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Alright, let's get into this because We have a quite a bit to talk about here because there is a kind of a a I Guess an opinion going out there kind of a Thought process I guess is the best way to put it that Xbox series X and the PlayStation 5 are rushing to launch this year and What supports it is things like how there's no major games for the Xbox series X and series S at launch Sony not being forthcoming in a whole bunch of features that we normally know by now And yeah, it's a weird pandemic year and it kind of feels like maybe You know, they shouldn't have these systems out there There's obviously a lot of pre-order snafus pre-order cancellations and delays I mean the PlayStation 5 some people are getting emails about their PlayStation 5 pre-orders saying you won't even get your system till 2021 Like that doesn't even sound like second shipment third shipment fourth shipment That sounds like 10 shipments down the road. You finally get your PlayStation 5 pre-order That's that's really insane to be completely honest and a lot of this has led to Confusion and people are just saying you know what these systems are rushed They shouldn't be launching now and I want to be clear here we will not know how rushed these systems are until they're actually in our hands and There are certain aspects about these platforms that will point out how rushed they really are but right now from the outside looking in You know, you look at the line-ups. You you look at how all the handling of this has been happening It looks like these systems are rushed But I think one thing that's important to do is look at the history of console launches Because if you're gonna claim that these console launches are rushed then we need a basis to compare it to now We could compare this to Nintendo switch. We all know that switch launch with a killer app We all know that switch had hardware issues and for all intents and purposes it kind of feels like switch was rushed in Hindsight even though the switch blew up and no one is saying they shouldn't have released it on March 3rd 2017 But there are some things that maybe could have been fixed if the switch sat in the oven at least till holidays It is what it is Now let's get into Actually comparing other Xbox and PlayStation launches So I decided to first look at the one thing we know for sure that we can check and that is launch line-ups So for the Xbox 360 we're gonna start there because that's like the first console that Microsoft really came on the scenes and Made a name for themselves. Yes I know the original Xbox with Halo and everything was a big deal But again, they were just breaking into the video game market. This is their second attempt And their launch lineup is a decent lengthy list, you know, you get amp 3 you got Call of Duty 2 You got condemned criminal origins FIFA soccer 06 gun Cameo elements of power. That was that was an exclusive game at the time one of the exclusive launch games Madden NFL 06 NBA 2k6 NBA live 06 need for speed most wanted NHL 2k6 perfect dark zero Microsoft game studios with perfect are zero there again. That is another You know quote-unquote exclusive game there Peter Jackson's King Kong the official game of the movie by Ubisoft Project Gotham Racing 3 which was another exclusive at the time Quake 4 My id software and Activision we had Ridge racer 6 Tiger Woods PGA 2 or 06 and Tony Hawk's America Waston So basically a ton of sports games a couple other ones a couple shooters and then we had some exclusives All right, not no big names in there, right? No big name exclusives But you know a decent listing out about 20 or so games there Then you look at the PlayStation 3 launch lineup because again, we're gonna kind of compare I'm just going back a couple gents here. They had about 21 games. It looks like so you had resistance fall man That was an exclusive game NBA 07 Genji days of blade Blazing angels squadrons of World War 2 Call of Duty 3 EA sports fight night round 3 the Elder Scrolls oblivion fear Full auto-tube battle lines Madden NFL 07 Marvel Ultimate Alliance Mobile sweet Gundam crossfire NBA 2k 7 need for speed carbon NHL 2k 7 Ridge Racer 7 Sonic the Hedgehog Tiger Woods PGA 2 or 7 Tom Clancy's Rainbow 6 Vegas Tony Hawk's project 8 and untold legends of Dark England now There's some good games in there, of course, but Sony themselves didn't really provide a lot of the best games I mean you're thinking about oblivion. You're thinking, you know about games like You know, I'm even looking at this Marvel Ultimate Alliance was actually pretty decent But Sony really didn't have anything to do with that. They're big games are obviously resistance follow man Genji days of blade like that was there their go-to games neither of them really that big of a deal And kind of showing that the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 didn't exactly have great launch line-ups So let's go to the current generation a PlayStation 4 So the PlayStation 4 launch lineup was again about 21 games again most recent generation Let's just take a look at it angry birds Star Wars assassin's Creed 4 black flag Battlefield 4 black like retribution Call of Duty ghosts contrast DC universe online drive kick FIFA 14 flower Injustice gods among us Just Dance 2014 kill zone shadowfall that was the big PlayStation 4 exclusive at the time Knack that was another one Lego Marvel superheroes Madden 25 NFL 2k 14 and be alive 14 need for speed rivals playroom another Sony exclusive Riso gun Skylander swap for sound shapes super motherland trying to the complete story in warframe It's funny because it's all like Riso gum was kind of like the one that people were really really excited about it It was on PlayStation Plus. You can get it for free if you were already a subscriber But yeah, that was you know it again Not a terrible lineup, but there's nothing in there that really jumps out to you, right? Like at least at least to me There's nothing really, you know that jumps out because I mean if you go over and you look at the Xbox one launch lineup It doesn't really sound worse You have assassin's Creed 4 black they battle feel before Call of Duty ghosts crimson dragon dead rising three people 14 Fight it within for some orders for five Just Dance 2014 killer instinct Lego Marvel superheroes Local cycle Madden 25 NBA 2k 14 NBA live need for speed rivals power right rise rise on a roam That was an exclusive Skylander swap force zoo tycoon Zumba fitness were apart again. Nothing really major there music basically what kills own versus rise son of Rome Otherwise a lot of this a lot of very similar games in those lineups. I didn't these aren't really impressive Lineups, but it does sound better of course when you start looking at What did they have coming this year and this is where this generation is a little bit weird So on November 10th the Xbox series X will have assassin's Creed Valhalla launching that same day Literally, they moved up the launch date to match the series X launch There will be destiny to be on light dirt 5 gears tactics, which is like the exclusive game that they have Because they don't have any big exclusives at launch now that hails pushback Gears tactics Tetris Effect connect watch dogs Legion and Yakuza like a dragon Now one thing you notice is it sounds like a lot less games But things are different now because these systems are fully backwards compatible You don't need a Madden 21 launch title because if you own Madden 21 on Things like Xbox you just put it into the system and it'll have free Updates and stuff for next-gen so reality is the launch lineups are going to be smaller this time around But that doesn't mean there's actually less available games In fact due to backwards compatibility of both platforms at least so to last-gen for all gens for for Xbox You actually start with a massive library at launch bigger than we've ever had But these are the six games that basically are coming to Xbox series X day one That you can't really enjoy fully right now at least not in the same way you can on Xbox PlayStation 5 is Where you know you start to see a few interesting things so yes They have you know some similar games, you know with Assassin's Creed and everything but Spider-Man Miles Morales That's an exclusive Astros playroom Sackboy a big adventure Demon souls those are like the big ones so Sony's offering maybe arguably Sony's offering the best Exclusive launch line up they have offered maybe in the history of the company Then you get into Godfall Is a launch game watch dogs legions again dirt five call of duty devil may cry five special edition It's gonna be there at PlayStation 5 on launch. We don't know if that's coming to Xbox yet It's not from that coming at launch. There's gonna be fortnight there at launch for tonight. It's gonna be on everything Destruction all-stars So Sony doesn't have a ton of games coming either But again because of backwards compatibility There's actually a bunch of games you can play on PlayStation 5 day one You can pretty much pick up any PlayStation 4 game you want and play it same for the Xbox like when you buy an Xbox one Excellent launch if there's another game point out this holiday you want that's coming to Xbox It it's plays on the series X so you actually have a lot more gaming options this time around So this makes the launch lineups really really focused more on the exclusives than on anything else and Exclusive wise clearly Sony has maybe the best launch lineup they've had so if it's such a rushed launch For PlayStation 5 then why does it have so many decent exclusives? Why is there demons sold remake? Why do we have a Miles Morales? Why are we why we have an Astros playroom or sac boy? I think like this is a pretty solid exclusive lineup So This is where we actually get to the honest conversation about what makes a system rushed because I don't think game lineup Really has much to do with it games are gonna come games are gonna go as we looked at all the launch lineups for prior systems Exclusive wise it really wasn't that great for either platform for Sony or Microsoft This is the first generation where Sony actually has a couple decent games at launch You know Miles Morales, which is also a cross-gen by the way. We can't just ignore that cross-gen So what makes these systems launched or rushed? Well, these are things we have yet to be determined So what's going to determine if the systems are launched or rushed not launched rushed is one hardware failure Are we gonna have another red ring a death situation? Are we gonna have? You know another like PlayStation 4 where the controllers were the plastic was cracking on the thumbsticks Are we have another situation like that that could have been easily caught in more quality testing if they had let the system bake for longer Are we gonna run into operating system bugs and issues that would have been ironed out if these systems spent more time in Development are we gonna run into heat problems with the platforms? Are they gonna overheat? Are they gonna draw too much power more power than they're supposed to because there's something wrong in the power supply? Are we gonna run into issues where the systems are crashing all the time? These are things that to me determine if a system is actually rushed like when you get a Brand-new latest GPU graphics card and this happened. I think back with the Vega 7s From AMD the reason you know that was a rushed launch is when those GPUs came out and you bought it The drivers were so poorly done for that GPU that most of your games just won't run on it at launch It was insane that lets you know that hey look even if the hard Technology parts ready the software side is not so don't release it give time bake your driver Is a little more so things work better and they didn't do that and that's kind of what I'm getting into With the Xbox series X the Xbox series S the PlayStation 5 and the PlayStation 5 all digital version is we can't Talk about them being rushed yet We can't because the things that determine if these platforms are rushed are things We can't determine until the systems are in the public's hands Now we could talk about supply and demand and not meeting supply and demand But I actually went back into research on this did you know that Every new generation console even the Dreamcast for crying out loud sold out at launch I'm not sure if you guys knew that Whether it was the PlayStation 1 place is to Xbox Xbox 360 Xbox one PlayStation 5 4 doesn't matter Nintendo systems You know n64 GameCube we even the Wii U all of these platforms sold all that launch all of You know when if online pre-orders were available all sold out within an hour and in-store sold out as well when they were supposed to Yes, maybe things are a little crazier now because more people are trying to buy online than ever due to COVID But I mean we need to sit back and look at this realistically And that is that Every new launch sells out every new launch does not have enough supply to meet demand in the video game console space So what does this mean? What can we do about it? Nothing? We have to wait, okay? You could still hold on to that opinion that these systems are rushed. I just don't think the evidence supports it I think the evidence shows that determine a rush system cannot be determined until the system is in our hands a Rush product has flaws a rush product has issues a rush product isn't we can't make enough to meet demand a Rush product isn't oh my gosh. There's not enough launch games for the platform That that doesn't matter in the grand scheme We see with prior launch line-ups and and prior hardware issues that you know what that stuff isn't as relevant when you look at the launch Line-ups we've seen terrible launch line-ups from other took rushed compared to what exactly is there a platform? You feel like launched perfectly Let me be honest with me. Is there a platform that launched perfectly? This is why there's always been this mentality of early adopters deal with early adopter problems one of those problems being not a ton of exclusive games to play and Oftentimes some hardware failures You know a big thing when the switch launched was left joycon connectivity issues forget all the other issues There was a legitimate issue Nintendo did fix with left joycon connectivity So like these are problems that seem to always exist in new platforms Rush compared to what again? We can't determine how rush these platforms are until they're in our hands for all we know There is nothing wrong with these systems the games are gonna keep coming consistently And you know what your determination if you want it day one or not might just come down to whether you can get it Or you get your hands on it and if you can't oh well They'll eventually be able to buy some time next year. You'll be able to walk into a store and get one You'll be able to walk into a store and get one sometime this year too if you're really diligent So I'm not I'm honestly not that concerned About these platforms being rushed the things that concern me the most are just consumer practices I've covered it a lot between Xbox and PlayStation 5, you know The different consumer practices they're doing the fourth rightness and the honesty from one company versus the yeah We'll tell you some things what we're gonna tell you it kind of in a hodgepodge way So like the whole general public doesn't really hear about it in the best possible way It's it's just a lot of Different approaches to the market both are going to be successful this holiday The question is which one is going to be successful long haul and can they both be successful and can switch also thrive in the same market I think it's entirely possible We might be entering the first generation where three different platforms could actually be thriving at the same time I do Firmly believe if you're just gonna like, you know, force me to pick right now PlayStation 5 will outsell Uh, the Xbox Series X at launch because it does look like there are more PlayStation 5 stock available Uh, and PlayStation 5 will outsell the Xbox, you know long haul But I do think there are going to be some key markets where Xbox is going to have a massive foothold I think right here in the united states my home country I think there's a chance xbox series xns might outsell PlayStation 5 in this country now worldwide Worldwide is totally different, but again and switch nintendo is going to keep dominating with switch They're going to release a revision. They're going to do a new generation here in a few years like Hold on tight. It's actually a really exciting great time to be a gamer I will note the one the one downfall of next gen That maybe isn't talked about enough. This is going to be the most expensive generation ever games jump into 70 bucks storage costing You know $200 plus for an extra terabyte It's going to be the most expensive generation yet But I always notice about video games in general Video games is a hobby video games as something to do for fun has always been expensive It's an expensive hobby. It's an expensive thing. Even you know, you think about the 3ds Oh, you buy it for for 200 bucks while the games are still 40 bucks a pop. It's pretty pricey You know like in comparison to the cost of the system. So I just have to throw out there that you know what? Um video games is just an expensive hobby and I kind of accepted that a long time ago All right, folks. 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