During AMD's CES press conference, Xbox Division head Phil Spencer joined the graphics giant's CEO Lisa Su on stage to talk about the partnership between the two companies.
As PlayStation announces its new strategy to encourage PC users to choose PS5 it is a bitter-sweet moment for PC gamers.
I mean, it's a business based on hardware market. Do we expect them to not even try? It's not like Nintendo doesn't do the same by not putting any games on PC and Microsoft until recently did the same. I don't care what they attempt, as long as they don't abuse the community or lie about their goals/requirements.
Will it work? Not likely. Should we care? No. Let them waste their time, it doesn't affect anything.
I wish them the best of luck.
But PC players are often a patient bunch, many will even wait for Epic launcher exclusivity to end until a game comes to Steam.
If they didnt buy the console when its games were exclusive, why would they do it now theyre not?
PC gamers are just too patient and loyal to their gaming set ups, something they've spent a lot of money on to perfect. They have backlogs of games which many never get round to finishing or get round to at all and will always have other multiplatform releases to keep them going.
Over the many years Sony has published so many awesome titles such as The Last of Us, Uncharted, Heavenly Sword, Infamous, Killzone, LittleBigPlanet, Dreams, Puppeteer, Resistance, Heavy Rain, Gran Turismo, Motor Storm, God of War, Horizon, Ratchet and Clank, Spiderman, Ghost of Tsushima, Bloodborne
If none of those games BEFORE all these PC ports convinced a hardcore PC gamer to get a PS5 console then why on Earth would porting them them to PC now make any difference? All PC gamers now know 100% is that they just have to be patient, which they are good at anyway to get a PS5 game 2 years later.
I get GaaS games or multiplayer focused titles but if people really want to play these games they'd have gotten a PS console years ago.
Who cares? Then just stay on PC and play the waiting game. No big deal. Sony wins in the end anyway.
I mean if there's any single player Sony games that I actually want that aren't on PC then I would buy said console to play them on. But the ones that I like that aren't on PC are few and far between anyway so no loss for me.
If I game, it's usually multiplayer titles, otherwise I like playing around with some other software.
This looks fun and affordable for fans of Retro Cabinet games.
Introducing Evercade Alpha, the first Evercade-compatible arcade machine. This bartop-sized arcade gives you everything you want in a home arcade machine with one big feature - full compatibility with the Evercade cartridge ecosystem.
I like the Mega Man one more as it has a better variety of games. Strider, Carrier Airwing, Final fight... The other is all SF. Plus i like that i can pop in any of my evercade carts to play as well.
During Sony’s recent business segment meeting and investor presentation regarding its game and network services, the PlayStation company revealed that PlayStation 5 is the company’s “most profitable generation to-date.”
It’s the top slide of the presentation, showing that in its first four years, the PS5 generation has already hit $106 billion in sales, having almost caught up to the PS4’s total $107 billion generated.
Operating income for the PS5 generation has also already surpassed that of the PS4, having now reached $10 billion.
I wouldn't doubt it. They released a high quality system. A lot of high quality games from themselves and their support of 3rd party developers and indies. They released many high quality remakes and remasters. They released a high quality GaaS game going against the naysayers thinking Sony would abandon single player games. And they most likely are profiting a lot more than PS1, PS2 PS4 and the loss leading PS3 that drained all their profits.
Now, I'll wait to see what's cooking tomorrow. But can you use some of those profits to better support your high quality VR headset? Because, by supporting it, you can sell more games and more systems and make more profits?
This will surely shut up all the new trolling accounts trying to spread lies and non facts in other articles comment sections before this article is posted.
Wow! I am super impressed that in just 4 years, ps5 already caught up to the PS4's. Congratulations.
could this mean the next xbox would be using the newly announced 3rd gen ryzen and vega VII (or a derivative of those)?
And not a single eyebrow was raised lol. Consoles like single System on a Chip designs. APUs, as it were. AMD can provide that while no one else really can. Intel had that interesting partnership with AMD for better performing integrated graphics on laptops and NUCs, but that seems to have already disappeared. Nvidia has Tegra, but they don't really have any high end, high TDP variants with strong CPU IPCs. So it was pretty much a given we'd see AMD powering both consoles next gen.
We at least got some leaks to indicate Sony has been working closely with AMD for a higher end APU with AMDs newer technologies baked in. Not sure if that means those specific tweaks will be exclusive to Sony, but it'll be interesting to see how different these machines are next gen, and how powerful an APU can actually be created.
I'd love for one of the console makers to come out with a console that's as powerful as like an enthusiast PC from 2 years before they launch (i.e. a rig from 2018, if they launch in 2020). It'd be amazing to see what they could create with more power from the get go, and to allow that base model to last even longer through the generation.
Nvidia is too expensive but I hope Sony return back to Nvidia just so the PS5 won't be a Sony version of the Nextbox. The PS4 and Xbox One are too similar. The PS3, however, was unique in comparison to the Xbox 360, there was a reason to get a PS3 and it was more powerful and full of innovation. PS4? It's a slightly more powerful Xbox One, that's all. The SNES wasn't like the Genesis, it was unique. You have to differentiate yourself, otherwise Sony and Microsoft might as well team up to make a single console rather than make us buy the same console twice.
I sort of hope we see one of those Intel/AMD chips that we seen go into the Intel NUC's early last year. Intel CPU AMD GPU. Might raise the cost of the PS5/Nextbox but might be worth it.
But I would be happy with see next gen consoles have a APU based on Zen and Vega.
Another AMD box seems about right. Just make sure that you don't put a mobile cpu in it.