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Soundwave on 12 June 2024
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zeldaring said:
Soundwave said:

There's not that many PS5/XSX exclusives to begin with because developers don't want to pay the premium to begin with. Like even Sony has like only a small handful of PS5 only games and that says something when even Sony is hesitant to go all in on this gen. That list is not just one or two cherry picked examples, that is a very accurate listing of major 3rd party releases made for this gen that rely heavily on "next-gen graphics!" as the sales pitch. No less than 9 examples there. Alan Wake II with GOTY nods, Nvidia marketing, great reviews shouldn't be on its knees slowly crawling to even turning a profit, of course in public they will put on a happy face about it, but if graphics were some massive priority to a large portion of the audience, this game should have significantly better sales. 

4 million LTD doesn't cut it when your budget is in the range of 80 million dollars. 

Just cause something is not exclusive doesn't mean it's not pushing the hardware lol. For example COD MW3 is using the hardware and looks great its like saying Doom is a last gen game cause it ran on switch, and we established a million times already graphics is just part of the package it helps advertise the game. like look at the new doom its looks amazing do you think if it looked like eternal it would get the same reaction. wilds is also already pushing the  consoles to their  limits. you still over here picking cherry picking the same games that many don't even look better then cross gen games.

If graphics is such a priority to a wide part of the market, surely people would want software that showcases next-gen graphics and shows off their hardware. The fact people are content to keep playing last gen games even after buying new hardware says a lot. People are good even with last generation graphics even for "big ticket 3rd party releases" almost 5 years into a successor generation. 

You can hand wave that all you want and make as many excuses for it as you want, but it is a significant difference from previous generations. And this trend is going to get worse not better, next generation's "cross gen" period is going to be even longer and more pronounced with probably some significant devs not even ever making any real "next-gen" games and just staying in the cross-gen comfort zone. 

The days of NES to Super NES/Genesis, SNES to Playstation/N64, PS1/N64 to PS2/GCN/XBox, PS2/XBox to PS3/360 type generational leaps are over. The PS4 was probably the swan song for that. People still upgrade their hardware but the reasons are different and more nuanced and more like people who upgrade their smartphones.

Last edited by Soundwave - on 12 June 2024