No! Evil... Game Developers...
Apr. 4th, 2013 09:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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... Atlus planning... Persona 5... for PS4! Bethesda probably putting Fallout 4 (and likely any sequels to Oblivion/Skyrim) on PS4!
I don't WANT to support Sony in its quest to go non-backwards-compatible.
But those are the two franchises that I really, REALLY like. FF has lost its luster over the years (though not its jawdropping beauty, which, honestly, sometimes justifies the purchase), they never made a real sequel to Chrono Trigger (Chrono Cross was a perfectly good game, but sucked rocks as a CT sequel). I haven't played the most recent Star Ocean so I can't be SURE they haven't jumped the shark.
"Why HAVEN'T you played the most recent Star Ocean?" you may ask. "It's a PS3 title, right?"
Yes. Yes it is.
But it assumes I have a wide-screen TV to play on, because on a conventional TV the dialogue and control boxes are UNREADABLE!!! I almost wanted to cry when I realized I had the game but couldn't play it.
Damn those evil designers. This will also mean there was never actually a Persona game (except Arena) designed for the PS3 (Persona 3 and 4 were PS2).
... Atlus planning... Persona 5... for PS4! Bethesda probably putting Fallout 4 (and likely any sequels to Oblivion/Skyrim) on PS4!
I don't WANT to support Sony in its quest to go non-backwards-compatible.
But those are the two franchises that I really, REALLY like. FF has lost its luster over the years (though not its jawdropping beauty, which, honestly, sometimes justifies the purchase), they never made a real sequel to Chrono Trigger (Chrono Cross was a perfectly good game, but sucked rocks as a CT sequel). I haven't played the most recent Star Ocean so I can't be SURE they haven't jumped the shark.
"Why HAVEN'T you played the most recent Star Ocean?" you may ask. "It's a PS3 title, right?"
Yes. Yes it is.
But it assumes I have a wide-screen TV to play on, because on a conventional TV the dialogue and control boxes are UNREADABLE!!! I almost wanted to cry when I realized I had the game but couldn't play it.
Damn those evil designers. This will also mean there was never actually a Persona game (except Arena) designed for the PS3 (Persona 3 and 4 were PS2).
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Date: 2013-04-04 03:31 pm (UTC)Regarding the backwards compatibility issue, it's really more a matter of making the PS3 hardware too difficult to emulate. That's why Sony went Cell instead of mainline PowerPC. Even a genuine IBM PowerPC CPU can't fully emulate what Cell does. That was the point of it. Emulation = piracy in their eyes so make a console that's effectively impossible to emulate. Sony did the same thing with PSVita. And it cost Sony dearly, not as much as Blu-ray but it still cost. Sony is still desperately trying to recover from those financial disasters.
Which is why the're going the cheap route with PS4. I laugh at the press reports gushing over how powerful PS4 will be. Hah. PS4 is four AMD netbooks glued together. I'm not kidding. The Jaguar CPU in PS4 is a slightly customized version of AMD's successor to the Bobcat APU like what's in my HP dm1 netbook. Don't get me wrong. I love AMD's APUs (accelerated processing units). But they're not made for performance. They're made for relatively low power consumption. There's simply no way that PS4 can emulate PS3 in anything approaching useful time. But it will cost Sony a whole lot less to develop the console -- since AMD has already done all the hard work. "Forcing" consumers to repurchase their games if they want to play them on the new console is icing.
Will I get one? Doubt it. PS3 and PSVita have failed to pass my three game rule: a console must have three games that I want to play that I can't play anywhere else before I consider buying it. I don't foresee PS4 being any different. Sony is going to have to come up with something more than a new console to get me to change my mind. That starts with my 3 game rule, and continues with being able to turn off all the stupid social crap, and may include being able to dual/multi-boot the box. PS4 as a Steambox would be sweet, but I don't see Sony going for that.