Was sneaky-hoping it would be called Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered Remastered
Well I can't really name anything that isn't already being touted by Playstation, and I'll just passively say that console exclusives are key to selling hardware especially at launch.
I want a true SSD for fast load times and immediate UI response times. Xbox's dashboard is better than it used to be, but it can always improve. I want backwards compatibility to be more than just games, I want to be able to play games in the same lobbies as friends who did...
I wasn't sure if they were trying to say to hurry up and launch in March, or hurry up because Switch outsold PS4 in lifetime sales. Either way I agree, this article is trash.
They'll keep trying their same old formula until it stops putting money in their pockets. There's been a strong verbal resistance, so keep that up and maybe eventually they'll listen.
I don't think anyone really just wants one box to rule them all. What we want is to have the barriers of playing with our friends removed so if I choose one platform and my friends choose another, we can still play the same 3rd party multi-platform game together. Exclusives sell consoles, but exclusives only make up a handful of games that we play.
I could see some appeal if the chassis was smaller, but yeah.. it's a perplexing approach. MSRP should be $200 and retail should be $150. As an Xbox fan I'm left scratching my head as to why they released this SKU at all. It should have a 2TB drive, and come with a year of game pass at that price.
I agree that pricing shouldn't affect a review score but is worthy of a side-note. It's also worth noting that other than first party Nintendo games, these will go on sale sooner or later. It's up to you if you want to pay full price at launch or wait a matter of weeks/months and get it for 20-50% off.
Not to mention the MadBox was going to be a physical console while Stadia is an online streaming service. So you're not purchasing "a stadia" but rather buying a game and playing it through the service.
It takes a long time for a console to gain enough brand recognition and earn consumer trust to compete with existing systems. Xbox is still working on that, being the newest of the primary console brands.
Damn dude did you take English classes at Trump University?
I've always preferred NVidia cards over AMD. Their support for their products and driver updates has always seemed superior. AMD is certainly making some improvements, and is the go-to chip manufacturer for consoles. But when I'm building a PC or upgrading my video card, it's NVidia all the way!
A little hyperbolic, but the downside of their visual aesthetic/cell shaded visuals is that it'll always look the same'ish... so I'm just hoping they actually did a graphics engine upgrade despite the similar appearance.
It doesn't.. yet. Residential internet bandwidth speeds and quality are going to be the biggest barrier to entry. Streaming 4K/60fps takes a good amount of bandwidth and will need very good response time. It's one thing to watch a 4K HDR movie where it can buffer video, but a game needs to be able to respond to your actions and that needs to scale to millions of users without impacting individual performance. I mean hell I can tell whether or not my TV is on game mode or not, and ...
Beat Saber is the reason I bought a PSVR. I tried it at a friends house and the combination of it and Astro Bot convinced me to invest. I'm generally skeptical of first-gen hardware and had planned to skip it, but VR is definitely something you need to see/try before you know if it's for you. Many of the games I tried were decent but didn't sell me on it quite like Beat Saber/Astro bot did!
*Eyeroll* .. look I'm not here to say Crackdown 3 is sneaky-great, because it's not. It's decently fun, feels like the previous games (for better or worse), and once I finish it I'll likely never play it again. 2 questions for you despite the fact I won't read your replies even if you do answer.
1: Have you actually played Crackdown 3? Or are you just bandwagon jumping on the hot take of the week.
2: Do you *Honestly* think Microsoft paid a...
EA has heard your complaints... sprinting will be paid DLC.
EA probably laid out their elaborate plans to extract every dollar from the license. Battlefront games that time out perfectly to movie releases, rife with loot boxes to boost the bottom line. Single-player game being developed under the supervision of Amy Hennig, Star Wars 1313, and the game they tried to spin those assets into. If they didn't add an 'escape clause' to the contract they made with EA, they deserve to miss out on the massive amounts of money they could have made...
Sales figures would tell you that people feel a need to buy classic consoles, but comparing the NES/SNES classics to the Playstation Classic shows the difference between a well-curated product and one rushed to the market to cash in. Nintendo is lucky to own their IP's and depend almost entirely on their first-party lineup, so their classic offerings were able to give you a games lineup that tapped into your nostalgia. Playstation had some generation-defining games, but they either chos...
This is mainly a problem with AAA game development, but examples can be found throughout the industry as a whole.
AAA studios are more likely to be held to a strict release date due to corporate shareholders and the prospect that pushing a game will hurt their quarterly numbers. As a result, the modern publisher group-think is to treat all game releases as a living object and to stick to release dates regardless of the quality of product. So they put out the product 'as-is...
Without reading through the existing 122 comments (as of this posting) I'll just say this... who cares. Awards and award shows are just PR. A good game is going to sell well and be enjoyed by gamers, and as long as it's a successful product that sells well enough that at the very least the company doesn't fall through and at best secures a sequel for a franchise. If you're looking through game nominations to find good games, that's usually a good way to generate a list ...
Haters gotta hate, right? Do you have a personal reason for wanting this, or just following the group-think that ActivisionBlizzard must fail because they're too big?
All Activision needs to do is announce Diablo 4 and boom, they're back in it. CoD finally has a new engine and a reboot/refresh approach, so that'll beathe some life into their sales. Remember that even under-performing CoD entries are among the top selling games every year. Rumors of their d...