Physical media sales have been on the decline for years now, and streaming is surging. Why jack up the price of the Pro to add in an expensive drive that caters to a declining market? It was a smart choice on Sony's part.
No duh? If you have a a smaller screen, say 50" or below, you have to be sitting within 2 or 3 feet to notice a difference between 4K and 1080P. Most don't sit that close, and would get little out of it.
I could care less about the first part of your comment. I own and game on both consoles. But if anything, Microsoft is the one ripping off their fans. The Pro fits the part of a mid-gen upgrade, and the disparity between it and the original PS4 is unlikely to lead to owners of either console getting shafted. Whereas the Scorpio is going to burn one section fo the playerbase or the other. Either devs are going to focus on the One, resulting in games that don't take advantage of the Scorpio...
Meh. It's a game machine, and if anyone wants to watch 4K movies they can stream them. It's not like there are many 4k movies on the market yet, anyways.
Who cares? As a PS4 owner, I'm not going to upgrade. I'm not throwing another $400 at Sony after only 2 years just so I can get higher framerates and upscaled 4K for a 4K TV I don't even have or plan on buying in the near future. Same with my Xbox One and the Scorpio, especially when I just bought my Xbox One earlier this year before all the rumors started.
They aren't. Out of all the people I play with on a regular basis, I don't know of anyone who plans on upgrading as soon as it comes out. Most of us just bought a PS4 in the last 2 years, and we aren't going to throw down another $400+ on another piece of hardware this soon. Especially when most of us don't even have a 4KTV.
No, the older systems are simply going to be given shitty support and what games do run on them will be poorly optimized. When last gen came to an end, there were a number of games that still ran on last gen consoles. The only problem was, they ran terribly, even though the systems in question had put out far more demanding games that ran better in the past. Why? Because developers focused on the versions for next gen. That was perfectly fine after an 8 year console cycle. But after 4, with m...
Agreed. Add in the cost of online play, and you're paying an additional $240 every 4 years. So you're looking at ponying up $640 every 4 years if you don't want to get screwed over. Once the time comes for the Neo/Scorpio to launch, you could buy a PC for the same price or cheaper, and then only have to spend a fraction of that amount every 3 to 4 years to upgrade. The only real loss is the convenience factor, but to me that'd be mitigated by the fact that you aren't throw...
This article is retarded. Destiny isn't going free to play. At most, Vanilla Destiny could be made free as a glorified demo to draw in people who haven't played the game before.
Ah, clickbait.
It's ultimately bad for consumers because either way, someone gets screwed. Developers aren't going to pour in the time and resources needed to optimize games on both the PS4 and the Neo, or Xbox One and the Scorpio. They will either focus on the older consoles, leading to poor optimization for the stronger hardware, or they will focus on the newer hardware, once again leading to poor optimization on older titles. Frankly, I don't see why Microsoft and Sony didn't push back th...
Yeah, fuck that. If we go to 3-4 year console iterations, I'll be moving to PC. The entire reason I game on console is because it's cheaper. If I have to spend $400+ every 3 to 4 years to not get shittily optimized games, along with paying an additional $60 a year for online, PC gaming will suddenly be a cheaper alternative.
I don't see how it's going to matter. The original Xbox One is likely going to see another price cut soon. Why pay more for the S, when you can get the same games on the original, or just wait for the Scorpio? 4K doesn't even matter all that much.
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Unless you have a giant TV, or sit extremely close to the screen, you're not going to no...
Well, my biggest problem is that it doesn't work half the time. It usually takes me at least 30 minutes to get past the initial loading screen because of the servers, and then it frequently freezes up and crashes.The game behaves more like an alpha build than any sort of finished product.
I could really care less about 4K gaming. I'd rather devs focus on delivering better graphics and a stable framerate than a higher resolution.
No, a game can be great without diversity. It's literally one of the least important aspects of a game's story. As much as I hate using this word nowadays, only diehard SJW's remotely care about crap like this in video games.
Uh, I doubt that. Scorpio is coming out in the holiday of 2017. Destiny 2 will be released by September of 2017 at the latest, and it'll likely be out even earlier.
It's a betrayal because they are cutting into developer support for the PS4 and Xbox One. Why try to pour resources into trying to push the envelope with the PS4 and Xbox One, when you can develop primarily for the Neo/Scorpio and blame any subpar performance on the weaker hardware? In the end, PS4 and Xbox One owners are going to be getting games that underperform relative to what the hardware was capable of because optimization stopped or slowed to a crawl. It'd be like if they had ...
No, the Xbox One got shit for being weaker than the PS4 but still being more expensive.It took them removing the Kinect and cutting the price before it actually got cheaper than the PS4 as it should've been at the start. And they can't win at $499. No one wins if they launch a console at the price tag. The PS3 did the same thing, and it flopped at launch.