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Sony PlayStation 4 Hits 500 Games Milestone (finder.com)
SlappingOysters writes: Finder is reporting that the catalogue of Sony PlayStation 4 games has just passed the 500 mark. The website has been tracking the install sizes of every PS4 game and in doing that, has been able to confirm that the mark had been reached. It's a significant catalogue advantage for the console, with the Xbox One currently offering 349 games, although the arrival of backwards compatibility on November 12 will change that dramatically. The site has also shown that the rate of releases is increasing over time.
Computer and console wars only really made sense when your parents could only afford to buy you one, so you were lumped with it and forced to defend what you had even if it wasn't the best.
Now that you're a grown adult you can buy pretty much all the consoles if you wanted.
Makes no sense to do that with the OS wars, but then what would we have to talk about on /. ? :)
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You're not married, are you?
You are welcome on my lawn.
Sounds like a great new generation. Still, 500 games are not a shabby line up. According to Wikipedia, Steam for Linux reached 1500 games already. Gamers rejoice!
You annoying kids.
Come back when your platform has 25,000 games for it, like the Commodore 64
Gerroff my lawn.
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Not only that but it's really disingenuous to try and count last-generation games as being games for this generation's consoles. It would be just as unfair for Sony to try and claim that all the streamed backwards compatible games they have on the PS4 via Playstation Now are somehow relevant to the discussion of number of games designed for the platform.
VICE doesn't have the same feel or smell as a warm 6510 and SID, whippersnapper. You haven't lived until you've touched the yellowing plastic of a C64/128 keyboard with your hands and waited 3 minutes for some game to load up from a glacially slow 1541.
Just like playing some Midway collection with Xybots or Xenophobe in it on the PS3, isn't like playing the original.
Now get off my lawn, my lumbago is acting up and I got to take my headache powders and listen to Fibber McGee on the Philco.
if you count the BC on the xboxone, then you'll also have to count the games possible to play through Playstation Now, as that will let you play PS1/2/3 games through streaming...