Really interesting read. Not entirely surprising, though, I have to admit. Sony (Shu especially) have always been the type to take a genuine interest in developers and their games.
Sony checking up on the games development, despite the game not even being developed for the PS4 at the time, and Shu spending 20 minutes playing it on a crappy laptop....compared to MS representatives randomly showing up and handing out business cards because MS are "too busy" to check o...
Oh, the things that people tell themselves to feel better about their purchases.....
I mean, it has nothing to do with 20 years of the PS brand that many people grew up with, the tons of amazing exclusives on the PS3, the better looking and running games, the fact it's more powerful, the PS-exclusive developers, PS-plus value, or the better price point.
No no, nothing to do with those. It's purely because of hype! Hype is the sole reason why people ar...
"and now that Diablo III has touched that “magic number” on Microsoft’s new console, some are criticizing the company for somehow “forcing” Blizzard to do it"
I don't think it;s as black and white as that, there's a key peice of info that's been left out there: the fact that they "forced" them to do it *at the expense of framerate*. Resolution should NEVER be prioritized over framerate.
On the one hand Phil is saying he didn...
I fail to see how those two things are related to one another. Car customization isn't a focus of DC....HUD customization is.
Don't like it? Buy a different racer that does have car customization.
I'm gonna go with no HUD and dashboard cam view. Like the one in this GIF:
http://static.gamespot.com/...
ConteXT, not conteNT.
Awwww yeah, this game looks incredible. The scope of the game is really getting me pumped, seeing those cars blaze through those open field with that huge draw distance. Wow.
Day one.
@Hands up
So true. The way things are going so far, this gen will be even better than the last for racers (and last gen was probably my favourite gen ever for racers).
Nice avatar, btw. The Wire is the GOAT!
Yes.
Cool, I didn't know they already tried. Thanks for linking that.
A band-aid solution to Xbox's answer to Uncharted.
A band aid that will be peeled off and most likely later be used by Sony, anyway.
I agree with others, MS should take the time to form a team to create their own, exclusive, answer to Uncharted.
"I fear this isn't gonna be the first and only game that sacrifices frame rate to get the resolution-gate up to par."
Yup. I can it see happening a lot more, unfortunately.
@incendy
"@Lukas: you did say that. No words put in your mouth, but your own."
Please quote me saying that. Please, because I REALLY didn't say it. I'm arguing with you, not myself. Lmao. You keep talking about perception, but yours seems to be pretty skewed. You can't even perceive peoples comments correctly.
I just looked through all of my comments on this page, and not once did I say that this is about not giving the ...
"By "appear", you mean, not giving the loud internet a spec they can use in every argument?"
No, that's not what I mean, at all. If I meant that, I would have typed that. Stop putting words into my mouth.
MS are doing their best to change their public image, encouraging (or in this case pressuring) devs to match PS4 in certain areas is a key way they are trying to rebuild the image of themselves and their console.
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@mhunterjr
"So the PR BS that you refer to is actually an attempt at flexibility"
I disagree. Phil said that framerate is significantly more important than resolution five days ago at Gamescom, and MS have made numerous comments about gameplay being more important than resolution in the past. I don't see the most controversial aspect of this generation so far being flexible in terms of their stance on it.
They've made it pre...
"but I guess you have to please the vocal "annoying" internet trolls first."
This is all about trying to make it appear that you/your console can hang with the opposition, this has nothing to do with pleasing a tiny population of vocal internet trolls. And it certainly wouldn't be MS's priority to please them. That's pretty naive to think that. No offence.
I think it is surprising, seeing as the head of Xbox himself said that framerate is more important than resolution.
"If a person only owns an xbox one, surely looking at sub1080p upscaled image isn't going to make their eyes bleed. And surely they wouldn't be be playing Diablo on their xb1 in envy of some superior version, it's not like they'd have a 1080p version to compare it to WHILE they are playing. "
Agreed. Which is why I thin...
"That PR."
That's exactly what it is, just PR BS. They've managed to convince some of their fans that resolution is overrated, yet they themselves don't even believe it, and are clearly willing to sacrifice playability in favour of it.
Thing is, I doubt most X1 gamers on this site, and most X1 gamers in general, wouldn't have even cared about it being 900p. So MS's "help" is ironic. I hope they don't intervene with...
" That's why we made the decision to drop to 900. That's what we demoed and were showing around E3 time. And Microsoft was just like, 'This is unacceptable. You need to figure out a way to get a better resolution.' So we worked with them directly, they gave us a code update to let us get to full 1080p."
Ummm, what? MS told them to get to 1080p, even helped them get to it...at the expense of framerate? I mean, it's not a huge drop in framerate by ...
Since when is an 8.5 even remotely considered "low"? That 1.5 away from a perfect score.....
@Mystic
So true.
Actually, in terms of both the X1 and the PS3, I'd say the blame mostly lies on the design of the console, rather than it being a case of developers being lazy. It's not their fault that the X1 has such needlessly complicated architecture. Not saying the blame is entirely on MS, but it's definitely not entirely on the devs, either, like you make it out to be.
Maybe you should read the article, or even the short description above your comment, to see why you're...