Sony hate thread

[Markorian]

It's really sad compared to the Switch 2 exclusive list, where even when where even when discounting Nintendo's own games and the paid upgrades for old switch games in terms of both the standalone ones and the one with the jewed content, developers are still flocking to making games only for it with 18 games purely made by third party devs compared to the PS5's 8 without counting games funded by Sony or Wikipedia's extended list of "unimportant" indie or shovelware games

Nintendo shouldn't be having that much success with successor consoles netting third parties compared to Sony and yet because of incompetence, it's.the case.

In the effort of being fair, I'll do this one too for comparison. Keep in mind, switch 2 just turned a year old, ps5 about to enter its 7th year on the market.
Out of 38 listed, 8 are not exclusive. A further 7 are unreleased, though all but 2 are confirmed to come out by the end of the year, most by September. That leaves 23, almost as much as the ps5 list before anything was trimmed. 16 of them, while some have their fans, are very minor releases, and I think even fans of something like fast fusion, which I have heard good things about, would agree is far from a system seller.
That leaves 7 unambiguous major exclusives out in a single year, maybe not exceptional looking at consoles from several decades ago, but grading on the curve of modern systems, a borderline miracle, with 5 more on the way by the holiday season. There was also a new metroid game leaked thanks to the brazilian huehue ratings board, and if it's already going out for ratings, there's a good chance it'll be announced soon and be out this year.

 

[TheHarbinger]

One more thing is that the whole disc business has simply stagnated. We went from 700MB -> 8.5GB -> 50GB and that was in 2008ish? And the read speeds for Blu-rays are atrocious by today's standards (I think the highest blu-ray movie bitrate is about 130Mb so around 10MB/s). So even if the will was there, as far as I know modern AAA slop is double or close to triple that. If the optical disc format were to remain viable we'd need another format yesterday

There were optical discs in development that went up to 1TB at SONY. These companies could also sell 2TB drives with games pre-installed on them that plug directly into an expansion slot on your console or PC. Just like a cartridge. But they want the DRM laded always online and cloud based gaming in the future. Where you are tethered to your internet connection and need a smartphone for 2FA every time you launch a game.