I guess someone will buy it, but the PS5 PRO isn’t really my cup of tea.
From time to time I wonder if I should splurge and get me one of those fancy consoles, but the answer is no to this day, and the PRO presentation doesn’t budge that answer.
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@innkeeper@gamerstavern.online I use the PS5 as my main gaming rig. I usually skip on the “pro” models.
Mainly because it took me over a year and half to finally get a PS5 in stock. I don’t want to wait another year for the Pro to be available at my local Best Buy.
It may be the attitude from SONY and Microsoft more than the technical stuff of the consoles tho
@innkeeper@gamerstavern.online Yeah, scrolling through the Reddit opinions, it seems the vast majority aren’t impressed. Especially as the machine has no drive or stand included for that price.
@innkeeper@gamerstavern.online It’s certainly interesting to watch, though. While Microsoft doesn’t seem to be following Sony down the path of the mid-gen Pro variant this time around, I think they have been messaging that their next generation will be much more expensive. This is an interesting test of whether the market will bear that, though not exactly 1:1.
@innkeeper@gamerstavern.online if you were the head of Sony and had to design a new console, what would you do differently?
@brakeoutgaming@gamerstavern.online my heart is with handhelds, so I’d move definitely in that direction (a real handheld, not the Portal stuff) for starters, trying to lower the prices. Oh and more PC porting, absolutely.
@innkeeper@gamerstavern.online @brakeoutgaming@gamerstavern.online I wouldn’t be surprised if Xbox pivots to handheld gaming, or at least convert the next iteration of the low end console (Series S) and keep the traditional high end console (Series X).
Phil Spencer has said he’d like a handheld Xbox and Microsoft have been pushing some updates to Windows recently that would suggest they’re leaning in that direction.
@EighthLayer @innkeeper @brakeoutgaming sooo… An underpowered and less versatile ROG Ally, Lenovo Legion, and the like?
Maybe.
Who’d buy it, though? If they’d just refine the Windows handheld experience like Valve did for Linux, they’d already have several portable Xboxes.@KSGamingLife @EighthLayer @brakeoutgaming right-o. And imagine if they went for a different store experience, abandoning the Windows Store and maybe, just maybe, something cross OS.
Native Game Pass on the various handhelds already out there (not necessarily running Windows)? Boom.
@innkeeper@gamerstavern.online @EighthLayer@gamerstavern.online @brakeoutgaming@gamerstavern.online that’s the thing: if Microsoft abandoned the whole hardware scene and just made gamepass available on Linux (for real, not just the cloud gaming through internet explorer thing), you could make every screen in your house an Xbox. They could be printing money.
I totally expect them to do so very soon.
They already are, to some extent: if you just play game pass games and have a good connection, you don’t need an Xbox, just your TV.
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@brakeoutgaming@gamerstavern.onlineThe way #Sony treated the #PSVita was criminal tbh
@innkeeper@gamerstavern.online Yeah, I think Imma just stick with my PC, and just get a Switch 2 when that comes out.
