Game News 2.0

Damn that is very disappointing. It’s a pass for me.

I've watched most of that and will finish it off today. I find them active quite childish. I can guarantee you their tone would be different if Sony invited themselves instead of CNET to try out this thing.

SSD?

Yeah, you can buy 4 Switch Lites for pretty much the same price as a PS5 Pro and a disc drive.

It's almost impressive how quickly Sony can still manage to wipe out 10+ years of goodwill with one announcement. More worryingly is how a lot of people are immediately likening this to the launch of the PS3, whose stink took an absolute age for Sony to overcome.

Agreed.

I think with the PS3 they announced it with a whopper price and expected people to go along with it as some sort of easy sell.

With the PS5 Pro, I got the impression that they know, somewhat similar to the Dualsense Edge (albeit at a much different price point), that the PS5 Pro will be a relatively niche product that will only penetrate a small % of their user base, and they're ok with that.

Another thing that just occurred to me is that there's no easy upgrade path anymore. I had both the PS4 Pro and Xbox One X and was able to trade in my base console to GameStop and just pay the difference - they had pretty generous deals at the time too.

Really don't like grubbing about in Cex and Adverts/Done Deal is a minefield of nonsense.

Unless the PS5 Pro is a complete failure or MS has a rival console launching in the €600 range, I would expect the minimum price the PS6 will be launched at to be €800 now.

Can’t see the Pros price going down that much over the next couple of years and certainly can’t seem them pricing their new console more cheaply than that.

Wonder if their going the Apple route and having a new release every few years with the latest and greatest being considered their Pro offering - the console landscape has changed in that there’s less and less reasons to jump to a newer gen. The PS4 still has a huge install base and is still being supported with new games, that’ll probably be the same with the PS5 years into the PS6 lifetime.

So instead of going for a big bang approach and trying to get everyone to adopt the latest asap, they’re probably changing to have a fancy model for those who can afford it while having a more traditionally priced version supported that will play most(or all) of the games the newest plays.

I do think that approach sort of makes sense, but I do think it would give MS an enormous opportunity for market share with a more traditionally priced top tier offering. Although knowing them, they’d just take it to mean that they should start charging €800 for their console too.

It does sound like psvr2 will get a boost from the pro hardware, and there is a version of the upscaling coming later on for it too.

Alright, I googled and ran with the first number I saw, my bad. Maybe it was the most expensive model I saw, maybe it was reddit speculation, i cant remember. It wasn't, and isn't, my intent to make up anything.

But I'm not trying to justify the Pro, I am getting it. That was always a given. My point was people will buy what they personally see value in. Most on here think the Pro is too much, but it still costs less than a lot of other tech people will buy. I'll get more value out of the Pro than I will out of my pc or whatever the next flagship phone I'll buy will be. O

I don't think I'll bother with the Pro. Not at launch anyway. I usually try for one big purchase for myself every so often and I've my eye on a new coffee machine. I don't need the extra storage of the Pro (have 2tb already added to my PS5), won't notice the graphics and just can't see a reason to.

I know I'll probably change my mind closer the time as I've eyes bigger than my stomach, but for now anyway I can't even convince myself why I should get it.

Though maybe I will after a few coffees…

The entire staff of Annapurna Interactive, the video-game publishing division of Megan Ellison's Annapurna studio, resigned this month following a dispute with its owner, according to people familiar with the situation.

Annapurna Interactive President Nathan Gary and his team had been negotiating with Ellison, the daughter of billionaire Larry Ellison, to spin off the video-game division as an independent entity, said the people, who spoke anonymously because they were not authorized to share the information with the press. When Ellison pulled out of the negotiations, Gary and other executives resigned and were followed by around two dozen other staffers.

A spokesperson for Annapurna confirmed that it had explored a spinoff and said the parties failed to reach an agreement, which led to the resignations.

"Our top priority is continuing to support our developer and publishing partners during this transition," Ellison said in a statement to Bloomberg News. "We're committed to not only our existing slate of games but also expanding our presence in the interactive space as we continue to look for opportunities to take a more integrated approach to linear and interactive storytelling across film and TV, gaming, and theater."

The exodus has led to chaos as game developers partnered with Annapurna try to figure out what this means for their upcoming projects. As a publisher, Annapurna is responsible not only for funding the games but for handling services such as quality-assurance, adapting the products for local markets and marketing. Over the past few days, game makers working with Annapurna have scrambled to find new points of contact and figure out whether the company will continue to honor its agreements.

The spokesperson said that all existing games and projects will remain under Annapurna.

Happy with my PS5 disk slim. Got rid of my original PS5, was too noisy and too big. But mostly too noisy. Have a ton of PS4/PS5 games to play at 60 FPS. From a technical point of view, FPS, and relative quiet ( not at good as XBox series ), trumps ray tracing and resolution easily. Sony killed MS, but then dropped a console that does not seem to add anything extra. The killer app for PS5 pro is GTA6 of course, but when will that actually arrive ?