So top 5 of like 7. What's the point?
Sony is really trying to dominate the global market from day 1. I wonder what kind of volume they're producing of consoles? I'm guessing the most on launch of any system ever by the look of things.
I don't hope it dooms them. But I'm very glad they aren't getting away with another Wii. Gimmick hype selling overpriced ancient hardware. 3rd parties abandoned them because the vast hardware difference made any multiplats impossible. The Wii U is set to repeat that with PS4/XBO. And yet now Nintendo tries to get off charging $350 for a machine with almost no games ready that will soon be massively outclassed technically by a $399 PS4.
Don't get me wrong I li...
I wish it weren't so. I've been playing PS3/360 games at higher resolution and fidelity on PC for years now. Any game produced with the PS3/360 as the lowest common denominator is going to suffer from the same design limitations as current gen games. With PS4/XBO as the baseline for development, there's potential for much more detailed and immersive worlds.
Obviously doesn't matter for a big majority of simpler games, but I want the biggest and best as next-g...
People are more than willing if they actually gave you incentive. Steam is proof of that. Both PSN and XBL charge the same as MSRP retail discs and barely drop pricing. There's no reason to buy a digital download when the disc is the same price or cheaper in stores.
Well here's to hoping they do a well made PS4/XBO/PC version with all the DLC included in 2014.
But yeah I'm still getting it on PS3 or 360 in the meantime.
Personally I hope every major title from 2014 on is only PS4/XBO/PC. PS3/360 will be 7/8 years old when the new consoles come out. Technology has advanced a lot in that time and it would be nice to see the big games fully utilizing it. The problem with releasing on older systems as well is that the basic game design gets limited to that hardware (and 512mb ram). I've been playing PS3/360 games at higher resolution and fidelity on PC for years. It's the core game that needs improving ...
Same here. But I'm guessing %80 of my console time will be on PS4. The power advantage makes it the obvious primary platform for all multiplats.
Honestly after The Last of Us I hope Naughty Dog just lays off Uncharted for awhile and does other projects.
Yeah these new console's will be a great for PC gamers. First of all I'm glad 360/PS3 will no longer be the baseline for development. No matter what fidelity improvements our PC hardware can do, the core game is still designed for 2006 era specs.
The transition to x86 across all platforms will ease development and hopefully make scaling games up for PC hardware much smoother. Currently a lot of console ports run badly and don't take any advantage of far superior ...
PS2 came out a over year before them and the Gamecube was cheaper than the Xbox. For two consoles coming out at the same time it's unprecedented to have one be weaker and yet more expensive.
No the $499 price blocks low income. Living in rural areas and horrible internet providers block access to broadband.
Well the Wii had an explosive start and pretty much completely fizzled out by the end of 2010. Good games had very little to do with the Wii's mainstream success.
Exactly. DDR3-1600 has been dirt cheap for years now. 2GB would have been laughable in 2009. At least the XBone has 8GB DDR-2133 and a much higher total bandwidth (68.3GB/s vs 12.8GB/s). And IIRC PS3/360 were both above 20GB/s. Wii U is about what Nintendo launching an HD console in 2008 should have looked like.
The technical specifications being the primary reason. No way it can run whatever new games they're working on.
It would literally cost more to put a 50GB HDD in a console today. It's best to pick what is currently being mass manufactured. 500GB 2.5" drives are in the $50-60 range right now and are the obvious choice for new consoles. You save almost no money going smaller or spend a lot more going bigger.
Well it's too late to fix the dreadful hardware specs. Doomed themselves to complete lack of 3rd party support. All they can do now is a price cut and keep working on the games. It won't be a bad console but probably a distant 3rd.
Yeah wouldn't it be nice if they packed $1500 of PC hardware into a $399 console.
As a PC gamer I for one am very glad new consoles are coming out and that they use PC architecture. We've been stuck with PS3/360 specs holding back multiplat game developers far too long. PS4/XBO as the new baseline is a huge boost to PC gamers.
Hopefully they do. At least initially so it gives them a big wake up call. I don't want Microsoft out as a competitor but they need to be put in their place for anti-consumer arrogance. It's like a role reversal of last generation. Sony turned things around completely after PS3's poor launch. Will Microsoft do the same?
You need to have ten to make a top ten.