Do they really though. Does anyone else find it odd that they all use similar words. Comes off as a PR pat on the head. Which usually comes with a side of stab in the back.
Ahh, BS. There are also rumors that say the Xbox has a GPU design that makes it 90% efficient and as much as 100%. While the PS4 GPU is said to be less than 60%. That closes that gap considerably. There is also more latency in GDDR5 than DDR3. The Xbox has move engines that some say make up for some of the bandwidth difference. There are rumors that the Xbox design makes the RAM itself much more efficient. There are a bunch of rumors about a lot of things. Let's just wait to see what is t...
It funny that Sony is listening when up until now most believe that they had never considered it. Hope this makes people realize they need to think for themselves and ignore others that try to manipulate them with their own agendas. But also realize that as the gaming market grows, it will include more and more casual gamers that aren't as vocal as the few on gaming sites. And if the numbers show that only a small percentage really care one way or another, Sony and Microsoft will go with ...
If you make a game for 10 million and earn 20 million you have lost money. Other expenses , including taxes will eat that 20 million in a heartbeat. You have to do a lot better than double the cost.
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It's also for expertise in designing and making the chips. Microsoft has a huge team of it's own, but they have worked closely with AMD for a long time now. Plus I think this deal goes beyond the Xbox One. I believe MS is going to make their own chips for Surface and their other devices. Just like Apple and Samsung are doing. The first Surface was just like the first Xbox, off the shelf parts. The next versions will be more custom parts.
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If Sony decides not to block used games, then developers and publishers will decide who is right. If they believe they will make more money if games are blocked, then they will give MS additional support. If they don't both will get the same.
But you can bet a company like Activision will give it a try. They will sell 20 million copies of CoD new anyway. And Cod is only $5 cheaper used than new. It's the perfect test ground for whether blocking used games will make a...
I'm not sure why anyone would be surprised by this. Sony, Microsoft, developers and publishers are trying to run businesses. They make their money selling games. Gamestop and other take games some are done with and re-sell them at huge profit. No matter what some will have you believe, at least some of those used games purchasers would have eventually bought new if they had to. Whether it was on sale or a price drop. If used games were banded, prices would still go down. People would get ...
So if Sony says they aren't always listening and watching they aren't, but if Microsoft says they aren't always listening and looking they are. Huh, funny. And even if the law says Microsoft can't be always watching and looking they are anyway. Really interesting.
I bet you're one of those people that said Kinect couldn't work either. Wake up to the reality that there are people smarter than you with fewer hangups and more imagination that will always push technology forward while losers talk about what is and what can't be done. Movie streaming was thought to be impossible now until someone with a brain came up with better compression techniques. Someone smarter than you.
You need to wait for some confirmation of facts ins...
I've been a Broncos fan as long as I've been a gamer and maybe you didn't notice my name. Or would you prefer I change it to PS4FTW or 360Ninja or something else stupid. I don't play fantasy football, haven't bought any NFL products since the EA exclusivity contract because I support 2K. They had the better GAME. So your idiotic assumption means nothing. I just live outside the games are everything bubble. And you should put down the Hotpocket and move out of your mother&#...
It's a bunch of BS. It's a bunch of misinformed short-sighted morons using gamers for hits. Gamers are the websites new clowns. They click on every News of the Worldesque headline they see and sites make advertising money. Everyone should have realized this when sites like Forbes started making off the wall fanboyish comments. People should have known it was all BS when a financial magazine pretended that MS was still losing money on Xbox. It's all list and personal opinion which ...
If the systems power is boosted by Live I'm sure the level of subscribers will go up. Say if Live users got server based games with complete destruction and 100 or 200+ players people would pay. I would prefer that to a bunch of games that I may not have any interest in. Don't get me wrong, PSN+ is a good deal. But I've seen the list of games and it's not a lot that I play. And since I don't have a PSP or Vita the list means even less to me. I only saw two games I had any ...
The servers are used to enhance the games. Remember when they showed the PS4 running the Unreal 4 demo? It didn't look as good. Server support will make it as good or better. It's an assist. It's not running the game. And all of this talk of the Internet going down or servers going down is a joke. Those things do happen. But in most areas it is seldom. I can't remember the last time Internet services was lost in my area. I can count the times on one had that it has in the last...
It could be that MS is looking at their numbers and feeling offline is a minority. If there are 45+ million Gold subscribers out of maybe 60 million active machines, over 75% of Xbox users are already online. If you add that many people have more than one machine the percentage of people on Live is probably over 85%. So maybe MS is catering to their market and not to Sony fans that whine about $40.
If they have a compelling reason for the rest to make the jump, like the Cloud...
The problem with N4G is that it is a gaming site. It misrepresents the people who actually buy consoles. So called hard-core gamers make up a small percentage of the market. Very small. PS3 owners use their PS3s for much more than games. So has Sony abandoned half their market.
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Sony isn't stupid, they h...
Why new sites are popping up everywhere trolling for hits. It's becoming an industry of it's own and will soon eclipse all developers combined.
Forcefullpower, I think I did say that they could be used however the dev wanted. Your assumption that the Move Engines are for increasing memory speed are based on other peoples assumptions. Parts can be re-purposed. The problem with most people is that they lock into ideas and are incapable of seeing any further potential. But technology advances when people see unique ways of using what is already there.
Okay, LAN parties can be run on PCs with little overhead. But enhanc...
Actually Mr. Why o Why I was referring to the fact that Sony is closing studios that didn't perform. Though I'm sure some of it was consolidation, some was that they were ineffective. The idea of making exclusives for the sake of saying you made some exclusives is silly. If they aren't successful, they are a waste. And breaking even doesn't cut it either. Too many gamers don't understand all of the other cost that go with making a game and it leads them to believe average ...
People are making a lot of assumptions. Assumptions ,that of course, fit what they want to be reality. Based on leaks by SuperDAE, the PS4 will have a little more power. Many ignore that 4 of the 18 compute units in the PS4 are set aside for compute. Thought they can be used for other things if the dev wants to. The Xbox has 12 according to SuperDAE. Let's assume he is right. Though there is no proof that he is. The PS4 has 2 more graphical units than the Xbox. So it has a slight advantag...
Comparisons between a digital product and perishable or degrading products is never a fair comparison. Games will be as new as they were the day you bought them five years from now. A car or book won't. Books tear. Cars get dented. Cars and books are sold at a much larger price than they cost. Printed paper is really cheap compared to what they sell for. Books sell for for more than twenty dollars in hard copy form. They only cost a couple of dollars to make. Cars are sold at a huge profi...