@AndrewLB: Look at Kayant's comment two posts above yours. Kribwalker's analysis is not accurate. The numbers are readily available directly from Sony. They have shipped 13.5 million. It's a factual number, not a random guess.
@lord zaid: The statement "Men are aggressively attacking women, that's what Gamer Gate is about" is not a statement of opinion.
If I said "Rich old white men are aggressively attacking minorities and the poor, that's what the Republican party is about" that isn't an opinion, it's an incorrect statement made as a fact.
I could also say "Christians are promoting morals and self-responsibility, that's what the Republ...
@ManiacMansion: The PlayStation brand is making money. Therefore your hypotheticals about the 200 dollar loss-leader PS4 are ridiculous. The PS4 is "destroying the competition" (I guess?) but while being profitable, not by being a loss-leader. If Sony's financial woes were being hurt by the PlayStation brand despite the high sales, you'd have a point, but PlayStation is doing great even while their parent is not.
The PlayStation brand is in no jeopardy. The Sony brand might be... but PlayStation is profitable and a great brand, if the rest of Sony (or significant parts of Sony, anyway) fail, PlayStation will still continue strong, whether it be under the Sony umbrella or a buyout.
@mkis007 thanks for that link. So during the final quarter of the calendar year in 2013, they shipped 4.5 million. If they ship the same amount this year, that means they'll be at 18 million shipped through the end of 2014. Damn impressive.
@darthv72 and iHazelwood:
No, the complaint that darth made is not valid or legit, and that's why he has so many disagrees. MS changed the policy. Games you get free with Gold also expire when your subscription expires, just like PS+ games expire if your subscription expires. There is no difference anymore. On the Xbox 360, all those games you got in the past will be still available to you if your subscription expires, but we're not talking about the past, when fo...
Guys, the Limited Edition offered a lot more than just the two expansion packs. He essentially gets the Expansion Packs for free if you value the rest of the contents at $30 dollars. No matter how you look at it, he got a whole bunch of limited edition stuff + the two expansion packs for less money than the cost of just the expansions alone. It was a good deal if you like the game (I haven't played it, so I have no opinion on the quality of the game).
@Lukas, that is really cool, thanks for sharing that story! I need to check that out and see how that works.
@Death:
You left off a long list of PS4 games.
If games that are on Xbox 360 or PC can count as Xbox One exclusives because they WEREN'T on PS4, then shouldn't the same apply for the reverse? Therefore the standard is, if it isn't on PS4, it's an Xbox One exclusive, and likewise if it isn't on Xbox One, then it's a PS4 exclusive. After all, if I own no consoles and I'm in the market for one, these are games that I would have to c...
I've been holding off on both of those, and want both greatly! Knowing my luck a couple more months will pass, it still won't be on PS+, so I'll buy them, and then the next month they'll be on PS+. Exactly that happened to me with Strider. Oh well.
@rainlacker:
Geek culture has been mainstreaming since the 80's at least. Movies celebrating outcasts became popular at that time. You had the Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink. Of course, Revenge of the Nerds became a huge franchise. You had the booming popularity of videogames at that time. You had a surge in personal computer ownership. We had movies that sensationalized and celebrated and painted a light on hacking culture, with Wargames, then later Sneakers, Ha...
First of all, the answer is 5 for both Wii U & PS4.
And one of the 5 games rated 90+ on Wii U (Guacamelee) is on the PS4 as well, but it's an 87 on PS4. If that game is 90+ on Wii U, then it should count for the PS4 as well. It has 16 scores of 90+ for the PS4 version, that's more individual scores of 90+ than the Wii U version has scores TOTAL. So let's call it SIX games on PS4, versus FIVE on Wii U in the 90+ range.
Second of all, FIVE GA...
Guys, guys, the reason this number is so low is because it's for the period BETWEEN July and September. Which means August. Just August. They didn't say it INCLUDED July and September!
*END SARCASM*
But seriously though, 2.4 million shipped from July through September is not a lot for 360 + XBO combined.
Sony sold 3.5 million PS3 + PS4 combined between the slower months of April through June. Source:
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Hmm. Not sure why I didn't see Wii U listed under Project CARS' platform list. Thanks for pointing it out. Still, unless anyone finds any other flaws with my list, that's still a massive list of games with still over 40 titles on it that can't be played on Wii U.
Scratch Project CARS off, it makes no difference.
And besides, Project CARS and all the other games that actually ARE on Wii U are significantly superior on the Xbox One & PS4...
Metacritic 80+ Games
PS4: 45
Wii U: 39
XBO: 23
Metacritic Green/Good Games (75+)
PS4: 71
Wii U: 61
XBO: 44
Keep in mind the Wii U has beeen on the market an entire year longer to accumulate games as well!
Then you have all of these games which are on both the XBO/PS4 and EXCLUDED from Wii U (recent heavy hitters, AAA games, all the major sports franchises, and a bevy of AAA games coming soon): <...
I'm not talking about custom machines, I'm talking about THIS machine. This machine isn't as powerful as a PS4 and costs more money. If you want to get a PC that's as powerful as a PS4 and costs about the same or not much more, then that's a possibility, but I'm discussing this machine, and this machine is not cutting it as far as that is concerned. The article says it trades blows with PS4, so I'm discussing that comparison: it is weaker, and costs nearly 40% m...
You're definitely right that you don't need anywhere near $2000 into a PC to outperform a PS4. But this $550 machine does not outperform the PS4 in raw specs OR in practical performance when you account for the optimization that a console game goes through. Did you look at the specs for this machine in the article? It isn't as powerful as a PS4, that's just a fact. It has a weaker GPU, less RAM, and slower RAM bandwidth. Granted, if you build something yourself instead of...
The low-end version of this machine, the cheapest that will be available, is $550 and has no discernable advantage in terms of power over a PS4. It is significantly weaker in memory bandwidth while also having 2 GB fewer RAM, and the GPU is weaker, without having any significant advantage in the CPU department. For $150 more money, and the games it plays aren't optimized for it like console games are optimized down to the metal for the machine it's designed on. This machine costs m...
Great job on the video, and the PS4 version looks quite a bit better in the higher resolution. Some of the textures look they have been sharpened up as well, but I'm not an expert on that kind of thing. It looks pretty good for a cross-generational game, though. I think the vast majority of difference is a resolution upgrade, which really goes to show important resolution is and how much of a difference it can make. The PS4 version looks much sharper, clearer, cleaner, better.
You're right. 900p is 2% more pixels than 1360x1080.