The industry clearly thinks that because services like Netflix and Spotify have all but destroyed the physical media market for movies and music that the same will happen for games.
The crucial difference for me is that games are real time where latency values have to be sub 100 milliseconds to keep the experience enjoyable. That’s a much harder technical challenge to buffering 30 seconds of a movie then playing out while the rest downloads.
Nintendo are a bit of an enigma to me. They do many annoying things that Sony or Microsoft could never get away with yet somehow still sell their consoles in huge quantities.
It’s also going to make him a lot of money..
I’m really glad the switch exists as it offers something different the standard under the TV consoles.
I’d be all over a switch pro.
My fear for this game is that it will be burned by its own hype. More often than not massive hype leads to impossible expectations and ultimately in disappointment...
Many decent games have been judged far more harshly than they deserved because of over the top hype...watchdogs, no mans sky, the order, days gone spring to mind. Not stellar but all solid nonetheless
I’d be very interested as I haven’t played the division precisely because it’s multiplayer focused.
I’m someone who just prefers single players games as I like to play completely on my own terms. I’m much happier being able to just do what I want and at my own pace without having to worry about others.
As for those who feel looter shooters don’t work single player, Borderlands 2 says hello.
I had a great time with it in its day but even a die hard such as me has to admit it’s over. Would have liked a vita 2 but even that possibility is over I feel.
Ah well, the switch is a great option for handheld gamers and I reckon it will be around for a long time to come.
Alienware is too focussed on premium price style rather than performance.
The PS4 launched with a ‘hardcore gamer’ strategy. XBox One went with ‘sports and tv’.
Didn’t go so bad for Sony...
It’s simple really. I’ll put my money where the best AAA games are. This gen that place was Sony overall. If they do the same next gen then again they get my money.
If Microsoft step up and start regularly releasing quality 1st party exclusives as well as the multi plat stuff while Sony stop doing this I’ll switch.
A better policy than ‘staying silent’ is ‘tell the truth’.
Having said that, Hello games could have taken the money from their good launch sales and walked away. Instead they have been releasing wave and wave of free DLC for a long time now. They deserve credit for that at least.
Once the novelty value wore off I found there werent enough proper deep games in the catalogue to keep interested.
Nintendo first party exclusives, indies and portability. Those 3 reasons will keep the switch relevant no matter how powerful next gen consoles are.
I think they should offer two versions, a premium where you get Ps Plus and PS Now for less than the current price of the two together and then a reduced cost standard PS Plus
What’s the harm in having them. Those that like them are happy and those who don’t can turn the pop ups off in settings and forget they exist.
Game are a horrible business. Instead of positioning themselves as a gamer friendly high street presence they are geared up to abbrasively scratch the most profit they can from us with hard selling practices, trying to force disk insurance nonsense down your throat and that’s not even mentioning their uncompetitive pricing.
The move to digital is taking a big chunk of games sales, if streaming takes off then there goes the hardware sales too. Future doesn’t look good.
Gets the ds4 working but the big drawback is it only works if you are in the same room as your PS4.
Spoilers!!!!
It’s still going because it has a small but passionate install base. If it hadn’t been for the switch it would have kept going for many years to come. As it is, with the switch offering handheld indies it feels like the vita is on its final descent to truly being dead. It was a great run and I’m sad to see it’s end in sight.
i hate mobile and tablet games with a passion so I hope that dedicated handhelds offering proper physical controls and quality AAA games never die...
I’d prefer Rapture to Columbia.