An ego that big would have caused nothing but problems. This guy needs to take a hard look at his life -- level designer is basically an entry level position, and he thinks he's better than all his coworkers? Come on.
Sony is not only denying Xbox gamers cross-play. They are also denying PC, Nintendo, and mobile platforms from cross-play. That's a LOT of gamers, and a very closed ecosystem they're trying to control.
They ARE trying to control it, make no mistake. They WANT a monopoly if they can get to it. They don't want you to pay someone else for online MP (Xbox), nor do they want it to be free (PC). Monopolies are always bad for consumers, plain and simple. No *actu...
As I stated above, both chips are manufactured on a 16nm process, and the Pro chip yields half the volume. The only factor that could influence the Pro to be as cheap, or cheaper, than the regular PS4 would be it beginning to outsell the PS4 at a higher price beforehand, thus requiring more volume and a supply increase.
The chances of that happening are slim to none. Like the Xbox, the PS4 Pro would need exclusives that the regular PS4 didn't have, to justify people b...
This is one of the most uninformed things Pachter has said in a long while. For one thing, the PS4 Pro will not be a baseline for PS5 software. That'd put PS5 software at a lesser spec than the Xbox One X.
Sony has sold too many normal PS4s to make the Pro the "standard" model. I can see the Xbox One X becoming the "standard" Xbox someday, because it makes sense for MS to do that, but Sony... no. Not while they are so far in the marketshare lead....
The DirectX API can fib to the older apps, telling them they are getting a 1080p framebuffer, when, in fact, it's 4k on the X1X.
This won't work on every title, but it WILL work on some -- all MS had to do is test the feature on an older app to enable it for the world.
$500 USD is about what the OG PS2 cost, in today's dollars -- a little less, even. It's simply not a big pricetag, plain and simple. Anyone who says otherwise doesn't understand the straightforward economic concept of inflation, and can be discounted as a moron.
Newsflash: new console sells a lot to early adopters!
So... lets all assume that this trend will continue through the holidays, because there are soooo many parents wanting to drop $300 on a handheld/console combo for their kids, right? They couldn't afford a PS4/Xbox One at $250, so they are waiting to spend more on a Switch... totally makes sense.
This early adopter thing has never happened before, so we should ignore it.
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Need one more cool game, beyond Mario and Xenoblade 2, to justify a Switch for me -- I already scored Zelda on Wii U, because it was basically the same as the Switch version.
I'm not gonna buy crossplat software on the Switch though.. heck no, why would I? Reeeally hoping they fix the "it heats up and warps" problem before I buy one, though. It's not gonna move from the dock much, for me.
I still think the Switch is basically a fad for...
Too dumb to pay for. I'll get it if it's free, though.. maybe.
Vita 2 would be an immediate buy, over Switch, for me, if it had HDMI out.
They should have provided that for the original...
I'll take the console, thanks. I honestly just don't care that much about a couple exclusives -- definitely not if they are budget/indie crap. All these stupid journalists make the wrong assumption about the demographics that buy PS4 Pro and Xbox One X -- that we haven't already bought a console or two.
Chances are, most people looking to upgrade mid-cycle, to a 4K console, already own a PS4, and not a Xbox One. So why would they choose a PS4 Pro "for ex...
"They are not charging for BC by the way" + "The PS4 is not BC" + "PS now is an option"
Um, yeah. PS Now is an option for PS3 gameplay that you pay for. OH, I see what you're saying, it's WORSE than BC, since you can't play any games you already own on PS3 with it, AND you have to pay a subscription to use it.
You are totally right.
And yes, I am bitter about it. I have over 150 PS3 games on ...
I like how the lists are mostly indie stinkers. They are so worthy of occupying the same amount of space on the list as games like Bloodborne.
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@ all the folks who claim gaming PCs as powerful as the X1X are commonplace... 6TF is the power of a GTX 980 or 1070.
You do not have 220 Steam pals with such beastly GPUs. You just don't. Get real.
If such PCs were common, we'd see a MUCH larger difference between PC and console games, because laptops wouldn't hold PC games back. Developers aren't stupid -- they don't make games that only you and your 5 pals with $600 GPUs can pla...
They will do nothing. They will sit on their posteriors and let PS fanboys fan them and peel their grapes until PS5. Then they will charge for PS4 bc, via PS Now...
Wasn't he just saying the opposite last week? That Xbox One X sales were nothing to get excited over, and that Amazon pre-order numbers alone matching the entire season Amazon PS4 Pro sales wasn't going to be enough?
1 million units would make it a bigger seller than the PS4 Pro in the same timeframe (900k, holiday 2016), and the Xbox marketshare is considerably less. Given that it *also* costs $100 more than the Pro, that's a pretty big win for Xbox.
There aren't. Look at what they call RPGs, on the list.
Man this (article author) is dumb. He is basically spelling out why an early adopter would buy a console, without realizing it, and then fails to realize that the tech will get cheaper, and thus the demographics will expand, in the next couple years -- just like any new console hardware.
Consoles perform better than equivalent-spec PCs, due to the specialized OS and drivers, and the ability of developers to tune the app precisely to the known hardware.
This is news?