It will not use as much bandwidth as you think. It is not transferring the textures, but only the destruction computations. Think of it like this. Your Xbox sends the cloud server a coordinate where you just shot. The server in turn sends back the type of destruction that should occur based on that particular hit. It is not sending back the destruction in it's entirety, it is just sending back the coordinates, dimensions, etc. for the frames under the textures to move. Your Xbox then does...
You could always make sure you have enough servers to handle the demand...
*slaps self in face* Sorry...I am talking crazy. I am going to go back to eating this delicious glue.
The Frostbite engine is an incredibly powerful engine. What has been dragging it down is the fact that it has been riddled with bugs and last gen support, which thankfully is going away. They also seem to be getting a handle on a lot of the bugs. I don't think they will ever squash them all, but at least they seem to be more anomaly than norm now. The netcode is less than to be desired, but it is worlds better than it was. (Although it was really bad, so being better isn't as big of a...
I agree that this rumor is pretty much guaranteed false, but you are way off on the time it would take to port it. As a programmer myself I can guarantee you it is nowhere near as easy as you are imagining it. The architectures are still different and I am sure MS did this on purpose. (They don't want everyone making emulators for their console.) They may not be as different as they were, but rest assured they are not alike.
Nvidia irrelevant? I think you are confused. They are killing AMD in the GPU market. The only reason you keep seeing AMD in consoles is because they are cheap. AMD literally dropped the ball so bad that Nvidia was able to bump their midrange card up to the high end slot and charge the same price as the AMD high end card. Also their Tegra GPU is in a ton of mobile devices. AMD is the one that is QUICKLY becoming irrelevant. They are getting slaughtered in both the GPU and CPU market. Don't...
They can put it in there all they want, but it doesn't protect them. It is not like anybody signed a contract upon purchasing their PS3.
I agree...Saying Pachter is wrong is like saying the sun shines during the daytime. We already know!
Im with most of you guys above. MAG is not going to move a lot of consoles. If BF:BC2 was an exclusive then that game would move consoles. Personally I thought the first game was severely under-hyped.
Nothing is going to make me buy a console because I already have all 4 :).(Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, PC) The Wii is not feeling very much love though. Sorry little bugger.
"I mean what do they think, they are supposed to be in business to make money. Come on, give your stuff away for free, and spend millions supporting it forever. Jerks."
Ok first of all they don't haft to support it. They choose to use their own POS servers instead of just letting people use PSN/Xbox servers like everybody else. The reason that they do this is so that they can end a game and force you to go to next years game. Also several of the games they are discontin...
That is a load of crap. This is why EA has their own servers. It sure as hell is not because it makes the game better because it actually makes it worse.(Their servers suck) EA has their own servers so they can cut you off and try to push you to buy the new version. If I ever buy sports games I will 100% of the time go with 2K.
Heck yah! The best though is Dublin Dr. Pepper with Imperial Sugar. :)
"PC - free
PS3 - free"
PC does not have a system like Xbox live or PSN and the PSN pales in comparison to Xbox Live, so what is your point? I can go on Ebay right now and get a year subscription for about $36. If you can't afford $3 a month then you don't need to be spending your money on games in the first place. You spend more than $3 for a coke and candy bar at a gas station.
"Edit: Note, Are you aware that most of PS3 owners are adults?"...
"So Transformers 2 is the best movie ever made?
More people bought tickets, thus more people like it."
If it sold more tickets than any other movie then yes. Apparently more people like this movie than any other movie making it the best movie ever made. You alone are not the judge of what is good/bad. The majority is. If the majority says it is the best, then it is the best whether you agree or not.
You might as well give up the whole sales do ...
Was that supposed to be a jab? Yes Uncharted does have better visuals. Visuals mean nothing though if the gameplay is not good enough to back them up. I will take Gameplay over visuals ANY day of the week.(Apparently so will the majority of gamers)
Wii sports and Uncharted/COD are not fighting for the same audience. COD and Uncharted on the other hand are. People buy what games they like. More people bought COD. Ergo more people like COD than Uncharted. There is no way to spin your way out of this one.
I find it laughable at best when people try to play down sales like they don't matter. Sales are the ONLY way to accurately gauge the popularity of a video game. Just because you think Uncharted is better doesn't mean that e...
"Uncharted 2 didn't have 1% of these ridiculous problems, and looks 5X better to boot. I have no choice but to ask myself, "what exactly are the parameters for game of the year?" sales?.. hype? .."
Sorry but Uncharted may have better visuals but COD puts it in to shame in gameplay. Don't believe me? Look at the sales.
The sales tend to point otherwise. COD didn't become this popular by being an 8.5. It is not all about the graphics(even though MW2 graphics are pretty damn good I think). It is more about the gameplay. No game out there can match it.
Yes as I hid behind the card and the bullets were bouncing off I was like OMG look at the textures on this car!!! /sarcasm
Personally I will take gameplay over graphics any day of the week.(Although I think MW2 graphics look pretty dang good personally)
It's a good thing you are such a wonderful contributer to society.
/sarcasm
Couldn't agree more. What people forget is MS makes money on Xbox and PC. The reason being is the developers are licensing Directx on both platforms. By allowing developers to use the same development platform for Xbox and PC they are making their developers happy and their wallet happy. I could care less about the "console wars" even though I own an Xbox, because I am primarily a PC gamer, but what MS is doing is not bad for them. People are just missing the bigger picture. Plu...