Fanboy? I call out both companies equally and hold both accountable as all consumers should be doing. The only people who are offended by my posts are the fanboys. I blame Phil Spencer for dropping the ball this generation and my PS4 Pro sounds like a piece of shit so I can't even enjoy games on that stupid $500 console. I just find it hilarious that Microsoft the software company actually makes the better hardware (consoles) and Sony the hardware company actually makes the better software (games).
I would totally take a ton of time analyzing if Game Pass was worth it, or if it would eventually undermine Sony completely as a gaming company. So yeah if I had all the tools available that Sony does and it seemed to risky I’d totally not jump on board just for Bethesda games.
I want them to buy capcom and get an exclusive like that Rival schools. Or get us metal gear remake collection
I really think people are failing to see the bigger picture here, that the industry is changing rapidly and Sony has done nothing to move with it. My biggest complaint with Sony has been the absolute stagnation of first party games and a subscription that offers zero value to me. I've begrudgingly paid for PS+ year after year just to be able to play online, and the free games have always been either the $20 value bin trash or games I played years ago. Game Pass changed my perception of what the value of a subscription could be and I've been completely in love with the idea of if a game just isn't for me, I have no financial remorse for just uninstalling it. I've also played games I otherwise wouldn't have; the list of pros just goes on for me.
I mean it’s possible that Sony just isn’t for you tbh. All consoles with the disc drives are going to absolutely destroy the digital only consoles in terms of sales.
The PS5 Digital only accounted for less than 1% of preorders according to both Cheapy and IGN Deals. It seems like that sku was only created to "launch at $400" like the PS4 and they are trying not to not piss off their retail partners by making so few available at launch.
That website is awful. It's filled with spam adds and pop-ups. I also cannot tell if they're battlezone/cod accounts or general Activision accounts.
I mean... Fable is bad with or without gameplay because the series has been a shitshow for the past 5-10 years, but the last God of War was amazingly well received.
Yep, I have to agree that this is a pivotal moment, and Sony is falling behind. It's becoming clear that they are at a financial disadvantage, and don't have anything like what MS has behind them in terms of technology and service capability.
I mean, it still has to be seen that Sony can’t move 70 million + home consoles. PS4 and Switch sales didn’t fall of a cliff when GP came out and the demand for PS5 is through the roof but we’ll see.
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Yep. Lest to be any doubt, If the PS5 digital is only 1% of preorders then it's only because they didn't make many because they all sure as heck sold out.
I think the 1% being digital PS5 has more to do with production of that particular console than the consumer's choice. It's sold out everywhere so if they produced as much as the disc version I'm betting it would still be sold out. The profit margin must be higher for the disc version so Sony produced less digital versions and pretty much have it so they can say $399
Jim Ryan specifically said that Sony believed in generations and that Spider-Man and Horizon were only possible on PS5. The man straight faced lied to their entire 100+ million player base just so that he could sell some PS5 pre-orders. That's the kind of company you want to support? The man is more of a Snake Oil Salesman than Phil Spencer.
There's no way that only 1% of the PS5 consoles sold were digital. Math alone should tell us that much. I know the disk is wildly more popular but less than 1% sold being digital is just silly, and .2% is insane.
that statistic in that pic is literally just which version people posted on this website that they preordered
You will never be able to play a PS3 game via backwards compatibility because there is no working emulator for it and you damn well know that Sony would be singing it from the rooftops if they did. I think they would just prefer to bury that ship.
Next you're going to tell me that Play Actually Does Have Limits. Mind blown.
Death Stranding wasn't put on PC by Sony. Kojima Productions is an independent studio, Sony only paid for an exclusivity period as part of their initial deal to help fund the game's development. On PC, 505 games published it. Horizon could be the start of a trend though... We'll have to wait and see. Maybe Demon's Souls will end up on PC, but I was only referring to the launch exclusivity.
What you're describing is how tech products often introduce their products to the public. They start off generously to gain marketshare, then once they've acquired enough users the price gets jacked up. Giving people good deals at the beginning is basically an advertising expense. Steam sure was great before it got established, no one else sold games so cheaply when I built my first modern PC in 2011. Sony was hungry at the start of this generation, and Microsoft sure is trying hard now. I'm fairly confident the price will be raised, because the price always goes up once a product has a decent market share, but I obviously don't have a crystal ball.
I've owned a Playstation 1, 2, 3, and 4. Playstation Portable. Playstation Vita... And even a Playstation (Vita) TV. So I have expectations based on personal experience of how things will go.
Can't ignore that PC has a different ecosystem. Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo are the only sellers of those products on their platforms. You can't shop for Switch games on the Switch from say Target, you have to use the eShop. They control their own prices so if they want to charge MSRP for games, they will.
That data is from the CAG affiliate link. It is not from post of CAG member that someone went through and count. IGN data is also gather from their affiliate link.
Pretty sure he was talking about the Series X preorder start time.
I don't think it will affect the average consumer's purchasing decision much. People want to play games. The sooner the better. If they had dropped the new ES or Starfield as an Xbox exclusive coming out at launch... that would be a different story. All of the big Bethesda games will no doubt be multi-platform anyway.
Oh didn't realize that. Just saw the graph and yes that information means nothing. You mean the users on a website dedicated to finding cheap game deals didn't buy the console where you can't play physical games. Shocking.
Unfortunately I seriously doubt Bethesda games will be multi platform. Ms bought them to improve game pass selections and have more Xbox exclusives. Let’s be real up until yesterday Xbox had no good exclusive in the works. This deal gave MS several years of content in development. It was a good buy....granted MS is a 1.5 trillion dollar business so a 7.5 billion deal is chump change.
People who get that upset over stuff need to get a life, seriously. This is how I envision way to much of America. There aren’t that many real threats or issues in the country so we make some up of our own to fill the need for drama.
They still make a lot of $$$ releasing multi-plat. At most, there will be timed exclusivity. Their main goal is to beef up Game Pass and XCloud with hopes of making it the ubiquitous streaming game platform... which can be integrated on all platforms – all consoles, computers, phones, refrigerators, etc. They are supporting Xbox as a brand, not a tv computer box anymore.
I agree but won’t lie I had never heard of them prior to this ps5 release. I think another flag for people was their ordering process prompts credit/payment info entry prior to shipping details ( from what others and friends that were debating said.) I took another CAG’s advice and did PayPal so I have another party involved in case of any issues; this bypassed the address and payment prompts since all verified from PayPal previously.
