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curl-6 on 12 September 2024
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Zippy6 said:
curl-6 said:

I mean, I think it would be a valid opinion to say both PS5 and Xbox Series have yet to justify themselves as a new console generation when most games are still coming out on hardware from 2013.

Nah that's silly. a GTX 670 4gb can still run basically every game, that doesn't mean any GPU after it doesn't justify it's existence and we should all still be gaming on mechanical HDD's, 4th gen I5's and GPU's from 12 years ago.

But even if you were to only look at games that aren't playable on PS4, and ignore everything else, you'd still be silly to say the PS5 doesn't justify itself over the PS4. Some of the biggest sales hits this year (Helldivers 2, Black Myth, College Football) aren't on last-gen.

Alan Wake 2, Astro Bot, Avatar, Baldurs Gate 3, Black Myth Wukong, Cyberpunk Phantom Liberty, Dead Space, Deathloop, Demon's Souls, Dragons Dogma 2, EA Sports College Football, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Ghost Wire Tokyo, Helldivers 2, Hi-Fi Rush, Lies of P, Plague Tale Reguiem, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, Returnal, Rise of the Ronin, Spiderman 2, Stellar Blade, Tekken 8, Warhammer 40k Space Marine 2. All big games that aren't on PS4 and that's just to name a few. How many big games do you need to justify yourself?

And soon AC Shadows, Dragon Age Veilguard... basically all of the biggest games this year except CoD aren't on PS4, including the two highest rated games of the year on Metacritic.

It's getting better, it's just that in previous generations you could make a list like this in the first two years instead of nearly four.

Mind you, I didn't have a PS4, so it's not a problem for me personally. But I can see why a lot of folks are disappointed; I'm primarily a Nintendo gamer and if major Switch 2 games in 2029 were still coming out on Switch 1 I'd be annoyed.