thismeintiel said:
Soundwave said:
MS and Sony are on the same side of the coin on this.
It will take 2-3 years before you start seeing PS5-only games because developers are going to want to keep supporting these "mid-gen" consoles, and I can't blame them because those new consoles will be starting from 0, whereas these machines (Scoprio/PS4 Pro) will have userbases of tens of millions by say 2019.
You're going to end up though in a cycle where effectively not many games are made for any specific hardware ... they have to work on multiple different spec points ... which is a direct betrayl of the original "console generation" concept wherein one game is made specifically for that specific generation of hardware.
We already saw this with the PS3-PS4 and X360-XBOne transition, it will be far worse next time because of this, and that is in effect blurring the generation lines.
Microsoft isn't doing anything Sony isn't, they're just making a better piece of hardware and taking a bit more time, but they're both doing the same thing.
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Lol, you're describing every gen ever. Devs and pubs always support the previous gen. Now, if they make it where you can buy one disc and play it on a PS4 or PS5, you'd have a point, but I highly doubt that's happening. Sorry, MS has no say over what Nintendo and Sony do.
And BTW, Nintendo has been doing mid-gen refreshes on their handhelds since the beginning, so where has this BS generationless talk been? Oh right, it's only a thing cause MS wants to push it. Doesn't work that way.
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Not really. I don't recall a lot of cross gen NES/SNES games or PS1/PS2 games or PS2/PS3 games or XBox/XBox 360 ... those are defined generations, now we are basically going away from that towards developers being forced to make the same game with like 3/4/5 different performance settings. These are basically just PC boxes now, subsidized and sold at cost by Sony/MS with a handful of exclusives and that's it.
