The original report said nothing of people being laid off, only that there was restructuring and many people would have to re-interview for their new positions.
What do you get when an heavily biased Windows site sensationalizes a rather uneventful story into a click bait headline? Read the headline above, then read the actual article the story on this site is based on:
"According to people with knowledge of the situation, American PlayStation directors visited Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe (SIEE) in London on Tuesday to announce the restructuring of several divisions, including marketing and PR.
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They already called it Xbox again with Xbox One X... which when abbreviated is XBO:X
So, if we go:
Xbox
Xbox 360 (the name implies trying to put a square peg/box in a round hole, lol)
Xbo:X
now we're back to X's, boxes, and something circular or round... Xbox sphere?
Don't forget that copyright issues could be the cause of this, it may not have anything to do with technical limitations. One extreme example, I couldn't see PT being able to be played on a PS5, even if I migrate my library over to it.
@shaggy, I am well aware of what affects backwards compatibility, I've been building PCs for 20 years. It is very rare to find a PC that is 4-5 years old that won't run modern games at all at any setting, most can still run modern games but at greatly reduced settings. Memory and GPU architectures don't change often and dramatically enough to create issues there, especially if you look at what is in PS4 Pro vs. what is expected in PS5. There's no reason why it should not be ab...
My gut says there will be 2 models, a PS5 with a smaller internal HDD for $400, a decent sized drive for $499. I think, at least starting off, many games will run on both PS5 and PS4, perhaps with a requirement that a PS4 Pro be used, as the full backwards compatible nature of both being x86 systems enables the same games to run across generations with different settings, much like you can run PC games on much older/weaker PCs by dialing some settings back. So, as far as games go, PlayStation...
So many wrote it off and never tried it. So many have been missing out for so long! I do believe that PSVR's next iteration will find its way into thee mainstream. The current one already rules the high-end VR headset market.
Haptic feedback is technically what you'd call the triggers providing resistance, however Sony has taken this concept farther and somehow integrated it into the entire controller. Perhaps this also means the analog sticks feed back, maybe the buttons as well, I'm interested to see how it fully replaces rumble. I'm sure Sony is glad to not have to pay those Immersion royalties anymore (if anyone remembers the lawsuits that led the original PS3 controller to lack rumble).
I haven't bought a disc since Killzone.
It isn't just licensing it to other devs that threatens to dilute the quality, but expecting Insomniac to handle multi-plats in the same studio while retaining the same level of quality they had while only having to focus on one may be unrealistic.
If it can move over 20 mil more units in its twilight years, then it will become the best selling console of all time.
I just went with AMD, and I already can't wait to upgrade to Nvidia. A while back, I bought a Radeon HD 6870. It was a buggy mess, crashing often or not outputting to secondary or third displays, and ended up costing me a lot of money when I was working a projection mapping gig and it decided to crap out in the middle of it. Then I bought a GTX 970. 3-4 years of perfect, bug-free use. However, it got old... and the Radeon 7 was looking mighty attractive for my media production work with ...
Will websites take full advantage of the hype around it in order to put out hate filled reviews, knowing that it'll piss legions of fans off and cause them to comment on the story, heating it up and driving more clicks to the site, rather than attempting to objectively review the game like professional gaming journalists would?
Does the pope wear a funny hat?
I spent $90 for virtua racing on Genesis. $50-60 games were commonplace even back then, nearly 30 years back.
Now let's look back to the Microsoft of 2006-7... where NPD numbers were spread around the world as if they applied globally, MAU numbers were screamed from the mountaintops... looks like that wide open mouth got smacked shut.
Perhaps a bit of forced humility will do them some good, force them to innovate something for a change.
Also, LCD and OLED are not the same tech, not even close (light is filtered through pixels on one, light comes directly from the pixel on the other), so motion blur issues on LCD are not going to affect OLED. Some cheaper OLED displays do have motion blur for different reasons, but the more expensive sets do not.
Modern LCD panels have a 1-2ms pixel response time, bringing them in line with CRT monitors.
That's a bunch of crap. CRTs motion blur just as badly if not worse, as their phosphors retain the light that hits them for a split second.
Whoever wrote this is insane. No CRT can even start to come close to my OLED. Not to mention, who wants to buy a monitor that weighs 500lbs, will have messed up color and burn-in issues after 10 years?
I think Barret's voice is a bit cheesy... his "toughness" is a bit forced, but other than that, it's good, especially knowing Mark Hamill is involved.
The DS was as well... playing a rectangle, especially one with shoulder buttons, just isn't comfortable. At least back in the game boy days, the system was rounded and all the buttons were on the face of it. The newer nintendo portable systems aren't exactly comfortable.
GamingDolt back at it again with getting random, often little-known developers (this studio has one game to its name) to re-say what has already been revealed, offering nothing more than a generic opinion "this feature they revealed is cool", then slapping a headline on it and sending it out.
Sony: Haptic feedback will revolutionize the way you experience gaming. Developers will have new ways to tell their stories.
Dev: Ditto
Dolt: We've got ...