PS5 Breaks Another Huge US Sales Record (ign.com) 22
An anonymous reader quotes a report from IGN: In its first five months on the market, The PlayStation 5 has become the fastest-selling console in U.S. history in both unit and dollar sales. As revealed by The NPD Group's Mat Piscatella, this news arrives one month after the PS5 became the fastest-selling console in U.S. history in dollar sales. Despite that new record, the Nintendo Switch has continued its reign as the best selling hardware platform in both units and dollars during March 2021. However, the PS5 did rank first in hardware dollar sales in Q1 2021.
PSP3 please (Score:3)
Sony, please remove head from ass and develop the PSP3. You killed the PS Vita [reddit.com] (PSP2 internally, initially) because... you didn't bother to advertise the fact that you could stream PS4 games to it.
Get a PS Vita, jailbreak it, and then tell me it isn't still a great system. So much potential, and per usual, the pirates are providing better service.
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So much potential, and per usual, the pirates are providing better service.
Sony is constitutionally incapable of doing what customers want. They are in charge, and don't you forget it.
The whole lurking time bomb issue is hilarious to me. I hope a bunch of Sony customers get what they deserve for funding that clusterfuck.
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Sony is constitutionally incapable of doing what customers want. They are in charge, and don't you forget it.
While I share your criticism of the Sony/Apple approach to their products, the headline tells me otherwise.
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The market probably isn't there for another hand-held platform anymore, not least because of mobile phones and tablets being quite capable gaming machines. Although they lack physical controls most of the time, they do have top notch CPUs and GPUs now, as well as a huge market to attract developers.
There is also the Switch which has taken over Sony's traditional high end portable gaming position in the market. Developing a more powerful console than the Switch, or coming 4k Switch, would be difficult and ex
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The Switch managed to take over because Sony didn't make the platform consumers wanted.
If they made another one, it also wouldn't be the one consumers wanted.
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The switch doesn't fill the role though. It's tablet sized, not handheld sized. It's enormous and doesn't fit in pants pockets. The PS Vita does. Phones don't have physical controls, which is an absolute dealbreaker because touchscreen controls are fucking atrocious the instant your fingers get sweaty, the screen is the tiniest bit wet, or you just want to use a D-pad in a game... try blindly hitting arrow keys without any tactile feedback whatsoever. It's an enormous exercise in frustration for me.
Maybe yo
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The switch doesn't fill the role though. It's tablet sized, not handheld sized. It's enormous and doesn't fit in pants pockets. The PS Vita does. Phones don't have physical controls, which is an absolute dealbreaker because touchscreen controls are fucking atrocious the instant your fingers get sweaty, the screen is the tiniest bit wet, or you just want to use a D-pad in a game... try blindly hitting arrow keys without any tactile feedback whatsoever. It's an enormous exercise in frustration for me.
Maybe you're a gamer god(ess), but for us mere mortals, physical controls are way easier to manipulate with our eyes focused on the action.
Oh I'm right there with you, I need tactile controls if it's a game designed for tactile controls. What I meant was that people don't seem to care whether portable devices fit in their pockets anymore. But you're right--even the Switch Lite, which is only one inch wider than the Vita, would be hard to put in your pocket because of the trigger button protrusions and the thumb sticks. I guess it depends on your priorities: portability, screen size, power, controls and comfort.
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The PS Vita died because Sony didn't have time for it. When the PS4 took off, it started taking up more and more of Sony's interest and the Vita fell by the wayside because Sony stopped caring about it.
Sony has pretty much shown they can't split their attention on two consoles - the PS5 is selling like hotcakes, the PSP3 will simply wither on the vine because Sony won't give it the resources it deserves because Sony is interested in the "winning" child.
Despite the fact the PS5 still has the same battery pro
What games are they playing? (Score:1)
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It plays PS4 games with zero fan noise, faster loading from an internal SSD, with better frame rates, so it's like upgrading a PC. The controllers have a built in speaker and mic with a mute button, not counting the PS5 game specific things like the trigger resistance and finer grained "haptic" vibration. Every player now has two way comms in their hands, and that's a hugely underrated feature IMO.
The distinction between PS4 games and PS5 games, it's like the distinction between a 2019 game and a 2021 gam
That pandemic sure is great promotion (Score:2)
I guess Sony is already scheduling the PS6 release for shortly before Sars-Cov-3.
It's probably PS3/PS4 owners... (Score:2)
It's probably all the PS3/PS4 owners who's internal clock battery ran out...
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Yeah, even though I had hoped better for the PS3, the subscription service instead of ownership leaves a bad taste in my mouth (certainly they could patch PS3s to not brick after a battery change).
So fuck Sony, they are never getting another dime from me.
PS5 shortage (Score:2)
By "the fastest-selling console in U.S. history" do they mean the 3 units sold in 0 minutes?
Thank to bots (Score:1)
Because I can't get one without paying the bot premium.
Obviously (Score:1)