I distinctly remember the great console wars of 2013 .
eeeh, generation 8 wasn't really a war.
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I distinctly remember the great console wars of 2013 .
eeeh, generation 8 wasn't really a war.
hopefully this will do for UHD physical media what the PS3 did for Blu-ray...4K Blu-ray renaissance!
it won't, streaming has killed it
Sony adding a 4K drive has given it new life...
na, streaming killed it. Physical media sales are awful.
and before you counter with how great the picture quality is, people that can't tell the difference between bitrate starved netflix trash versus bluray... absolutely don't care about 4k uhd.
This is true but I am in the camp of fuck streaming. I have a 65" C9 Oled and went to see how Netflix 4k streaming looks. I got to say it looks and sounds like poop compared to a UHD Blu-ray. I like owning my media instead of renting.na, streaming killed it. Physical media sales are awful.
and before you counter with how great the picture quality is, people that can't tell the difference between bitrate starved netflix trash versus bluray... absolutely don't care about 4k uhd.
Interesting...https://nl.letsgodigital.org/spelcomputers-games/sony-ps5-ssd-playstation-geheugen/
I miss the old cartridge days lol. I know this is for storage but I'm sure it would feel nostalgic popping one of these bad boys in
They also take it a step further and push for preorders which is basically the complete opposite of a demo.liking for the zelda mod vid. didnt know you could do that, funny! and i agree, bring back demos!! that is why i "try before i buy". im not droppin $80 to find out it sucks donkey balls.
physical media will never become mainstream or have a huge market share but this will help extend it's shelf life and give movie studios more incentive to keep making physical UHD's for 5+ more years...basically this extended its end of life cycle
Nintendo Switch sales hit 36.87 million consoles, matching PS4's lifetime pace (July 30, 2019)Doesn't change anything. My point is that Nintendo had the DS with 150 million units sold and the Wii which had 100 million units sold. With the introduction of smart phones the 3DS only has 75 million and the Wii U had ~15 million. Even with 41 million units sold for the Switch, it shows that Nintendo has fallen from a very high point. Certainly the Switch will eventually reach 100 million or more units sold before the end of its life, but it's a far cry from the 100+150=250 million consoles that Nintendo had sold at one point.
Nintendo doesn't want to make a home console as powerful as the Playstation or Xbox in fear of being totally destroyed by Sony and Microsoft. At the same time Nintendo doesn't want to get pushed out of the mobile gaming market by smart phones and tablets. Nintendo is feeling pressure from all sides.
The reason it's purely a mobile device is because it has a Tegra K1 SOC. That'll do for now, but once the PS5 is released the Switch won't be able to keep up. There's a limit to how much performance you can get out of a portable device due to heat and power consumption. I should know because I own a Switch as well, and modded both the hardware and software. I removed the thin copper sheet they put on the SOC, and put clean thermal paste as well as a thermal pad on memory because the Switch's are known to warp and make the plastic brittle from the heat it outputs. The K1 is severely under-clocked compared to other Nvidia Shield products that it's in. No matter what I'll still get at best 3 hours of battery life.
The reason the Switch can be a pseudo home console is because the PS4 and Xbox One were so weak in specs in 2013 that the SOC in the Switch can pull it off to some degree. But it is a weak console because my PC can emulate it on a single CPU core at full speed using Yuzu, with better graphics.
Agreed. Smart on their end locking out the possibility of using other brand SSD's but sucks for us. It's always nice to have options.I’m sure this has to do with custom I/O but I was hoping for normal PCIE 4 NVMEs tbh.
I don’t like the possibility of Sony having full control over SSD expansion with proprietary technology. They’ve never done it right or to the benefit of the customer in terms of cost.
It actually was surprising that they didn't go custom drives with the ps3 and 4 given Sony's history. The Xbox never had a easily user replaceable drive so I can see Sony following the trend. Also possibly they would do it is to keep control of the little to no loading they claim. They don't want Joe Smoe swapping out the drive with some cheap POS and complaining about loading time and other issues.Agreed. Smart on their end locking out the possibility of using other brand SSD's but sucks for us. It's always nice to have options.
That makes sense about swapping out internal drives but doesn't Xbox and Sony currently allow games to be stored on an external HD? I wonder if they'll abandon that feature for next gen.It actually was surprising that they didn't go custom drives with the ps3 and 4 given Sony's history. The Xbox never had a easily user replaceable drive so I can see Sony following the trend. Also possibly they would do it is to keep control of the little to no loading they claim. They don't want Joe Smoe swapping out the drive with some cheap POS and complaining about loading time and other issues.
That makes sense about swapping out internal drives but doesn't Xbox and Sony currently allow games to be stored on an external HD? I wonder if they'll abandon that feature for next gen.
Haha, of course! There's always "that guy" who has to go to the extreme. Same guy who water-cools their console.I'm just imagining a RAID DAS (USB attached) that costs more than the console. Someone will do it...
Agreed. Smart on their end locking out the possibility of using other brand SSD's but sucks for us. It's always nice to have options.
That makes sense about swapping out internal drives but doesn't Xbox and Sony currently allow games to be stored on an external HD? I wonder if they'll abandon that feature for next gen.