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Everyone has their opinion, but I'd argue the PS Vita redefined the handheld space. Valve just saw a good idea and a better design Nintendo couldn't do first and did what Sony did, just got rid of proprietary storage mediums, thus cutting the costs and making it more appealing. Had Sony not used proprietary storage, or priced it so high, for that matter and worked more to convince their first-party powerhouse studios to develop for it rather than outsourcing their IP to others, the Vita could've been bigger and lived much longer, but true to form, if something doesn't work, Sony abandons it and moves on to something else to meet the same fate. Nintendo, however, sticks their plan, on terms of shelf life, and adapts to make what they have work for them in a different way and it ends up working out really well. PlayStation forced Nintendo to drop the price of the 3DS to a more fair price or consumers would've continued to spend $249 on the 3DS. The PS Vita being more powerful and appearing to have more promise was priced at a reasonable $249, that pushes Nintendo to drop the price of the technically inferior 3DS so, Nintendo fans can thank Sony for that one

Yup. 👍🏻👏🏻. Xbox's mixed messaging continues and it's time to get them to planet their feet. A massive company that owns smaller independent studios. Look at The Initiative. They bought and ruined Activision to try and prevent Sony from getting exclusive rights Xbox couldn't secure, I could go on and on. Even Xbox's former employees and management regularly state Xbox doesn't know what they're doing and "should stay in their lane". Xbox hasn't really done anything to contribute to the gaming world during their time anyway. SEGA (not Sammy) did, Nintendo, has, Atari did, and PlayStation does. Xbox actually made PlayStation worse, but with Xbox gone we'll see PlayStation bounce back and focus on Nintendo once again and the two will feed off each other to make each other better rather than adopting absurd business practices to stay relevant.

This is a positive step in the right direction

Microsoft made two fatal mistakes with this. When Bluepoint remastered Uncharted for PS4, they did all three games. Xbox, as figured, got greedy and wanted to release the series one-by-one, which is nonsense, but shows what Xbox really knows. It should've been the Trilogy.

Second, when I first looked at the trophy list, I went: Oh, okay. The one fighting General RAAM on Insane difficulty is gonna be tough, it's doable...... And then the game launched and made the mistake I ABSOLUTELY HATE AND NEEDS TO BE BROUGHT UP AT DEVELOPER MEETINGS!

WHY DO DEVELOPERS HAVE TO MAKE MULTIPLAYER TROPHIES PART OF THE PLATINUM!?!? Ghost of Tsushima is a perfect example of how trophies should be done. All of your single-player trophies compile your list for the Platinum trophy. Then you have your extra trophies that are added on over time which are multiplayer. GET 10,000 KILLS, ARE YOU MENTAL??? What a horrific grind NOBODY wants to do! Then all the level ups, again, a grind, that's not fun! Xbox has to remember, as well, PlayStation gamers were bred with Xbox Live mentality. As much as Xbox wanted to push their online service, that cost $60/yr once upon a time, PlayStation was FREE back then and the service was competitive for free too, but that's also because PlayStation gamers like their single-player campaigns. A bunch of a-social introverts. Xbox Live like Game Pass is a money making scheme, even PC online gameplay is free. PlayStation started charging because they had to, but they gave away free games with the sub and have since which Xbox then followed along with to try and justify their service that was then getting beat repeatedly.

Two mistakes Xbox didn't think through because they're, surprise surprise, they're OUT OF TOUCH! ALWAYS HAVE BEEN!

So, what you're saying is the world's gaming fanbase is on Xbox? You're implying that PlayStation and Steam are too limited for the games success and that Helldivers II win FINALLY find success on a console that's been outsold 4:1 on its previous generation, 3-4:1 this current generation and has come dead last in every console generation it's existed in, this is the key to the success of Helldivers II and the PlayStation brand?

Those are the opera notes you're claiming are being hit but, PlayStation would've been better off, then, porting the game to the PS4. The problem is, the power leap from PS4 to PS5 wasn't all that much so adoption of the PS5, not to mention the whole COVID issue, doesn't help, but you're implying that the success of PlayStation is moving to a console whose given up. They don't even believe in their own hardware enough that their software goes to the PlayStation and sells off the charts. Where other devs look at Xbox, now, and say: "Why bother?" So it only goes to PlayStation knowing that Xbox is on life support. That Xbox will release one final console but it'll only last a year, maybe before Xbox realizes it's time to throw in the towel. This is the business model for success?

This is a move that makes no sense and deep down inside, you know it's all a ploy to save something on life support. I've been there, once upon a time. Luckily, I had interest in the competition at the time as well so when SEGA did the same thing, I wasn't stuck, the transition was easy. Decades later, with SEGA employees no longer fearing unfair consequences for speaking the truth, documentaries hit and you learned just how much in trouble SEGA was.

The same will happen to Xbox and fans that just couldn't let go and accept it's fate, the blinders will be removed and they'll understand Xbox was in a bad position. Those who made the console what it was were long gone and suits took over.

PlayStation holds no monopoly in Xbox's absence. Nintendo and Steam still fight

No, it isnt. This is the Xbox gaming world saying whatever needs to be said to draw the other side of the fence in to save Xbox. By porting games to Xbox, it DOESNT convince gamers to go the other way. Are you seeing PlayStation gamers buying Xbox games and lured to getting Xbox hardware? No. The writer of the article is tactfully working the opposite direction.

Look, I've been there. I was a SEGA fan when SEGA was struggling and news just came in SEGA would be porting games to other consoles. It was a really crappy feeling and a really crappy day. I had grown up in a SEGA household where we didn't have Nintendo, at all and I didn't really like Nintendos games. They were for kids. But as time went on, I had friends that had PlayStation consoles and my brother and I got a PlayStation.

Having options during that time made the transition easy. It was still hard to watch SEGA go, but even worse to see Sammy would be acquiring SEGA and to this day, SEGA hasn't been the same. Today, Sonic isn't talking to your kids or you, he's trying to convince your parents to buy a new car. It's not SEGA or Sonic. Sonic grew up too, apparently, and became old and boring.

Now, as time went on, documentaries were produced and people that were threatened by losing their jobs could speak freely. They no longer worked for SEGA and when that's no longer the case, you start to really hear about the problems companies like that, in this case SEGA had. There was a lot of office politics going on, people were afraid of how SEGA was being run and dictated after all their hard work and saw other opportunities they took, some were to compete against the company they were working for. You learned a lot about SEGA that you didn't know because you had blinders on but these helped you see through all that.

The same will happen with Xbox. You'll learn those who loved the game, and when corporate control took over, smashed it and you'll see down the road

Xbox has made a series of bad business decisions that led them to the situation there in, not foresight. Tell me that's wrong. Xbox gamers are peeing their pants in excitement and trying up nonsense like this because it gives them a breath of life. It's almost as though they owe PlayStation for not letting Xbox go down in embarrassment by stepping in, acknowledging competition keeps industries alive and are preventing Xbox from going under. PlayStation knows Xbox is making horrible decisions, PlayStation was sort of there with the PS3 when it struggled, but Xbox didn't help them but pushed for further bury the knife by, with a big grin bringing Squaresoft on stage to announce Final Fantasy XIII and Kojima for Metal Gear to bury PlayStation. During the PlayStation Network outage, they left Sony to suffer, no aide, but Sony came through it.

Call it what you will but there it is. Xbox is about to go under and Sony helps them out. Funny, Japan isn't exactly a Christian nation that offers the coat to a person in need. Guess it's just good old Japanese honor

You tell me how it's good for the industry where Nintendo that just sold record sales second only to the PlayStation 2 and still has 100% exclusive games shows exclusives don't sell

Big whoop. I'm currently playing DAYS GONE on PS4 with a third-party PS4 controller that is designed like an Xbox Series controller except it has smaller analog stick grips, some 25-35% smaller, which is a really odd design choice, and it has two additional programmable buttons under the controller but, the main point is, it feels pretty much like an Xbox Series controller and playing using it versus the Dualshock 4 or the DualSense, WOW! The DualSense it's a little bulky for my hands as a have long skeleton fingers, but still have some small hands so I kind get a bit of carpal tunnel type feeling or one of hands starts to go numb, but the R1 and L1 buttons I'm reminded of how great they are compared to Xbox's LB and RB and how horrible they are. They're so stiff and awkward shaped as, in Days Gone, to craft or select a weapon you have to use the L1 (which feels like a bumper) and man is it crappy! When you've got segments of the game where you're chasing down someone on their bike, youre aim and shoot is with the bumper buttons while your triggers to accelerate and break are the triggers. Wow! Trying to keep moving and aim and shoot with those bumpers feels so unnatural! And then trying to shift to accelerate. For L1 and R1 it was natural because the PS3 used the same buttons for shooters instead of of the triggers because everyone griped they weren't concave but instead convex. Stupid. But yeah, the Xbox controller isnt all that great AND it still uses AA batteries. We're in the year 2025 where pretty much everything using a rechargeable li-on battery and Xbox still requires AA batteries. Could they have a change Li-on rechargable battery that you remove four tiny screws to get to to replace when needed instead of having to replace the whole controller or tear it apart only to put it back together when it never feels just right like it did, something is always loose, or a ribbon came unattached you have to go back in and try and reconnect? Yeah. Just have four scr

No. While you're right it the one regard, we still want and should have a choice. They're not paying $22/cart like in the N64 era. Discs are cheap. They should have both options, though, like you said, the way Nintendo and Xbox are now going is rediculous. Maybe it's a tactic to seem like Xbox is still the superior product but, they must've been that stupid to think nobody would ever find out.

That's fewer people that will play the game which also means it hacks its likelihood of the table of Game of the Year too. Their loss

That's right! I returned it on Xbox for the same reason so, it looks like I'm not getting it on PS5 or playing the game at all for that matter so, looks like they both lost a sale.

This isn't the Xbox 360/PS3 era. Metal Gear Solid 4 had its fun at poking at having to swap discs with the new tech of higher capacity storage discs but this is a different era in gaming. The Last of Us Part II had dual discs. Final Fantasy VII had dual discs. It's not common place these days, but it happens. The thing is that we're not having to disc swap. We install both discs and then use the one for confirmation. We don't want games to have to be that greedy, but if you have to download it and it's that big anyway, you've already been disrespectful and greedy of our HDD space so....

Yeah. But, what's Xbox gonna care by pulling the same move? They've already ticked off their own fanbase. Guess they just don't care..... Anymore either way

Yeah right. This gamer isn't gonna pay that kind of money for the console or the games.

Also, this gamer definitely doesn't like buying a cartridge that only has a access code stored on it. What's the point? It was partly Nintendo that was helping keep the physical media business going, while Sony took on Disneys physical media market keeping that alive as well. But, with Nintendo pulling a StarCraft II era Activision, now everyone's gonna say they can finally jump on board because Nintendo chose to do it.

If you're a physical media collector like I am, keep your attention carefully on exactly what you're paying for and don't buy it until you're certain. It's like Indiana Jones and the Great Circle on Xbox. WHY WOULD YOU ONLY PUT 2/3 OF THE GAME ON THE DISC AND THEN HAVE GAMERS DOWNLOAD THE OTHER 1/3? They were afraid to do double discs? The Last of Us Part II had two discs. Final Fantasy VII Remake had two discs. It just happens sometimes and Xbox, as they always are, are too scared to just make the step but, if Nintendo is gonna go about that nonsense well, not from this gamer.

But, I'm I agreement the price is too high

Physical media is done? Then so am I. I swore the day digital prevailed and took over, that was it. I wouldn't buy any more console and games and would focus on my backlog of some 2000 games to catch up on. Guess my bank account will continue to grow. Wow, gonna be weird to see. Seriously, if that's all Switch 2s carts are is an authenticator like StarCraft II disc were, then yeah, definitely no Switch 2 for me. Do you think I have a Steam Deck? I sure don't. Do I have a PS Portal? Yeah, but it uses my PS5 which still uses physical media.

If I'm choosing not to get a Switch 2, I can see there's a massive tidal wave of gamers that see it exactly the same way I do and will just continue to play their Switch and save themselves $450. They might even look more into the retro market and ROMs will never die. The casual game market, is the market people forget about. It's also the market that only plays Minecraft, Fortnite, and Call of Duty, why pay $450 to play such a dated game you don't need a Switch 2 for.

Nintendo, you're in trouble. You thought you were untouchable and people would bow to you forever, but they're all just losing interest. Who wants to play the same experience over and over with the same lame story too. I'm telling you, if I'm losing interest, it must mean the vast majority of gamers are too. You're diehards that can't bear to be left behind in technology but, I've got a mass collection of retro games to go play now. Guess I'll start playing that.

And is Xbox getting away with it too? Nope. I returned Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. You pressed a disc that only has 2/3s of the game on it and then make us download the rest so when internet craps out, I just have to sit there? Other gamers did the same thinking the PS5 version could use the higher capacity UHD disc or a dual-disc game but, I doubt it, and they'll pass on the game too, which limits your player base, which is going to effect it making to Game of the Year status so ya have that too

Let's keep beating the same dead horse a hundred times. I've read this article before, but with just a slight variation. Getting really desperate for ads aren't we? Get some new material!

Sounds like a lawsuit for getting burnt. Who wants warmer hands when it's your hands that sweat from anxiety or stress from the pressure games give the gamer? I was just playing through the Ratchet & Clank series again and what stress that series generates as part of it comes from poor programming and it's share of glitch gremlin problems. I played a boss battle with Neftin Progue and ended up beating him without taking a hit (got lucky) and it's like the game couldn't fathom it happened or like it wasnt part of its programming, and it happened so fast the hardware couldn't keep up and trying to load the cutscene following it the VRAM mustve flipped cause the game froze up on me and I had to replay a pretty challenging boss because of glitches, that just adds to the stress so who needs a heated controller that could burn you?

I can't believe I'm actually saying this but, I'm more impressed with Xbox's idea of a controller that senses touch and powers on when you pick it up, that sounds far more useful and a more worthwhile patent.

Braille? How does a blind person play modern video games?