Next PlayStation and Xbox Consoles Are Rumored to Feature AMD UDNA/RNDA 5 Graphics

[Peter_Brosdahl]

Games as a service is only good for one thing: Strips you of

your money. Facetious, I know, but those corporate heads only see $$$ with these, at least until it fails.

 

[Uvilla]

GAS, specifically streaming, which I am looking forward to, can be quite hardware independent. Funny in a way I ended up nintendo precisely because I wanted to ' own ' games. I 'own' all my ds/3ds games, they are there still working, still owned, same with wii games, same with * most* switch games. Yes the switch gets an * , games in that console can be cartrige, download, or even fake cartrige, which is really a download, same as its done ps5, ps4 , ps3? idk, same microsoft.
I dropped pc gaming way back then unquestionably because ownership was taken away ( via server/ serial activation), which meant I lost most of my games I had accumulated late 90s, early 2000s ( all with proper serial numbers, I confess I did not understand the concept of activation - of course they worked when new- didnt know it was a server/ remote thing, I thought it was a cd/ local thing) I tought i ' owned ' those games, same as one would a game cartrige, provided a proper os, it should work I thought, but all i had was a much of useless cd roms. I moved to ps3, to wii ( ds I had for handheld) Meanwhile I watched everyone and their dog make Gabe Newell a multibillionare while not owing any games, everyone ever so happy, so which ownership?
You selling those steam games lately? Can you even sell your account?
I own my 3ds games a hell of a lot more than you ever will any game at Steam.
Hell, I think some have gone up in price.

If nintendo wants to port every single game every single time they make new hardware, thats good on them. I dont have to buy it, I have never purchased what I already own, theres no point for me.
Off memory, miitopia was made for 3ds, then later , ported to the switch, yay! Got it for the switch, never did for the 3ds, If I did, why would I buy it again on the switch? No one makes you buy nintendo.. I mean if you are a collector of all things nintendo, then yeah you would buy, and good on you , whatever.
Plenty of non intendo games have ' editions' releases (they did in the past for sure, not paying attention now) and then you add collections, and bundles and so on, sucks for you if you got the first version, now you can have the dlc, or re buy the bundle or the platimum edition or whatever; well just like nintendo, no one makes you buy it. Yes i know theres some studio that release big updates with new features, but looking at the news its almost like a bribe, for initially releasing a buggy incomplete alpha software.
Oh yeah, i am looking forward for GAS/ streaming, to just cut off hardware purchase. For now, I will keep looking, that will be my ' second' console most likely, no rush for me. But yeah, I am looking forward a netflix of games, and then a bunch of lesser netflixes to checkout, maybe hop on and off here and there.

 

[Denpepe]

Funny in a way I ended up nintendo precisely because I wanted to ' own ' games. I 'own' all my ds/3ds games, they are there still working, still owned, same with wii games, same with * most* switch games. Yes the switch gets an * , games in that console can be cartrige, download, or even fake cartrige, which is really a download, same as its done ps5, ps4 , ps3? idk, same microsoft.

Thing that would make me stop buying consoles is the removal of physical media support, backwards compatability is great but not if you can't play the games you already own due to no disc player in the console.

 

[DrezKill]

being portable is a huge plus

Don't have to sell me on portable gaming. My first console was the original Game Boy (cuz the Atari 2600 was my mother's, as was the NES). My mom was big into Nintendo handhelds and our family used to collect Game Boys. We had original Game Boys, Game Boy Colors, Game Boy Pocket, and Game Boy Advances (including SP, but not the stupid tiny Micro). We also had Game Gear, DSes, PSP, and 3DSes. I'm still trying to get my hands on a PS Vita. After I soft-modded my 3DS it became one of my most-used systems. My bro and I both have Switches, and he spends a lot of time on his Steam Deck. I have a friend who rarely gets to play video games at home, so most of his gaming is done when he is out and about, or on break at work. His Switch and Steam Deck have been invaluable for that.

As far as nintendo re releasing the game in different generations, this is a good thing, you dont have to buy it if you played it, why would you? I would buy it if I havent played it though.

Yeah, that makes sense, but that's not what I take issue with. The problem is that they re-release games for full price, even when they are old as f*ck. And yeah sometimes they'll add a little bit of content or make other changes, but not enough to warrant the games still being full price after so many years.

Graphics are way over rated in terms of providing the fun part of games, like super over rated.

Gameplay is always the most important thing about a video game. Doesn't matter how good the game looks if it still plays like @ss, and is no fun to play. But Nintendo has forgotten what it was like to have the most powerful system on the market, like back with the SNES or N64, or at least have decent hardware like the Gamecube. The power of the SNES made a lot of sh1t possible, and improved experiences in very meaningful ways. After Gamecube their hardware has been holding back their games, rather than setting them free, and allowing them to realize more of their potential and give the player the best experience possible.

Funny in a way I ended up nintendo precisely because I wanted to ' own ' games. I 'own' all my ds/3ds games, they are there still working, still owned, same with wii games, same with * most* switch games. Yes the switch gets an * , games in that console can be cartrige, download, or even fake cartrige, which is really a download

With GOG purchases on PC you fully own the games. Anything that is DRM-free, even on other platforms (for example, CP2077 is still DRM-free on Steam). But I get what you are saying. I'm really big into physical media, and that's one thing I am glad consoles still do. I was never happy that it stopped being a thing on PC. But on PC where we used a lot of "community demos" we were already amassing libraries of digital-only games, so when stores like Steam started officially doing it, it wasn't that big of a deal to a lot of PC gamers. But yeah on consoles I try to buy as many games as possible physically rather than digitally.

As for PC games that aren't DRM-free, well the community is always around to provide free versions of those games anyways. I wouldn't feel guity if I lost access to a game I "owned" on a digital storefront cuz the store closed down, and I replaced that copy with a "community demo". Heck, I've already done something similar on consoles: when my copy of Mario Kart DS was stolen, I didn't buy another copy. I just used the "community demo" version from then on.

I still have pretty much all the physical games I've ever had for all systems I've owned since the NES. I keep all my consoles (most of which are still hooked up and ready to play) and games, rarely sell any games. What I really like to do is have soft-modded systems, so I can have the physical discs or cartridges, but don't actually need to use them to play the games. Like when my Wii got soft-modded I still bought games, but I would use those discs to install the games to the HDD I was using for my Wii. Then I would just load the games off the HDD, but I was happy to still have the physical discs. Same for my PSP, I own UMDs but I load ISOs from the memory card. Same thing for when I soft-modded my DS and 3DS. I have the physical cartridges but I don't need to put them in the systems to play those games. You can extract the ROM and save data from the cartridges you own. Makes it safer when you travel around with your system, cuz you don't have to carry the games with you. This is a lesson I learned the hard way after I got robbed in 2010 and they stole my first DS Lite and left me with only one physical game for the system. I lost not only the games but the save data on those games. My entire NES library was also stolen in the 90s and in the 2000s I replaced most of those games, and then expanded my library further.

Don't forget that some Switch 1 games only have part of the game on the cartridge, cuz developers were too cheap to use the full cartridge size cuz those cost more (for Switch 1 the largest size is 32GB). So in the cases of those games, the cartridges are not stand-alone, and won't work without downloading the rest of the game. Kinda defeats the purpose of physical media. Or in the case of game collections, only part of the collection is on the cartridge. So for example the Spyro Reignited Trilogy only has the first of the 3 games on the cartridge. The other two games are downloads. So if you own the cartridge and try to play it 20 years from now on a fresh system long after the Switch servers were shut down, you're SoL if you wanna play Spyro 2 or 3 in that collection, unless you already have the data on-hand.

And then yeah for Switch 2 those fake red cartridges that are called "key cards" or whatever is just straight-up a stupid f*cking idea.

But we're the weird ones for liking physical media, cuz most people seem to prefer digital libraries (and not just for games but even for movies and music). I even have friends who think it is too much trouble to get up, walk over to the console, and put in/take out a game! Kinda ridiculous if you ask me. But as someone who has been using consoles since 2nd-gen and still regularly plays consoles across all generations, having to physically change out games is something that is still normal to me.

That being said, I do wish I had flashcarts for multiple systems, so I could just load an SD card or whatever full of game ROMs, stick it in a flashcart like an Everdrive, stick the flashcart in the system and then just load up the games. It's certainly cost effective for platforms like the Neo-Geo, where the games have insaaane costs, and where I feel emulation isn't good enough to just stick to that. For reference I own a Neo-Geo MVS (the arcade version, not the home console version which is the AES). I f*cked around with Neo-Geo emulation and it's not good enough for me, so I stick to the hardware. At least I have the MVS cuz games for the AES tend to cost waaaaay more (and MVS games are already expensive). I have friends who own a lot more MVS games (and one of them has a flashcart), so I just borrow their games rather than buying my own (but I still have a decently sized library of my own).

I own my 3ds games a hell of a lot more than you ever will any game at Steam.

Yes this is true (if you're not counting DRM-free games on PC), and it is true for any console where you get the actual full game on a cartridge or optical disc. But if you had bought your 3DS games digitally then you would be in the same boat as on any other platform with digital games. You get the same options as you do on Sony and Microsoft systems - buying the physical copy or buying the digital copy. So that doesn't make Nintendo special.

My brother often mentions how he misses the days when consoles has no OSes and no user accounts and you just popped the game in, turned the system on, and the game was already running, and you could play it immediately.

If nintendo wants to port every single game every single time they make new hardware, thats good on them. I dont have to buy it, I have never purchased what I already own, theres no point for me.

That's fine, I'm just saying Nintendo shouldn't overcharge for them, which they always f*cking do.

And some of those ports to newer systems are worse than the original versions, or worse than what is available elsewhere. Like Super Mario Sunshine in the Super Mario 3D All-Stars collection is worse than the original version on Gamecube (but Super Mario Galaxy is better than the original Wii version, except for the color banding issues with the graphics). As for Super Mario 64 in that collection, the native PC port is vastly superior. And that PC version was ported to both 3DS and Wii U (and Switch), and even on 3DS it is superior. So Nintendo charging actual money for crappier versions of their own games that are available elsewhere is another thing I have a problem with.

Thing that would make me stop buying consoles is the removal of physical media support, backwards compatability is great but not if you can't play the games you already own due to no disc player in the console.

Which is really f*cking annoying. I have an XB1 and use it to play some X360 and original Xbox games (sadly not all the original Xbox and X360 games I have work on XB1). I was thinking about grabbing an XBSS to replace my XB1, but without an optical drive, I have no way of putting in the discs for those X360 or original Xbox games. So XBSS ends up being useless to me for that purpose.

Oh yeah, i am looking forward for GAS/ streaming

I'm the opposite. I don't believe in streaming video games. That sh1t needs to run on local hardware. And Games as a Service, ugh no thank you. I want to buy a game once for a reasonable price and then keep it and use it forever. Game Pass is not for people like me. And kinda useless in the modern age where games often get to really cheap prices rather quickly. That being said, I did try streaming games on a friend's XBSX and it worked out pretty well (although visually it was quite lacking, with lower IQ and full of artifacts), but my friend lives in close proximity to both Verizon FiOS backbone and Microsoft's servers for that area, so he said what I experienced is better than how the service normally is.

 

[DrezKill]

cuz most people seem to prefer digital libraries (and not just for games but even for movies and music)

Actually it's even worse than that, cuz I keep running into people who don't even have local digital libraries, they stream movies/shows and especially music. Just insane to me that people can live like that. If I don't use BDs then I at least have BD rips. And for music, shiat I still grab CDs then rip them to FLAC. I don't stream anything (aside from watching YouTube). I play everything from local media whether I am in my home or in my car or wherever else (from my PC, my phone, a flash drive, etc). My car is too old, but I wish I had a newer system and head unit so I could do like a lot of my friends and just throw music onto a flash drive and plug that in and just leave it in the car. I do throw music on my phone, but to play it out of my car's radio I have to use a casette tape adapter.

 

[Stoly]

GAS, specifically streaming, which I am looking forward to, can be quite hardware independent. Funny in a way I ended up nintendo precisely because I wanted to ' own ' games. I 'own' all my ds/3ds games, they are there still working, still owned, same with wii games, same with * most* switch games. Yes the switch gets an * , games in that console can be cartrige, download, or even fake cartrige, which is really a download, same as its done ps5, ps4 , ps3? idk, same microsoft.
I dropped pc gaming way back then unquestionably because ownership was taken away ( via server/ serial activation), which meant I lost most of my games I had accumulated late 90s, early 2000s ( all with proper serial numbers, I confess I did not understand the concept of activation - of course they worked when new- didnt know it was a server/ remote thing, I thought it was a cd/ local thing) I tought i ' owned ' those games, same as one would a game cartrige, provided a proper os, it should work I thought, but all i had was a much of useless cd roms. I moved to ps3, to wii ( ds I had for handheld) Meanwhile I watched everyone and their dog make Gabe Newell a multibillionare while not owing any games, everyone ever so happy, so which ownership?
You selling those steam games lately? Can you even sell your account?
I own my 3ds games a hell of a lot more than you ever will any game at Steam.
Hell, I think some have gone up in price.

If nintendo wants to port every single game every single time they make new hardware, thats good on them. I dont have to buy it, I have never purchased what I already own, theres no point for me.
Off memory, miitopia was made for 3ds, then later , ported to the switch, yay! Got it for the switch, never did for the 3ds, If I did, why would I buy it again on the switch? No one makes you buy nintendo.. I mean if you are a collector of all things nintendo, then yeah you would buy, and good on you , whatever.
Plenty of non intendo games have ' editions' releases (they did in the past for sure, not paying attention now) and then you add collections, and bundles and so on, sucks for you if you got the first version, now you can have the dlc, or re buy the bundle or the platimum edition or whatever; well just like nintendo, no one makes you buy it. Yes i know theres some studio that release big updates with new features, but looking at the news its almost like a bribe, for initially releasing a buggy incomplete alpha software.
Oh yeah, i am looking forward for GAS/ streaming, to just cut off hardware purchase. For now, I will keep looking, that will be my ' second' console most likely, no rush for me. But yeah, I am looking forward a netflix of games, and then a bunch of lesser netflixes to checkout, maybe hop on and off here and there.

How cute thinking you own your games. You don't own your games; you licence the right to play the games you pay for. The fact you have physical media is irrelevant. It's been like that for as long as I can remember. Thing is it's now easier to block you from playing the game if you violate the licence agreement.

 

[MadMummy76]

I dropped pc gaming way back then unquestionably because ownership was taken away

And with nintendo you don't even own the HW, they will literally brick it remotely if you do something they don't approve of. You call that ownership?

You selling those steam games lately? Can you even sell your account?

My exact point was that I want games that I wouldn't want to sell. I never sold a PC game in my entire life, even when that was still possible.
Ownership to me is not about how can I make money on flipping games. It means I get to keep it and access it whenever I want.

This is in part why I despise streaming services, I don't want to pay for something that turns into thin air as soon as I stop paying.
Even in the Satellite TV era, I only paid for services where I could record unencrypted streams. And on the internet and On demand video, I only accept the deal if I can save the stream.

I'd pay for a subscription service if it let you keep games indefinitely, but we both know that's never gonna happen.