I didn't say it's not. But I think there's a huge gap between HDD and good SATA-class SSD but not that big between SATA SSD and NVMe SSD. But the price is almost 200%.
We get crap console like Xbox Series S, we get rather slow PS5, and those coudlv'e been better if the SSD didn't cost this much. the amount of money required to buy SSD upgrades will also decrease the buying power of consoles users. Less money in their pockets means less games being bought. this me...
Well, it will be a though call with Xbox SS (series S, SS, hitler edition, so Hitbox maybe? ;) with it having just 220GB/s memory and just 32ROP and 80TMUs at just 1,5GHz. That's waaaay too less for any decent VR experience.
And then there's rumored cloud based SKU where latency would kill VR even more.
BUT..
Do you guys remember what MS said about VR on Xone X? They've said "Xone X will have exclusive games, VR will not be avail...
i can't stand the stupidity of people who defend that.
Please, learn what people like Jim Sterling or Yong Yea, or Az from heelsvsbabyface have to say. I can't present arguments as well as they do, especially when I'm angry and reading the title pissed me off already ;]
No, two steps forward doesn't mean you are to cheer for one step back. You're still one step too far.
And this stupid "arguments" for "games are more expe...
Decent SATA 500GB drive, and I mean a good and reliable one by that, costs 50-60€ with tax in EU, so I don't see this as "steal". Seeing the price predictions so far, it is suprisingly low though.
I wish they went for SATA SSDs instead. Why did they go from extreme (HDD) to extreme (best in class NVMe) is puzzling me. This doesnt make any sense. They should've put SATA 3 ports in PS4 and Xone already.
Properly used SATA drive vs. properly used NVMe makes a ...
This guy was all for "f...ck gameplay, I want to make a movie" so this doesn't surprise me a bit.
RT has no place in gaming in this decade. It's only beneficial for people who prefer cut-scenes over gameplay, and in some limited scenarios, although even then, at a huge cost and in very limited and flawed form.
We'll need 10x more RT power. Well over 200% of what RTX 3090 can do.
For games released after 2020, 60fps should be...
I don't agree about the last part. It's not a shame Oculus was bought by them. It's the biggest tragedy of XXI century, so far. In gaming. Such potential. A thing so good for gamers. Destroyed by the thing which is one of the worst evils out there. Just listen to what the Oculus founders say now about why they're no longer there. "Racing to the bottom" was the quote, I think.
Since the very first months, where it was baffling to see them putting m...
It scares me how ignorant people are, even at the professional sites like this Cnet.
It's not 299$.
It's 299$ + all of your privacy, the amount of spying no one even imagined a few years back.
- always on MIC
- always on 4 cameras
- in the near future: your eye (that's like a finger print), tracking your every eye move, tracking your behaviors. What did you look at? How? For how long?
I wish people woke the...
Geometry Wars style? What's the point in that to go up to 8K?
Is it 100% for marketing purposes or there's some amount of logic to it as well?
Make the engine forward type, get 4K + MSAA x4 and you'll end up with a lot of spare power to use.
@Christopher
About the comparison to others. They will act like them, but I should've clarify I meant "more and more times". It's not an ON/OFF switch, there's a lot of space between "not at all" and "exactly like them, on every step", but I will apologize for not being clear and for repeating that so many times, which your quotes helped me realize. ;)
About the rest, we'll have to agree to disagree. I have nothing agai...
I never said you can compare CDPR to scum like Activision or EA.
But your list looks to me like a list of things I should thank a delivery man for not stomping on my package and not charging me premium for delivering it on time, just because all other companies do worse.
1. DRM - And I applaud them for it. This is the most important thing. But on the other side - it should be the norm. I know it's not. You buy a legit copy of the game, and DRM causes load times...
That's not my point. I'm talking about a guy who had an idea "hey! We usually do crunch and it will probably be the same with this game, but I see people talking about this so there's an opportunity for free PR and free PR means free money".
They knew the game is not ready and they kept lying about it.
They are known for showing just empty shells and saying "we're showing a game". I was not sure about this one, when the rumors li...
It's about time people stop believing this fairy tale that CDPR is still the company run by "the good guys". They're on stock market now. This means they will act like every other company which feels the pressure from shareholders.
They saw the opportunity to get yet another free PR push by milking the same "look at us, how good we are!" all over again.
They decided to lie about "no, no more crunch here, man, we're too good for ...
They just released video of "60fps" Spiderman on PS5. And? And it never holds 60 for even 2 seconds. It's constantly below, it stutters as hell, the motion blur is not disabled, sometimes the framerate drops close to 30fps (hard to say, I just use my own eyes) and that's with an AWFUL utilization of variable shading, where you can see some shadows turn into like 10x10 pixel mess, so I don't expect any improvements.
And now they say "target". ...
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And then you have gullible idiots in gaming journalism who will repeat this nonsense, preparing the ground for things like 80€ for 1 game in Europe and wide acceptance of price hikes, microtransation stuff, DLC stuff, season pass stuff, releasing unfinished games and all that. At once. Cause as Jim Sterling says (as much as he can be offputting sometimes, and as much as I disagree with him on many things, the guy has some really good points about gaming industry, I...
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Devs praise Sony for how easy it is to develop for PS5. Then we have outsourcing, i.e trees assets for you game from some company in India who makes it for pennies. Then you have whole game engines being as cheap and as accessible as never before. What changed? The focus. If you target core gamers, it's enough if the game is great. Word will spread. You can spend $5M on marketing. But if your clients are share holders, not gamers, and you target casuals, you need to spe...
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You mix core gamers with hardcore gamers (at least that's how I understand you mentioning Dark Souls).
I disagree with the part about "small group of geeks". It was true in the 90's (and it was awesome to live through that, woulnd't give it away for anything) but not in 2005 for example, where the focus was still on core gaming. There's enough core gamers out there, as you can see when a game targeting core audience breaks sales records. I ...
I think I had a console with a box mentioning games which were not available at launch. Or maybe even turned out to be cancelled altogether, but I'm not sure, it was decades ago.
Yyeeah. Like when Facebook bought Oculus and told nothing will change, but a few years later Oculus was disbanded almost completely and focused on what in pre-FB was not planned or planned as being a side project. None of the promises were kept, people who made them are no longer working there and the whole idea which brought Oculus the huge Kickstarter success, so PC VR, is now no longer even looked at by Facebook.
Or like Bulletstorm. "Epic will let us do the games a...
Not before you present any arguments. And then still no. But arguments are highly recommended, so there's that.
Yes, cause I'm Polish. :)
@jukins
That's exactly what I fear. MS joining Facebook for VR, using their hardware and the data collecting platform while at it.