Oh my god, what a pull, lol. "Since I haven't heard any disturbance, I assume, while they're listening, they're PC gamers."

First they came for the cheaters
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a cheater

Then they came for the jailbreakers
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a jailbreaker

Then they came for the pirates
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a pirate

Then they came for the disc users
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a disc user

Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me

• Slaaca, 2026

And while you’re at it, open up the OS so it’s more than just a game console. And it would be nice if it had interchangeable parts so we could customize the hardware.

Wait a minute…

No kidding. I have literally thousands of games on PC, that are digital. But I also can run a script and have it download all my GOG games to a drive as a backup.

I also have tons of digital music I bought, because I can download it.

I don't have any consoles newer than PS3 and 360, and I don't buy digital movies. Because there is no guarantee the digital on those works forever.

I mean I'm angry about both but yes it's largely because the last bastion of guaranteed access to something you purchased is being removed.

"Who cares about those sheep? They OWE us their money!"

This.

They did this without consulting developers so they probably want to work out how to pissed the developers are.

Imagine your hard at work developing your game, and you've got your distribution strategy locked down, and then Sony comes along and gets rid of game discs, well that's the entirety of South America and quite a lot of Asia gone then, with no consultation or warning.

This was a massive screw up on Sony's part and now they're trying to work out how to rectify it without actually rectifying it.

GTA VI is the big release this year (though I personally don’t care about it) and IMO it doesn’t look better than Cyberpunk 2077 from nearly 7 years ago. Okay, the faces look better, but the world? Hell no. I just got Pragmata and it in no way pushes the envelope of what XSX/PS5 can do. Hell, the 360/PS3 era games are still peak, IMO. I don’t need PS6 or Helix.

It doesn't look any better, no. But you have to remember the latest games are going to be completely un-optimized code "enhanced" with lots of AI slop, so you're going to need much better hardware to run it, despite it having about the same level of graphics.

Pragmata is in the ballpark of what a Series X or PS5 can do, with that level of performance. The best benchmark might be 007 First Light, and even then, it smells suspiciously like they cut content that they couldn't get running well. The biggest bottleneck at that level of fidelity and performance is the development cost, which is why so few games can output what these games are doing, and it's a contributing factor for why so few of us feel like we need a PS6.

Hell, the 360/PS3 era games are still peak, IMO.

I recommend you look at GTA5 comparison videos between PS3, PS4 and PS5. There's a massive jump in overall graphical quality coming from PS3 to PS4, less so from PS4 to PS5 unless you look at specific things like shadows and reflections. The reason the jump is smaller from PS4 to PS5 except in those two areas is because we've essentially hit a dead end with rasterization. You can pump up the fidelity but the improvements are so marginal that unless you a direct side-by-side comparison you probably can't tell the difference. So what makes those two exceptions so special? That's raytracing. The reason PS4 shadows and reflections look like ass compared to PS5 is because PS5 can do raytracing. But it kinda sucks at raytracing because raytracing was still in its infancy when Xbox and PS were putting together their hardware for this gen. They pretty much had to do a last-minute pivot into raytracing because Nvidia came out with the 30 series and showed raytracing is actually commercially viable. The current gen is still largely stuck behind rasterization with some raytracing sprinkled in for nicer shadows and reflections.

And that's why I'm excited for the next gen even though I'm not going to buy any of the consoles. I'm excited because the next gen will be designed with raytracing in mind and I think proper dynamic lighting is going to the huge generational graphical leap that we didn't get with the current gen. There's no reason to be excited for the next gen consoles themselves, but there's a reason to be excited about the hardware update.