Here's the one feature Xbox next needs before it can even start to think about beating PS5...
1. Knowing what the PS5 is even going to be in the first place.
It was a joke people... ffs. Sony is always releasing stability updates, he was clowning on that. Nothing against PS, after all, it's claimed to be one of the most stable systems ever that still gets constant stability updates... it was just a joke. Smoke a joint, relax, have a laugh.
I make films for a living... there are millions of DVD and Blu-Ray players out there, millions more digital devices that play video... and the majority of them are free of piracy, but I'll be damned if I'm not going to take advantage of any and all anti-piracy tech available to me. I have bills to pay... it isn't about being greedy. The fact is, every game you have ever played was made for the sole purpose of making money. You're basically saying people should just start givin...
Xbox 360 never had "Glory Days", it was plagued with the worst quality control issues in console history, costing Microsoft over a billion dollars along the way (for a brand that had already lost over $4 billion on its previous console attempt). It had a few good games, and it is the closest Microsoft ever came to launching a good first party offensive against Sony, but even that wasn't enough once Sony got firing on all cylinders, which is why in the end PS3 eventually pulled a...
All video is compressed if it is being streamed online, or even offered for download in almost all cases. RAW video takes up a ridiculous amount of bandwidth and hard drive space. It isn't even worth messing with unless you do it for a living like I do.
This video, however, is compressed to the point that even at 4K, you'd be lucky to be seeing half of the actual pixel detail in the uncompressed frame coming out of the PS4s... so keep that in mind before you start ...
Just a thought... Let's say that 11TF with a Ryzen CPU (for a dedicated machine, this is pretty damn powerful) is the target spec. 2018 release sounds insane, right? Well, if they are changing the model up a bit, maybe not as much.
Those specs in a machine released today would cost upwards of $1000, as some others have pointed out. Sony could opt to take a small loss per console sold, subsidizing it knowing software and plus subscription sales will help offset the loss....
...and we all know who that one disagree is.
The fact that it can earn that much money with that few sales compared to other forms of entertainment media that have far more sales but far less profits, is a testament to the fact that even AAA video games still have huge profit margins, and things like microtransactions being "necessary to fund development" is a bunch of BS. They're out there swimming in cash as we cough up $60 per game plus DLC for buggy games that have sections withheld from them so they can sell them to ...
They also have a fantastic imagination when it comes to coming up with unique gameplay mechanics. All of their games center around crazy weapons and ways to attack your enemy, and there isn't a crazier weapon out there than slinging webs around and all of the things you can do with those, so this fits Insomniac like a glove. I'm happy to see them get the gig. They are great developers who very obviously put love into everything they make.
HLG is useless for gaming (HDR already does it better), and it isn't as good as HDR. It basically encodes higher dynamic range into the standard dynamic range rec709 color space, so all of the additional dynamic range is squeezed into the highlights end of the gamma curves, rather than being distributed more evenly across the dynamic range. While it does enable a limited form of HDR and also comes with the benefit of being backwards compatible with Rec709 displays, it isn't as good as...
Supersampling. Rendering at higher resolutions is the best way to remove jaggies.
GPUs aren't even that great for mining from a cost to benefit perspective. There are far more efficient ways of mining using dedicated hardware.
This is a multi-faceted problem.
1. Xbox has always been this way. The first Xbox suffered from many of the same problems (little to no first party support, leading to poor sales and limited third party support vs. PS2). The 360 beefed up first and second party offerings, but still nowhere near enough. The only reason they did as well as they did against PS3 was price and the fact that due to ease of development, most multiplatform titles performed slightly better on 360. T...
Back when a game breaking bug required a recall... QA was a lot better then as a result!
We aren't sold games anymore, we're sold concepts that sometimes become games a year later.
They've been trying for 3 generations and don't have a single win to show for it yet.
Believe the hype. It's awesome... just make sure you try a few other VR games first. It can get intense on the motion end of things.
I still have video of my grandmother trying PSVR for the first time... my stomach still hurts from laughing.
Couldn't agree more. PSVR is starting to get its killer apps. One of those games that just works and feels right, the VR doesn't in any way feel tacked on. You actually feel like this is the way the game should have always been. Best part is, you get the ENTIRE game in VR, not a level or two.
I agree, there are a lot of gems hidden in PSN's less advertised sections.