| Cerebralbore101 said: If Sony wants to go full on 3rd party, then they should just release their games on PC day 1, and be done with it. They way they are going about it now is a slap in the face to both PC and PS5 users. It used to be that you would buy a console knowing that it's worth it, because all the exclusives would stay exclusive for the entire generation. But now that we know Sony is planning on releasing their exclusive content to PC, buying a PS5 isn't worth it. Now, the obvious solution to this is to just stick to PC gaming. After all, only a fool would buy a console that lacks exclusive content, or a functionality that sets it apart from a PC (Switch's portability for example). But Sony wants to go ahead and charge nearly full price for their three year old games on PC (See Horizon Zero Dawn's $50 price tag). Well, I'm not going to pay full price for a digital version of a three year old game. Sure, I've payed $60 double dipping on Bayo 2, and Tropical Freeze. But I already had the Wii U versions of those games, which I sold to cover 1/3rd of the $60 price tag. Also those are physical games, that go into my collection and have a monetary worth to them. Digital games have no real world monetary value. So I guess, I'll just be throwing Sony's games on my Steam wishlist, and then playing the ultra-long waiting game for them to be discounted at $50% off. Anything else is just giving in to their greed. |
Welcome to the club Brother!
Waiting for games until they are 80-90% off just makes total sense; although, I do understand the younger gamer's mindset in wanting everything ASAP. Can't blame them, as we are all trained to be very good thoughtless consumers since we were young. I pick up $5 to $10 games on GOG and Steam every so often and never spend more than $20 dollars a month. If no game interesting me that month, I loose those $20 dollars (it happens). It has saved me hundreds, if not thousands dollars over the years, and I still have a huge back-log of games that I have yet to play, let alone finish.
But... I am still pre-ordering the ps5 (If I am allowed) because I have this funny feeling the USD will not be worth very much soon the way the FED has been printing money for the past few years. I might as well get it now that they accept my currency for foreign made products, Plus I need to play the huge back-log of PS4 games I have that I bought for cheap in Playstation sales events. I don't own a PS4, I gave it to my cousins who live outside the USA, and I am not buying a PS4 Pro; that thing is stupid loud.
Mind you I own a decent 1700x/1060GTX/16GBDDR4/NVMe custom self-assembled PC, and I would still will prefer to buy a $500-600 PS5 to upgrading my video card. The console is just a better consumer decision than buying a video card for the foreseeable future. The Ray-Tracing Hype is pushing prices to crazy levels, and my Anti-Hype Shield is holding strong for that shit, until we know which way Ray-tracing method will be truly implement on future games, it's best just to watch the fireworks from a far, and have a good laugh.
Anyway, I digress and would like to congratulate you for leveling up your "Anti-Hype Shield" for every piece of media that comes out. It comes in very handy in real life.
As for not wanting to let Sony make more money of old media, I just think that's selfish. They should totally try to get a much as possible from old software to invest in new hardware and software.
Cheers!
