#I think people forget that nico is a nerd/fanboy

[darkcrowprincess]

Percico headcanon: they'd both love Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Percy's favorite Turtle is Mikey. Nico's is a tie between Raph and Leo. Nico's favorite version of Tmnt is the 2012 one. Percy's is 2004. Percy especially loved tmnt. I mean he grew up in New York. One of the first dates Nico and Percy had was eating Pizza and watching Tmnt cartoons.

Percy with stars in his eyes to Nico: Do I have a cartoon for you!

Percy again with stars in his eyes: we can be ninjas!

Nico his inner nerd coming out: we can be ninjas!

[paubari]

Console Wars 2020

Weighing in on the PlayStation 5 vs Xbox One X debacle.

*DISCLAIMER: I wasn’t able to acquire any of the previous generation consoles. The reason behind that is I’m a legitimate broke dude (unlike some people I know). So this blog post is based off of my observations of the market and all of the information that both companies have released to the public.My last game console was an Xbox 360. I rarely played a PS4 because of friends and relatives so yeah.*

Being a proud-ish owner of an Xbox 360, I’m confident in saying I’ll try to be as unbiased as possible. Hopefully...

MABUHAY everyone and welcome back to my space on the internet. 

Whether you’re a PlayStation Fanboy or an Xbox Fanboy, one can admit that the current generation of consoles weren’t as hyped up as their previous counterparts. I remember scouring the internet around 2011 and 2012. Popping by forums of people just arguing back and forth. It was the age old debate.

HALO vs COD

Both amazing games and both sparked a lot of things we find on the internet today. COD giving birth to Machinima (the company), no scope compilations, and of course all those meme edits. THOSE 360 NO SCOPE 420 BLAZE IT, DORITOS MOUNTAIN DEW SNIPING MOM HOLD THE CAMERA having a stroke.

*clears throat* Of course let’s not forget Halo. The flagship game of the original Xbox. The reason why Red v.s. Blue (the online series) even exists. 

“But Nico, I thought you we’re gonna discuss the consoles?” I can hear you thinking aloud.

Anyway, my point was: These video game consoles got high amount of sales because of their console-exclusive games.

Common sense right? Well, not for everybody. 

A lot of people can argue back and forth about the specifications of each machine or how much is it. But by the end of the day we can all agree that the games released with the consoles is what makes or breaks it. Hell, the reason why I wanted to get an Xbox 360 was because of Halo: Reach. 

How about sales for the Nintendo Switch? Besides games like Zelda: BotW, Super Smash Bros., Mario Kart, Pokemon games, and the newly released Animal Crossing: New Horizons. What other reason will you buy the Nintendo Switch? For Skyrim? I don’t think so.

So understand that is the reason why the current hype of consoles were not as huge as their older generation counterparts. I think the console most guilty of being negligent when it came to console-exclusives is the Xbox. At least Sony showed their exclusives at the start of their console reveal. Xbox doesn’t give a damn about their exclusives anymore. After the b.s. they pulled with Halo:Guardians. I didn’t want to touch another Xbox console because of that. Oh and that lame excuse for Gears of War 5 was another one for apocalypse console fail bingo. 

Hardware-wise, I don’t mind it as much until Pewdiepie sarcastically said that “It’s gonna be in your living room for a long time.” Obviously it’s important for some people who care about designing their room but personally I don’t mind. It’s what inside that counts. 

Let’s take a look at what’s inside~

Image courtesy of: https://www.tomsguide.com/face-off/ps5-vs-xbox-series-x

It’s no surprise that a console that is backed by Microsoft will obviously have better specifications. Just staring at the graph and you’ll know that these units were built for speed. For all those nerds out there, there I made the specs version of the article. I hope y’all are satisfied.

The Games

PlayStation 5 has announced the remake of Demon Souls. That in itself is a way to wring people in. I won’t pretend to be a console elitist and act like I give a damn about Ratchet and Clank or all those other games. Gran Tourismo do be looking fresh tho and that Miles Morales Spiderman game too. 

One of the good things Xbox series X has is extreme backwards compatibility. It can boot up select games all the way back to the original Xbox  Let’s not forget how Xbox showed an abysmal display of their “gameplay” reveal trailer. All they did was show game cinematics and we all KNOW that cinematics does not equate to actual gameplay. I’m honestly just waiting for Halo:Infinite to drop.

So if I’m hedging my bets, my money is on the Play Station 5. FOR NOW. Disregarding how much rule 34 and anime waifus the PS5 console has.

Picture from: https://www.reddit.com/r/MoeMorphism/

I’d rather have a waifu than a cyber fridge. *mic drop*

Thank you for taking the time and reading my post. As always my 2 cents only. Subjective in my experience. All opinions are my own.

Always remember to make something amazing~