Yeah thats what I'm hearing from friends running them and lets not forget nVidia's last driver release that was recalled. Fortunately I am a multi platform gamer and a console exclusive came out on the Friday the day after I'd installed the nVidia drivers that made me decide to play that most of the night and I ended up just web browsing on my PC so put no strain on the GPU. The next morning I got a text from a friend warning me about it so I had the chance to revert to the older drivers. I'v...
I think my next graphics card will be an ATi. I've used nVidia since they first produced cards when Voodoo went the way of the dodo and I've only used an ATi card once briefly a few years ago. It seemed the drivers were not as solid as nVidia back then but they seem to be better now and offer more bang for buck. When the time is right I might even just stick to AMD for my CPU also for the same reason.
MW2 is broken anyway why should anyone care how its played? Objective based rounds require setting up perimeters, guarding area's but when the game allows the pathetic perk mixes that make players almost impossible to hit and yet deadly with dual wield shotguns then of course its going to affect the way people play the game. Leave the weapons in the game but take the perks out and you'd have a very good shooter but as it stands right now its a joke. They could fix it, make a new game mod with...
An unimpressive demo run by a guy who sounds like a used car salesman. We're only now getting games that really utilize two cores lets alone four so increasing that seems pointless apart from bragging rights running a tech demo. Developers have to cater for the lower specs and so you're always held back to some extent as much as I'd like to see some of the flight sims I own run over multiple cores to give me a better experience.
I know the kids out there love to hate what they see as a big corporation but I don't think this is all Activision's fault. I don't trust West or Zampella. It sounds to me like they want their cake and eat it. As a publisher would you trust that pair not to take your money, develop a game, make it a successful franchise and then run off to the next publisher who offers them big bucks after you got them off the ground? Thats why publishers expect to hold the rights over the IP. Respect is earn...
Football Manager on an iPhone? its just made my next choice of mobile phone a hell of a lot easier!
"In todays day and age a PC is just required at home, just as much as your television or freezer. Just cant do without having one at home."
A PC is not required in the home at all and "Even in developing nations almost everyone has a PC at home" is not true either. PC ownership has increased a lot over the last decade but that statement is still not true.
Steve> I agree not everyone wants that but when you buy a console it comes with a controll...
The article is about the initial outlay on the machine not the long term costs but that can be expensive on a PC too if you want the right kit, I've got well over a grands worth of gaming related peripherals sat on my desk right now for my PC. Its certainly not the case that almost everyone has a PC in their home. Rather than try and hoodwink people and try to hide the real cost of a decent gaming PC compared to a console why not just list the other advantages having a powerful PC in the ho...
Adding the cost of a TV into the price of a console is a flawed argument. Very few homes would not already have a TV of some kind to connect a console. It could be argued that you could connect a PC to a TV but realistically how many people hook their PC's up to the family TV set? not many. Not everyone reading this article would already have the rest of the bits and pieces that would add considerable cost to that price i.e the OS, keyboard, mouse, speakers etc. These articles are getting sil...
Everyone likes to hate the big bad company, the David vs Goliath mindset and while I'm not saying Activision are blameless I don't think we've heard the full story and may only get a small slice of the truth when they go to court. I'm not so sure Jason West and Vince Zampella are so blameless in all of this and so far its two people who have left so the majority of the Infinity Ward team are still working on this title.
@4.1 you obviously don't know how business works
Its not Command & Conquer, its a brain fart from EA trying to fix what wasn't broken. They've taken the essence of Command & Conquer and thrown it in the bin.
Activision are getting desperate!
@ 3.8 yes thats right they won't have a keyboard, mouse, OS and speakers from their smartphone or iPod and do you recommend sawing off the keyboard from their laptop perhaps? or stealing the parts from the university/school computer they are viewing from? internet cafe? or perhaps its an Apple user looking to build a gaming rig.
The problem with these articles is that they do not give a fair reflection of the associated costs, they go for the headline which is the price which the...
"all easily forgivable mistakes, for sure. Because of course it was only the first - Xbox 360 exclusive - DLC for one of the biggest game releases ever, eh?"
That just sums up the arrogance of Microsoft, their attitude is 'yeah we don't really care because you fools will buy it and keep paying anyway' It was a botched DLC release for a game that was botched on launch
Fishy Fingers is right, the article does show a decent spec for the price but in an effort to make it look comparable to going out and buying a console the writer has misled the reader by leaving out a number of pieces of hardware/software such as the OS, monitor, keyboard, mouse, speakers/headset which add's significant value to the overall price. It is not fair to say most people building a PC from that article would have a PC already or any other pieces of hardware.
Steam is a useful platform but the prices are not always good. They have recently dropped BFBC2 to £29.99 from £34.99 but its still £5 more expensive than online though if it had been £29.99 on release I think I might have paid the extra £5 for the convenience of having it on Steam.
I'd rather have a firmware made by Sony who know what they are doing than some two-bit hacker who makes his using the hit and miss process...'oops my firmware just fried your PS3 but hey don't worry I'll fix it for the next release' or perhaps leave a back door open so that your account details can be stolen, yeah thats the kind of people I would trust, those who would hack a machine and leave it open for the pirates.
Who opened the bag of idiots this morning? this two-bit 'hacker' tries to hack the PS3, all but fails and then blames Sony for closing up any security holes which might allow him to achieve his goal! Don't believe this fool and his good intentions for hacking, the only people to benefit will be the pirates.
Super Street Fighter IV is only £22 on Amazon, its hard to justify the whole 'industry ripping us off' argument when its that price. I've also been gaming since the late 70's and seen platform's killed off by piracy.