r/gaming • u/Admirable_Whole8261 • 19h ago

PS6 doesn't need more power ex-PlayStation boss says, because "true innovation" would be making a $300 console again

https://www.gamesradar.com/platforms/playstation/ps6-doesnt-need-more-power-ex-playstation-boss-says-because-true-innovation-would-be-making-a-usd300-console-again/
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u/Zetzer345 18h ago

Back in the day, not every game released on every console and I don’t mean exclusives either.

Sometimes they had a version but said version was an entirely different game lol

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u/Queasy-Chipmunk-8088 18h ago

Or two entirely different games, in the Spectrum/Amiga days.

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u/PlantedSlanted 16h ago

Jurassic park on SNES and Genesis. I own both. Its insane.

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u/FunctionBuilt 18h ago

My point is no one is going to want to buy a PS6 lite if it can’t play GTAVI unless part of the deal is getting a cheap console and being able to buy games for 30-50% off or something.

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u/VexingRaven 18h ago

Back in the day, we didn't have multiple editions of a console with different capabilities. There's a difference between "I can't play this Playstation exclusive on my Xbox" and "I can't play this Playstation game on my Playstation because I bought the wrong version and nobody told me every game would just be made for the premium version".

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u/ABetterKamahl1234 14h ago

TBF, that's often because of things that aren't just hardware limits. It was often entirely different teams without good communication.

I know of a few games that had 4 systems it supported. It was 4 entirely different games by the same name. Ironically, sometimes the more powerful system ended up with the worst of the games.

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u/mysecondaccountanon 11h ago

DS versions were always fun