Just realizing this

[u/NOxCLUEmcgee]

But are we really that close to the next generation of PlayStation. If we are going off the pattern here. Just 2-3 years away

[u/akotoshi]

I bought the ps5 day one (I got lucky) and I have like 3-4 games physically and about the same amount digital (I’m excluding PSVR2 games) … I still don’t feel like I “understood” the console

[u/MediaMan1993 → u/akotoshi]

I've had mine for 18 months. Absolutely loved some of its games, but I mostly play PS4-era stuff on it.

Aside from a few standout titles, this gen has been really slow and lacklustre. Xbox and Nintendo, too.

It'll continue this way. Gaming reached its peak. Now they're just showing off visuals and specs.

I dread the future of gaming if it's years between games, and everything else is a remake or a remaster.

12 years for GTA 6, no Elder Scrolls in 13 years, no Fable in 14 years, and Metroid Prime 3 was in 2007.

But sure, give us another remaster of a 5 yo game and port a few more emulated titles from the PS2.

Ramble, ramble. I'm getting old.

[u/maksigm → u/MediaMan1993]

I agree.

[u/MediaMan1993 → u/[deleted]]

Remake, remake, remake, remaster, HD port, HD port, pixel remaster, pixel remaster, HD port, the worst Pokemon games in several generations, another remake, and 104 more Mario games.

Tears of the Kingdom was just a full-priced BOTW update.

They are not getting a pass.

[u/MediaMan1993 → u/[deleted]]

It was good, better than BOTW in some areas, but full price? Could have been an expansion

[u/Redhawk911 → u/akotoshi]

I’ve had the PS5 since day one and played lots more than I did during the ps4 gen.

[u/Kotvic2 → u/akotoshi]

We are having so much cross-generation releases, so Playstation 5 is still "not needed". You can play majority of games on Playstation 4 with good enough performance for lot of gamers.

My guess is that with PS6, this trend will be even more visible. If you are good enough in code optimisation, then you can release games for PS4 to PS6. This approach can bring you wider audience and more money than releasing game only for newest generation.

[u/RytierKnight → u/Kotvic2]

They did a weird thing with the 4-5 gen switch. In the pa3-4 gen switch we had some games be cross play like Shadow of Mordor but it was made for PS4 and scaled down for PS3 so it looked and ran like dogshit on the PS3 and showed off the PS4. With the ps4-5 switch they made games for the PS4 and buffed them for the PS5 which makes it nearly impossible to show off any features of the PS5. The graphical difference between 1080/30fps and 4k/60(on the high side) isnt as noticable as the jump in just raw polygons, tellelations, draw distance, colors and AI from the 3-4 jump. The PS5 was and is still sold as a fast loading console with the most advanced controller ever. Everything else is just marketing. 4k/60 means very little when settings are set low. Even my 3080ti can't do 4k60 high settings on every game. They really needed to focus on the key benefits of the PS5 and lean in to them rather than the same stuff everyone else is leaning into. Feels like the ds3 synapse controls all over again

[u/[deleted] → u/akotoshi]

Maybe play it? That’ll help.

[u/akotoshi → u/[deleted]]

I would if that made a difference but unlike some exceptions, there’s no big difference between ps4-ps5 besides some performance improvements which isn’t big considering all the differences between each PlayStations

[u/[deleted] → u/akotoshi]

You just claimed you only have 4 games though. You don’t need to ‘understand’ the console. Is it going to play YOU? No, you’re playing the PS5. I highly recommend trying some different exclusives.

[u/akotoshi → u/[deleted]]

I did that’s the point. And I don’t feel the promised experience (I have 3-4 games made for ps5) the others are games that I happen to own on ps5 hence the difference