PS4 - 5 Years Later - Predictions & Concerns - Adam Koralik
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- It's Adam Koralik here and today we're discussing the PS4. It's 5 years old today. We'll talk about the past year that it's had, and what I think may be in its future.
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The ps4 and the switch just proved that single player experiences are what most gamers want. Hopefully they continue with this trend with the following generation.
Big Boss can't wait for LOU2 I'm so excited for what the story's going to be like
I forgot that there’s no single player games on the Xbox. Silly me.
Switch is great for Multiplayer games
No they didnt, they showed that what most People want is well made games, doesnt matter if its mutiplayer or singleplayer, theres a market for every kind of game, as long as theyre well made
Alex Worm I agree well made games. I prefer single player but yes both are needed and that’s a fact.
As a Japanese person, I can promise you we will NEVER give up physical media. Not in a thousand years. If Sony took it away we'll play PC with discs. If they took away that, we'd go full retro. Adam has seen that we will pay $500 for a DVD box set.
Thank you for representing that point.
I highly doubt you’d go full retro
Never go full retro
4 years later and Japan seems to be loving the Xbox series s all DIGITAL console
@@junior1388666 update: only scalpers were getting them ps5 sales went up Xbox not so much
Personally, I think PlayStation destroyed the competition with its exclusives this year. God of War alone was enough reason to buy a PS4.
I am disappointed in their new censoring policies coming out of the move of their headquarters to California.
I loved Playstation threw the years but i now lost motivation for further support after this.
SHARP2026 gow is good. Spider-Man is boring.
Uncharted 4 definitely destroyed Halo5: Guardians and Gears of War 4, alone by itself. Period.
@Neoptolemus
Are you currently playing it?
I'm 30 hours in and definitely not bored with it. The fighting system is a blast, especially when you start powering everything up.
God of War is a good game but a bad, bland God of War game. It just is. The toned down SJW feminist apprived God of War. Its not a great game. People just drank that kool aid huh?
I can't wait to watch Sega Dreamcast-20 years later-Predicitons & Concerns- Adam Koralik
Ha.
@@AdamKoralik 9-9-19 release date for the video?
We can only hope.
This guy gets the important of exclusivity
Personally Adam is one of my favorite youtubers man. Extremely underrated and underappreciated.
Ultra HD Blu-ray has been out for a few years and can hold up to 128GB on a disc, this will be used for next gen
PS4 "middle of the road for exclusives"? They absolutely killed it with amazing exclusive games for 2018, much more so than Nintendo IMO. Spider-Man alone would have been enough, but God of War, Shadow of the Colossus, Detroit Become Human, and the Yakuza games.
Not to mention some amazing PSVR exclusives such as Astro Bot Rescue Mission, and Firewall Zero Hour.
This is a metaphor I could have explained better.
Middle of the road meaning, they're the middle when it comes to three choices.
Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft.
Nintendo had the best.
Microsoft had the worst.
This puts Sony in...the middle.
I apologize for my poor phrasing.
Right, I get that, but which AAA exclusives did Nintendo do better in 2018? I haven't played anything on my Switch since Odyssey in 2017.
@@AdamKoralik I have to respectfully disagree. Myself and A LOT of others refuse to purchase a Nintendo switch because of the lack of exclusives to justify the purchase. Zelda and Mario do not maketh the console.....
@@videogameobsession I agree, this year, Sony walked all over Nintendo for exclusives, last was a different story, but sony definitely took 2018.
For games I was interested in at least, tennis does not do it for me.
@@gavinr9107 Agreed. I did buy a Switch at launch because I usually buy them all that way. Not always wise of me though. Zelda BOTW, I wouldn't even consider a reason to buy a Switch for, if you already own a Wii U.
Then you have all of the Wii U rehashes (Hyrule Warriors, Mario Kart 8. Super Smash Bros , Captain Toad Treasure Trackers, Bayonetta, DKC Tropical Freeze, Shovel Knight, Pokken Tournament, etc ), and I'm sure that won't be the last of them.. I'm betting Nintendo will release Mario Maker for it soon enough.
PS4 definitely beat them hands down.
Another great video documenting the history of consoles. May you continue on for many years.
I think personally the gaming world is not ready for digital only. They would shoot themselve in the foot if they go only that route. Not to mention we use our consoles as blu ray player as well. Why plug a dedicated blu ray player when you can have your xbox or ps4 doing it and not taking an extra space.
Now i could totally see 2 version of the console tough. One could be a cheap version without physical media support and even to an extent i could totally see Xbox do a version that support backward compatibility and one that does not. Because altough the current formula is better than nothing, it would be nice to have full hardware backward compatibility and not be limited by liscences.
As for Sony, they got so much trash for not being B.C, i hope indeed the PS4 games are playable on the PS5.
As for the relevance of backward compatibility i think lots of peoples miss the point. You can't compare BC to recent games. Because usually when you play a BC game, you play it from start to finish and thats it. Some RPGs are longer than regular 8 hours game but those games back then where not design to have you stay on them for hundreds of hours, exept in rare cases games like Halo 2 online. And the online part is not supported, so obviously if you look at the numbers BC look small, but its simply because we just do the games and thats it.
For instance i played Constantine from the OG Xbox on my 360 last week. I played the game from start to finish and once i killed the final boss, thats it, i was done with the game. Took me less than 8hours. Next BC game ill do may be in a month or so, because yes i also enjoy playing new games and yes i do play many many hours on games like gears of war online. But im damn happy BC exist and is there when i want to play those games.
I do have an OG Xbox but the disc drive is having problems, also i only have composite cables so the picture quality is not very good. BC remove all those problems and let me enjoy my games on a modern system plugged in HDMI (or in my case for my 360 component cables as i have an old model but it still look awesome/HD)
There is OG games im litteraly waiting to see if they will be playable on X1 because there not on 360 yet and its just an hassle for me to go play them on the old xbox. But ill admit im worried...
We just passed X018 and also the anniversary of the OG Xbox and no announcement... and the last games where in April. I really hope its not over already for the program.. There like only 32 games releases so far cmon...
Destro WOD Both Microsoft and Sony have dug themselves into a hole so-to-speak when it comes to BC and physical media. Both share the same goal, they want physical media to die so people buy from their stores instead; this is the future, dedicated storefronts where you have full control over all purchases with higher returns.
However Microsoft have rooted themselves deep into backwards compatibility - a feature that heavily values physical media. People now expect the Xbox Two be backwards compatible and have physical media due to the ecosystem they've created. Sony obviously sees backwards compatibility as an unprofitable venture; but they would look extremely bad if the PS5 doesn't have backwards compatibility but Microsoft does.
So what I see happening is that both machines will have physical media, both will be backwards compatible, but both will stick to single layer blu-ray discs for games. Why? They will not get away with digital only consoles; not yet anyway. The aim next gen will be to devalue physical media - this is already happening. Games will no doubt be bigger next gen. but the disc sizes will remain 50gb like this gen. Games will then have to rely on bigger patches meaning the data on the disc is even less valuable. I will also expect the new trend of shipping the game unfinished (Spyro, Fallout 76, Tony Hawks 5, Cod BO4) and having to download a patch to even play the game to be more common.
This is how physical media will die.
An attempt to make consoles all digital would just make their existence pointless, so whoever makes the first move to all digital/ streaming will just be walking right into a fire for all other companies to watch burn.
Maybe that will create a vacuum for sega to come back.... mmmmm....
I agree with your statement on backwards compatibility, it's a cool idea but as Adam says it's not overly used. In an ideal world All consoles would be 100% backwards compatible but without creating SoC versions of every single platform and insert them into the modern hardware (increasing the price of manufacture) it wouldn't work as well. While you can get Blu Ray drives that play CDs and DVDs, are there many people doing that? Essentially true backwards compatibility will increase manufacture pricing, which as we see isn't something hardware manufacturers want (as per the use of AMD Jaguars - a mobile APU chipset - in consoles, albeit modified versions). For example Sony would have to recreate the way the custom systems (PS1-PS3) work on a single chip as it appears that they have moved away from fully custom architecture. The alternative then becomes emulation, which although solid can also be inaccurate and would require extra development time because let's be fair they're not going to steal RPCS3 and use that on the PS5 based on its current state. I think the best option is emulation IF they can get it working consistently, and then have a subscription built into PSPlus/XBL Gold that allows you access to every game they have or can acquire the licences to for legitimately to run on the system (and no, I won't get into how preposterous it is to have to play to play games online, different conversation for another time).
I personally love backwards compatibility, especially since moving to PC (I was predominantly a console gamer from the age of 5 to 32). Sometimes it takes a little tinkering, but having a large library of 20+ year old games I missed out on at my fingertips is a great feeling. Prices are crazy low on them most of the time and I don't have that resentment of paying for them as I don't already own the discs anyway. less than 10 euro in the Steam winter sale got me both Half Life games (and all expansions) and both Portal games. GOG have a massive library too, and when I signed up I got 10 free games on my account as well (that was 2013 in fairness). Also, with the games purchased on GOG from the early to mid 90s they auto boot DOSBox (a DOS emulator) for the best experience a modern system can offer.
I semi agree with your "the gaming world isn't ready for all digital media". I agree that CONSOLES aren't ready for it, the PC is predominantly digital now and although you can buy physical games it's cheaper and more convenient to buy digitally. The difference between the two is entirely down to marketplaces available. With PC there's many services and marketplaces used (Steam, GOG, Humble Bundle, Origin, Battle.net, UPlay, Bethesda have one, Rockstar Club, Epic have theirs) as well as 3rd party key sellers (such as cdkeys, kinguin, green man gaming and the other one I won't advertise) which gives PC gamers the choice and creates competition. Competition spurs competitive sales and better prices for the gamers. PSN and XBL don't have competition, so prices remain high and the value of digital is lost (occasional sales not included). Why would I pay $60 for a game digitally when I can pay $60 and get a disc as well? Consoles don't have an infrastructure to encourage competition in a digital sales environment, and it's a sad thing because I'm sure digital purchases would increase if the option was there.
The main issue I have with modern physical media in games is the necessity for day 1 patches and updates (if you buy a game on launch, let alone months/years down the line). I find with digital the updates install with the game when you install them, no searching required (not sure if this happens with digital console purchases though, correct me if I'm wrong). I'm not complaining about bug fixes, day one patches or updates btw, I actually think accessing these have a benefit to the consumer, but the reality is that by purchasing on discs it's a fact that you will have to install the game then the updates before you can even start playing.
Excluding patches, bug fixes and updates optical media simply doesn't run fast enough to play games from disc anymore, hence the mandatory installations of modern systems (welcome to PC gaming circa 1996). X1S/X moved in the right direction by including a 4K Blu Ray player but due to limitations of the first gen X1 they can't put games onto 4K BDs due to the lack of that drive. And even so, we return to disc read/write speeds being inadequate for gaming.
I think before next gen, console manufacturers need to look at the environment they have in place. I don't think digital will be in place with the PS5/Nextbox, but that's because we live in a world where their own ecosystem doesn't allow for it. I think if next gen does go fully digital without any major change to the marketplace we will see a large majority of core gamers either give up (as Adam has said many times) or jump ship to PC due to the advantages that the platform has over conventional consoles with their current ecosystems in place.
You seem to misunderstand the nature of older, better games.
First off, there were plenty of RPGs that would last players hundreds of hours on end, with such franchises as the Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy games coming to mind. The difference with them is that they're more likely to be turn-based, whereas modern RPGs will have normal, real-time, action-based gameplay.
Second, the amount of games prior to the 7th gen that had online support were few and far between; it'd be a miracle if even 500 games out of the PS2's 3870 game library had online modes.
Finally, your choice of naturally rushed movie-to-game adaptations do not represent the majority of pre-7th gen games. There were plenty of games that offered lots of substantial post-main-game content right on the disc that lasted hours on end, with one key example being DMC 3's Bloody Palace mode.
Simply put, there are plenty of substantial older titles that would still be enjoyable in this day and age, and considering that nostalgia has never been stronger, people would enjoy what the pre-7th gen titles offered in spades, such as console games with normal multiplayer modes (Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance, Champions of Norrath, The Red Star, etc).
+Mr Know Nothing That's not a new trend. Shipped unfinished games have existed since the 7th generation (PS3, 360, Wii) due to online connectivity being the standard allowing for lazy development and publishing habits to not only exist, but both persist and thrive.
Should physical media be culled, it's very likely that another hardware manufacturer will step up to fill the hole in the market. Perhaps then it will be nVidia's time to shine.
What I really like about what Sony does with their PS4 bundles is when they include the physical copy of the game. It kinda sucks when Microsoft just gives you a download code on paper, or when Nintendo just pre-downloads the game on the console.
Clash what year is this!?
"If you cherry pick, Sony has done better than Nintendo."
Wow is it that time already, love these videos :)
Adam I know you're an Xbox fan, but giving Sony a "B" in the year of God of War and Spider-Man is lunacy.
I don't think you understood what I meant...
I was talking about the three. They can't all get an A. One has to come in first, one has to come in second, one has to come in third.
Admittedly, a number system would have been better.
Ah, forgive me, I see what you're saying. Perhaps medals? Gold, Silver, Bronze??
Yes, that would have worked too.
End of the day, those games are one and done exclusives. Bought, played and sold in a short space of time after paying full price.
@@NiGHTS1980 That doesn't make a difference to the quality of the product though. FIFA is infinitely re-playable, it's not going on the Game of the Year list though. The Godfather doesn't become a worse film the more times you watch it...
I love those videos, watched all of them over the years. Great content as always, Adam!
My main reason for getting a ps4 was Shenmue 3. Then it was exclusive content. Great birthday video.
TheCybernatoruk shenmue will have pc version too
@@Neoptolemus Not into PC gaming.
Yay I finally found someone else who doesn’t play Fortnite
My prediction is that PS5 comes out in 2020 so save your money.
Eli EZE The Game Hunter I prefer 2019
@@FlyingV555 2019 is unlikely considering that Sony probably wants to ride the PS4's success.
Hoping 2021
I predict the same. It will give next-gen tech time to come down in price, and personally I don't think it's wise talking about PS5 considering we still don't have Days Gone, Last of Us II, Ghost of Tsushima, and Death Stranding.
2021 more than likely. The fact that Sony canceled their plans for both E3 2019 and PSX pretty much means they won't even show anything off until 2020, and release a year after that.
It may not even have been up to them. If AMD can't fill the order then it's just not going to happen.
great video man. nice recap on the state of the ps4. thinking of taking the plunge and getting one for xmas.
It is worth it
Really the only issues are censorship for niche Japanese titles in the West, and not many exclusives that look cool next year (their days of hyping up God of War and Spider Man are over)- but even that’s a personal opinion.
Also, damn. Sorry for that entertainment tax thing in Chicago. That sucks. As a close neighbor (Michigan), it’s sucks to see a fellow gamer get charged over PSN and other stuff.
Adam Sony won't release a digital only PS5 because it's suppose to be backwards compatible with PS4 so I don't think it will happen!
LOL. Took me 5 years to finally get one. Black Friday sale 200 bucks minus 60 bucks cash back coupon from the store.. Finally upgraded from the PS3. I haven't wanted to take the chance of getting back in the gaming for hours and hours what's getting a cool PS4. With kids, working all the time. Adult stuff. Couldn't take the chance. But for the price, yeah. Now I can play my newer games I've always wanted to play.. The new Batmans, Uncharted, Tomb Raider, Red Dead Redemption 2.... We'll wait because of the price, and newer football Games Etc.
I was one of those people who bought a PS4 for God of War this year. I bought the God of War PS4 Edition. Then I turned around and bought the Spider-man PS4 Edition for Spider-man, and then sold the God of War Edition.
IMO PS4 had the better set of exclusives this year than Switch. Switch has had a good year, but mostly ports (made valuable by the portability)
@Wurzelbert84 Yes
Just want to say that the PS3 and Xbox 360 also had FIFA 19 this year. Also, I'm saddened that the Wii U isn't getting a video :(
it did get 30 seconds in this video , the Wii U died on 2017 when the switch released
@@GenOner I know, but I mean an individual video. I'm a Wii U fan, so I'm kind of biased, you know?
If FIFA 20 comes out for the Xbox 360, then the console will go on to be one of the longest supported console ever
The Sega Master System has been consistently supported by Sega in Brazil since 1983. Nothing comes close to that record.
The wii u sucked thats why
I bought a Ps4 just for Shenmue 3 but have been enjoying Persona 5, Yakuza games, and of course Shenmue 1+2 HD since then.
It is not a completed November without watching your PS4 and Xbox anniversary video! Awesome!
Sony had some amazing exclusives on psvr this year - firewall & astrobot being stand outs, the latter being an in-house game.
Astro Bots should be studied by any developer looking to get into creating VR games. It definitely "gets it" when it comes to making a fun and extremely playable VR game.
@@videogameobsession would you recommend me try it
Yes, if you like PSVR, it's one if the best games there is for it.
Sony had at least one or more exclusive each year 2013 Killzone 2014 Infamous 2015 The Order 1886 Until Dawn 2016 Uncharted 4 Horizon 2017 Uncharted Lost Legacy 2018 GOW Detroit Spiderman
PS4 exclusive is the main point why people buy PS4. Quantity doesn't mean anything but the quality is everything. So by the number of people bought the games and the critical acclaim for those games, I don't think it's a middle of the road.
People are really misinterpreting what I said, which is on me for not being clearer.
I meant among the three, Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft.
One has to come in first, one has to be in the middle, one has to be in last.
I meant, Nintendo in first, Sony in the middle, Microsoft in last.
No territory is ready to give up physical media
Bandwidth caps make it impossible, even in the USA
Until bandwidth caps are a bad dream, physical media will live on
With the physical design of blueray discs it would be very easy to do a "new" format with massively added capacity without much in the sense of new tech. Simply use the now available 4K capacity and make them double sided for the, most likely even next gen, very few titles that actually need it. Over 200GB data, on one disc.
That way both sides can be play the game sides should they be inserted install side down after this having already been done.
5 years already? Damnnn
If ps5 backward compatible, no reason for remake, or, sony will release remaster as dlc for physical player and digital player. And new games will be exclusive on ps5, if sony follow the right foodtrack, ps5 will be huge hit, far beyond ps4. Why? Ps will realize console succes comes from quantity, variety and quality of first party games. Extra cash sony get from ps4, sony will hire tons of second party reputable company to make aaa+ exclusive, my guess around 10-20 for 5 year span (2022-2027), and 15s first party studio. I definitly buy ps5 in 2nd/early 3rd year along with 10 used games. Just like switch in next year and ps4 in 2016
These videos are great! You make all the points I want to make but eloquently.
Well God of War and Spiderman caused me to switch finally and I got a backlog to go through yay!! Xbox was poor. Still have my original Xbox One thats why I never upgraded to the X. 😉 Still have a reason to keep it. Metal Gear Solid 2/3 backwards compatibility yay
Great video as always Adam. I still think we’ll see an announcement of the PS5 in 2019 and maybe a release date of Christmas 2019.
I sill might to hold out for the Sega Spartan. 😉🤣
Awesome video as ever Adam 😁 keep up the stellar work!.
These are my favorite videos you do! The Wii U will definitely be missed, but I'm looking forward to the Xbox One video, and to videos on platforms to come!
Ah, ‘tis the season
IM NUMBER 1 !!! viewer !!!!! Corfu Greece many hellos and keep it up Adam you rock !!!
A fantastic job. About the ps5 I would prefer to see it in maybe 2 years? I have the feel that ps4 still has a couple of exclusives to offer.
5 years ago I was watching videos on its release 😁 time flies
Michael Pachter should watch this series of videos. He may learn something.
With backwards compatability, the only one I can see with the least cost would be the PS1. They can already play Ps1 roms on hardware with the PS Vita, so hardware for a nextgen console should not be an issue.
To go to the concept of nostalgia generation, PS Classic is “Remember those old popular games? You can play them with this!”, and PS5 could be a great opportunity for “Remember that one PS1 game that you think is good but not that popular? Well you can play it with PS5!”
glazor28 except for Crash Bandicoot for who knows why the flying fuck we here in North America cannot play those PS1 classics on the Vita!!!! 😑
Personally, I won't ever support an all digital console. If physical media goes away, I'm done with new console games. At that point, a console is no different than a PC, and I'll just keep playing my PC. lol
I was subscribed to you since 2015 but recently I wasn't getting your vids in my inbox, so I check and yt unsubbed me, wtf youtube
Welcome back.
commenting on the capacity of the blu ray disc format, i got a ps4 pro for my birthday this year and it came with a physical copy of red dead redemption 2 and for the first time i've ever seen it came on 2 blu ray discs man that's crazy during the 7th generation i thought they would never exceed the 46gb capacity of blu rays. very naive of me i suppose but yeah a 300gb disc would be incredible for the future of physical media as a whole especially gaming
I’ve been having issues with Sony since summer of 2017. I put Killzone 2 in and I noticed the trophies didn’t install. Then months later I noticed my trophy list didn’t update to the last game I played. Vita is working as usual. Killzone 2 did something to my account. I call in to Sony and they said that the trophies are tied to the account. I made a test account not tied to an email and all of a sudden it installs the trophy on the test account and updates the last game played.
I should note that you kind of skipped Sony's third party exclusives, you brought up SEGA, but really didn't talk much outside of that, and PS4 THIRD PARTY exclusives are at the moment more in supply than Switch, though I guarantee that, in terms of NOTABLE exclusives, Switch is going to speed up greatly and overtake Sony on the third party exclusives (certainly not third parties in general, sadly) front just due to its more unique spec. But this year Sony still had Ni No Kuni II, which yes was on PC, but really a majority of JRPG players still got that on PS4, Yakuza games, the PS4 Taiko no Tatsujin which is very different from the Switch version, the Fist of the North Star Yakuza game, Secret of Mana, though it did kind of suck, PSVR exclusives, Judge Eyes, and a few Japanese exclusive SEGA games, just on the top off my head. (Switch for comparison had Octopath, TWEWY Final Remix, Billion Road only in Japan, Katamari Reroll (which will be a 10/10), Taiko no Tatsujin Switch Version, and a few other less notable Japan only Bandai Namco games.)
My main reason for buying a PS4, is so I can play Shenmue 3!
Nintendo is Nintendo - the slow and conservative decision making, the closely held mascots, one to two big Mario games per system life cycle - people are going to buy it. And Nintendo made very very very significant profit in the 80s which they still live off of today, so they can afford to screw up especially if the hardware is cheap to produce for each iteration. Very very smart!
Man I can remember the video you did with the "1year" Birthday of the Sony PS4.... Man how things have changed haha
It’s crazy to hear that core gamers actually think Nintendo has the best exclusives this gen. I’ve played Mario Odyssey and Zelda: BotW on my Switch. Has there really been that many more AAA exclusives to compete with what Sony has done? I don’t think so.
I think Crossplay is a good idea between consoles. But not PC which is infested with cheaters and people who use keyboard and mouse.
Ps4 outsold ps3 because there is less competition in this generation. The original ps3 was expensive and the Xbox360 was doing really well. I think EA sports is still releasing games for ps3 I think
Well yeah that’s what outselling usually comes down to....
I think the ps4 should of been so much more Sony are just about the money it's should of least been able to play all ps1 and ps2 from disk. Sony never seem to care about its customers anymore. Seriously the xbox one x with its backward compatibility is great. Only my opinion and oh I forgot big Adam in the house
Good points. I avoided getting the PS4 until this year with the big sale in cash back at one store. Hated you can't play older console games... that was one of the main factors.
Home console sales numbers PLAYSTAION 429.39M and NINTENDO 303.73M approx.
What if companies started selling "physical games" that don't really have the game but instead are just discs that open up an online download.
I wish PS4 had backwards compatibility back to PS1 or PS2.
Faizan Mohiuddin Me too but it’s very unlikely, backward compatibility didn’t even help the Xbox in terms of sales
@@bloodwolf1175 Yes. It turns out only a few of us actually would use it regularly. I know I would b/c of HDMI output and Bluetooth controllers. For now, I will use PS3.
imho you can't compare xbox with the playstation! I still have a PSX, PS2, PS3 and probably get the PS4 finally this year. I would love a PS5 that can play all those games. I can't even think of more than 3 exclusive xbox games that would justify me buying an xbox, but playstation with it's amazing back library? o man! that's something else! :)
Nonetheless, you guys should definitely check out Gungrave (yellow cover). It's a fun game. I believe it is a PS2 exclusive.
Don't we all?
I waiting for KH3, that's what i'm hype for next year. RIP Wii U recap vids 2012-2017.
Wow I thought Sonys exclusive line up is top of the pops Adam
Happy birthday Ps4
You're right about Japan. They are very old school when it comes to physical media. Ebooks don't actually do that well in Japan because most people prefer ti real books/newspapers etc.
PS5 no PS3 backwards compatibility because Cell processor is difficult to code an emulator for but other two PlayStations yes.
No way in hell was Nintendo’s exclusive content this year better than Sony’s. Giving them a pass just because they’re Nintendo is extremely disingenuous
Sorry that I'm not allowed to have a different opinion.
Adam Koralik
You’re entitled to your opinion, but Nintendo hasn’t released so many exclusive titles this year that they outperformed Sony’s offerings
Still a lot of exclusives for next year, that might be crossgen titles . The last of us II, death stranding, ghost of tsushima and days gone just to mention a few possible ones.
Could be a hell of a year, hopefully some bigger Psvr titles as well.
Wow, excellent video as usual! A little off from what the video is mainly about, but that ArchivalDisc thing is weird. I'm into different physical media and I've never heard of it, seems pretty crazy if that would be the next format, gotta wonder if that would increase game prices because like when blu-ray was new, it was obviously much more expensive than DVD's, and DVD's were more than VHS etc.
The funny thing about the switch is that basically the only AAA game that was solely developed for it by Nintendo in house studios, was and still is Super Mario Odyssey.
Literally everything else is Wii U ports and third party multiplatforms. There is also Mario+Rabbits but that was developed by Ubisoft. Xbox One had and still has nothing, except the Sea of Thieves and latest Forza. Sony Worldwide Studios on the other hand, steadily brings AAA titles on a yearly basis, and this is highly impressive, considering that their games are unique and original IP's(even God Of War can be classified as a complete reimagining).
And another thing to mention is that all of their AAA titles are built almost from the ground up, using in house proprietary game engines, and every title is painstakingly tinkered to work with the PS4 hardware at the most fundamental level (like they use a lot of low level assembly stuff, which is nothing to sneeze at), milking every last juice out of the system, to bring the most amazing graphical fidelity and overall quality working flawlessly on 2012 mid-tier PC specs.
And this is what SCE should be praised for, they have pretty much The best programmers and artists, give them years of time, huge budgets and freedom to create a true works of art for all of us to enjoy.
In this landscape of AAA publishers ordering game developers to solely grunt at yet another CoD, Assassin's Creed or Battlefield, using the same assets, and with corporate suits choking artistic freedom, it's great to have a publisher to give us AAA blockbusters in all of their creative glory.
Smash Ultimate?
I only got my PS4 pro in march of this year, and I got the pro so it did VR better, so ive been picking up the top games on the platform at sale prices and I am very happy with my PS4. The PSVR is also a very nice piece of kit, considering that the PS4 did not have VR in mind when it first came out.Very happy with my purchase and it will keep me busy until the PS5 come out.
picking up a ps4 this black Friday its finally cheap enough and has enough games I wanna play. ive had nothing but nintendo consoles and pc this gen.
Got a og ps4 at launch sold it around 2018 and just now getting a pro
PS3 had a 7 year run, I'd expect the PS4 to be the same at least. So I'm expecting the PS5 in late 2020. Possibly even 2021 because they have released an updated version with PS4 Pro. Something they didn't do with the PS3.
The name change comes with a ton of asterisks if the rumors are to believed. From your name not changing in games to DLC or additional content not working after a name change. I hope they iron those out or there is no point
You forgot the PSVR. This is one of the reasons i prefer the PS4
To be fair, the majority of the world forgot it too.
Astro Bot Rescue Mission by JAPAN Studio is one of the best platformers I've played in several years. It shows just how much VR can add to the genre.
Moss is also excellent, and next week it's getting the long awaited Beat Saber VR game.
@@AdamKoralik Maybe... but i love it, and the PSVR sells are not bad.
@@AdamKoralik I'm waiting for it to hit the bargain bin, like I did with 32X and Saturn. =)
Would love to use it for racing games, flying games, RE7, etc on PS4 and also hacked on PC for racing and flying games - but not paying over $100 for one. I don't mind waiting until black friday 2020. Haha
You Know Adam. I'm starting to see backwards compatibility as more than just a cool bonus feature for a console. It's actually a MUST.
Just like theatrical film negatives being preserved. We have to understand that there is gonna come a time when old systems. Such as maybe the PS1 and PS2. Start to have more hardware issues. and don't forget the 1st and 2nd Generation PS3s that play PS2 Games as well. Are arguably the best way to play PS2 games on an HD Television natively. But sadly. They'll begin to decline overtime.
If PS5 were to actually play just PS1, PS2, and PS4 titles. (BTW, I'm okay with them skipping PS3 since most of the big titles from that generation have been successfully remastered for the PS4)
It would be a great replacement for those YLOD-Infected PS3s that could soon die for good one day. And when those are gone or become too expensive to purchase off Ebay. We won't have many good options to play these games. For example, you want to play the first 4 Silent Hill games but don't have the hardware to play them? well. Your out of luck.
But Sony themselves should also keep in mind. Making some of these great games into Digital Titles on the PS Store would also be a good alternative if finding physical copies in the wild is also too difficult. So let's keep that in mind.
One of the main reasons I didn't have grade... Besides the fear of spending hours and hours again playing, the money Etc. The backwards compatibility bother the crap out of me. But finally Black Friday sale this year pushed me to move to the PS4. But now all my PS3 games along with my PS3... I have to decide what to do with. Always hated that issue with not being able to play the previous consoles games
PlayStation tends to ultimately dominate each generation.
The PS5 I doubt will be doing all digital anytime soon.
I am pretty sure that PS5 will go with BluRay XL format.
In the US and PAL regions, I think it would be plausible for a digital only version that comes without a disc drive but instead offers like a 4TB SSD or HDD, and also a version that comes with the disc drive.
Maybe the PS5 will have double internal storage slots.
I've heard the PS5 will be backwards compatible with PS4 game discs, but not for PS1, PS2, or PS3.
Happy 5th anniversary PS4!
Awesome shirt 👌☝️🤗 an top notch info . Always enjoy your spin on things .
Latley ive seen a lot talk of possible next gen consoles and games and I figured "oh those are a ways away." Then I see that the ps4 is 5 years old and im like "oh wow"
I really love these videos and the PS4! But the only thing that kind of sucks is that all three videos aren't debuting around the same time, thanks to Nintendo.
PUBG was actually Xbox exclusive up until now.
Also, I think you’re underestimating the use of backwards compatibility. I played Morrowind, Oblivion, Red Dead 1, Halo 4, MW2 a TON this year. Even if its only 5% of games being played, thats still a big number. I honestly possibly used Backwards compatibility more than new Xbox One games
It was on pc so not an exclusive
Scar Seven
*console exclusive whatever.
@@appleipodtouch2g it was on PC first
Davidth
Which console is that?
@@appleipodtouch2g Nigga no
Let's dig more into the retrocompatibility item. Is it underused because people really are not interested as they say or is it that the last two generations are full of "expendable" games that aren't worth replaying? Of course there are exceptions, but I dare say it's the second one.
I don’t think ps4 will be king next gen. They censoring games and I highly doubt it’s going to support backwards compatibility
It's still way to early for the Playstation 5.
Nah the PS4 and XB1 have a CPU that isn't even on par with Intel chips from 2010. We don't need new GPUs in consoles but we DO need new CPUs - BAAAADLY.
Even a first-gen Ryzen 4c8t chip@3.6GHz would be worlds better than the 'Jaguar' in PS4/XB1 and would work well with XB1X/PS4P GPU.
Odd to not hear anything about PSVR in a recap of the PS4's history, at least in passing. Even with a relatively small user base it seems like a significant milestone for the system and the PlayStation brand.
It's basically irrelevant, it also didn't come out this year.
@@AdamKoralik But the hardware did surpass 3 million sales earlier this year, and the first party title Astro Bot received significant critical acclaim when it launched in October - it's the 7th best rated PS4 game this year on Metacritic, and the best reviewed VR game ever across all platforms. Considering the topic of changes and implementing new ideas, from Sony themselves and their competitors, was one of the first things discussed in this video, PSVR seems like a relevant point to bring up given that it's one of the few fields that the PlayStation 4 has branched out into that the other consoles have not.
This also could have been brought up when you discussed some of the PS4's noteworthy exclusive titles (like Astro Bot) this year or milestones for the platform (PSVR also celebrated its 2nd anniversary last month). There was already plenty you covered for the PS4 overall, it just seemed odd PSVR wasn't mentioned briefly considering it could have fit into several points throughout the video.
Don't think the quantity of exclusives matter but the quality.
Not long ago I posted a thread online asking for PC exclusive recommendations.....and boy did I piss some people off. They actually thought I was trolling them with the "exclusive" part (I was not).
I had to explain that I have a ridiculous console library and would probably already own or have played the well known multiplats. Hence why I was asking about PC exclusives.
Whats up everyone thinking physical media is done, physical media still goes hard as fuck
I don't see everyone download 90GB or above next year. I'm from the UK and the fastest connection in my area is 80mb download. It takes like 2 hours just to download around 25-30gb. PS5 and new Xbox will still support physical media. Microsoft has already confirmed that they would like to give gamers choice of physical media, digital copy and streaming.
I know it took ages for Sony to offer the change of PSN ID. I still keeping my original PSN ID as Sony has state that it will cause a few issues on some older games if you change your PSN ID.
Nice typo in the title, Adam! The PS4 just came out last ye...oh shit.
Cross Play was already a thing on the PS2 on Final Fantasy with PC as it was on PS3. Even at the Launch of Rocket League on PS4 & PC in 2015 you already could play cross play with PC Players that play over Steam back in 2015. Only thing new is that you can play with Xbox & Nintendo Players. PS4 with PC Cross Play was already possible in the past.
Panasonic and Sony already made a 300 500 and 1TB blu ray discs. The largest so far is a 3.3TB blu ray disc which is positioned towards filmmakers who store large audio files. I like physical media on consoles and switched to steam on PC. I think PS4 is doing great hopefully they hit 100 MIL but i hope it does not go to their head and they stay humble and focus on great games and experiences.
Awesome video Adam! :-)
Expanding on the "sticking a PS2 disc in the PS4 and it detecting it" thing, they have done this already. When Call of Duty: Ghosts came out, the PS4 wasn't out yet, so they did some deal where when the PS4 did come out, putting the PS3 disc in allowed you to download the PS4 version for free, but required you have the disc in to play it, just like Microsoft is doing
Frankly, I think digital only is stupid, not just for the whole collector's aspect of owning a physical copy, but digital copies are linked to your account on their network, which means that these corporations could shut down your account and you'd lose all access to the games, or they could just remove games from your account for no reason, I think physical copies give corporations less power over what people can do with these systems. Also you can't trade or borrow digital copies with/from a friend, and most people don't have internet capable of downloading a 100-200 GB game in less than a few hours, not to mention the local storage you need to store the games. All in all digital is just a bad idea, even if we had really fast Internet, physical copies protect consumer rights, and digital copies relinquish them.
If you talk about 300 GB discs and games that large, you also have to talk about what it would be like without those discs.
For many people a 300 GB download is a matter of days or even weeks. While I think there will be progress until 2020 that problem will continue to exist for a long time.
every gamer has to thank sony...they made gaming accessible
im not fan of the ps4.. but playing death stranding on the old one ps4 ..was sick!
games are too casual these days..horrible generation!
still a 2080 is too expensive...ps5 will kill the master race for better graphics in dead cells👀😆
Fun fact the PlayStation 4 is projected to hit a hundred million before the end of this year. So it will surpass the PS1 which is currently at 105 million units sold.
Ps. Last time I checked PS3 sold 86 million units. 👌
Speaking of physical media, have you heard that there will be a discless XBox One coming Spring 2019?
Yeah, depressing.
@@AdamKoralik Yep, good luck to the people with their toaster if they try to "collect" for it a decade later!
Gameplayer 119 Spring 2019 more like Winter 2020.
@@RobertK1993 No, it's confirmed that there will be a discless XBox One in Spring 2019.
From what I've read MS will still be making Xbone S' with a disc drive at least. If this is true it leads credence to the rumors of Project Scarlet being two devices one physical/digital like current consoles and the other pure digital.
For the first time since og Xbox I'm considering going Xbox next gen, at least as long as Sony plans on keeping their censorship policy for Japanese developed games