I have a PS4 and have no PSN subscription. I hate online MP gaming personally. I have found it mostly annoying and filled with brats. I prefer games played at my OWN pace with stories, exploration, progression, mood, etc.
I am hardly "casual" as you say. I play more than a "bit" and usually on hard mode. Not everyone is into online only MP you know. That could also account for the numbers, I doubt it is a lie. I think more PS4 players like SP games w...
I don't agree with you much but I do here. Yes I would rather have a console that does 1080p more often with better lighting, shadows, GRASS, etc. than a voice activated TV switchbox that also plays games too but in a lower resolution. Snapping does NOTHING to improve your gaming experience (only to interrupt it, those games must be boring or something) . Never once did I have a desire to snap anything or yell at my TV to change a channel. To each his own I guess.
"It's called progress, if you want to use a console for gaming only might I suggest the Atari 2600?"
That is just plain dumb. I mean can an an Atari 2600 play Far Cry 4 at 1080p? No (and neither can the xbone it seems)
Just because someone uses their console in a way different from you they should not have one? I never knew non-gaming bloat was now a requirement.
Yes I play games only on my system. I don't care about apps...
If someone has both why would they want the graphically downgraded xbone version?
MS is desperate though. This is proven during the holiday where they reduced the xbone price then kept throwing free games at you until you buckled under and bought one. Now they are like a cornered animal, with a BIG bite. Who knows what they will do.
They have unlimited money too, like the richest company next to Apple. They threw 2.5 billion to get Minecraft devs without batting an eyelash. Buying ME4 exclusivity would be chump change for Microsoft. All they need to ...
And it seems that most make the mistake of thinking that streaming will be just as good as local console/PC in every way. It isn't and won't be for a long time due to bandwith. If you like a laggy 30 FPS or less and pixelated 720p compressed then it is maybe an ok console/PC replacement.
I have DSL, I can't even consider streaming anything knowing how laggy and crappy games would be.
It is a downgraded experience in every way. People seem to l...
That is ok if you like playing downgraded games visually as the compression and resolution downgrade honestly doesn't look nearly as good as native hardware. Then you have pretty bad input lag (you make an input it goes over the net, renders offline, then streams the result back, that takes time)making many action titles play poorly. It is not the same as Netflix etc. You watch movies, you interact with games BIG difference. Movies can be buffered, games can't so lag becomes an is...
I worry about the graphics. That demo video honestly didn't look so great. It had a weird cartoon oil painting kind of look to it and didn't look very photo real at all. I knew it wouldn't match the quality of that trailer as that was just a cutscene. It did look like a pretty big graphical downgrade was done though for the gameplay part, almost a Watch Dogs caliber downgrade. Hopefully the art and graphics will improve allot for the final version or there will be allot of dis...
I ONLY play offline SP games but I don't think every game needs an offline mode and I also don't think every game needs jammed in online MP either. I just skip all online-only games myself.
The issue is development resources. Online MP modes stuck into normally SP games like Mass Effect just make the SP part smaller. If the resources used to make MP maps and code were put into more levels for the SP part the game would be bigger. Same the other way around. I think...
I agree, someone who gets it. Bubble up.
So now people love always online, no used, no lend, no ownership? When MS tried to do something not even as bad (had to check in once in 24 hours) the internet blew up, rightly so. But this where you ALWAYS need a connection, a good one, and you get low resolution highly compressed ugly PQ, input-lag latency, and now all of a sudden it is great?
It is ok as an *option* but people are making this out to be a REPLACEMEN...
Lavishing me with nice things? Like paying $20.00 per month to play laggy highly compressed/pixelated games?
No thanks, I will stick with my PS4 games that I actually own and look good at 1080p with no input lag.
It is quantity over quality that is why many don't see the value. If you just say "100 games for $20.00" that sounds great until you realize those games will look and play like shit with streaming unless you have a beast internet connection
(even then they will still not be as good as local). Laggy pixelated highly compressed looking 100 games that you don't ever own suddenly doesn't sound so great anymore but that is what it is. If it was free I wouldn't ...
"will help to further push an all-digital, console-less future"
And why is this good?
So now people love always online, no used, no lend, no ownership? When MS tried to do something not even as bad (only had to check in one in 24 hours) the internet blew up. But this where you ALWAYS need a connection, a good one, and you get low resolution highly compressed ugly PQ, input-lag latency, now all of a sudden is great?
I don't get...
Being a tester would ruin games so it would be a bad job. People think it would be cool to sit around playing games all day but in reality it is grunt work. After playing buggy beta games all day I doubt you would want to go home and play more usually buggy released games(or even the rare working ones).
We should know these days as we don't get paid and spend $60.00 to "test" broken games too! Buy a game on release day? Congratulations, you are a beta tester! ...
@No_Limit
It is all about preference. If you love online MP only titles and racing the X1 has the edge, for SP offline games the PS4 has the edge.
I have both but honestly for me there is nothing much on the X1 that interests me - YET. I don't like online MP so throw out Titanfall etc. I have SSO but honestly it isn't doing it for me. It is open world but they still dictate the method in which I play and feels restrictive (must stay above ground a...
@CyrusLemont
900p 30 on PS4 would be pretty poor, especially if it would be exactly the same on PS4 and X1. That would mean that not only did they try to trick everyone at E3, but they also went for artificial parity too.
As for the delay, good. With all of the broken and unfinished games rushed out these days if this releases without a fvcking day one patch then fantastic.
Are there too many movies released on Blu-ray that were once on VHS tape?
It won't look this good on consoles. All of the screenshots and video are from a high end PC, even the video at Sony's E3 conference. Before anyone just mindlessly bangs the disagree button proof below:
http://www.cinemablend.com/...
I think that is a pretty dirty trick to pump up pre-orders, as bad as the Watc...
It looks like anyone without a good unlimited data internet connection is left out this generation unless you like buggy broken incomplete games. These are online-only systems no matter what any company claims.
For those with internet you get the annoying experience of having to wait an hour or more until the system downloads it's "day one patch", week two patch, week 4 patch etc. Woe to those whose system or HDD fails as then you will have to re-download man...
You need to understand the system architecture to realize why backwards compatibility is NOT possible. It never will be unless they stuff a complete xbox 360 chipset into the x1. That would add huge cost, lots of heat, and make the console enormous (as if it is not big enough already).
The Xbox 360 is based off of a tri-core PowerPC at 3.2 GHz, while the x1 is an 8 core x86 at 1.75 GHz. Totally incompatible and the slower clock of the x1 CPU is not capable of full speed Po...