The entire point of creating hardware is to make money off licensing it to other publishers. Sony only funds exclusives games like Uncharted or Horizon because they want gamers to buy Call of Duty or Battlefield on their platform. As it stands now, Nintendo is only getting money from games that would sell better on PS4 or Xbox, while still spending millions on hardware. It is a hardware platform's worst case scenario.
PS+ and console online gaming is not popular in Asia. Japan mostly plays local/ad-hoc and China/Korea play PC MMOs or Blizzard games.
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He isn't regretting selling the rights, he's regretting not taking a percentage deal that they offered instead of taking the one-time lump sum. He didn't expect the game to be so successful and congratulates them for it. Everyone is being nice and polite, nothing to see here.
They better keep the humor from the original. All the games, movies and merchandise afterwards are about depressing, emo characters and black clothes. Bring back cross dressing Cloud. Do it Square.
Theoretically any PS4 or Xbox One should be able to play PC games due to their AMD APU. Will they? Unlikely. How would they make money off PC games?
PS Vita also had a sealed battery. Main question is how easy will it be to teardown Switch. Replacing Vita battery is easy, iPad not so much.
Xbox One could only run Battlefield 4 at 900p. I think it would be unreasonable to expect a handheld to deliver 1080p 60 for a majority of games.
Writer spent $400 on PS VR but finds the games expensive. Sure.
They can't kill the 3DS for the same reasons they created the 2DS: there if an enormous market for sub-$150 portables. Smartphones still haven't killed the 2DS/3DS, otherwise it wouldn't be the best selling console of this generation. Until that market evaporates or Switch drops to that price point, Nintendo cannot rely on it to singlehandedly support them.
They have the Alienware Alpha for $225 for the i3 and $375 for the i7, which is ridiculously cheap. I use the i3 version for my home theater and it's been fantastic.
I bought BF1 on launch day and as much as I want to play Titanfall 2, I barely have time to even play BF1 after work. Why EA would choose to release them so close together makes no sense to me.
It's faster than a Wii U but in a portable. Feel more like a PS Vita successor to be honest.
I had one of the Razer controllers for Xbox. After a few months the thumbstick would start drifting to the left. I got a replacement from Razer and a few months later had the same thing happen. Since then I never buy third party controllers.
Does he work for Rockstar? No? Then who cares.
I just want good games. The hardware is secondary.
Day 1 backwards compatibility is only possible when the system is architecturally similar to the previous generations. Since nVidia Tegra is a significant departure from the previous SoC's, any attempts at backwards compatibility will have to come in the form of Virtual console, similar to Xbox One's BC. It is unlikely Wii U or even Wii games will ever be BC since the Switch will only be slightly faster than the Wii U and the architecture is completely different.
It's a nendroid...they're everywhere.
Vita is doing better than ever...in Japan. And Sony is supporting it...in Japan. They're focusing on the market that actually buys it, what a surprise.
Based on the rumors the NX will be using a modified version of the nVidia Tegra X1 chip found in the nVidia Shield TV. The nVidia Shield TV runs Doom 3 at a faster framerate and higher resolution than the PS3/360. Considering how Nintendo will have direct access to the chip without having to go through the bloated Android operating system, we can expect the games to perform far better on the NX than the Shield TV. That makes it considerably more capable than the last generation PS3/360, in a ...
Better idea: Wait until Switch price crawls to $100-150, then release a new console. Switch with take the 2ds/3ds's place naturally. Given that it's running on Nvidia hardware, it should become cheaper to produce over time as their chips get smaller and more efficient.