I'm expecting too much from people to read between the line.
The disagreers did not get it: (I don't think anybody got it)
"You have to work more" is arrogant, and bad, but it does not affect anybody's experience of the console.
"You have to live somewhere else" is indeed MORE arrogant, and for places with problematic internet access, it signals that people will have hampered experiences throughout the life-cycle of the console, and it is WORSE.
"Gardening was just one of the many activities scientists discovered to be better without Kinect."
I think you must have skipped this caption to think that this is serious :)
"far from improving the experience, use of the device immediately reduced our enjoyment of any given title by up to 97.4%."
Even the percentage is a give-away. You don't talk about enjoyment with percentages as there can be no universal scale for ...
I can't understand how people didn't get the jokes. A gaming joke site it is but most of its audience don't get jokes. They won't go far with this, although I'd hope otherwise.
Relax, it is a tongue-in-cheek piece. I think the rest of the website is also dedicated to humorous articles like this one.
It's a joke about the cities, all-right. The always online does not seem to be a joke.
Sony has the best divers. :)
Sorry, couldn't resist.
Somehow, the always online feature tells me that MS is going for set-top box service where you don't own the console but pay a monthly fee including the online. Being able to grab yourself an Xbox720 for 50dollars upfront with 20 dollars monthly fee including online may attract a HELLUVA people without math skills.
That may be why they want you to always be connected in case of piracy.
The difference between the arrogant "You have to work more" comment and "Why would you live in a place without reliable internet anyway" comment is that, the former is simply arrogant and nothing else, but the second tells up how the platform is intended to work and affect the platform through-out its life cycle.
I'd like to add, consoles may be holding PC development back to some degree (not as much as PC elitists would like us to believe, I'd say it is more held back by old PC's around). But maybe, it is not that bad: Thanks to having to cater to console features sets, even older PC's had a lot games playable. Can we really ask everybody to upgrade their PC's every 2 years? There are a lot of people with old hardware.
Also, thanks to consoles, developers were mor...
@Kent: We disagree with you, you DON'T like rage more than any Doom game. We know you better than you know yourself, hence the disagrees.
Sony has set a lot of things straight in Europe (its PSN structure is ready, and there is not going to be a shortage of bluray or CPU this time.) They are in for a global launch. They SHOULD be!
What he probably means is, they are not going make the console pink to appeal to women (which could be considered as stereotyping and superficial), they are going to do this by diversifying the content, which matters.
Sharing through the menu would also be sufficient for most cases.
That said, marketing-wise, it conveys the idea so much better, that being able to share your gaming moments is one of the under-lined features. Less people would be talking about the ability to share your game videos online if they just went: "Hey, you can push the PS button, select share -> select screenshot / video to share your screenshots / videos". The button underscores this feature so well. ...
It's a bit late for me, as I bought a PSN plus subscription in my country account. :\ I have bought a few pre-paid cards both for my UK account and US account, but the instant credit transfer from the credit card won over the dependence on those websites, at least in my case.
[Because the ram is shared] "the amount of [bandwith] that the GPU will have ‘available’ will likely be considerably lower than this."
This is not accurate. It won't be "considerably" lower, as CPU bandwidth requirements will be MUCH lower compared to the GPU, so the GPU will have the lion's share of the bandwidth.
Plus, it makes me think they didn't exactly grasp what "unified" ram means. The unified ram will allow 0...
Sony should indeed provide an account migration option, but that might prove difficult because of legal restrictions (not all contents are allowed in different regions).
But I know several forum threads, people who actually move between countries and they have these problems with having to use other PSN stores (and run into more problems because DLC is regions specific), so an account migration tool, even for a fee, would really help a lot of people.
That sa...
I had the exact same problem, my country was 3-4 years late to have a store so I didn't even bother getting an account from my own country, then we had the store, afterwards Sony stopped accepting my Credit card on the US store so I now purchase content from my country store, but all my friends and trophies are in US PSN account. On vita, I can only use one and they made it extra, extra hard to switch accounts. (Vita reset to factory, format mem card or use another one). I have to leave t...
Couldn't agree more. (Yes, I tried, it says "already voted")
Another thing about resolution, the further you sit away from the screen, the more diminished return you get from resolution, as the human eye can resolve around 60th of a degree. That is not the same case with frames per second. You'll always have double the amount of spatial information. You'd have to sit 15 meters away from a typical tv screen to not notice any difference between 30fps and 6...
When the frigging hell will people understand that Steam has an offline mode? Unless the publishers have stupid extra DRM, Steam's basic DRM allows offline play. You have to login every now and then (just log in) for prolonged use (weeks). Then again, how do you think a platform that allows you to install games on INFINITE number of PC's (again unless the publisher has some stupid scheme going on) should work? Can you come up with a better idea than Steam that developers can trust? <...