Technically Sony doesn't directly receive a licensing fee for companies using Blu-Ray. BDA (which Sony is a contributor) receives a fee for using Blu-Ray. A fee that Sony must pay BDA as well. However, Sony later gets a percentage of that back (somewhere in the neighborhood of 18% returned; Phillips and Panasonic receive the lion share of BDA licensing money).
As for denying usage that would make little sense. It serves no purpose from a business perspective to limit a...
Who is this Bungie you speak of? They don't exist any longer. What is called Bungie has very little of the developers that worked on Halo around and they have enough of a problem dealing with that Destiny crap they have created. Well, I guess if you mean you want Halo to be more like Destiny then that is what Bungie can bring to the table. Seems if the major complaint (for most) was the campaign last time and knowing...
BS. Both have been quiet. Chatter of rumors goes in waves. This past few weeks or so it was Xbox with supposed rumors about a discless device, and two consoles (with codenames). Back in Fall 2019 and in early summer it was PS rumors and the innevitable dissections of rumors, news of patents with BC and controllers and meaning to next-gen, and various new specs stories from thrid-party sources. None of it was official. Sony is not being quiet because they are in the lead no they are being ...
Did Neil have a good chuckle when pointed out how much TLOU is a rip off The Road? Sure, one of the posters (out of the three I saw) looks similar and that is bothersome. But this article is disingenuous. Having watched the movie and played the game, What Still Remains, has only passing similarites to TLOU in base story. A similarities they both have with many other stories of fiction (movie or books), where a mystrious mal...
@rainslacker
"PSNow was dropped from places because there wasn't enough adoption to make it worth supporting,"
Yeah, that is exactly why PSNow was dropped from the PS3 (a console that still had 30+ million more devices in 2016 than the PS4 had sold) it was because there wasn't enough adoption. /s
While I agree PSNow support for other devices was dropped for various reasons. One being the updated PSNow required more CPU support a...
It all depends on what we think the base price of a console should be. $399 will once again give us mid-level laptop design. A $499 build would dramatically give gamers much more machine.
1. CPU - number one move increase the relative power of the CPU to be more in line with the needed capabilities for nextgen gaming. Both, Sony and Microsoft have said one of their goals has been increasing the CPU power. Hope that means the CPU will not be the weak link again
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I can guarantee that Xbox will not have a cartridge system for physical game distribution. They may have an optional diskless device. But, again the keyword is optional. As for PS I highly doubt they would consider this move to a cartridge for a traditional console as well.
This wouldn't make sense anyway. It would add unnecessary cost to a system and cost for game distribution, Discs costs pennies compared to cartridge/USB key memory. (because demand exceeding inventor...
That is how discs are used on consoles now. Both PS and Xbox install the whole game and only use the disc for DRM purposes. Nothing will be different next gen for physical media. All systems will use 4KUHD drives and like you stated, a bigger push for digital. But, definitely not cartridges.
Coming attractions does not mean coming in 2019. Not once did they say all these games were coming in 2019. Not once was there any flash of text on the video I just watch that said 2019. If they were true Sony definitely would have put the word "Coming 2019" in the video but they didn't they video said "Coming Attractions". Come back to me when Sony actually have a video that says Tshumia, Death Stranding, TLOU II and other first party games actually as arriving in...
@KillBilll
This is not the complete list for January. There are more games coming. As you notice this list has games for only the first few weeks of the month. Services like this don't front-load everything. The spread it out over the month. This allows them to keep the excitement coming throughout the month. It also avoids people binging games at the beginning (download and trying). Most users do not subscribe exactly at the beginning of the month (subscriptions start dates var...
@ChasingTheSun
Do you feel the same way about God of War? God of War was released the same year as the first Forza Motorsport. GOW has released 9 games since 2005: God of War, God of War II, God of War: Betrayal, God of War Chains of Olympus, God of War III, God of war: Ghost of Sparta, God of War: Ascension, God of War: A Call from the Wilds, God Of War (2018 really just God of War 9), Only three of those are worth playing and only two I would call unique.
That is now how company predictions work. It is definitely not good to be overly ambitious. A company builds a year around those predictions. Manufacturing plans must slow. Part suppliers are affected and must agjust their plans. And future plans for the company rely on those predictions. A miss here passes along those affects to future plans.
They aren't making these announcements of expected sale numbers for the gamers benefit. They are for investors and analysts in t...
Sorry, people, his is just a way to make him a temporary scapegoat and not a change of the overall ship. It is "look over here"sleight of hand moment as to calm investors. It definitely not related to his performance and any Activision financial issues. He is actually moving over Netflix to be their CFO (a move up). And I doubt that Netflix was sitting around watching the news and saw he was being fired and said: "we just have to get this guy on our team". No, I am pretty ...
The idea of a remastered game to me implies let's those charge them again for the same game. At least that is what has happened this console generation. If any of these games aren't released at the same time as the PS5 and being first-party games, if they do enhance the game for the PS5 it better be free, not a remastered cash grab. Especially true if the PS5 is backward compatible with the PS4.
You get an upvote for being realistic about what games are coming in 2019 and what is more than a year away. Sony may release have the PS5 in 2020. However, I personally don't think they will announce it in 2019 and screw with what would be the last big push of console sales for this generation.
There won't be. Sony has chosen and they are focusing on VR not another portable machine for the next-gen. They have three pillars of gaming: the traditional console PS5, PSVR2, and PSNow that will need to be supported. Adding another ecosystem to support will only end up costing all the devices by spreading themselves to thin.
