Why wouldn't they optimize as best they could for the lower graphics? Would not doing so alienate 40+ million current users? I don't think for a publisher that would translate to a lot of sales. Not to mention bad reviews.
I think most people are confused what an early beta is. They called this an early technical beta. Here the Coalition has all this new multiplayer network code they need to test on relatively larger scale. Hence the early technical beta. People have become so used to these false betas that they play. You know where developer is doing this supposed so called network test but all the elements in the game are done and polished. That is not a beta. Those are essentially one month early game ...
Agreed. I think we will soon learn that this will be common cycle (like the phones and tablets but on 3-4 year cycle. )Soon buyers will not look at them as mid-gen upgrades but the natural order of how consoles keep being competitive with a variety of other options that did not exist 10 years ago. Some, users will complain and maybe just move to PCs. But, to most it will become the new way of things and we will adapt. But, heck I could be wrong and both the Xbox One and PS4 will just announc...
"The community would rather support Valve which has been there for them since day one"
What is that "day one"? I am assuming you meant Steam and not Valve, but neither of which has been around since the beginning. First, there were definitely games before Valve and digital stores before Steam.
For those of us that have been around since the beginning of Steam itself we experienced a very bug ridden and often very incomplete experience. It...
I agree that is the way it has worked. Probably would have worked this generation if two things had not happened.
#1) Both systems compared to previous generations of PS and Xbox are mildly weak devices. They are low end-mid range devices when released 2 1/2 years ago, soon they can be comparable in power to mid-range tablet. This is unlike previous generations which used relatively powerful insides at the time and were made as loss leaders. This allowed them to last long...
@detroitmademe Agreed. If the rumored device has a reasonably strong bump in specs and they offered a trade-in for a reasonable value off this mystical PS4K I would do it in a heartbeat. It would be much easier than doing it on Ebay with the obvious glut that would be created there by similar minded PS4 owners.
We have become spoiled. One should not expect a console to last longer than 5-6 years. Tech is changing so much more than it did 10 year ago. I think this generation was not rushed, just the opposite. Both should have brought these consoles several years earlier then they did. They waited too long because the money kept pouring in. 9+ years like the last generation is way too long for a console. If they (Sony and Microsoft) had introduced this generation five years ago instead of three we...
Using that argument that an Xbox will be too expensive is like saying don't let Sony make a another console because their TVs too expensive. Microsoft (Pannay) will design and build within the price specs, maybe even as a loss leader like the old days.
What you have now is Pannay, an actual really good engineer, in charge of all Microsoft's hardware and Spencer, an actual real life gamer, in charge of Xbox. These two are better stewards of the Xbox future than the no...
"I'm not a big fan of Xbox One and a half. If we're going to move forward, I want to move forward in big numbers."
I am sure that was response was crafted to provide a lot of wiggle room. Notice "if" and "big numbers". A 1.5 implies a minor change a slim Xbox One with some other small features. I am definitely not saying they are planning something in the near future. ...
"I’m not a big fan of Xbox One and a half. If we’re going to move forward, I want to move forward in big numbers"
He never denies anything in that round table. I gather he is playing it safe right now. I like the "if we are going to move forward" statement. If Microsoft does have something in the pipeline it is not some slight hardware/design change. At the very least they realize their current console generation will need a quicker move to Xbox Two. I ...
To be fair are you going to apply that same standard when UC4 comes out? If there is one or two bad reviews for UC4 (like there are for QB) then it obviously will mean Naughty Dog has failed and released a mediocre game right? Let's just ignore that most reviews are positive for this game. If you truthfully believe there will not be negative reviews for UC4 then you haven't been on the internet that long.
In the months before E3 there is vacuum of news from both Microsoft and Sony as they prepare for the event. As such rumors always start to proliferate in March through May about what they have planned. A tidbit here, a morsel there is enough to get rumors (true or not) to dominate these sites. Journalists (I use that term lightly when dealing with gaming news) have to pay the bills too and there are only so many stories about QB or UC4 you can print before readers don't click the sto...
@Davi123 There is a difference between taking a loss on a console that often happens in the first year or so of a console release (they make up those losses with game sales) As opposed to taking a bath on that loss by trying to integrate 4K gaming video into a device. There is no way (unless AMD has some super secret GPU silicon in hiding) that 4K gaming will be possible at an acceptable console price point.
However, I could be wrong and if so, I admit, I would be the fir...
Well there is no price for the device yet. So, how can you say a device not out will be not have consumer friendly pricing. Whatever consumer friendly pricing means. People are going to pay $400-$500 for a VR that is tethered to a console. Why would (possibly) spending a few hundred more for a device that is not tethered to anything be considered expensive?
I like to point out there is no public HoloLens device. Developer device yes, public no. That $1500 will probably be h...
Yeah, we should just stop buying games because maybe one day they might be on Xbox Gold. What was I thinking when I bought Sunset Overdrive a year an half ago. Damn, how stupid do I look now. All, I had to do was wait 18 months and it would have paid off. A free game. Maybe I should cancel my Quantum Break preorder because in 2 years it may be a Game for Gold selection and how stupid would I look in 2018 for buying it. /s :)
What is the big deal? I have actually already ow...
Did you even read my post? There is no value in a traded-in key. That key no matter how you think of it that is one of well over 9 trillion possible combinations and easily replaceable as digital entity. I doubt they will ever run out keys. That key value is field in a database and nothing more. In fact, it is easier to create a new game key that reuse an old one. In order for your idea to work they would have to create a multi tracking 1 (key) to N (life of key to many possible users) rela...
OK I have read enough of the comments to see that there are a few important aspects (actually really only one) that keeps being missed in the 10% pricing.
Most people seemed to get it there is not intrinsic value to Microsoft for buying the product back. They aren't going to resell for a profit like GameStop would. They are just just invalidating your ownership.
I am sure everybody would like it to be more than 10%. But, lets look at it from a business...
@DLB23 Let's just start with the obvious. MacBooks have never outsold PC's, not in your wildest dreams (maybe when comparing Mac sales at a single company like Dell or HP). Those stats provided are combining phones and iPads in with those desktop sale numbers and were compiled at the highest sale volume point in history for each of those mobile devices. How you got MacBooks outsells PCs from that is beyond me. When iPhone becomes a capable desktop machine maybe we can count it then....
