My two cents: Facebook needs to let Oculus operate with autonomy and to not deviate Oculus Rift from being a gaming peripheral. Once the installed base is big enough, they can start expanding into other markets. VR as a consumer product is a tough sell. Even 3D television is a niche more than anything right now, and that's a technology that's already integrated into TVs instead of a separate peripheral.
Oculus Rift can be a success is they go the same route that DVD a...
Well, although they have their differences, the DS and XB family of controllers are pretty much equivalent(D-pad, dual analogs, four face buttons, four shoulder buttons), so in those cases, it's more a matter of personal taste.
The Steam controller is NOT equivalent, it is based on a new technology. But from all accounts, it seems it is a flawed, or at least not well-implemented, technology as it is currently. And the excuse that you have to "get" how to use it ...
Holy crap, day one buy!
Wait... is this You-No-Mess-With-Lo-Wang Shadow Warrior?!
I agree to an extent, Japan has been falling behind the West in AAA game development, but there's some good stuff coming down the line. Dark Souls 2 is awesome as always, and Mighty No. 9 is going to be a big one. Oh, and Persona 5 by early next year, that's one I'm salivating over.
Oh, and Japan still is king on fighting games(though Mortal Kombat and Injustice were great).
Not only is MS gonna release late to the party in Japan, but one factor people are not considering is also against it: the Wii-U has recently picked up steam there, and come the XB1's release, there'll be some HUGE games out for it, specifically Mario Kart and Smash Bros. By the time the XB1 debuts, there'll already be two consoles with a much better established userbase. I MIGHT have given the XB1 the benefit of the doubt if it had released earlier, say around this or next month,...
Allow me to retort:
-Titanfall: Yes, it may be a mech game, but that won't be enough. The Japanese are not big on FPS games, and multiplayer culture there revolves more around the portable market(that's why games like Pokemon, monster Hunter and Soul Sacrifice are so huge there). Titanfall won't be a system seller for MS there.
-Quantum Break: Isn't Quantum Break supposed to be a multimedia project that includes a TV series that interacts with the game? This me...
@HugoDrax Well, the "home" team tried to ram me with DRM and online only, and they currently offer inferior hardware for $100 more. For the same price as an XB1, I can get the PS4 with PS+(automatically getting a bunch of free games) and a few digital games, with fewer strings attached. I'd say the home team's doing a very good job of killing good faith in them.
Exactly. The fact that it's optional not only keeps the price of the system down, it also means that whoever has a camera, it's because he/she actually means to use it.
As for why people are buying it? One word: Twitch.
Dark Souls is hardcore distilled. Not only is it a game that it's IMPOSSIBLE for casual gamers to grasp and demands investment, it's also HARD.
I think that, IMHO, is the proper definition for "hardcore" games: it's games that demand investment of both time and effort, and that are made with a system's limitations and strengths in mind. Causal gaming requires little effort, you can just pick them up or put them down whenever and they are not taxing t...
My dream setting for an Assassin's Creed game is still the trenches of WW1. Running through battlefields and jumping into trenches to stab enemy soldiers and joining resistance movements in the streets, THAT would be awesome. Victorian London would also be an amazing setting.
Are you kidding me? A BB game would be both cyberpunk AND Batman in one package. That'd make mad bank. Plus, having a realistic BB look as opposed to the traditional animated one would be enough to get people excited about it.
I'm calling that it's Talon, the assassin for the Court of Owls. Not only is he a guy who is up to Batman's level of skill, it also ties in to the Wayne legacy, which already had a hint with Thomas Wayne's last will and testament in the reveal trailer.
EA is losing more than Sony in not releasing Titanfall on the PS4. Sony is willing to negotiate with any other company, but they're neither begging nor bullying anyone. It's no big loss to not have Titanfall, as the larger sales of their inFamous bundle over the Titanfall bundle can attest. And with Sony's massive lead in sold units, EA will have mo choice but to eventually release TF2 on PS4
"oh look, almost everything that Should be on the Vita... "
Nail on the friggin' head. And I'd add the Falcom games(Legend of Heroes, Ys) to that list as well. Hell, the PSP was a JRPG machine, for the life of me I don't know why the Vita hasn't followed suit.
Competition breeds innovation. Third-party developers compete amongst themselves and first-party developers compete against the other console, and this is a system that works. Console developers should not be at each other's throats, but they can't play lovey-dovey either.
I still fail to see how console wars are a bad thing. Generation after generation, the top consoles compete against each other and we get loads of great titles. SNES vs. Genesis, PS1 vs. Saturn/Drea...
I'm not saying there's no good Wii-U games, far from it, and it's true that graphical capability should always be secondary to gameplay(many games available for the PS4 I'm getting on PS3 because I don't mind the graphic drop while I still get identical gameplay at a cheaper price). But the AAA titles that DO push graphical capability are skipping the Wii-U, and we're not getting enough games to make up for it. If there were stronger, more varied first-party support an...
Here's some facts:
-3rd-party developers are not supporting the Wii-U. Even Ubisoft, who made a valiant effort to support the system with exclusives, threw in the towel and decided it wasn't worth it.
-The Wii-U is a last-gen system, arguably more powerful hardware-wise than the PS3 and X360 but massively underpowered compared to the PS4 and XB1.
-Nintendo's 1st-party offerings, while fun, have shown no great innovation as would be expected of a hardware up...
I was already giddy with PS+'s selection of games, but recently they've been featuring VERY recent games. Amazing games, too, like Borderlands 2, Bioshock Infinite, Metro: Last Light and Tomb Raider. That's a hell of a value for such a cheap subscription price.
Well said. It's like if Sony suddenly said that the Last Guardian is their most expensive game ever. Everyone would wonder why they've invested so much money on a project that's been in development hell so long.