Okay but given how long games take to make…it's 2021 right now GT7, FW, GoW 5 are all 2022 titles. Polyphony made one game last gen. Guerrilla made one game last gen, Sony Santa Monica made one game last gen. You're telling me I'm supposed to be okay with marquee system selling titles being designed around the limitations of a CPU from 2013 knowing full well this is going to be one of two titles I may get from these studios this generation? and then you're asking me to pay $70 for a glorified "Pro" version? Nope I can't agree with that. I know why 3rd parties do it, but you're the platform holder. It's up to you to show us what the hardware can do. It doesn't matter if current gen exclusives are the norm in a year or two when the games I want to play, the games that matter, are cross gen.
But that's just mean that those games were made for PS4 from the very beginning.
When companies tell you "This game would be totally impossible on the old hardware", they are usually exaggerating a lot with some honorable exceptions.
Sure they are PS4 games 100%. What's happened has happened. Just don't lie and say you believe in generations when in fact, you don't. And have had games in development for PS4 primarily since 2017 and 2018, even though you also knew PS5 would be out in 2020. And then have the audacity to charge $70 as if it's different and somehow "next gen". Can't be next gen tied to a Jaguar processor.
This too.
If even 10% of your sales are on the older platform, then you absolutely should port it. What's the benefit in just cutting off older hardware if the game is still playable on it?
Would I be correct in assuming that you're frustrated by the state of the entire AAA industry rather any one platform or publisher?
It's okay not to buy it, but the fact is that when he said "we believe in generations", it was qualified in the subsequent statement, and qualified again when the journalists at launch wrote their reviews expressing the same point about what the PS5-only features represented, from a generation standpoint. The quote is sometimes used appropriately, but mostly missused. What people were saying on here, myself included, were opinions that probably should have considered the global pandemic which is affecting the schedules and decisions of all companies.
Lol what? Why are people acting like COVID hasn't completely changed the game? Do you all think we would be getting this many cross-gen games when it was apparent from launch that Sony wanted to transition from PS4 to PS5 as quickly as possible?
So far. And with ridiculous thinking like this from Sony it'll continue to be this way.
Like I said, it is so easy after the fact to say it now. The global pandemic likely had little to do with their decisions to make the announced games crossgen, those decisions were made long ago. They are just taking longer to come out than they first thought. The pandemic had nothing at all to do with their statement of we believe in generations. It was simply another marketing ploy to try and differenciate themselves from its competitors.
Now if we could only look back in time at those threads and when those games were first announced...
