I wouldn't say consumers that got duped by false claims of power into buying an inferior product won anything at all...
The article also neglects that TV is on the decline, thus negating any additional entertainment benefits offered by Xbox One. People are more interested in streaming media, which PS4 matches feature-for-feature. Not to mention, if TV ever did take off, PS4's USB3.0 ports transmit data fast enough to accommodate a HDMI input port that could easily be bundled with the console.
Bear in mind they aren't playing games while testing, so the controller isn't vibrating, transmitting audio to and from the controller, etc.. that all uses up power.
I've already provided detailed reasons why cloud computing is a failure from the start, but even Nvidia and MS' own demos have shown how laggy it can be and the fact that it limits resolution to 720p at 30fps even when the servers are in the next room.
CPU will definitely get a boost from DX12, as it will get better multi-thread utilization.
As for advanced techniques to get more performance, all 3 consoles will see those put to use as this generati...
It was important last gen, and the differences are even greater this gen. Last gen, you may have had a game run at 640p on PS3 and 720p on 360 due to 360's unified RAM (though the opposite was true in a few cases as well, when resolution got bottlenecked by 360's 10mb EDRAM). You're talking a couple hundred thousand pixel difference at most per frame.
This gen, you're seeing games release at 720p on XO and 1080p on PS4, which is well over a 1 million pixel dif...
They'd do better to release software for smart phones than to try to compete against people who have been designing fully featured operating systems for many years. They need to focus on games and putting out consoles that can compete.
A little piece of duct tape across the front of the controller.
Problem solved.
That said, I do think it should be able to be turned off except when being used with the ps camera for tracking.
In the mean time, you can use PLEX just fine on PS4, though I do hear you have to disable your firewall or the PS4 browser will crash.
PS4's price will drop when sales slow. That may not be for another year or two.
You're forgetting that PS3 had WAY more exclusives than 360 did, however, so in the end that eliminated 360's lead on sales. People bought that many copies of 360 exclusives because that was all they had to play, they didn't have much other choice unless they wanted multiplats.
Somewhere, in a lonely corner of an office building in Redmond, Washington, a team of people get paid to post positive spin, no matter what ridiculous lengths they have to go to in order to achieve it, on various gaming news sites. They spend their lives caught up in a futile effort, bailing water out of a sinking ship with a spoon.
Even sadder, in a lonely corner of their parents' basement, a group of people with no jobs does the same thing for free.
I saw Adam Boyes also was using the demo, and it also had a "join session" button on it, indicating you may be able to listen to your music with friends (not sure how they'd work out the legality of that, but we'll see).
As for the bungie thing, perhaps testing in-game custom soundtracks.
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I stopped reading and -bubbled at "ps fanboys".
After seeing how well it paid off, I doubt Sony will ever consider skimping on RAM again. You gotta have the hardware to be future proof...
Gotta love Cerny. He may look like he should be driving around parks in a van with no windows offering kids candy, but he knows his video games.
Yeah, richard marks(I think that's his name at least) demoed the first one with PS3 back in 2005! Using 2 cups instead of AR cards.
You know the outlook is grim when they start trying to add the numbers of hours which the console has been used as a metric for its popularity. "If the sales don't look good, just say those who bought it use it a bunch!"
You can spin big numbers out of any made up stat.
As much as I know he's telling the truth, I gotta admit all these gaming execs saying "I saw a game we have coming out, and it was SUPER AWESOME!" is getting a bit old. Of course they're going to say that about something they're trying to sell you, lol.
Actually, he isn't clueless about Xbox being in the red. The original Xbox lost 4 billion dollars. The 360 went on to lose a billion more with RROD. So far Xbox as a brand has never turned a dime of profit, it hasn't even repaid its investment to the company. This is why so many are calling for it to be sold off.
That said, Sony erased all of their PS1 and PS2 profits with PS3, so they haven't been profitable with gaming either... though they haven't lost as m...
It could be legal issues, or the fact that the emulator wasn't running properly yet. I heard a lot of reports of framerate stutters and such.
When you lose 4 billion on Xbox, another billion on 360 with RROD, and only make back a tiny fraction of that in profits, it only makes sense to consider bailing out on it, especially when the new console isn't selling as well as they'd hoped it would.
Bill Gates is just using common business logic. They are losing money in gaming, and after 3 generations they still don't look to be able to repay that multi-billion dollar debt.