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[nowhat]

When they made a good console that people bought?

Sony didn't make the Xbox Series X

That's right, they made a console that people actually buy.

 

[Mr Hyde]

Series S is the reason GTA 6 has taken 11 fucking years to develop.

 

[justiceiro]

At least would mean it would release on switch successor.

 

[JackMcGunns]

This just in:

PS5 Pro version delayed because of PS5.

 

[Tiago Rodrigues]

When did Sony become the chairman of the fucking lucky club?

When they made a single piece of hardware for the entire gen that's easy to develop and didn't try to cut corners and have a piece of trash releasing for 300€/$ to have some extra sales that ended up backfiring. Plus making sure everyone is forced to release their games in both pieces of hardware (X and S). Series S was weak on release and now Xbox is stuck with it for like 8 years. What a great strategy that was.

You can tell developers hate the thing based on comments on X / Twitter even if they try not to talk about it much.

 

[Azelover]

When they made a good console that people bought?

So has Nintendo, but they don't have a main GTA on their platform. Doing a good job to create a nice platform sure is part of it, but it doesn't explain all.

And to be honest Sony has been very lucky from day one. That's my opinion. We don't have to agree.

 

[Tiago Rodrigues]

So has Nintendo, but they don't have a main GTA on their platform. Doing a good job to create a nice platform sure is part of it, but it doesn't explain all.

And to be honest Sony has been very lucky from day one. That's my opinion. We don't have to agree.

Ah yes...lucky sony.

PS One: Lucky they decided for the CDs.
PS2: Lucky they decided for the DVD's. It was basically a cheap DVD player that people bought.
PS3: It started bad but lucky they decided for the Blu-Ray. It was basically a cheap Blu-Ray player.
PS4: Lucky Xbox messed up the Xbox On release.
PS5: Lucky because...?

This might be the luckiest company ever.

 

[Pelta88]

Kotick / Activision forced MS to give them 15% of their COD royalties. Cutting the usual 30% royalties a platform captures in half. Some speculated this was due to the hardware falling in every territory. I don't think TTI would delay a XB port. Instead, they'd renegotiate the royalty split like ATVI did.

The issue here is falling hardware sales weakening XB as a platform's position.

 

[Trilobit]

Personally I'm not impressed with modern devs unless there is a Game Boy port

If I was the leader of Earth I'd write it into law that every game produced needs to have a Game Boy port. It would be amazing to see.

 

[{insert code here}]

It's GTA bruh MS will drop the Series S, make an exception for R*.

 

[BlackTron]

If I was the leader of Earth I'd write it into law that every game produced needs to have a Game Boy port. It would be amazing to see.

Don't forget the part of the law that forbids the port from holding back other platforms. Edit: and don't forget feature parity, either.

Those idiots at Larian need a lesson.

 

[nowhat]

PS3: It started bad but lucky they decided for the Blu-Ray. It was basically a cheap Blu-Ray player.

Yeah, on release it was one of the cheapest, if not the cheapest Blu-Ray player out there. So it was also bought by home theater enthusiasts, who may not buy a single game ever. At the time, despite the atrociously high price of the console, Sony was making a loss of like $200 per unit. Just check out Sony's profits, or rather losses, from that time period. Also hindsight is 20/20, but in retrospect, I don't think the Cell was the right call. Don't get me wrong, I like it from a technological perspective. It's alien. It's different. It's weird. We need more weird. And it excelled in certain types of computational tasks, if you made the effort to use it as it was intended to be used (this was not a trivial task). But as a general CPU for a game console... maybe not the greatest idea.

Sony was indeed lucky during the PS3 era, being able to finally catch up with 360 towards the end of it, but I think that was despite their decisions instead because of them.

 

[skyfinch]

Considering Series S is the lead platform and the system of choice amongst gamers, I would say no. If they were to delay GTA6, you can blame it on Sony's janky ass PSVR2 marketing.

 

[ChoosableOne]

Maybe it won't be delayed, but we might see a performance on par with the McGregor vs. Khabib fight. It will be one of the best events of 2025 for sure.

 

[Clintizzle]

I will jizz in my pants if that happens

 

[RetroGamingUK]

This just in:

PS5 Pro version delayed because of PS5.

Joking aside, why would that be the case?

If Rockstar were smart, which no doubt they are, then they’d be targeting the base PS5 when designing the game.

 

[SJRB]

If any I wish Rockstar bruteforced their way out of the retarded “you must release on series S too” clause and sets precedent.

If anyone can do this, it’s them.

 

[RetroGamingUK]

Due to Microsoft never releasing sales figures we don’t know the split between X and S.

Do you think Microsoft would further piss off their customers by turning around and saying that Series X games no longer have to support Series S despite promising that this would never be the case?