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Noumas
06/12/21 2:04:53 PM
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The signs are everywhere, same jump that ps2 to ps3 was
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MacadamianNut3
06/12/21 2:06:04 PM
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Wow just reminded me of a song I haven't heard in forever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuH7_Z0vo6w

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Irony
06/12/21 2:07:41 PM
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I'm not sure what you mean by this. It's as easy to develop for as the PS4 and it's currently destroying the Series X

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DarkRoast
06/12/21 2:08:56 PM
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PS5 is crushing the Series X, even with supply limitations. It's sold something like twice the number of consoles.

And I say this as someone who owns a Series X.

Sony is putting out these things called "games." Ratchet just came out a day ago and is literally the most next-gen looking game I've ever seen.

They launched with Demon's Souls and Spider-Man/Miles Morales, which were visual showcases
Then they had Returnal, which I enjoyed tremendously (and am still playing)
Now they have Ratchet, then Horizon Forbidden West soon, and it just keeps rolling.

Microsoft is doing what they literally always, -always-, do.

Overpromise and under-deliver. Every single time. It doesn't matter how many studios and IPs they buy; MS as a corporation is malignant and screws over their hardware divisions (Surface, Xbox, etc) with meddling.


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Questionmarktarius
06/12/21 2:09:53 PM
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Looks like a repeat of the PS360 era, where Sony was in last place until the very end, and both MS and Sony were lagging behind some underpowered Nintendo system that "doesnt count!" for some reason.
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Noumas
06/12/21 2:28:30 PM
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DarkRoast posted...

Yup agreed. R&C giving me strong heavenly sword vibes, especially with its length.
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Questionmarktarius
06/12/21 2:30:03 PM
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Yeah, I guess it's Microsoft playing from behind this time.
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DarkRoast
06/12/21 2:30:39 PM
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Noumas posted...
Yup agreed. R&C giving me strong heavenly sword vibes, especially with its length.

Uh, what

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TostitosTheHero
06/12/21 2:32:31 PM
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Questionmarktarius posted...
Looks like a repeat of the PS360 era, where Sony was in last place until the very end, and both MS and Sony were lagging behind some underpowered Nintendo system that "doesnt count!" for some reason.
in what reality is the PS5 in a worse place than Xbox right now
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MixedRaceBaby
06/12/21 2:33:02 PM
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Microsoft: buy our 500 dollar console so you can play games from 5 years ago for 15 bucks a month
Gamers: I guess

Sony: you want more spiderman?
Gamers: GIVE US THE DAMN PLAYSTATION DAMMIT

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DarkRoast
06/12/21 2:34:29 PM
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MixedRaceBaby posted...
Microsoft: buy our 500 dollar console so you can play games from 5 years ago for 15 bucks a month
Gamers: I guess

Sony: you want more spiderman?
Gamers: GIVE US THE DAMN PLAYSTATION DAMMIT

Conversely:

Microsoft: Here's literally everything except new, next-gen games
Sony: Here's next-gen games


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Questionmarktarius
06/12/21 2:34:35 PM
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TostitosTheHero posted...
in what reality is the PS5 in a worse place than Xbox right now
Playstation and MS flip places all the time, while Nintendo "doesn't count!".
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DarkRoast
06/12/21 2:36:42 PM
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Questionmarktarius posted...
Playstation and MS flip places all the time, while Nintendo "doesn't count!".

Ever wonder why 3DS, Switch, Wii, etc always sell a bajillion units, yet their game sections at stores are always tiny?

Because the dirty little secret of Nintendo consoles is that nobody actually buys non-Nintendo games on Nintendo consoles.


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Questionmarktarius
06/12/21 2:37:27 PM
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DarkRoast posted...
Because the dirty little secret of Nintendo consoles is that nobody actually buys non-Nintendo games on Nintendo consoles.
That's never really been a secret.
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DravenRainrix
06/12/21 2:37:38 PM
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MixedRaceBaby posted...
Microsoft: buy our 500 dollar console so you can play games from 5 years ago for 15 bucks a month
Gamers: I guess

Sony: you want more spiderman?
Gamers: GIVE US THE DAMN PLAYSTATION DAMMIT

Meanwhile:

Microsoft: "We're making over 200million dollars a month... Just from Gamepass... We dropped 6 weeks profit on Zenimax... But Sony sold more consoles? Yeah.. We good... Thanks tho"

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El Mexicano Texano
06/12/21 2:39:29 PM
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The fact that they got MLB the Show on Gamepass is a sing of thins to come since anyone who owns a Sony console had to buy it in order to play it, don't sleep on this.

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DarkRoast
06/12/21 2:41:53 PM
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DravenRainrix posted...
Meanwhile:

Microsoft: "We're making over 200million dollars a month... Just from Gamepass... We dropped 6 weeks profit on Zenimax... But Sony sold more consoles? Yeah.. We good... Thanks tho"

Meanwhile, from Microsoft's redacted release from the Apple/Epic battle:




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Questionmarktarius
06/12/21 2:41:54 PM
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DravenRainrix posted...
Meanwhile:

Microsoft: "We're making over 200million dollars a month... Just from Gamepass... We dropped 6 weeks profit on Zenimax... But Sony sold more consoles? Yeah.. We good... Thanks tho"
The console vendors are all in a really weird place right now.

Microsoft: gaming console division is an afterthought.
Sony: gaming console division is all that's making any money.
Nintendo: gaming console division is the only division.
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DarkRoast
06/12/21 2:43:03 PM
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Sony is a quantum cluster**** of a company and it's nothing short of a miracle that they still exist as a singular entity.

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Noumas
06/12/21 2:55:32 PM
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Questionmarktarius posted...
Looks like a repeat of the PS360 era, where Sony was in last place until the very end, and both MS and Sony were lagging behind some underpowered Nintendo system that "doesnt count!" for some reason.
Good points all around, with some changes here and there. Sony and ms switching spaces.

Wonder if Nintendo will ever not be known as only for Nintendo games
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Questionmarktarius
06/12/21 3:02:08 PM
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Noumas posted...
Good points all around, with some changes here and there. Sony and ms switching spaces.

Wonder if Nintendo will ever not be known as only for Nintendo games
DS buried all the consoles in that generation.

Stolen from Cracked
7th generation consoled, scaled by "power"

7th generation consoles, scaled by sales:


Sales again, but holyfuck DS!

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DarkRoast
06/12/21 3:04:20 PM
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What if I told you that the PS3 very nearly matched the Wii's total sales, and both outsold the Xbox 360?

The Wii basically fell off the planet by 2009-ish, while the PS3 and 360 kept going until about 2014


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Questionmarktarius
06/12/21 3:05:17 PM
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DarkRoast posted...
What if I told you that the PS3 very nearly matched the Wii's total sales, and both outsold the Xbox 360?
what if I told you, "[citation needed]"?
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DarkRoast
06/12/21 3:06:49 PM
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Questionmarktarius posted...
what if I told you, "[citation needed]"?

https://www.vgchartz.com/analysis/platform_totals/



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Questionmarktarius
06/12/21 3:10:03 PM
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DarkRoast posted...
https://www.vgchartz.com/analysis/platform_totals/
So...

  1. Nobody trusts VGchartz. Please don't use that as a reference, unless there's nothing else available
  2. 87 vs 102 is almost almost.
  3. 86 vs 87 vs 102 makes the 7th generation the closest one there's ever been, so long as we ignore DS
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El Mexicano Texano
06/12/21 3:24:37 PM
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My post was overlooked what this could mean is that gamepass finally caught up to it's worth meaning the games are just there to be there and they're at a medium where they can now afford new games such as The Show and possibly new titles while still maintaining older games since the value/worth for them goes down while the game pass price remains the same and they keep making profit and able to add new games

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Questionmarktarius
06/12/21 3:30:03 PM
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Gamepass is mostly just Microsoft surrendering the console war.
Likely going to end up being a great business move.
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Nasty_Nitro
06/12/21 3:54:44 PM
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GuiltyGear Strive not being on xbox is the tipping point for me ill be buying PS5 this year sony excusives>>>>>

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Questionmarktarius
06/12/21 3:57:02 PM
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Nasty_Nitro posted...
GuiltyGear Strive not being on xbox is the tipping point for me ill be buying PS5 this year sony excusives>>>>>
I see a Steam logo there.
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Lairen
06/12/21 3:59:53 PM
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First years typically suck.

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Noumas
06/14/21 6:44:04 AM
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That's always the case but these are special circumstances. It feels like a repeat of gen 7 except the wii switch isn't as popular as wii was (still pretty high though)
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jumi
06/15/21 12:33:08 AM
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DarkRoast posted...
Ever wonder why 3DS, Switch, Wii, etc always sell a bajillion units, yet their game sections at stores are always tiny?

Because the dirty little secret of Nintendo consoles is that nobody actually buys non-Nintendo games on Nintendo consoles.

It doesn't help that they never lower prices. Skyrim for Switch has been out for three years at least and is still $50. Never mind first party games.

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Ivany2008
06/15/21 12:36:28 AM
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Irony posted...
I'm not sure what you mean by this. It's as easy to develop for as the PS4 and it's currently destroying the Series X

If its what I think it means, it means that while they have decent games, they aren't as good as the previous generation, and not as good as the generation that came afterwards.

Don't get me wrong, I love the PS3, but PS2 blew it out of the water, and PS4 took steps to release great games, along with remastered better versions of PS3 classics. To this day the PS2 Slim is by far my favorite console of all time. So small, yet at the time it was incredible. I wish they would revisit that size in the near future.
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sabin017
06/15/21 12:39:57 AM
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Are gamers still so dirt poor that they have to pledge allegiance to one console every gen?

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Ivany2008
06/15/21 12:41:15 AM
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sabin017 posted...
Are gamers still so dirt poor that they have to pledge allegiance to one console every gen?

less that they are poor and that games just get increasingly more expensive.
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IfGodCouldDie
06/15/21 12:51:01 AM
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El Mexicano Texano posted...
The fact that they got MLB the Show on Gamepass is a sing of thins to come since anyone who owns a Sony console had to buy it in order to play it, don't sleep on this.
I got it "free" from psn

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Darmik
06/15/21 1:01:22 AM
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sabin017 posted...
Are gamers still so dirt poor that they have to pledge allegiance to one console every gen?

Even less reason than ever. It has never been more affordable to play games from all of the big three.

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LordFarquad1312
06/15/21 1:04:06 AM
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sabin017 posted...
Are gamers still so dirt poor that they have to pledge allegiance to one console every gen?
More like, what's the point of an XBox if you own a PC.

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ooger
06/15/21 1:06:21 AM
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Thanks for the hot take.

I'll store it with all the other hot takes.

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Darmik
06/15/21 1:06:52 AM
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LordFarquad1312 posted...
More like, what's the point of an XBox if you own a PC.

People who don't want to game on PC.

By the end of this generation I doubt you'll need to own any console hardware to play anything other than Nintendo's stuff.

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NoxObscuras
06/15/21 1:33:20 AM
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Noumas posted...
That's always the case but these are special circumstances. It feels like a repeat of gen 7 except the wii switch isn't as popular as wii was (still pretty high though)
Bro are you kidding me? First you think the PS5 is trailing behind the Xbox like the PS3 was (it's not. The PS5 is way ahead). Now you think the Switch isn't Nintendo's fastest selling console?

By their own official numbers (as of 3/31/21), the Wii was at 101.63 million sold, while the Switch was at 84.59 million sold. That means the Switch took 4 years to reach 84.59 million.

If you look at this year by year breakdown (which is accurate, their total comes to 101.62 million), the Wii had sold 70.93 million after 4 years. So the Switch is outpacing the Wii.

Sources: https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/finance/hard_soft/
https://www.statista.com/statistics/349078/nintendo-wii-and-wii-u-console-sales/ (photo of their chart below because they like to lock their charts behind a paywall)



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ViewtifulGrave
06/15/21 1:56:04 AM
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Questionmarktarius posted...
Playstation and MS flip places all the time, while Nintendo "doesn't count!".
Sony has beat Microsoft in every generation.



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WalkingLobsters
06/15/21 2:10:57 AM
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Never understood the obsession with corporate sales

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Darmik
06/15/21 2:11:47 AM
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WalkingLobsters posted...
Never understood the obsession with corporate sales

People treat this stuff like a team sport.

Eventually people will be posting subscription numbers and yearly revenue to show that their team is the winner.

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Ivynn
06/15/21 2:12:41 AM
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AbstraktProfSC2
06/15/21 6:45:29 AM
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MixedRaceBaby posted...
Microsoft: buy our 500 dollar console so you can play games from 5 years ago for 15 bucks a month
Gamers: I guess

Sony: you want more spiderman?
Gamers: GIVE US THE DAMN PLAYSTATION DAMMIT

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but enjoy your spooderman



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ooger
06/15/21 9:00:01 AM
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Darmik posted...
People treat this stuff like a team sport.

Eventually people will be posting subscription numbers and yearly revenue to show that their team is the winner.
We're all adults with jobs.

Buy which ever ones you want.

It's not like you have to choose just one like you're an 8 year old.

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