I almost chocked on my coffee in the first 20 seconds :)

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    6 months ago

    Remember when some top Sony exec said that this generation wouldn’t need a pro, and that that was a unique PS4 generation thing?

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      6 months ago

      Looking at GTA6 I wonder if a normal PS5 can even run the game at the resolution from the trailer

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    6 months ago

    not entirely related but I guarantee you’d have more fun playing some cheap indie game with your close friends on a $800 PC

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      6 months ago

      Ngl your comment made me look up what I could get for ab. $800

      RTX 4060 302.15€

      Ryzen 5 4500 67.45€

      Decent AM4 mainboard 57.07€

      Decent CPU air cooler 21.07€

      Thermal paste 3.01€

      16 GB DDR4 RAM 35.20€

      Semi-Modular 600W PSU 75.07€

      500GB M.2 NVMe SSD 34.58€

      2TB HDD 35.20€

      Case 85.61€

      Wifi card 25.10€

      PC building tutorial: free on YT or just follow the instructions of your case and mainboard…

      Software not included so people can look up what Windows officially charges them for showing them ads

      That makes 741.51€ or $817.57 for a pretty damn good custom pc… And it could be way less if you went for 2nd hand parts / better deals

      I would rather build it myself than buying a cheap prebuilt one from a no name bc a friend of mine tried that and got scammed and realized way too late sadly

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      6 months ago

      He says in the video. He’s been a marketing consultant for some really big companies. No one is better to talk about poor marketing decisions than someone who does it for a living and for big companies. And his iew point aligns closely with what most people are thinking.

      Tbh you can decide for yourself how valid what he says it. Just watch the video. Its only short but it makes alot of sense.

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    6 months ago

    I’m not buying the pro, the PS6 or the next Xbox series console.

    This gen felt like a waste of money to me, with only minute differences at a huge cost.

    I’ll wait until 4 years into the new console gen to decide.

    Until then, I have my pc and my 7800xt Nitro+

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      6 months ago

      I think I am going to go Xbox next time around for console games. The PS5 has been a let down in terms of game selection and overall improvements. I actually get mad when I go to look at games in the store and the ads and clips are blurry and low res because Sony dont invest in their backend to stream at a decent resolution.

      I bought a meh pc yesterday because Im going to use that moving forward, pay for myinternet once and use it when I want.

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        If you think the ps5 game selection is bad wait till you see what xbox doesn’t have. And everything exclusive to xbox is on PC. Sony has been absolutely mopping the floor with xbox this gen, which is probably why they think people will spend $700 in the pro.

        And how’s your internet? Because I’ve never thought the videos on the store were bad enough to complain about. Might not be 4k but its never been blurry for me.

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          I have had the same issue with 10gb and 1gb internet. Their store has terrible optimisation even though they baked it into the ps5.

          Sony puts their games on PC too, I just dont want to support them anymore. I will probably go pc fulltime. I stopped with Nintendo too because of how badly they sucked.

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            6 months ago

            I really love the Switch form factor and detachable controls. I bought a Steam Deck instead, though.

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              6 months ago

              It’s okay. You did the same as me but skipping the steps where you spend the money on a switch, and then leave it in a drawer when you get tired of games that play at 27 FPS, which you’re lucky if you manage to get with a 20% discount after tracking them on dekudeals for months.

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      6 months ago

      To be fair, the PS5 was the worst investment I made last year. I did never buy a PS4, I own PSX, 2 and 3 tho.

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        It feels like PS3 was the biggest leap in technology. I loved my PS3, and had a ton of games for it. Since then it’s been incremental, faster loading times, incrementally better graphics, and such. The PS5 makes loading screens on Bethesda games tolerable to me

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    6 months ago

    This thing is expensive, and I probably won’t get one.

    But the Panasonic 3DO cost $700 in 90s money and that thing sucked ass, so this price isn’t something we’ve never seen before.

    Sony does need to read the room, though. It’s a bit of a bad look.