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Hardstuck-Platinum on 17 August 2025
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EricHiggin said:
Hardstuck-Platinum said:

I disagree with this. GTA5 was designed on consoles with very extreme bottlenecks as the PS3 literally had about 180mb of usable System Ram and only 256 VRAM. Difference between that and PS5 is extreme with 14GB usable unified RAM. The impact that would have on a games development would be completely transformative. If you saying you can make another game comparable to GTA5 and that would be enough, you're saying that you could design the game on PS3 again and still have it be a massive success? 

With regards to the rest, I don't really feel the need to comment about Sony anymore. They're so so far ahead of the competition is doesn't matter what they do with any future decisions. They could literally close all their first party studios now and it wouldn't matter. MS has brought over about 8 games this year and you've also got all the other publishers too. 

I mean create another overall experience not that much different than GTAV. How it's accomplished behind the scenes, most gamers won't know or care. The presentation is what I'm talking about. Slight graphical improvements, bigger and or more densely populated map to some degree, some more interaction with NPC's, buildings, etc. It would work and make a profit if it just had another decent campaign and online. It wouldn't profit anywhere near what GTAVI will though.

Can PS create guaranteed AAA or AAAA behemoths and get away with only launching them once every 5-10 years or more?

Yes, SNY will be fine in general, and without XB, maintaining what they have won't be too difficult, but the growth they want isn't going to come if they don't get these things ironed out.

I'm not sure. Look at Saints row 2022. It had a budget of 100M and even though everyone was dog-piling it and calling it a bad game, it actually wasn't that bad. I played through the whole campaign and enjoyed it and didn't really understand all the hate it got. 100M budget, a solid game and it got mocked and ridiculed and it failed. You could argue that it was the record breaking budget and success of GTA5 that just made it look bad, which comes back to budgets being about competition and not hardware.