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[Vaquilla]

Even back in the 90s the N64 had games like Turok and RE2, mature rated games on Nintendo is nothing remotely new

 

[GymWolf]

“Underpowered piece of crap?” Relative to what? We haven’t seen enough of what the system can do to offer such an effective statement. How can you speak so absolute without seeing ONE game of note?


Specs have not mattered in over a generation. And anyone saying different is in on a Ponzi scheme.

It's a fucking tablet that need to have at least a decent battery life.
If you don't think a tablet is severely underpowered compared to an home console then i have a bridge to sell you.

 

[GigaBowser]

It's a fucking tablet that need to have at least a decent battery life.
If you don't think a tablet is severely underpowered compared to an home console then i have a bridge to sell you.

buuut you can play portable on fat ass like me gonna bee better performence then steam deck dlss and all games optermized ms annnnd sony want portable for the futures not everyone want consoles no more 150 million sales

 

[VolticArchangel]

I would be surprised if the Switch 2 version launched later than the PS5 and Xbox Series release.

They would want a simultaneous launch.

 

[GymWolf]

buuut you can play portable on fat ass like me gonna bee better performence then steam deck dlss and all games optermized ms annnnd sony want portable for the futures not everyone want consoles no more 150 million sales

The performance gain is gonna be miserable, you still have to deal with mobile tablet cpu\gpu.

 

[Team Andromeda]

I remember reading all this crap with the N64.

Overlooking how the Switch 2 will barely run it, I imagine storage will be the bigger issue. I bet GTA 6 will be a 200 GB monster

 

[Grizzled Ghost]

I remember reading all this crap with the N64.

Overlooking how the Switch 2 will barely run it, I imagine storage will be the bigger issue. I bet GTA 6 will be a 200 GB monster

Switch 2 is rumored to have 250gb of internal storage, plus expandable. Even the OG Switch could take a 2tb storage card, if you could find one.

 

[Soapbox Killer]

It's a fucking tablet that need to have at least a decent battery life.
If you don't think a tablet is severely underpowered compared to an home console then i have a bridge to sell you.

The mistake I believe you are making is using the current generation of consoles as a baseline. The PS5 is a great device but (again) the real world improvements over the PS4 while significant, are not a leap that I would consider a magnitude difference. Under powered at this point in today’s tech doesn’t translate in a 1:1 scenario unless there is some agenda involved.


In car speak. 1000 horsepower with 1100lbs of torque doesn’t mean it’s 2x better than a car with 500 horsepower and 520 pounds of torque. (Horsepower and torque are the CPU and GPU of cars)

 

[Grizzled Ghost]

The mistake I believe you are making is using the current generation of consoles as a baseline. The PS5 is a great device but (again) the real world improvements over the PS4 while significant, are not a leap that I would consider a magnitude difference. Under powered at this point in today’s tech doesn’t translate in a 1:1 scenario unless there is some agenda involved.


In car speak. 1000 horsepower with 1100lbs of torque doesn’t mean it’s 2x better than a car with 500 horsepower and 520 pounds of torque. (Horsepower and torque are the CPU and GPU of cars)

Yeah but all the cool new roads aren't restricted to the 1000hp car only.

 

[Soapbox Killer]

Yeah but all the cool new roads aren't restricted to the 1000hp car only.

The question then becomes how fast do you really need to get there? (Ok that doesn’t really make sense but you know what I mean)

 

[Woopah]

I can understand that perspective, but with the rapid decline in physical media and a race to provide everything in as an accessible way as possible to capture the most "engagements", that tide can turn quick.

For me PlayStation has always been a tech leader in the console space. Even during the 360 ear of dominance, PlayStation games were generally more impressive from a consumer and developer perspective for me.

I would have placed Ubisoft at the top of the 3rd party publisher mountain in 2021 and now, 4 years and many flops later, they will be lucky to sell off their company for what they consider a value (if they are even trying to do that).

If the last four years have shown us anything in this industry its how fast the tables can turn. I would not have guessed in 2022 that Microsoft would be the largest video game publisher in the world in 2025, but here we are even if the numbers don't quite support it...yet.

I want Sony to continue to focus on bringing console gamers the best home console experience possible for cutting edge hardware and satisfying game experiences. However, I look back at the last two years of my personal gaming and their console is at the bottom of my "most played list", with PC being first, and Switch coming in at #2. I don't rate Xbox hardware at all in this space as I stopped buying digital (and most physical) games on Xbox when Game pass ultimate was released, I started buying all their releases on Steam. 2024 would have been a bloodbath for Sony on my end if Stellar Blade and Astro had not released, hell even the PSVR2 gave it a bump for me in 2023/2024 and that platform is completely anemic when it comes to quality exclusive content.

For someone who spends an "amount" of their income on physical games and the hardware to paly said games, it is a bad look when I only replaced one of my PS5 slims with the PS5 Pro.

When the whales start dying out who is going to come to the rescue?

Having that as your personal opinion is completely fine, but we should also recognise that it's not held by the wider market.

PS owners are still actively using their console and the PS4 owners are upgrading to PS5 at a good rate and spending money on software at a good rate.

Sony has made some mistakes and things can indeed change, but right now they are in a very strong position.

Even then, I don't think it's a bad look that you own multiple PS5s.

 

[Miyazaki’s Slave]

Having that as your personal opinion is completely fine, but we should also recognise that it's not held by the wider market.

PS owners are still actively using their console and the PS4 owners are upgrading to PS5 at a good rate and spending money on software at a good rate.

Sony has made some mistakes and things can indeed change, but right now they are in a very strong position.

Even then, I don't think it's a bad look that you own multiple PS5s.

Yup, totally respect that my opinion isn’t held by the wider market. I was illustrating that even folks at my range of “engagement” are falling off on the console side of things. Maybe GTA6 will be able to drive increases in consoles purchases and the Switch 2 will most certainly help (ill have several) but if that can stem the tied of long term consumer erosion…only time will tell!

 

[Woopah]

Yup, totally respect that my opinion isn’t held by the wider market. I was illustrating that even folks at my range of “engagement” are falling off on the console side of things. Maybe GTA6 will be able to drive increases in consoles purchases and the Switch 2 will most certainly help (ill have several) but if that can stem the tied of long term consumer erosion…only time will tell!

The main consumer erosion is happening on the Xbox end.

Nintendo is on 129 million annual users and rising while PS is currently steady at 116 monthly active users (we'll see what the figure is in their upcoming financial report).

So not too much to worry about I don't think.