Pretty nice update… wasn’t expecting this since the app had basically been abandoned for ages.
So the market leader by a large margin doesn’t want competition (which would be good for us). That pretty much sums up PS during the Jim Ryan days.
Also kinda ironic to be calling others anti-competitive / bad for consumers when you are the one selling $70 games, paid upgrades & trying to evade past promises about free upgrades, increasing console prices and remastering games that don’t need it 🤔
Ultimately, this will still very likely pass - ...
Pretty weak additions. Also still barely any back compat additions.
VC is the best addition but it’s a pretty bad port and was already in PSNow back at launch.
Yeah, just copy whatever Insomniac is doing because it’s working. They’ve had the highest output of any AAA studio so far this generation - and look set to continue that trend.
PR and marketing bluster. Game dev in the cloud isn’t new nor “reinventing game development”.
Plenty of other big companies doing this today in varying proportions, especially since COVID.
Looks like Facebook is finally getting serious about VR gaming. This should be interesting, they have big tech levels of money to throw around.
Wasn’t this known ages ago? And not really a rumor but confirmed?
@CaptainHenry "And don't forget a lot of the subscribers don't pay each month."
3bn dollars says otherwise.
3bn also completely kills the argument about how 'most people subscribe for $1/month' or 'most people get it free via Bing Rewards'. You can't make 3bn in revenue if people aren't paying.
@TheWood "Its weird the guys in last place continually profess the guys in ahead of them should ...
@Surgical While the games may not demonstrate the extra power, it is interesting and relevant to this conversation at hand since we're talking about size. Getting more power in a smaller box is no small feat from an engineering perspective.
You'd have to ask Zenimax/Microsoft that - but I suspect it's probably related to some legacy licensing.
And yes, Zenimax and Activision games going into GP day 1 is huge.
@ruu I think it’s much easier to assume they know what they’re doing and know how to manage their finances than it is to jump to speculations about licensing costs and studio/title counts etc.
Obviously there is money in this - if there wasn’t, Xbox wouldn’t be doing it and Sony wouldn’t have attempted to copy them.
Also not sure what you’re talking about, I’ve never claimed there are more of games on GamePass than PS+ - 100 is the official number AFAIK -...
For there to be no profit… at 2.9bn in revenue and roughly 100 games in GamePass, they would be paying each developer tens of millions of dollars.
That seems very unlikely. More likely they are making profit.
“ Yes, two gaming devices. Check. ”
A graphics card is not a console nor gaming device. It is a PC component, on its own you cannot play games or really do anything with it.
“ Not as tall, but wider”
Overall volume is smaller on an Xbox.
“ Power difference is also not very apparent in actual releases ”
Indeed, but that’s on game developers - it doesn’t subtract from the HW engineering that took plac...
5.5 years it looks like. Still blows my mind that it’ll have everything Zenimax and Activision in it going forward.
Also, clarification on my above comment - 20% not 30%. Cellphones are hard.
Size is relative. You have to compare to similar devices:
AMD high end cards of similar spec will likely be similar sizes to these cards.
Meanwhile the XSX is more powerful than PS5 but has a smaller form factor.
That is why people were complaining and making comparisons.
Also, I’m not going to sit my graphics card on my TV stand. It’s going to go inside a case and be hidden.
Next year:
“New Nvidia PC Graphics Cards Are Nearly As Big As Your House”
It would need to be unanimous unless MS are comfortable not selling COD in the UK (seems unlikely).
They still have the option of going to court if the CMA says no - and I’d assume they would given how big their legal department must be.