• Katana314@lemmy.world
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            11 days ago

            The only occasion I could buy that a “console makes the exclusives” is when the costs are so high that the investors decide a $60 price tag isn’t enough.

            That can be alleviated with DLC, or live service bullshit; or it can become an incentive to buy a particular console.

            Then, when someone is braindead and doesn’t want a big epic award winning adventure, they’ll use that same console to play Fortnite. Thus, God of War helps sell VBucks or whatever.

            It’s a weird analysis, but even though we no longer see console exclusives and it’s seen as a pro consumer move, I also think it was just a way for managers to boost one quarter’s revenue, and it wasn’t really good for the console ecosystem as a whole, especially considering how it would fund future exclusive epics.

      • HeyJoe@lemmy.world
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        12 days ago

        Im guessing speed. To me, one of my favorite improvements over the ps4 was load speeds of everything. It felt like I went back in time to SNES days when walking into the next room was instant, unlike on the ps1 for the same games.

      • Mark with a Z@suppo.fi
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        12 days ago

        “I think PS5 and SSD has made almost every game a better game,” he concludes.

        You could read the article too