There was an article at Polygon the other day where the author was complaining about batteries in his Xbox controller. The forum posts in response clearly were almost all in favor of the current Xbox controller battery setup. I personally love the ease of using rechargable batteries. I have already had to replace my DS4 battery (not for the weak of heart mind you) and most people I know have just bought a new DS4 controllers (how environmentally wasteful) when their battery went belly up. ...
Discless? Adding another SKU or more for discless option would just confuse the situation. It really won't drop the price that much overall ($30 at best). Then Microsoft would have to multiple levels of systems setups (e,g hard drive sizes, 2TB, 3TB) . How would discless on a traditional console benefit Microsoft of Sony next gen? It just gets to be a pain from a manufacturing point of view.
Raja Koduri, no slouch, by the way, left his job last November as chief architect for all things GPU for AMD (Vega and Navi) specifically to build this GPU at Intel. So, I think this thing is coming in 2020. How it compares to the competition is another story.
By whose metrics? Not by Sony's. They (Kodera) said it was underperforming at the investors meeting just a couple of months ago. Do you think that view of the PSVR from within Sony has magically changed these last few months? People here may think 3 million is a good milestone but, I can guarantee by Sony's prior statements that this product has not lived up to the expectations they had.
But at some point it will be a big deal. Sure, Doom and Rage will get released on the PS4. I don't think they are going to go that far. Even if Sony says yes to PC cross-play I can see a developer llike Bethseda start saying no cross-play at all for the PS4 if they aren't open to all supported systems for a game like Doom. All or none approach. So as others will be able to play amoung different systems Sony will be left out. That may start to hurt the PS system long term. This may ...
@Thundercat77 ? Which game was it that Bethseda wanted cross-play and Microsoft refused last gen? Please name it. Then you might have a point but, you didn't and there was none.
I can guarantee Microsoft said yes to every time Bethseda asked last generation. See how that works. Zero times asked means Microsoft said yes every time and Sony said could have said no every time last gen to Betheseda. Any number times 0 is 0. And unfortunately Bethseda never released t...
I believe that is 100% wrong. Those larger games require that larger audience that is for sure. And yes that audience will be there on all platforms they sell initially. But, over time no matter what plataform that game is on the user base will dwindle and the more it decreasess the faster it affects game play (gete matches, compete,etc.) and the faster it affects game play the faster and faster it loses users. It is a snow ball effect. Cross-play from a revenue generating point of view ma...
@SierraGuy
"Your games aren't necessary for PlayStation to be successful. "
If games by Bethseda weren't on the PS4 I can tell you the PS4 would never have been as successful. People would have looked around wehn buying a console and saw the PS4 was missing out on Doom, Fallout, Rage 2, Wolfenstein, etc.. If they were only available on other devices (PC, Xbox, Switch) I be a lot more of those other devices would have been sold and a lot less PS...
Not tell:
-- the person who he shared his info with. The fact he was haked because he didn't take good care of his password. People keep blaming EA. But jus tlike everything else in life you are responsible of your possessions if you make it easy to get access (loan out that login info, download pirated software and get hacked with info, use "password" as your password). That is just as much on you as any of the examples I gave. Blame the the person for the fault of th...
1. Yes he had more presing issues initially. That doesn't mean that at some point the relaization of the game loss did not surface later. Why does everyone assume right away, it is beyond me, I never implied that only that he had lost his valued collection. Looking out how precious these collections are to people thet do represent great value to your lives. They are just as important to many people, like my friend, than many other items people value. He did get money in the end but, n...
Believe me I here about it all the time. It is is her back up argument. But, lets be real it was friends I did not like, Actually none of her other friends like them either. Actually she doesn't talk to them either any longer. It was her clibbing frirends who at 35 are still heavy partiers and haven't grown up and live for the weekends to party. If it was her family or any life long best friends she would have ended it or at least it would have taken a lot more grovelling than I had ...
Why did have to be on his mind the first moment it happened. You are nitpicking. Like everything in life it came in waves of realizations. I never said he just went straight to "oh my god, my games". Don't be a dumbass. It hit him later on. I suppose like most people that collected games they were an important part of his life. Besides the house, where he was going to live, documents and few personal items, games meant thousands of dollars in media that in most cases weren&#...
Here are a couple of stories that show the dangers of owning physical media.
1. I had a friend whose house burned down a few years ago and he lost hundreds of games. From PS2, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Wii, and even N64 games. In all about 600 games. Fire swooped in and gone by baby gone went his games. He got little in the way money for those games back from insurance. The only thing that survived was the couple dozen games he bought digitally this generation and all the PSPl...
Spencer did say after he announced the 5 studios at E3 they were not done and would have further acquisition announcements in the future. If true, I am sure this deal has been in the works for a while and it probably will not be the last.
It is strange to consider that the iPhone (the first real smartphone) has only been around for slightly more than 10 years old. But, in that time look how the world has changed because of the onslaught of smartphones over that very short amount of time My point is 10 years is really a long time in the world of technology. Can anybody under 30 even remember a world without smartphones? And with the advances that 5G (and 6G to follow) will bring to consumers (not just mobile but home usage as...
@kevnb Most LG's mid to upper new models are planned to have HFR and so will Samsung. Maybe that is why the Microsoft isn't in a hurry to support it at the moment because of the audience of users is small as it is part of the HDMI 2.1 spec. And LG, Samsung, Sony, and others in order to be compliant will have to support this tech. But, the fact Microsoft have aspirations of allowing 4K video (never said anything about gaming on the X) to run at 120fps would be a great option.
Oh boy, I am so pissed I won't be able to stream data at 48Gbit/s. Well oh well might as well toss out that 8K TV I just bought. Damn! Microsoft why won't you support my 8K TV. Now I just feel silly spending $73,000 on 8K. My friends said don't do it. But did I listen? No. And just after I purchased all that 8K media that is available. Oh, wait there isn't any. Now, where did I put the 4K TV that doesn't actually need 48G for 60fps gameplay? I know it is here someplace. O...
Ahh, the irony. You do realize this very site you are commenting on actually creates nothing. It just takes the works of other sites, has little blurbs, and links to the actual story. N4G really does nothing original, only provides forums for us to make comments about a story on another site. I would also bet a good percentage of the commenters don't even take the time to read the actual article but, just make comments. It also means at the end of the day N4G profits from the works of ot...
Not how it works. Doing so would devalue the interest in the items. If everybody had these items then it wouldn't matter if they were a $1 or $100 nobody would buy them because they weren't unique. That higher price limits these items from being overrun in the game and devalued. Plus it would require Epic to sell much more to make up the difference in revenue.
Real world example: Plastering "Jordan" on a pair of basketball shoes increases the ability of...
