Gangsta,
Try playing some PS3 games at 480p, and compare to the 720p version. The 480p version will look better than you might think, thanks to the same kind of downsampling.
The best reason is: you want the best console gaming experience. Even on a 1080p TV, it will look better, because the image will be downsampled from a larger framebuffer.
That said, I'm keeping my PS4 for Sony exclusives, but everything else... I'm buying Xbox. I'm glad I didn't bother with getting a Pro.
No, they shouldn't, and they should make the free games on Plus cost $40 extra per year, as an add-on to Plus multiplayer. True fans love options.
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I don't see the problem with people making 2-hour games that have no replay value, and having their garbage refunded like crazy.
Maybe allow developers to flag their title as "NO REFUNDS", and display it prominently, if they are so scared of it.
Umm, I'll take a free upgrade to all Xbox One games past and future, thanks. That is what the Scorpio is. I really do prefer the Xbox controller, and Microsoft's services to Sony's, as well. I'll wager that, on the Scorpio, any and every Xbox One title ever made will have at least the framerate stability of the PS4 equivalent, and then some. Heck the Xbox One S is already there in that department. Unpatched past titles won't get native framebuffer rez boosts -- but ev...
This is one of the mechanisms used to keep an iron grip on the Japanese market. You don't want folks thinking Xbox is any good, or that Nintendo has something that appeals more than Sony. By offering high-quality titles on PS+, you get exactly that.
They don't need to, and shouldn't, offer the US or Europe anything better than what they get. They have already brainwashed those markets to beg for more cheap indie titles each month. This is good business, plai...
PS5 is here. You are typing on it.
You think I am /s, but I'm not. PS Now wants to be your games Netflix, and Sony wants to drop hardware, in favor of making exclusive games for their subscription channel -- because yep, that's where the money is. Why sell hardware at a break even, and lose millions in creating and advertising it, when people can just play on their PC or tablet instead?
PS Now IS PS5.
Quick, someone compare it to Wii U! Oh.. it looks the same, given the heightened numbers of available units compared to the Wii U. So yeah! Wow! it's basically no indicator at all of future sales.
Amazing... except no. It's basically meaningless, because *like always* it's bound by the number of produced units, and not by demand at all.
It is good that they produced enough to meet more demand, I guess. Or rather that the demand was there...
Lol. Sure. They also aren't AAA.
It's not the CU flops that hold GPUs back from 4k, it's the ROPs and the pixel output rate. Since you have no idea what the raster perf of the Scorpio is, you might want to wait before making assumptions. If it has 64-96 ROPs, at a high clock, it may very well be capable of 4k native gaming. It certainly has the GPU bandwidth.
Having half the ROPs (16 vs 32) is the main reason the XBO is unable to push 1080p vs the PS4. The compute power is much less relevant th...
Possible.
Also, PC gamers are Xbox gamers, whether they realize it or not. If your platform uses DirectX, congrats, you play Xbox, whether MS sold you the hardware or not. They *did* sell you the OS, and everything that comes with it, and that's the point, isn't it?
They don't care to sell you hardware at cost, if they don't have to, to get you into the PC/Xbox ecosystem. The console war isn't about MS vs Sony or Nintendo -- it'...
GWG destroys PS+, if you're looking for past AAA experiences, as usual.
PS+ wipes the floor with GWG, if you want indie experiences, this month, as usual.
Same old, same old.
If that's the case, developers should use the extra horsepower to bump 42 frames, at 4K, to 60. THAT will be noticeable. There's not a human being on the planet who could *honestly* say it wasn't.
If they win again, it should be on the condition that they give the $500 million from the previous suit back. Unlike Facebook, this is a ton of money to ZeniMax.
Or that they replace the VR headset of everyone that owns a Rift with the "ZeniMax VR", which of course doesn't exist.
Apparently any idiot can get a job writing for Forbes. I think we already knew that, though.
Xbox is Microsoft's most public brand, and it holds a strategic position preventing other operating systems from invading the home via the living room. You think MS is gonna throw in the towel on the home computing market by letting even more devices, in addition to phones, ALSO be able to check email, write docs etc in your house?
If you've ever heard of "Microsoft Windows" or "Microsoft Office", you might understand why Xbox exists. What if S...
Pre DX9 I would have agreed with your statements. OpenGL and OpenGLES are messy nowadays, though -- the standards aren't really adhered to or enforced, and it takes eons for new features to become standard -- which leads back to the first problem. You're kidding yourself if you think OGL is better than DX these days.
OGL is definitely the problem API, when it comes to porting games. Heck Sony, Apple, Android, and Nintendo's versions aren't even compatible ...
Every game that supports improved anything on PS4 Pro will support it on Xbox One -- why would the publishers favor improving one version of a game over another, in that circumstance? Improving rendering quality... not that hard to do in software. Anyone who thinks the console versions are much removed from the PC version, outside of hard-coding the graphics options... is endangering their brain with all the smoking.
He does give good reasons.
Sony can step up their game though, and resolve most of them. When you're number one though, why improve anything? Doesn't matter how good your service is, when the masses back you up, regardless.
Anyone who can't appreciate BC over paying $20/month for PS Now is not a real gamer, in my book.
It will not affect PC gaming at all.
The idea is that the Scorpio will run games at high PC settings, for the next couple years, not that PCs will get better because of it?
Also, this author's claim that a piledriver FX is profoundly better than the 2.3 GHz Jaguar/Steamroller in the Scorpio is just plain untrue. The Jaguar has a FPU on *each* core (I.e. 8 of them), and the best FX chip has one per *module* (i.e. 4 of them). On top of that, the instr...