PS5 Pro – out today (Sony)
The Thursday letters page is happy that the Nintendo Switch 2 is backwards compatible, as one reader is impressed by Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered.
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Pro tips
So the PS5 Pro is out today and… I’m not getting one. I imagine that’s the case for most people though. There seems to be a lot of people, and we’ve seen them on the Inbox, that treat it like a mainstream console that Sony expects everyone to want and buy, but look at the price – it’s clearly not that.
It’s ridiculously expensive and the difference it makes is negligible. If I didn’t already have a PlayStation 5, I might possibly consider getting the Pro instead, but I don’t think so. I can spend all that extra money on games instead, rather than tiny differences I need a YouTube video to spot the differences for me.
If you absolutely must have the best graphics than I imagine it’s actually perfectly worth the money, but for everyone else it’s an expensive luxury that you don’t even particularly want.
This doesn’t mean the PS5 Pro is a failure, it just means it’s a niche machine that’s not designed to appeal to everyone. It’s a shame it’s being used as a bit of a punching bag at the moment but, really, it’s less important than something like the PlayStation Portal and that’s just an optional extra itself.
Sculda
Doubling up
Nice to know the Switch 2 is backwards compatible but it’s hardly a surprise. Nintendo has hinted about it often enough and despite what some people seem to think they’ve always made their consoles backwards compatible where it’s physically possible – it’s only different cartridge or disc sizes that have stopped them.
I do think this is a hint that the original Switch is not going anywhere fast though and that a lot of games will be cross-gen for the first few years. The Switch 2 might not be as powerful as the PlayStation 5, or whatever, but its games are still going to be more expensive to make and take longer than before.
So Nintendo are going to want to recoup that development money by putting it on the older system as well. It also gives them a fallback if the Switch 2 is a flop, that they can keep the Switch 1 coasting along until they figure something else out.
Onibee
Stealth plans
Knowing that Hogwarts Legacy 2 is now underway I would love to hear Warner Bros. talk about how that’s their biggest game ever and Suicide Squad was their biggest flop. And yet it’s live service games that they’re obsessed with and want to make more of.
They’re in a similar position to Sony, where the direction they were going has been shown to be a massive failure and yet they’ve not said anything about switching their plans or going back to making normal games. I guess they don’t want to look …read more
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