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Maybe treating these console generations as though they're somehow super different is more trouble than it's worth. Meanwhile, PC games I bought 20 years ago can easily be run on new hardware at higher frame rates and resolutions than when I bought them.
And those games don’t look like modern games even if like look relatively better than when released. This doesn’t have anything to do with console vs pc. The capabilities of each generation are different even if not in a super way.
Pretty much any time you see "remastered", the net effect is that you're just running an old game at better resolutions and frame rates, including The Last of Us Part II. Sony decided they'd rather charge you for the same game multiple times rather than just having a process in place to run their PS4 games better on PS5, like Xbox does in many cases.
@ampersandrew @mike591 @almar_quigley PC players laugh at the concept
I get that, and I wish naughty dog would get back to making games and not “training their new staff” for like a decade. I have no intention of buying this release and think it’s unnecessary. I’m just trying to say this doesn’t need to be a pc/console or Sony bad kinda thing.
When we switched to x64, it was clear we were going to stay on x64, and there was very little reason to keep treating new consoles as dramatically different things the way they were for every previous generation. They decided to keep doing the old way, because it's more lucrative for them. So yes, this is basically a "Sony bad" kind of thing, and because they're the leader in this segment of the market, they know they can get away with it in a way that Xbox can't. But simultaneously, for this and plenty of other reasons, PC has been steadily gaining market share for over a decade and now controls more of it than any one console. I'd attribute a good amount of that to knowing that what you bought will continue to work into the future, including running old games at better settings without having to buy it again, not needing a subscription to play online multiplayer, and not needing to buy new peripherals that do the same exact thing as the old peripherals.