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Kyuu 1 day ago
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KratosLives said:
Kyuu said:

Capcom:

RE2R, RE4R, RE7, RE8, MHW, MHR, Iceborne, Sunbreak, SF5, SF6, DMC5. (Maybe I should mention RE3R too, since it sold over 10 million despite being mediocre).

SquareEnix:

FF7R, FF14 and expansions (only ARR and Heavensward were crossgen with PS3), DQ11, NieR Automata, TWEWY Neo, FF15, KH3.

From Software:

Bloodborne, Dark Souls 3, Sekiro, Elden Ring, Armored Core 6.

Atlus:

Persona 5 (crossgen), P5R, SMT5V, Metaphor.

It's the standard opinion that Japanese developers struggled in the transition to HD, and "made a comeback" on PS4. If you think they were better on PS3, it's fine and you're entitled to your opinion. But saying there weren't as many highly regarded Japanese games on PS4 is delusional and goes against the consensus.

The best Japanese games in the PS3 era were spread out across multiple consoles and handhelds. PS3 by itself wasn't that good. One PS3 highlight though was that Platinum Games made 3 great games on it (including a terrible port made externally) vs just NieR Automata on PS4. Platinum prioritised Nintendo's platforms after PS3.

I never said there weren't as many as good japanese , i said of all the releases japanese, there was alot of slop  between.  Japanese probably did releases more better  games, because some were hit and miss with the fans,  but thats hard to say, because there were alot of single player classics that weren't a franchise  and offered and didn't get sequels on ps3

But as i mentioned and will say again, if you include western exclusives, it definitely puts ps3 over. 

I mean that's subjective, but PS4 sold more than twice as much software as PS3. It's the only console to have surpassed 2 billion (without factoring in f2p and PS+ which are even bigger today than traditional games).

If you're going to argue that western games were better during PS3 days as some sort of undeniable truth (using metrics like critical reception), then the same can easily be said about Japanese games favoring PS4 and to a greater extent.

Console western gaming peaked in the PS3 era from my experience, but as a Japanese game fan it's just not enough to put it ahead of PS4 overall. To say nothing of visuals and performance...

SvennoJ said:
Kyuu said:

PS3's OS is quite slow when connected to the internet and playing a game. It was fine/smooth offline from what I recall.

Yeah it's quite fast now when using it for CD/DVD/Blu-Ray/stored media. Accessing the pop up UI from in a game or the store was terrible.

Was it WiiU with the half hour+ first time on patch? Was the worst unboxing experience.

I never experienced the Wii lineage! But if the Wii U really was slower than in-game/online PS3 as some are implying, then I'm semi glad to have never experienced it. And as a sucker for small controllers (Dualshock 1-3), just looking at that goddamned gamepad gives me anxiety 🥶