As much as I love God of War, which is at a level some have called unhealthy, I'm not sure I want another game any time soon. It's starting to feel kind of stale. Although it could just be that the combat in Ascension made me kind of mad.
Well it looks like my reading comprehension needs some work.
He said there wasn't a huge graphical leap going to the Xbox 360-2 and PS4.
Is this guy blind? The difference in graphical fidelity is massive. And since when are launch titles indicative of the graphical potential of the hardware?
No, doesn't work like that.
Sony doesnt own BluRay. They do own a very large chunk of the BluRay Disk Association however. So Microsoft isn't directly paying Sony anything.
@Elit3Nick Microsoft can't use the 3GB on the OS for games because it would disable lots of the instant switching features. A hypervisor doesn't magically give you extra resources. Really all a hypervisor does is let you run more then 1 OS at the same time.
@BallsEye That's not what a hypervisor does at all. Saying something is "built from the ground up for DX 11.2" doesn't make it good. Severely underpowered entry level GPUs can and will be built from the ground up for DX 11.2. The cheap DDR3 and ESRAM were used because it's cheaper, not because it's better.
GDDR5 doesn't have high latency, where are people getting that from? It has really low latency and high speeds so it can keep up with the GPU, that's why it's used in GPUs.
Preorders are enough to know that both will outsell the Wii U.
@timl241 You can't do anything cool with offsite servers because of how slow the internet is. Even with a 1Gb/s fiber connection it would be too slow to do anything. Consoles move hundreds of gigabytes a second around. GDDR5 RAM isn't slow at all, that's what makes it good. "Powerful" isn't really a term used to describe RAM... like ever. With the phone comparison you're looking at it wrong. Both the PS4 and Xbox One are like the iPhone, static hardware with a he...
I guess even they didn't believe the Xbox One was on par with the PS4 on a hardware level. Granted I agree with the statement that games matter more then raw hardware grunt. That's why the PS2 is the best selling console of all time, all those sexy games.
If you release a demo for a crap game of course the amount of sales will go down. On the other end of the argument if you release a demo for an amazing game sales will probably go up.
@Convas Except the GPU in the Xbox One is significantly less powerful. You're also forgetting that just having super fast ESRAM with slower system memory is not as efficient or fast as having a pool of crazy fast memory. Sounds like you should read up on how hardware works before you make fun of others for not knowing.
Ellie didn't just look like Ellen Page, she sounded like her too.
If I didn't sell games I wouldn't be able to afford to buy new games for $65 (tax included in price) at launch. I can't be alone in that practice. Besides, developers don't need to spend as much as they are on games.
Yeah, failing to see the downside. Crying that you have to spend 10 seconds to switch to a different game (physical only) is stupid. This article is bad and the author should feel bad.
The power of the cloud? You can't do anything cool with "cloud computing" because of how slow the Internet is. Even with something like Google Fiber you couldn't do anything cool. Local hardware pushed hundreds of gigabytes a second around, anything you offload will take forever to show up.
@PopRocks395 BluRay IS a standard, HD DVD died and streaming is in another market. Name another form of physical media used for HD video playback. Can't? Didn't think so.
It's not on Windows 7 because Microsoft wants people to "upgrade" to Windows 8. The GPU in the PS4 isn't like a second CPU, it does GPU compute just like most modern GPUs.