it’s the company’s intention to bring more games “of the right genres”
F2Ps, micro-transacntion heavy online games and MMOs. That's what the genres he's talking about. MS only see the PC as a quick, never ending cash cow if it's focused on certain genres.
He's avoiding confirming AAA XBO games coming to the PC except through streaming while telling us that the PC is only suitable to play certain genres under their new initiative.
That's probably because it's not for us regular PC builders. One of the most cited reasons for gamers who switched to the PS3 and 360 was the hassle of building PCs and the cost of maintaining them. Steam Machines are there to provide a bridge or platform for them-a little pond for them to dip their toes first before making the plunge.
Accessibility is one of the main features for people to pick consoles over a PC. Yes, anyone can Google up PC building guides but in t...
The fact still remains that our perception of the 970's overall performance is based on the yet-to-be-revealed lower spec. Before launch everyone just speculated it's capabilities and then it proceeded to go beyond that.
When I first heard of the fiasco I thought Nvidia was caught using low quality VRAM modules that degraded after mere months of use. That certainly made me worried and rage start to boil. Then, I realized it was just some spec differences and my Zotac ...
Lol. A Grammar Nazi reference in a game fileld with Nazis.
I won't be buying a Steam Machine since I can build my on PCs but I won't be joining the camp that's hating them. I see their purpose and hopeful on their impact on PC builders in the near future.
I'm hoping that the Steam Machines will help advance the small form factor PCs(something that I'm into these days) at a faster rate than it's currently at. At the moment PC hardware vendors are slowly filling the demands for ITX hardware but perhaps the intro...
Affected, how? The fiasco only revealed that the card is just lower specced that advertised. Performance-wise it is still the same card that everyone endlessly praised when it first came out.
In fact it was already running on a much lower-than-advertised spec when it garnered those praises. Sure, let's call out on Nvidia for false advertisement but that card still performed tremendously at that lower spec.
"it also means porting pc games to the xbox is now easier than ever."
How does that help PC gaming if this all in one ecosystem only benefits Xbox users? When MS started the early steps of the new ecosystem with Windows 8 PC gamers only get F2P games or Surface ports while the heavy hitters are still Xbox exclusives. Before that two PC classics, Flight Simulator and Age of Empires, were stripped into F2Ps for Windows 7. For Windows 10, Fable Legends, another F2P, is...
It drew me in. After 3 years carrying a heavy tower case between my home and work place(I stay there during the week days), a gaming laptop or a small form factor PC can become very enticing. Some might scoff at the idea of Steam Machines but I'm more interested with their impact to the small form factor concept. The ITX form factor have steadily grown over the years but I'm hoping that the Steam Machines might be the shot in the arm that will kick it into overdrive. I mean just look ...
This is gaming that involves people of different interests across the world, not some glorified casino in the middle of a desert. Gaming is already a broad platform where everyone is free to get involved in so asking one demographic to be swept away under the rug because they don't fit a certain agenda of a particular group is contradictory.
Gaming would be a scary place if it really emulates Las Vegas and and "digital bouncers" start appearing all over the plac...
It all depends on the individual tastes and needs. I'm a PC gamer but I have advised some of friends and even my brother to get consoles instead after considering a bunch of factors.
Of course that was several years and now I think I would recommend the PC for them if they asked me again. Steam games are cheaper, even more so after Valve introduced regional pricing last year, while PC hardware price remain relatively the same but they offer a much better value than before...
A recent gaming-related hashtag war ripped apart the relationship between gamers and the gaming media. Now, we want a new hashtag war to rip apart the relationship gamers and game developers?
Really?
My brother would spent hours even days fishing at sea with his friends as a hobby but he seldom wants to eat his catches. One of my colleagues would eagerly spent a whole night in the river to spear fishes, braving the cold and snakes and upon rare occasion the resident crocodile but like my brother he shared his catches instead of consuming them.
Just like me with gaming they are "wasting" their time on those activities to ease off the pressure of work or boredom o...
Remastering a game from 1999 is far better than remastering games that you bought just months before(Tomb Raider, Metro Redux and TLOU are good examples) and it's definitely better than making gamers pay publishers every month to stream old games to their new consoles.
I love the Homeworld Cataclym expansion but I have never played the first game. I don't know where to look for the game and if I do find a copy there's bound to be some technical difficulties when p...
Perhaps...that was their plan all along!
The game maker can't just outright give consent to something that will put them in hot waters. So why not use reverse psychology on modders while ensuring themselves a safe position to be in with the "warning" just in case there would be extreme backlash.
For me it's all about logistics. I have very slow internet(a recent Steam survey showed my country's average speed is around 3mbs) but that doesn't deter me from loving digital distribution. It'll take days for to me to download games with gigantic file size but that's far better than me purchasing a disc-based game I have to order online and wait for a week for it to arrive. The nearest shops that do sell disc-based games is in a city 3 hours away and there is no guarante...
It attracted me the moment they offered the offfline play. As a singleplayer with slow internet at home or zero internet where I worked/stay for most of the week, an offline mode for any game is more than appreciated.
Plus, an offline mode is great for practice or keep my skills up when I'm not playing the online sessions for some time. I had to find empty servers late at night to practice flying helicopters in the Battlefield games and suddenly having others joining in w...
I can play the same game I bought years ago on any of my new PC. I can't do that with consoles.
For consoles I have to pay MS and Sony yearly or monthly fees to play last gen games which are streamed from some server. I don't do that with the PC.
Honestly, that is the first time I ever heard a game being too underpowered for any type of hardware. There are countless 2D side scrollers for next gen consoles but Hatred, built using the latest Unreal engine with a fully destructible environment with objects and debris get thrown about and high number of AI on screen is just too underpowered for them?
Exotic animals? They are correct about the abundance of animals in Australia. Exotic locations? OK, they got that covered too.
Story? That would be weird. The singleplayer campaigns in the FC series have always about some foreigner stranded in a hostile new place with little or no contact with the outside world. Even if they do set them in fictional locations and settings it will still be Australia because there is no other place like it in the world.
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"Five years from now you’ll be able to buy Steam games and be able to buy games on the Windows store."
This feels so much like they're setting up an environment where they can gradually cut off Steam from the market. Ubisoft and EA tried to do something similar with Uplay and Origin respectively but they still depended on Steam. MS, however, have enough resources and willingness to play the long war of attrition.
Let's say that The Rise of T...