These PS4 vs XB1 debate articles are kind of just clickbait at this point IMO, that question has been answered pretty firmly in favor of PS4 in detail time and time again. Also note that even when any of these articles try to debate it the only way they can make the article much of a discussion is by bringing up XB1 future features/games (cloud, backwards compatibility, future game releases). If you have to compare future XB1 to current PS4 to make them even close, it's not really much ...
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It's an article about a new SSAO technique the devs are using in the new Tomb Raider. The new technique has nothing to do with any abilities proprietary to the XB1, and also doesn't use cloud. So I'm not sure why XB fanboys jumped on this saying look this proves XB1 is better and has cloud.
The ONLY game to date I've seen that is even planning to use cloud for XB1 - despite all the marketing and promises of being a gamechanger - since launch is Crackdown 3...
$20 for 4-6 hours of an indie game is pushing it. I still have high hopes for it but will wait for reviews. Journey was one of the best indie games not just in 2011 but within about 3 years of it. So to compare a game that isn't out yet to a better than (indie) goty game, in terms of time played to price is a stretch.
That said, Journey also showed how gameplay is far more important than time to finish. A company can make a terribly boring game that takes 40 hours t...
My friend and I watching the video both thought it looked like more of a XBL level game quality-wise than a retail disc release. The quality in some textures and particularly the sky, and just the impression as a whole, definitely was not one of a full-price retail game over $20. If they are really pushing that as a $59.99 retail release, I'd need to see far better than what was shown.
Halo Wars 2 was the highlight? Meh. I barely played Halo Wars for 5 minutes and those 5 minutes weren't fun. Branded consoles aren't really a big announcement either since anyone who already owns a XB1 could care less, they aren't going to buy a 2nd for a fancy skin. Mostly, the games were pretty meh. But Quantum Break might be ok...not incredible and a little over the top with the time stopping, but a decent rental.
It does look very good, so I'll be following this one. But they have said it's looking like GR Wildlands will not even be in 2016. So if we're talking nearly 2 years from this E3...eh. I'm not sure how much benefit there is to market games that early. Plus there can always be further delays for all sorts of reasons (like The Division had). Is the thought just that the sooner the better for creating hype? To me when anything is marketed too early, movie or game, my tenden...
That's a personal call. I'd say if you haven't played a game by the time the console is replaced with the next gen, you'll probably never play it. Also more often than not, the rose colored glasses of time make the memories of old games better than they really are when you go back and play them. But if you have room or like collecting, there's nothing wrong with it and it doesn't really hurt anything.
One bit of advice though, game collecting can ...
Just a clickbait article. PS4 being faster has been well-established and proven in the countless games that had to run at lower than 1080p on XBONE, while the same game on PS4 did run 1080p. In fact the XBONE has held back this whole generation of gaming to some degree since multi-platform developers have to aim for the lowest-common-denominator system, which has been XBONE. The good news is that DX12 should help XBONE catch up a little bit, which is good for gaming across all of PC/XB1/PS...
Not saying it will be good or bad, but it looks like a Telltale game. It's more of an interactive movie. We'll have to see what the content and game length is like.
The HL franchise was pretty good, but definitely good enough for people to be sitting on the edge of their seat for 10 years waiting for HL3. I would go so far as to say it's pretty overrated. The gfx and gameplay were pretty cutting edge for the time. But now there are loads of other great games in that genre. That's the only reason devs haven't put out HL3, because people are bound to be disappointed.
Actually if you watch the video, the game looks pretty darned gorgeous. It's always a catch-22 with devs aiming for user PC power. Aim low and more machines will run it ok but gfx suffer (and people will complain about that), aim high and gfx are better but PC requirements are higher. If only they could put in a way to adjust gfx quality, like a slider...oh yeah they do. So if you are running a GTX 560 and 2500k, don't run it on ultra. Simple as that. If you want to run 2016 AAA...
Right now it's a feature I completely ignore. I tried it in beta and it seemed to work fine. But the pricing is crazy. It's something where I might be interested for $5 a month max, or better yet include it in PS+. There just aren't that many old games I would want to go back and play (also a reason why XB1 bc is kind of pointless), and definitely not for $15-$20 a month. I would love to know how many subscribers they have but I can't imagine it's many at the pricing ...
"Won" is totally subjective, and an Xbox site claiming Xbox "won" E3 is about as lazy and pandering an article as it gets. You can ask 100 people about E3, 40 would say Sony won, 40 would say Microsoft won, and the rest would say either Nintendo or maybe even Bethesda or Ubisoft won. As fans we might throw our opinions out in a short forum post, but I'd hope for a little more than that from an article.
A far more interesting and useful article would ...
Nintendo has been way out of touch with gamers for a few years after the initial success of the Wii. Wii U has maybe 2-3 games total anyone over the age of 10 would play. E3 was a disaster for Nintendo. So the Wii U praise is a little off base.
The thing is that Nintendo has SO many great franchises that they could do so much with. There is still loads of potential, and Nintendo has the cash to go big. But right now it's a niche console aimed at 5-10 year olds, with ...
I'm excited for Rise of the Tomb Raider, I liked the last one and recently went back and completed it.
But I'm not really sure what the point of the article is, as others have said, comparing graphics from a pre-release demo. As we well know, gfx quality can change dramatically before release. TR also doesn't look very discernible from the 2013 Tomb Raider. But in the end, the gameplay and fun is what matters, and I think both these games look great and will ...
It's also kind of cherry picking stats to look at US only. Outside the US Xbone has been abyssmal and PS4 has outsold it in droves. US alone numbers are kind of irrelevant, it's overall global sales that matter and xbone has been beaten soundly globally.
The combination of fallout from po'd customers after the 360 rrod disaster, the xbone being lower power and lower res in some games (mainly early on), and the forced inclusion of the Kinect were the main issues ...
A big part of what makes a great open world game vs. a mediocre one is the AI, since it affects both general interaction and combat. I can't say I'm very impressed by that in the video. Maybe they're still working on it, but the npcs were pretty dumb. Kill 1 guy and the other looking right at him just stands there. Lots of AI that looked at little off. Lots of other mechanics that looked like they had issues like moving bodies, etc. I like the London setting, but all kinds o...
Haven't had the problem ever, and even if I did...it's far beyond apples and oranges to compare the xbox 360 rrod where a system was permanently broken and unusable, to a minor bug where a controller simply has to be resynched back up lol which is at most a 2 minute fix and nothing is broken. Those are so completely different it's funny that the author is even trying to compare those. PS4 has not to date had any issue even remotely in the same ballpark as the 360 rrod, which was ...
First slide is a dark picture and makes it a tough one to judge, but slide 7 is a better example showing the far higher detailed textures. Framerate is much higher in UE also. Still better than nothing I if you just have the 360 version I guess.
That said, Gears UE is really the game that will convince me to add a XB1 to sit next to my PS4. I know the XB1's shortcomings, but the holiday deals on XB1 bundles will be too good to pass up for the handful of exclusives ...