Saw something posted earlier that today, sony are officially stopping support for the PS4. Maybe, going forward, DLCs will start getting better. If those of you dont own a PS5 yet (lol) nows the time to make the switch.
I owned an XBOX Series S for the last few years, then bought a PS5 Slim for £290 in the Black Friday sales last November. Even with the current RAM prices, you can still find good deals on PS5 consoles if you shop around, so there is no excuse for using 13 year-old Gen8 consoles in 2026.
Anyway, even before this, in TSW the PS4 was already starting to be abandoned. On TSW6 ,if we don't count the core routes (two of which have a reduced timetable), there are only three DLCs on PS4, which are two loco DLCs and one gameplay pack.
I 100% understand if pricing is an issue for people, but the PS4 is now 13 years old. If you haven’t made the switch yet and can afford it, it’s certainly time. I’m surprised as many games still actually cover the XBone/PS4 compatibility still since most should’ve moved onto XBS/PS5 a long time ago.
Good. I know there are lots of people still using them but they are 13/14 years old, even the PS5 is now over five years old.
Press F in chat to pay your respects to all the PS4 owners (RIP) Dunno about the end of PS4, I’m more concerned that all the latest routes have now jumped to £32.99
There are news articles from reputable companies saying the PS6 will come soon (2027-2029) so not long in the grand scheme of things.
I think it's awful that the mega drive was never supported on this game. I regularly took my steam car to buy some coal when I was going to blockbuster to look for this on cartridge. I wouldn't touch ps4 if you paid me. Those spinning discs were sent by Japanese media devil to destroy us. I hate new fanfy tech like ps2, let alone 4. Please can we get a mega drive release for next dlc
Still plenty of PS4 releases coming out, just because they’re no longer supported doesn’t mean nothing will release for them.
I remember when PS4 came out my friend said he wasn't going to get one because he didn't like that games were more expensive than PS3 games. He went out and got a PS4 like a week later
Once it’s gets dropped, there won’t be anything being released. It’s going to be obsolete to work on since it also won’t be supported from a development perspective either so studios are going to move on from it.
That's not true, games are still coming out for months after this, found a list on GameFAQs showing upcoming releases well into May, with a new physical release of a existing PS4 game in late-June. https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ps4 The seventh gen machines also kept getting releases well past their end of support, even the failed Wii U was getting releases into the 2020's I believe. Worth keeping in mind as well that the Switch is still a actively supported platform, and it's considerably weaker than the PS4 is. If you do something like Wonders of Sodor where you're making a Switch version anyways, skipping PS4's just money being left on the table. Don't know what DTG's going to do, but the idea that "end of support = no demand" isn't true, see Windows 10 still having massive market share half a year after its end of support.
I’m not saying months, I’m talking into next year and when we get closer to the PS6. They stopped making 360 and PS3 games once the systems stopped being supported. They aren’t going to cancel anything in the pipeline, but they will eventually stop having games made for it fairly soon after.
If you want PC performance, buy a PC. Buying a PS6 and expecting it to rival high-end gaming PCs, you might as well throw your money down the nearest drain right now, and save yourself the disappointment. And that's coming from a console gamer.
I remember the first time I played TSW2 on the PS4. Going from TSW2020 to TSW2, it was like switching over from DVD to Blu-ray image quality. I briefly remember saying this to Matt during that first TSW2 stream lol.
Next gen consoles will match medium to high end PC specs from the PS6 specs I’ve seen. AMD Orion APU with up to 10 Zen 6 CPU cores, 52-54 RDNA 5 GPU CUs, 40GB GDDR7 memory, and 34-40 TFLOPs of compute power, targeting 4K 120FPS gaming with advanced ray tracing. What it really comes down to is how advanced TSW will become. If it stays at its current level both next-gen consoles will easily rival PC versions. I also own a PC My specs are pretty basic though. Ryzen 7, 16GB RAM, RTX 4070, 1TB. Nothing special. I can run most routes at 50-60fps on 120% screen percentage. I feel 32 RAM is the requirement for smoother simulation nowadays. An extra 16 RAM (when the prices drop slightly) and a 4K monitor, is something I’m going to invest in later.
First off you didn't give a time frame, you just said "when support ends", which it has now in some capacity. Whether you meant to or not you very much weren't correct. Also bare in mind, 360 & PS3 got games well into the the generation, notably the last real high profile PS3 game, Persona 5, came internationally after the OG Switch launched. Similarly the PS2's last game actually came out after all the 8th gen consoles had released. In those regards I 100% expect PS4 titles to keep coming out at least until PS6 is out. Whether DTG will is another question, but indies 100% will likely keep supporting it.
Tbh I am always amazed that people are still rocking PS4s. Great system of course for it's day but I am preparing for the PS6 at this point. There have been some great PS5 pricing deals especially over the last year.
Have DTG officially stopped supporting PS4 altogether then? I see Medway is PS5 only Like a lot of older fans, I am not a "gamer" so I won't be spending £400 on a system for one sim, however great it is. My PS4 actually came free with a mobile deal!
Not for everything but it’s trending that way so we’ll see more and more be solely Gen 9. Gen 8 just doesn’t have the power to run these details in the games anymore (and even Gen 9 struggles with some as well). I think the hard part between Gen 8 and 9 is that a lot of the apps cover both platforms, so there isn’t as much of a need to move over if you are not a “gamer” as you said.
The transition from PS3 to PS4 was already amazing. Look at the Skyrim remaster for PS4 for example. Then the transition to PS5 was even more amazing. I wonder what gen 10 holds in store for us.
I dont think that's the best comparison. W10 is only an operating system whilst the PS4 is a full-on computer/gaming system.
Also Microslops Windows 11 requirements arbitrarily locked out so many capable systems from upgrading and no games have a hard Windows 11 requirement.
I'm unsure if I agree, I feel that from PS4 to PS5 graphics have very much been tapering, sure framerates and resolutions are higher but I don't think we're going to have a groundbreaking upgrade like from PS1-PS2-PS3-PS4, RT in most cases is pretty hard to notice unless you're looking for it. This isn't a defence of Gen 8 mind you, It was always very mediocre hardware wise and Gen 9 is a welcome upgrade for CPU capabilities and memory capacities but it feels like we're approaching diminishing returns.
Diminishing returns has been a thing since the 7th gen, the last real big jump is 5th to 6th, and honestly I don't think you could argue otherwise. You look at what launched on 6th gen hardware and it's night and day difference between what was done on last gen hardware. Even early launch titles were obviously doing stuff well beyond what even late-PS1/N64/Saturn games were doing. It's probably the last generation where its launch titles so obviously made that jump. PS3 & 360 both took a while before you could state that so obviously, PS3 in particular I believe had a really rough launch lineup filled with multi-plats that didn't really show the hardware off that well. Not helped by the fact that HDTV's hadn't really caught on yet, which nullified one of the big selling points for it, at least initially. Similarly a lot of early PS4 & Xbox One titles really are just "PS3 games, but higher resolution". I know in my case it wasn't really until I saw Uncharted 4, which happened a few years in, before I went "Ok, that couldn't be done on a last-gen machine at all". Felt very similar about 9th gen, I don't think there's been much that absolutely couldn't be done on 8th gen till very recently.
I feel sorry for PS4 owners if they are only just thinking about upgrading to PS5 now. https://www.eurogamer.net/sony-announces-major-price-hikes-for-ps5-ps5-pro-and-portal £570 for a base PS5 £790 for a PS5 Pro Jesus Christ.
Yup, pricing is getting insane on both PC & Console fronts. Sony is only going to get more problematic though, with Xbox doing what Xbox is doing, they pretty much have free rein. FYI for those in the UK thinking about a leap to PS5, Argos is the place to go at the moment for being the cheapest (likely not long left on that though).
I think the end goal is cloud streaming services. Price people out of owning a console, and tie them into a Netflix style monthly subscription service.
In a way we’re somewhat lucky this happened with this gen rather than last, with the huge jump in power consoles got. At least upscaling is also taking form in consoles, which is only where PC hardware is going now. In terms of raw power any significant jump from where we are now would likely have resulted in a price rise anyway. Of course the unlucky part is where consoles need the help is RAM, which is of course the issue with pricing. Hopefully PSSR2 & even PSSR can become more compatible with wider titles, especially now it’s coming more in line with AMD’s goals for upscaling on the PC side. Even so, TSW has always been dependent on raw power so I guess we’ll have to wait and see how things shape out over the next couple of years. Hopefully every TSW dev takes notice of what Firefly achieved in terms of console performance.
