Sony Cracks Down On Sexually Explicit Content In Games (engadget.com) 299
Slashdot reader xavdeman writes: Hot on the heels of its announcement of the specifications of the next PlayStation, Sony has revealed a new crackdown on explicit content. Citing "the rise of the #MeToo movement" and a concern of "legal and social action" in the USA, Sony has said it wants to address concerns about the depiction of women in video games playable on its platform as well as protect children's "sound growth and development." The new rules were reportedly already responsible for puritan cutscene alterations in the Western PS4 release of the multi-platform title Devil May Cry 5, where lens flares were used to cover up partial nudity.
Think of the children (Score:2, Troll)
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Have you ever learned anything about the effect of porn exposure on kids sex lives? It's not good.
Citation needed. Seriously. Because all the studies I have seen say something else (basically: "no effect") and the only sources for your claims seem to be rather problematic, mostly religion and its demented disciples.
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What studies have you seen?
Wrong question. You are the one with the claim here, not me.
The studies I've heard about pretty much indicate that exposure to porn at a young age can lead to addictions to same and a difficulty to successfully establish and maintain healthy sexual identities. It *can* lead to the inability to actually interact with *people* in an appropriate sexual way as most porn is unrealistic on many levels. I heard a guy the other day complaining that he could not have a normal (to him) sex life because of his early porn addiction had made arousal impossible without porn, and the women he was in relationships with found that to be unacceptable.
"Porn Addiction" is a myth. It is used by people to excuse behavior towards others that these others find unacceptable. It is also a lie pushed by diverse religious groups to justify their anti-porn (and anti-sex) stance.
We don't let them drink for a reason. We don't sell them cigarettes for a reason.
You are mixing fact and fiction here. Alcohol consumption and smoking in humans too young is solidly scientifically known to cause life-long negative effects. For porn that is not known and when you look at actually neutrally funde
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"Porn Addiction" is a myth.
I doubt that's the case. People get addicted to pretty much anything (in the common use of the term 'addicted').
It's one reason video game addiction could be declared a mental health issue. It does actually exist.
It's just that its prevalence is (along with porn addition, sock addiction and talking common sense on the internet addiction) extraordinarily low and most people manage to avoid it becoming the sole thing in their lives.
Re: Think of the children (Score:2)
Re:Think of the children (Score:5, Insightful)
However, if Sony doesn't have the infrastructure and procedures in place to protect children as they'd like and still offer the material, it's up to them to remove it.
You almost had it. Here:
However, if Sony doesn't have the infrastructure and procedures in place to protect children as they'd like and still offer the material, it's up to [[THE PARENTS]] to remove it [[from their children's reach]]
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However, if Sony doesn't have the infrastructure and procedures in place to protect children as they'd like and still offer the material, it's up to them to remove it.
You almost had it. Here:
However, if Sony doesn't have the infrastructure and procedures in place to protect children as they'd like and still offer the material, it's up to [[THE PARENTS]] to remove it [[from their children's reach]]
I as assuming that Sony was reacting to what they thought was a good business decision. Maybe they understand that parents like me would be tossing Sony products out of the house to remove the material from their children's reach and thought that they'd be better of if they remove the material and keep that market share?
Maybe this is about keeping market share and not about censorship of material with specific content. Maybe Sony is just trying to keep their customer base and they see this as the best way
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Then I'd guess they're making the wrong kind of game. Because one thing's certain, nobody who has an alternative will get DMC5 on a Sony console now. And DMC games aren't exactly the "family friendly" kind of game series, ya know...
Re:Think of the children (Score:5, Insightful)
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Maybe, just maybe, Sony is making a business decision, not a moral one?
Maybe they think that by removing this kind of material they will keep parents who see the issue like I do from tossing their PlayStations and keep them as customers?
Nintendo had quite the following with the Wii family of games. Seems to me they kept strict control of the kinds of games and content allowed and it worked well for their business model. MAYBE... Just, maybe, Sony is thinking that it will be better for their business to
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Nintendo is publishing the Bayonetta sequels, normies don't care about objectification.
Sony are just making themselves a juicier target by showing weakness and creating animosity towards themselves. Get woke, go broke is hyperbole ... but there are only net negative gains to be had by value signalling like this.
As a rule a gaming company should simply not give social justice any attention and make sure gaming websites realise that asking them questions to take a stand in that regard will just earn them no f
Re:Think of the children (Score:4, Insightful)
Men: "dang, geralt is ripped, i wish i looked like him. I'll do trial of the grasses (read as: hit the gym) and stop stuffing my fat fucking face")
Women*: "that outfit is too skimpy, and it sets unrealistic standards for women's bodies. Hey, mcdonalds sounds good, i haven't ate in 2 hours"
*the type who bitch about video games and how women are depicted, while COMPLETELY missing that men are idealized in these games too. Oh, and somehow missing that they are god damn works of fiction. If you wanted to see average, chunky people just go outside and hang out at bus stops or the local K-mart.
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Certainly the men are idealized in the games too. But they're still aimed at male ideals - what men want to be like, more than what women want to look at.
Re:Think of the children (Score:5, Insightful)
Is it unheard of for women wanting to be what men want to look at? (not that they'd ever admit to it.)
i'd wager basketball shorts and a loose fitting T-shirt are JUST as comfortable as yoga pants and a halter top.
(inb4 weak ass incel comments.)
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they're still aimed at male ideals - what men want to be like
Nonsense. I've seen no video games at all in which the men are depicted as Japanese schoolgirls.
What? You think all men have identical desires? No. You don't think women impose unrealistic expectations on how men should look? They do.
Re: Think of the children (Score:2)
what men want to be like, more than what women want to look at
I'd rather trust real-world data than your naive idealism. I'm pretty sure most people will. And real-world data says that women are on average significantly more demanding.
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Re:Think of the children (Score:4, Insightful)
That's power-fantasy objectification though, not sexual objectification.
Ask yourself (better yet, ask your women friends) - are Conan the Barbarian, Superman, etc. characters created for men to fantasize about being, or for women to fantasize about fucking? Then ask yourself the same (gender-flipped) question about the women portrayed in the same medium.
The two fantasies tend to be very different, and you only need to look at the target audience (and gender of the character designers) to get a pretty good idea which it is.
Re:Think of the children (Score:4, Interesting)
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I think Conan is created for both fantasies, just as Barbie is.
You've never been to a cinema with a woman if you think that Conan was in anyway targeted towards that fantasy.
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If we tell you it will no longer be a secret. :-) /s
Re: Think of the children (Score:5, Interesting)
Scantily clad women in irl slutwalk: Good
Scantily clad women in vidya games: Bad
So the skin factor isn't the honest reason. I think it might just be jealousy. Them well-poportioend polygons, man...
Re: Think of the children (Score:2, Insightful)
I'll tell you a shocking secret. The sexy women in videogames are made up are not real!
But pixels are people too.
Re: Think of the children (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah. One make a fuss and one let me wank in peace.
Re: Think of the children (Score:5, Insightful)
Given that many female video game characters are created by women your point is wrong.
Given that many female video game characters are enjoyed and welcomed by women your point is wrong.
Given that sexy women in video games are supposedly taboo yet are no more sexualised than the apparently perfectly acceptable male characters in the same fucking games, your point is wrong.
It's just people determined to take offence getting irate that they're not in control of someone else's hobby. Fuck them.
Re: Think of the children (Score:3)
It's because women on a slut walk choose to dress that way and choose to be there. They have agency, they are empowering themsleves by protesting against what they consider to be a harmful myth.
Exactly! Only in religion must be bearded geezers allowed to tell women what they can wear. For anybody else, it's absolutely haram.
Many of them have no real personality or story
I'd argue that the same goes for male characters, too. Hell, a cynic might even say it's the same with real-world people.
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Why is it so bad here?
Him: in game bad, RL good
You: in game good, RL bad
That's a false equivalence, so your question is entirely moot.
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Hey, hey, hey, over here in Europe you can let your tits swing freely, man or woman!
umm... ESRB ratings? (Score:5, Insightful)
This completely dismisses the parental responsibility to use ESRB ratings. Kids with shitty parents who ignore the ratings aren't going to be saved because Sony said "no boobs" to developers.
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"Adults" don't spank it to video game cartoons
Of course they do. I dare you to get between a weeb and his/her waifu/husbando.
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We can concentrate on spanking it, or on what we perceive are real problems ... think carefully about which you prefer.
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This completely dismisses the parental responsibility to use ESRB ratings.
Not quite as badly as you missed the point. This has nothing to do about game ratings.
In Germany, showing tits is pro-feminist. (Score:2, Interesting)
Women here see the freedom to be able to show their tits in public without being harassed as a women's rights moment.
The fact that they harass us with that, eludes them.
Sexual triggers? Men should repress them, and not be "animals". (Like that won't leave lasting damage in men who believe in such unnatural contortions...)
Nevermind that seeing somebody naked; wanting sex with them; trying to get to know them due to attraction; and harassing them without respecting if they want too, are four different things.
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And they think they accomplish this by alienating gamers? Because one thing's sure, there WILL be a patch for the PC version (if it's censored there altogether), so people will think twice whether to buy a PS5 or a PC instead.
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Most players don't care. They aren't going to not buy the game because the arse crack show on screen for 2 seconds was covered up. And they aren't going to spend 3-4x as much on a gaming PC and deal with all the shit that comes with Windows and PC gaming in general when they want a pure, simple games machine.
For proof just look at the long history of Japanese games being censored for the west. Nintendo was notorious for it.
The stupidest thing about this is that the example given isn't even an example of the
This is a Shame (Score:2)
WTF is wrong with people? Why do they insist on foisting their own insecurities on everyone else?
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Why? What shame, anyway?
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You don't want your kid to see it, great. It's your kid. Not mine. You get to deal with it.
Good bye Sony (Score:2)
You stinking piece of shit. ... well, until United Socialist States of Europe decide this HAS to be the case and the playing field is equally shit for all.
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Right so a Japanese company does something because they're worried about legal action in the US, and somehow it's Europe's fault...?
WTF, dude.
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So ... Japan is in Europe now?
The US school system is worse than even I could imagine.
Are they still selling LIfe of Black Tiger? (Score:2)
Let's see:
https://store.playstation.com/... [playstation.com]
Looks like they are. Seems like they're actually just doing the Steam two-step, where they stand there bobbing their head along to the money, until something starts making noise about being restricted in some market. At which point, they shuffle things around, until that noise stops, then resume doing as little as they can.
Which is fine as far as I'm concerned - but don't count on them for whatever standards you might hold for quality content - as long as it does
Cover your ass (Score:5, Funny)
Always amusing to see a company both figuratively and literally covering their asses at the same time.
#MeToo (Score:2, Interesting)
Wasn't the #MeToo movement about sexual abuse and harassment?
I don't know of anyone, man or woman, who with a straight face and a sane mind can walk up to the podium in front of the cameras and say "I was sexually abused by my Playstation." Please join me in the fight against it!
Sample of the "Sexually Explicit Content" (Score:5, Informative)
Here's an example of the vile and shocking "sexually explicit content" that Sony had to censor:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nupFJPaAn9s [youtube.com]
Most of the other examples of Sony's PS4 censorship are equally absurd. It should be noted that Sony moved their headquarters to California, which is why we're getting these utterly deranged decisions.
Of course, there's a simple solution - don't buy anything from Sony.
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Of course, there's a simple solution - don't buy anything from Sony.
Sony have always had a callous disregard for their customers up to and including rootkitting and breaking their computers but it was *this* that finally pushed you over the edge? I've not bought anything from Sony since 2005.
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If you suck on a tit the movie gets an R rating. If you hack the tit off with an axe it will be PG.
– Jack Nicholson
Because no woman ... (Score:5, Insightful)
>>> Citing "the rise of the #MeToo movement" and a concern of "legal and social action" in the USA ...
Because no woman, anywhere in the USA, also enjoys nudity and sex. /s
Were you prepared.. (Score:2)
for the avalanche of dick pics?
The left loves slut shaming! (Score:4, Insightful)
The fact that they do it under the guise is protecting women just makes it all the more reprehensible. I listen to self-identifying progress/"liberal" women make public statements about how much they regret doing nude scenes (Yeardley Smith,voice of Lisa Simpson) or participating in wet T-Shirt contest (Kristen Schaal) earlier in their lives because years later they realized that it degrades and objectifies women and I'm like... who is more going to listen to a statement like that and feel more ashamed? The millions of men who see such things and smiled? Or the millions of women who have participated in such things and smiled?
It's straight up slut shaming and they try to disguise it by pretending that really they're slut shaming men, but really women are far more likely to feel bad about this criticism they're hearing.
It is a normal, typical aspect of female sexuality to enjoy showing off. It's not a male conspiracy; it's a perfectly natural inclination (that is frequently encouraged by men, yes.) And if you tell them they're making objects out of themselves when they do that, you're a slut shaming neo-puritan asshole.
This needs to be pointed out more frequently.
Re:The left loves slut shaming! (Score:5, Informative)
There are a few reasonable sex-positive egalitarians left in the world who still embrace the term "SJW" as a self-descriptor, but they don't yet realize they are in the minority. You may be one of them; I don't know. I haven't seen particularly egregious out of you, but I've not been paying super close attention.
Expressing regret is not intended to shame anyone.
Yes it most likely is. Women tend to rely more on implication than men, particularly techie men.
And even if there was no intended undertone there, even if they have nothing but the purest of feelings for women who participate in wet t-shirt contests and love it, as self-decribed progressive women who are ostensibly holding themselves up as role models (a fairly obvious implicit part of their narrative that young girls are lacking good role models), they're being (at best) extremely reckless. They should be aware of the value judgments they are vocalizing.
It's been years since I read the interviews, but as I recall neither one said "oh, I regret doing that because *personally*, I didn't really want to do it but I let myself get talked into it anyway." It was no, this is *inherently* objectifying and bad.
Have you ever talked down a mortified drunk girl after she's putting her shirt back on at a party? I have. More than once, in fact. And it was pretty clear to me that it wasn't the presence of males that bring out this feeling of embarrassment and regret. If she's not regretful, the guys go "woooo" and she goes "woooo" and life is good. It's only when there's a group of girls (and/or their boyfriends) there that don't go "woo" and she catches a look on their faces that leads to her regret.
(Don't come back at me with some anecdote about a girl who was assaulted at a party. Yes that happens and it's a major problem that needs better pushing back against. But it's totally beside the point. Assault is assault and yes that can lead to shame, but "slut shaming" is something quite different.)
That is not the thing they are complaining about. It's the coercion, the Weinsteins, the "sorry but to advance your career as an actor you are going to have to get your tits out".
The movie Yeardley Smith was topless in was a nothing of a shit independent film (and not of an artsy sort) that did nothing for her career.
More importantly, the wet T-shirt contest Kristen Schaal participated had nothing whatsoever to do with her career. She didn't give some big story about being pressured into it or impressing someone or anything. She just said man, that was such an objectifying thing to do, I wish I hadn't done it. In what way does that not pass value judgment on the hundreds of thousands if not millions of women who've let loose and had fun in a wet t-shirt contest at some point? If you don't think that's a value judgment, man you don't understand how women typically interact.
Complaining about the coercive casting couch is fine. Cultural slut shaming is not. There is widespread demand for sexually suggestive media because this is both an accurate reflection of reality and it caters to basic human hungers. If wom
TFS proves AmiMoJo is delusional or a spindoctor (Score:3)
So put aside everything I said about regret and female peer pressure and wet t-shirt contests... how do you justify your interpretation of (what I call) the left's slut shaming in the context of *this* article? Sony is removing sexually explicit content in games supposedly as part of a cultural response to #MeToo.
Yes. That is not the thing they are complaining about. It's the coercion, the Weinsteins, the "sorry but to advance your career as an actor you are going to have to get your tits out".
But this is *uncritically* removing media *only* because
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Where religious prudes failed, "progressive" prudes succeeded.
What Jack Thompson did wrong wasn't what he tried to do. It was his gender.
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Because no woman, anywhere in the USA, also enjoys nudity and sex. /s
Unless you're attempt at sarcasm is pandering to the lesbian crowd I fully agree with you. No women don't generally enjoy having female tits and arses paraded around in front of them.
So I can still pull my enemies spine out (Score:2, Insightful)
So I can still pull my enemies spine out though their neck? :D
Will I still be able to spend a ton of money on "loot boxes" after having paid for the game?
I am guessing we are still cool with violence and gambling, just not a bit of tits and asses on display.
The usual (Score:2)
Sony was behind Betamax, the VCR format that wouldn't allow porn. Totally in character for them.
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And also totally in character to repeat past mistakes.
Sony is a company that somehow enjoys reaching for hot stoves and burning hands repeatedly.
Brings the wackos on the left and right together (Score:3)
Who knew it would be the leftists that would turn into a bunch of Puritans and try to impose their worldview on the rest of us.
A compromise to make everybody happy (Score:2)
Cut out the creepy Japanese underage sexualising stuff, leave the rest.
Seriously, cut that stuff out.
but that's not... I mean okay? (Score:2)
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PC gameing for ever! (Score:2)
PC gameing for ever!
App store lockin needs to be banned just think if (Score:2)
App store lock in needs to be banned just think if games like
Leisure Suit Larry / Softporn Adventure (back in the day)
Custer's Revenge
Chiller
Night Trap
Mortal Kombat
Doom (Violence back in the day)
Duke Nukem 3D
Carmageddon
Postal
Grand Theft Auto
Sony = hypocrites (Score:5, Insightful)
To protect children's "sound growth and development" Sony is going to censor content deemed to be too sexy on their Playstation platform.
While, at the same time, titles with a violence level right off the charts like:
Hitman
Grand Theft Auto
Mortal Kombat
Manhunt
seem to be just fine for the same audience ?
( Good thing Timmy can't see any video game skin, imagine the mental trauma it would cause. Now go eviscerate that Dark Elf ! They deserve it ! :| )
Both Violence / Gore and Sexual Themes are designed for the Mature Audiences ( hence the M rating ).
If you really want to protect children's "sound growth and development", be a fucking parent.
Understand what the M rating is and make the decision to let your kids play it or not.
If you're too lazy to actually be a parent, perhaps you shouldn't engage in activities that create the conditions where you become one in the first place.
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> If you're too lazy to actually be a parent, perhaps you shouldn't engage in activities that create the conditions where you become one in the first place.
Well, here your argument came full circle: Sony is playing the long game, not protecting the currently young, but rather the yet to be conceived ones. Research shows that less nudity in computer games lowers the reproduction rate. This in turn leads to fewer children seeing nudity as well.
Obligatory: /s
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Violence ? Sure, why not
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So I guess what makes or breaks a game is whether it does tell a compelling story, if it's a story driven game, and whether the characters are responsive if it's a fighting game and nobody really gives a flying fuck about "agency"? Could it be?
This is why we [the left] can't have nice things (Score:2)
Citing "the rise of the #MeToo movement" [...] concerns about the depiction of women in video games playable on its platform as well as protect children's "sound growth and development."
See, I am completely on board with women speaking up against the "minor" sexual harassments and assaults that millions have been shrugging off because they don't want to cause a fuss.
But no, that's not good enough. It has to be leveraged into some goddamn neopuritan horseshit. What the hell is wrong with the left? It's sort of like how the Occupy Wallstreet movement lost sight of its laudable goal (that actually would've had a lot of bipartisan support, at least among the populace) almost immediately in
But what if ... (Score:2)
... someone enjoys looking at scantily clad women fighting demons in videogames? Especially if it's their only chance to get close to such an experience with women?
Exclusive for XBox! (Score:2)
Re: fukkin merkin prudes (Score:5, Insightful)
Except now it's done by the "liberals". But essentially, it's back to a puritan state with enhanced surveillance technology.
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That's the punchline here. It's not the religious right that gets worked up over tits, it's the alleged liberal left that is.
Please stop the world, I want to get off.
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Bro, we're not going to stop and watch you wank it. Go to your damn room!
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The devils choice for gaming. Windows anal probe 10, Sony censored Playstation, Apple Walled Garden and Nintendo nothing beyond gaming (if Sony wont do a Linux distribution so you can do other things beyond gaming and thus get rid of Windows for the Majority, how about Nintendo doing a Linux Distribution that you can run FOSS software with).
Sony if you are not allowed to look at women's boobies, equal rights demand, you are not allowed to look at men's boobies and the same goes for the crotch, no camel toe
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FYI, Utawarerumono was on PC many years ago. Still is. It's a PC original. You can still find it on anime torrent sites.
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For anybody who is so strapped for cash that the cost is a deciding factor, they're better off playing games on a previous-gen system they got at a pawn shop. Graphics, ease of use, versatility, battery life, branding -- none of those things actually matter.
If cost is the deciding factor, PC wins hands down. You'll need a computer for school or work anyways*, so the hardware is already there**. As for the games, there are lot's of cheap ones on Steam during a sale. Then there's GoG with lots of classics at $1-2 each. Of course, piracy is always an option too. I doubt even the cheapest previous-gen console can beat $0.
* I've never tried to make presentations or write essays on a console, but I imagine it's rather tedious.
** Most games don't need an expensive PC
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Sony puts out great [exclusives]
PC exclusives outnumber PlayStation 4 exclusives. Practically all fan-made mods to a game's single-player or co-op campaign, such as quality-of-life mods and total conversion mods, are PC exclusive as well.
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And there are people who buy a Nintendo Switch just for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. But I don't see how your PS4 will help you play any PS3, PS2, or PS1 exclusives.
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Not that I'm a huge fan of how they do it, but don't they release a bunch of PS1-3 exclusives for PS4 on PSN?
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If developers stopped doing exclusives, Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo would have no power, and nobody would buy their systems.
I disagree with that. If you want to buy your children a device that lets them play computer games, requires minimal maintenance, offers relatively lower up front cost and fits easily under the TV then the consoles are an ideal solution.
Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, Google and anybody else can differentiate their devices on cost, capability and other features (e.g. built-in blu-ray player, non-gaming uses, etc).
Exclusive games are not required. You don't have exclusive TV programmes for your LG TV.
Sealand is what was an illegally constructed fort in international waters outside the UK
The fort was
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Half-Life 2 was released for ps3. How was it steam exclusive?
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How many people were playing Half Life 2 on a Playstation - with or without Steam - in 2004?
Re: Who needs Sony? (Score:5, Insightful)
You actually enjoy censored games?
I'll stick wihh my "pc elitism" then, you enjoy your censored nanny box
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Sorry, there is no corporation locking down my PC. That is my job, the system administrator.
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Who the hell buys a retail Windows license when the OEM ones are far cheaper?
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Not sure about the Xenon workstation (Score:2)
The trouble with those workstations is making sure you get one with a PCI-E slot. A lot of them don't have one because they don't need them. Or if they do they're a severely cut down slot because the assumption is you're not putting anything in there except a basic card. The point of those workstations is usually the CPU and RAM.
And plan
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PS4 you just insert the disc and play.
After a 50GB day-one patch download, anyway.
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PS4 you just insert the disc and play.
After a 50GB day-one patch download, anyway.
Because PC games don't need patching?
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No, but you make them money. Because if you lose the disk or scratch it too bad, you no longer own the game and have to go buy it again. Or well that's how it used to be last time I even touched a console. I'm sure not a lot has changed.
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Well lucky you. I have had games that never left the ps2 come out scratched. So I'm gonna guess you didn't too much use cd's in your life. And good luck getting your kids to not scratch and lose shit. Or you 'rem the perfect person.. Only way pull that off.
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To be fair, if you only want a mediocre experience you can just start the game and play on a PC, too.
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A high quality gaming machine that could compete with the PS4 will set you back well over $1000.
I think you mean it will cost you $500 or so. [reddit.com] It was even cheaper a few years ago before the change to DDR4, and prior to the gigantic clusterfuck with mining that drove video card prices through the roof. And the prices are coming down rather quickly, on top of that you're already setup for the next-gen titles and if you have a dislike of windows, you can take your pick of any 'nix variety. Especially since nearly all upcoming titles support vulkan out of the box.
And you don't get the PSVR which is relatively cheap and a perfectly decent intro to modern VR gaming.
Considering VR is such a tiny minority o
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If you're a casual gamer who buys maybe one or two games a year, console will be cheaper. But never better.
I would think it would be the other way around, the PC would be cheaper as you would be able to use it for a multitude of other things, and it doesn't just collect dust 90% of the time when you're not playing your one or two games a year. Plus Steam Free-to-Play section. Increasing the amount of games you can play for the same budget..
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No launchers, no DM's, no daily-deals, no discord, no e-mail, no alt-tabbing to a web browser during loading screens, just me and the game.
The fact that you're not smart enough to turn that shit off, I don't believe your opinion on this is needed. Better luck next time.
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And once they win on this, they will demand for more.
I bet sony will put game difficulty next on the chopping block, given how those screaming things are all demanding and trying to force from software to implement an easy mode on sekiro.
And given that nintendo of all people are just riding on the sony wave, it will end up with a bizarro world thing where nintendo pull a sega does "Nintendoes what wussony don't" kind of commercials.
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Tits ain't for kids! When will the people finally get that!