@I_DeathSinger_I PC gamer telling randos to buy a console is crazy work.
I highly doubt you'll take your own advice with that fancy gaming PC you've got.
If it is true, Gears E-Day is exclusively an Xbox/PC game:
You need to understand, it will need to be a flat-out amazing game of the year contender type of game in order for it to do what #Xbox wants it to do.
Cherry-picking reviewers pre-launch to artificially boost the meta scores won't work. That trick has been overdone, and gaming Twitter will easily see that coming.
Real FOMO comes from games universally recognized as must-play.
@JamiesAct Cart in front of Horse, they actually did significantly discount the Xbox on multiple holiday seasons, and barely anyone took the bait.
You need better exclusives first.
PC Gamers are the creators of their own problem here.
Publishers will always want their games purchased, and will push back as long as gamers still search for ways to freeload.
Just so happens that consoles in general carry way better anti piracy measures that don't impact the optimization on their own.
Every workaround once found can be easily resolved.
So is the issue the fix, or is the issue the fact that the walls of the garden got patched up?
@Puertorock77_ Interesting how the Evil DRM narrative is still going on...
Makes me wonder if some of these guys who were active on that exploit are trying to gaslight the DRM situation in hopes that they can continue freeloading games off "evil Sony"
Check Mystic Ryan's recent post on youtube.
It seems that resetera mostly figured it out to Playstation fixing an exploit to fake a return on a game through jail breaking a playstation and keeping it offline to fake owning the license for the game.
Likely Playstation kept it quite to keep others from getting further ideas on the concept.
So beyond all this pocket watching and twitter PC Builders trying to build their #PS5Pro killer, I've been thinking about it, who is this new console for?
Easy answer is the enthusiast with deeper pockets and sure I won't argue against that.
But I can consider one other angle...
Imagine someone enjoying the PS5 feature set and for what it offers: the exclusive games, 1st party, 3rd Party, timed whatever, are great.
You keep hearing about the PC guys who say that the exclusivity doesn't matter, they'll get it eventually and it'll look better, and sure, respect for the people patiently waiting, that's fine.
What if Sony sees this discourse and thinks: if the PS5 Pro can get closer to rivaling PC level of fidelity (NOT matching OR exceeding, just get in that space), how many of those guys thinking of PC builds would rather pick up a pro and forget about building a PC and spending more out of pocket for less of a difference and putting them into the ecosystem?
There's got to be a business angle they want to play at here.