The freed up a bit of the expensive GPU RAM with cheap system RAM for use with the OS. no longer unified memory but that's a good thing, not like the OS needs blisteringly fast memory. They did mention that they'd freed up just enough more memory for the increase in GPU performance (or maybe that was in the leaks, but I remember hearing that)
"I mean SkillUP absolutely did not like Red Dead Redemption 2"
really? seemed like he thought it was a flawed masterpiece, which is true.
Perhaps not EVERYONE likes the status-quo like 3rd person action adventure game combat. Like if you do that's great but not everything has to be that same thing. Inquisition walked a fine line of tactical and action where you could kind of do either, depending on your mood. It wasn't as nuanced as origins but it was there. Sort of looks like that's all but sidelined here. Personally I liked the old school tactical D&D based gameplay from the first ones. The games that made Bio...
What are you upset about here? That people are into massive competitive eSports titles? Or that they hold engagement for years? Or just salty that with all the choice PC gamers often don't care about Sony or MS games that much even though they've got access to them? It's not like big GaaS games don't dominate console player counts either.
Look I thought it was going to be $100 more than the standard disk model. Whatever that price would be. I guess whether that's expensive is up for debate but I, like many others didn't think it was going to be this much more expensive and we certainly didn't know. The tech news/leaks yt vids I saw was also shocked, such as Moores Law Is Dead, and he's usually got a pretty good insider scoop into these things and even their costings.
As it stands we got $280 ...
I would say you're cherry picking your bigger visual improvement argument too. I think the jump from 1080p to 4K (checkerboard/not full res or not) was a way bigger improvement than upscaled to 4K graphics upgraded to upscaled to 4K but slightly better, but yes this part is subjective. Pure performance uplift, the objective part, is definitely in the PS4 Pros favour.
Okay. I will concede some of that is true. I stand corrected about the launch price verses now.
Let's start with 4K
Haha wot. Launch price of the PS5 was $399 if we're talking about the one without the disk drive (which is only fair if the Pro takes it away). But if you want to compare the disk model then I guess it's $499 vs $779. I don't think you know what objectively means. These aren't opinions the facts are out there according to mark cerny the PS GPU is under 50% faster. The PS4 Pro's GPU was over 100% faster. Both of them doubled storage. What facts exactly are you contesting mk...
Xbox 360, PS3, PS2 says hi. But I get what you are saying. Sort of. There's only been one (well 2. One X exists too) mid-gen updates where they've fundamentally improved things rather than making it smaller and cheaper. But perhaps you missed my point. We didn't "know" it was going to be overpriced and the only other previous data we've had suggests otherwise. The big shock at the price announcement from a vast number of commentators illustrates this.
That first line is correct. Everything else is incorrect. It is highly comparable to the PS4 Pro in almost every way except price. PS4 Pro was objectively a bigger improvement over the PS4 in terms of performance. This isn't up for debate you can take it straight out of Mark Cerny's mouth when it comes to performance uplift. It's not even close.
Did you see the Skill Up video? He played the game and pretty methodically documented why he didn't like it and what's wrong with it. Lack of choice, being treated like a baby in combat, challenges, dialogue and tone, lack of player choice, can only be the good guy, no conflict or any form of dark tone the series was known for. Also offers a probable explanation as to why people might have initially positive experience. Doesn't even touch on the DEI preachiness that also rubs a lo...
The Steam player count is dangerously close to being overtaken by Baldur's Gate 3 atm, which to remind you, is over a year old now. But sure I'm sure whatever % of people that are playing it on EAs launcher might just justify it (though getting a fraction of the money out of said audience due to it being a $20 subscription and all). There's a reason it launched day one on Steam: that's where the money is.
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No. We didn't. It is unprecedented to charge more than the console launch price for a mid-gen update. The One X and the PS4 Pro both didn't. Any hardware experts will say the component cost to Sony here isn't a whole lot more than the base PS5, which is half the price. Sure I expect them to tack on a bit but they're being particularly greedy here. But yeah buy it if it's value for money for you 🤷
Don't suppose you saw the thing where they flew the reviewers out to hang with them for the preview, then for every reviewer that had any mild criticism of the preview event they didn't send review codes whilst everyone who didn't have criticisms got a prerelease copy to review? As such it's not too surprising there's not been many critical reviews so far. Give it time for the unscreened reviewers to play the game and write the review since they've only just got the ga...
I expect it to have a fast start and finish poor when people get passed the honeymoon phase. I enjoyed Starfield for the first 10 or so hours too until I started to realise how bland and dull all the writing was and lost interest. Still, they got my money.
Not going to lie I'm kind of curious to try this. See how ARM handles it.
Let's see how it competes with Balder's Gate 3. Ironically that game is a lot more like Dragon Age than this is. BG3 had a peak of 870,000 steam players playing a few days after launch, 96% positive reviews. capable of catering for people of all kinds whilst still having good writing and letting you actually choose what you want to do. You know, the role playing part of RPG.
oh NOW we can't take these reviews seriously hey? But the IGN, Kotaku and Polygon ones are all fine, right?