6 daysSony really made the meme real, what a fucking world we live in
- 5 days
The meme is so old, tapping cards to pay did not even exist.
- boonhet@sopuli.xyzEnglish6 days
And the easier victory of course provides you with a sense of pride and accomplishment.
- DasSkelett@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish5 days
Wow, I completely forgot about this gem of a quote. 9 years it’s been already, apparently
- minorkeys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish5 days
When a company is this focused on making it easier for you to give them your money, maybe it’s time to walk way
Hold the controller closely to your parent’s wallet and unlock this amazing new skin.
- 5 days
You, and YOU alone can help Solid Snake in his mission. Should you choose to accept, the objective is simple. Remove the RFID resistant wallet from your parent’s back pocket. Inside, there will be a plastic card that contains the nuclear codes. Take that card, and press it to the face of your controller. Hurry, agent! The world’s counting on you
- Muffi@programming.devEnglish5 days
Somebody explain the appeal of consoles in 2026 to me. I can easily connect any controller to my PC, and get games at half the price for it?
- Baggie@lemmy.zipEnglish4 days
At this point I’d say only benefit is initial cost investment. Exclusives are rare, and a physical token of purchase in the form of a disk was the last straw for myself.
- ashbeef@feddit.ukEnglish5 days
Ease of use for a TV is the only benefit I can see, I have been PC for 15 years now but nothing ever works perfectly when you try and use it on a TV with controller only.
- Scrollone@feddit.itEnglish5 days
Steam Big Picture and Steam Link work pretty well, but that’s true. They don’t work as perfectly as a console does.
- AliasAKA@lemmy.worldEnglish5 days
Yes and no. You can still get a mini pc or even a laptop with 16gb of ram and a 256-512 ssd for 500ish. It won’t have as much graphics horsepower as a ps5, but it’ll be enough to play a lot of games at 1080p 60fps or use resolution scaling etc. games are significantly cheaper on pc as well.
There was a deal for a 5060ti and 16gb of ram complete build for like 1200. That’s not that terrible vs a ps5 pro brand new.
As someone who contemplates getting either a PC or PS5 for playing FF7 Remake trilogy: a used ps5 goes for around 250€ - 400€
A PC that runs the games at medium settings costs… Well, at least double that. A used RX 6700 XT alone is almost the price of the whole console. And that’s just the GPU, I haven’t even looked the RAM prices… Then add CPU, motherboard, SSD…
So the appeal is price.
Edit: RX 6700 XT is the official recommended GPU for running Rebirth at medium settings
- IllNess@infosec.pubEnglish6 days
Probably because it’s on a controller. It is fucking stupid.
Payment terminal, can’t patent that. Payment terminal on a toaster? Yes you can patent that. Lol
- WhiteRabbit_33@lemmy.worldEnglish6 days
At this point, it’s getting into findom territory. “Don’t want your toast to burn you disgusting pervert? You make such pathetic financial decisions. You should give that money to me instead, and maybe I’ll consider only burning your toast a little.”
- Holytimes@sh.itjust.worksEnglish5 days
Visa and MasterCard already excerise findom. You aren’t allowed to use your money on anything that makes mommy visa and daddy mastercard look bad. Else you will be banned.
- 5 days
or you’re an ICC judge that issued Netanyahou arrest warrant just for a lil’ genocide
- Natanael@infosec.pubEnglish5 days
There’s supposed to be an inventive height. Obvious combinations aren’t patentable by law. But the patent offices are all stupid and just lets it happen and force people to take it to court.
- PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.worldEnglish4 days
Sony patents game console with embedded credit card skimmer, with child-friendly features
$300 controllers coming soon, still with stick drift and rubber joystick tops that turn into slime over time.
- MrPnut@lemmy.worldEnglish6 days
And if it’s anything like my Dualsense, needs to be charged all the time. I basically use it as a wired controller now and barely use my PS5
- 6 days
I skipped the PS4 gen and went from 3 to 5. Is it just my poor memory or did the PS3 controllers not last longer? I know the 5 has more going on in it, but the battery tech has to improve greatly as well in ~14 years
- Holytimes@sh.itjust.worksEnglish5 days
Ps3 controller where basically the best controller ever made in terms of battery life and reliability. Hall effects, amazing battery life, could fall from a 2 story drop and keep on trucking.
They where so reliable that’s it’s part of the reason I think they have been slowly making them worse ever since.
So that people have to actually buy new ones.
Outside of a SINGLE battery replacement from age, my original day 1 ps3 controller is still going strong while every PS4 and 5 controller I’ve had has started to fail in one way or another in like a year ish.
I think the Wii U pro controller had the best battery of all controllers. That thing would just like a month and there was barely any standby drain, it kept well ahold of it’s charge. But the DualShock 3 was a close second.
Ah, the same corpo who once filed a patent about having to yell the name of a product whenever its ad pops on the TV.
- 5 days
Oh don’t tell me, they’re trying to pavlov the population?
- Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish5 days
And once the barrier to payment is that low, well, microtransactions in games naturally follow.
- “Tap your card now for a character boost for this boss fight”
- kingkong@lemmy.worldEnglish5 days
basically patent on theft. make it easier for stupid people to bankrupt themselves while brainwashing them.
- Grass@sh.itjust.worksEnglish6 days
buyrent for an undisclosed amount of time with multiple options for losing possession early - mavu@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish5 days
Honestly, 2 points:
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Actually surprised this was not a PS5 launch feature
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Not a bad idea really. Could cut down on some forms of scam, if you had to use a physical object instead of a bunch of numbers saved on your computer.
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