by arcana75 » Thu Aug 06, 2020 8:36 am
I saw these 2 points from the AJS News video.
All straight sour grapes BS from the xbots or people who have some implicit bias towards xbox. Exclusive characters are not new, look at Soul Calibur for earlier examples, not to mention different pre-order bonuses. Paying for exclusive content, exclusive titles, timed exclusives are part of the market share game, gotta grow up and out of the entitlement.
The PS4 on PS5 controller thing is also bullshit from xbots, because the Xbox controller *can* be used across console generations, but for PS, you couldn't use PS2 on PS3 and also couldn't use PS3 on PS4, so why only now complain about PS4 on PS5? Also there's a dev advancement reason outside of making money: if a PS5 game is made for PS5 controllers, if they had to worry about supporting PS4 controllers they would need to program extra elements into the game which is nice but extra work. This is part of the problem with PC gaming where devs have to worry about different configs and settings, but console is supposed to be optimised code on ONE tech config.
Also, Bluetooth 4 and 5 are not immediately backward compatible with Bluetooth 1. In most cases, a BT1 device simply can't connect to a BT4 or 5 chip. The PS4 controller is BT 1.4.