I'm betting that boy wants a PS4 or Xbox for Christmas.
Considering the bad launch period it's a massive success. It's really hard to turn things around when the first couple years were so far in favor of 360 and the Wii was the big fad. But Sony worked like crazy and ended up with the best games library and a fully featured system at a reasonable price. Now they're in position to dominate from day 1 with PS4 and things will only get better as their games library expands.
Both. But I would recommend to any gamer to get a PS4. Better hardware at a cheaper price. Considering most big games these days are multiplats, it would be just stupid to pay more to play a worse looking version. Not to mention Sony has vastly superior 1st party studios anyways. XBO has a decent launch lineup and Titanfall coming, but based on the history of 360/PS3, I wouldn't expect Microsoft's exclusive buying wallet to stay open more than a couple years.
There's really no way to cost effectively test every completed unit and even then some problems don't show up until after extended use. 360 probably had a really low DOA failure rate. Until months later we find that nearly every unit will die quickly from thermal problems. Best they can do is design a good system and improve on the manufacturing process as problems are discovered. As long as the warranty and replacement process is good, then it's just something we'll have to ...
The game engine programmers have probably been working steady on it since GT5. I'm guessing most car models just get transferred over. There's really not much more that can be improved on those aside from post processing effects.
They're both just going to sell how ever many units were produced. It's not gonna be until mid 2014 until we see the real trends.
This can be confirmed by the layers of dust.
I'm saying that once games are fully optimizing for PS4/XBO, the $700 PC you build today is not going to cut it. Even the low end graphics cards from 2008 or so are theoretically more powerful than PS3 or 360's GPUs, yet could never run current games even on low settings. In a few years you'll need an upgrade just to keep up with what the inferior spec'd consoles are putting out. It's just an inherent flaw in PC gaming that hardware power is wasted by inefficiency.
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I don't see why people even nitpick over these SOFTWARE based features. These things will all come over time with updates. 360/PS3 from launch compared to today is night and day. Just takes time to iron out bugs and make sure each piece of software works properly.
Frankly the only thing XBO has going for it that PS4 can't match is the HDMI input and maybe TV tie-in features. As someone who watches Netflix and movies exclusively, I couldn't care less. Hardware spe...
The answer is no. Maybe $700 to match settings in multiplats. And a couple years from now when multiplats for PS4/XBO are fully utilizing the systems, you'll need a $700 computer of future mid range spec parts.
Remember how much 360/PS3 games improved over the generation? Even a high end PC from 2006 would struggle to run the current best looking multiplats.
There's dual cores from 5 years ago that smoke the new console processors. GPU and RAM is the right priority and PS4 hits a great balance.
It's the most used only because it's packaged with Windows and the desktop icon is recognized by tech illiterates as "the internet". That article linked is completely worthless as proof of anything. Although I will concede that IE is not the virus magnet it once was, it still is just playing catch up to Firefox and Chrome's offerings.
As for MOBILE browser? I have a Windows phone through work and IE is just god awful on it. I'd take Dolphin for Andro...
It's actually really kinda strange how long we've been at 1080p as a standard considering even 10" tablets are now exceeding that. Everything above 1080p in TVs or computer monitors costs far more extra than is worth it to most people.
That would be awesome. It was just sad when EA bought exclusivity to force out the superior NFL2k games. They were rapidly losing ground and decided to just buy the rights instead of actually competing. I haven't bought a football game since NFL2k1 on the Dreamcast for this very reason.
Personally I don't care at all about the social media aspect. Just want their AAA first party games and to play the console multiplats on the more powerful hardware.
And on the flip side why wait 6-9 months when there's good games now and you get to experience the excitement of a new system. The AAA games will come later regardless. Waiting for something specific to come out is just stupid imo. Price isn't coming down in the next year so if you've got the money, might as well get one asap.
Does the hybrid actually work properly in a PS4? I thought hybrids needed specific drivers for the OS to actually utilize the SSD portion as a cache. Or maybe it's all done internally on the drive. I dunno. Just don't expect an actual performance boost vs a standard 2.5" drive.
Playing the campaign right now. They put so much money and effort into the spectacle of it yet the story seems like it was written by a 12 year old. I just end up laughing at the incoherent drivel as you jump from one action set piece to the next.
Multiplayer everyone just assumes is exactly the same. Just hope the maps aren't crap this time around.
Wow I'm surprised rabid Microsoft fanboyism even extends to the freaking browser. I'm fully acknowledging that IE on XBO is probably the best TV browser. Just that the standards are very low.
If it weren't for 360 lacking a hard drive as standard we would have gotten used to installs a long time ago. And games would have looked as amazing as GTA5 much earlier. Streaming from discs is just so much slower than a hard drive and frees up more RAM for the actual game instead of caching.
Really gotta consider that the 6x Blu-ray drives are only 3 times faster, yet the system RAM is 16 times larger than before. Just doesn't cut it for streaming data if you want ...