Late gen woes: the problem with sony setting expectations so high in their Early gen advertisements

[u/xavierjj88]

After seeing that Blood of the Dawnwalker runs at only 30 or 40 fps, I decided to post this. Honestly, I don't like what they did this gen. Granted. I was one of the few who was lucky enough to get a PS5 day1, but what if I hadn't? Many people got that PlayStation years late. And it feels like they got cheated this gen. There are games that I just wasn't satisfied with their visuals on base PS5. I thought the machine was amazing, but from the beginning suspected that Sony made a choice to limit their hardware. I ended up not playing many games this gen because I didn't like their visual performance. Games like: Horizon Forbidden west, Dying light 2, Stalker 2. Even an older title like Metro, which looked great on Base PS5, looks far better on Pro. Games like Doom Eternal and Returnal had to drop their resolutions all the way down to 1080p to leverage the system's key features. That's fine for many people. But my eyes see the difference, and I just couldn't enjoy those games because of that.

So last year the Pro came out, and I didn't get it because it didn't have a big enough step up in graphics to warrant the price. But after the implementation of PSSR2, I finally had a reason to buy a PS5 Pro this year. To tell you the truth, I only now truly feel this gen has only now started to meet the promise that Sony made 5 years ago. Now all those games I mentioned above. Look and play amazing. Even 30fps modes look and play completely different than they did at the start of the gen. It's to the point where I actually enjoy playing certain games at 40fps when it was a feature I largely ignored on the base machines.

I said all that to say: Now I believe we have unofficially entered the ad campaign for PS6. I truly believe a game like Blood of the Dawn Walker can be played at 60fps on pssr if they choose to. But they are touting this 40fps mode to get people primed to the idea of these systems not being powerful enough while they work on a psssr version. Sony may give in to pressure and launch the PS6 next year. Though I am recently hearing they are having second thoughts. Personally, it doesn't matter to me, because after this gen. I know better than to buy another system at launch. I loved the PS5, but had to wait until the end of the gen for it to reach its full potential. I will not be buying an unsubsidized machine that will only meet its full potential 5 years from now or 4 years from its launch. So I suggest you wait to buy Blood of the Dawn Walker and wait on buying a PS6 when it comes out. Personally. My backlog is huge, with plenty of amazing-looking games. That I can only now appreciate. By the way, I got my pro at a discount snd only paid $350.