i know what you mean...characters like kratos, need to put shirts on, i mean we get it, hes muscular, but no need for a guy to be strutting around half naked...makes me sick, its why i never bought GoW
tinfoil hats! get your tinfoil hats right here!!
polls only paint part of the picture...i bet if you went back you would see polls stating that the rrod would have "doomed" xbox, and how did the 360 turn out? a massive success if you ask me
not everyone takes polls, hell, even if somehow a million ppl where surveyed for any one of those polls, that would still only be like 1-2% of the total gamers on either system this gen
except when sony outsells MS...then it was just a good week for sony
regardless of the ads being there, i havent been on dashboard to notice what it is usually advertising until i go on stories like this to find out what ads ppl complain about...what i DO usually remember tho are the games that are on "sale" or some kinda gaming promotion like virgin gaming tournaments
the ones i will complain about however are the video ads(usually kinect ads) that usually pop up when you are watching some kind of video...as for ads on dashboard, i ...
neither company loves the gamers first, its money first consumers second, especially for this gen...sony just did a better job at masking it...think of it this way
since this gen, sony came out with an initally expensive console but added a lot of value because of the bluray...the free online is what made it theoretically the actual cheaper console in the long run...ms went the opposite route by having a somewhat cheaper console, but because there was a fee for online, in the...
and thats why i find ps gamers (atleast the vocal ones) so hypocritical
xbone "forces" a kinect purchase, making it more pricey and they complain, HOWEVER when ps3 was around and bluray was an unproven format, ps3 forced bluray on everyone making the ps3 an expensive GAMING machine
cause thats what ppl are arguing about nowadays with the xbone, right? that since its multimedia focused now, gamers only wanted the xbone to be a gaming machine, right? ...
i cant wait either...the big fat check i get from sony for demolishing microsoft is gunna be sweet /s
unless you work for either company, why would there be any need for celebration for one "demolishing" the other? you do realize, that if any one of those competitors disappear that it would be bad for the industry right?
i said the only ones that can claim psn is free are the ones that never play online...if you do play online, you are theoretically paying for all the other features, if you ALWAYS play online, then you are definitely paying for the other features because you werent using it for free from the beginning
for a person that would be gaming randomly online, paying monthly still holds the same problem, what if he games for a week and gets bored of it due to it being a bad game or no...
@aceofstaves - ic, but i was talking about kinect features not full body gaming of kinect...i was talking about using voice commands to control ai call outs and body gestures like leaning left or right to dodge and i was talking about features as just that, things that are there that dont need to be used but "enhance" gameplay and user invovlement if used
@exclibur- first off, i didnt claim it was "great" but i do see the benefits of having one...like i sa...
you cant use? or you dont want to use?
that is another short sighted plan...if developers know that every xbone user has a kinect (since its bundled with all) then every developer can implement kinect features (ie voice command or physical gestures) without a second thought of whether they think enough of their user base has a kinect to make it worth while to implement
so in other words, the company wins where the gamers could have potentially won depending on how the future pans out...sounds like a good trade off /s
however, the only ppl that can claim ps has free features such as netflix or internet browsing are the ppl that NEVER play online...the second you buy ps+ for multiplayer, you are essentially buying PS+ for netflix and all those other features
scenerio
you are a ps user and free member, you are watching tv, netflix and internet all for free, game 1 comes out and you want to play multiplayer, so you buy ps+ for a year, 2 months down the road you stop playing that game ...
beg for online to be free again, and see how long (if they even consider) they change it
@walter, im not talking about the cloud, im talking about going digital
i truly believe the future is digital downloads, physical is eventually gunna go extinct (with possibly only AAA titles staying physical for collector editions)...IF the future is digital, how do you trade or sell digital copies on the ps4? if the answer is "you cant" then how different is that to xbones previous policy of not allowing game trades/sells?
previously, xbone had it...
i hate it, i am getting both and would have had 2 consoles going in 2 different directions when it came to the future of gaming and would have loved to see how it panned out for both companies
the way i saw it, ps was short sighted and for the here and now, where as ms was going for the future and having a long race...but now both are going for a similar route and it doesnt breed innovation...gamers shouldnt be happy
restriction 1 - you need to live in the US
are you guys being serious? cause i cant tell...the ps4 looks like a box with angled sides, if thats the definition of what a games console is supposed to look like then ps3 and 360 dont look like game consoles either
there is ABSOLUTELY NO defining look for what a games console is supposed to look like, every electronic device has some sort of casing (usually rectangular) for its hardware
@deadlydragon - the xbone is huge for a reason...with xbones original plan of being always online, MS design the box with the thought of the xbone being on 24/7, thus made proper adjustments in both hardware and design to compensate for that...of course, even planning and design cant show what will actually happen, but atleast with the RRoD in mind, they atleast thought about that particular scenerio this time around