Would you expect any less from fanboys. No one knows the real potential of either machine and the fanboys are flying their flags high.
So true. The article covers the parts and goes into a lot of details. But it misses important information. The author acknowledges that Microsoft has secret sauce but acts as if he understands the implications of it. I'm not sure that he does or if anyone does.
First of all, he doesn't seem to take into account how many chip engineers(several hundred) Microsoft has and that they have been doing a ton of their own work for a few years now. The CGPU in the 360 S was a M...
Firstly, people need to stop pretending that Sony didn't patent a device to do the very same thing. In fact I believe that did it first. They don't care about Gamestop. Why should they. Gamestop does nothing to help them. They only kill potential sales. $5 is not a real discount for a game they only paid $25 for. They undersell new by $5 usually so it's not like they will be a huge loss. They have had years to offer the console holder and developers a piece of their take. They cho...
Many Sony fans have always argued that a game played on another device wasn't exclusive.
Do you know of some secret program where developers make money on every used games sold? I've never heard of one. All of that new money goes directly to the re-seller. None to the developers or console makers.
You're right. The market would make room for another company to exploit people on their used games. Wait, it already has made several of them. Just more leeches to bring the market down.
We're in the digital age. Rare games will all eventual...
Maybe send an away team to take care of things like that. You get more out of it if you handle the away team as a side mission. But you still get the minerals, upgrades and other stuff if they do it.
Sure, you have to buy new development kits. But that's a normal part of the business and they would have had to do that anyway. That's the type of stuff they will write-off.
But better tools will bring their development cost down. That has been one of Microsoft's selling points to devs. This generation proved it true with the difference in cost for the 360 and the PS3.
I'm not sure why people believe this will fail. Microsoft, Sony and the developers lose nothing by doing this. They could potentially gain the sales of people who have no choice. Many bought a PS3 despite the price, why not a regular priced game. Plus, games are almost always on sale that first week.
The used market does not benefit them. It only benefits Gamestop and others like them. Gamestop is not so valuable that MS and Sony should feel the need to keep them around....
This is just pure greed. I knew Kotick would want to use the next generation as an excuse to try and raise prices. I don't believe it will cost more to make the games. I believe it will start to cost less.
Based on everything I've read, the hardware is getting easier. More complicated in design, but with the goal of allowing the programmer more freedom with how they use it. That didn't always seem to be the case. I've heard over and over how hard Nintendo was...
Logic I agree. There are simple way around these problems. Family accounts since people have more than one Xbox. And maybe a always-on console will allow for someone to have more than one gamertag active on a console at once. You go to a friends house and log on just like at home. Game plays the same.
I think eliminating used games might benefit gamers in the long run.
1. Less shovel-ware.
No one will release a bunch of crap because they w...
But your goal wouldn't be the people that are the main Steam user now. You're trying to steal customers from the console makers. You're making a machine that will be cheap and always a step ahead of the consoles technology wise. There is no need for SteamBox for current Steam customers.
I haven't played the MP of MoH 2. But it was far better than CoD on the first. No arcady bs.
They also made the first CoD.
CoD is what MoH was supposed to be. Infinity Ward(not as a company then) were coders for EA. They made a CoD demo for EA as a new direction for MoH. EA refused the idea and wanted to keep making cookies. CoD is now huge and EA is desperately trying to get back into that genre. One of the dumbest decisions ever in gaming.
The problem is they didn't need to use the PS3 to push Blu-ray. They only claimed it was needed because they want the movie royalties. Most games would have been fine without it. PSN downloads prove that. Take away the uncompressed audio that most can't hear or don't have the equipment for and DVD is enough space.
If the PS3 had launched without Blu-ray we would have already had new consoles because the price competition would have forced such low returns that th...
I assume you don't buy Mario, Zelda, CoD or any EA sports franchise. Companies milk what people buy. Call of duty has two different teams that do nothing but milk CoD.
Pricing like this is why I believe SteamBox could work really well. Value could release a specification every two to three years. Having a target will allow programmers to make better looking games. The specs would have to be the very top of the line parts. Just below where the pricing is a lot better. Optimization will allow for improvements over the years for each specification. You could upgrade to the next specs yourself to keep cost down. It would be like a console that gets a upgrade ev...
The stock market is dumb. And you are right they respond to rumors. But I wouldn't buy the stock. I wouldn't buy any stock because of the reason you gave. It's the world's largest Ponzi scheme. They talk up a stock. Get the price up by them and their friends buying it. Then they sell it to the general public and talk it down. You lose on your investment, they make money selling to you high. Their friends doing the manipulation on the inside make their fees for you buying and s...
This may be great for people that don't buy used games though. Both of you have great arguments, but I think something somewhere in middle will take place if this happens.
People that buy new will continue to buy day one and that week or two after release. Some will be more careful, but others that bought used will step up and make up the difference. With no used market, the developers can start to lower the price more quickly since they are the only game in town.
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no one even knows what those processors can do yet.