Topic: The PlayStation Fan Thread

@Ralizah "Sony's name has been synonymous with powerful console tech this gen" I wonder how miffed they'll be at the Xbox One X taking their prized "Strongest Game Console" title and running with it.

@UmniKnight Thanks to the Pro's price advantage and their strong stable of exclusives, I don't expect XBX to bite too much into Sony's market dominance. I wouldn't be surprised if they're hastening development of the PS5, though.

@Ralizah Yeah, MS does look very weak in that department, with most of their games coming waaaaaaaaay down the line and sharing their "exclusivity" with W10. For the sake of Sony not getting full of themselves, I hope they step it up.

@Ralizah Or, it would lead to more AAA games getting optimized for portability, because of the significant selling point that anywhere, anytime offers.

Sure, it could go either way, but, ultimately developers want/need their games to sell, and if the market shows that anywhere, anytime is what's wanted, the developers would be sensible to accommodate that to the best of their best abilities.

Yeah I certainly understand where you're coming from - either way, one of us will be able to tell the other 'I told you so' one day!

It does appear _{(to me, at least - I may very well be reading something in to nothing!)} like Nintendo have at least given themselves the option - and it's better to have the option and not use it, than want the option and not have it - so, if they decide to lean towards not going down the Dock expansion/upgrade route, at least the option appears to have been there, which is no bad thing..

@gcunit I doubt it. Optimizing a game for weaker hardware takes time and money. If they can just dump PS4 ports on a home console version of the Switch, we're going to get a library that's split down the middle with regard to portability. If the Switch sells enough (and interest hasn't really dipped all year), developers will be forced to optimize their games for the platform like they did with the Wii. Give them a lazy out, though, and they'll take it, and we'll all be the worse for it.

@NaviAndMii Indeed. I can see where you're coming from as well. And I wouldn't put it past them to kick around an idea like this, especially given the modular nature of the Switch. Either way, we can both probably agree that it's nice Nintendo is getting enough attention these days that the topic of discussion (hardware expansion for the sake of more demanding AAA third party titles) seems even somewhat feasible!

@Ralizah Haha! Yeah, very true If I was the person who came up with the concept for the Switch, I'd go in to work every day and just be like...

...legend!

@Ralizah We'll have another good discussion once the Switch has a decent base (Around 10 mill) and it's still hesitant on the developers side. I've still got those "10 mill, and we'll get more" words from Kimishima stuck in my head, but I'm unwilling to give anything faith at this point. Too much uncertainty.

@UmniKnight Considering how fast it's selling, I could see it hit that mark before the end of the year (this is entirely dependent on Nintendo resolving lingering stock issues, of course).

@Ralizah I don't think it should be too much trouble, honestly. I'm probably the only person who isn't jumping out of their roof-tops to get Xenoblade 2 and Mario Odyssey.

@UmniKnight I think the Champions Ballad DLC for BotW will be a higher profile release than Xenoblade 2. This holiday's focus will be Mario Odyssey and new content for existing Switch games.

@Grumblevolcano By the way you say that, it looks quite meagre, but then a lot of people seem really psyched for Mario, and to a lesser extent Xenoblade 2, so it might just be me, I'm not sure anymore, honestly.

Actually, I'm an American. And they don't do cross-country to reduce lag. Trust me, I've played cross-country servers before in real-time games, the lag tends to kill it...

But thank you for reminding me that Blizzard's website has some oddities...I haven't logged in for quite a while, so they'll probably lock my account again...except this time I can't just make another one...

I dunno about that. Depends on how long they've been working on it. If it was just a 6 month thing, can't be too impressive. But it could've been something they've been working on for over a year, which'd make it pretty cool.

@CanisWolfred Ah, well thank you for explaining me WHY they don't do cross country I've been wondering that for a while now.

I duly hope you get to keep your account, I know how much of a hassle it is to juggle with accounts like that, ESPECIALLY with Blizzard these days...

"Fallout 4 doesn't look as good as other games. Why doesn't Bethesda make clinical 4K RPGs like all the ones that tried to copy them in 8th gen?"

Environment looks good. That doll looks creepy though.

@Octane Oh, like you didn't play games until 8th gen.

Is there anything to this rumour that Bethesda is making a Game of Thrones game.

An elder-scrolls-style game set in Westeros would be incredible.

@Haru17 Can't take a joke?

Don't worry, I'm just not a big fan of the stiff performance in a lot of realistic RPGs. The faces aren't that bad, definitely not on the same level as Andromeda, considering it's already two years old at this point. But they leave something to be desired. It's not only Fallout, I feel the same about a lot more games. I just find it a bit jarring to look at.