The combined sales of the standard PS4 sku and the Destiny bundle easily out paced X1 sales in the US last month - check out US Amazon best sellers and even Vgchartz, which has historically under tracked Sony products, if you need convincing. Pachter loves MS and Xbox and has always tainted his analysis of the video game market with his bias.
I like single player games - don't need and don't want online friends.
Ok - have fun with your X1 and don't read then comment on articles like this because I don't think you can handle the stress it obviously causes you.
Big fan of the series. Not sure why ND felt it was necessary to change Drake's appearance so much. What was wrong with the way he looked in the last 3 games? Won't effect my decision to buy the game, this guy just doesn't look like Drake.
No surprise about the amount of negative feed back Spencer received for his defense of the parity clause because it made little sense and it sounded like typical corporate bs spin. If Spencer actually takes more action to make the X1 more indie friendly, he should be given credit for being flexible and willing to change X1 policies.
Not sure why people in the comments above are trying to compare this game to The Order as The Order won't be tied into a "TV" series. That said, what we have learned from the hyped releases this year like Titan Fall, Watch Dogs and Destiny, is that you can't really judge how good a game is until it's released. Duh! So I encourage you all not to get your panties in a twist over pre-release coverage.
Game play is the most important thing, but, given the choice of playing a game at 1080p or at 900p on my 1080p TV, I'm going to go with the console that most often gives me the 1080p experience. That said, it seems that you are being defensive and trying to justify that you didn't buy a PS4
Last of Us: Remastered - first party game at 1080p and pretty near 60fps; Infamous Second Son, first party game, also runs at 1080p and more than 30fps. That said, never use the word "all" unless your 100% sure of your facts.
The only reason there is such an uproar is because Ubisoft said they were going with parity to avoid debate. Stupid bs pr move by Ubisoft. It's quite possible that the game performs better at 900p but, Ubisoft stuck their foot right into resolution gate by trying to avoid it. The people who released the parity statement to the press should be worried about losing their jobs. I hope they don't because everybody makes stupid errors but, big corporations usually ruthlessly rid themselv...
I don't understand why people like this guy. He spews bs marketing pr just like the suits who preceded him. If MS really wants to provide more content for Xbox gamers and make them feel special, they should just drop the parity bs. Does preventing a game from releasing on your platform just because it released on other platforms first mean your providing your fan base with first class service? No, it doesn't, it just means that you're limiting the content that they have access to...
It will be interesting to see how Ubisoft responds to this fan boy uproar. The fact that they have a marketing deal with MS for this game is, after reading lots of comments, obviously leading to rampant conspiracy theories. The sad thing is, that it is entirely possible that the those theories have an element of truth. After all, it has been well documented that MS has been very active in mitigating resolution gate by pressuring (aka as offering help to) several developers to get their game...
Rehashing ips isn't always ideal. For example, Naughty Dog evolved because they moved on from their ips - Crash Bandicoot to Jak and Daxter to Uncharted to The Last of Us. I don't understand why people would prefer endless sequels to good ips over new and innovative ips. I used to be a big fan of Nintendo but, especially with their recent Mario ip offerings, they seem to have devolved rather than evolved.
Imo, Zelda: Twilight Princess was superior to Skyward Sword.
Another example of why listicles are stupid. There are many different game genres. I like action/adventure, rpgs and racing games that focus on the single player experience. That said, an Uncharted game, a Mass Effect game, and Persona 4 Golden Vita would be on my list.
Any list for best of last generation that doesn't include an Uncharted game and a Mass Effect game is, imo, pure BS.
"Even games sites like Kotaku are beginning to see why the x box 1 is so different." Lol, the Kinect 2.0 is what made the X1 "so" different but MS, cowered by the success of the PS4, decided to drop it.
Couldn't care less about all that multitasking bs discussed in the article. Just give me a console that performs better at playing games. The problem with the X1 lies with the hardware specs, something MS can't fix with firmware updates.
Apparently you're not aware of the glacial white PS4 Destiny bundle.
The X1 is much more competitive with PS4 in the US than the rest of the world (although it's doing fairly in the UK as well.) The glacial white Destiny bundle proved that the US market responds very well to unique bundle offerings but Sony America doesn't seem to realize this fact. If anything, Sony needs to try harder in the US than anywhere else.
Phil Spencer: "In the past six months Xbox One has changed. We introduced to gamers the version without Kinect and broadened the choice." This statement by Spencer is pure MS bs PR spin - MS didn't drop the Kinect to broaden the choice, they dropped it to make the Xbox One price competitive with the PS4. The X1 was designed around the Kinect, dropping it from the system limits and doesn't broaden what the system can do. Spencer makes it sound like MS is doing gamers a fav...
It sounds like the developer got overly ambitious with the AI/NPC stuff. I have a PS4 and I will buy a good game regardless of the resolution - Watch Dogs is one of my favorite games of the year. In this case however, there's so much defensive bs coming out of Ubisoft about AC Unity, I'm starting to think the game will suck. I will always take better performance over more on screen npcs. Imo, this is not a PS4 vs Xbox 1 issue, it's a poor game design choice on the developers pa...