Sounds like your typical XBL gamer.
Why? Prices won't go down any time soon (except maybe XB1 to match PS4). The good next-gen games are coming regardless. If you can afford it now there's no reason not to jump to next-gen.
Awesome. Canceled BF4 and AC4 pre-orders on Newegg and did this. Code from Killzone bundle. Amazing that next-gen games are getting such good discounts and promos already.
BTW Newegg is often great for pre-orders if you watch the promos. Was getting them for $48 each, no tax free shipping. But Amazon is even better in this case despite being taxed (WA).
Actually I wouldn't be surprised if the Wii U third party situation gets even worse in the next couple years. Once companies move on from having cross-gen PS3/360 games to ground up PS4/XBO, the Wii U is going to be just completely left out. It's just not powerful enough to run a real next gen game without creating a completely separate downgraded version. Same situation the Wii ended up in. And the Wii actually had the big console sales.
I get the feeling that Xbox One is going to be their last game console.
This is why I don't buy full games on digital. Well that and it costs the same or more than a disc copy.
They're just starting at 500GB as a base model to keep costs down and leave options open for a 1-2TB premium model down the road. At least with PS4 you can just replace the hard drive yourself. MS once again screwed their customers in that area.
Nintendo consoles nowdays - absolutely not. Both the 3DS and Wii U launched overpriced and lacking games. Wait for price cuts from Nintendo. Games come eventually.
PS4 is definitely worth a day 1 purchase. I'm not saying it's justified by the launch lineup, but there's almost no chance it's going to be under $399 for quite a long time. Imo there's no reason to wait if the pricing won't change. The games will come regardless and might as well get next-...
All the people interested in making good games left a long time ago. It's been Rare in name only for years.
Yeah the Cell was sort of an interesting experiment that just didn't pan out. With GPU technology taking a different turn in multi-purpose compute processors there really wasn't a reason for the rest of the games industry to design around the Cell. Just made sense to go with PC industry standards this time around. Works out better for developers to have one standard across all major platforms.
Sadly it barely matters when games will be designed with consoles as the base spec. Even PC only titles generally cater to lower specs. I mean yeah we get better resolution and effects but it takes modders making texture packs and whatnot to even get close to what current GPUs are really capable of. I'm just glad new consoles are here to hopefully push that lowest common denominator up a notch finally. 360/PS3 have been holding back gaming for so long now.
All the way to 2007.
He's right that the most powerful system doesn't always win. It's usually the cheaper one. And PS4 is both.
So are the low and high end model graphics card of the same generation. Difference is the high end one has faster RAM and more processing cores.
I assume they mean just shrinking the die size. Lower power consumption, less heat, and cheaper to make. Both 360 and PS3's chips had shrinks with the redesigns.
Well I just hope whatever existing digital games that get a PS4 re-release are sold as a cross-platform game. It would be terrible if a PS4 version comes out and you have to buy the same game again.
Do they improve load times or is it limited by the OS or something?
Sounds nice but I'm not gonna buy a new monitor for it. Well at least until there's a resolution boost for the mainstream priced monitors.
You know except for a mouse. And probably PS4's track pad.
Literally just you.
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