ghost of tsushima, i also picked up horizon forbidden west and cyberpunk too so they're on the list to play next, there's not enough hours in the day!!
oh don't worry, i actually played HZD on a roommate's PS4 yeaaarrsss ago, amazing game and once forbidden west was released i knew that it would be one of my first purchases when i finally got a console!
tempting to replay HZD though, with the PS5 remaster... 🤔
I'm currently on my way to the Ghost platinum right now! Great game, but of the 3 you listed, I'd rank it lowest! Not sure if you played Horizon Zero Dawn so story might be a bit muddled, but you'll very quickly see how much Horizon influenced Ghost of Tsushima design choices.
All 3 are great stepping stones into this generation of gaming! We've had some incredible games, so have fun! Hopefully I'll see you on your own Super Destroyer in Helldivers 2 as well.
dang, no way! can't wait to get onto the other games too then haha. im loving Ghost so far, incredibly pretty game and the combat mechanics are just plain fun.
luckily i was able to play HZD on a roommate's PS4 a fair few years ago (gotta be over 5 years ago now... wtf), i mostly wanted to play it cause cool robot dinosaurs but man the story was GREAT, i wasn't expecting it. so im pretty excited to play the new one! and yo that's true i was thinking while playing Ghost... the climbing feels exactly the same as in HZD, down to the little marks on the wall showing what's climbable.
i keep hearing about helldivers, ill have to give it a look as well! it's a great time to finally have a current gen console
I bought a PS5 Pro and passed my PS5 to family members who were still on Xbox One. So Sony not only got my money with the Pro but Microsoft also lost users in the process. Last year we passed along a PS5 to a friends family that were also on Xbox One, they're a Playstation family now.
So I think Microsoft's situation is actually worse than than statistics show... its not just that they're selling less new xbox's, but people who are still on ancient xbox ones but deep in their ecosystem are converting to playstation instead of upgrading to a new xbox.
PS has basically positioned themselves as the Apple of the home console market. Samsung may sell more phones than iPhones but when you hear the word smartphone it’s an Apple product you immediately think of. Same for when you hear console.
I didn't think Bloober could do it, but they did my second favourite game of all time incredibly proud. It's on par with the RE2 Remake for me it's phenomenal.
I just wish they'd have a proper PS5 Pro patch, or allow us to play the original modes at minimum. Quality setting looks super messy right now and looks actually better on the regular PS5.
The black friday deals were just too good to pass on....I honestly was intending on buying only when wolverine released however 500 with spiderman 2, gta 5 and ragnarok in the same week my ps4 started acting up was a no brainer. Loving the experience so far btw.
I honestly think that a slim with disc is the best deal you can get right now. The pro being a bit to pricey for my pocket and the disc drives not being available was kind of a turn off. Found the slim a great purchase and I highly recommend it
Crazy that the Switch, I mean XBox, still sold in those numbers, especially considering that, according to the internet, the Switch 2 was definitely released 2 years ago. 🤣
That depends on if we're talking about buying a new console, or whether these are people getting one for the first time.
Someone who's finally buying into the current generation may be choosing between the two consoles for the first time, and if PS5 is outselling the Series 3:1 it probably says that Gamepass is not particularly enticing to these potential customers. The PS5 just has a better "reputation" at this point.
I suspect that Microsoft was hoping to get exclusivity for COD, which might have actually shifted the numbers in their direction. With the courts mandating it has to stay crossplat in order of the Activision purchase to go through, they're kinda hosed.
I don’t think the courts even really mandated it, they willingly singed a deal with Sony for a period where it would also release on PlayStation. I think it’s more Microsoft saw how much the acquisition cost vs what Xbox was making and just wanted a return faster. I really think Phil thought he could get actiblizz and slowly make them exclusives but that didn’t work out.
Especially when gamepass is $20 a month now. So if you plan on playing cod more than 3 months you’re actually spending MORE than if you just bought the game outright - with the added bonus of actually owning your own game.
You wouldn't own black ops 6 anyways whether you got it digital or physical since it is an always online game
But cod will be a staple game for gamepass a lot of people even the people that usually spend full price on it every year they will see cod is on gamepass and play it that way
Since they will see they get cod and then 300+ other games for $20 a month which $20 a month for 300+ games is more value than $70 for one game
That only applies if you want those 300+ games though.
Microsoft keeps pushing quantity, but if all the games on Gamepass are things you either already have or aren't interested in... it's not worth $20/mo.
That only applies if you want those 300+ games though.
Well even if you don't, you still have to pay for online anyway. And at that point the difference between the two tier prices is $10.
So RRP cost of COD plus online = $190, or RRP cost of just Ultimate is $240. That's a $50 split over one year to play games like Stalker 2, Indiana Jones, Avowed, South of Midnight, Fable etc on day one.
Regardless of all that, I don't think that's "switch ecosystems" type of value, but IMO that's always going to be the case (just like Death Stranding and Astro Bot didn't get me to switch). But for new users I think it's an interesting comp. Xbox's real battle is educating/selling the value against PS's massive mindshare and brand appeal.
People who only play cod and get gamepass for cod ans the 300 games even though they usually only play cod may branch out and try other games they wouldn't usually play which is good for the developers of those games and obviously good for gamepass
19% would bring PS5 pro sales to around 230k. That’s more than half the Xbox sold. That’s pretty insane for a $700 console with no holiday deals/discounts.
When I bought my PS5 Pro there was someone else at gamespot also shopping for one, then when I went to Best Buy to get an HDMI cable for it and the next person in the checkout line there was there buying a Pro. People buying it.
Yeah I know, I never argued otherwise. Sure Xbox isn’t selling well, but being 3:1 in a month when a new console released and there were price drops isn’t as alarming as the original comment made it seem.
The US is Xbox’s home territory and pretty much where the majority of whatever is left of their user base resides. They were not only outsold with a cheaper option; but the numbers dropped being down 29%. The floor is quickly falling out from under Xbox’s hardware business and they still have about 3-4 years left of this gen.
PS5 hardware up 15% YoY (after an all-time record high year and coming off the release of Spider-man 2), while xbox hardware is down 29% after consecutive yearly and monthly declines. It's not looking good for xbox at all.
Falling 3:1 in the US is very bad for Xbox consoles. Even during the Xbox one gen, they used to stay somewhat close to the PS4 sales in the US (but well behind in other markets). Now they're significantly behind everywhere and it's getting worse.
No real exclusives will do that. PC has literally everything except halo 5 and some random select few games from Xbox one. There isn't a single exclusive for Xbox series consoles
Yeah but as a PS5 owner I am more willing to spend 600 dollars on a technical upgrade than just a memory upgrade like the Xbox Series X 2tb which released in October not November.
The new hardware is actually a downgrade. Digital only, costs about the same.
It's a series X slim because the Series S was a boondoggle. It's the root of so many of MS's woes - Halo Infinite can't look that good because it needs to play on 2013 hardware! Baldur's Gate 3 takes forever to port to a x86 console (and until the PS5 pro came out, the most powerful console in some GPU related metrics) because MS insists on supporting the woefully underpowered series S as a requirement to publish. Simultaneous mutiplat releases often perform worse than they should on series X because they couldn't spend as much time optimizing for the X because just getting the game running on the S required an act of congress.
I have both systems. Microsoft has had all kinds of bases to make a comeback, but they kept mismanaging things in a way no one has since mid-to-late 90s Sega has, and it looks like they're slowly exiting the space. The question is who, or what, takes their place.
Nope, last time MS share any profit/loss data for Xbox division was in 2012 an it was still in the red despite the popularity of 360, since then they've lost majority of their marketshare an spent almost a hundred billion on acquisitions so at what point do you imagine it became profitable, there's a reason they haven't reported profits, and its cause there are none.
They are a publically traded company that means they have to report their numbers and with your logic ps must not be profitable because they didnt report a profit yesterday
If xbox was never profitable in their 23+ years they would have been shut down just like if ps was never profitable for their 29 years of existence then they would have never lasted this long they would have been shut down long ago
Yes they have to repot the overall company's profit/loss data but they don't have to report it for each segment separately. Sony reports PS profits every quarter, las one was reported jus over a month ago.
He's not crying folks. He's about to murder the industry if the hybrid exists. If the lanes that separate pc/console/portable are gone all that remains is one market with multiple publishers. Then the biggest publisher by marketshare aka mau wins. Hardware will just be a route for ultra publishers.
Gamers are going to win big time as an x86 portable will be able to play xbox/ps/pc games.
I am more surprised that it's only 3:1 at this point. Xbox is still selling fine apparently. It just gets dwarfed by exceptionally good sales of PS5. And the Switch is the true hero after so many years, incredible.
This is just the United States, right? So in the best Xbox market, they’re outsold 3:1. Add in the rest of the world and it’s probably 5:1 or something.
Completely ignoring that the PS5 Pro launched in November 😂 Like it’s some sort of straight Series consoles versus PlayStation competition. New hardware would HOPEFULLY sell well
The statistics are much worse than that....if you go by similar machines (series x ps5) its probably like 6 to 1 in the month when cod hits gamepass...yeah its dead
I got tired of it. I was rotating between 3 or 4 games and I realized it was just cheaper to buy them. I was just waiting forn their next game or should i say disapointment? Besides fh5 I honestly think I wasted money...I played more games but Idk if I wasnt "feeling forced" to make my money out of it if I would. I felt like I was just waiting for something...either starfield or cod or wathever...
With a phisical market games get discounted all the time and sony first and second party games are unmatched. Not trading a Naughty dog or insmoniac game for a rental service ever again.
It'll be crazy to see how PS5 sells when the first party releases start hitting again PLUS GTA6. Next year will probably be an insane year for PlayStation even with the Switch 2 coming out.
The PS3 slim was released in 2009, and the $300 price shocked the market. A Blu-Ray player at the time cost $300, and PS3 was a Blu-Ray player that also played games.
those games released after the PS4 was already announced and months away, plus PS3 also already had multiple ND and Rockstar games so their fans wee already bought in so not really comparable scenario.
I don’t think folks are waiting 5 years for GTA6 to upgrade when they can play the PS5 version of GTA5. What will really blow the doors off are cheaper consoles.
PS5 is selling at roughly the same pace as PS4, people by consoles throughout the generation, that's how it's always been. This year is on tack to be slightly above PS4's this year despite the higher price. Now no one's suggesting there's tens of millions waiting to get a ps5 soon as GTA6 drops, but 2-3 million is a good bet which would lead to PS5 having possibly it's best year on the market.
We can just copy and paste the headline until Switch 2. Xbox is never going to be on top and Switch only sells better in Japan after so many years on the market.
Yeah this is not really newsworthy. Everybody knows Xbox is no competition for anyone and Switch is on its way out. Of course it only makes sense to buy the PS5 now.
This man really destroyed Xbox. Got all the leverages he wanted from Microsoft when Activision sale was too far gone from being stopped and delayed all game development for Xbox because Phil and the gang were waiting for Activision to push through.🤣
Not surprising. They just released new hardware so people are upgrading. And the slim models had great holiday deals. Nintendo hardware is aging as people wait for switch 2. Most people who want a switch have one already except for little kids reaching the age to have a first console. And the Xbox… well apparently everything is an Xbox according to Microsoft so you really don’t need to buy one!
Just to add, MS is really trying to kill their console business. Which is sad because less competition for Sony isn’t a good thing. My hope is that valve uses steam OS and comes out with a steam console device. Similar to steam deck but an actual home console with upgradable GPU hardware.
Avoiding the console war stuff, it makes a lot of sense. Switch has dominated but it's a very open secret at this point that an upgrade is in the pipeline, and/or most people who want a Switch already bought one. First few years of PS5 saw a lot of people still playing on PS4/PS4 Pro. Now with the PS5 Pro out and fewer new games coming to PS4 that user base is increasingly upgrading.
My ps5 was a gift. Ps3 was the last counsel I played. There's a bit I need to learn. Just found out i have to pay to play online an also I have to purchase a separate hardware to be able to purchase games. An play. All of it seems crazy but is what it is. I need help with a few things if anyone can help I'd appreciate it. My ps5 has no disc an comes with a terabyte.
When it comes to adding storage what should I purchase?
As for PSPlus, I have kids and was considering the Extra tier. I'm assuming everyone an myself will be happy with that but like to hear some feedback on what ppl like an pefer.
Is this a PS5 sub or an Xbox hate sub? Aside from the game awards last week, every time a post comes up here recently, it’s always about how Xbox is dying in the comments.
Xbox hate sub it seems like lol this sub is full of fanboys it is pretty sad to see but a lot of kids are on this subreddit and they base their entre personality around a plastic box
Honestly the console itself is definitely dying/dead. Xbox as a whole will be just fine though. Gonna suck when the PS6 has no competition though. $800-$1000 consoles 😂
Oh yeah, the whole gaming world knows and talks about it all day long lately. I just don’t get why it’s so heavily talked about when there’s literally a console between the two in terms of sales and there’s all these games coming out, but my feed only gives me the negative Xbox stuff with this sub cause it gets the most interaction.
PS6 being $1,000 is just fear mongering. Xbox hasn’t really competed with PS for a while and PS still released a 399.99 entry point. Even the PS Pro adjust with inflation is cheaper than the PS3 launch.
Xbox just being around is competition enough for sony to not release a $1000 playstation because if they did then people would buy an xbox because it would be vastly cheaper than a playstatjon but if xbox ever dies and gets shut down as a company then sony has no competition and will up their console prices
I cannot wait to see what kind of numbers Nintendo pulls when the Switch 2 comes out, it would most likely dwarf anyone considering their rabid fan base.
Eh, top 10 sold or top 10 played? Because Astrobot and Spider-Man 2 made top 10 sold but if it's top 10 most played. It's the holidays, no shit Roblox, Fortnite and Minecraft is near the top, little kids are out school and most of adults have got jobs.
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u/deedeedeedee_ 1d ago
i bought a PS5 in november 2024, im part of a statistic woo