PS5 release date confirmed, holidays 2020 - And of course they're ripping off Nintendo again

[Syaoran Li]

Did Shigeru Miyamoto make fun of your dick or something? It's all in your head man.

I'm just not a fan of Nintendo's first-party IP's (Legend of Zelda being a noted exception) and before the Switch, Nintendo has had a reputation for poor third-party support.

The Switch has gotten a lot better selection of third-party titles compared to the Wii U but the Switch is often accused of being under-powered and I don't think it could properly handle something like Cyberpunk 2020, the Final Fantasy VII remake, or the next GTA game.

I don’t like Nintendo anymore it’s for babies I wanna play call of duty shoot a man.

Nothing wrong with Nintendo's games, but they're just not my cup of tea.

I'm not a fan of Call of Duty either. What is it with hardcore Nintendo fanboys assuming anyone who doesn't like their IP's is some kind of CoD-playing dudebro?

Graphics aren’t everything. Of course the switch can’t handle every new release ever.https://youtube.com/watch?v=Z_o6DxhslAI

I'm not a graphics hound either. But if I want to play something like the inevitable GTA VI or the rumored Bully 2 and it's not available for the Switch because Rockstar thinks its under-powered, I'll have to get it on a Sony console because PC gaming is fucking expensive.

Traditionally, the main draw of Nintendo consoles are their first-party IP's, and those aren't my cup of tea.

 

[Dededon't]

If you own a good gaming PC, Switch is the only console you will likely need. This day and age, more and more games are multiplat and available on PC either at launch or down the road. However, good gaming PCs are expensive so I can understand if people opt for a PS4/PS5/Xbone instead.

 

[GnomeofDoc]

I don't think Death Stranding is going to play like Disaster Report. They're both 3rd person adventure games but they have entirely different gameplay systems at work.

I may or may not have pre-ordered the Death-Stranding PS4 pro just because fuck Konami and because I love that crazy Japanese man Kojima.

 

[Syaoran Li]

If you own a good gaming PC, Switch is the only console you will likely need. This day and age, more and more games are multiplat and available on PC either at launch or down the road. However, good gaming PCs are expensive so I can understand if people opt for a PS4/PS5/Xbone instead.

Exactly.

Believe me, if I could afford a good gaming PC, I would go that route because I do not like Microsoft and Sony has soured me on their new censorship policies. The only Switch exclusive I'd really like to play is Breath of the Wild, although I am open to trying out the new Super Smash games.

 

[Product Intervention]

Exactly.

Believe me, if I could afford a good gaming PC, I would go that route because I do not like Microsoft and Sony has soured me on their new censorship policies. The only Switch exclusive I'd really like to play is Breath of the Wild, although I am open to trying out the new Super Smash games.

Now is probably a good time to start teaching yourself to save up. Consoles and PCs are easy peasy.

Cars, houses, and spouses are not.

 

[Jaimas]

Most people I know who have a PS4 didn't get one until a few years back, and the PS4 Pro isn't even three years old yet.

It's like nothing was learned from the Vita.

 

[MrTroll]

Exactly.

Believe me, if I could afford a good gaming PC, I would go that route because I do not like Microsoft and Sony has soured me on their new censorship policies. The only Switch exclusive I'd really like to play is Breath of the Wild, although I am open to trying out the new Super Smash games.

Now is probably a good time to start teaching yourself to save up. Consoles and PCs are easy peasy.

Cars, houses, and spouses are not.

PC gaming is only prohibitively expensive if you buy a pre-built machine. If you make your own, you could put together a good one on par with whatever the PS5's specs will be for maybe $700-800. Less if you buy the parts piecemeal on sale over time. That's only $300-400 more than the PS5 will probably cost, and you can make up the difference by pirac... err... Steam sales.

 

[Syaoran Li]

PC gaming is only prohibitively expensive if you buy a pre-built machine. If you make your own, you could put together a good one on par with whatever the PS5's specs will be for maybe $700-800. Less if you buy the parts piecemeal on sale over time. That's only $300-400 more than the PS5 will probably cost, and you can make up the difference by pirac... err... Steam sales.

Even with cost taken out of the equation, I'm not exactly tech-savvy, so I'm not sure how well building my own gaming PC will go.


It might be a worthy long-term goal though.

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

Even with cost taken out of the equation, I'm not exactly tech-savvy, so I'm not sure how well building my own gaming PC will go.

That's a fair thing to be worried about. I'm not the most tech-savvy person in the world either. However, there are some decent videos on YouTube that can teach you how to put one together, and from the looks of it, building a PC is a lot easier than it was 10-15 years ago (someone even referred to it as "Lego for adults").

I found this guy in particular to be super-informative.

Bit of a disclaimer, I haven't built one myself yet so take what I say with a grain of salt. However, I have done a lot of studying as to what parts I want and I am in the process of purchasing the parts individually (I find it's somewhat easier to buy a piece at a time so that your wallet isn't immediately depleted, and really the most expensive thing is going to be the graphics card).

 

[HeyYou]

Even with cost taken out of the equation, I'm not exactly tech-savvy, so I'm not sure how well building my own gaming PC will go.

It's extremely easy, I'm not even kidding. I built mine a few months ago, after years of being a Sony fanboy, and was panicking over mishandling the motherboard and connecting all the wires to the motherboard. I didn't have anyone to help me, but if you have even a small amount of common sense, watch a few videos on the basics of building a PC, and read the manuals for your specific parts instead of throwing them out like a dipshit, you won't have any issues. Then you play games that you used to play on consoles, realize that the experience is genuinely better, and go back to consoles for exclusives only.

The only downside with PCs is the fact that games do have problems running on different hardware sometimes, especially older games. If you can Google, though, most of these problems will be solved. And you have a much bigger library than the PS4, Xbone or Switch could even dream of.

building a PC is a lot easier than it was 10-15 years ago

It is. For example, CPUs have pins that need to line up with where you put it in the motherboard. They're very hard to break nowadays, but back in the day they were huge, it was very easy to break them and if you break even one the entire CPU is useless. There weren't easy video guides on how to build one, either.

 

[BananaSplit]

fricking SRW V has been released on Steam and I am enjoying it.

speaking of that, can you install and play it without a VPN? I know it's region-locked and using a VPN on Steam is technically a bannable offense although I've never heard such stories.

 

[Troutsmacked]

It all sounds well and good I guess but I'm way more of a PC gamer these days, and I remember when I got a PS4 at launch that was bought for me as a gift, I had to wait a whole year and a half before I could find anything to play on it.

I own every single PlayStation ever released, so I'll likely buy this one too someday, but unless they announce some amazing shit for their launch line up I'm not even going to think about buying one when it comes out.

Oh and that launch lineup thing isn't a jab specifically at Sony/PlayStation either. I've owned an Xbox One for almost as long (another gift) and I think I've played a whole three games with it, one of them being the original Red Dead Redemption so I'm not sure that really counts.

 

[MrTroll]

The only downside with PCs is the fact that games do have problems running on different hardware sometimes, especially older games. If you can Google, though, most of these problems will be solved. And you have a much bigger library than the PS4, Xbone or Switch could even dream of.

I've been pleasantly surprised by the ease with which the large majority of older PC games that I've tried have functioned on my Windows 7 machine. Every new version of Windows has a compatibility mode for older versions that can be enabled for individual software executables and that's usually enough for everything but the weird edge cases. Even for those there's usually some fan-made tweak or mod that can make it work anyway. And if you go back far enough you can just emulate DOS or really early Windows versions.

 

[Pissmaster]

I like the sounds of the Dualshock 5 having haptics in the triggers, but that so much sounds like one of those features that'll be used in a handful of launch games and dropped afterwards. Shieeet nigga, I have a disgusting amount of PS3 games, and I think I have less than five that used the Sixaxis motion controls. Heavy Rain, Twisted Metal, and... did Uncharted use them? I can't think of any more.

 

[Marissa Moira]

I like the sounds of the Dualshock 5 having haptics in the triggers, but that so much sounds like one of those features that'll be used in a handful of launch games and dropped afterwards. Shieeet nigga, I have a disgusting amount of PS3 games, and I think I have less than five that used the Sixaxis motion controls. Heavy Rain, Twisted Metal, and... did Uncharted use them? I can't think of any more.

The Sixaxis stuff was mostly used with menu navigation much like the touch pad for the PS4.

Really there isn't much you can improve on modern controllers outside of having everyone agree to put their X button in the same location.

The Haptic stuff more than likely will be used with stuff like Dreams or VR titles. The technology is really kinda limited when it comes to normal games outside of maybe having a door puzzle where you would have to stick your finger in runes and trace them to feel the friction or some shit.

 

[Pissmaster]

The Sixaxis stuff was mostly used with menu navigation much like the touch pad for the PS4.

Really there isn't much you can improve on modern controllers outside of having everyone agree to put their X button in the same location.

Yeah, though it's pretty ridiculous that the Switch didn't have a PS4-style touchpad on the Pro Controller in lieu of the touchscreen. The touchpad seems like such a smart move, and the Steam Controller's right-side touchpad is so much better than a right stick for shooters.

It's kind of remarkable how in 2001, both the new-at-the-time Gamecube and Xbox controllers introduced a right stick, even though hardly anything used it on the PS1. Let alone the introduction of L3 and R3, which didn't even get used much until the PlayStation 3. I didn't even realize they were buttons at first, I thought it was just a manufacturing defect that they clicked until I finally played a game that used them.

Well, I hope haptic triggers and touch pads are here to stay. It's weird to think about how you can go buy an Xbox One X today and get a controller that really doesn't do anything a 20-year-old Dualshock 1 couldn't. I think the only inputs an Xbone controller has that a Dualshock 1 didn't was a home button and analog triggers.

 

[huckbeine]

speaking of that, can you install and play it without a VPN? I know it's region-locked and using a VPN on Steam is technically a bannable offense although I've never heard such stories.

well, I live in a region that allows SRW V to be released. But as far as I am concerned, even with VPN you can't buy SRW V unless you have a payment processor that is situated in regions affected, mainly SEA, Anyway, I believe that there are people uses VPN to install DOAX VV and still haven't got banned.

 

[huckbeine]

One of the reasons Microsoft is so wary about console exclusives came from their acquisition of Rare. Considering most of the best games on N64 were made by Rare: Goldeneye, Perfect Dark. Donkey Kong 64, Banjo-Kazooie, Conker's Bad Fur Day. So Microsoft is thinking that Rare can work that same magic on their new console...so we get Kameo, Grabbed by the Ghoulies, Banjo-Kazooie Nuts and Bolts, Perfect Dark Zero. Flop after flop. In the end Rare was making the xbox avatar program and some kinect games; they even ended up selling Donkey Kong back to Nintendo.
Microsoft is scared of console exclusives because the ones they've tried either burn out (Scalebound) or get tired and overdone(Halo).

Microsoft's retardation came from Halo's success and overall downfall is from Halo 3's success.

The original xbox was basically Dreamcast 2.0, well not to mention because Sega worked with MS and Sega released games for Xbox.

with Xbox 360, they were kinda getting their feet. some developers fed up with Sony went to Xbox 360, like Cave, Sakaguchi, and many more, heck they could probably snatch up Mikami if they wanted to. And xbox 360 was starting to get really well rounded with games like Tales of Vesperia, BD/Lost Odessey, last remnant, cave shmups. heck in Japan, it was the de-facto the otaku console because it has all VNs, shmups, arcade ports, games like Im@s 2 and more.

But Halo 3 changed all that. with its massive success, MS focus shifted more and more to multiplayer. they started to lose their exclusives and they keep releasing more multiplayer focused games.

 

[Dr. Geronimo]

I bet those controllers are going to cost an arm and a leg, which is a real shame. While I play on PC most faggots in the fighting game community play sony exclusively because those gooks across the sea are assholes.

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

did Uncharted use them? I can't think of any more.

1 had them. You could use them to throw grenades but you could turn it off.

Actually I'm pretty sure you could turn them off in most games. Even Lair, the game that got lambasted for awful Sixaxis controls, eventually got a patch to just play with regular controls.