@Trebius51: "PS3 owns over 30 studios while Microsoft is sitting with just about 5. Theres just no contest when it comes to games. "
Care to show us a source for that pearler? You couldn't be further from the truth.
As of right now, Sony own 13 video game development studios (with a 14th that doesn't develop, but handles 2nd/3rd party exclusive relationships). Microsoft on the other hand currently own 19 video game development studios (with ...
why do people think that Microsoft need to buy a streaming game service?
Microsoft have been heavily investing in their own streaming services technology for years. Zune on the xbox 360 streams HD video content literally 2-3 seconds after you press the play button, its incredible to see.
it also dynamically changes the resolution to match your download speeds, something which will come in handy in regards to streaming games. it will keep controller response ...
who here DOESNT own a smartphone or ipad or android tablet?
probably noone. thats all you need to run smartglass - a smartphone running android/ios/win phone 7 or a tablet running one of them.
developers really wouldnt lose out on many sales by making smartglass, but more than likely smartglass will always be optional anyway so its a non-issue.
we dont need them at all, and like the article says, theyre just a blatant cash grab. thats the only reason they are made - to get peole to buy games they already own, at little expense to the publisher/developer.
Sony removed backwards compatibility with HD collections in mind, theres no doubt about that. they couldnt have sold you the god of war collection if you could just play the originals on the PS3. same with ico/shadow of the colossus etc. theyre a business, and they ...
uh oh........if sony stream their games to tvs/blu-ray players/ps vita/ps3/phones etc, that then means that they will have ZERO exclusives for their fanboys to cream themselves over!!!!! good lord, what have they done!?!?!?
seriously though, i think its probably a good investment, but 380 mil is a hell of a lot of money for something thats unproven and unlikely to be mainstream for another 10 years, especially for a company thats in as bad a financial state as sony is.
@Soldierone:
I think you'll find that none of those patents that Sony own affect kinect. Kinect technically is 2 cameras to start with.
Sonys camera is a single 2d camera, kinect is a 3d depth sensing camera combined with a 2d camera. the patents kinect already has would be all kinect needs.
As someone's already mentioned, the fact that games like skyrim, steel battalion, etc and upcoming games like madden, FIFA, and splinter cell a...
clear win to the 360, however the differences arent really huge. for those that will disagree and say the PS3 version is better....
"As suspected, Spec Ops renders in sub-HD resolutions on both platforms - something like 1200x680 on the 360 and 1120x640 on the PS3"
"The 360 version appears to be the slightly smoother-looking of the two,"
"the texture work and level of filtering is basically a match across both formats...
@raytraceme: "I won't include move or kinect exclusives. But when both are added I can still see the ps3 having a 10 million lead at the most."
You'd be wrong. Kinect adventures has sold ~19 million alone. The gears series has sold at least 18 million - say 6mil each conservatively, halo 3/odst/reach has sold about 25 million conservatively, forza 2/3/4 about 9 million, Dance central 1/2 about 5 mil. That alone equals roughly 76 million right there. There ar...
A few of these wouldnt go astray in place of many of those listed IMO:
- Trials Evolution
- Fez
- The Witcher 2
- Alan Wake's American Nightmare
- Twisted Metal
- SSX
- Minecraft
oh and a little game named Diablo 3!!!
lol at people saying sony still support the PS2.
they dont. they SELL the ps2, but they dont support it. when was the last first party PS2 game, about 2007?
microsoft "dropped" the original xbox for 2 reasons, 1 of which is often overlooked (especially by the pro-sony crowd of N4G) and is what youd call "significant".
1. they wanted to focus on the 360. why focus on an outdated and replaced console? full steam ahead is the...
"Forza 4 has no night or wet racing and real world tracks, including the Ring, were widened to make them more fun online. "
Forza doesnt do those things because it would compromise 60fps/0% tearing. like Turn 10 said, if ANYTHING they were adding would even make it tear or drop a single frame, it was cut. Rain and night racing both look ridiculous in GT5, and they cause the performance to basically halve or worse.
Rain causes the framerate to drop t...
"The Xbox 360 does not calculate an actual percentage for the player which makes it easy to get just a few points on a game and put that game down with no guilt attached."
How can someone write an article about achievements while showing that they obviously haven't even spent much time with an Xbox 360? On the 360 if you go into your achievements on the dashboard it lists every game, along with what percentage of the achievements you have for each game. Its ri...
some things that i want SmartGlass to do:
1. Inventory management
2. in-game map
3. move complicated weapon/skill selection to smartglass so you dont need to pause game to choose
4. queue up movies/tv shows to watch on 360 using smartglass while youre already watching a video on the 360
5. use as a keyboard for sending messages/inputting text
6. browse friends list on smartglass while in-game and invite/join friends.
7. have Liv...
if developers want their game on XBLA then they need to follow the XBLA rules, its pretty simple.
simply dont make it a timed PSN exclusive and there are no problems. doesnt get much simpler. blame the developer for taking the quick sony-fed buck instead of going for more sales across multiple consoles.
i do love how all the PS3 faithful on here just claim that microsoft are in the wrong, when its painfully obvious that Motorola/Google are.
when nearly EVERY big company in the industry is siding with Microsoft on this lawsuit, why do you still think its them that are the bad guys?
Motorola are being unreasonable, plain and simple. they want more for their small handful of patents than all of the other companies who own the 1000+ other patents want COMBINED...
why do people championing PSN/PS+ always overlook the fact that Live Gold gives you access to big discounts on games/DLC every single week of every single year? its like PS+ apart from the "free" game rentals that cease as soon as your subscription lapses.
this week these are the XBox Live Gold Member ONLY deals of the week (games only, there are avatar items too but not many people care about them understandably):
From Dust - 33% off
Sonic ...
no, it cant - not from what we've seen at least.
it just looks like more of the same god of war, for the sake of making another god of war to get some more money. god of war as a series is one of the most stale and change-averse series in history. pretty much every one of the 5 released games so far, if running on the same graphics engine, would be virtually identical. there has been no progression in the gameplay at all really. it was fantastic in god of war 1 and 2, but...
Who cares, flash is going the way of the dodo. HTML5 + CSS3 is the way forward.
the wii was so much more powerful than the PS3 and 360 too wasnt it? surely it has to be, since theoretical power wins the race, right N4PS3G?
Nintendo doesnt play the power game, they dont need to.
howd the substantially more powerful PSP go against the DS? one is pushing 150 million sales, the other 70 million.
hows the substantially more powerful PS3 going against the wii? one is pushing 100 million sales, the other 60 million.
hows the s...
as soon as the $99 subscription was announced i said it was just a test for next gen, and nothing has changed my mind.
it would allow microsoft to release a big powerful and expensive new piece of hardware for the price of the current 360. that is all kinds of good for marketing and reception, and for video game players too. with the $99 xbox 360 youre only paying $50 extra over 2 years, but you get a 2 year warranty so it cancels itself out. its a great deal.