@sincitysir1
Yes, it is. That's what I (used to) do twice a year.
You can usually buy tickets from major cities do Miami or NY for roughly around 900 usd. Sometimes for less (500-600 usd).
Add a 1 night stay in a simple hotel, 3 meals, and the price of the console, and you can save around 500 usd from this ridiculous price of almost 2.000 usd for a PS4.
When I was younger, I used to bring 2 extra consoles with me and rese...
Wrong. 360s are manufactured in Brazil. XOnes are not.
It IS Sony being greedy.
Funny how importing taxes are twice as high for Sony compared to MS, right?
"Sony can't control the price".
Please don't be stupid. It's Sony's product, it's Sony's pricing.
Sony could easily build PS4s here and avoid all of the importing taxes, like MS does with the 360. Did they choose to do it? No.
But that's not all. Even if Sony has to bring PS4s from abroad, its pricing is ridiculous. MS is importing XOnes too and they're charging roughly 1.000 usd for it, not 1.800 usd...
I love just how Sony's bad news are treated like just another walk in the park by SDF. "no big deal" "just a bug" "nothing to be worried about" "we won't even notice" they say.
MS' news, on the other hand...
Really? How about the fat PS3s que yloded pretty much at a 100% rate?
@stsonic
I'm sorry, I don't know ONE fat PS3 still running today. I had 2 yloded on me. All of my other friends lost their fat PS3, just as they lost the launch 360.
Man I wonder how Sony fans will react to this.
I can only imagine the comments section if Forza 5 was to be delayed... Everything from "of course, XOne was rushed" to "No launch games left".
I could easily say the same to Sony fans.
No Xbox One, no money from me.
Good article.
I play Fifa with 59 others in a online league and the game is definitely broken, both pre and post update. Easy finesse goals are the worst offender.
For some, it's simple and classy. For others (like me), it's sterile, boring, empty and submenu driven, which I personally dislike.
I'm not saying XO's UI is better, I just don't like PS4's. Ah, wth, XO's better IMO.
I pre-ordered both. I have to play Forza 5 and Resogun, so there.
Yes, MS clearly doesn't want money from lots of people.
You're right.
Sony advertised BC. It was a selling point. Removing it later is actually (and obviously) much worse then doing changes to your plans BEFORE the generation starts and telling consumers about it, giving them time to rethink their commitment to the platform.
Trying to convince consumers that rumble technology was last-gen, bad, weak, whatever, was, in fact, just a lie. It was not bad, otherwise Sony wouldn't hop back to the wagon once that...
I can't wait for Forza 5. That alone makes the XO a viable proposition.
was once a Dreamcast fan
Right, they are trying to shock the world by releasing ordinary videos and intentionally demoing old code. That's good press right there.
It certainly doesn't look too hot. And the arcade racing genre is covered by Need for Speed, which is a stablished franchise.
Let's hope the game turns out to be really good, because so far it seems like a run of the mill arcade game with not so much backing it up.
I agree, after all this time, all the cursing, all the downplaying, it seems Ryse could be a sleeper hit launch title.
I guess the low expectations the game achieved after all those previews bashing it for all the QTE might help it when it finally ships and (maybe) reviews start praising it for the visuals and the simple fun.
I'll add it to my launch list.
Exactly. Sony's fanboys arguments become invalid as soon as a game requires left analog movement and face buttons, because your thumbs are now resting in asymmetrical places.
Xbox left analog and buttons: symmetrical
PS left analog and face buttons: asymmetrical
Xbox left analog and right analog: asymmetrical
PS left analog and right analog: symmetrical
By fanboys definition (symmetrical is King or some bs like that) PS ...
Just like tons of CUs benefit one type of developer and not the other, or like having 8gb of ram benefit bigger games and not necessarily small indie games.
Not everyone uses all of the assets available to them.