Comment on PS6 and Xbox Project Helix "will start at a 50% higher price" than PS5 and Xbox Series X, predict analysts following Sony price hike – and $999 "is not impossible"

etherphon@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I pray for immaculate memtests on us all for all eternity.

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  • etherphon@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    🙏

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• hayvan@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Seriously, anything after 2015 has perfect graphics, I don’t need slightly more realistic hair or whatever. Even a lot of 2010 is enjoyable. And this is only about graphics quality. For gameplay, story etc, you know shit actually matters, there already is way more than I can play.

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  • solok333777@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Playing games in the modern era for better graphics is like watching the latest movie because it used a really cool high tech camera.

    You should play new games for the artistry and quality of gameplay, story, and other elements, same as ever.

    But that doesnt mean new games have no value. You’re just fighting against a straw man to begin with.

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    • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You should play new games for the artistry and quality of gameplay, story, and other elements, same as ever.

      But they already knew how to make games with artistry, quality gameplay, story and other elements in decades past. Which is why that person’s point was that you don’t need access to the very latest games for enjoyment and now that graphics have peaked, there’s no real reason to buy a game that runs like shit on what might not be a top of the line PC.

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      • solok333777@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Same reason could apply to movies and music to say no one “needs” to watch or listen to newer stuff.

        Then you become the old man telling kids to get off the lawn. It’s anyone’s right to be like this.

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• Eggyhead@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  As a long time PS customer, the Steam Deck has been probably the smartest/luckiest impulse purchase I’ve made. I used to not have a PC backlog, but now I own a PC port of pretty much all my favorite console games PS4 and backwards, among others, and the majority of those purchases have fallen under the “might-as-well-at-that-price” category of expense. I’ve been playing on Deck nearly every day since I got it and have only scratched the surface of library I’ve built since buying it.

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  • tomkatt@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “might-as-well-at-that-price”

    The reason I have 130 games installed on my Steam Deck. My backlog has gotten absurd to the point of comedy. I’m set for years.

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    • Minnels@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This year I try to stop this. Went 2 months without buying a single game. I have an absurd amount of games and the list of games i actually want to play is so large it would still take years to complete.

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  • Havoc8154@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Between Humble Bundles and Fanatical I’ve got more games than I can play in a year for less than a single new release. It’s amazing.

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• datavoid@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Famous last words, now your RAM and GPU are going to fail

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  • etherphon@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ve got like 30 years worth of PC parts laying around, I’m sure I can cobble something together 😁 sometimes it pays to be a packrat.

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• GraniteM@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I have literally never in my life bought the next generation console because I had run out of games that I was planning to play on the current generation, and my first console was a NES. I’m not sure how concerned game companies are with the upgrade demographic as opposed to the “I’d like to buy a new console” demographic, but if everyone bought new consoles the way I do, the industry would have crashed back in the 90s.

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  • etherphon@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Been about the same here as well, I mean to me graphics have been good enough since like PS2 since I started with a Commodore 64, so everything else has just been icing on the cake. I never really got into online gaming either so that was never a draw. I suppose I see gaming as something like a momentary escape, so I prefer games with colorful, fantastic graphics and not necessarily photo realistic renders, so the constant push for more polygons has largely been not so important for me.

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• baines@lemmy.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  take of path of exile, warframe, and/or guild wars and just never buy a ‘new’ game again

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