Black Ops 6 is coming to PS4 and Xbone

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zeldaring said:

Soundwave said:

Why should Nintendo care about the death of traditional home consoles. That's Sony's problem (won't be MS' for too much longer). Sony is also in for a rude awakening if they think they are going to be the defacto PC storefront over Steam, good luck with that. That's all bad news for them. 

Another game I didn't mention is an obvious one ... GTAV is literally a PS3/360 game that's still selling 11 years later, two entire console generations later. 

Imagine like Tekken 2 from Playstation 1 being the 2nd or 3rd most popular game on the PS3/360 11 years later and two generations past, lol, it would be absurd to think about then, but this can happen now and will become more and more common because people don't care that much about the technology aspect in itself. You can take a PS3 era game, up the resolution a bit and it's good enough to sit next to modern games. This will get even worse with successive gens, PS4 games age even better than PS3-era games and so on and so forth. 

it's not just traditional home consoles. why would people upgrade hardware when they don't care about graphics. like when switch 3 comes out and it's ps5 level or better then every game should run on switch 2 lol, and especially in handheld gaming the graphics difference won't notable. it will be the death of al consolel hardware, or at the very least a very declining market.

People upgrade because basically they know their existing game ecosystem is tied to that platform and they're going to have to change over eventually. It's become like upgrading your phone, no one upgrades their phone and then starts going hysterical over the upgrades, they're subtle upgrades, a few quality of life features, but they don't really change how one uses the phone. 

The days of "OMG! IMMMA buy this Dreamcast becuz Soul Calibur arcade quality graphix or Ridge Racer on PS2 BLEW MY MIND" though is what's stuck in the past. That's 1990s/2000s era thinking, people don't think like that anymore, especially this new generation of younger kids. 

Case in point how many times did we hear "well people are just waiting for killer graphic titles on PS5/XSX to finally show off what the systems can do" ... and several of those games have come and gone ... and underperformed or flat out flopped. No one is buying games just for graphics. Even something like Starfield had a one of the largest budget's in the history of the industry, big marketing, from a big ticket studio, very nice graphics and what ... something like that underperformed and barely caused any kind of bump for XBox consoles, on Steam the player engagement was somewhat mediocre given the scale and hype behind the game. The equivalent of that game in the PS2 or PS3 era would've sold huge and sold systems, today it's not, because the market is quite different. 

This market, they're fine upgrading the hardware, but they'll just go right back to playing ... Fortnite on their PS5 and wait for whatever social media/Youtube influencers tells them is the next hot GaaS title is for the next little while (Helldivers 2 or that low budget Pokemon rip off or whatever). They're fixated on that, not "well this game is using Nanite on Unreal Engine 5" ... lol, most people don't even know what that means nor do they care if you explain it to them. 

PS4-era graphics frankly got too good. You can look at a PS4 game like Horizon Forbidden West and it doesn't take much to imagine what it would look like with borderline photorealistic graphics and it's just sorta like "ok whatever" at this point. It's not some huge gap and fundamentally I think people are understanding too that it's just a prettier version of what they're already used to and that just doesn't hold the same sway it once did.