Demos are the best way of Discovery, I used to play the same demos over and over again when I was a kid. Demo disks were the last bit of charm from gaming that the internet killed
They have conned the series s customers, game pass is now almost the price of buying a new console every year. Madness
A series has the length to actually present the story of a video game correctly, this should do better than the film at least and the Desmonds story and the apple of eden was interesting.
I made this comment yesterday about the lay offs. Gamepass needs a flow of games to keep subscriptions, they need these game to be made cheaply to sustain the service. Ai will be used to make games on a budget and because it is "free" on gamepass the audience will gobble it up.
They need games that are cheap and quick to make to make sure gamepass has a steady flow of new titles. Ai based tools will be used to speed up development and play test games to achieve quicker development cycles.
I remember playing a closed beta of battlefield 5 and seeing a heli being shot down and it was seamless. Then on release the server tick rate was reduced and it cause vehicles to disappear momentarily when destroyed. I expect the same downgrade here.
Midnight club, Project Gotham racing and burnout were peak racing games for me. All arcade racers but at very different levels.
Was this Microsoft's plan? You can't train AI on code you do not own. They bought these publishers so they could pump in the source code of all these games to build a system that can generate DLC with very little input and entire games with vastly reduced team sizes. The execs will get pay rises on the backs of hard working developers that this system will push out.
Parity of features is a must, all these people saying that the touch pad, motion sensor, microphone or speaker is a gimmick are right but not in the way they think. Without a baseline of features multiplatform games cannot be built to take full advantage of these. Analogue sticks are proof of this.
There is an 18 watt difference between the input and output. Could the dock contain some sort of hardware upscaler or another Cortex-A78AE, a second APU will only consume 10 watts. Leaving 8 watts for anything else
All but confirms that Xbox will tie into windows with the rumours of Microsoft allowing other companies to make their own "Xbox". It will be Xbox/windows Vs steam deck or Steambox/linux
I wonder if Microsoft do pull out of the console market that it might open the door for valve to relaunch the Steambox. Competition is good for the industry but Microsoft don't even seem to be trying anymore.
Looks like this guy wasn't interested in Helldivers until it blew up. Now they have to deal with all the server issues because the servers are strained. Week after launch the game was running fine if you turned off cross play and was flawless. They would know that if they didn't review for clicks.
They wanted to and are still trying to normalise the industry on digital. This mostly benefits publishers as distribution costs are almost eliminated but game prices stay the same. This is what shareholders want. Microsoft and it's shareholders will be ok with dropping the hardware side of the business as it costs a lot of money to develop and no guarantees the consoles will sell.
I don't understand why this is a issue either, digital sales in a brick and mortar store have no inventory space. Sales are usually a tactic to free up space for something else. You can still trade in items for store credit to purchase PSN credit to then buy any game you want. Publishers set the prices
In the UK everyone I knew had a Xbox 360 instead of a PS3. The 360 releasing a year earlier got a lot of extra customers and the 360 was a solid gaming/social console. People stuck around though the RROD till the end of the generation. But (and a big but), Microsoft alienated most of their fanbase with the xbone reveal, while ticking off people like me who had purchased the kinect to then be disappointed in it, to then being forced to purchase it again.
Game preservation will be emulated anyway. There is too much internet requirements on games these days. A disc drive is the least of your worries if you can't install patches or DLC.
Please be whatever "Deep Down" has turned into. A random generated AAA multiplayer dungeon crawler.
Only includes streaming games, COD and Overwatch will be infuriating to play on any streaming service.
The only way they will get my money is if they offered the zombies mode for £30. They have fragmented their player base and I can't justify £70 for just a mode