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[Skifi28]

The marketing budget being put to good work

I've always wondered if Astroturfers were part of the regular marketing budget or had their very own. Too bad we can't ask Phil these days.

 

[IAmRei]

nah, GTA play best on PC, why, You can mod many things to Your preferences

 

[xanaum]

This thing is going to sell more PS5 than an entire holiday season.

 

[evanft]

This wasn't worth making a thread over.

 

[ValiantInstance]

This thing is going to sell more PS5 than an entire holiday season.

Normies are desperate to play it. But I'm going to guess a fair number of them are not $700 (pre tax) desperate to do so.

 

[Hideous Snake]

nah, GTA play best on PC, why, You can mod many things to Your preferences

I mean even without mods it will play and look best on PC.

 

[Zacfoldor]

It's just marketing talk. Don't let it fool you.

Is it though?

Last time I checked there was no XSX Pro.

I know because if there was I would own it.

So technically, of course it will play best on PS5 Pro, right?

I mean even without mods it will play and look best on PC.

Well yeah, but you have to wait right?

 

[Hideous Snake]

Well yeah, but you have to wait right?

No shit?

 

[Tiago Rodrigues]

For now...

yeah...PS6 is coming next year or 2028

 

[xanaum]

nvm

 

[MiguelItUp]

Marketing.

 

[xanaum]

Normies are desperate to play it. But I'm going to guess a fair number of them are not $700 (pre tax) desperate to do so.

You're going to be surprised.

 

[LordOcidax]

The marketing budget being put to good work

Too obvious

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

Phil went out before the shit-show. What A coward.

 

[Zacfoldor]

So because of PS5 Pro it will be 100% true until the PC release.

Why PC Versions are Delayed

• Revenue Strategy: Parent company Take-Two focuses on console platforms first, where the largest share of high-priced sales and GTA Online revenue originates. [1, 2]
• Piracy Protection: Maximizing the initial, critical sales surge happens on locked-down consoles where game piracy is not an immediate factor. [1]
• Hardware Optimization: Consoles have fixed hardware, while the PC ecosystem has thousands of different configurations and driver combinations. Polishing the game for PC requires extra months of development. [1, 2]

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

 

[ValiantInstance]

You're going to be surprised.

Most families don't have 7-800 to spunk on a toy.

Reminds of the thread about a $1000 PS5. They will not buy it. This place is detached from reality.

 

[Zacfoldor]

 

[Bernardougf]

Its marketing... and true at the same time specially because of the Pro

 

[skneogaf]

Playstation 5 pro version yeah but I can't imagine the xbox series x version being noticeably worse than the standard playstation 5 version.

Time will tell.

 

[Kenneth Haight]

 

[Zacfoldor]

Most families don't have 7-800 to spunk on a toy.

Reminds of the thread about a $1000 PS5. They will not buy it. This place is detached from reality.

7-800 I'm not sure but I think a lot of people are gonna buy Switch 2 for OOT which may end up costing 600 or 700 for them. So PS5 Pro for GTA is not impossible. Especially with the people who claim to have set out this gen due to no games. Nostalgia can bring them back.

 

[kaizenkko]

Most families don't have 7-800 to spunk on a toy.

Reminds of the thread about a $1000 PS5. They will not buy it. This place is detached from reality.

We need to wait and see whether Sony will offer promotions to attract more buyers, which I think is very possible. They could even release a bundle that includes the game.

And I totally agree that most people wouldn't spend that much on a console. However, I also think GTA VI is something completely different from anything else in this industry. As of last year, Sony still had at least 35–40 million active PS4 users. I can easily see a significant number of those players upgrading to a $600 digital-only PS5 just to play GTA VI.

 

[Negotiator101]

Lol and shills were trying to convince everyone Microsoft would have the marketing partnership with this game

Literally nobody said that

 

[FoxMcChief]

"PS5 pays the best."

 

[Negotiator101]

Exclusive 60fps edition incoming.

They forgot to put Pro on the end, that's the only PS5 version that will play better.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

I mean even without mods it will play and look best on PC.

Not anymore when the steam machine functions as the representative of PC Gaming

 

[SJRB]

Could we have MORE threats about GTA please ?

 

[Heisenberg007]

 

[near]

Most families don't have 7-800 to spunk on a toy.

Reminds of the thread about a $1000 PS5. They will not buy it. This place is detached from reality.

Gaming has always been a luxury hobby, but it's a luxury within reach for a lot of households, especially around xmas with retailer deals. GTA6 is going to be the biggest gaming event of this generation and last gen too. It probably won't move consoles like the franchise did in the PS2/PS3 era, because the market and economy are different now. But it will absolutely shift units. Plenty of gamers that have held off upgrading will finally decide that this game is worth buying a PS5/XSX for.

 

[MisterXDTV]

nah, GTA play best on PC, why, You can mod many things to Your preferences

How so? November 19 your PC will run the game at 0 fps

 

[FoxMcChief]

I feel like I have heard this lie from Sony before.

 

[Puscifer]

Just PR bullshit , same thing will be in series x

Don't forget that sometimes the series X has better loading. The reality is that games will never have the need to load the much data that quickly - having an SSD In general, even sata, providing consistent stateful access is the game changer period.

 

[Zacfoldor]

This changes things. Preordered digitally.

 

[LordCBH]

Literally nobody said that

Lmao clearly you weren't on Twitter two months ago when the shills were insinuating it

 

[S0ULZB0URNE]

If they really use the custom I/O blocks to decompress data on PS5 there should be a magnitude of difference. Like 1sec vs 10sec.

No big games have near instant loading on XSX, even in their first party games, when PS5 has a few of them. We'll see.

Yup

 

[DeepEnigma]

But what if they don't have any consoles to sell?

Analysis Hardware Sales-Age  Thread 'New Document Reveals Sony’s Fix for Rising PS5 Costs May Be Selling Fewer Consoles'

Monday at 9:03 PM

New Document Reveals Sony's Fix for Rising PS5 Costs May Be Selling Fewer Consoles

A new document reveals that Sony could be looking to manage the high memory prices by simply selling fewer PS5 units and ending promotions.

tech4gamers.com

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The current console generation has been somewhat unlucky. It started during the pandemic times, so there were mass shortages as the trades were disrupted. Now, due to the AI boom, memory prices are skyrocketing, leading to higher prices.

Unsurprisingly, Sony has been hit by this too, as they had to increase PS5 prices earlier this year. Now, a new document shows that they are planning to fix this situation by just selling lower PS5 consoles.

Why it matters: Despite the slower start, the sales had become so high...

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You know damned well Sony is going to be pumping these boxes out for the games this fall.

Bet your accounts on it.

 

[cireza]

If it plays best on their platform, why can't they advertise it actually does?

To make such a claim, you need to know how it plays on other platforms. Which I doubt they know.

 

[Team Skoda]

I mean, Witcher 3 was practically the same on the PS4 with no SSD.

 

[DeepEnigma]

> PLAYSTATION blog posts about Playstation features
> "huuuuh Xbox can do this too, this is just marketing"

Yeah no shit dawg

 

[Kerotan]

PS5 pro Day 1 best purchase of all time.

I wonder will we get trailer 3 this evening.

 

[diffusionx]

Say what you will about "durrr Xbox has fast ssd too" when a game takes advantage of the PS5 like Spider-Man 2 it has no loading, it's like a NES game. It's a qualitative and quantitative difference. The difference between "practically no loading" and "no loading" is actually noticeable. It's not the SSD it's the built in hardware on the PS5.

 

[twilo99]

No shit. Ofcourse they will prioritize optimizing for the platform where their game will actually sell.

True for every single 3rd party game but despite this fact everyone goes crazy about digital foundry video showing a few FPS differences between the platforms thinking it's Sony's "secret sauce"

 

[MrRibeye]

Extrapolating from console hardware of 20 years ago is a total misunderstanding of the current day consoles....

How so?

 

[Bojji]

You know damned well Sony is going to be pumping these boxes out for the games this fall.

Bet your accounts on it.

I already have a bet with Radical_3d about 60fps mode in the game, I think that's enough for now hahaha.

 

[Mr.Phoenix]

To make such a claim, you need to know how it plays on other platforms. Which I doubt they know.

I doubt any other platform, barring the PC, will play it better than a PS5pro.

 

[xanaum]

Most families don't have 7-800 to spunk on a toy.

Reminds of the thread about a $1000 PS5. They will not buy it. This place is detached from reality.

We live in a reality where, just months ago, the iPhone 17 launched at $800 and sold somewhere around 22–25 million units in its first month, even though most buyers already had a relatively recent iPhone.

It surprises me that people still underestimate consumer spending power. Even when they can't really afford it, people often find a way. I'm not saying that's right or wrong, just pointing out the reality of it.

 

[diffusionx]

We live in a reality where, just months ago, the iPhone 17 launched at $800 and sold somewhere around 22–25 million units in its first month, even though most buyers already had a relatively recent iPhone.

It surprises me that people still underestimate consumer spending power. Even when they can't really afford it, people often find a way. I'm not saying that's right or wrong, just pointing out the reality of it.

People don't pay for phones by digging the money out of their pocket. It's usually discounted and then broken up into payments on their cell phone bill which they pay anyway.

 

[cireza]

I doubt any other platform, barring the PC, will play it better than a PS5pro.

This it not the point being made by Sony's communication though.

 

[adamsapple]

You know damned well Sony is going to be pumping these boxes out for the games this fall.

Bet your accounts on it.

I will bet my alt account, Ass of Can Whooping .