You compete for peoples time and money. The money is minimal, and the time sink is massive, so yes this isn'¨t good for the industry.
Since I strted using Netflix, I haven't bought a single movie or rented one. Heck I don't go to the theaters anymore either.
Say what you want, but it is just like the tablet/smartphone thing, it eats its way into the industry.
Is PS+ good value? It is a heck of a deal!
Is it ...
I agree, very misleading title!
This really shows how mis-informed the journalists are and how far back the industry really is.
MS has been doing this since XNA- For $100 anyone and their mother could developer a game on Xbox 360 and self-publish it.
This is just an extension of that. Journalists now write a blog telling the world that so the industry can be updated.
Kinect is the competitive advantage and the differentiator from PS4. Removing Kinect from Xbox One would make the Xbox One just another PS4 with a different skin on the user interface.
Don't compete on price alone, compete on awesomeness!!!
Once consumers starts seeing the Kinect One in action, they will be wowed and compelled to buy it.
It would be a terrible shame if revolutionary technology was ignored by developers if it didn't have the proper push and adoption by consumers.
MS keeping Kinect standard and included in every box is the right decision.
If you are so against Kinect, don't buy an Xbox One and buy a PS4. Don't turn my Xbox One into an suped up PS3!
I want to see what Kinect can do!!!
Does anyone else see a problem with this?
I mean, if people start spending more and more time playing old games, then there will be less people buying new games and the cycle of downward spiral start.
I hope this isn't the norm next generation!
That is why almost the entire world run on software that is either developed or originated in the US.
Most of the technology for gaming is from the US. Heck the Xbox One and PS4 are both pretty much developed in the US.
@Hatsune-Miku:
1st place > 4th place
:D
@fossilfern:
"your right there could be some things that don't require a lot of resources but if they dont require that many resources whats the point in offloading them ?"
What? Don't understand what you are talking about?
I never said, "don't require a lot of resources". I said latency insensitive which is completely different.
Imagine if you need to compute the lighting, it could send the ga...
Remote play is likely to stay pretty crappy due to the limitations of internet connection. Most people's upload pipe is a fraction of their download pipe.
That said, why isn't remote play a system level feature on the PS4 that is automatically applied to all games?
Why is it something a developer has to implement?
Furthermore, why aren't developers balking at a feature that cost them to support, yet can only be used with an extern...
You can't argue with analyst that does this for a living, has inside sources and know where to look.
Also note, about the price. It wasn't the analyst that got it wrong, it was the website!
"[CORRECTION]: This article originally misstated the price gap between the Xbox One and PS4. The mistake was ours, not Sebastian's. We regret the error."
@gaffyh:
"@nuke - So what you're saying is, PS4 is PS3.5, but Xbox One isn't Xbox 540? PS4 is more powerful, cheaper, smaller, better designed, more free online services."
In your blindness to defend your favorite console brand, you completely missed my point.
The PS4 is just an extension of what the PS3 is. It barely has any new features, and is just a better pixel pusher with a few ease of use features thrown in.
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@fossilfern:
There are also latency INsensisitive computations that can be done in the cloud, freeing the console to focus on rendering.
Even Sony wants to use the GPU for general processing. Why? Because certain computations are way costly and cannot be done on the CPU alone. You can offload that to the GPU or you can offload it to the cloud!
Cerny himself says:
"By year 3 or 4, I think we'll see a lot of GPGPU [Ge...
With MS solution, you would have set the standard for digital games to have trade-in, lending/sharing, and gifting.
Something nobody else has right now!
Publishers, developers and GameStop would all still exist and the profit would be more balanced.
One could argue that the gamer gets screwed, after all they have to check-in every 24-hour, but the benefit would mean instant game collection sharing among family and friends. On top of that, if...
What pisses me off about GameStop is that they will sell you a gutted copy as *new*, but they sure as hell won't take a gutted copy in return!
I'm mixed about developers double dipping as in getting a cut every time the game is sold.
I hear it on both sides and the problem really is that profit margin of used games is over double of new games. We are talking (if I remember correctly) 23% for new and 49% for used. The incentive is there for GameStop to...
I would totally trust the limited imagination of Eurogamer instead of a multibillion dollar company investing over $4 billion dollars sitting on over a million servers and one of the companies in the world spending most on R&D.
"We have something over a million servers in our data center infrastructure. Google is bigger than we are. Amazon is a little bit smaller. You get Yahoo! and Facebook, and then everybody else is 100,000 units probably or less."
Why is it so cool?
By essentially stuffing low end parts into it!
The Xbox 360 and PS3 upon it's release was cutting edge and high end. Even a PC at the time would struggle to keep up.
Fast forward, and we got essentially mobile chips re-engineered from low end PCs and boosted a little.
Next generation console is just about 8-10 times as powerful, yet after 8 years, to keep up, it should have been closer to 16 times as po...
When you add complexity with more parts, and each part is even more complex and has a narrower margin of failure, then it is far more likely to fail, yes.
That applies to almost all devices.
It is more about how well the company treats you when cr@p hits the fan. Besides, consoles and TV seems to be the only thing people keep for a long time. Every other electronic is replaced far more often and is practically a non-issue.
@devwan:
"No, it runs on custom PC architecture and doesn't have all of the same bottlenecks traditional PC architecture has, both at the hardware level and OS - not having windows and all that comes with that and its services for a start."
Doesn't seem much of a bottleneck for PC, when every single PC game is superior with a $200 graphics card.
Consoles are a low cost and value targeted device. Price to power is key here, n...
What about massive learning algorithms for AI such as driveatar for Forza 5?
More realistic computer opponents, and not required to stay online.
You can make cloud dependent single player games that has a fall back when offline.
It's not that hard to understand is it?
I just keep hearing this mantra over and over. Do people really want to hold back progress?