other part was to launch the legally bought PSN contents on the PS3 or Vita to obtain a fake license key generated by a homebrew plugin). Like I said earlier, there are many PSN contents still missing on NoPayStation.
Definitively agree on that one. Especially when the vast majority of modern games need updates & patches to fix bugs and add more contents, or even the whole fucking dilemma of DLCs. More often than not, the base content on the disc or cartridge is barebones
It was a whole different game compared to the original PSP release, and there is also Dungeon Travelers To Heart spinoff and the sequel 2-2 if you can read moonrunes
There's a bunch of rumored stuff with the new generation of VR that it may not need all the spatial calibration bullshit. But the fact is it's fucking annoying to wear a headset for hours on end. it's the same problem I had with motion controls, short term use is fine. But If you want to play something like Dragon Quest or Elder scrolls you can be gaming for like 10 hours at a time and it just gets uncomfortable and annoying. They're only work well for so few genres and everything else just doesn't benefit.
As someone who can't even wear headphones without getting a headache I agree. I don't see the point of it right now. It reminds me of when both Sony and Nintendo were splitting their resources between console and portables. I'm sure some of the engineers working on VR stuff could have been better used keeping the PS3/Vita store up to date, or at least working on backwards compatability for the PS5 so it's not as much of a worry. Fuck sake the new Xboxes play more PS1 and PS2 games than the PS5.
Xbox also plays more n64 games than the Switch.
And yet it's still better than the literal nothing Sony is doing. Like I said before, it's not perfect, but the stuff they've been doing with it is impressive, especially when you factor in all the enhancements they've been giving to some of the older games. It does suck that the program is reliant on digital downloads but it is what it is I guess, though with how much MS has been leaning on the whole thing I doubt they'd cut it off anytime soon. And as far as the limited library goes, they've mentioned a few times they're going to be looking into adding more in the future, though of course licensing and technical problems will prevent some games from going through.
Nintendo isn't hostile to it, they just want you to pay 60 dollars for one.
