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Ah, sorry. Well, it does run at 50/60fps on a jailbroken PS4 Pro, so I imagine a patch might sort it….

I think the PS4 pro and One X are probably where power really plateaued. Has a game looked better than Last OF Us 2 on PS4 Pro? 60fps. Spectacular. Just fine.

Too late now, but if you were near an Argos, there was a thing last night where a load of Switch 2 games were all 20 quid. Cue thousands of people buying stuff, and anyone who ran to Argos first thing got cheap games. Anyone who couldn't found their order cancelled at around 10am.

Dammit.

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He's here all week, remember to tip your waitress, and try the veal.

It does feel a little like we might be in a repeat of 1983's video game crash. And, remarkably, for all the progress, also for very similar reasons. A glut of shit product, not enough consumers, general market saturation from too many different devices and likely general consumer fatigue into the bargain.

There's a lot of evidence that people are also sticking to games where they have a lot of time and investment (e.g. Apex, CS2) rather than moving to new games. I think Arc Raiders is the last successful launch of anything in this area, and since then there's been a string of further high profile cancellations or flops. Add on the top AI making everything ruinous (and accelerating the generation of slop), and you could see this being the start of a snowball effect in the industry.