You spend two minutes on Metacritic and Wii U by far nails quality games. I love my Nintendo games on the Wii UI... Wonderful 101, Mario Kart, Zombie U, etc. and they by far are the best this generation so far.
For Games:
Wii U > X1 > PS4.
I own all three, but my PS4 almost never gets turned on.
So what are Drivatars in Forza 5?
Is that not the cloud?
You race, your racing style is analyzed and saved up to the cloud, then when others race solo their driving skills are matched up with your cloud drivatar and your driving drivatar appears in their races.
If it is all about games then why is the PS4 selling like crazy?
At launch the only new games were Resogun, Knack, and Killzone.
In fact the only two new retail level games have been MLB 14 and inFamous Second Son since.
Almost the rest of the entire catalogue is games that people can play on other platforms.
If it was only about games Nintendo would win every time.
But, it isn't anymore...
It is about hardware, development architecture third party support, online gaming, social features, operating system features, controllers, entertainment features, TV, and many other things that make the entire console experience complete.
Nintendo wins in games, but loses in every other category.
Honestly, I WAS a Bungie fan and was completely fine with them going multi-platform. I was also fine with timed exclusivity with the PS platforms.
But, after the information on BungieDay about one year of DLC exclusivity and shorter beta periods on XB, Bungie lost my sale on Destiny.
I am totally fine with whatever they want to do, but Bungie used to be about supporting its rabbid fanbase on XB. They have simply walked away from that fanbase and gave them t...
Sony has a ton of patents and is worth many 10's of billions of dollars with a substantial cash reserve of 10's of billions of dollars.
How much they worth is irrelevant. Shareholders who demand profits for their investments demand profitability. Sony cannot continue to lose money as they have for many years without shareholders demanding changes.
Sony has already sold of their HQ office and several manufacturing plants. If they don't get profi...
As long as people buy re-masters, publishers will re-master them.
Re-masters are the ultimate version of milking.
Especially, when games being re-mastered are less than 5 years old.
Re-mastering old games makes sense. People get to play the games that started the IP with updated graphics which introduce a new generation of gamers to the history of the IP and provides gamers who completed the original games with a walk down nostalgia lane. <...
Microtransactions confirmed!
lol. For most of last gen the PS3 had the lesser of the two versions of games...
Remember Orange Box? Framerates and load times were so bad, the game got lower scores on PS3....
And this is why Sony cares more about gamers than Microsoft....
If Sony loses PS revenue they go broke.
This article is brutal...
First X1 has many differentiating features for gamers... The snap function, Skype integration, achievements vs trophies, challenges, external drive support for games (not just game saves), HDMI pass through for a previous gen console, better twitch, removes host advantage, you tube game help, the new achievement app, and the most stable and secure gaming network on the planet. There are no features of the OS or network that Sony excels better at. ...
This is standard practice for Sony...
Remember killzone 2 announced in 2005 but shipped 2008... The agent announced and still not delivered. And everyone's favorite The Last Guardian... still has yet to ship but fanboys still talk it as if it is GOTY for the last five years consecutively.
Drive club. Lol...
They downgraded it from full day and night cycles to day/night races... and they showed trailers at 60 fps but the game will ship at 30 fps (to be fair they said 60 was a target. Failed target)
Drive club will not have drivatars neither...
And both games are 1080p and 30 fps so if there should be no substantial difference between the games.
I'm fine with that but the vast majority of first year console adopters are gamers who have experienced the games already.
Its almost like the publishers are saying... "you know that $60 game you bought a year ago... we want you now to buy a $400 console and buy the game again so you can see Lara's hair flop around even better. Or get a solid frame rate from tlou which we couldn't quite get last year"....
I love both games and both are high value. But pumping out a new version within about a year of release is a slap in the face to people that bought the first versions.
Remakes are an excuse to milk gamers rather than dealing with the real issue... BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY...
If there was backwards compatibility remakes would not be as necessary. I understand doing remakes after a few generations pass because they can substantially improve the game. But remakes like Tomb Raider and Last of Us are blatant rip-offs!
I'm not sure what the fuss is about. Can I see differences? YES... Are they going to affect whether I buy it or not? NO...
A great game is a great game... Graphics aren't everything... Gameplay, story, controller mechanics, and sound are much more important than the graphical comparison shown in that video. And until the game has more footage and an idea of all the above, it is in the "looking at, and leaning to buy" column of my list...
Any real MLG gamer will tell you that resolution is secondary to online service latency, capacity, and removal of host advantage.
In the last few weeks Contrast, Outlast, 1001 Spikes, Another World, Guacamelee, RBI Baseball, Sixty Second Shooter, and Zombie Driver have all appeared as Indie games on X1...
I would not call that killing indie support. They started id@xboxabout a year ago... Now it is starting to show as indie games are appearing fast and furiously.
And many of those games have already appeared on the PS4 so I would hardly call the parity clause an issue.
@sinspirit.
It can't be just cloud saving because the drivatars react to events within the race dynamically.
There has to be some analysis/processing happening to create AI that "behaves" like the person typically does in the situations that arise within the race.
Also, drivatars are adjusted by difficulty settings you choose.
Drivatars aren't just recordings of your races. They are analysis and patterns of...