John2290 said:
You're missing out. It's the forefront of gaming at the moment in the same way PC was in the 90's and 00's. The bar for quality is sky high in every aspect of gaming making and they keep one upping themselves. Can't understand how anyone would not be interested in at least one title PS4 has or has in the works...i mean death stranding...daym.
Also, as a PC gamer how can you not be interested in Xbox? They are basically building their games for both platforms and the quality should be raised now with the new studios.
By nintnedo effing themselves over I mean they started the switch strong but keep making stupid decisions like falling of on store curation, not helping third parties make price parity with other systems by taking a hit themselves until they have a footing of third party titles, killing the virtual console in favour of a weak ass subscription online service, continuing to not support lets players for free publicity, keeping their saves locked to cloud to sell the online,a focus to mobile shovelware on the switch obviously attempting an android like digital space but failing..eh. The list goes on and on.
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Missing out?. How can I miss out on something I have no interest in?.
I find the "missing out" part as a highly subjective one, rather than the people saying it thinking it is objective.
I don't really see it as being the forefront of all gaming. We have many different markets, each that please and marvel different audiences, all at the same time.
Their bar is how they set it. The bar I set is asking for more, and so far it has yet to be met (if it ever will be in this lifetime).
I dunno, but there are 7b+ of us on this planet, and well, all 7b+ of us all don't have a PS4, so it's not really a thing for everyone, the same way it sin't for MS or Nintendo and even PC and mobile. I know 56 people at work that I talkm to daily, who aren't interested in the PS4, let alone other systems. 4 of them are far younger than me and are more interested in going out, dating, going to Uni etc. The other two are about my age, one of them games on PC, the other games on Xbox. There is one colleague though, she bought her son a Switch, and she does know Nintendo a fair bit (she's an oldie gamer from the Pong days), that she is interested in playing the Switch, as she had previous owned a 3DS.
Two mates of mine in the next town over own a PS4, but they only bought them for MHW and FFXV. They primarily game on PC, and already own XV on PC, with MHW going towards their future wish list on Steam. Both of them own a Switch like me, but they use theirs far less than I use mine.
Death Stranding looks alright, but I've seen Kojima's work before and the man in general has become more of a Tony Stark (the show off kind), which has put me off his work over time. Also I really do appreciate the visuals of Endor on Battlefront 1-2, just like CGI does. I think third party publishers can make great games. They just have to not resort to petty schemes if they want to win me over.
It's simple, because I'm not interested in their eco-system. I don't care for XBL, nor do I ever want to pay for it. I don't care for GWG, because I have access to multiple storefronts that both give me free games and allow me to greatly reduce the prices of new upcoming ones. I don't like the Win 10 storefront at all, let alone how it operates and how it stifles the modding scene on their end.
I don't see any reason to buy their console, when I have already invested a chunk of my money into something I wanted for years, which was a good PC and monitor. Quality is subjective, and it can be raised and lowered at any point in time. Just because they bought up these studios, doesn't automatically mean they will be multi billion dollar sellers, or billion dollar premium cream of the crop quality. I'm also aware that they will be speccing for what the console that they market can handle, rather than people who use the PC. Yes they also need to spec for those low end PC gamers, but there is a point that CGI brought up in another thread, and it is that high end hw is not really being properly utilized.The more under utilized my hardware is with their games, the less likely I am to want to buy from them.
You see people asking about pro and X1 support over the net right?. That's basically me asking "can you make use of my 1080ti and i7-6700k please?". ESO online uses 2 CPU cores, and as a result, it runs like arse on higher end GPU's. CPU speed is basically the saving grace, but not everyone is going to want to PC their CPU just for that MMO, which should have aimed at supporting more than 2 cores.
What I'd want to see from MS and these newly acquired studios, is them aiming for both the spec of the X1 (which will eventually be the lowest end system in time with a PC anyway) and a high end PC, rather than just base X1, slightly something for X1X, base support for low end PC hw and then nothing for high end. If both game versions look so identical, that shadows and draw distance are all that separates them, then clearly the high end hw is not being utilized fully, and as a result it becomes a waste for some people.
Nintendo are highly likely to get their curation under way, far faster than Valve will with Valve time. Not sure what price parity has to do with third party and competition. We just saw yet another game and DLC from Ubisoft, that shows a third party working with Nintendo. They are making deals and gaining fast support from third parties now than they have done in the past (when they didn't force it with an iron fist). Their weak ass sub service is honestly just emulating what the other two were doing. Charging for online and locking content and access behind it. There was a time when Nintendo and Sony didn't charge for online.
Nintendo doesn't support LP's, but neither does Atlus and to a degree Arc sys. Quite a few Japanese companies dislike user broadcaster media, because they cannot control it, let alone how it flows.
Nintendo still put a focus on their Switch userabase, as well as mobile. They give their IP's to someone that can make something the mobile market and it's users will play.
The cloud saves is about the one thing that cannot be excused or forgotten, but I don't see Nintendo being worse or screwing themselves over.