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• #23427
At least the PS3 taught the designers a valuable lesson that no console should be glossy. Then they made that weird extra slim version where the disc tray looked like someone just cut into the side of the console cos the disc drive had broken.
I've never seen a 360 slim in real life.
Honestly I'm pretty hyped about the next gen consoles, but more so about the controllers than the consoles, they both look so refined now.
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• #23428
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• #23429
360 also red ringed itself like mad, the daft basturt
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• #23430
ps3 has 3 iterations though, OG, Slim and Super Slim
I had all 3, OG died on me (40gb of sweet sweet storage) Slim replaced, then i won a blue super slim from Sony through a twitter comp. (still have that somewhere)
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• #23431
Found this excellent photo:
Still got my PS2 slim on the desk, wish I had've kept my PSOne. That thing looked lovely IMO.
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• #23432
PS2 slim was a lovely design
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• #23433
PS2 slim was a lovely design
I'd completely forgotten about it. Definitely pinacle.
Look what looks remarkably similar in proportions though:
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• #23434
In other news... Xbox stepping up their studio acquisition game:
No word on the exclusivity of future games but feels unlikely for the large franchises.
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• #23436
PS2 and one X are certinally the lookers out of the lot.
The new PS5 looks hideous, but I can understand like like up PC cases people will love it.
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• #23437
hummina hummina
never had an X1 or X1X (did have a 360, and have had every PS and nintendo console, barring the wii U) but looking forward to getting an XSS with game pass
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• #23438
game pass
Definitely the strongest value offering of the current / next generation.
I'd love to see xCloud / GamePass streaming come to Nintendo Switch as an app. That would kill everything.
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• #23439
because there already wasn't enough Skyrim
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• #23440
If anything, this removes that issue. It's now free, across generations, for anyone with a Game Pass subscription.
No more paying for Skyrim.
Oh, and whenever they decide to drop the next elder scrolls, it'll be free on Xbox on day one.
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• #23441
FYI to people wanting the digital PS5 instead of disc, good luck.
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2020-09-21-playstation-5-digital-edition-stock-far-lower-than-standard-ps5-sources-say -
• #23442
I read this earlier; it's odd.
I would assume the aggressive pricing on the digital edition would be what a lot of people are after and, the lock-in to Sony's store would provide a higher ROI to them over the life of the console. I was definitely assuming this would mean that early production was the other way around...I can only assume they're luring people with the low price then hoping they'll buy the more expensive one because the cheaper one is unavailable??
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• #23443
It's definitely tricky, I wouldn't want to be the person in charge of making the call of how many of each to manufacture. Digital edition consoles are still unproven ground, the Xbox One All-Digital has been about for what a year, and now it's discontinued. I would bet on people wanting the disc version over digital any day but the $100 discount will definitely tempt some. I also feel like it's a different proposition than the Xbox X and S because the S is just so cheap it's almost in a different market.
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• #23444
I also feel like it's a different proposition than the Xbox X and S because the S is just so cheap it's almost in a different market.
Agreed. I guess it's healthy that people have so much choice now. Switch, Game Pass, PS5 etc offer so many different ways to get into gaming at so many different price points. Consumer win.
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• #23445
I would expect they are able to produce data on how many active consoles out there have digital only foot prints or digital majority footprints quite easily. That will have been quite low and they'll have speculated on the Long game by amping that number up a lot. Its likely a loss leader (probably both are) and as that article says, some shops wouldn't have wanted to stock close to a 50/50 split as it cuts them off down the line.
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• #23446
One thing that surprises me is the gaming industry is huge these days, estimated $160bn this year with esports worth another billion. Yet studios seems to be constantly closing and restructuring, esports tournaments seem to be organised on a shoe string and the only person making any money out of it is EA and Ubisoft.
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• #23447
I wonder how much of that is a little bit of the Hollywood tax arrangement sort of thing. Do studios purposefully arrange their profits so that they never actually make money on games?
It seems that many studios hire then fire then re-hire people and are constantly re-structuring studios on a project by project basis.
They wouldn't be able to sustain it if money wasn't being made somewhere...
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• #23448
The weird thing about digital only is that this has been the case with PCs for years and no-one really noticed it happening.
The Steam, EA Access, etc integration with Geforce Now is interesting. Buy the game on Steam and play it anywhere using Geforce now is a tempting one. The range is a bit limited at the moment though which it will have to overcome.
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• #23449
I'd put the move to digital down to steams success over any of the other platforms that have appeared. Sadly can't see PS Store ever being as competitive as Steam has been, but they do have some good sales these days.
@Sumo surely the esports money is being made by Blizzard Activision, Valve and Riot Games rather than EA & Ubisoft?
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• #23450
surely the esports money is being made by Blizzard Activision, Valve and Riot Games rather than EA & Ubisoft?
Riot is owned by Tencent so it's in a whole different ball game. Valve I'd argue is barely even a games company any more, it's just Steam printing money for them.
Blizzard does still make money but god knows how, WoW has been their lifeline for a decade now
Net income US$1.503 billion (2019)
Don't under estimate the amount of dosh EA and Ubisoft pull in. But they were just examples.
EANet income US$1.04 billion (2018)
Ubisoft
Net income $1.587 billion(2016)
OG was worse than where it ended up but surely no one can think the OG PS3 was anything but a pig. Xbox 360 Slim was the best:
PS3 slim was an improvement on the PS3 launch console but still...