games

To be honest, I just hate how expensive gaming has become across the board. I still remember getting a brand new, top of the line, Playstation 3 slim with a 500GB internal hard drive and Blu ray drive, two controllers and two games, in 2012 (over 12 years ago) for around 450 USD, with import taxes and luxury taxes in South Africa. Now the lastest top of the line PlayStation 5 is going to cost over 1150USD here, with the disc drive being an optional add on, and only 2TB of storage and one controller. WTF how is a 250% price increase justifiable when you are literally getting less by comparison?

And I haven't even started on the price of PC parts here, PC gaming rigs are the price of second hand cars in South Africa. A Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 with 8GB of VRAM is over 500USD! A 14th Gen Intel i5 is over 350USD. Two new mid range components, and the price is already approaching 900USD. By the time you're done buying everything, you're looking at over 2000USD for that PC.

Tech people have utterly lost connection with normal people, I think. An enthusiast who cares enough about Playstation to want a faster PS5 probably owns discs. Also the fact that they didn't improve the CPU in any way, this thing is cooked.

When gamer shit gets too expensive people will just quit buying games and consoles, as they should. Anticommunist propaganda always used to say "and a car cost a month's paycheque" well, a PS5 Pro costs like, a third to half of the north american minimum wage, I think?

g*mers get the wall don’t @ me

yeah man I'm so jealous I can't play the next batch of recently-released-game: remastered

Imagine being fanboy over nothing lul

I move for anyone mentioning they have a PS5 Pro to get site-wide banned.

Idk how there are any Sony fanboys left the ps5 is so awful i regret ever getting one. Demons souls remake was mid and returnal the only good game eventually came to PC anyway. I guess i got my gran turismo but thats not really worth a whole console. I have a very funny looking router under my TV that i can't use for anything. I got it with the hopes they'd do something with bloodborne but i lost hard on that bet. At least the xbox has a decent collection of back compat titles

The 2011 hack. Blaming Zipper Interactive for their Socom 4 release and shutting down one of their greatest studios instead of owning up to their own fucking hack. Destroying the original PS3 store. Failing to support the Vita. Failing to have 2 factor authentication for a long time. Treating hacked people like criminals. Shitty customer service. Telling their own studio that made All-Stars Battle Royale BEFORE the fucking game launched that they were being shut down. Failing to give the PS4 basic features the PS3 had. Providing garbage remote play that barely works. Halfassing PSNow and failing to continue adding more PS3 streaming like they promised. PS5 also lacking basic features at launch. Lying and saying the PS4 generation was uniquely in need of a Pro and that it definitely won't happen this time. Thinking the Portal was a hood idea. Endlessly garbage store without ignore, gifting, or other obvious features. PS Plus in general.

What else?

This takes me back to the beginning years of the Star Citizen grift. And the Fallout 76 "Tenpenny" chud community. And EVE Online's monocle-enjoying bootlickers at the start of the "Greed is Good(tm)" PR release. And so much more.

$599 US dollars!?!

Based on real Japanese history. GIANT ENEMY CRAB. 599 us dollars.

Some years ago an amazing console with RIIIIIIIDGE RACEEEEER and giant enemy crabs went for... was it 599 US Dollars at the time?

the most insulting thing about this is the complete lack of a library that will actually make full use of the hardware. there arent many ps5 exclusives that really need any extra power and the odds that you are playing more than 1 or 2 of them is damn slim

I truly cannot notice a difference between the ps4 and ps5. The difference between the ps3 and the ps4? Staggering.

you are just jealous I can afford 5pro ps5pros