"solidifying PlayStation as a major force in the video game industry.
If not for the PS4, PlayStation might not be as successful today."
What a weird article. PS was already a major force and successful prior to the PS4.
But yes, the PS4 at launch was night and day with the Xbox One, mainly due to the DRM drama, resolution-gate and the Kinect/pricing mess.
@SierraGuy You've played it then? can I borrow your copy after you're done with it? I'd love to play it early too!
This isn't really a new 'scandal', the same thing has been pending in US courts from the NY pension fund for almost ~8 months.
Realistically, this probably won't be heard until after the acquisition closes, so it may be something MS has to pay up for after the fact.
CP2077 needed a far bigger delay tbh. The game that is out there now is what it should have been at launch.
Time will tell if the same applies to SF or not.
Delays happen, especially with remote workflows.
The 3 biggest games of this year (ER, GoW, HFW) were all delayed into 2022, and turned out fine.
Delays are typically good for the overall product quality. Time will tell though. Not long now.
GoW is better than every other game that came out this year by a large margin - minus ER. ER is the GOAT & GOTY.
JSR, Shenmue & Crazy Taxi were phenomenal 😍
Happy Birthday. OG XBL (and later 360 XBL) really revolutionized online gaming on console.
Christ, I feel like I need a tinfoil hat after reading that.
Kotick needs to be gone from the industry permanently after this acquisition closes. But I suspect he'll probably turn up at some other company.
This probably won't even be heard in a court before the acquisition closes. The NY one from ~8 months ago still has no court date scheduled.
There's a similar case going on with the NY pension fund too. The reality is these won't even be heard in a court before the acquisition closes. Courts are too slow.
The one thing I am interested in thinking about though, let's say this acquisition was blocked by the EU or something - what does MS turn around and spend the $69bn ($66bn by then I guess) on? Do they turn around and buy a bunch of smaller studios instead + some exclusivity and marketing deals (perh...
It doesn’t appear to be - I signed in with my wife’s account and it would still let me add it to cart. Unless it checks later?
@crazy Good point. It’s probably running Windows and needs a reasonably beefy CPU, heck I bet they can’t even run ARM in the thing - Windows on ARM is still a pretty bad experience compared to x86-64 Windows (which also isn’t exactly a great experience…)
They’re still using the dual OS setup you mentioned on the Xbox Series too. System OS and Game OS.
It is slower, especially if you’re in the Game OS and have to make cross VM calls to the system OS. It do...
To be honest their entire setup with all the packs and stuff is just messy. It’s the only series/game that is a PITA to install and manage properly.
I comment on things as I approve them. I’m also a PlayStation gamer (which doesn’t mean I can’t criticize them on things).
But if you don’t like my comments - reading them is entirely optional.
Spot on. The CELL was super powerful, but you can’t really afford to be the odd one out on architecture when most devs have to hit all platforms.
Same thing with the launch XB1 using ESRAM instead of a proper pool of GDDR
Sorry for not being willing to pretend CELL / PS3 was a good development platform 🤷
@GamingSinceForever It was delayed back in 2021
@sinspirit I guess Herman Hulst is one of those fake leakers then?
https://www.nme.com/news/ga...
Also the trailer quite clearly states 2021 at the end: https://m.youtube.com/watch...