I mean, I personally view the start of the PS3 era as part of that same golden period - but it was also the time when we began to see the beginnings of enshitification also:
Day 1 patches
Day 1 “on disc DLC”
Microtransactions
$10 “online pass” for 2nd hand games
The launch PS3 was probably the peak of Somy giving the customers what they wanted; full hardware backwards compatibility with PS1/PS2 titles, affordable Blu-Ray player, built-in and upgradable HDD, heap of standardised IO options.
Allowing updates is what made everything go to shit, imo. It should be like older consoles. Whatever you stamped on the disc is what you will be releasing. End of story. Shipping broken (or literally nothing at all, in some cases) is now the standard. Yes games are complex… they always were. if you could fix them after release, you can also fix them before. It’s just greed that keeps one from doing so.
Fuck digital distribution on consoles, fuck dlc, fuck updates. They ruined a lot of things.
I mean, I personally view the start of the PS3 era as part of that same golden period - but it was also the time when we began to see the beginnings of enshitification also:
The launch PS3 was probably the peak of Somy giving the customers what they wanted; full hardware backwards compatibility with PS1/PS2 titles, affordable Blu-Ray player, built-in and upgradable HDD, heap of standardised IO options.
It’s just been all downhill from there.
Allowing updates is what made everything go to shit, imo. It should be like older consoles. Whatever you stamped on the disc is what you will be releasing. End of story. Shipping broken (or literally nothing at all, in some cases) is now the standard. Yes games are complex… they always were. if you could fix them after release, you can also fix them before. It’s just greed that keeps one from doing so.
Fuck digital distribution on consoles, fuck dlc, fuck updates. They ruined a lot of things.
Amen!