Xbox has gone to the dogs.
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No it's not, you get a lot of input lag compared to 60fps, not to mention they usually have to add motion blur to make the frame transitions appear smoother.
Maybe some people just aren't sensitive enough to notice the difference but 30fps is not fine, it's simply a trade-off that many lazy developers have made in order to boost visuals.
ie. back in the day Take10 were talking up the benefits of 60fps but then with Forza 4 they went to 30fps becau...
because Microsoft lack imagination.
I also like the 'all-in-one' entertainment system claim even though you'll need a separate cable box.
I might be impressed if your average persons internet connection was 100GB/s and I actually believed it, the only thing a cloud will help with is non-realtime rendering.
1080P/60fps would be glorious but I would be perfectly happy with 720P/60fps, it's just 30fps that I can't stand.
60fps should be standard for ALL games with graphical quality taking a back seat, 30fps is laziness it's just a quick way to get better graphics without having to do much optimization.
"Microsoft is attempting to be the one device in the living room, but at the same time as doing that you have to have a secondary device, like a TiVo, to HDMI into the Xbox One to be able to use the TV side of it, which to me defeats the entire purpose," he said. "It's very confusing."
This.
I have no intention of purchasing a 'media centre' or whatever the hell Xbone is, I have a perfectly good TIVO box supplied by my cable provider and the remote control provides all of the control I need.
It seems to me Microsoft are trying to solve problems which do not exist, first Windows 8 with metro and now a console that doesn't focus on games, it seems to me Microsoft are gambling at every opportunity in the hope of creating the next iPhone... desperation pe...
I always wondered how our governments would advance their police state agenda to the point of cameras in houses without any uproar, enter Xbone. :)
"“It’s difficult to say, as it’s still early days when it comes to drivers,” he told us. “With each new driver release, performance increases dramatically in some areas. The PlayStation 4 environment is definitely more mature currently, so Microsoft has some catching up to do."
This statement is difficult to interperate, for all we know he could simply be calling the Xbone environment less mature because it performs considerably worse...
Suppose if ...
PS3 was slightly better theoretically but it was extremely difficult to develop for so only the prime developers who made AAA exclusives took advantage of the extra power.
The point is PS4 & Xbone are virtually identical hardware-wise, except PS4 is going to be EASIER to develop for due to the unified memory/lack of eSRAM AND has a considerably more powerful GPU.
It's not even going to be close this time around, PS4 will be blatently better for gaming...
It's not just the amount of shaders, Eurogamer mentioned that PS4 GPU has TWICE the texture fillrate as well.
When it comes to 3D gaming performance you just cannot hope to compete with a 100% fillrate and 50% shading disadvantage, about the only way they could achieve comparable graphics is by running at 30fps in games where PS4 is 60fps.
They took the **** with Xbox 360 and most people had no complaints, fanboys even defended them... so you can't blame them for taking things a step further.
Crap name, crap concept, crap company.
Anyone who takes the side of the developers/publishers is a fool, they have done everything in their power to ride roughshod over consumer rights which has gone a long way towards increasing piracy, they do not care because the piracy boogeyman allows them to implement draconian measures to screw over the legitimate buyers who they are getting rich off.
If Piracy was as rampant as they will have us believe they would have long since quit making games, they do it still because...
It's refreshing to see a responsible company at a time when so many bailed out companies are giving their CEO's million pound bonuses despite failure.
I don't really see any problem with them adding womens teams (Arsenal ladies etc) for friendlies or their own female mini league but realistically would female gamers really want to play as such a **** team? womens football is terrible probably comparable to male under 16 or less.
He says "per frame", not "per second".
If I'm not mistaken PCI-E 3.0 will be able to transfer 266MB 'per frame' at 60fps (16000 / 60).
Looking around at the world we really are at a turning point in history, there are those who want to take control and limit the rights of people and those who believe in the opposite, I know which side I support so Microsoft can **** off.
"24fps is fine for movies. Why is 30fps not fine for video games?"
Because when filming movies you naturally get motion blur in frames which makes the transitions look smoother, plus you do not in anyway interact with a movie so you do not notice input lag.
"Using Gran Turismo 5 as an example, the maximum theoretical frame rate is 60 FPS (frames per second), which means the minimum theoretical input lag for the overall system is 17 ms (note: th...