Exactly. The Wii U at $300/350 is a terrible value compared to PS4 hardware at $400. Nintendo needs to position themselves as the budget console at $200-250 or else they will be left in the dust.
The specs sheet for the Wii U is all you need to see to know they made the wrong moves. Too weak to run PS4/XBO multiplats. Same situation the Wii was in with PS3/360, but this time they don't have the hype around the Wiimote gimmick selling systems. It's not a bad system, but priced way too high right now for what it is. Once the price comes down and Nintendo exclusives come out it will do alright.
Big Brother watched you directly from the TV. Remind you of anything?
Referring to the 3/5 for The Last of Us.
Sounds good to me! If they won't do a full remake of the PS1 FF games then I really hope they've still got the files for the backgrounds and can re-render them in HD.
Next review down they give Remember Me a 5/5. Just another hack looking for low score hits.
$399 price point with superior hardware. That is all anyone should need to know. Xbox One could lose all its DRM crap and it would still be a worse buy.
Xbox One is most definitely going to sell decently at first. There's probably 5-10 million XBL zealots out there who will buy it no matter what. The real question is will sales continue after the initial launch window. $100 more and widespread knowledge of its inferior hardware and confusing DRM policies may bring that to a grinding halt.
Promoting Xbox One's cloud computing as enhancing the console's technical power is just ridiculous. There's really no way to fully integrate cloud processing into a game run on a local machine. No rendering assistance would be even remotely possible so no graphical improvements. At best you could see AI data calculations done on servers and the commands sent to the console. But even that would suffer from latency problems and likely not be worth it.
But Azure may...
Gaikai is running the entire game on their servers. You're essentially viewing a video stream. All that you send out is control inputs.
This just means they're working out the supply chain for internal components and stockpiling them. Good to get an early start to be ready for when mass assembly of the final units begins in a few months. Worst thing that can happen is an unanticipated bottleneck in one component.
Wow the silver one is gorgeous. Honestly I think they should have gone with that for the default design.
1984 was in the past.
It looks exactly like you should have expected it to look 6 years ago.
That remains to be seen. There comes a point where stripping out effects isn't enough and you have to build a ground up version for the interior hardware. The Wii was too weak to run ports of 360/PS3 games and developers didn't find it cost effective to build a redesigned stand alone version. And sadly the Wii U is about the same relative to XBO/PS4 as the Wii was to PS3/360.
Yeah that's a fact even the fanboys can't argue over. Wasn't going to exist in the first place otherwise. Personally have no interest in the game though.
A redesign is fine. But either the features need to change and/or the price needs to drop. Same HDD variations at the same price is just a joke.
Microsoft seems dead set on doing nothing right these days.
The discs are just installers for the license you're buying. If the license is deactivated the disc is a coaster.
First of all this author loses all credibility by saying Xbox One has GDDR3 during the whole article. Completely different from DDR3.
PS4 has an edge in every single category imo. Xbox One isn't exactly terrible aside from policy, but PS4 has it beat everywhere that matters this time around. You have to be a diehard fanboy in the extreme to not acknowledge it. Being cheaper and more powerful alone is just devastating enough.
Xbox One has a few nice looki...
PS4's lineup looks great and Sony developers aren't even done winding down on PS3 games. Things will only get better from here.
Although Xbox One's initial launch lineup does look pretty good, people have to realize Microsoft has outright bought exclusivity for most of those games. Instead of investing in 1st party studios they just write checks to try and attract gamers. If PS3/360 generation proved anything it's that that Microsoft will quickly abandon ever...