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Sony misses PS5 sales target as console enters ‘latter stage of its life cycle’ (www.theverge.com)

submitted 7 months ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/games@sh.itjust.works

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[–] M500@lemmy.ml 64 points 7 months ago (26 children)

It’s so weird that these consoles are in the latter stages of their life. Was it just this generation that was weird or am I just getting old?

It seems that they are not as popular as the Xbox one and ps4 were. Maybe I just checked out of modern gaming.

[–] Dasnap@lemmy.world 51 points 7 months ago (13 children)

It still doesn't feel like there's been a proper 'next-gen' game yet. There were a lot of cross-gen games that seemed to dampen the feeling of the gen starting. Maybe FFVII Rebirth will change that for me; I dunno.

[–] Chozo@kbin.social 25 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

I think that's because the current gen is just "last gen, but more powerful". Nothing really got innovated this time around, and the architectures for the current platforms are almost identical to the last ones (which is part of the reason cross-gen has been so popular with developers, as it's very easy to implement).

I do feel that catering to cross-gen is creating a situation where a lot of games just aren't taking advantage of the capabilities of the current gen properly, in order to maintain parity with the "weaker" versions of the same titles.

[–] sparky1337@ttrpg.network 5 points 7 months ago

That, and there are way less console exclusives.

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