StormCell
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I prefer Playstation to have their unique top quality franchises also that stay on their hardware platforms, or at least eventually come to PC as well, and I'll play them on playstation consoles. Even with an amazing PC I greatly enjoy the console experience. I own both PS5 and Series X, and I totally see Xbox being my likely preferred gaming platform all gen, but I look forward to all the amazing things PS5 will offer that I can't ever see on Xbox.
The worst offenders in this industry want there to be no difference at all between the major platforms, where everything is shared on everything, so they can give us worst deals that are better for their bottom lines than for our enjoyment of games. But when there is active competition in the form of other viable platforms with unique game experiences, it keeps them honest because they don't want to not sell to that consumer base also. So what Nintendo does, what Sony does and what Microsoft does is all beneficial to all of us in some shape or form because they have different content and approaches to things.
There used to be much bigger differences among the platforms. Between PS5 and Xbox Series S|X, I am not seeing a stark contrast. Yes, I've heard all about the SSD's, and I don't think it will be nearly as big a contrast as we saw in previous generations (PS1 vs N64, PS2 vs GCN vs XBX, PS3 vs 360 ehhhh...) where a difference in RAM and cache memory amounts and even TYPES had a considerable impact on what the platform exclusive dev teams could achieve (ie. Super Mario Sunshine water types of achievements).
Now, it's sort of just all down to how much they can load and push through the rendering pipeline, and what they can't load fast enough will just pop in a quarter of a second slower/later than the other guy's. lol
Yeah, I don't buy any secret sauce no matter what they talk about with engines. Same thing and better is already out there for PC builders. It already is. The engines will just be made to support all the things so it can run on all the things with varying differences that compensate for for... differences.
But I do appreciate all the exclusives from Sony and Nintendo. And even Microsoft.