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The PS4 version of Genshin Impact is being delisted and shut down | VGC (www.videogameschronicle.com)
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[-] wirelesswire@lemmy.zip 14 points 5 days ago

Unfortunate, but sometimes you need to cut support for 12 year old hardware in order to do more with your game. I come from MMOs, and this sort of thing would regularly happen when a new expansion would be announced. Minimum specs rise, and support for old stuff gets cut.

[-] theangriestbird@beehaw.org 13 points 5 days ago

yeahhhh it makes sense, just kind of wild because live service games THRIVE on old hardware. Stuff like Fortnite and Overwatch has kept the PS4 platform pretty damn lively, and i'm sure it accounts for a significant chunk of sales, so seeing a live service game cut off that revenue stream is interesting. The hardware may be 12 years old, but the new hardware has sat in a pretty steep price point for its entire history so far, so somehow this still feels premature.

[-] wirelesswire@lemmy.zip 12 points 5 days ago

Yeah, I'm sure they ran the numbers and a decision like this didn't come lightly. Also, since this is a multiplatform game, there's a good chance the displaced ps4 users already have another device they can play the game on. Ultimately though, if the devs want to grow the game, then these decisions have to be made. Back when I played, after every major patch, you were guaranteed to see people lamenting that they could no longer play the game because their device no longer had enough storage.

While I understand it's not a 1:1 comparison, Final Fantasy 14 dropped support for PS3 in 2017, and the console was only 11 years old at the time.

[-] theangriestbird@beehaw.org 7 points 5 days ago

While I understand it's not a 1:1 comparison, Final Fantasy 14 dropped support for PS3 in 2017, and the console was only 11 years old at the time.

I don't want to say too much bc you acknowledged the apples to oranges comparison, but I'll say the quiet part out loud for others: technology advanced way more in those 11 years than it has in the last 12 since the PS4 launch. The only conceivable limiting factor at this phase is storage speed, and as others have pointed out, Genshin on PS4 is currently MISERABLE with load times. So like, it makes sense, but still feels wrong.

[-] Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org 10 points 5 days ago

Remember when it was announced for the switch 1? Lol

[-] theangriestbird@beehaw.org 7 points 5 days ago

What a joke ahaha

[-] sculd@beehaw.org 6 points 5 days ago

Unfortunate, but considering that the PS4 is more than a decade old, I suppose supporting that platform must be a pain for the developers.

Also my guess is that new competitor from Kuro games is beating Genshin on the graphic front and Mihoyo wants to up their game.

[-] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 6 points 5 days ago

not too suprised, given the game runs fairly poorly on the base PS4, and I believe with Natlan, they made the decision to increase the quality of certain elements of the game, and its not going to get any lighter.

[-] slauraure@beehaw.org 3 points 5 days ago

If only my PS5 could outlive the PS4.

The PS5 GPU killed itself (just) out of warranty and Sony refused to touch it without payment.

[-] theangriestbird@beehaw.org 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

noooo Sony what the FUCK!

You make me v glad that I have gone all-in on PC this gen.

[-] slauraure@beehaw.org 2 points 4 days ago

I was probably just unlucky with it. Had a drifting controller replaced also within my short time with it.

Yeah PC is much better, we bought this for Demon’s Souls and the other exclusives we figured would release. Just became my partner’s go-to Genshin machine until it started making blinking rainbow artifacts very much justifying the epilepsy warning.

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