Nasar7

I'm on PC so Xbox is pretty much redundant. I'll probably buy a PS5 in a year or two when it has more exclusives. If a Switch 2 comes out in 2021 that would be my next purchase.

@colourful_hippie: It's not revolutionary, but its fun. I'm glad I was never on the hype train because now I'm just enjoying it for what it is: an above-average but not necessarily innovative RPG. It doesn't do anything particularly new but the risk they took to create a completely new IP with a strong creative vision is praiseworthy in a world full of sequels and cinematic universes. For me this is enough. They gave me the same (non-ubisoft style) open world game I know and love but with a setting and tone that stands out. Also, I'm playing on a beefy PC so the graphical fidelity feels like the start of a new era and no doubt is a big factor in my enjoyment of the game. It's the biggest jump for me since the push to HD on the Xbox 360.

Call my cynical but no, not really. If anything I would think less of solely their marketing/business departments, but honestly this is exactly how I expect a corporation to behave so their behavior is not that shocking. Their engineering team I still have very high regard for and have no doubt they are bearing the brunt of this fiasco by working overtime to put out patches.

@bigsocrates: Presumably you could spend that $500 elsewhere for non-zero gain and no loss of gaming quality.

So why not just buy it when the games you have so much faith in coming out actually do come out? I guess empty consumerism is just the norm these days. No offense to you personally, whatever makes this shitty year more bearable is fine by me. It's just interesting to me that despite zero hype or real games you, and presumably millions of other people, seeing as they are all sold out, are buying one anyway. Not even my favorite game of the past two decades, Demon's Souls, is enough for me to preorder a PS5 and I don't really see why anyone else would either.

@plan6: They are extremely successful under Tim Cook’s leadership in terms of business and market share but they’re no longer at the forefront of innovation like they were under Jobs.

Purchase? What is this word?

I’m hoping they’ll match but I can easily see the third option.

Sounds like a great deal if you play a lot of games. I don’t play many games these days but I’m going to build a PC now and wait for compelling exclusives on either console. I’m in privileged position though.

I made a list about this back in the day. Remember lists, guys?

To bring this into the current era though I have to say that most games aren't really doing it for me these days. I recently started playing video games again last Fall because of Yakuza and RE7. I also picked up Witcher III which I really loved and most recently God of War. I think the last game I played before that was Bloodborne when it came out.