The few games (none of which were new) showed during the ps5 pro announcement really hammers home the subtlety of graphical upgrades going forward as well as the incredibly low number of companies that still have the staff to make games that take advantage of these upgrades. - ThreadSky

brandon.insertcredit.com • 176 days ago

The few games (none of which were new) showed during the ps5 pro announcement really hammers home the subtlety of graphical upgrades going forward as well as the incredibly low number of companies that still have the staff to make games that take advantage of these upgrades.

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blindgoblin.bsky.social•176 days ago

Yeah with all the triple-A studios getting acquired and subsequently shuttered, it's going to become a bigger and bigger issue for these console developers riding the "cutting edge" of graphics.

Oh well, sucks to be them I guess. Who could've seen that coming...

bijhan.bsky.social•176 days ago

My partner plays stuff like Pokemon and Stardew Valley. They looked at me playing Red Dead on the Switch and said "Wow, it looks so realistic, like it's a movie".

The game is 14 years old, and running on the lowest performing console available. To the layperson, it still looks beautiful.

missauron.bsky.social•176 days ago

Switch and Animal Crossing player here: it gets to a point in which graphics are secondary. I watched my hubby play Horizon Dawn on ps4 and the forbbiden west on PS5. 0 difrerences in terms of visuals.

majinboowomp.bsky.social•176 days ago

The PlayStation 5 Pro really feels like it only exists for the people that have the money and just NEED to own the best thing available. I feel like a more budget-friendly PS5 Slim would’ve been a better idea since the $500 price point of the base PS5 is still too much for most.

motownfamilysr.bsky.social•176 days ago

Agree 100%. They worry about declining console sales and then offer a much more expensive version... It makes zero sense to me.

Lower the price you sell more. It always works.

brandon.insertcredit.com•176 days ago

Also if you are going to have a digital-only console you need to have a very good store.........

omlt.bsky.social•176 days ago

That is something that is apparently beyond the reach of ALL 3 console makers.

Only Valve has the forbidden knowledge it would seem

To make a store that just doesn't suck and is not an absolute horror

antoinelavoisier.bsky.social•176 days ago

gog is basically fine, puffs to Steam’s Kleenex, but more or less just as good

dzeeszed.bsky.social•176 days ago

Honest question: how many games take advantage of the haptic feedback tools in the buttons?

fixurheartordie.bsky.social•176 days ago

everyone 30+ yearns for the days of the 32-bit jump to polygons or the next generations jump to polygons you can't easily count but it's been so long since tech has moved at that cadence

waezer.bsky.social•176 days ago

Yeah I think we crossed the threshold where art style was more important than graphical fidelity years ago. The games I really look forward to are no longer triple-A titles from big studios. They're passion projects by smaller ones.

parrea.bsky.social•176 days ago

It's a lot of money to pay for more detailed trees and extra reflections.

zuthal.bsky.social•176 days ago

game graphics stopped meaningfully improving at the AAA level about a decade ago

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