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You end up with a weird phenomenon. Games written for the PlayStation exclusively get to take advantage of everything, but there is nothing to compare the rele

You end up with a weird phenomenon. Games written for the PlayStation exclusively get to take advantage of everything, but there is nothing to compare the release to. Alternatively, if a game is release cross-platform, there’s little incentive to tune the performance past the benchmarks of comparable platforms. Why make the PlayStation game look better than Xbox if it involves rewriting engine layer stuff to take advantage of the hardware, for one platform only. Basically all of the most interesting utilization of the hardware comes at the very end of the consoles lifecycle. It’s been like that for decades.

ViscountPenguin 1y ago
I suspect it won't be as much of an issue next gen, with Microsoft basically dropping out of the console market.
- awill 1y ago
  3rd party games will still want to launch on the Nintendo Switch 2, so it's still the same problem.
  - dontlaugh 1y ago
    The Switch (even 2) is nowhere near the same class of performance as PlayStation or Xbox, games on them aren't comparable.
    - aziaziazi 1y ago
      Yet those companies don’t necessarily compete for performance and comparaison, but instead for their own profit. If Nintendo makes profit from selling a device that runs a game in lower spec than Sony, they’re Happy with it. Computing devices aren’t driven by performance only.
      - dontlaugh 1y ago
        Sure, but the point I want replying to was about the Switch 2 being able to make up for the loss of the Xbox as a PlayStation competitor. It can’t.
- ErneX 1y ago
  They are definitely doing something but it seems it’s going to be more PC-like. Like even supporting 3rd party stores. I’m intrigued.
beagle3 1y ago
It’s also that way on the C64 - while it came out in 1981, people figures out how to get 8 bit sound and high resolution color graphics with multiple sprites only after 2000…
three_burgers 1y ago
I think apart from cross-platform woes (if you can call it that), it's also that the technology landscape would shift, two or few years after the console's release: For PS2, game consoles didn't become the centre of home computing; for PS3, programming against the GPU became the standard of doing real time graphics, not some exotic processor, plus that home entertaining moved on to take other forms (like watching YouTube on an iPad instead of having a media centre set up around the TV); for PS4, people didn't care if the console does social networking; PS5 has been practical, it's just the technology/approach ended up adopted by everyone, so it lost its novelty later on.
- pjmlp 1y ago
  That is very country specific, many countries home computers since the 8 bit days always dominated, whereas others consoles always dominated since Nintendo/SEGA days.
  - anthk 1y ago
    Also tons of blue collar people bought Chinese NES clones even in mid 90's (at least in Spain) while some other people with white collar jobs bought their kids a Play Station. And OFC the Brick Game Tetris console was everywhere. By late 90's, yes, most people afforded a Play Station, but as for myself I've got a computer in very early 00's and I would emulate the PSX and most N64 games just fine (my computer wasn't a high end one, but the emulators were good enough to play the games at 640x480 and a bilinear filter).
- ffsm8 1y ago
  You got a very "interesting" history there, it certainly not particularly grounded in reality however. PS3s edge was generally seen as the DVD player. That's why Sony went with Blue Ray in the PS4, hoping to capitalize on the next medium, too. While that bet didn't pay out, Xbox kinda self destructed, consequently making them the dominant player any way. Finally: > PS5 has been practical, it's just the technology/approach ended up adopted by everyone, so it lost its novelty later on. PS5 did not have any novel approach that was consequently adopted by others. The only thing "novel" in the current generation is frame generation, and that was already being pushed for years by the time Sony jumped on that bandwagon.

ViscountPenguin 1y ago

I suspect it won't be as much of an issue next gen, with Microsoft basically dropping out of the console market.

awill 1y ago
3rd party games will still want to launch on the Nintendo Switch 2, so it's still the same problem.
- dontlaugh 1y ago
  The Switch (even 2) is nowhere near the same class of performance as PlayStation or Xbox, games on them aren't comparable.
  - aziaziazi 1y ago
    Yet those companies don’t necessarily compete for performance and comparaison, but instead for their own profit. If Nintendo makes profit from selling a device that runs a game in lower spec than Sony, they’re Happy with it. Computing devices aren’t driven by performance only.
    - dontlaugh 1y ago
      Sure, but the point I want replying to was about the Switch 2 being able to make up for the loss of the Xbox as a PlayStation competitor. It can’t.
ErneX 1y ago
They are definitely doing something but it seems it’s going to be more PC-like. Like even supporting 3rd party stores. I’m intrigued.

beagle3 1y ago

It’s also that way on the C64 - while it came out in 1981, people figures out how to get 8 bit sound and high resolution color graphics with multiple sprites only after 2000…

three_burgers 1y ago

I think apart from cross-platform woes (if you can call it that), it's also that the technology landscape would shift, two or few years after the console's release: For PS2, game consoles didn't become the centre of home computing; for PS3, programming against the GPU became the standard of doing real time graphics, not some exotic processor, plus that home entertaining moved on to take other forms (like watching YouTube on an iPad instead of having a media centre set up around the TV); for PS4, people didn't care if the console does social networking; PS5 has been practical, it's just the technology/approach ended up adopted by everyone, so it lost its novelty later on.

pjmlp 1y ago
That is very country specific, many countries home computers since the 8 bit days always dominated, whereas others consoles always dominated since Nintendo/SEGA days.
- anthk 1y ago
  Also tons of blue collar people bought Chinese NES clones even in mid 90's (at least in Spain) while some other people with white collar jobs bought their kids a Play Station. And OFC the Brick Game Tetris console was everywhere. By late 90's, yes, most people afforded a Play Station, but as for myself I've got a computer in very early 00's and I would emulate the PSX and most N64 games just fine (my computer wasn't a high end one, but the emulators were good enough to play the games at 640x480 and a bilinear filter).
ffsm8 1y ago
You got a very "interesting" history there, it certainly not particularly grounded in reality however. PS3s edge was generally seen as the DVD player. That's why Sony went with Blue Ray in the PS4, hoping to capitalize on the next medium, too. While that bet didn't pay out, Xbox kinda self destructed, consequently making them the dominant player any way. Finally: > PS5 has been practical, it's just the technology/approach ended up adopted by everyone, so it lost its novelty later on. PS5 did not have any novel approach that was consequently adopted by others. The only thing "novel" in the current generation is frame generation, and that was already being pushed for years by the time Sony jumped on that bandwagon.