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Grumblevolcano

@NEStalgia Well Sony already proved once that taking away competitors' options is their success strategy and Microsoft confirmed it worked 2 generations later with the 360. There's a reason it took so long for PS1 era Final Fantasy, Crash, Spyro, etc. to come to non-Sony consoles, Sony probably put a 20 year exclusivity deal in place.

Hopefully next gen that strategy fails.

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Anti-Matter

@NEStalgia
I bought PS4 Slim White 500GB on 1 April 2018 after PS4 had The Sims 4, Portal Knights & White color in Slim model. It took 5 years since PS4 launch date.
My Perfect choice and it took more than 1 year for me to finally embraced my PS4 Slim, not as frenemies.
Last 1 July 2019 i got another PS4 game to be added, Override Mech City Brawl. 😀
That game was since December 2018.
It took at least 5 years for PS4 to have perfect games for me despite just around 3 - 5 games only.

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NEStalgia

@Grumblevolcano Well, FF, what we found out in the past year, is that Sony held a partial stake in Square-Enix and was on the board. The fact that FF released the moment Sony divested their shares, on every other platform, I think tells us a lot about what happened there.....

Crash and Spyro, OTH......maybe that was a 20 year deal.

I'm afraid the're doing that again for the PS5 era.....that's such a toxic situation if that kind of deal continues. I think publishers are a lot more leery to enter into contracts that long anymore though.

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ThanosReXXX

"The Future of the Gaming Industry"

Is going to suck MASSIVE, continuously aching balls.

But all kidding aside, it actually IS going to become increasingly bad, and far as I'm concerned, worse than ever, and it's going to be highly disposable, which is an absolute negative for people like me, who prefer physical games, and local gameplay. But the younger gamers of today just don't care about giving away their rights, and are apparently perfectly fine with not knowing if the rather expensive box that they bought will be a useless book end, filled with unplayable one's and zero's, by the end of it's generation.

While all of that is happening, I'll be reveling in the fact that I'll still be able to use my N64, Dreamcast, GameCube, Wii, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One S, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Game Boy Advance SP, DS Phat, DS Lite, DSi XL, 3DS XL and Nintendo Switch.

Oh, and of course my NES and SNES Classic Minis...

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NEStalgia

@ThanosReXXX Plus, if Fortnite is anything to go by, younger gamers don't want well designed solo experiences, they want "things to do with their friends" even if they're unfulfilling hollow experiences. It's the electronic equivalent of "hanging out."

Video games = shopping malls. Meet me in front of Chess King.

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ThanosReXXX

@NEStalgia Second Life 3.0 is imminent. It's going to be a Google Stadia exclusive...

'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'

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ThanosReXXX

@NEStalgia No, he's going to buy that Daddy Dating Sim on Switch, the one who's article I now sorely regret having commented on...

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skywake

@Heavyarms55 @NEStalgia
Adding my 2c to the 5G discussion. I do agree that the people thinking 5G will be some kind of revolution are buying into the marketing. However it's a bit more complicated than what you are making it out to be.

5G isn't just one thing. There is component above 6GHz which is where everyone gets their massive speed improvement marketing material from. Really only suitable for super high density deployment given the limited range. Which is a bit annoying when people do the whole "5G is going to make fibre obsolete" bit. The "fibre replacing" parts of 5G are going to require decent fibre infrastructure to be deployed. But when deployed it could in certain scenarios give people close to a 10x performance boost.

But there is also a sub-6Ghz component which should give 20-50% performance improvements over 4G. Although some of the less advanced 5G deployments will be slower than some of the more advanced 4G deployments. This is what you will see when 5G towers start getting built on top of a hill in your suburb. There is also some latency improvements but, again, it depends. Nothing close to what you can get on fibre however.

It's certainly a generational leap in some scenarios but it won't be anywhere near as big a jump as the move from 3G to 4G was. There will definitely be some people posting speedtests well into the 100s of Mbps range. And when you go to a stadium event it might be a bit of a game changer there. But if on 4G now in your house you're getting 30Mbps? You're probably not getting high density 5G, you might get 40Mbps on 5G....

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@skywake as long as you're sitting on the rtx cabinet while playing cod everything will be just ducky. Just don't wander 20 ft away or put a towel in front of you....

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Heavyarms55

@NEStalgia Interesting points. To be fair, I don't own an Xbone. There hasn't been anything that has made me even consider it. Even though I had a 360 and played the bloody heck out of it for years! (Had the Halo 3 version which I am very sad to say no long works. I think the power supply went bad. When I eventually move back stateside I might see if I can get it fixed, just for nostalgia). But I have nothing against the device. A big part of why I have a PS4 is because I live in Japan and Xbox is less than a joke in Japan right now. (Once I showed a picture of the Nintendo, Playstation and Xbox logos in class to teach my students the English term "video game" and several students actually asked why I bothered to include Xbox at all. They weren't even being rude about it, they were confused!)

Speaking of the next gen consoles too, I'm not sold on any of them just yet. My big hope is the PS5 is that it is somehow given backwards compatibility all the way to PS3. If I can unplug both my PS3 and PS4 and replace them with just the PS5, I will be sold. But as it is, that hasn't been confirmed. And in fact, the PS5 looks like nothing but a better PS4 Pro. Albeit a much better PS4 Pro with games that can't be played on the older hardware. As for the new Xbox, I know almost nothing about it. All I have heard is that people are calling it the Xbox "Scarlett" I think.

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infinite86

I just hope streaming/Google Stadia fails. Internet infrastructure isn't good enough for it yet and data caps would make it useless. I like having a physical copy. I like what Nintendo is doing with the carts again. Maybe we'll see a future of games on modified MicroSD cards?

infinite86

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