This is why trophies/achievements are really more interesting in a game by game situation. Like, someone's overall number means very little because I know they might have played a bunch of nonsense to get there. But it is very interesting to look at what specific games they platinumed and if they got any hard ones.
I'm thinking about doing this as well. I wonder if it will recognize significantly slower drives. I'll be interested to see people test this out. Presumably you'd also still get better loading of PS4 games from a slower SSD than you would from an external drive.
Groan. Half steps are stupid. Putting out a "Switch Pro" won't fix the performance of games on the 85+ million Switches already out there, just like PS4 Pro didn't fix PS4 and One X didn't fix the One.
My only fear with Battlefield Portal is that the ratio of creations to players actually playing custom matches will be skewed (i.e. you make interesting custom rules but your match gets buried under hundreds of other near-empty servers). I assume that after some time the community will sort through and find some good things that will be able to maintain numbers, but typically I think most people will end up relying on the bots.
VGChartz uses retailer estimates, so for physical items like consoles, their estimates should always be in the ballpark. Their sales numbers for games have become considerably less accurate as game sales have shifted so much to digital, though, but during the PS3 era it was basically the best source for overall numbers.
Honestly I was a little worried about this because Insomniac doesn't own many IP, and talent can obviously leave (though for some of the high-level people it may have been a condition of the sale that they commit to a certain amount of time with the studio in order to get full payouts). However, thus far it has seemed like a great move. While most studios, particularly first party ones, seem to struggle to make games at the same rate they did a few years ago, Insomniac seems almost unaffe...
Everyone who reads this comment is assuming you primarily play annualized games and battle royales, btw.
Lol when you follow the "but the install base!" reasoning, you end up saying things like this.
I hope they are decent, because bots are going to be the only way a lot of people get to test out their Battlefield Portal creations.
Lol even though MGSV came out in 2015, less than 2 years after PS4 and XONE launched, while PS3/360 had a substantially larger install base. I expect some similar splits, although these publishers who are gimping their games for last gen are probably going to do everything they can to obscure poor last gen sales.
Good news for you then that you don't have to use that feature.
Yep. I feel like this will really change the narrative around this game.
No, but a lot of other people doing it are mediocre anyway. I don't really care if sports games and COD are cross gen (in fact, those are some of the only situations where it makes sense, because people on last gen machines will actually buy those games). I absolutely care if Sony Santa Monica, and excellent studio that takes 4-5 years to make each game, wastes one of their efforts on a 9 year old CPU.
So awesome. Honestly I wouldn't have even cared about this if it was a PS4/XONE game; I can already play the version from one gen before that so there would have been no need. But this is awesome.
Not cross gen! Not cross gen! Take notes Sony.
@Rude-ro
VGChartz uses retailer estimates. Provide better data or stop criticizing what we have.
If true this would definitely make up for some of the other issues with the game. I expect some people would get the game just for this. Beyond any of the customization stuff (which will no doubt be fun), I like the idea of just being able to have a few servers doing standard rush on those BC2 and BF3 maps.
Drawing inferences about someone based on the things they say is hardly mind reading. It's a standard part of being a human. I mean, it's basically how you understand other people. In most cases you don't go up to someone and ask them to describe their own personality and tastes; you figure out who they are by the things they say and do.
It's amazing how much more this says about you than it does about Detroit.
The weirdest component to me is that this is happening before 8 comes out. You'd think they'd stagger them in such a way that there would always be at least one game in the series (I'm counting the Horizon games separately) that they could sell.