Surface is a bit different. MS launch a new model every year so effectively do stop production of the old one.
But to call the Xbox One a failure knowing full well how long the life cycle is for a games console is ridiculous. It's way too early even if you are comparing against the current PS4 sales figures.
If you listen to PGR you'll know that Solider X hates the Xbox One. So he's written down all the negative points about it and called it a fa...
If he's not saying that it is forever doomed and will go out of production then perhaps the title should not be "Why the Xbox One is a failure".
You don't call a product a failure if it hasn't already gone out of production due to the lack of demand or you are suggesting that it will very soon because of the lack of demand.
Digital games are expensive because MS and Sony don't wanna piss off retailers (who push the hardware). But I don't know why they just don't let retailers sell digital codes, that way we'd get the competitive prices and the benefit.
Dam this game/collection just can't come sooner enough!!
Whilst I think DC looks better in the comparison shots, I don't think we've seen the same level of rain in FH2. In other words we're talking about heavy rain (DC) vs light rain (FH2). I don't think we've seen heavier rain in FH2 yet.
If you look at the IGN article the dev said "if it’s just light rain the tarmac will just darken slightly" - as we've seen. You'd also expect the rain drops to remain static on the car once the rain has stop...
True. Still, they could do with showing a little more love on the digital pricing for X1 titles. AC4 and BF4 haven't dropped a penny since they launched, yet you can pick physical copies up cheaper no problem.
Dam shame the Xbox One doesn't get deals like 360 does.
Wow, a lot of harsh comments on this guy. Yeah he doesn't exactly come across as a humble developer but who knows how any of us would react to a bit of fame.
Who knows, he might actually develop decent new game, then surely we wouldn't care about his persona.
What I tend to see here is a small number of people claiming DX12 being a game changer and a large number of people coming in to denounce it. You really think you're gonna change these peoples minds?
Personally I don't think it is a game changer, the X1 already uses some DX12 features. However I do believe it will help developers. Shouldn't we just be happy with that? Too much emphasis is put into the power of these consoles. It's more important that MS conce...
Pre-order required?
I could be wrong but I think 30/24 is referring to the fps, 30 during gameplay, 24 during cinematics.
I think my Universal Translator is malfunctioning.
Looks great, can't wait to get my hands on this one!
What about VR + Kinect?
Wow, PS fans really declaring victory over this news aren't they. Congrats to Sony, PS4 in high demand is great to see, but X1 didn't do too badly, I think a lot of people are jumping the gun here in the demise of the console.
Besides, if MS announced a kinect-less sku launching in June, would you really expect X1 sales to rival PS4 in May anyway?
Again, more confusion.
MS wanted Devs to use Kinect in their games so they reserved 10% GPU so devs could utilise gesture control and voice commands. Now that MS has realised this reserve was holding back on graphics/resolution (as well as MS moving away from Kinect in general) they opened that 10% up for devs to use. This has nothing to do with pulling 10% performance boost out of thin air.
This is nothing to do with the system wide kinect functionality, t...
I really can't understand why everyone is so confused by this.
Nobody can refute MS having made poor decisions in the past but shouldn't we be over this by now? More recently MS have been making the right decisions.
Saying ESRAM is a bandaid for slow ram is saying they put it in last minute, that's not true. Panello said they went with ESRAM as it was a similar setup to how 360 was and Devs never had a problem with that. They didn't to know Sony were going for a faster RAM setup and kudos for them for doing so, but MS were setting things up their own way.
I don't know why there is such confusion over taking out Kinect. X1 uses 3 OS's and the game OS was using up 10% GPU f...
@Mr Pumblechook - reports suggest it isn't 1080p at the moment but they are working on it. The issue is the frame buffer (switching between the old graphics and the new ones).