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SuperNova on 04 September 2018
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twintail said:
Bofferbrauer2 said:

I meant to say that because of PS Now, Sony doesn't feel any reason to include BC into the PS5. I mean, why allow that feature when you can rent out the games again? You might be able to play PS1-4 games on the PS5, but probably only through such a subscription service and your discs at home will be useless. I just hope they'll do it better than PS Now is right now (streams from a PS3 somewhere in the world if one is available (if not, no gaming at all!) with terrible lag and PS2 visuals due to crappy compression), because that's even worse than GFWL was during it's heyday.

Because keeping current PSN accounts future proof pretty much secures the future of Playstation going into next gen, something PSNow is not going to do going into PS5. Plus everything I said in my previous post.

You are right though that PSNow has to become better. But its not a replacement for an actual account system which is infinitely more valuable as of now in terms of generating profits and selling PS5s.

Zkuq said:

I don't particularly like anyone spinning things like that. In this case though, it's also trying to hide the real reason, which makes it especially despicable in my eyes.

I think its hilarious you are this offended by PR, but it is what it is  suppose.

SuperNova said:

I get the meta reason behind their decision. But that's not what he said. What he said is that opening fortnight crossplay would open PS up to an inferior experience, when in reality the experience on Xbox is identical or better depending wich system the player has and the Switch one is definitely way superior to the iOS one, wich is already cross-compatible with PS4.

I was just calling him out on his bullshitting. If he had straight up said:'We've made this anti-consumer decision to lock as many customers into our eco-system as possible', I'd still have a bit of a problem with the underlying mentality, but not the statement itself. As is it's just blatantly false and unneccessarily arrogant.

You are not wrong about the equality of the experience, but its rather strange issue to have a problem with. the Sony CEO says that PS4 is the best experience. So what? What do you think he is going to say? "yeah, we make the PS4... but actually, I think you must play Fortnite on the X1 because its a better console". I mean, lets be honest: him saying his companies device offers the best experience is what everyone for every company says. You think Apple goes out of there way to prop up the competition? Does BMW say Mecedes makes better cars? You just gonna call every company in existence arrogant because they promote their own products as superior?

At the end of the day, he is new to the role of Sony CEO: any decisions regarding the Playstation division and their stance on Fortnite has like nothing to do with him, unless evidence suggests otherwise. So of course he is going to give a generic "PS4 is the best place to play games". its such a weird thing to be offended by.

Context is everything here. It wasn't just a generic 'We believe PS4 is best place to play games' promotion, it was an answer to a specific question. And his answer as to why they wont allow cross-play with other consoles was that it would 'compromise the experience', wich is blatantly untrue. In this context (locking accounts into the PS ecosystem, preventing not just cross-play, but any play on other consoles with that account) it comes off as arrogant bs.

And yes, I have a problem with any company that resorts to blatant lies to justify their anti-consumer decisions. Just look at Apples anti-repair bs. Liking a company for their products, like I do both Apple and Sony, does not mean they are immune to me criticizing them when they fuck up. Sony is fucking up with this imo. It's simple, really.

Also, I'm not offended. Not sure were you got that from?