@Z501
4. What if your console breaks, drives fail? What if you don't want to have 2, 3, 4... older generations of PS consoles stacked up 3 feet high in the living room so you can play older game discs? What if you gave the console to your nephew? I find it strange that people use that argument "why keep the games if you don't have the console." But, ignore that argument almost everywhere else in electronics. Would you feel the same if the Blu-Ray players requi...
I swear people here only read the headline on N4G and possibly the blurb and ignore the article. And from that short title on N4G incorrectly deduce the whole of the article. This story was not about lack of sales or lack of games or anything of that sort. It is definitely not a hit piece on the device as many people are obviously immediately retreating to their internal bias that because Eurogamer nowadays is not a 24/7 Sony cheerleading site as it was a few years ago that it must mean i...
@Death
If we are going to be accurate about shipping numbers then Google Cardboard is by far the leader in VR devices sold with over 7 million (5 million in the first 19 months) and that doesn't even count the 1 million sent out free by the NYT. Now is a Cardboard the level of experience and technology of the PSVR? Heck no! It is a low end, gimmicky VR item but, it is still a VR experience and the device actually continues to be well supported. And as you pointed out, PSVR is...
The prices of Alienware (actually almost any Steam-based machine) were not extremely out of line with similarly built PC devices from other manufacturers. The problem is, unlike consoles from Sony or Microsoft, the Steam consoles manufactures could not regain profits down the line from selling games. Steam was the one privy to all those future dollars. Therefore, all the Steam manufacturers had to get any profit from the machine on the device sale. So, in the end, PC consoles were too expe...
@arkard Proof? Hardly. You do realize that article was shown to be wholly inaccurate. Using data from a third party not even associated with actual data from Microsoft. That story got decimated and they had to walk much of what they wrote. Concerning usage, it really runs around 5% time spent according to Microsoft's actually stated numbers. However, let us apply that the to any system or service or app. Does that mean that Sony should get rid of their music option r not provide an opti...
@sinspirit
"HDD's haven't dropped in price in years" Not exactly true. The price points remain the same but, drive size within that price point changes. E.g 2 TB at the start of this generation cost (2013) cost about what 6TB costs now. That 2TB is now hitting the MSRP price point from most manufacturers of what a 500GB costs in 2013.
But, to his point. Funny how master race also (I will be generous and call that 3% of all PC gamers) always leaves off a simple fact you can't also be the "PC Master race" without also noting the desktop/laptop is also the worst available option to play these games as well. Not just the crappy bugged released more games have on PC editions but the overall requirements to attain the same level a console can. And those ...
Microsoft was never forcing digital only. False argument. They opted to force online checks with disc media with their planned full install, disc no longer needed to be in the machine to play. I agree that 48 hour call back not the best idea and can see that the messaging was off. But, I do not see that forcing digital. I wish they had stuck it out and kept that. Family sharing was part of all that and would have been a ...
What is all this Gamefly is the future crap? That is like saying the old Netflix of sending DVDs via email is the future. No Netflix streaming is the future and Gamer's Pass with allowing access to its full catalog digitally is the future of gaming for many. No limits on who can check out what. No waiting for somebody to return a game for you to finally to get it sent and a few more days before it gets to you Five years or more ago Gamefly and RedBox used to have a purpose. No longer as...
Heard of them but what they have to do with GP is a far stretch. They have as much in common with Netflix streaming has with Redbox. So, spending $9.50 to rent one game have it shipped to you on disc or have to drive down to local Redbox is the same thing as using GP to you? Gamer Pass is downloading as much as you want of the catalog at any time without having to do anything else like driving somewhere to get the disc or waiting a few days for it to be shipped. Or even the most common iss...
Not belittling classics. But, if Voyage of the Moon required you to buy a new $299 console to watch a silent film from 1900 then yeah, I would make fun of it for such self-importance. As for Atari, it is not like you can't get a retro pack of these games from multiple sources. $20 on the PS4 or Xbox One will get you a retro pack of 50+ games (which I own). No need to spend $299 on a new machine that beyond the retro classics you worry so much about will most likely just play Android ga...
Once again not specs. Saying something like it will have Radeon graphics means it could be anything from 1990's onward. Where are all the actual capabilities? Atari delayed releasing the device after supposedly planning on releasing it right about now. So, by any measurability of production, it should have some specs established. Not like they could make drastic changes in the planned production with only a 6 month delay. What about actual memory? Graphics capabilities? CPU? Storage? A...
"The new Atari VCS logo, like the new hardware itself, combines past and present, and is inspired by Atari’s rich history of progressive graphic design."
Announce what? This is the same thing Atari did 6 months ago. Announcing nothing. No specs and no capabilities just hyperbole PR speak, along with a 10-second video closeup of what may be the consoles grill. All this "introduction" did was try to keep some imaginary hype train running. In the end, a...
Areas where cryptocurrency can work well Although not an exact list and points can expanded upon. This generally covers the major points of what make crypto more exciting.
1. Immediate transfer of property. Since ownership of the cryptocurrency is directly tied to the keyholder there is no need for a third party (lawyer, notary) to verify ownership. So, in the case of things like real estate, the transfer of wealth property (land) for the currency can be done almost instant...
Sorry, but alternate made-up currencies for anything are worthless and painful. Although, not strictly a blockchain cryptocurrency Microsoft once tied to sales of gaming property on Xbox through through their own gaming currency called Xbox Live Points. It was painful. This is just another attempt at an already failed attempt. The problem with cryptocurrency is several fold. First, all the current systems are volatile values and do not transfer well. Second, the idea is based equality of pric...
Well, not today in the form of what you are probably talking about, a PSNow services. Cloud terminology is very broad and most of what new division is doing is about creating relationship/sales with Azure services for customers. Microsoft with this division is essentially developing backed services for Azure to expose to customers and not remotely close to PSNow like program today. The new Xbox Cloud division is designed to expose and enhance Azure services for others to exploit. They will...
That is comparing oranges to apples. Comparing the massive backend moves Microsoft and Amazon are both doing for their expanding gaming services platforms definitely means you are not grasping the move that is going on here. Actually, from the comments, most people don't understand what Microsoft is doing.
"This is what Sony is doing with PSNow"
Actually not more powerful, half as powerful on its best. In its current form, PSNow is to cloud as McDonal...
@Hardiman Why? Don't all PS4 owners have a powerful PC to play all those Play Anywhere Xbox games on Windows. That is what they tell us when they talk about Xbox they will just buy it for the PC. Shouldn't you have just played TR on that same PC a year earlier? PS4 consoles owners didn't have and to wait a year for a PS4 console version with their NVidia 1070/1080 graphics card based PCs they keep telling us they all have. I am coming to believe all those PS4 fanboys telling ...
Have you actually watched Pirates of the Caribbean movies? There wasn't this crazy amount of different creatures and things going on. Actually very little taking over and battling ships. Maybe one battle per movie. Most enemies were actually skeletons or the dead.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl -> only had skeletons (skeletons during moonlight)
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest -> pretty much only skeletons; Davey had o...
