Not sure how much you can monetise the news feed for a game you already own… The publisher may already control all the things linked to it. If unmonetised things are “ads” now, then the whole Steam UI is a giant ad.
They’re not. Steam survey has 4K monitors at under 4%. Well over half are at 1080p and below. There’s exactly 1 GPU in the top 10 above the nVidia x060 series.
The way things get reviewed, you’d think 4K was a minimum. I suspect the majority of high end cards out there aren’t even used for gaming.
They were already lazy because the hardware was powerful enough to hide a lot of sins.
FF7 Rebirth for example. It looks much better on the Pro, but frankly, it should have looked much better on the base console. And it came out well before the Pro was announced.
But at the same time, the majority of PC gamers are happily still playing at 1080p. Resolution was always overrated and an expensive thing to chase.
The only semi-exclusive from last gen was Cyberpunk, and I can’t really see things being much different. If a game engine was capable of running at 60 if you reduce the graphics, they’ll still offer that. If it wasn’t, then the Pro won’t be able to run it faster either. It’s pretty much the exact same CPU under both.
The last thing we need is Pro consoles getting exclusives. That would be PS6 in all but name.
The PS4 Pro made some sense. The PS4 was underpowered on launch, and 4K became pretty commonplace shortly after they launched. It still had an underpower CPU, but at least you got an upscaled HDR 1440p image for most of the time which is good enough. Even PC gamers accepted upscaling to 4K once they gave it a fancy name and told them it was exclusive.
But here, you’ve already got a choice of pretty RT mode and 60 fps mode, and if you really wanted both of those at the same time, then you could lash out a big pile of money for a PC.
It’s 700 notes for half a generation of slightly prettier gaming. It’s aimed at the “turn everything to ultra and have a fit when it drops below 60fps” PC gaming demographic, who have no need for this.
Phasmophobia is tense and mostly because you can die and get no points, but there’s plenty of VRChat horror worlds as well. The quality varies wildly though, and you often face the worst VR horror of all: awful frame rates.