INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
I bought my PS4 in 2014, and by 2018, it started auto-ejecting discs
I bought my precious backwards-compatible PS3 (secondhand) in 2007, and by 2009, I got the yellow light of death
I got my PS2 for Christmas 2001, and by the end of 2002, it'd stopped playing blue discs
With the PS5, I'm unclear on whether I want to rush into buying one, especially since I own a gaming PC that'll keep up with third-party
If I wait a year or two, they might release a model with a bigger SSD, or drop the price, or iron out any issues the launch units might
generation, too, it sounds less like I'm going to have to upgrade on day one to play the latest games
"It will therefore be somewhat father down the road that we release titles exclusively for the next-generation consoles," is how the Final
been a bigger deal since the last generation started
With the launch of the PS4 and Xbox One, games like Watch Dogs, Assassin's Creed 4, Destiny, Dragon Age: Inquisition, Far Cry 4 and Alien:
Isolation all released across both the previous and new generation of consoles
Metal Gear Solid 5 landed two years after the consoles launched, and still came to PS3 and Xbox 360
exclusives for early adopters, because the goal isn't just to sell games, it's to sell hardware
And the unveiling of Xbox Smart Delivery means that you'll only have to buy one version of the game to enjoy it on both Xbox consoles, which
I expect they're much more likely to release a game just on PS5 at launch to guarantee interest in the console, which could be seen as
But even PlayStation's Mark Cerny hinted in this Wired piece that late-generation games like Death Stranding will release on both PS4 and
seen games running on either machine yet, though, and that's what will sell hardware
still played Destiny and Watch Dogs on PS4, not Xbox 360
But it is a marked difference to have a major console manufacturer committing to not making games solely for a next-gen console at launch,
bothered doing this for the announcement of the PS4 and Xbox One
it's not just Microsoft that has this in mind
Do you remember seeing the first trailer for The Witcher 3 at E3 2013? It felt clear that you were looking at something simply beyond the
possibilities of existing consoles
That's what we haven't seen yet
That's when people will start making up their minds about whether they'll buy on day one or not
And both console manufacturers would be smart to show off games that are exclusively coming to next-gen consoles when they reveal their
