I genuinely don't mean that as snark.
I'm not fully clued in on their plans for 2019. I bought one for Pokemon Lets go and love it.
Eshop prices are disgraceful tho.
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Kotaku: The State of PS4 and Xbox One in 2018
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I'm not fully clued in on their plans for 2019. I bought one for Pokemon Lets go and love it.
Eshop prices are disgraceful tho.
Yes and we're still using those same arguments from thousands of years ago, showing that we've exhausted the finite limits of that debate thousand of years ago. Very little, if anything new, as been said about morality in YEARS. Were Plato and co's argument any less "valid" when they were 1st conceived purely because they were in the infancy of the debate? Clearly not seen as I've said we're still going back to them.
Just because videos haven't been around for millenia doesn't mean we haven't reached an exhaustive notion by which we can anchor opinions/arguments to.
That's one way to downplay an absolutely stellar year for the PS4 in terms of exclusives. A year so good they even managed to convince me to invest in PSVR.
And Detroit a dud?! If you don't venture beyond the office walls of Kotaku much then yeah I guess.
And Detroit a dud?! If you don't venture beyond the office walls of Kotaku much then yeah I guess.
Yeah. Microsoft's 2018 lineup.
GAAS Shared open world pirate game
GAAS Co-op open world zombie game
GAAS Shared open world driving game
This is so dumb.
That's a funny perspective on PS4 side :
- All Games are the Same
- PS Now is trash
- Indies are better on other plataforms
- Sony needs to put more effort on PSVR
- Let's hope Sony doesn't give up on VR because this is what they do.
I mean of course everyone are entitled to their opinions but it's at least kinda strange to me to see this kind of complaints when in my perspective as a PS4/PSVR owner :
- This is Sony 1P best year ever and I fail to see where God of War, Spider Man, Detroit, Astrobot, Shadow of the Colossus or Wipeout Omega Collection are "the same".
- I don't see myself subscribing to PS Now but PS Now got PS4 and PS2 download options this year. So yeah you could say that the service is not good as it should be but why also not mention it's improvements?
- Downplay a game that's coming to a plataform just cause you wanted/want to play on another one is not a good a thing.
- This is also PSVR best year! Honestly I would rather see Sony creating new IPs and new experiences for PSVR instead of milking watered versions of their biggest games.
- Again it's PSVR best year and its clear that support is growing so why throw this "Sony doesn't support their plataforms" narrative at this moment?
Again everyone is entitled to their opinions but there's a lot of hot takes in this article, and some of those that doesn't make any sense in both a subjective and objective perspectives.
- All Games are the Same
- PS Now is trash
- Indies are better on other plataforms
- Sony needs to put more effort on PSVR
- Let's hope Sony doesn't give up on VR because this is what they do.
I mean of course everyone are entitled to their opinions but it's at least kinda strange to me to see this kind of complaints when in my perspective as a PS4/PSVR owner :
- This is Sony 1P best year ever and I fail to see where God of War, Spider Man, Detroit, Astrobot, Shadow of the Colossus or Wipeout Omega Collection are "the same".
- I don't see myself subscribing to PS Now but PS Now got PS4 and PS2 download options this year. So yeah you could say that the service is not good as it should be but why also not mention it's improvements?
- Downplay a game that's coming to a plataform just cause you wanted/want to play on another one is not a good a thing.
- This is also PSVR best year! Honestly I would rather see Sony creating new IPs and new experiences for PSVR instead of milking watered versions of their biggest games.
- Again it's PSVR best year and its clear that support is growing so why throw this "Sony doesn't support their plataforms" narrative at this moment?
Again everyone is entitled to their opinions but there's a lot of hot takes in this article, and some of those that doesn't make any sense in both a subjective and objective perspectives.
That is not true. LKD (I assume you're talking about her review?) just said that she'd prefer to play a massive- and dare I say slog?- game like Persona 5 on a portable system, citing her P4G experience on Vita (not Switch) as a comparison. Fanboys then jumped to conclusions and lied to smear her and her review when her intent was totally harmless and simple. She never listed "not on Switch" as a con.
Era has been on a downward spiral in quality. It's becoming really really bad.
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Oh I figured you were not being fanboyish lol.
But there legitimately is a lot slated for next year: Fire Emblem, Yoshi, Animal Crossing, Luigi's Mansion, Pokemon, Marvel Ultimate Alliance, Daemon x Machina, plus Metroid Prime 4 and Bayonetta 3 could be next year as well. This is just off the top of my head, someone posted a very nice picture listing everything slated for Switch next year, it's gonna be a good one all around.
I seriously wonder what the mods will do as next generation nears by. This is going to get way worst.
Good article downplays PlayStation and promote and praise Xbox. Do not care about what preference He has but the article in a gaming website was supposed to be neutral.
SMH really hard right now.
This article would have been better written by someone a little more impartial.
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Alright, I've never read the review in question, just repeating what I have heard about it.
The larger point remains, however- the games came out for the system, and are an additive to its library. Your own preferences about how and where you would play the games are irrelevant to a recap like this one, because they are not universal in the slightest (it's like how people like Derrick like to pretend that any game that comes out on Switch and also elsewhere is irrelevant on Switch, because better graphics on other versions mean that those are the only ones who count. No, he doesn't get to dictate what people prefer when they play games, and neither does the author of the PS4 article on Kotaku).
The supposed worst game for sony is critically better than most games released by XBOX this year.
Maybe don't call it "The state of Ps4 and Xbox One in 2018" if you are going to write an opinion piece completely ignoring the actual state these consoles are in.
Luigis mansion and metroid probably - I've never played metroid but the hype here makes me interested lol.
Still haven't got to Breath of the Wild Pokken or Mario Odyssey and that's without even Smash.
Lot of stuff to catch up on.
Glad I didn't give them a click. These are almost as bad as the USgamer article posted the other day.
Oh yeah I totally agree with this overall sentiment just wanted to correct/inform you to what you brought up is all :)
I only know myself because I started to watch Jim's videos again and his Dark Souls Switch video brought this up and reminded me of that very embarrassing moment.
Didn't the thread on that article descend into chaos.
The writer has some.... Interesting thoughts.
By interesting... Bizarre at most points.
I see the complacency they are talking about. Sony is coasting into Next Gen with no signs of hunger. 90 million units don't mean much when you have to start back at zero against a competitor that is starved for a win after an embarrassing loss and not focusing on TV, TV, TV this time around.
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Oh mate, you got some of the best games ever (imo) waiting for you, I'm a bit jealous. I hope you enjoy them all! Feel free to send me your FC if you ever want to play some multiplayer.
Thanks for correcting me at any rate, these kinds of false narratives have a tendency of getting out of hand sadly :P
I mean if you're going to dismiss the Switch as just "the author's personal preference" and not the game changer it has been for many people's video game consuming habits, then obviously you are not looking at the big picture as to why this is such a widespread sentiment.
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Just got to sign up for Nintendo Online - feels weird writing that lol.
Thanks man - I will of course.
Just got to sign up for Nintendo Online - feels weird writing that lol.
And when they do come out it will be seen as a negative still because they are 'samey'.
There is nothing wrong with preferring other systems. There are plenty of games I would love to have on Switch. That doesn't make them not being on Switch representative of the game's quality, which is what this is about.
People like an underdog I guess.
Sony have been crushing it so hard all gen and Microsoft have finally awoken from their current gen coma and are finally showing signs of life as we head towards next gen.
Personally I think Sony's games this gen have been great,if Xbox can step up games wise next gen it's gonna be great for gamers.
Yeah that got a little weird and personal, with someone digging up the author's Twitter history. But the article in question wasn't all that great to begin with, tbh.
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I'm not dismissing anything, the author is free to prefer the Switch for their gaming (I do too). My point is that his personal gaming habits are irrelevant when considering the library additions to a console's lineup. It's like when people try to dismiss a Switch version of a game because the PS4 version looks better- doesn't matter, the game came to Switch, and for a whole lot of people who would rather have the Switch's convenience over the PS4's graphics, it's an addition.
Similarly, the author preferring games on Switch is irrelevant to them also coming to the PS4. If a lot of people would rather have the big screen graphical experience over the Switch's convenience, which many do, then it's still an addition to the PS4 library, which it is.
When it comes to PS Now lets us not forget Nielson's data.
https://www.pcgamesinsider.biz/news...scription-services-generated-273m-in-q3-2018/
https://www.pcgamesinsider.biz/news...scription-services-generated-273m-in-q3-2018/
I remember the 360/ps3/wii era. Majority of the western media was in the tank for MS. Article like this doesn't surprise me
...what? If we've exhausted the finite limits of that debate, then why are we still having it? Why are ethical philosophers still asking these questions? You act as if morality is set in stone, that there can be no new interpretations, and yet you state earlier that morality is subjective. Which is it, then?
Arguing about how good a year a game console had is absolutely nothing in comparison. Where's the millenia we can anchor how good or bad Detroit is to? Where's the thousands upon thousands of philosophers arguing why God of War totally deserved that 2018 Game of the Year win?
That PlayStation section reads like they are trying too hard to find something to be negative about.
Was kotaku always like that? I've never followed them and this article just proves that it was not a loss.
Can't wait to hear what they say about switch. Nothing but glowing praise on a great second year from Nintendo. WHen that's not how it played out at all. Without Pokemon and Smash coming late into 2018, it would go down as a whatever year for Nintendo.
Say what you want about Octopath traveler and MArio Aces.
Say what you want about Octopath traveler and MArio Aces.
The problem is that a few users who start that always get free pass.
Yeah that's another thing about the quotes in the OP that made me tilt my head. A ton of people use PS Now to play games, more than game enthusiast sites may realize.When it comes to PS Now lets us not forget Nielson's data.
https://www.pcgamesinsider.biz/news...scription-services-generated-273m-in-q3-2018/
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Of course it means a lot...all they have to do is announce backwards compatibility for those 90 million players and they will feel the push to stay in the PlayStation ecosystem, along with it being the place where their friends play.
They won't start at zero, though.
They have established several new(and old) extremely successful IPs this generation. Winning GotY awards left and right and setting new sales records. Several of the second tier studios have made the jump to top tier.
They've practically pushed Microsoft out of the market in most regions outside US and UK.
Before they transition to Ps5 they will release another batch of promising exclusives (The Last Of Us 2, Death Stranding, Dreams, Ghost Of Tsushima and Days Gone).
And coming off of those games they will simply continuing franchises like God Of War, Bloodborne, Spider-Man, Horizon on Ps5, meaning that Sony can rely on having several of the most anticipated games of next gen exclusively on their platform.
Most people think Ps5 will launch in late 2020, how people think Sony has become "complacent" just because they don't start talking about their next gen plans 2 years before release is beyond me.
No matter what next gen looks like, Sony will have a massive head start.