"Support for 8K" is a very different concept from "native gaming at 8K". The best hardware struggles to maintain good frame rates at 4K. How can anyone expect a console (even next gen) to handle 4 times that load in anything resembling a playable state? The more interesting question to me is, why would anybody want that? We have too many pixels already at 4K. Let's get those looking and performing as well as possible, before we even think of the ludicrous 2 billio...
Lottery tickets are regulated. They are gambling. Children can't buy them. States had to change their laws individually, because once upon a time all forms of gambling were illegal in most states, including lotteries.
That's fine. Good luck selling more than a few of those at such prices; but in principle, I have no problem with it. THIS is what you're buying. THIS is what it costs. No gambling, no deception.
That's an interesting point. From the ashes of the Atari 2600 and contenders rose the NES. We would benefit from another such correction, eventually. The whole GaaS thing and aggressive monetization has turned me off completely.
Games are priced at what the market will bear. Their prices have little to do with cost of development. If games get jacked up in price, they will sell a lot less, because consumers don't value them that highly. The companies know this. That's why they keep looking for ways to monetize them at the back end. I have no problem with them charging for direct buys of anything, from DLC to cosmetic items. I have a huge problem with paying real money for a CHANCE to get something. Tha...
Switch is a brilliantly differentiated product. I think it's the first true, successful hybrid console, and its strong suit is being able to grab it off the dock and continuing to play it out the door (to the bus, train, carpool, whatever). The PS5 should sell extremely well; but not in this market. The people who prefer the more powerful dedicated home consoles aren't dropping them in favor of the Switch. So, why does Sony need to rush, again? No they don't. Separate market...
Wait, what? I dislike current identity politics as much as anyone with a brain; but that comment goes somewhere else entirely.
I demand that some team members look like pimply-faced unwashed nerds living in their parents' basements.
Yes, and this is the pickle. Is the diverse team as competent as the others? Did the diverse team form under the same vetting process as the others, or were entrance requirements dumbed down for the sake of diversity? How would you know? They'd never admit it. You just know it's a possibility when diversity becomes a push.
That needs to be corrected by parenting and schooling. Young people of all races need the right education and formative experiences to become intelligent, principled and productive. Passing them along into the workforce unprepared and undeserving just kicks the can further down the line.
The word is "homogeneous", not "racist". Forced diversity comes from the need to prevent race wars and ethnic cleansings. They don't have to worry about that in Japan.
The bill treats children like children. (Reading is fundamental.)
No. If I spend money for a chance to get something, I'm gambling. Gambling has long been regulated, and always should be. Now we need to recognize the new virtual venue for gambling, and regulate it accordingly.
We're well past any slopes. The "AAA" industry has marched en masse right into the gambling-mechanics GaaS stench. The profitability is too great for corporations to pass up. It takes government intervention to set things right again. No one else is powerful enough to do it.
I didn't before the mobile sleaze oozed into the real gaming scene. Now I do.
You didn't read. The focus is children. The senator thinks adults are responsible for their own actions, although he acknowledges that gambling addiction strikes adults too. The bill is couched in terms of protecting kids from an attempt to hook them on gambling. If real casinos can't do it, why should virtual ones be allowed? It targets both games aimed at kids and games kids actually play (whether they're aimed at kids or not). So if it passes, we all win, because kids pl...
Yep. I'd vote for this Republican senator any day. He really understands what's happening, and so far, is taking no prisoners in the fight against it.
Maybe; but it's an ill-advised comment just the same.
Yeah. It seems to be just about content streaming (game, and maybe otherwise?), not moving PSN to Azure, or *gasp* Sony going XBL.
"The original Castlevania is the best game in this collection."
Ah, man. You lost me there. The first game is good, but it doesn't hold a candle to III: Dracula's Curse. It isn't just bigger or more varied. It's also more refined.