I already have a really nice 4k blu ray player. However I would be interested in the optical version of ps5 if the 4k blu ray player is well rated. I assume it will be. Also, buying physical media is very important. As you all know many groups of people have been trying to remove online content.
Too bad Sony has been enforcing firmware updates alongside certain game releases since the PS3. I really don't see the point in physical media. Content on disc is sometimes not even playable without a mandatory update to fix day one rush jobs. And when you buy one cent worth of post-release content, or download some of it for free.... similar situation.
If you really want offline play, a console is not even remotely the place to be since PS4, and physical media has no place in the discussion to begin with. If you truly want ownership, you store fully updated and feature complete content locally and play on a machine that is not a walled garden. The PC.
We as PC gamers. Does it matter who gets the money from game sales to us?
PC gamer has to pay full production costs + profit margins on PC parts then he has to pay game publisher + distributer (Valve/Epic etc.) to buy games from them unless he pirates them.
I'm OK with paying a bit extra for freedom PC is giving me, but as things stand right now PC's GPU equivalent to XBox X' GPU (aka 2080S) costs $200-300 more than complete XBox X package.
That's plain crazy. AMD/Intel/Ngreedia are pushing profit margins on DIY PC builds so high that DIY PC gaming builds might become a luxury only rich can afford.
I can definitely see the future where most of PC gamers migrate to streaming solutions and consoles because of pricing.
You can still play at 1080p/ultra with a card that costs less than 250 bucks. And that is pushing
60-120 fps, not 30.
You can have RT on the PC for a full year now at the price point of 300-350, too.
Yes, if you buy into a high end 4K target, its expensive. But who said that was the norm? Don't let all the smoke and mirrors misguide you. Gaming was never cheaper; the GPU stack now serves a much broader range of price points and configs. Only a few generations back even simple things like card VRAM capped at 1/4th of what they are now
in midrange (!) (2 > 8 GB went pretty fast). The mid range is overcrowded and the price is pretty healthy over there. That bar will be moved up with upcoming GPU releases, its just business as usual, perhaps with a little bit of Corona inflation.
You have to keep in mind that a native PC 1080p image is also
still a higher fidelity image than the console trickery that tries to fake it. The same thing will happen (and be further explored with render techniques) on the new consoles with higher resolution content.
Its really not all that crazy, we just want too much.
Used games market's given the notice, then? Funny, it wasn't that long since Sony was flaunting this as a selling point...
Teehee, we all know this was never a selling point for Sony. They've been wanting to destroy that market since the PS3 introduced downloading.
I wonder how many vendors will stock the discless version since they can't sell games, or are games going to be available on USB keys or something?
Physical game stores are dropping dead left and right.
I know, I was just messing with you.
In this day and age where people dislike Chrome for sharing data with Google, you can bet your ass I need it. With an ad blocker and NoScript on top.
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