I don't know about you, but the Madden and COD's I've been buying haven't been the same every year.
Oh the Will Powers that WORKED for Sony and had a public hate everything Sony meltdown on twitter when he was let go. Its funny if retailers are sending out emails, why doesn't he say which retailer and what date? As far as I know, NFS on PS4 was always the 22nd and not a launch day title.
I see that with annual sports games and even many other franchises. The average person will scoff and say its just the same thing every year. Sure football at its core is the same. Sure a COD or AC game carries the same formula. But they miss all the details and changes that make it a different game, even though the core essentials are there.
Why do we get numerous sequels to games? The same reason we do in movies and anything else. There is a demand for it. If not, nobody would buy them and they would quickly die. Sure, I like new IP's, but sometimes I play a game to death but I still want more of that type of game on in that universe. So I'll gladly take a sequel too. This has been going on since Mario, but people act like it only started with COD and Madden.
Look at it this way. Eat a potato chip, you ...
Resolution downgrade for network issues. Wait a minute, am I playing a game or watching Netflix?
I like what the DS4 has to offer, but I am interested to see how the steam pad actually feels when you use it. I couldn't imagine what would have happened if they drastically changed the DS4 and it flopped. On one hand you have trying to find improvement and innovation. On the other is the idea "if its not broke, don't fix it". Its probably tough to find a real balance there.
I used to love listening to Sterling on the Destructoid Podcast years ago. Now it just feels like old schtick. On one hand its his review, and if that score reflects his honest opinion then it is what it is. But how many times have we seem the ridiculous low score from him? Review scores across the board are consistently in the 7-9 range. So when someone gives a 3.5 it feels more like a gimmick or manufactured controversy rather than legit review.
This looks like a damn Stormtrooper...I must have one.
Did you read the list of items on the press release that are part of the update. Thats a lot of key and advertised functions of the system. And if its anything like PS3 updates, you are not going online until you accept the update. The content of the updates may be different, but the situation is the same for both consoles. Update or have a pair of offline only game bricks.
I'm fine with the updating my PS4 on launch day .I just hate the ridiculous nature the fanboy argu...
I've always thought backwards compatibility was an overrated feature until now. I'm getting launch consoles, but games like Diablo 3, GTA 5, and Batman Arkham Origins still bring value to the current gen. Sure I can leave the old console there. But I would also like to clean the shelf up and maybe sell the old console as well. Its not a necessary feature, but it would be welcome. I would be curious to know what the cost difference is. I've always been told it is not a cheap featur...
Keep spinning fanboys. No matter how much you want it to be different, it is the same situation. Both systems need day one updates. The content of the updates may be different, but the fact is both need updates at launch to actually work as advertised. A lot of people wasted time arguing about something that really doesn't matter unless you don't have an internet connection. In that case you are screwed by both consoles now.
Before they even announced details on either system I thought any hard drive less that 1TB would be crazy. Then they both went and did 500GB. At least you can replace the PS4 drive.
At the start of the PS3 cycle, large installs were more common than they were at the end of the end. I can see some of these sizes coming down. If not, a lot of people hard drives are going to be obsolete in the first year.
I expected the PS4 cases to be like that until I looked and my shelf and realized they probably wanted to make them look different from the millions of blu-ray movie cases out there.
Back then, I was never under the impression that was for the entire future of the Battlefield series. I just assumed that was for that one game. There are too many factors at hand like ownership, production costs, competition, and the state of the industry to make a claim or promise like that have and it hold up. Sure I'll take everything free I can get, but thats just not realistic.
So this guy has mysterious sources that nobody can verify, and takes what somebody says that gives no information and reads into it however he wants to draw a conclusion. Perfect for fan wars and nothing else.
Wow. The Killzone one sold out while I was filling out my info, but the BF4 one was still available so I got that and Killzone. Got to be quick.
pardon my typo. "who" not "whole"
This kind of marketing is not intended for the people that are avid gamers whole follow the news daily and come to sites like this to bicker about it. The informed crowd of gamers is in the minority. Things like this are definitely necessary, especially when dealing with policies that have changed.
And hear I was thinking the payouts on everything was too little.
From what it seems, he head of someone getting a retailer email. Put the question out on twitter. Some shotty blogging later we end up with the situation of a source (who is no longer a source)stating the game has been delayed. I'm blaming the combination of the twitter age and gaming psuedo-journalism.