You have to read between the lines krib. Sony are probably talking about... Er... Donating to charity. A charity that campaigns for the happiness of Playstation fans. Yeah, that's it.
That is certainly a good way to push them further along the GaaS path.
@Cobra they aren't gonna take down the walls around the playsration garden. Not unless the money they'd make would be greater than the money they make as a platform holder, taking their cut of everything published to the platform.
Of course hardware is important to Sony. What else will their "Active Users" be playing on? PSNow? I don't think Sony are going to throw all their eggs in that basket just yet so you've got nothing to worry about.
By the same logic, you can understand why hardware might be a less important metric to Microsoft.
Yes yes, that's it. Follow Microsoft into the abyss. I hear it is wonderful.
Give it another ~20 years and we'll start hearing how Nintendo are beginning to track monthly active users over hardware sales as well.
Not all. The Xbox One X is the most powerful, and the PS4 is the best selling.
Everything else he said is fluff though.
How many days does a game last before it becomes horrible to play? If you play an old one do you get "game poisoning", or do they just get less fun?
This is all very confusing and honestly a bit distressing, as I probably have 300 games in my backlog. They should really print expiry dates on the boxes.
Legends wasn't an MMO. A Fable MMO could be awesome (so long as they don't get too caught up in the estabblished WoW template). Seems unlikely we'll get it though.
Rather depends if your 1080Ti is hooked up to your home entertainment centre or not?
I very recently decided to get an X as a stopgap while the GPU market gets where i want it to be. It's fine for freesync/g-sync monitor play, but locking 60fps for the TV is still more hassle and expense than it is worth Imo, specially with HDR and Atmos being skipped all too often.
My choice was basically £800 ish to get a 1080Ti under water, and barely scrape ...
If it just bumps the rendering resolution there isn't necessarily anything much to download
Ok slow it down a bit for those of us that think rationally. How will offering a streaming service "ruin gaming"?
I see you referencing the car industry as a parallel to the games industry (which seems a little far-fetched, but ok), have car rentals "ruined driving" for you in some way?
Maybe you just don't like to have options, but personally I think the game pass has the potential to be a very good one. I'll definitely keep a...
Tis a Destiny problem, not a PC problem. Both Destiny 1 and 2 are the most anti-social multiplayer games around. You can't even talk to your clan within the game, it's ridiculous.
It is a dirty acronym because people associate it with micro-transactions/loot boxes and other such nefarious examples. However, GaaS includes everything from the worst kind of one-time-use pay2win consumable, to hollow season passes, right through to a generous DLC expansion pack.
Unfortunately Microsoft seem fairly intent on offering us the nasty end of the stick.
@Shineon yes, devs did some remarkable things towards the tail end of last gen. The One/PS4/Pro, and (from what we've seen so far) One X all perform pretty much as you'd expect by the numbers though.
You could argue that an equivalent CPU would be a complete dud in a PC. I'm sure it'd cause some problems with a lot of games.
I'm not hating on consoles as a value proposition. They're usually great value, and have other advantages beyond price as well.
I'm disputing the commonly held belief that they punch well above their specs. They don't, they perform pretty much in-line with equivalent PC parts.
Console users love to overplay that console optimisation.
The thing may be efficient, but a good PC will still smash the performance.
I agree that Gamingbolt should be banned, but I think you are being a bit harsh on the indie devs in question. Their interviews and opinions are not the problem, the problem is the way gamingbolt exploit them and fish for controversy.
@Thatguy Come Christmas you'll have Gears 4 and Battlefront 2 on Xbox One X standing as the pinnacle of console graphics. Whether they're great games or not is another matter, but they're visually outstanding.
Mouse control feels pretty horrible at 30fps. You could argue 30fps is horrible with a controller, but the difference in response time makes a bigger difference with a mouse.
Console hardware hasn't been sold at a loss for at least a decade, and multi-console owners/homes is nothing new really.
Active (online) users is a better indication of the more lucrative and valuable audience, and the tools to measure it are there so it it makes sense to track the metric they care about.