Well written article sir, I remember trying to explain all these things while they were happening, but too many people were jumping the gun and just refused to see any possible aspect of DRM. They were too busy calling MS greedy and saying that Kinect was spying on us. Unfortunately, much of our community is young, immature, and not fully educated...so having a conversation/debate with them is like playing chess with a pigeon (you know that old saying). So it's refreshing to see someon...
Duh! When has this EVER happened? Consoles drop prices all the time, I've never heard of the maker going back and giving a refund to those that already bought it. The lengths some people go to just to get negative news out about XB1. Why are people actively trying to destroy the console...just let it go, play whatever you want to play and remember this is supposed to be the hobby that gets you away from all this "teenage high-school girl" drama...not create it. That being s...
....again, despite how it looks. Sony and MS are not fighting each other...people can buy both. Only the fanboys are fighting (for some stupid reason...and then call themselves gamers). BOTH consoles are far exceeding their expectations already and are on track to do very well.
Every early adopter of a console should understand that the console will get cheaper in it's lifetime, this shouldn't be a huge shock to anyone. I got an XB1 day one and have no regrets, and I'm not the slightest bit upset. My XB1 is on all the time...I've played and finished over 7 games on it in just 3 months...in a way I feel like it's already been worth every penny. Price drops are a natural part of this business, any early adopter that is shocked, shouldn't be
No doubt there are members from Santa Monica that are high quality game developers, maybe MS should look into opening a new studio with developers from Irrational and Santa Monica, then use it to start a new IP... a God of War setting in a Bioshock world could be a hit
What is surprising is despite how many more PS4s have been sold...how close the preorders are...and in the case of Thief (and possibly more further down the list...there are actually more for XB1 despite the lower resolution.
Eonjay...true it's being packed for free with the new bundle that was announced yesterday...however this list is as of 22nd.
Interesting. Second Son bundle was announced for pre-order in November, Titanfall yesterday...also yesterday while at Gamestop picking up my copy of Thief at midnight, the employee there said that they heard about the bundle but wasn't able to pre-order them yet...not sure if this was a local issue or a gamestop wide thing...on Amazon they are killing.
FYI, anyone concerned that they can't find a PS4 for purchase should check their local Costco. My local Gamestop on...
Although in all fairness, when this game drops...everything else on your hard drive will take a backseat anyway :) However at least these companies were nice enough that if you have digital rights to a product you can download it as many times as you need...not at least not a COMPLETE loss if your hard drive fills up...
Would be cool I guess, but honestly it sounds a little fishy that it would be done with patches...not sure how much I can believe this rumor. I can see it hitting 900p, but the only way I see it doing 1080p/60FPS smoothly is if they are using DX 11.2...but seeing as this game was in development LONG before the new SDKs became available...I doubt they implemented that. That being said, even in the beta it looked in ran great at 792p...and direct feed comparisons with the maxed PC version yie...
I'm still very interested in this game, but it does seem like the longer it's delayed..the more great games pop up and over-shadow it.
I think the reason why I have a hard time reading these endless opinion articles about how "MS is struggling with this or that and it's all doom and gloom" is because they always have a tone to them that lets you know up front that the author is in no way un-biased. The author almost never bases anything in fact, and when they do it's wildly skewed out of proportion. It quickly becomes apparent that the article is more about what the author WANTS to believe more than what ...
This article is spot on. XB1 is doing very well, all these "panic now" articles have one thing in common...they are all opinion pieces from people that WANT the XB1 to fail. Not only is XB1 selling hardware at a good pace, but it's selling more games per console than any other console...which is where the actual money is made...not in hardware sales themselves. MS has deep enough pockets to ensure this succeeds, and it already is. One thing however that bugs me is how many p...
I'm extremely excited about both, but I think I'm starting to like Division more.
I'm not sure this is the right question. I don't think MS should do anything about trying to stop Sony (or Visa Versa), both companies should just work on creating the best product that is appealing to their fanbase. So far both are doing well. XB1 isn't struggling by any means, it's launch is doing much better than the 360 was, it just looks bad next to the success of PS4 at the moment. Really, each company just need to make sure that what they are doing is profitable, an...
I think the entire gaming world would say "so what" about this story. I know that a Sony fanboy posted this, because he liked the way it was worded and it tries to make the XB1 look bad (that's weird I didn't know you'd have to be signed into XBL if you're on a PC???) ...but it's an online multiplayer game....uh of course you have to be online...like ESO. This story is seriously weak...
Never fear, I'm sure DarkLordMalik won't be a fan...
I'm not sure anyone believes this guy anymore...like famous mortimer/thuway/cboat etc.... Anyone that listens too these guys based on opinion is just wrong...I only pay attention to what actual named devs say.
Don't rush it, just do it right, and take advantage of DX 11.2. Halo 2 Anniversary will be enough to hold people over till Halo 5 is ready.
Great list, good job putting all this stuff together.
@pedro I appreciate your enthusiasm, but Respawn themselves have said several times that this will not happen, because it CAN'T happen until PSN upgrades it's network and gets the proper amount of dedicated servers and cloud computing structure. You're better off just getting an XB1 or getting it on PC. It's Sony's end that messed this up, not EA/Respawn (and now the first one is Exclusive for it'...
Wow, the title is a little misleading...if you actually read the article, this is actually almost a blow to the claims of PS4 being significantly more powerful...because they are completely even until you add GPU acceleration, then when you do it's a minuscule difference at best. Good to see that both consoles can handle 4k really well though.
However, this news is REALLY only important to those that want to go out and buy a 4k tv for an average price of $5,000, then wai...
Another innovative aspect to this game that I like...now I just Ghosts had this same progression deal so that I can finish it before Titanfall drops(I'm OCD about getting max prestige for some reason...even long after it's no longer fun).