Very misleading headline. While I have always believed this game is nothing more than a tech demo that went into full scale development based on ohs and ahs, the headline is a fabrication. Not at all what he said.
I don't think it's poor Nintendo. I think it's poor choses Nintendo. Nintendo has been in a leapfrog position for years now and they refuse to take advantage. Now I believe Microsoft will. I don't see anything other than a streaming and slim model announced for this year. But next year will see a all new Xbox announced with more like six times the power. That would leave Sony with a drastically underpowered PlayStation Neo. It would give Microsoft a couple of years of a power ...
Pretty much a one day and done thing. Some people got stupid, they got called on it and they were forgotten. Nothing to see. Move along.
Trouble Bubble, let me break it down for you. 900p doesn't matter because the vast majority can't tell the difference between it 720, 1080i and 1080p. Put the average gamer complaining about it in a room with a PS4 playing a game at 900p and they would never know. Uncompressed sound? The guy that can tell the difference is called an audiophile. He spends more on one speaker than the average console gamer spends on his console. You know why? Because that is the type of money it cost to...
Coktoe nobody said every ps4 buyer. I'm talking about a lot, probably most, of the Sony fans on this site. BTW if the mods were more strict this site would be less popular with a lot fewer articles.
The reality is a lot of the things used to differentiate the two consoles don't seem to matter in any other space for many of these people. If resolution really matters they'd only own a PC. Cable companies would have changed set top boxes a long time ago. The same p...
Nova, yes both sides move goalpost. But nobody moves them like Sony fans. I personally don't move them. I have never believed exclusives matter. It was too easy to see most failed. A company could claim some value from the small groups of people that gravitate towards a certain title but for the console maker and the developers they are more waste than value.
Resolution, I know the majority can't tell the difference. The truth is most are or have been watching 1080p...
Microsoft doesn't need Steam, they have a store of their own. They simply need to offer PC games on Xbox. If they then helped developers do an optimized version for console they would easily have more console exclusives (since so many are convinced that matters).
But should Sony be worried, no. They've done an excellent job of convincing people to believe the PlayStation console is better know matter what. Reality doesn't matter, their fans will just uproot the...
If they release this year, yes. If they release 2018, no.
The author is a genius. Of course now people will pay $800 instead of $300. Halo was the only thing keeping them from doing it in the past. That and not having $800.
Morganfell the newer APUs launching next year offer a lot more power than the old technology thrown into current generation consoles. If they wait until 10nm dies come on line and include the Vega and Zen+ architectures 6 teraflops would be easy and cheaper than current generation launch cost.
Between efficiencies in the architectures and the die shrink power and heat would be reduced allowing the launch of a slim model on day one. By 2018 you're looking at Titan X pow...
Also expect a Steam app on Xbox. Plus in addition to a smaller gaming Surface Pro other manufacturers will make the Xbox UWP app available on their tablets.
I'm also expecting Microsoft to announce Original Xbox BC and the Xbox app for Surface Pro 5 and Surface Book 2. With the new Zen based APUs coming out next year with HBM and the new GPU architecture but huge power requirement savings it could be the Xbox Surface long rumored. Maybe even the 8" Xbox Surface from the 2010 leaked documents. Having OX BC could provide a huge boost to GwG if they release a remaster every month.
Yes, that all important battle of things that usually lose a company money. So, so important that people don't even bother to purchase most of them.
Hits are determined by the individual. I only use other people's reviews for whether or not something is technically wrong. Ultimately what I like and what reviewers like would vary. I trust me for me and you should trust you for you.
It's what morons do.
Add a billion to Microsoft's bottom line. Minecraft should do well in censorship crazy China.
Moving to 14nm from 28nm should save at least $20 per chip. Even selling only 10 million consoles would generate 200 million in savings. Then you add all of the other savings like cooling and packaging and power supply.
This is the authors bad judgment or a disinformation campaign to kill people's anger over the early upgrade. Both Microsoft and Sony chose early profits over power. AMD has a whole section for semi-custom chips. It's one of the easiest things they pr...
These are sham articles or they've been fooled by misinformation. Saving 125-200 million isn't a good enough reason to launch a new system. Going from 28nm to 14nm will save $20 per chip on its own. If Sony sells 10 million PS4s in the first year that shrink saves them 200 million. Add the additional savings of everything else from a shrink and it's more then double that. And Sony will sell more PS4s than that. That's basic console cost reduction so that makes this reasoning w...
I read the VR article and still disagree. Here's why. If Sony moves to Polaris/Zen they will again be doing another chip. That totally new chip will cost them twice what the shrink redesign would. The other option would be an off the shelf APU. That's never going to happen. The point of semi-custom is getting a chip made specifically for your needs. Plus Microsoft could come back next year and get a chip based on Zen/Vega. Or Zen+. Then it would be playstation with inferior equipment....
ITech that was one of the most idiotic excuses ever to appear on the internet. And that is saying something.
AMD is in the business of making semi custom chips. They might be doing ten different designs in addition to their own. According to those rumors it was about avoiding $125-225 million in cost for a die shrink.
OK, die shrinks save money. A shrink of the size we're looking at in this case might be $30-40 per chip. But low balling it at $20 woul...