Im not really a pc gamer. I might actually wait until most of their stuff is on ps extra as well
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Yeah, it is a bit pedantic, but CP2077 was more backwards compatible than Smart Delivery at release. Was it a smart delivery title, yes. Did you get the actual next gen version when it actually materialized, yes.
But the fact remains that the scale/ambition/design of the game was always too much for those old systems and they should have never even attempted it on those consoles.
Doing a smart delivery title only makes sense if you can provide both audiences an experience worth playing. Giving the late adopters a pile of garbage and pretending it is a gift isnt really a good path.
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As someone that played the entire game on Xbox One, Cyberpunk 2077 wasnāt as much if a disaster as everyone made it out to be on last gen.
Iām not going to say I didnāt encounter a game breaking bug(just 1 really and I did have to wait for an update), or that every area ran without issues(fps felt solid for the most part, with only 1 area were it dropped down to 2 fps lol). But my experience with the game wasnāt the clickbait that youtubers were pushing every time they made a video.
I think the funniest bug I encountered was during the suicide ending(didnāt even know what I was choosing), where 2 Vās were sitting in the same chair during the whole conversation with one of them sinking in on the other.
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I await a moment to get a PS5 and it still not here yet. Iām in no shortage of games whatsoever and the entry to PS5 is still to high for me. Iām pretty sure there will be a bunch of great PS5 exclusives that I want to play further down the line that will get me to buy it, but itās not there yet. My main reason so far is not just the console itself, itās the price of games and the fact that they donāt get discounted as well and often anymore. Even the physical trading market where I live is not that cheap anymore. Iām not sure about their PS+ either some of their games apparently leave the service, I just canāt live with that uncertainty.
I was really thinking theyād do $400 bundles like with the PS4
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Even if Playstation first party titles appealed to me, buying a PS just wouldnāt be worth it for me, Game Pass has completely changed the way I consume games and I have far too much content to play as it is on one platform alone
Iām a huge Kojima fan so Iāll play DS2 eventually but outside of that, I have no interest in buying a second console and having to spend Ā£70 on new games on the few I actually might be interested in
The thought of spending Ā£70 on a game when I can get full years of GP for cheaper than that disgusts me
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Yep. Even if I had a free PS5 or Sony launched their titles on Streaming for $5 a monthā¦iād still have trouble finding the time. Xbox monopolises my gaming. I still dont get how some people juggle all platforms. Already had to skip Age of Empires 2, 4, Minecraft Legends, Diablo 4, Ghostwire Tokyo this year. Iāve only got 2 minutes of play in Starfield!
And that just the first party. Now they give me Yakuza and more persona games, when i have High on Life, Plague Tale 2 and more in backlog.
Its hard for me to justify any other gaming platform when they just throw free games at you. Day 1. No catch.
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Yeah as I said, its more money for them even if they dont reach those crazy 25million units sold target.
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Because not everyone wants to play every game that releases. I have a 20 game list this year, 18 for Xbox Series X and 2 for PlayStation 5. Thatās out of what, maybe 1000 or so games that actually get released for both consoles in 2023. 2020 launch for me was 5 games, 2021 was 10 and 2022 was also 10. 45 total games in 3 years is not a lot of games compared to how many games get released every year.
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I personally am not looking forward to the next TLOU, I donāt like the character of Abby at all.
Look for me who is a Big advocate of adoption or fostering a child I loved the story of a man taking on the role of being a father to a kid that wasnāt his own.
So when that was thrown out the window it really is disappointing to me.
My favorite part was the flash back, because it felt like the first game and even though game play wise the sequel is better, the story for me is better in the first.
I know it wonāt happen, but Iād so like to see a retcon where you find out he survived getting his head smacked in and wakes up months later, but I know sadly that wonāt happen.
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Actually, maintaining the status quo is not always the best decision. A company constantly needs to change and reinvent itself. Apple did it by moving from desktop computing to mobile. MS has done it by moving to the cloud. If you donāt evolve you will die.
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I agree with you entirely, as a dad myself and someone who has worked in childrenās social care the first story definitely had more impact. Iām also not very keen on Abbyās character either.
Iām not sure what it is exactly but the first game just seemed to flow better, whereas in the second it had itās moments but there were also parts where I just seemed to be wondering around which IMO felt boring. Some of the story elements also seemed dragged out so much so that I just wanted a skip button.
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You laugh. But thatās what it feels like here in Germany as well. That 20% market share (vs PlayStation) which they presented to the CMA/EU was not made up.
In the officeā¦ PlayStationā¦ everyone. (Quite literally. Iāve never even heard anyone mention Xbox.)
On YouTube, the German PlayStation channel has 329k subscribers, Xbox Channel has 61k subscribers. (82% to 18%.) Iām seeing a slight shift in media coverage, especially with Game Pass. But itās a looong way to go.
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I get that itās been out a while now, but some of us have yet to play TLoU 2, and given that this thread has nothing to do with it, could do it with out the story spoilers.
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