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PS5 is in the perfect storm right now (Increased supply , God of War:R , The Last Of Us Show & Hogwarts Legacy )

Crayon

Member
I'm still surprised a bit at how popular it is. Like it's the only console or something. Of courrse it should do well but it's like wii fever. Makes me feel out of touch. Like I only reccomend it to people who want a solid performance upgrade to the games they are already planning to play on ps4.
 
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ByWatterson

Member
As I've said elsewhere, between this fast start and how insane Spider-Man 2 sales are going to be, I don't think people have fully wrapped their heads around how dominant Sony will be this year.

Starfield will be very big, but I'm somewhat confident it will not be a zeitgeist game.
 
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As I've said elsewhere, between this fast start and how insane Spider-Man 2 sales are going to be, I don't think people have fully wrapped their heads around how dominant Sony will be this year.

Starfield will be very big, but I'm somewhat confident it will not be a zeitgeist game.

The absolute perfect storm would be FF16 in June, Spider-Man 2 in September, and Factions for November. A couple months later Rebirth

With the Stellar Blades, Tchia’s, and other smaller titles sprinkled in throughout
 
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Yoboman

Member
Holy shit the fanboyism.

"The only thing in its way". What does that even mean? The only thing preventing PS5's success are great games on other platforms lol? What do you get if Sony "wins"?

This isn't some sporting event where you have a home team battling it out against other teams for the championship.

What a pathetic display.
Damn, seems you can't post a single positive thread about PlayStation without the fanboys around here losing their mind

Go make the thousandth value of Gamepass thread if you need a safe space
 

TintoConCasera

I bought a sex doll, but I keep it inflated 100% of the time and use it like a regular wife
Wish we had more threads about games and less about... whatever this thread is about.

Like I swear I still have to see some of you post about videogamey things like gameplay mechanics or level design instead of just sales, releases, gamepass, storms, waves or whatever.

Just to add some value I recommend you guys to check out Henry Hatsworth on the Nintendo DS. The game looks cartoony for sure but fuck is it challenging, and also fun.
 

onQ123

Member
Upset? No. Dumbfounded by your continued refusal to actually explain how PS5 is in a perfect storm? Absolutely.

Saying "just wait for numbers" is not an explanation of how they are a "perfect storm" situation. It just comes across as mindless warrior nonsense from you.

Basically you're here to argue. this is clearly about sells I mentioned The Last Of Us show which has people buying the Last of Us games again & Supply increase
 

knocksky

Banned
The only thing in it's way for the next few months is Metroid Prime Remastered & Zelda Tears Of The Kingdom .

Hogwarts Legacy releasing on current gen first most likely shift more people into the current generation than anything else that has happened in the last 2 years & it look like PS5 can ride this wave throughout the next few months.

Michael Jordan Lol GIF



Not content with the slew of negative Xbox threads, a good ol' jolly up feel good thread to rally the troops was also created.

Still, how could you forget psvr2 man? The killer app for me completely
 
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onQ123

Member
Michael Jordan Lol GIF



Not content with the slew of negative Xbox threads, a good ol' jolly up feel good thread to rally the troops was also created.

Still, how could you forget psvr2 man? The killer app for me completely

This is the problem y'all think everything is a war lol
 
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DonkeyPunchJr

World’s Biggest Weeb
Damn, seems you can't post a single positive thread about PlayStation without the fanboys around here losing their mind

Go make the thousandth value of Gamepass thread if you need a safe space
I love PlayStation, this is just a stupid and pointless thread that seems like it exists for fanboys to masturbate each other. It deserves to be mocked and ridiculed
 
Holy shit the fanboyism.

"The only thing in its way". What does that even mean? The only thing preventing PS5's success are great games on other platforms lol? What do you get if Sony "wins"?

This isn't some sporting event where you have a home team battling it out against other teams for the championship.

What a pathetic display.
You sound bitter
 
I don't think it needed anyone of those products to sell well this year. If anything this will increase the likelihood of shortages in the usual countries like continental Europe and Japan.
 

leo-j

Member
I mean switch and ps5 indirectly compete as the switch is a good secondary and primary console….. so really it’s just stock, if they made iPhone level of consoles they would probably sell most of them tbh, if they hit their 6 million target they would have the highest consoles sold in a Quarter for Jan-March.
 

clarky

Gold Member
How is it the "Perfect storm"? GoW:R is insanely disappointing, Last of Us has been an overhyped shallow joke ever since it released back on the PS3, most of its first party exclusives have been ports, remakes, or disappointing shallow sequels that completely missed hte point on what made the franchises so great. The few great exclusives they have had can be played elsewhere now (Returnal, for example).

Hogwarts Legacy is a multiplatform release and has nothing that makes you *need* to play it on PS5, except one single side quest that was utterly forgettable.

I am still waiting for a good reason to have bought this damned console that isn't to play PS4 games from when the Company still was HQ'd back in Japan.

Really the only thing that PS5 has over others is that it has the PSVR2, which from previews genuinely looks great - but most of its games are mediocre tech demos (Horizon) or ports from PSVR1 or other VR systems. The former having you rebuy games if you already bought them on PSVR1.
This dude knows whats up.

A perfect storm in a tea cup.
 
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JusticeForAll

Gold Member
I bought my first Xbox console ever for gamepass and find myself playing on my ps5 much, much more. The balance should come back once they also start releasing games, but except for starfield and Wo Long, it's ps5 all the way until summer at least.

I do have to say that my Xbox is strictly a gamepass machine, so every multiplatform I buy, I buy for PlayStation. So there's that.
 

SLB1904

Banned
How is it the "Perfect storm"? GoW:R is insanely disappointing, Last of Us has been an overhyped shallow joke ever since it released back on the PS3, most of its first party exclusives have been ports, remakes, or disappointing shallow sequels that completely missed hte point on what made the franchises so great. The few great exclusives they have had can be played elsewhere now (Returnal, for example).

Hogwarts Legacy is a multiplatform release and has nothing that makes you *need* to play it on PS5, except one single side quest that was utterly forgettable.

I am still waiting for a good reason to have bought this damned console that isn't to play PS4 games from when the Company still was HQ'd back in Japan.

Really the only thing that PS5 has over others is that it has the PSVR2, which from previews genuinely looks great - but most of its games are mediocre tech demos (Horizon) or ports from PSVR1 or other VR systems. The former having you rebuy games if you already bought them on PSVR1.
What console isn't selling again?
 
Threads like this make me want to sell my ps5…
Truth/fact Brother : the constant "game pass is the best deal in gaming" in here and on reddit plus the fact that you can't even mention that the Xbox has less exclusives (if you do you're gonna get jumped) made me sell my XSX the other day and got me a PS5 😁

I know you're half-joking but I do get the sentiment friend, it gets tiring after a while...

PS: same exact thing with the FROM SOFT fanboyism (Elden ring especially) - and I do love me some FROM games.
 
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BlackTron

Member
Don‘t know if serious or sarcastic. Either way, that‘s not something supposed to be celebrated, that‘s how things should be from the start. I wonder why the scalpers gave up, if they were to continue their business model (and some groups certainly made a living off it) we wouldn‘t get a PS5 in store no matter how much Sony increases their production.

In my opinion the market was becoming fully saturated with PS5 owners willing to pay substantially more than retail price. And if the difference isn't big enough, they're not worth flipping anymore. This, combined with improved supply, killed the model and made PS5 available at a cheaper price to a larger audience, and I'm serious (not sarcastic) that it benefits Sony. Not that there is "nothing to stop them for the next few months".
 

rapid32.5

Member
Two cross-gen games and one multi-platform on the year three schedule is nothing to brag about. This gen still weak compared to the PS2 era.
 
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clarky

Gold Member
The perfect storm of being able to buy a console, a sequel worse than its predecessor, a tv show about the best game from ten years ago and a multiplatform game? lmfao ok.
 

onQ123

Member
And it's probably the first next gen only (for the moment) game this gen to really cut through just as Sony are marketing it and their supply is reaching significant levels. OPs point is that Sony have had some fortunate timing cause a lot of people will be buying a next gen console now for Hogwarts

I'm pretty sure they get this but some people like to pretend for argument sake.
 
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