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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (5 children)

A 700 dollar console with no games.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

There are a lot of great games for the PS, though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But it has ray tracing and 8k graphics or someshit. How amazing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

isn't it the graphical equivalent to an rtx2070 or something?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

That's already halfway through it's lifecycle

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

30fps! 💪😡

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago

Did people get bitchy on the internet when they released the PS One, the PS2 slim, 5 generations of PS3, or the PS4 Pro? Or the Xbox One X, Xbox 360 E, the Switch OLED, 2DS, DS lite, Gameboy Advance SP, Sega Genesis 2, Sega Genesis 3, Sega Saturn 2? I certainly don't remember this much discourse back then. It's like every gamer on the internet has collective amnesia about mid generation refreshes and how they have existed since the dawn of console gaming.

Just as always - it's probably not meant for you if you're perfectly happy with your base model.

And just like all those multitude of prior examples - no, they certainly will not release games that ONLY work on the mid cycle refresh device. Because that would be a really poor financial decision. And can you imagine the discourse if you had to buy a $700 console to replace your $500 console so you could play all the newest first party titles? On a device that has likely 4 years max before it is subplanted by the PS6? That would be a far more justified upset in my opinion.